Service Provider Capital is a Colorado-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that funds seed-stage technology companies across domains such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, cybersecurity, fintech, e-commerce, education technology, hardware, robotics, information technology, health tech, and cannabis. The firm also co-invests in Series A rounds led by institutional venture funds, providing capital and guidance to startups in the United States, including the Midwest and Southeast regions.
Foundry Group is a Boulder, Colorado-based venture capital firm founded in 2007 that specializes in information technology, Internet and software companies across North America. It funds both early-stage and later-stage ventures and has launched multiple funds, including a fifth fund of about $225 million. Since inception it has invested in more than 100 companies as institutional investors and in more than 50 as angel investors, with a focus on software, digital services and related technology sectors.
Access Venture Partners is a Colorado-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies in the United States, with a focus on seed and Series A rounds. The firm concentrates on software, SaaS, cybersecurity, data analytics, and other technology-enabled sectors, and maintains offices in Westminster and Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1999, it seeks to partner with bold founders and provides active support beyond capital, including help with building teams, fundraising, business strategy, and recruiting to accelerate growth and prepare for exits. It has deployed capital into numerous portfolio companies since inception.
Boomtown Accelerators is a Boulder, Colorado-based startup accelerator that runs bespoke 12-week programs for seed and early-stage ventures across sectors including health tech, connectivity, hardware and IoT, adtech, and software. It provides participating teams with $20,000 in seed funding, access to discounts and perks, a tailored curriculum, strategic mentorship from partners and staff, office space, and opportunities such as Demo Day and exposure to potential customers and funding, helping startups turn ideas into scalable, market-ready businesses.
FirstMile Ventures is a Colorado Springs-based venture capital firm that backs seed- and early-stage technology companies in the United States and North America. It focuses on B2B software, infrastructure technology, distributed ledger, and related IT sectors, including communications, networking, information technology, cloud services, and storage technologies. The firm typically makes initial investments in the low-to-mid US$0.05–1.5 million range and reserves capital for follow-on rounds, pursuing opportunities primarily in Colorado with a broader North American remit. It considers opportunities across the United States and Canada, and avoids investments in companies that require extensive research and development or exceed a total capital requirement of about US$10 million. FirstMile Ventures aims to help portfolio companies establish early momentum through strategic support as they scale.
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, established in 2013. It targets individual accredited investors who previously had limited access to venture capital by enabling alumni from top entrepreneurial schools to invest together in ventures led by fellow alumni. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with sector expertise. It offers focused funds that provide accredited investors access to a diversified venture portfolio by type, sector, stage, and geography. The organization engages in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments across technology, consumer, financial services, health care, life sciences, and other sectors.
Boulder Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 1995. It targets early-stage information technology and life sciences companies, with investments primarily in Colorado and the Mid-Atlantic region. The firm aims to lead deals and typically makes initial investments of about $1-4 million, with total commitments in the $5-10 million range over a portfolio company's life cycle and potential follow-on funding. The firm has additional offices in Chevy Chase and Owings Mills, Maryland.
Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that invests in early-stage technology startups. It specializes in pre-seed and seed rounds for capital-efficient companies, with a focus on the United States and Canada and occasional activity in Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. The firm typically makes 75 to 100 investments per year, with round sizes from 50,000 to 500,000 and pre-money valuations ranging from 1,000,000 to 3,500,000. Portfolio companies are typically located outside the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and the firm aims to provide a clear yes or no on opportunities within about two weeks.
Matchstick Ventures is a Minneapolis-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 that backs early-stage technology startups across the United States, from seed to growth rounds. The firm focuses on business products, business services, information technology, and TMT, and seeks opportunities in underserved startup ecosystems. It has raised multiple funds to support its investments and typically makes investments of roughly 0.5 to 1.5 million USD per company.
CanopyBoulder is an accelerator based in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 2014. It runs a mentorship-driven seed-stage program for startups in the cannabis industry, with emphasis on ancillary products and services. The program supports early-stage ventures by providing guidance, mentorship, and access to a network to help scale businesses within the legal cannabis sector.
Flywheel Ventures is a Santa Fe-based venture capital firm that funds seed to early-stage technology companies, with a regional emphasis on the Southwest and Rocky Mountain states. The firm backs information technology, software and related sectors, including B2B products, software-as-a-service, semiconductors, networking, data services, and other technology domains, and seeks to invest in companies with solutions addressing global IT and urban systems challenges. It maintains offices in Albuquerque and San Francisco and typically acts as a lead investor, aiming to take a board seat and to syndicate for follow-on financing. While focused on the United States, its regional roots are in New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona, with investment activity also in California. Flywheel pursues seed-to-early-stage opportunities and up to growth capital for portfolio companies, collaborating with other firms to support scale.
New Enterprise Associates is a U.S.-based venture capital firm founded in 1977 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It invests in technology and healthcare companies across stages and geographies, supporting startups from seed to growth. The firm operates globally with investments in the United States, Asia, and Brazil among others, and has a long track record of portfolio IPOs and acquisitions. It has over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital.
Congruent Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Oakland and San Francisco that specializes in early-stage investments in climate technology and sustainable solutions across North America. The firm backs technology companies in mobility and urbanization, energy transition, food and agriculture, and sustainable production and consumption, with opportunities spanning hardware, software, and services that can scale while reducing energy and resource use. Founded in 2017, Congruent Ventures emphasizes positive environmental impact alongside growth and operates as an exempt registered adviser.
Greenline Ventures is a Denver, Colorado-based investment firm that provides capital solutions to the financial services sector and related technology-enabled industries across the United States. It pursues buyout investments in financial services and engages in capital markets activities, with an emphasis on long-term value and impact.
Crescendo Capital Partners is an investment firm specializing in growth capital for lower middle-market companies across multiple industries. Based in Centennial, Colorado, with additional activity in Los Angeles, the firm provides capital, strategic guidance, and a professional network to portfolio companies. It invests across early and later stages, targeting sectors including manufacturing, hardware, software, services, healthcare, energy, telecommunications, and consumer-related industries. Investment size varies from smaller early-stage commitments to larger later-stage rounds, often taking a material minority stake. The firm seeks opportunities in Colorado and adjacent markets, focusing on companies with scalable operations and potential for value creation through operational improvements and strategic development.
Costanoa Ventures is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Greg Sands. It focuses on early-stage technology companies, investing primarily in seed and Series A rounds across B2B sectors, including enterprise software, data and analytics, developer infrastructure, fintech, cybersecurity, and national security. The firm positions itself as a long-term partner to entrepreneurs, helping portfolio companies with go-to-market strategy, product-market fit, and growth. It supports startups aiming to build durable, data-driven businesses and strives to back companies that transform how enterprises operate.
Iron Gate Capital is a venture capital firm based in Louisville, Colorado, focused on backing category-leading B2B enterprise technology companies at the early growth stage. It typically makes initial investments of three to five million dollars in companies with revenue around three to ten million dollars, drawing on entrepreneurial experience to support growth.
Range Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Denver, Colorado. The firm invests in tech-related companies at pre-seed and seed stages, focusing on opportunities in Denver, Boulder, and the broader Colorado ecosystem.
Grotech Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1984 and headquartered in the Maryland–Virginia region, investing in early-stage technology companies across the United States. It targets sectors including digital media, e-commerce, software (mobile, cloud, security, enterprise), fintech, and healthcare information technology, and looks for opportunities where its experience and network can add value. Typical initial investments range from $0.5 million to $5 million, with capacity for follow-on rounds to support growth; the firm often acts as lead investor, seeks a board seat, and pursues both control and minority equity positions, sometimes co-investing to accommodate larger commitments. Grotech emphasizes a long-term, collaborative partnership with entrepreneurs and aims to leverage its domain expertise to help portfolio companies scale, including focus on underserved venture markets. Its regional footprint includes offices in Hunt Valley, Maryland; Arlington, Virginia; and Denver, Colorado, reflecting a nationwide reach.
Upslope Ventures is a Denver-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments across the United States. It supports startups in a broad range of sectors, including software as a service, hardware and the Internet of Things, mobile, artificial intelligence, fintech, e-commerce, content, ad-tech, robotics, medical devices, virtual and augmented reality, aerospace, marketplaces, and data science. The firm seeks to back capable teams from diverse locations and emphasizes providing more than capital by leveraging a wide network to help entrepreneurs access resources and connections. Historically associated with Galvanize, it has operated as Galvanize Ventures and maintains offices in Denver and related hubs such as Boulder and San Francisco.
Sapphire Ventures is a global software-focused venture capital firm that backs technology companies across growth and early stages. With teams in Austin, London, Palo Alto, Menlo Park and San Francisco, it partners with management teams and other venture funds to scale companies toward category leadership. The firm manages a substantial asset base and its portfolio spans software, information technology, fintech, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, cloud and related technologies. A dedicated Portfolio Growth team provides hands-on support, tools and resources to help portfolio leaders execute growth strategies and scale operations, while Sapphire Ventures also operates platforms such as Sapphire Partners and Sapphire Sport to support portfolio companies and select venture fund initiatives. The firm emphasizes long-term relationships and strategic value creation through its global footprint and operator driven approach.
MergeLane is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in Boulder, Colorado. It invests in high-potential startups and venture capital funds that have at least one female leader. The firm emphasizes Conscious Leadership and leverages its network of mentors and investors and the MergeLane Funderator to support portfolio companies. MergeLane positions itself as an on-ramp for diverse leadership, aiming to show that teams with women in leadership deliver stronger investor returns.
SpringTime Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 and based in Denver, Colorado. It seeds high-growth software-focused startups across technology, healthcare, fintech, insurtech, and logistics, seeking founders with domain expertise to back transformative technologies. The firm concentrates on software-enabled businesses in the United States and emphasizes a people-focused approach, speed in decision-making, and independently formed conviction. Typical initial investments are around $600,000, reflecting its early-stage mandate.
Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. Headquartered in New York City with offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto, it concentrates on growth-stage software, internet, and data services, with notable focus areas including fintech, cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and healthcare. Founded in 1995, Insight Partners manages over $75 billion in regulatory assets under management and has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide, with over 55 portfolio companies achieving an IPO. The firm combines capital with hands-on, right-sized software expertise to support portfolio companies on their growth journey from first investment to IPO.
Caruso Ventures is a technology-focused investment firm founded in 2020 and based in Boulder, Colorado. It backs tech-enabled companies led by highly effective CEOs and uses Special Purpose Vehicles to bring in additional investors for select investments. Typical initial investments range from $500,000 to $1 million at the early revenue ramp stage, with a willingness to participate in follow-on rounds. The firm is industry agnostic but concentrates its activity in Colorado, and it can take a lead or followers role in deals, drawing on scale-up experience to assist portfolio companies.
Kickstart Fund is a Utah-based seed-stage venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies in the Mountain West. Based in Cottonwood Heights/Salt Lake City, it provides smart capital, a connected founder community, and expert guidance to help portfolio companies grow. Founded in 2008, Kickstart has supported numerous startups and targets investments in software, information technology, and related technology sectors across Utah and neighboring Mountain West states, with a focus on helping founders scale through capital, mentorship, and strategic resources.
Stout Street Capital is a Denver, Colorado-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies. It concentrates on software and B2B SaaS, while also investing in fintech, advanced materials, robotics, and artificial intelligence. The firm targets opportunities in under-served markets in the central United States, with a particular emphasis on the Rocky Mountain region. Its approach combines data-driven analysis, market assessment, and thorough due diligence to select ventures that can improve efficiency and generate measurable value as they scale.
Next Frontier Capital is a Montana-based venture capital investment firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in Bozeman, with additional offices in Boulder, Missoula, and Salt Lake City. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in technology-enabled companies, including software, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and clean-tech, with an emphasis on opportunities in the Mountain region of the United States. It seeks mission-driven entrepreneurs and supports portfolio companies through growth stages, aligning with sectors such as software, AI, mobile, and SaaS, among others, to build scalable technologies.
Alta Partners is a venture capital firm focused on life sciences and healthcare sectors, with a diverse, integrated team that brings deep knowledge and experience to support portfolio companies and deliver tangible results to investors. Founded in 1996, the firm is based in Jackson, Wyoming, with additional offices in Denver and Tiburon.
High Country Venture, LLC is a venture capital firm based in Boulder, Colorado, established in 2005. Specializing in early-stage investments, the firm focuses primarily on the life sciences sector, including biotechnology, diagnostics, and medical devices, as well as internet technology, information technology, and retail consumer goods. High Country Venture commits at least 50 percent of its capital to "Qualified Businesses" located in economically disadvantaged rural and urban communities that adhere to the small business size standards set by the United States Small Business Administration. The remaining capital is allocated to businesses within Colorado. The firm does not engage in investments related to professional services, banking, real estate development, insurance, oil and gas exploration, or direct gambling sectors.
General Catalyst is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 that provides early-stage and growth equity investments in technology companies. It supports portfolio companies with momentum and mentorship to accelerate growth toward long-term success and typically engages across seed to growth stages, potentially taking minority or majority stakes. The firm targets a broad range of sectors enabled by software and technology, including consumer, enterprise, fintech, crypto, healthcare IT, and related areas, and maintains a multi-region presence with offices in North America and Europe to back companies as they scale globally.
Unless is an investment firm based in Boulder, Colorado, established in 2021. It provides insights and partnerships for impact-oriented industrial entrepreneurs and investors, bringing together teams across private and public markets and leveraging a network of experts to deploy capital for both maximum return and maximum impact. The firm employs venture capital and private equity strategies, investing in artificial intelligence, robotics, and information technology, and focuses on industrial opportunities in manufacturing, automation, climate adaptation, and the changing nature of work. Its partners operate across leading technology ecosystems to navigate cycles of technology adoption and to identify inflection points in the new industrial revolution.
CU Healthcare Innovation Fund is the corporate venture capital arm of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado. It invests in healthcare companies that have established partnerships with campus institutions, focusing on digital health, therapeutics and devices, supported by a $50 million fund.
Batshit Crazy Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in pre-revenue, pre-seed startups and provides support to the earliest-stage companies. Founded in 2016, the firm is based in Boulder, Colorado, United States.
3Lines is a venture capital firm headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Founded in 2016, it invests early in companies in the Future of Work, Enterprise and Industry, and AI-powered sectors, typically deploying $1 million to $5 million to firms with $1 million to $10 million in revenue. The firm targets opportunities in the United States and India.
Tao Capital Partners is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2002. The firm focuses on investing in sectors such as technology, transportation, healthcare, education, and sustainable food, with an emphasis on businesses that create a positive social and environmental impact. Tao Capital Partners actively supports companies throughout various stages of their development, aiming to foster growth and innovation in its portfolio. The firm also explores opportunities in alternative energy, agriculture, consumer products, real estate, and hospitality, demonstrating a broad approach to investment in sustainable and impactful industries.
Kokopelli Capital is a venture capital firm based in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 2016. It seeks to invest in companies across the Rocky Mountain region and Austin, focusing on early-stage opportunities in sectors including retail, apparel, accessories, services (non-financial), e-commerce, and technology, media and telecommunications, with initial checks typically ranging from 25,000 to 300,000 USD. The firm operates Kokopelli Capital Fund I as its early-stage vehicle.
V1.vc is a venture capital firm based in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 2015. It focuses on early-stage internet, B2B software, consumer, financial, crypto, and deep tech companies across North America. The firm provides long-term, patient capital to founders and seeks to be a supportive partner, helping portfolio companies grow and navigate scale without pressuring exit timelines.
Established in 2020 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Ensemble Innovation Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage healthcare technology companies.
FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. It is stage-agnostic and focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups, making seed and Series A investments. Typical checks range from 50,000 to 5,000,000 dollars. The firm supports early-stage companies across sectors such as e-commerce, fintech, ad tech, mobile, and software-as-a-service, seeking opportunities with high growth potential in the United States and internationally. Its portfolio includes a mix of consumer brands and marketplace platforms, reflecting an emphasis on business models that connect buyers and sellers or enable direct consumer experiences. FJ Labs aims to back entrepreneurs building scalable, disruptively positioned products and services, often partnering with founders early in their development to help accelerate growth.
Sequel Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Boulder, Colorado, that backs seed and early-stage technology companies. Founded in 1996, the firm focuses on investments in healthcare, information technology, software and services, clean technology, biotechnology, and digital health, with additional attention to the Internet of Things, enterprise IT, and related tech-enabled sectors. Sequel primarily targets opportunities in the United States, particularly in the Rocky Mountain region, and supports portfolio companies through early capital, guidance, and strategic resources to accelerate growth. The firm seeks to partner with founders building scalable solutions across software, data-enabled services, and life sciences, helping them navigate product development, market access, and go-to-market execution.
Ten Eleven Ventures is a cybersecurity-focused venture capital firm founded in 2014 that maintains a global, stage-agnostic approach while primarily backing early-stage technology and cybersecurity companies in North America. The firm leverages its team, network, and operational expertise to help portfolio companies grow, address critical digital security needs, and scale to the next phase of development. It has raised over $1 billion in aggregate capital and has completed dozens of cybersecurity investments across stages worldwide.
eonCapital is a Colorado-based venture capital firm established in 1997, located in Centennial. The firm specializes in investing in seed and early-stage startups that operate in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) and mobile application sectors. eonCapital focuses on supporting innovative entrepreneurs by providing not only financial backing but also essential services such as internet marketing strategy and web development. This approach aims to assist startups in launching and growing their web-based businesses effectively.
OrbiMed is a healthcare-focused investment firm based in New York, founded in 1989, with approximately $5 billion in assets under management. It engages in private equity, venture capital, and growth investments across the global healthcare landscape, spanning biopharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences tools, medical devices, diagnostics, health care services, and digital health. The firm invests across the development spectrum, from startup ventures to mature companies, and pursues opportunities worldwide, including North America, Europe, Asia, Israel and India, leveraging a long-standing specialization in the sector. Through its diversified capital programs, OrbiMed partners with management to advance innovative therapies, tools, and services that address significant medical needs.
Vista Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boulder, Colorado, established in 2000. It backs software, digital media, and network sector companies, typically serving as lead investor and co-investing with others in both early and follow-on rounds. The firm forms strong syndicates to bring a broad set of resources and contacts to portfolio companies, and usually takes a board seat to work closely with management. Its team offers coaching on operational issues such as team building, strategy, and sales and marketing to support growth and execution.
Crawley Ventures is a venture capital firm and subsidiary of Crawley Petroleum, focused on non-petroleum investments. Founded in 1995 and based in Denver, Colorado, it makes direct investments in private companies across seed, early and expansion stages, targeting opportunities with strong management and significant growth potential. Its portfolio spans high tech optics, financial services, software, manufacturing and wireless technologies. The firm emphasizes an old-school, partner-oriented approach, investing its own capital with flexible deal structures and long-term support to help portfolio companies reach milestones.
Delta-v Capital is a Boulder, Colorado-based private equity firm that provides liquidity solutions and growth equity to private technology companies and their shareholders. Founded in 2009, the firm focuses on secondary liquidity for minority investors and growth investments to support growth-stage technology businesses. Delta-v manages over $500 million in capital commitments and makes investments typically ranging from $3 to $30 million in sectors including enterprise software, information services, cybersecurity, data analytics, cloud and communications infrastructure. The firm maintains an office in Dallas, Texas, and pursues opportunities across the United States.
Founded in 2018, Break Trail Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with an additional office in Boulder, Colorado. The firm specializes in early-stage and growth capital investments across sectors such as consumer products, advanced manufacturing, big data, digital health, e-commerce, mobile & SaaS.
Mobius Venture Capital is a Colorado-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies in the United States. It has offices in Boulder and Palo Alto. The firm was established in the mid-1990s and has backed more than sixty technology companies, offering portfolio companies hands-on operational support.
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It pursues investments across multiple sectors, including information technology, healthcare, manufacturing, mobile, nanotechnology, financial services, internet, energy, media, and retail, and provides early to growth-stage funding coupled with strategic support to help founders build lasting, category-defining companies.