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OKC’s Black-Owned Business Legacy

Jun 6, 2022 | Blog

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...

Cortado Ventures Featured on OETA’s Oklahoma News Report

May 21, 2022 | Media

In April, Cortado Ventures was featured on OETA, Oklahoma's PBS affiliate, focusing on the firm's efforts to raise $80M for our second fund and invest in more high-growth tech startups in Oklahoma and the Midcontinent region. Check the clip below. [video width="1920"...

Cortado Ventures Closes Investment With Exum

Dec 22, 2021 | Media

OKLAHOMA CITY — December 2021 Cortado Ventures is pleased to announce it closed a Pre-Series A investment with an innovative analytical instrument company. Headquartered in Denver, Exum Instruments brings high-performance, solid-sample chemical characterization out of...

Oklahoma City biotech investor Cortado Ventures invests in locally founded Sensulin

Dec 16, 2021 | Blog

At Cortado Ventures we are proud to announce closing a major investment in Oklahoma City founded Sensulin. Led by University of Oklahoma graduate Mike Moradi, Sensulin is a biopharmaceutical company that is developing a glucose-responsive insulin for type 1 and type 2...

Article: OLSF Ventures leads $4.5 million investment in Broken Arrow-based Access Optics

Oct 27, 2021 | Media

Oklahoma Life Science Fund Ventures (OLSF) recently led a $4.5 million Series A Preferred investment in Access Optics, a Broken Arrow-based global manufacturing leader of micro-scale surgical imaging products. Joining OLSF in the investment was Plains Venture...

Blog: The Opportunity in Edtech

Oct 21, 2021 | Blog

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....