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Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: September 2025
BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) This month, our Managing Partner Nathaniel Harding appeared on Freedom 96.9’s First News to spotlight the rapid rise of venture capital in Oklahoma and the Midcontinent. We launched our NextGen Insights Blog series with a sharp debut piece...
Sway Medical Announces Integration with Teamworks Performance
Sway Medical has officially integrated with Teamworks Performance, a leading athletic performance and wellness platform. With this integration, Sway’s mobile concussion and cognitive testing tools are now more accessible to athletes, trainers, and organizations,...
NextGen Insights: Can Data Predict the Future of Venture?
Read the full story here! Authored by Raeed Zainuddin A great venture capital firm is built around great people: experienced operators, one-of-a-kind fundraisers and individuals uniquely attuned to predicting the future. Yet out of those three characteristics,...
Tobe Energy Pushes Green Hydrogen Innovation with Features in CleanTechnica, Fortune, Axios, & StrictlyVC
Following our announcement leading their $1.8M seed round, Tobe Energy has been making headlines across the industry — from Axios Pro Rata to Fortune’s Term Sheet and StrictlyVC. Most recently, CleanTechnica spotlighted Tobe’s breakthrough in green hydrogen and how...
Watkins-Conti Product’s, Yōni.Fit, available at HAC Inc. Pharmacies in Oklahoma
Our portco Watkins-Conti Products has announced expanded availability of its flagship device, Yōni.Fit, now offered at HAC, Inc. pharmacies across Oklahoma, including United, Homeland, and CashSaver. Yōni.Fit is an innovative, non-surgical solution designed to address...
Cortado Ventures Invests in Tobe Energy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2025 Contact: Anthony Triana atriana@saxum.com 405-818-0791 Cortado Ventures Leads $1.8M Investment in Green Hydrogen Pioneer Tobe Energy Oklahoma-founded company aims to drive down costs of e-fuels and revolutionize industrial...
Recent newsletters
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: September 2025
BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) This month, our Managing Partner Nathaniel Harding appeared on Freedom 96.9’s First News to spotlight the rapid rise of venture capital in Oklahoma and the Midcontinent. We launched our NextGen Insights Blog series with a sharp debut piece...
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: August 2025
BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) Read about our latest investments in Dockware, a company developing sensor systems that capture real-time freight data to create accurate digital twins for more efficient warehouse and logistics operations, and Tobe Energy, a company...
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: July 2025
BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) Celebrate our milestone in being the first VC firm in the country with three consecutive Kauffman Fellows, reflecting national recognition and deep leadership across our team. Our Portco Highlight features Fluid Efficiency, a deeptech...
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: June 2025
BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) Announcing two new investments: Agentech, a workforce performance intelligence platform, and Bastazo, a cybersecurity company safeguarding critical infrastructure. This month’s Portco Highlight features Moove.ai, helping cities improve...
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: March 2025
BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) This month, we’re announcing our latest investment in Equipt, an AI-driven platform transforming asset and field service management. Our Portco Highlight features Sensulin, a company pioneering advancements in diabetes care. Lumata Health...
Midcon VC’s Midcon Monthly: February 2025
The Value of Summit Sponsorship A Message from 2024 Sponsor - 46VC A word from Kate Lynn, Analyst and Platform Manager of 46 Venture Capital—a...
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Nathaniel Harding Featured on 96.9 Freedom First News Podcast
Our Managing Partner, Nathaniel Harding, recently joined Freedom 96.9 First News with Jason Doyle to talk about the rise of venture capital in Oklahoma and the Midcontinent. In the conversation, Nathaniel highlighted Cortado’s distinction as the first VC firm with...
Applying Systems-Thinking to Maximize Community Impact with Lynn McBee
Some communities have a universally respected and beloved behind-the-scenes leader with a Midas Touch for all things impact. If you have lived in Dallas for long, you know that person is Lynn McBee. Tune in to learn how this biochemist Superwoman simultaneously built...
College is Perfect Time to Found Your first Startup with Trevor Gicheru
While college years are associated with in-classroom learning and extracurricular partying, Trevor Gicheru proves it is also the perfect time to start your first startup. Startups require an immense amount of time and community support, but the fire-house learnings...
How to be Yourself with Investors with Kevin Moore
Most people go through their everyday lives trapped behind their own lens of the world. This lack of empathy is especially palpable when VCs are raising money from LPs and when founders are raising money from VCs, where the temptation to oversell to pick up a check as...
Bringing Canadian Founder Energy to Oklahoma VC with Matt Waraich
Moving from Vancouver, British Columbia to Oklahoma City, OK is rare enough, let alone for venture capital. According to Matt Waraich, the geographic arbitrage thesis of non-coastal venture firms is resonating in coastal markets more than Oklahomans realize. Tune in...
Dedicating Your Life to Social Impact with Ed Long
New research on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) demonstrates an overwhelming negative correlation between the severity/frequency of childhood trauma and lifetime well-being outcomes. Ed Long overcame childhood trauma to pursue a Master's of Public Administration...
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