The groundswell of support for a tech community in the middle of the Midcontinent — At Cortado Ventures, our work is about more than capital. We’re dedicated to supporting growth and innovation in Oklahoma and the Midcontinent for the benefit of the entire region. But what role does a venture capital firm play in the growth of an entire region? While it’s still a work…

Reflection on where we’ve been and where we are going, and the growing landscape of innovation in the Midcontinent — When we started Cortado Ventures in the spring of 2020, we believed that technological innovation would infiltrate new areas, increasingly outside of the usual geography, as the “third wave” of venture capital arrived in places like the Midcontinent where we call home. …

Our investment in Dex Pump — Cortado Ventures invests in technologies that impact how we work, heal, move and power modern life. In the middle of the country, we see the technology revolution transforming hard-to-shift legacy sectors through software, AI and hard tech. …

Q&A with Joey Wignarajah, co-founder of Oklahoma’s first venture studio, backed by Cortado Ventures — At Cortado Ventures, we partner with best-in-class operators building a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem in our region. We do this because we love being a part of something cool, and by doing this well Cortado grows access to a robust and bespoke pipeline of seed investment opportunities. …

Why the region is ripe for innovation and how funders and founders are capitalizing — With a record $128 billion raised by venture capital (VC) funds in 2021, startups have more access to venture capital than ever before. While more than 70% of U.S. …

Glycologix Inc.’s Patented Biotech: Locally Delivered Soft Tissue Repair — A very special thanks to Cortado’s Research Fellow, Nathan Friels, in collaboration with Susan Moring, Mike Moradi, and Brooks Hensley. If you’ve been around Oklahoma very long, you know that biotech was perhaps our state’s earliest foray into the tech startup world (see Alexion, Novazyme, Immy, Selexys, Sensulin, Cytovance, Biolytx…

Senslytics ‘intuition technology’ scales expert insight with AI and machine learning to avert catastrophes and save millions — When I was fresh out of college in 2006, I got really excited about the possibilities of applying statistical analysis to divine future outcomes. I was a junior engineer at EnCana and the ability to quantify uncertainty to aid expert decision making had caught the attention of the company’s headquarters…

Reflecting on possible futures enabled by technology — my perspective through the World Economic Forum — Recently I virtually joined an executive education program led by the Nanyang Technological University entitled “Imagining Technological Futures”. This was an opportunity through my Young Global Leaders cohort of the World Economic Forum. …

Cortado Principal Susan Moring writes about our conviction backing companies innovating in hard tech — Big thanks to Susan for researching and writing this content. When you think of high-tech, venture-backed startups seeking to take their companies “to the moon”, software companies get a lot of attention. Hardware startups are often overlooked by venture capital — margins are typically lower than software companies as manufacturing…