Fertility treatment is a huge industry, but traditionally it has been very geographically and demographically limited. U.S. fertility clinics are concentrated in the top 10 metropolitan areas across the country, and around 82% of recipients of care have historically...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City-based Cortado Ventures has reported progress on its seed funding initiatives. The venture capital firm launched its second fund last year. Currently, total assets under management are just under $100 million.

OKLAHOMA CITY (MARCH 20, 2023) — Cortado Ventures announced today that it has begun the third close of Fund II, at $60 million of its $80 million seed Fund II. The Oklahoma City-based venture capital firm launched its second fund last year with the intent of bringing...

As a single mother of two kids, Allison Watkins had learned, with a lot of work, what it takes to start a patented products venture, raise $6 million in capital, and to go through the testing and FDA review necessary to just get started. 

Last year at Cortado, we wrote about Industry 4.0 and the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI). One of our major investment themes is to back companies bringing AI to necessary and recession-proof industrial sectors, including energy and logistics. The “third wave” of...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Entrepreneurship is on the rise Oklahoma City, and The Verge is looking to invest. Spearheaded by Cortado Ventures in collaboration with the Inasmuch Foundation and Flourish, The Verge is a new nonprofit whose aim is to serve, support and champion...