# Bryant Hayward

> Bryant Hayward is a seed investor at North West Quadrant Ventures ( NWQ Ventures) backing Software. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [North West Quadrant Ventures ( NWQ Ventures)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/north-west-quadrant-ventures-nwq-ventures)
- Location: Denver, United States
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Feb 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haywardbryant/
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Bryant Hayward is a seed investor at North West Quadrant Ventures ( NWQ Ventures) in Denver focused on Software and E-Commerce. Bryant Hayward is the Founder and Managing Partner at North West Quadrant Ventures ( NWQ Ventures).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 21% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 14% |
| FinTech | 3 | 10% |
| Health Care | 3 | 10% |

79 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 45% |
| Series A | 8 | 28% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 10% |
| Series B | 2 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 21 | 72% |
| India | 3 | 10% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FlyCode | FlyCode is a low-code platform that empowers product teams to offload work from engineering. Companies like Kong and C2FO use FlyCode to launch and iterate on products faster with less development work. |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2023 |  |
| Flock | Flock is a fully digital insurance company for commercial motor fleets. We're on a mission to make the world quantifiably safer with connected insurance that enables and incentivises safer driving. With Flock, safer fleets pay less. Iit's why hundreds of companies trust us to protect their vehicles and drivers including Virtuo andJaguar Land Rover's luxury leasing firm, The Out. We're proud to be supported by some of the world's leading VCs, including Social Capital and Anthemis. Our goal is to become the world's leading fully digital insurer for connected and autonomous vehicles. | $38.1M | Series B | Feb 27, 2023 |  |
| Dapper Labs | Dapper Labs, the company behind NBA Top Shot, uses blockchain technology to bring NFTs and new forms of digital engagement to fans around the world. Since it was founded in 2018, Dapper Labs has given consumer enthusiasts a real stake in the game by bringing them closer to the brands they love, building engaged and exciting communities for them tocontribute to, and producing new pathways for them to become creators themselves. | $5.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 21, 2022 |  |
| Glow | Glow is an insurance company that aims to transform insurance to better protect people. The company is working toward holistic coverage for work, life and everything in between. Glow was founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California. | $24M | Series A | Nov 08, 2022 |  |
| BioSapien | BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life. | $35M | Series A | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| BioSapien | BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life. | $35M | Seed | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| Embifi | Embifi is a B2B financial platform developer that specializes in financing, lending, and payments. Its white-label neutral platform provides instant reports and analytics, a unified dashboard, and plug-and-play APIs for a native journey, allowing businesses to save time understanding credit and developing their credit product. | $1.1M | Seed | Jul 18, 2022 |  |
| Fireside | Fireside is the next evolution of Storytelling. It is where the world's greatest creators go to bring the audience into the story through live, interactive, virtual shows. Co-founded by Mark Cuban and Falon Fatemi, Fireside gives creators the unprecedented power to distribute shows everywhere with the click of a button, understand what theiraudiences want more of with sophisticated analytics and connect with those audiences in real time. The next media empires are emerging on Fireside...all through the power of Story. | $25M | Series A | Feb 23, 2022 |  |
| kencko | kencko started with the simple belief that organic fruits and vegetables should be available anytime, anywhere, in any shape or format. kencko is on a mission to reinvent fresh organic fruits and vegetables into convenient products that are hassle-free to consume while preserving all the goodness of freshly harvested produce. | $10M | Series A | Jan 25, 2022 |  |
| Wilderness Labs | We have built a hard-tech IoT platform called Meadow that enables regular web and mobile developers to build, professional, secure, embedded applications in a fraction of the time and cost as traditional platforms and then manage those solutions in the field at scale with our Meadow.Cloud SaaS. We’re 4.5 years old, with most of that in stealth. Wedropped our stealth blanket last year and ran a breakaway kickstarter, we’re now post-revenue but still in beta, with customer purchase commitments of more than $2MM for 2021. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Trajectory Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trajectory-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Corigin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corigin-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pioneer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About North West Quadrant Ventures ( NWQ Ventures)

VC Fund · Parker, United States

Family Office ~ Venture Investment Division

1 contacts available at North West Quadrant Ventures ( NWQ Ventures).

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bryant Hayward | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryant-hayward |

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## FAQ

### What does Bryant Hayward invest in?

Bryant Hayward invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Bryant Hayward last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bryant Hayward closed in Feb 2023. Shizune tracks 29 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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