Sica Ventures

Sica Ventures is an early-stage investment firm based in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 2019. The company specializes in providing seed capital to innovative technology startups, focusing on minority seed and early-stage investments. Sica Ventures targets a diverse range of sectors, including aerospace, defense, biotechnology, communications, networking, software, advanced manufacturing, agriculture technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, and big data. The firm aims to support the growth of emerging companies by investing in areas that drive technological advancement and innovation.

Dominick Sica

Managing Partner

Vinny Sica

General Partner and Principal

Past deals in Ohio

Pay Theory

Seed Round in 2022
Pay Theory is a payments platform designed to support Family Tech SaaS vendors in sectors such as education, healthcare, childcare, and other children's activities. The company aims to create accessible and effective financial solutions that facilitate seamless payment processes between families and essential service providers. By focusing on integrated payment services, Pay Theory helps to eliminate barriers to financial access, ensuring that families can easily manage their payments without relying solely on traditional banking methods. This innovative approach not only enhances the payment experience for families but also offers SaaS vendors a valuable opportunity to generate new revenue streams through digital payments, electronic checks, and cash transactions.

Pay Theory

Seed Round in 2021
Pay Theory is a payments platform designed to support Family Tech SaaS vendors in sectors such as education, healthcare, childcare, and other children's activities. The company aims to create accessible and effective financial solutions that facilitate seamless payment processes between families and essential service providers. By focusing on integrated payment services, Pay Theory helps to eliminate barriers to financial access, ensuring that families can easily manage their payments without relying solely on traditional banking methods. This innovative approach not only enhances the payment experience for families but also offers SaaS vendors a valuable opportunity to generate new revenue streams through digital payments, electronic checks, and cash transactions.

DAtAnchor

Convertible Note in 2021
DAtAnchor develops a novel crypto-technology that anchors the data consumption within the network boundaries, serving as a backstop against inevitable breaches. It provides a secure gateway to access the files in the cloud and the database, with the added features of revocability and physical access control, enabling efficient and automated data governance. DAtAnchor is a result of a multi-year research activity, developed at Ohio State University. The development team currently has 6 members, 4 of which are full-time. We have seed level funding for >1M and an advisory board with members at the senior vice president level in Fortune 500 companies.

Fleri

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Fleri is an insurance technology startup founded in 2020 and based in Columbus, Ohio. The company is dedicated to serving the families of migrants living in the diaspora by offering insurance coverage and related financial solutions. Fleri's platform enables immigrants to support their dependent relatives overseas without relying on traditional money transfers. It provides access to quality healthcare for these loved ones through a dedicated family care manager, an assigned primary care doctor, and unlimited care coordination. This approach ensures transparency and accountability, allowing migrants to effectively sponsor the well-being of their families back home.

Bingo

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Bingo is a company that specializes in providing dog insurance through a personalized mobile app. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence and big data to offer tailored coverage, allowing pet owners to obtain quotes, purchase policies, and manage claims efficiently. This innovative approach ensures that customers receive fair insurance options for their dogs, regardless of age or breed, addressing the unexpected circumstances that may arise in pet ownership. By streamlining the insurance process, Bingo aims to enhance the experience for pet owners while ensuring their dogs are adequately protected.

Contact CI

Seed Round in 2020
Develop and foster a wide scale adoption of haptic technology, which simulates a realistic sense of finger-focused touch, unlocking the human potential only possible with intuitive and natural human computer interfaces

Cloverleaf

Seed Round in 2020
Cloverleaf LLC operates a visualization and scenario-planning platform for team management. Its platform delivers assessments and measures impact by cross mapping a team's personality, skills, and culture; enables identity discovery and employee development; and provides customized career insights. The company’s platform is used agile practitioners, project managers, human resources, business coaches, job seekers, teams, enterprises, individuals, and sales teams. Cloverleaf LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Covington, Kentucky.

SHARE Mobility

Seed Round in 2019
SHARE Mobility helps professional transportation operators use mobility-as-a-service to reach new customers, automate dispatching, and increase fleet efficiency. Organizations use SHARE Mobility to create mobility-as-a-service programs that connect private and public transit services and makes it easy to schedule and use mobility. We are delivering on mobility-as-a-service's promise to create equitable access to jobs, education, and healthcare. We give organizations the tools to make it possible
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