Recent news from our
‍portfolio and fund

Natty hosts the Techstars Boulder 2019 Demo Day at the Boulder Theater where the 10 companies presented to a packed house.

We are excited to announce that Matchstick Ventures Fund II has completed an investment in Halp (halp.com). Halp is a conversation-based ticketing system for operations teams (HR, IT, finance, ops).

We are excited to announce that Matchstick Ventures Fund II has completed an investment in Pana (pana.com). Pana is a corporate travel management tool that helps book travel and track expenses for non-employees.

Matchstick Ventures portfolio company Flashfood closed their latest round, led by General Catalyst. Congrats to Josh and the team!

Matchstick Ventures portfolio company Branch launches pay advances, an alternative to payday lending.

We are excited to announce that Matchstick Ventures Fund II completed an investment in Onward (onwardrides.com). Onward is a marketplace of services to help seniors age-in-place, starting with transportation services.

Ryan was profiled in the StarTribune and talked about the Twin Cities startup ecosystem.

Ryan was profiled in Inc. magazines piece on the startup scene in Minnesota.

We are excited to announce that Matchstick Ventures Fund II has completed an investment in Zestful (zestful.com). Zestful is a customizable employee and membership perk card.

We are excited to announce that Matchstick Ventures Fund II has completed an investment in Apostrophe Health (apostrophehealth.com). Apostrophe Health delivers healthcare savings-as-a-service to self-insured employers through their health benefit plan.

We are excited to announce that Matchstick Ventures Fund II has completed an investment in Ordermark (ordermark.com). Ordermark helps restaurants adopt and streamline online ordering to attract and serve larger audiences.

We are excited to announce that Matchstick Ventures Fund II has completed an investment in AVVAY (avvay.com). AVVAY is a marketplace that connects content creators like videographers, photographers, social media influencers and musicians with unique and interesting venues/locations where they can create content.

We're excited to publicly announce today that Natty will be joining Matchstick Ventures as its newest Partner, and will be focused on investing in early stage technology startups in Colorado, across the Rockies region and nationally through the Techstars network.

Matchstick Ventures portfolio company Inspectorio raises $10M Series A to further expand its efforts to modernize and improve how retailers monitor their supply chains.. We're lucky to be early investors in inspectorio, who we met through the Techstars Retail program. Congrats to the team!

The coastal behemoths see billions of dollars in VC funding every year, but the money will move inland for the right startups.

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