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Watkins-Conti Products Awarded $500,000 OCAST Funding
Watkins-Conti Products, Inc. was awarded $500,000 in non-dilutive matching funds from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) through its Industry Innovation Program. The funding will support continued growth of Yōni.Fit®, the...
Safety Radar Featured in The American Oil & Gas Reporter
Safety Radar was featured in The American Oil & Gas Reporter as part of its December Editor’s Choice, recognizing how AI is reshaping safety management across the oil and gas industry. The article highlights Safety Radar’s ability to analyze every frontline safety...
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: December 2025
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
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
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.
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...
Recent newsletters
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: February 2025
BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) We’re recapping our Annual General Meeting, where we unveiled key leadership transitions and celebrated portfolio milestones. This month’s Portco Highlight features Cadenza Bio, a biotech company pioneering treatments for autoimmune...
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: January 2025
BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) Happy New Year from Cortado Ventures! We’re kicking off 2025 with a letter from our Managing Partner and an invitation to cocktails at our AGM Reception on January 30th. This month we spotlight our newest interns, Apricot Health's...
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: December 2024
Why We Invested in Safety Radar, RSVP for the Cortado AGM Reception, explore Nuview's groundbreaking innovations, and more. BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) In this month’s issue, learn about “Why We Invested” in Safety Radar, what’s new with our portfolio company Nuview,...
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: November 2024
Why We Invested in Motive, Myri Health in the Top 100 for Entrepreneurship World Cup, our move to The Citizen and more. BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) Read the latest Why We Invested blog featuring our investment in Motive, along with two NextGen Insights blogs from our...
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: October 2024
Why We Invested in Prelude, EXUM Instruments Highlight, Boddle Named as Finalist for $500,000 Yass Prize, and more. Cortado Ventures Oct 09, 2024 Share BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) Read the latest Why We Invested blog featuring our investment in Prelude. Our 2024-2025...
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: September 2024
BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) This month, we're celebrating our new investments in Safety Radar and Prelude/19Days. We have several portfolio companies making history, like Watkins-Conti’s FDA approved device being released and expansions in Mito Materials. We’re also...
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MidCon Markup Ep. 3: How to Raise Venture Capital with Susan Moring
Cortado Ventures' Investment Principal Susan Moring shares practical insights instructing founders how to pursue investment from Cortado and other VCs. Hint: It takes a lot of follow-up!
MidCon Markup Ep. 2: Past, Present, and Future with Legendary Oklahoma Entrepreneur Scott Klososky
The Dos Equis marketing department misfired when they chose someone else for their Most Interesting Man in World campaign. Coming from a family with humble beginnings and developing a distaste for formal education throughout childhood, Scott Klososky blazed his own...
MidCon Markup Ep. 1: Raising a VC Fund in the Midcontinent with Nathaniel Harding
Following its $80M Fund II Close Announcement, Cortado Ventures' Managing Partner Nathaniel Harding shares his insights and expertise on raising a venture capital fund. Nathaniel chats about raising funds in an emerging market, and how the Cortado team raised $100M in...
Dreams Too Big for Medical School with Deborah Moorad
Medicine is a profession mothers tend to love. High on virtue, prestige, and income, life as a doctor is rewarding and lucrative. Discontinuing a medical school route is common for people with practical life considerations, but for Deborah Moorad, med school was a...
Podcast: Susan Morning on “The Aspiring VC”
Susan Morning was featured on "The Aspiring VC" series with MassVentures! MassVentures is the Commonwealth's strategic venture capital team. Deep tech is at the core of the Commonwealth's innovation ecosystem and it includes advanced manufacturing, advanced materials,...
Cortado Ventures Announces $20 Million Fund
Cortado Ventures is excited to announce that we have reached $20 million raised for Fund I, twice our original goal and in half the time. This venture capital fund size enables Cortado to fully realize our goal of attracting, investing in, and supporting best-in-class...
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