# Comerica Incorporated

> Comerica Incorporated is a VC fund backing Software. See 84 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dallas, United States
- Total investments: 84
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 24%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/comerica-bank
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/comericacares
- Website: https://www.comerica.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ComericaCares

Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, strategically aligned by the Business Bank, the Retail Bank, and Wealth Management. The Business Bank provides companies of all sizes with an array of credit and non-credit financial products and services. The Retail Bank delivers personalizedfinancial products and services to consumers. Wealth Management serves the needs of high net worth clients and institutions.Comerica’s nearly 9,000 colleagues focus on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. Comerica operates in seven of the 10 largest U.S. cities, with 480 banking centers in its primary markets of Texas, Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan. Select businesses operate in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico. Comerica is among the 22 largest U.S. banking companies, with $69.2 billion in total assets at December 31, 2014.Visit Comerica's Facebook page at facebook.com/ComericaCares or on Twitter at @ComericaCares for more information on how Comerica is making a positive difference in the communities it serves.Comerica's chief economist, Robert Dye, provides economic research, commentary and analysis. You can follow him on Twitter at @Comerica_Econ.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 23 | 27% |
| Information Technology | 16 | 19% |
| Internet | 12 | 14% |
| Enterprise Software | 10 | 12% |
| SaaS | 8 | 10% |

158 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 38 | 45% |
| Funding Round | 14 | 17% |
| Series A | 7 | 8% |
| Series B | 7 | 8% |
| Series C | 5 | 6% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 67 | 80% |
| Canada | 11 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jon W. Bilstrom | Executive Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-w-bilstrom |
| Irvin Ashford Jr | Chief Community Officer | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/irvin-ashford-jr |
| Jacqueline P. Kane | Senior Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacqueline-p-kane |
| John M. Killian | Executive Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-m-killian |
| J. Patrick Faubion | President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-patrick-faubion |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alida | Alida is a continuous customer insights solution provider that enables organizations to drive better business outcomes while ensuring world-class customer journeys. By combining deep insight with broad feedback, Vision Critical empowers some of the most powerful brands in the world to improve the customer experience. Hundreds of leading brandsincluding BuzzFeed, LinkedIn and Red Bull are building better products and fostering customer loyalty with Vision Critical. To learn more about Vision Critical, follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, or visit us at www.visioncritical.com. | $60M | Debt Financing | Nov 09, 2022 |  |
| DISCO | DISCO is a legal technology company that applies artificial intelligence and cloud computing to legal problems to help lawyers and legal teams improve legal outcomes for clients. Corporate legal departments, law firms, and government agencies around the world use DISCO as an e-discovery solution for compliance, disputes, and investigations. Thecompany is reinventing legal technology to automate and simplify complex and error-prone tasks that distract from practicing law.DISCO was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas. | $40M | Debt Financing | Dec 17, 2020 |  |
| AeroSafe Global | AeroSafe Global develops and produces aerogels and related materials for temperature-sensitive shipping needs in the United States. Its products are used in various thermal insulation applications to transport biomedical, pharmaceutical, and other temperature-sensitive products. The company provides a reliable, simple, and sustainable temperaturesensitive supply chain solutions to the world’s leading biopharma companies.AeroSafe Global delivers cold-chain services for the biopharma industry that results in zero temperature excursions for every client, every product, every time. With proprietary packaging, logistics, and operational services, the company builds customized solutions that ensure the safe delivery of temperature-sensitive biopharmaceuticals. | $47.5M | Private Equity | Sep 10, 2020 |  |
| AeroSafe Global | AeroSafe Global develops and produces aerogels and related materials for temperature-sensitive shipping needs in the United States. Its products are used in various thermal insulation applications to transport biomedical, pharmaceutical, and other temperature-sensitive products. The company provides a reliable, simple, and sustainable temperaturesensitive supply chain solutions to the world’s leading biopharma companies.AeroSafe Global delivers cold-chain services for the biopharma industry that results in zero temperature excursions for every client, every product, every time. With proprietary packaging, logistics, and operational services, the company builds customized solutions that ensure the safe delivery of temperature-sensitive biopharmaceuticals. | $47.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 10, 2020 |  |
| Cognota | Synapse helps companies around the world improve the productivity of their corporate learning and development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes to make training teams more digital, agile, and efficient.This first-of-its-kind software allows our customers toget better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate the disparate tools they are using so they can access capacity data for better decision making and author course content with unprecedented speed.Collaboration with subject matter experts takes place directly within the platform ensuring knowledge is effectively captured and easy to update as required.The Synapse mission is to enable more people to learn and grow. Founded in 2015, Synapse has clients in multiple sectors and is based out of Toronto Canada with offices in San Diego and Merida, Mexico. For more information about Synapse software, visit www.getsynapse.com. | $500K | Debt Financing | Aug 20, 2020 |  |
| Cognota | Cognota is the first and only operations platform for learning and development teams. Our platform enables L&D teams to streamline training request management, improve project and capacity planning, rapidly design content and collaborate more effectively with SMEs. Clients across all industries are leveraging Cognota to improve theirproductivity by eliminating the need for multiple tools to manage learning operations.Looking to thrive in the L&D industry? Join the vibrant LearnOps® Community, a hub where L&D professionals gain insights, engage in thought-provoking discussions, access curated resources, and stay ahead of industry trends. Unlock the power of collective wisdom and experience in the #LearnOpsCommunityJoin for free at LearnOps.com | $501K | Debt Financing | Aug 20, 2020 |  |
| Clearinghouse Community Development Financial Institution | Clearinghouse CDFI is a provider of community development lending services intended to address unmet credit needs. The company provides equal access to credit in neighborhoods of all income levels and ethnicities and spends the time and energy required to find creditworthy borrowers whose projects create assets in the community. Its lendingservices bridge the gap between conventional lending standards and the needs of low-income and distressed communities by offering financial lending for projects that include community facilities, affordable housing, commercial real estate, new markets tax credits, and small businesses, enabling borrowers to receive critical funding for their projects.It was founded by Douglas J. Bystry in 1996 and is located in Lake Forest, California. | $1.1M |  | Jul 28, 2020 |  |
| Lendistry | Lendistry is a fintech company that offers business loans, SBA loans, and commercial real estate loans for small business owners. The company's personalized service and accessibility to private capital and government-backed programs give the business the service they expect from a community bank, with the expertise of its veteran financialprofessionals with national bank experience.Lendistry was founded in 2015 and Is headquartered in Brea, California. | $1.5M | Debt Financing | Jul 22, 2020 |  |
| California FarmLink | California FarmLink is a nonprofit organization that provides farmers with the tools they need to lease and purchase land, access capital, and improve business. | $500K | Debt Financing | Jul 22, 2020 |  |
| Navan | Navan is the all-in-one solution that makes travel easy so you can focus on being there, not getting there. Say goodbye to spending hours on the phone trying to change your flight or saving stacks of receipts to manually input expenses. From EAs and finance teams to travel managers and employees, Navan empowers people to focus on the things thatmatter most to them—all while providing companies with real-time visibility, savings, and control. Learn more at navan.com | $500M | Debt Financing | Feb 25, 2020 |  |

10 of 84 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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- [Lighthouse Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lighthouse-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Peloton Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peloton-equity) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Comerica Incorporated invest in?

Comerica Incorporated invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Internet startups, most often at Debt Financing and Funding Round stage. Most of the 84 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 Comerica Incorporated?

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### Who are the partners at Comerica Incorporated?

The team at Comerica Incorporated includes Jon W. Bilstrom (Executive Vice President), Irvin Ashford Jr (Chief Community Officer) and Jacqueline P. Kane (Senior Vice President), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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