Next Level Ventures provides capital for great entrepreneurs and growing companies; focus on ag/bio, b2b/data, and fintech. They focus on venture capital, growth capital, expansion capital, startup, and fintech.

Next Level Ventures

M25 is a Chicago-based Midwest-focused venture capital firm run by Victor Gutwein and Mike Asem. Since the firm's inception in 2015, M25 has invested in 90+ early-stage tech startups in over 24 cities across 11 states in the Midwest. M25's objective, analytical model and collaborative, forward-thinking approach creates a large portfolio spanning several industries across the entire region, allowing them to establish M25 as a key node in Midwest startup ecosystem.

Ames Seed Capital is a pool of private investors.

Ames Seed Capital

Twelve19 Ventures Makes Angel, Seed, and Venture Investments in Early Stage and Growth Companies Backed by Strong, Innovative Entrepreneurs and Management Teams.

Twelve19 Ventures

Cabra VC is a European venture capital firm focused on early stage startups in the USA and India. We invest in early stage post-revenue companies and support young teams to grow rapidly. Our team has more than 10 years of successful experience of joint work. We have a deep knowledge of building and running subscription-based companies from scratch. Before setting up Cabra VC in 2016 we launched a wide range of IT and Telco services and attracted millions of subscribers that generate hundreds of millions of dollars revenues to date. All that makes us a strong partner for a startup at any stage. We are available in the Bay Area (USA), in Delhi, Mumbai & Bangalore (India) as well as in Riga (Latvia, EU).

CABRA VC

Nebraska Angel Network is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage investments to startups. It was founded in 2006 and is based in Nebraska.

Nebraska Angel Network

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Homegrown Capital

We Back Builders. Founded by @Jason  Team behind   This Week in Startups: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisWeekIn  @twistartups    The LAUNCH Accelerator https://launchaccelerator.co/ @launchincubator    The Syndicate https://thesyndicate.com/ @thesyndicate415    Founder university: https://www.founder.university/ @founderuni    Remote Demo Day  https://remotedemoday.com/ @remotedemoday

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Great North Ventures invests in entrepreneurs who are using the latest breakthrough technologies to innovate industries still dominated by analog processes. From Seed to Series B, the team provides guidance, capital, and connections. The fund looks for the best startups wherever they are located, because the next generation of great companies are growing outside of Silicon Valley. Built by successful founders, Great North Ventures values the ability to execute above all else.

Great North Ventures

ISAV is focused on Iowa's key industry sectors with world-class mentors and industry-leading corporate partners.ISAV is a balanced approach to growing Iowa-based companies through multiple phases of their growth.

ISA Ventures

Our mission is to support and empower visionary entrepreneurs who are catalysts for positive change and industry disruption through groundbreaking ideas. We firmly believe that startups have the power to transform entire industries and shape the future of our society. To achieve this, we go beyond providing financial capital – we offer strategic guidance and operational support to be a valuable partner on their journey to success.

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Pitchly

Pitchly provides a SaaS platform for non-technical users to create data-infused real-time PowerPoint and Word documents linked to internal business data wherever it may live. Typically, before Pitchly, this work takes place in disconnected and inefficient tools like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Sharepoint, or IT-owned databases. The platform aggregates disparate information sources, making information easy to catalog, find, and produce compelling and relevant data-driven Word and PowerPoint documents. This generates a 93% reduction in time to create data-heavy documents with 100% error reduction; all in half the time it takes to locate information when compared to traditional approaches. Pitchly end-users can even create custom forms to populate data to those original sources to make certain their teams are using the most relevant and up-to-date data. It aggregates digital data sources, such as Excel, SQL, Salesforce, and more, into one normalized tabular view of the data to reference, search, filter, and then integrate into documents and presentations in real-time. The platform gives the ability to easily publish select information from your database(s) on a website, in various digital forms. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa.

Pitchly offers a data science platform that enables enterprises to centralize data for real-time content and document generation. The platform provides a drag-and-drop interface as well as a rule builder for users to manage data collection, integrations and approvals, connect data sources, and design content templates.

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Pitchly offers a data science platform that enables enterprises to centralize data for real-time content and document generation. The platform provides a drag-and-drop interface as well as a rule builder for users to manage data collection, integrations and approvals, connect data sources, and design content templates. Additionally, users can create and upload live data-driven content to documents, APIs, and third-party partner products such as Templafy, Williamslea, and Upslide. Funding and financials In March 2023, Pitchly <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17081">raised USD 7 million </a>in Series A funding led by Homegrown Capital to expand its sales and marketing team and to develop its product offering.

Index offers a no-code platform for enterprises to build dashboards for internal use to obtain insights on business metrics, investor updates and operation overviews, among others. As of June 2021, the product remains at beta, with a limited early preview. The platform provides prebuilt templates, and also has tools for users to build their own dashboards. The dashboard can be integrated with multiple apps including Hubspot ((customer relationship management data), Stripe (payment data), and Postgres and MongoDB (databases), slack (remote working) and Google Sheets (spreadsheets), among others. The company raised USD 2.6 million in Seed funding in October 2020. It intends to invest the funds in hiring two engineers (in addition to the two founders) and continuing to refine and develop the product. The founders aim to reach USD 1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and expand their product distribution.

Index

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 Stencyl offers a drag-and-drop no-code platform that enables users to create and publish web and mobile games. Users can build their game logic using the platform&rsquo;s pre-built code blocks, design visual elements via an in-built graphics editor, and publish across a range of platform&rsquo;s such as IoS, Android, Windows and Mac. Moreover,&nbsp; Stencyl also enables users to embed ads into their games as a secondary source of revenue.&nbsp;
 
 
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 As of February 2024, Stencyl was used by over 500,000 registered developers. Apps created on Stencyl have reached top slots in the Apple App Store and Google Play, and its most successful web games have been sponsored by major publishers including ArmorGames, Kongregate, and Newgrounds.
 
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Stencyl

Universe offers a no-code platform for users to build websites that can be added to social media pages. Websites can be built using drag and drop blocks to add images, videos, and other content to create a mobile-first website. The Platform offers creative controls, 30 pre-made themes, and block features to allow users to create a custom site and/or open an e-commerce store directly from a mobile phone.The company began as a landing page builder and progressed to developing websites, which include tools for adding shopping blocks. Universe targets micro businesses that are not tech-savvy.<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20509">In July 2023 </a>, Universe launched the beta version of Generative Universe Sites (GUS), an AI-powered website designing tool. This solution provides a conversational interface for users to dictate their requirements for a website and then generates a customized web page.Funding and financialsIn December 2021, Universe raised USD 30 million in a Series B funding round led by Addition to develop the company’s block-based system for website building named “GRID,” expand its commercial offering for startups, and extend GRID to more platforms and devices. Additionally, the company used the funds to expand its reach in new markets and grow its employee base.

Universe

Readymag is a web-based drag and drop tool that enables users to create websites, presentations and digital magazines. Its customers include large enterprises such as AirBnB, Forbes, Esquire, and IDEO.

Readymag

UserGuiding is a user onboarding tool that helps create interactive guides for customers. Functions include user onboarding, feature adoption, in-product messaging, and customer feedback, among others. As of September 2020, the company had over 2,000 global enterprise clients. UserGuiding raised USD 1.1 million in seed funding in August 2020, which it intends to use to expand its operations by increasing its workforce, accelerating global expansion, and enhancing product development.

UserGuiding

Allows users to create apps for their own businesses by using their data and ideas and converting them into apps to improve their workflow.

Platforms that allow users to create online/mobile games in a no-code environment.

Platforms and tools that enable users to build mobile-based apps using templates and tools (widgets) in a visual environment.

Platforms that let users create workflow and process management systems in a spreadsheet format integrating with databases. This also includes data science tools, which enable users to run predictive analysis on data sets through drag-and-drop functions using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Tools that allow users to build websites, ranging from blogs to e-commerce sites, in a visual environment without the need for coding. Often has no-code tools to integrate with other online tools, such as payment gateways.

Offers solutions for building internal applications and automations for enterprises

Many solutions enable users to leverage AI/ML for predictive analytics

Offers solutions for building enterprise-specific applications and automations

Some solutions leverage GenAI to enable users to build application and website templates without coding

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