# Allos Ventures

> Allos Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 119 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carmel, United States
- Total investments: 119
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 39%
- Last fund: Mar 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/allos-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/allosvc
- Website: http://allosventures.com

Allos Ventures is a VC fund in Carmel focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Allos Ventures invests in early-stage B2B software and business services companies in the Midwest. The firm invests in businesses and partners with entrepreneurs to help these companies accelerate growth and build value. Allos Ventures was formed in early 2010 and is based in Carmel, Indiana, United States.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Allos Ventures. Shizune tracks 5 team members at Allos Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/allos-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$4.8M |
| Series A | $3M–$10M |
| Series B | $4.2M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 36 | 30% |
| Enterprise Software | 17 | 14% |
| SaaS | 15 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 8% |

119 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 28 | 24% |
| Series A | 19 | 16% |
| Series B | 15 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 8% |
| Series C | 7 | 6% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 54 | 45% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Kerr | Managing Director | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-kerr-2 |
| John McIlwraith | Co-founder & Managing Director | 26 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-c-mcilwraith |
| Don Aquilano | Co-Founder & Managing Director | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/don-aquilano |
| Julie Whitehead | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julie-whitehead |
| Victoria Bills | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/victoria-bills-3798 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Boost My School | BoostMySchool is an educational institution. They design and build a more intuitive, collaborative, and efficient destination for both advancement professionals and the communities they serve. | $10M | Series A | Aug 26, 2025 |  |
| Backstroke | Backstroke is a technology company. | $2.8M | Seed | Jul 16, 2025 |  |
| Nichefire | Nichefire is an AI-power marketing analytics company. | $2.6M | Seed | Jan 07, 2025 |  |
| Hummingbirds | Hummingbirds is a SaaS-enabled marketplace that helps brands find and work with hyperlocal content creators and influencers. | $5.4M | Seed | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| Your Money Line | Your Money Line offers financial wellness solutions by combining AI-powered software with live expert coaching. The service helps employees navigate personal finance questions, improving their financial stability and reducing stress. It aims to enhance workplace productivity by addressing financial concerns in real time. | $4.5M | Series A | Aug 16, 2024 |  |
| Sift Healthcare | Sift Healthcare brings data science to healthcare payments, integrating machine learning and predictive analytics to reduce insurance denials, maximize patient payments and optimize revenue cycle operations. The company provides insights necessary to accelerate insurance payments, reduce overall denials, increase patient responsibility collections,monitor payer contracts and drive smarter workflows.Sift Healthcare captures insurance claim and patient financial data into a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based and normalized database, providing a single source of truth for around your healthcare payments. By applying multiple data science techniques, Sift also provides comprehensive and integrated recommendations for denials management, payer assessment, patient collections and patient acquisition. | $20M | Series B | May 09, 2024 |  |
| Backstroke | Backstroke is a technology company. | $4.8M | Seed | May 07, 2024 |  |
| 120Water | 120Water is the end-to-end lead management solution designed to ease the compliance burden and optimize the efforts of water systems. Comprised of software, consultative services and sampling kits, 120Water’s solution meets systems where they are, providing a roadmap for lead compliance and program success. Their team of water alumni and technologyexperts have supported over 7,000 sampling events across the country, partnering with water systems and facilities of all sizes to protect public health and provide clean drinking water to communities. | $43M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 10, 2024 |  |
| Hummingbirds | Hummingbirds is a SaaS-enabled marketplace that helps brands find and work with hyperlocal content creators and influencers. | $3.3M | Seed | Dec 05, 2023 |  |
| Yourco | Trusted by small businesses and Fortune 500 enterprises, Yourco is a B2B SaaS company that establishes an internal communication infrastructure for organizations with a blue-collar workforce. Customers such as Sherwin-Williams, the Indianapolis Airport Authority, and the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad utilize Yourco for effective communicationwith their non-desk staff. Built initially for a family printing business in 2021, Yourco's customer base and revenue exploded after launching to the public, landing them a spot at SXSW 2023 as one of the top 5 future of work technology startups around the world.Yourco is venture-backed by Ground Game Ventures, Allos Ventures, Start Something Ventures, Elevate Ventures, Gravity Ventures, Flywheel Fund, and strategic angel investors. | $2M | Seed | Oct 24, 2023 |  |

10 of 119 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [High Alpha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-alpha-llc) — VC Fund, 25 deals together
- [Elevate Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevate-ventures) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [Mutual Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mutual-capital-partners-funds) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
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- [Collina Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collina-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 8 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Allos Ventures invest in?

Allos Ventures invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 119 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Allos Ventures's check size?

Allos Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$4.8M at Seed, $3M–$10M at Series A and $4.2M–$20M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Allos Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Allos Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Allos Ventures?

The team at Allos Ventures includes David Kerr (Managing Director), John McIlwraith (Co-founder & Managing Director) and Don Aquilano (Co-Founder & Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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