Bascom Ventures
VC Fund
Manchester, United States
Bascom Ventures is a community of accredited UW-Madison alums who pool money into a VC fund to invest in UW-connected companies
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
- Last fund:
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Industries Bascom Ventures invests in
FinTechInternetSoftwareBiotechnologyFinance
Stages Bascom Ventures invests in
Series CSeedSeries ASeries BPre-Seed
Countries Bascom Ventures invests in
United StatesGermanySwitzerland
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 3 (20%)
- Internet 3 (20%)
- Software 3 (20%)
- Biotechnology 3 (20%)
- Finance 2 (13%)
Stage
- Series C 4 (27%)
- Seed 3 (20%)
- Series A 3 (20%)
- Series B 2 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 12 (80%)
- Germany 1 (7%)
- Switzerland 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Greg Baker
Founder & Executive Partner
|
Founder & Executive Partner | Total investments: 86 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12traits is an AI firm engaged in understanding human behavior in the digital world for powering the future of customer experience. | $21.8M / Series B / Aug 18, 2022 | ||
| Quiver Quantitative is an alternative data platform designed for retail investors. The company's alternative data allows investors to access new and unique data sources to help them make decisions. Alternative data, on the other hand, is typically priced for institutional clients and is not widely available to retail investors. This hasresulted in a one-way information flow, with hedge funds purchasing consumer data (such as credit card transaction history and social media data) and using it to outperform retail investors in the market. It scrapes alternative stock data from the internet and compiles it in a free, user-friendly web dashboard. | $2M / Seed / Mar 02, 2022 | ||
| Spartan’s proprietary software algorithms leverage machine learning and edge-processing to provide high-resolution sensing that mimics the human ability of instantly shifting focus to safely respond to obstacles. Spartan works with existing ADAS sensors to increase resolution, response time, and range. Our software increases sensing performance atan affordable cost with low computational overhead. Signal processing expertise built over decades of commercializing aerospace and automotive technologies | $10M / Seed / Aug 26, 2021 | ||
| Clinical Maestro™ by Strategikon Pharma is the only commercially available software platform for the end- to- end management of “clinical business operations”, which is the pharmaceutical industry vertical for planning, outsourcing and budgeting clinical trials. Biopharmaceutical companies outsource 90% of their clinical development pipelinespending billions of dollars engaging in highly complex outsourced relationships with thousands of global service providers, each using their own processes, systems and reporting structures. These sophisticated relationships require complex outsourcing strategies, demanding clinical financial planning, extensive sourcing due diligence and rigorous performance management. Currently the industry manages these activities in Excel, using labor intensive, inefficient processes, costing billions of dollars in infrastructure costs, regulatory non-compliance fines and delays to market. Clinical Maestro takes a radically different approach to the management of clinical portfolio through a transformative redesign of Excel-driven processes into end-to-end integrated workflows, breaking the communication and data integration siloes between pharma companies and their outsourcing partners. Clinical Maestro™ cases studies with leading pharmaceutical companies and CROs demonstrate savings of >80% vs. manual processes, >95% prediction accuracy for clinical study budgets and high user satisfaction and engagement. | Series A / Apr 22, 2021 | ||
| Cultured Decadence is a cellular aquaculture startup creating novel methods to make crustacean products using cell culture and tissue engineering techniques. The company was founded in 2020 and based in Madison, Wisconsin. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Apr 09, 2021 | ||
| BCG reported that 70% of Gen Z discover products through content platforms, not directly on a retailer website. Social commerce is NOW. The global fashion E-commerce digital advertising allocation is $200 billion. Mai is making social visual discovery shopping a reality on every photo and video across any social platforms or devices. Viewers canclick and shop the clothing they see while watching videos, such as TV shows, movies, and other digital media. Mai bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce, through a fully-automated AI computer vision technology, a sophisticated e-commerce bidding system, and a user personalization system. At Mai, we have spent three years working with top computer vision AI scientists, AI engineers, and fashion experts that created the world’s 1st fully automated video fashion shopping solution. We are connected with numerous top global e-commerce platforms, with total 200M SKUs available, daily updated with an out-of-stock rate <3%. Moreover, Mai is already live with two of the biggest social content platforms in Asia, with more to come.Mai has won the No.1 winner of MIT AI Idol contest in Jul 2020, and also won the title of “Most fundable company by investment value” at the biggest Asia Internet Conference in Nov 2020. | $5.1M / Convertible Note / Dec 21, 2020 | ||
| Intrinio is a financial data company that offers platform consists of an application programming interface. Intrinio's mission is to help investors save money and make time so they can live more meaningful lives. We believe investors waste time on data collection, data entry, and data analysis because traditional financial data providersstifle innovation through high prices and restrictive technology. The Intrinio Fintech marketplace solves this problem by making financial data affordable and easy to access for developers, unleashing their creative potential to build the next generation of financial analytics products.Dozens of data feeds are currently available at disruptively low prices, providing data types such as FDIC bank data, real time IEX stock prices, fundamental US 10Q and 10K data, and insider transactions. Dozens of applications built with that data are also available, applications that free up investors to focus on what really matters- testing assumptions, conducting research, and generating insight.By uniting data providers, developers, and investors around a new model for financial innovation, the Intrinio Fintech marketplace promises to refocus the financial data industry on the developers and investors that make meaning out of data. | $5M / Series A / Apr 25, 2019 | ||
| GrubMarket develops a website where sellers can offer foods and other items at wholesale prices to customers. It offers products such as organic foods, vegetables, gluten-free foods, snacks, drinks, pantries, home goods, health and beauty products, baby and kids' products, pets, non-GMO foods, paleo foods, cholesterol-free, and no trans-fatfoods.GrubMarket also offers foods from local farms, fisheries, commercial kitchens, certified home kitchens, and restaurants. Mike Xu founded GrubMarket in 2014, with its headquarters in Newark in California with an additional office in San Francisco in California. | $25M / Series C / Apr 04, 2019 | ||
| Azumo front light is here to light the way to the new era of high efficiency, durable displays that don’t fight the environment but work in tandem with it. The time has come for all of us to reflect on what displays can do for devices. | $9M / Series B / Nov 07, 2018 | ||
| FinLocker is a financial services technology innovator, founded by a team of veterans and executives across the financial services and technology industries. It provides a personal financial assistant tool that enables loans and financial transactions. With consumer consent, FinLocker captures key borrower data and applies intelligent analyticssuch as loan product recommendations based on a consumer’s financial profile, asset and income verification, and more. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in St Louis, Missouri. | $2.3M / Seed / Aug 08, 2018 | ||
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FAQ
What does Bascom Ventures invest in?
Bascom Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Internet and Software startups, most often at Series C and Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Bascom Ventures?
The team at Bascom Ventures includes Greg Baker (Founder & Executive Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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