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Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: September 2025
BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) This month, our Managing Partner Nathaniel Harding appeared on Freedom 96.9’s First News to spotlight the rapid rise of venture capital in Oklahoma and the Midcontinent. We launched our NextGen Insights Blog series with a sharp debut piece...
Sway Medical Announces Integration with Teamworks Performance
Sway Medical has officially integrated with Teamworks Performance, a leading athletic performance and wellness platform. With this integration, Sway’s mobile concussion and cognitive testing tools are now more accessible to athletes, trainers, and organizations,...
Bastazo CEO Mauricio Iglesias featured by Aspiron Search
In the latest CyberBytes newsletter from Aspiron Search, Bastazo CEO Mauricio Iglesias shared his unique journey from control systems and OT engineering to leading Bastazo’s mission to protect critical infrastructure with AI-driven cybersecurity solutions. Mauricio’s...
NextGen Insights: Can Data Predict the Future of Venture?
Read the full story here! Authored by Raeed Zainuddin A great venture capital firm is built around great people: experienced operators, one-of-a-kind fundraisers and individuals uniquely attuned to predicting the future. Yet out of those three characteristics,...
Tobe Energy Pushes Green Hydrogen Innovation with Features in CleanTechnica, Fortune, Axios, StrictlyVC, Journal Record, & More
Following our announcement leading their $1.8M seed round, Tobe Energy has been making headlines across the industry — from Axios Pro Rata to Fortune’s Term Sheet and StrictlyVC. Most recently, CleanTechnica spotlighted Tobe’s breakthrough in green hydrogen and how...
Apricot Health featured in Home Care Innovation Forum
Our portfolio company Apricot Health is challenging assumptions about AI in the home. In a recent feature with Home Care Innovation Forum, CEO Trent Smith shared why Apricot has taken a deliberate stance against “ambient AI”, meaning no always-on listening, no hidden...
Recent newsletters
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: February 2024
Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) In this month’s Doubleshot Newsletter, you will find: Midcon VC Summit 2024 Cortado News Portco News Ecosystem News & Events Midcon VC Summit 2024 Registration Is Open! The Midcon VC Summit is coming to Bentonville! Join us for...
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: January 2024
Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) In this month’s Doubleshot Newsletter, you will find: Message from our Managing Partner Annual General Meeting 2023 Investment News: CorriXR Portco News: Glycologix Midcon Markup Podcast: New Episode with Blake Bixler Portco Job...
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: December 2023
In this month’s Doubleshot Newsletter, you will find: Builder Highlight: Lightship Foundation Team Highlight: Fall 2023 Interns PortCo News Cortado News Ecosystem News & Events Builder Highlight: Lightship Foundation As an impact-driven organization serving...
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: November 2023
In this month’s Doubleshot Newsletter, you will find: Builder Highlight: Global Entrepreneurship Week PortCo News Cortado News Ecosystem News & Events Builder Highlight: Global Entrepreneurship Week Today marks the start of the entrepreneurial extravaganza of the...
Cortado Ventures Doubleshot Newsletter: October 2023
In this month’s Doubleshot Newsletter, you will find: Builder Highlight: Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit Team Highlight: EIR Deborah Moorad accepts new role PortCo News Cortado News Ecosystem News & Events Builder Highlight: Northwest Arkansas Technology...
Cortado Ventures DoubleShot Newsletter: September 2023
In this month’s Doubleshot Newsletter, you will find: Builder Highlight: Startup OU LP Highlight: Jack Greco PortCo News Cortado News Ecosystem News & Events Builder Highlight: Startup OU Startup OU serves as an entrepreneurial focal point within the University of...
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Podcast: Nathaniel Harding | #OPNAskAnAngel
Cortado Managing Partner Nathaniel Harding was recently interviewed by Jeffery Potvin on an episode of The Open People Network: #OPNAskAnAngel podcast to discuss what he looks for in a startup. Harding went on to talk about how Oklahoma’s startup ecosystem growth and...
Podcast: David Woods | Expanding Your Network
David Woods is the CEO of Magellan Executive Partners, a management consulting firm based in Edmond, Oklahoma. Previously, David served as CEO of Ditch Witch, Founder and CEO of EXIM Group, and Co-Founder and Partner at Cortado Ventures. He graduated with a Bachelor...
Nathaniel Harding | Spotting the Potential for Explosive Growth: Podcast
Nathaniel Harding saw a gap in the venture capital world and has rushed to fill it. As he puts it: “There’s a lot of opportunity with startups happening and a lot of innovation in various sectors enabled by technology in different forms. But there’s not enough...
Nathaniel Harding Speaks to StitchCrew about VC in Oklahoma
Eighty percent of all venture capital is spent on three coastal states. Unfortunately, this statistic often leads founders to think they need to move to California, Massachusetts or New York to build a high growth company. Nathaniel Harding, Managing Partner at...
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