# Flywheel Ventures

> Flywheel Ventures is a VC fund in Santa Fe backing Software and SaaS. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Fe, United States
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 18%
- Fund size: $35M
- Last fund: Jan 2010
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/flywheelvc
- Website: http://www.flywheelventures.com

Flywheel Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on information technology and physical sciences ventures in the Southwest/Rockies region. Flywheel's goal is to be the premier early-stage technology venture capital firm in the Southwest/Rockies region and a catalyst for its emergence as a world-classtechnology center.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 27% |
| SaaS | 3 | 9% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 9% |
| Mobile | 2 | 6% |
| Publishing | 2 | 6% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 10 | 30% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 18% |
| Seed | 5 | 15% |
| Series B | 5 | 15% |
| Series C | 3 | 9% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Jargiello | General Counsel & Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-jargiello |
| Paula L. Marez | General Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paula-l-marez |
| Trevor R. Loy | Founder & Managing Partner & General Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trevor-r-loy |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Laxis | Laxis is more than just a transcriber for your online conference, phone or in person meetings. It’s an intelligent personal meeting assistant. Using proprietary NLP technology, Laxis can analyze conversations, generate meeting memos and insights letting you make better, smarter decisions from better, smarter meetings. |  | Seed | Jul 25, 2022 |  |
| Submittable | Submittable helps thousands of organizations worldwide collect and review any type of content in one easy-to-use platform. It was launched by three creatives, a writer, a filmmaker, and a musician, who wanted to simplify the process of submitting their work. Today, Submittable is a cloud-based submission management platform that makes it easy toaccept, review, and make decisions on any kind of digital content online.Submittable has collected more than 10 million submissions from thousands of customers worldwide and is backed by True Ventures, Next Frontier Capital, The Knight Foundation, StartFund, 77Ventures, Y Combinator, and a few other amazing investors. The platform mission is to make a crappy process better for as many people as possible.Submittable was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Missoula, Montana, USA, and with an office in New York. | $47M | Series C | Jun 06, 2022 |  |
| Genome Medical | Genome Medical is a national telegenomics technology, services, and strategy company bringing genomic medicine to everyday care. Through its nationwide network of genetic specialists and an efficient Genome Care DeliveryTM technology platform, we provide expert virtual genetic care for individuals and their families to improve health andwell-being. They also help health care providers and their patients navigate the rapidly expanding field of genetics and utilize test results to understand the risk for disease, accelerate disease diagnosis, make informed treatment decisions and lower the cost of care.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in South San Francisco, California, United States. | $60M | Series C | Aug 30, 2021 |  |
| Genome Medical | Genome Medical is a national telegenomics technology, services, and strategy company bringing genomic medicine to everyday care. Through its nationwide network of genetic specialists and an efficient Genome Care DeliveryTM technology platform, we provide expert virtual genetic care for individuals and their families to improve health andwell-being. They also help health care providers and their patients navigate the rapidly expanding field of genetics and utilize test results to understand the risk for disease, accelerate disease diagnosis, make informed treatment decisions and lower the cost of care.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in South San Francisco, California, United States. | $14M | Series B | Jul 01, 2020 |  |
| Submittable | Submittable helps thousands of organizations worldwide collect and review any type of content in one easy-to-use platform. It was launched by three creatives, a writer, a filmmaker, and a musician, who wanted to simplify the process of submitting their work. Today, Submittable is a cloud-based submission management platform that makes it easy toaccept, review, and make decisions on any kind of digital content online.Submittable has collected more than 10 million submissions from thousands of customers worldwide and is backed by True Ventures, Next Frontier Capital, The Knight Foundation, StartFund, 77Ventures, Y Combinator, and a few other amazing investors. The platform mission is to make a crappy process better for as many people as possible.Submittable was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Missoula, Montana, USA, and with an office in New York. | $10M | Series B | Jul 18, 2019 |  |
| Genome Medical | Genome Medical is a national telegenomics technology, services, and strategy company bringing genomic medicine to everyday care. Through its nationwide network of genetic specialists and an efficient Genome Care DeliveryTM technology platform, we provide expert virtual genetic care for individuals and their families to improve health andwell-being. They also help health care providers and their patients navigate the rapidly expanding field of genetics and utilize test results to understand the risk for disease, accelerate disease diagnosis, make informed treatment decisions and lower the cost of care.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in South San Francisco, California, United States. | $12M | Series A | May 29, 2017 |  |
| SlamData | SlamData software is a solution for data integration and preparation of any data stored in S3, Azure, and Google. It gives more analytics-ready, regardless of complexity.SlamData has connectors to MongoDB, MarkLogic, Couchbase, and Hadoop and employs the industry's first “in-database” analytics solution to keep data processing and analyticsclose to the data.It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. | $6.7M | Series A | Feb 22, 2017 |  |
| Submittable | Submittable helps thousands of organizations worldwide collect and review any type of content in one easy-to-use platform. It was launched by three creatives, a writer, a filmmaker, and a musician, who wanted to simplify the process of submitting their work. Today, Submittable is a cloud-based submission management platform that makes it easy toaccept, review, and make decisions on any kind of digital content online.Submittable has collected more than 10 million submissions from thousands of customers worldwide and is backed by True Ventures, Next Frontier Capital, The Knight Foundation, StartFund, 77Ventures, Y Combinator, and a few other amazing investors. The platform mission is to make a crappy process better for as many people as possible.Submittable was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Missoula, Montana, USA, and with an office in New York. | $1.3M | Series A | Dec 11, 2015 |  |
| SlamData | SlamData software is a solution for data integration and preparation of any data stored in S3, Azure, and Google. It gives more analytics-ready, regardless of complexity.SlamData has connectors to MongoDB, MarkLogic, Couchbase, and Hadoop and employs the industry's first “in-database” analytics solution to keep data processing and analyticsclose to the data.It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. | $3.6M | Seed | Jul 30, 2015 |  |
| Documoto | Documoto is a Denver-based software company that simplifies the selling, managing, and supporting of machine and equipment parts. Documoto’s vision is to provide innovative software solutions for equipment manufacturers, their network, and their equipment owners to keep the world’s machines working.Their solutions help these businesses rise tothe unique challenges found in the complex equipment aftermarket – improve the accuracy, lower the costs, and decrease the lead time for essential technical documentation; fend off gray-market and will fitter competition for increased market share; maximize equipment uptime; provide a top-notch experience for their internal team, channel, and customers; and streamline MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul) operations. Through our solutions, suppliers, manufacturers, channels, and equipment owners get closer to each other, optimizing costs and increasing revenues through a unified “content supply chain”.Documoto's flagship product, is an enterprise cloud-based solution for authoring parts catalogs and related content, securely distributing that content over the web to any device in a variety of translations, and ordering the right parts and products the first time, every time.Founded in 2010, Documoto is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, with sales offices in Europe and resellers across the globe. | $9M | Series B | May 07, 2015 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

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- [HealthInvest Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/healthinvest-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Flywheel Ventures invest in?

Flywheel Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 33 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 Flywheel Ventures?

The team at Flywheel Ventures includes David Jargiello (General Counsel & Venture Partner), Paula L. Marez (General Manager) and Trevor R. Loy (Founder & Managing Partner & General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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