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Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: July 2025

Jul 23, 2025 | Media, Newsletters

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 Becomes First VC Firm with Three Consecutive Kauffman Fellows

Jul 16, 2025 | Media, Partner Articles, Press

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cortado Ventures Becomes First VC Firm with Three Consecutive Kauffman Fellows Firm-wide milestone reflects deep leadership bench and national recognition for Midcontinent innovation OKLAHOMA CITY, July 8, 2025 — Cortado Ventures, a leading...

Cortado Ventures Invests In Bastazo

Jul 9, 2025 | Blog, Media, New Investment Announcements, Portfolio Companies, Press

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cortado Ventures Invests in Proactive Cybersecurity Platform for Critical Infrastructure Bastazo is an AI-powered platform that helps OT teams efficiently shift from reactive patching to intelligent vulnerability remediation. OKLAHOMA CITY (July...

Susan Moring Announced as Kauffman Fellows Class 30 Member

Jun 30, 2025 | Media, Partner Articles, Press

We’re proud to share that General Partner Susan Moring has been selected to join Class 30 of the Kauffman Fellows Program, a prestigious global network of venture capital leaders. Kauffman Fellows is known for identifying and developing the world’s most innovative and...

Midcontinent Venture Capital Summit 2025 Recap: Turning insight into action in the heart of venture country

Jun 12, 2025 | Blog, Media

Authored by Nathaniel Harding, Cortado Ventures Managing Partner Read this on Medium What happens when 30+ venture capital firms, hundreds of founders, and a coalition of policy, academic, and ecosystem leaders converge on Tulsa for three days? You get MidCon ‘25 — a...

Why We Invested: Agentech

Jun 12, 2025 | Blog, Media, Portfolio Companies

Read Why We Invested in Agentech on our Medium page. Authored by Susan Moring, Cortado Ventures General Partner Agentic AI for efficient insurance claims processing The past 18 months have marked an extraordinary surge in artificial intelligence innovation and...

Recent newsletters

Cortado Ventures Monthly Update: April

Apr 19, 2021

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) This month we start by highlighting StarSpace46, a hub for coworking and entrepreneurship. Next, we share news about our most recent investment in Recuro and the addition of Tom Leydorf to our team as an advisor. We are...

Cortado Ventures Monthly Update: March

Mar 18, 2021

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) This month we have exciting news to share about our firm. We will start with a Q&A with Percy Kirk. Following the Q&A, we announce our new investment in PrivacyBrain and a few portfolio highlights. Next up is...

Q&A with Percy Kirk

Mar 17, 2021

This month, we had a Q&A with senior vice president and region manager for Cox Communications Central Region, Percy Kirk. He serves on the board of directors for the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, board of trustees for the Oklahoma City National...

Respond Flow in OVRC Newsletter

Feb 18, 2021

Entrepreneurship is unpredictable, but it can also be incredibly rewarding. For Martin Langelo Lien, Co-Founder and CEO of Respond Flow, his start in entrepreneurship began in Norway with a side hustle in second grade. From a calligraphy set to an SMS software that...

Cortado Ventures Monthly Update: February

Feb 16, 2021

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) In this newsletter, we start by highlighting Rick Nagel of Acorn Growth Companies. Next up, we are excited to announce our new Tulsa office location at 36 Degrees North and the launch of our new Venture Scout Program....

Cortado Ventures Monthly Update: January

Jan 15, 2021

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) In this newsletter, we are thrilled to announce some exciting news for Cortado to kick off the year. We start by highlighting AJ Jack on his promotion to CEO at Heritage Trust. Next up is an announcement about...