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Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: December 2025

Dec 17, 2025 | Media, Newsletters

BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) This month marks a major milestone at Cortado Ventures with the acquisition of Sway Medical by Healthy Roster, a full circle moment for one of our earliest investments. We’re also reflecting on five years of Cortado Ventures, as Managing...

NextGen Insights: Midcon is the Next Frontier for Tech Innovation

Dec 3, 2025 | Blog, Media

Read the full story here! Authored by Elianna Huang “In the past four years, the Mid-Continent region has seen $48 billion in IPO value,” a figure shared by Josh Pherigo during the Midcon VC Summit in Tulsa, Oklahoma in April 2025. At the same time, many...

CorriXR Partners with InhaTarget Therapeutics and Merxin Ltd

Dec 2, 2025 | Media, Portfolio Companies, Press

CorriXR Therapeutics announced a strategic collaboration with InhaTarget Therapeutics and Merxin Ltd to develop an inhaled genetic therapy for lung cancer that delivers treatment directly to tumors to maximize impact while minimizing systemic side effects. The...

We Bet on the Midcontinent. Five Years Later, It’s Paying Off.

Dec 1, 2025 | Blog

How a once-unlikely region became a launchpad for frontier tech, dual-use startups, and a new wave of American builders. Authored by Nathaniel Harding, Managing Partner Read the full story here. Five Years of Building in Public: The Midcontinent Steps...

Watkins-Conti Launches Yōni.Fit® in Online Shop

Nov 28, 2025 | Media, Portfolio Companies, Press

Watkins-Conti just reached a major milestone: the FDA-cleared Yōni.Fit® Bladder Support is now available online nationwide. This expansion significantly increases access to a non-surgical, patient-designed solution for stress urinary incontinence, a condition that...

NUVIEW Named Finalist for Global Space Awards

Nov 25, 2025 | Media, Portfolio Companies, Press

NUVIEW has been named a finalist for the Global Space Awards in the Innovation Breakthrough and Sustainability for Earth category, spotlighting its space-based LiDAR technology capable of mapping Earth and the Moon in 3D with extraordinary precision. This milestone...

Recent newsletters

Cortado Ventures Monthly Update: September

Sep 17, 2021

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Read about Oklahoma Entrepreneur Mentor Program’s third cohort in our Builders Highlight. Cortado is co-hosting the OVRC on the Road Event TODAY at Skyline. We introduce Boddle, an edtech company with a math-based computer game for...

Cortado Ventures Monthly Update: August

Aug 19, 2021

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) This month’s newsletter starts with our Builder Highlight featuring Techlahoma. We announce a new innovative portfolio company: Watkins Conti Products. Oklahoma City is abuzz with several events this month: Oklahoma Venture Forum...

Cortado Ventures Monthly Update: July

Jul 22, 2021

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Read about OU I-HUB in our Builders Highlight. Our next investment is in stealth mode…for now. MITO, a portfolio company, announced its first official commercial application with Folsom. We introduce our venture scouts for 2021 and new...

Cortado Ventures Monthly Update: June

Jun 18, 2021

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) This month, highlight OKEMP in this month’s Builder Highlight, and are excited to announce our new investment in PatchRx. Following the announcement, we have information on the upcoming OKC tech++ event on the 24th. Susan Morning was...

Cortado Ventures Monthly Update: May

May 18, 2021

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) To kick off this month’s newsletter, we are excited to highlight Stitch Crew as this month’s Builder Highlight. Next, we have a few portfolio company updates to share as well as an introduction to our interns for the summer....

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...