19days — till what?

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...

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...

Investing in Hard Tech for Industry 4.0

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...