Nutshell Types: Venture Capital Firm

Side Door Ventures Michigan Fund (SDV-MI) is a high-conviction, hands-on investment fund dedicated to fueling Michigan’s next wave of innovation. We invest in high-potential startups and emerging technologies that align with the state’s economic development priorities, with a focus on advanced manufacturing, smart infrastructure & mobility, clean energy, and cognitive technologies (e.g. AI, RPA, NLP). […]

At Roll Tack Ventures, we invest in companies that make other companies better. These investments span the midmarket corporate tech stack, improving business fundamentals, and enabling efficiencies of scale typically seen only in large corporations. Historically, midmarket companies in the Midwest have been underserved by innovation. As a midwest firm we are positioned to support […]

Michigan Rise Pre-Seed Fund III invests in Michigan tech startups to help commercialize innovative technologies. We are proud to partner with Michigan’s best and brightest tech entrepreneurs and further economic development in the Mitten State. Michigan Rise Pre-Seed Fund III is made possible with support from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and Michigan State University […]

5AM’s portfolio of advanced life science technologies is diversified within the healthcare industry’s biopharmaceutical, medical, technology, and research instrument sectors. Within each sector, 5AM evaluates innovative platform technologies, corporate spin-offs and products with shorter development cycles and invests across multiple therapeutic areas.

Wakestream Ventures, previously a part of Start Garden, wears the hat of early stage financier and likes startups that take advantage of the Midwest expertise in manufacturing and global enterprise. Wakestream backs fascinating founders working where physical products converge with the internet.

Venture Investors Health Fund makes seed and early-stage venture capital investments in high potential healthcare companies. The firm focuses on the Midwest and has a national reach. It specializes in university spin-outs from Midwest universities, with a focus on the Universities of Michigan and Wisconsin, where its two offices are located.

Tappan Hill invests in B2B software that solves difficult problems in large markets. Tappan Hill is industry agnostic and invests anywhere in the United States.

Industry-agnostic, our focus is compiling a strategic mixture of early stage disrupters and later stage competitors who would benefit from accelerating together for 3months to increase valuations and reduce time to continue to grow to venture scale