Wisconsin Super Angel Fund

WSAF identifies, capitalizes and actively mentors early-stage, scalable, Wisconsin Companies. WSAF is industry agnostic, focusing on early exit opportunities.

Eric Lorenz

Portfolio Director

Past deals in Wisconsin

GrandCare Systems

Venture Round in 2016
GrandCare Systems LLC develops caregiving technology systems. The company’s touch platform enables residents to view pictures, receive incoming messages, watch videos, video chat with family, listen to music, and play fun games. Its systems are used in private homes, private apartments, group homes, and assisted living facilities. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in West Bend, Wisconsin.

Access HealthNet Holdings, Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
Founded in 2014 by a team of dedicated healthcare professionals, Access HealthNet (AHN) administers cloud-based technology platforms called The Super Option and The Super Option Direct that connect healthcare providers offering value-oriented services in the form of flat-rates and bundles to self-funded, full-pay entities seeking the most direct connection possible. AHN also offers a similar platform in the workers compensation market. Additionally, AHN offers a SaaS solution to organizations desiring to offer, manage and administer bundled / flat-rate healthcare services.

Cover5

Venture Round in 2014
Cover5, Inc. operates Cover5, an online sports game. The company allows users to play in public leagues or create their own private league; and provides partnership opportunities for sports bars, radio stations, and advertisers. Cover5, Inc. was formerly known as Craction, LLC. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in New Berlin, Wisconsin.

MCT

Venture Round in 2014
MCT of Wisconsin Inc. manufactures print finishing and digital die cutting solutions for specialty graphics. It offers digital finishing systems, conveyor and other automation products, rack and pinion gantries, surface mapping products, and tool heads. The company also provides tooling equipment, such as pen plotters, crease tools, rotary knives, tangential knives, pneumatic knives, kiss cut knives, and angle-V-cutting knives. In addition, it offers laser cutting and finishing solutions, and fume irrigation and filtration systems. Further, the company provides services, such as preventive maintenance and system tune-up, conveyor belt installation, on-site support, relocation of machines, reselling of machines, and financing. MCT of Wisconsin Inc. is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As of October 1, 2018, MCT of Wisconsin Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Gerber Technology LLC.

Rent College Pads, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Rent College Pads, Inc. operates a Website that enables to find and compare college apartments and off-campus housing apartments, roommates, and subleases. The company’s Website provides an off-campus housing community for students and landlords to fill vacancies and find college house. It offers services in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

MCT

Venture Round in 2016
MCT of Wisconsin Inc. manufactures print finishing and digital die cutting solutions for specialty graphics. It offers digital finishing systems, conveyor and other automation products, rack and pinion gantries, surface mapping products, and tool heads. The company also provides tooling equipment, such as pen plotters, crease tools, rotary knives, tangential knives, pneumatic knives, kiss cut knives, and angle-V-cutting knives. In addition, it offers laser cutting and finishing solutions, and fume irrigation and filtration systems. Further, the company provides services, such as preventive maintenance and system tune-up, conveyor belt installation, on-site support, relocation of machines, reselling of machines, and financing. MCT of Wisconsin Inc. is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As of October 1, 2018, MCT of Wisconsin Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Gerber Technology LLC.

Silatronix, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
Silatronix develops organosilicon electrolytes for energy storage devices such as ultracapacitors and lithium-ion batteries. The company's technology combines Dr. West's expertise in organosilicon compounds with that of Dr. Hamers in nanostructured electrodes and electronic properties of materials. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Wisconsin, United States.

Simply Incredible Foods, LLC

Seed Round in 2013
Simply Incredible Foods, LLC produces and supplies cranberry ingredients. The company also offers cranberry juice for wineries and natural juice companies; and sells whole and sliced cranberries in totes and cartons for food service and manufacturing companies. It offers its products through stores in Wisconsin. Simply Incredible Foods, LLC was founded in 2008 and is based in Port Edwards, Wisconsin.

GrandCare Systems

Convertible Note in 2015
GrandCare Systems LLC develops caregiving technology systems. The company’s touch platform enables residents to view pictures, receive incoming messages, watch videos, video chat with family, listen to music, and play fun games. Its systems are used in private homes, private apartments, group homes, and assisted living facilities. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in West Bend, Wisconsin.

Silatronix, Inc.

Funding Round in 2015
Silatronix develops organosilicon electrolytes for energy storage devices such as ultracapacitors and lithium-ion batteries. The company's technology combines Dr. West's expertise in organosilicon compounds with that of Dr. Hamers in nanostructured electrodes and electronic properties of materials. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Wisconsin, United States.

NexVex

Angel Round in 2013
NexVex is the first online marketplace platform specifically targeting the property services market. Through an easy to understand tutorial consumers describe their needs, which is combined with accurate aerial measurements that enable contractors to bid the work. By combining contractor feedback, ratings, values, and pricing, consumers will have all the data points required to select the best contractor for their needs. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Fishidy

Angel Round in 2014
Fishidy is the only authoritative, intelligent, map-based social network that maximizes an angler’s time on the water by presenting and cultivating critical location-based information. Fishidy provides anglers the maps of specific locations to plan their outing for success. The tools to catch their targeted species of fish. And the option to brag using social media.

Mikkelsen Cutting Tools

Angel Round in 2013
Mikkelsen Cutting Tools, our second investment, designs state of the art digital printing, cutting machine tools. WSAF invested $400,000 tin Equity growth financing and attracted MEDC to provide $300,000 in a 4 year loan to MCT. MCT has these machine tools manufactured for them under contract arrangements with a UK and US manufacturer. They currently market two machines designs and recently introduced a third machine tool with “cutting edge” vision technology. This newly developed machine tool was a huge hit at the SGIA (Specialty Graphic Imaging Association) Show in Orlando, October 23-25. MCT won three orders for machines at the show at prices north of $150,000. It expects to land a total of five to seven from show leads. It also sold two more machines through a new representative in Canada and will show its new machine at the Canada Graphics Show in November. Combined with the sale of cutting parts, the company already has a run rate of more than $3 million in annual sales and is cash flow positive.

Swallow Solutions

Debt Financing in 2016
Swallow Solutions is dedicated to individuals suffering from swallowing disorders, generally known as dysphagia. It focus on two areas related to dysphagia – therapeutic devices for diagnosing and treating swallowing disorders and nutritional food products tailored to the patient’s diagnosed level of swallowing difficulty.

Fishidy

Series A in 2014
Fishidy is the only authoritative, intelligent, map-based social network that maximizes an angler’s time on the water by presenting and cultivating critical location-based information. Fishidy provides anglers the maps of specific locations to plan their outing for success. The tools to catch their targeted species of fish. And the option to brag using social media.

Cover5

Angel Round in 2013
Cover5, Inc. operates Cover5, an online sports game. The company allows users to play in public leagues or create their own private league; and provides partnership opportunities for sports bars, radio stations, and advertisers. Cover5, Inc. was formerly known as Craction, LLC. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in New Berlin, Wisconsin.

Silatronix, Inc.

Angel Round in 2014
Silatronix develops organosilicon electrolytes for energy storage devices such as ultracapacitors and lithium-ion batteries. The company's technology combines Dr. West's expertise in organosilicon compounds with that of Dr. Hamers in nanostructured electrodes and electronic properties of materials. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Wisconsin, United States.

NexVex

Seed Round in 2016
NexVex is the first online marketplace platform specifically targeting the property services market. Through an easy to understand tutorial consumers describe their needs, which is combined with accurate aerial measurements that enable contractors to bid the work. By combining contractor feedback, ratings, values, and pricing, consumers will have all the data points required to select the best contractor for their needs. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Cover5

Venture Round in 2016
Cover5, Inc. operates Cover5, an online sports game. The company allows users to play in public leagues or create their own private league; and provides partnership opportunities for sports bars, radio stations, and advertisers. Cover5, Inc. was formerly known as Craction, LLC. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in New Berlin, Wisconsin.

Rent College Pads, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Rent College Pads, Inc. operates a Website that enables to find and compare college apartments and off-campus housing apartments, roommates, and subleases. The company’s Website provides an off-campus housing community for students and landlords to fill vacancies and find college house. It offers services in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.