# Bascom Ventures

> Bascom Ventures is a VC fund in Manchester backing Software and Biotechnology. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Aug 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bascom-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/bascomventures?lang=en
- Website: http://www.bascomventures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bascomventures/

Bascom Ventures is a community of accredited UW-Madison alums who pool money into a VC fund to invest in UW-connected companies

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 33% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| B2B | 1 | 17% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 83% |
| Germany | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Greg Baker | Founder & Executive Partner | 67 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-baker-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Solsten | 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 | 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 Radar | 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 |  |
| Strategikon Pharma | 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 | 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 |  |
| Markable Creators(Markable AI) | 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. |  |  | Jul 21, 2017 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Allos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allos-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Band of Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/band-of-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bluestein Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bluestein-associates) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Branch Venture Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/branch-venture-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Bascom Ventures invest in?

Bascom Ventures invests primarily in Software, Biotechnology and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Bascom Ventures?

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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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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