Portfolio
Companies

AcreShield was founded to help farmers select the best-performing hybrids and mitigate “Yield Gap” risk with revolutionary performance guarantees. We are farmer-focused, innovative and experienced ag professionals.

Act Write Here is a virtual playhouse designed to transform how stories are developed and shared by offering a collaborative, accessible software platform.

BLK & Bold is a specialty coffee company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, manufacturing fair-trade and kosher-certified coffee products across multiple formats, including whole bean, ground coffee, K-cups, frac packs, and ready-to-drink cold brew.

Blueprint Nav – a patient navigation platform designed to help individuals and families find clarity in the complex landscape of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.

Bound is a software platform that helps youth sports and activity directors, from state associations to local clubs, manage what’s next for their programs. Bringing together all aspects of the administrative and participant experience into one place.

Brightn: A mental health and wellness platform focused on supporting Gen Z in crisis, creating more accessible and data-driven pathways to early intervention.

BuildFactory is building a new way for contractors and fabricators to connect, unlocking access, reducing overhead, and accelerating how buildings get constructed. No gimmicks. No silos. Just smarter, faster construction. We’re currently working with select partners to reshape how the built world gets built.

Clayton Farms offers its customers a year-round subscription-based service that delivers fresh produce to consumers within hours of harvest.

SaaS platform that provides an electronic medical record (EMR) for both university and private practice clinics. Poised to penetrate the private practice market, ClinicNote’s robust solution includes soap notes, scheduling, billing and standalone teaching tools.

Coco Coders teaches children aged 6-14 how to code via live online, small cohort lessons each week. Coding principles that relate to the development and understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence lay the foundation for these students’ educations, and prepares them to join the digital economy for the rest of their lives.

Distynct is a precision livestock platform that enables remote management of North American livestock facilities using IoT sensors and smart devices.

FarrPro offers precision livestock farmers a unified production system (both hardware and software solutions) to improve herds, reduce disease, and cut energy use.

Geminii has developed the Golden Halo, a medical device that uses safe electromagnetic fields to precisely and non-invasively reprogram cancer cell metabolism at home (from the comfort of a patient’s own bed) while they sleep.

Genvax is a startup animal vaccine company located in Ames, Iowa. We have a dynamic team of experienced scientists and entrepreneurs poised to develop next generation RNA + nanoparticle vaccines for animal health.

Better Surgery. Lower Costs. Faster Recovery. Fewer Opioids. With Goldfinch Health.

Developer of a wastewater treatment technology designed to aid municipalities and industrial clients in sustainably treating water in effective and affordable ways

A full-suite grain production system that enables farmers to more effectively store, dry and sell the grain they produce. Haber’s offering includes several hardware components (in-bin drying systems, auto fans and sensors) as well as a software component that gives the farmers remote control and access to their yield.

Halide is a biotech startup developing stabilized protein therapeutics using a proprietary technology that incorporates site specific fluorinated amino acids to enhance protein stability, enabling a new class of “bio-better” drugs.

Harvest Increase Agriculture’s new fertilizer SUPRGrow has been shown in four years of field trials to increase the harvest yield of corn by 5.9%. Only low levels of 1 gallon per acre of SUPRGrow are needed to increase harvest yields of corn

The Hummingbirds platform helps small businesses find and work with hyper-local content creators to drive awareness and sales.

Provider of sustainable biological methods intended to control invasive species, increase biodiversity, and address climate change.

At kmōdo, we lead life insurance innovation with patented technologies that deliver unique, flexible solutions tailored to individual needs. Our modern user interface empowers consumers to create optimal solutions for their ever-changing insurance needs.

The Koos Gown™ is a disposable isolation gown designed to meet FDA critical zone coverage standards – the first of its kind. (AAMI – Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation).

Laced Golf delivers shoe-mounted sensors and software-driven analytics that provide real-time alignment and swing routine feedback, transforming static setup concepts into measurable, adaptive performance data.

Legible (formerly UpVote) cuts through the noise of state policy so you never miss a bill, waste a Thursday on reports, or let things slip through the cracks. In seconds, Legible sorts through real-time state policy to deliver personalized insights by client or entity. You can flag bills, specific topics, and more. No more digging through state sites, rewriting the same bill summary 10 times, or chasing last-minute updates. The result? A 40% time reduction on administrative tasks each week. Less busywork. More wins. Legible makes policy work scalable.

MākuSafe has developed proprietary wearable technology that gathers real-time environmental and motion data from workers. Their cloud platform, MākuSmart, then uses machine learning to identify high-risk trends in a facility

Midland Seafood is a land-based shrimp production company that leverages proprietary growing technology and a contract grower model to produce high-quality shrimp.

Mission Tool Company develops innovative building tools for professionals and DIYers by addressing the overlooked areas of habitualization in the building process. Their products relieve century-old pain points in novel ways so that more people can build with confidence, speed, and satisfaction.

Mod Advisor helps analyze and report on workers compensation experience mod data. The software helps insurance agents’ prospect and retain clients by creating reports that detail claim cost impact, validate experience mods, and forecast future scenarios.

Pathware – developing technology that accelerates pathology workflows and improves diagnostic accuracy, helping clinicians deliver faster, more precise patient care.

Pitchly helps companies leverage data to create content. Pitchly brings business data to life, eliminate repetitive processes and saving time.

Poultry Patrol is a robotics company that services the poultry industry by providing a robotic solution designed to improve animal welfare and the farmer’s bottom line.

Building a modern alternative to legacy fleet management services.

The solar industry’s first recyclable, reusable, collapsible pallet system designed specifically for solar module shipping.

Pyrone Systems is a biotech company shaping the future of natural, non-toxic biopesticides. This company has developed scalable, biology-based methodologies to create a new-age biopesticide that is more environmentally friendly and more effective than current solutions.

Repaint Studios pioneers sustainable solutions in the painting and DIY industry. Committed to reducing the environmental impact with home improvement, we specialize in crafting reusable, silicone, eco-friendly painting supplies by replacing traditional plastic and single-use paint trays and liners.

Developer of microbial biopesticides designed to protect crops from diseases through genetic engineering.

Building simple, safe, cost-effective, and seamless autonomous integration upgrades for existing vehicles and machinery provides solutions for labor shortages, reduces capital expenses, and adds more hours to an operator’s day.

Specializes in fully-autonomous field equipment with the aim of increasing profitability and sustainability of crop production.

Shaka is a software company that is focused on building the next generation of employee engagement for a virtual, distributed workforce.

SourceEazy disrupts the promotional and uniform product sourcing industry with a factory-direct B2B marketplace that eliminates middlemen, streamlines ordering, and empowers distributors to efficiently manage and customize projects through a user-friendly platform featuring tools for communication, real-time tracking, and automated workflows.

STRATAFOLIO is an online software solution designed specifically for people who own or manage real estate, use QuickBooks, and want to streamline their operations to save time, increase profits, and reduce manual work.

TapOnIt is a female-founded, Hispanic-owned text message marketing company based in Davenport, IA. Their proprietary SaaS Text Message Marketing Platform is used across the country by businesses of all sizes to build, grow, retain, and engage databases of users that have opted-in to receive content from them via SMS and MMS.

Tylmen Tech – turning video and imaging data into actionable yield metrics for meat processors by capturing carcass cutability, fat distribution, and weight in real time.

AI software that provides analytical tools to diagnose radiographic images of lungs. VIDA helps medical providers determine whether a patient has lung disease, and if so, what kind and precisely where it is located in the lung.

An evidence-based learning tool that provides targeted, validated reading solutions in the K-12 market. Their flagship product, WordFlight, is the first of its kind to address automatic word recognition and decoding skills in kids who struggle with reading comprehension.