Industry Classfication: Solved

NAICS codes are vital to commercial underwriting, lending, fraud detection, payment processing, customer segmentation, and more. However, classifications are wrong nearly 50% of the time. This Medium post from Cortado Principal, Susan Moring, explains how Relativity6...

OKC’s Black-Owned Business Legacy

This story is written by J.D. Baker, Kayte Spillman, and Greg Horton.  Out from the Gloomy Past: The Rise and Legacy of Oklahoma City’s Black Entrepreneurship.  J.D. Baker, a platform manager at Cortado Ventures, writes about the history of Black-owned businesses...

Blog: The Opportunity in Edtech

Tulsa based Boddle is an edtech company with a math-based computer game for students, and is developing a curriculum agnostic and marketplace platform. They have reached several promising milestones, including growing to over 3,525 Daily Active Users on the platform....

Blog: Delivery at the Speed of Thought?

At Cortado Ventures we invest in companies who dream big and have what it takes to make it happen, disrupting sectors with innovative technology where we are aligned as operators. Our recent investment in Pipedream embodies that conviction. Founders Garrett...

Blog: Innovating the Taboo

Recently Cortado announced our investment in Edmond based Watkins Conti Products. We invest in ambitious companies tackling big problems and in teams with the “right stuff” to make it happen. Here we discuss our thinking behind our investments and the trends that...