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Industry Classfication: Solved

Jun 6, 2022 | Blog

NAICS codes are vital to commercial underwriting, lending, fraud detection, payment processing, customer segmentation, and more. However, classifications are wrong nearly 50% of the time. This Medium post from Cortado Principal, Susan Moring, explains how Relativity6...

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"...

Let’s Talk About Soft Tissues (no, not Kleenex)

May 21, 2022 | Blog, Media, Portfolio Companies

Glycologix Inc.’s Patented Biotech: Locally Delivered Soft Tissue Repair A very special thanks to Cortado’s Research Fellow, Nathan Friels, in collaboration with Susan Moring, Mike Moradi, and Brooks Hensley. If you’ve been around Oklahoma very long, you know...

Investing in Hard Tech for Industry 4.0

Dec 23, 2021 | Blog, Media

When you think of high-tech, venture-backed startups seeking to take their companies “to the moon”, software companies get a lot of attention. Hardware startups are often overlooked by venture capital — margins are typically lower than software companies as...

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...