# GAN Ventures

> GAN Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Denver, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last fund: Dec 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://gan.co/engage/ventures/

GAN Ventures is a VC fund in Denver focused on Software and Information Technology. GAN Ventures is the investment arm of the Global Accelerator Network

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $100k–$4.9M |
| Series A | $4.3M–$4.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 30% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 15% |
| Health Care | 3 | 11% |
| SaaS | 2 | 7% |
| FinTech | 2 | 7% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 63% |
| Series A | 3 | 11% |
| Angel | 1 | 4% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 56% |
| Ireland | 2 | 7% |
| Kenya | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pat Riley | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pat-riley |
| Reilly Flynn | Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reilly-flynn |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Icon Source | Icon Source is a digital marketplace that connects sports brands with professional athletes. The platform is designed for national and local brands both large and small to have access, engage, and acquire athletes for endorsements, appearances, speaking events, and social media.Icon Source was founded in 2018 by Chase Garrett and is based inDenver, Colorado. | $4.3M | Series A | Mar 02, 2023 |  |
| Stax | Stax is all of your bank accounts, mobile wallets, crypto in a single app that works without mobile data. | $2.2M | Seed | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| Mesh++ | Mesh++ is a solar-powered routers developer. Mesh++ uses mobile processing power to deliver a high-speed WiFi connection to outdoors and public places. | $4.9M |  | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Mesh++ | Mesh++ is a solar-powered routers developer. Mesh++ uses mobile processing power to deliver a high-speed WiFi connection to outdoors and public places. | $4.9M | Seed | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Pomp | Pomp is the only tech-enabled marketplace and vertical SaaS solution dedicated to supporting estheticians and customers shopping for skincare.The company helps estheticians, a historically overlooked professional in the beauty industry, manage, grow, and retain new and existing customers. Pomp's virtual platform and software suite givesaesthetic professionals the ability to monetize beyond the treatment room.Pomp was founded in 2020 and is based Denver, Colorado. | $2.1M | Seed | May 18, 2021 |  |
| Even | Even is a medical company focused on improving the quality of life of medication users.Sarah Morgan kept hearing the same complaints of side effects from her patients on certain medications. What she discovered was illuminating: the same glaring nutrient deficiencies and biochemical imbalances in their bloodwork, again and again. This is what iscalled M.I.N.D.™ (medication-induced nutrient depletions).M.I.N.D.™ needed an answer. So Sarah marshaled a team of physicians, nutritionists, and pharmacists to study medication-nutrient interactions—and began developing what would become Even: a new kind of medical food to pair with medication, to help bring the body back into balance. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 18, 2021 |  |
| Omnia Fishing | Omnia Fishing is an eCommerce store that allows anglers to find, buy, and organize their fishing gear based on the bodies of water they fish with a "shop-by-lake" concept. Anglers rely on information specific to their water body, species, styles, season, and others. | $2.1M | Seed | Feb 18, 2021 |  |
| Turaco | Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums. | $2M | Seed | Nov 10, 2020 |  |
| Turaco | Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums. | $3.4M | Series A | Nov 10, 2020 |  |
| Solgari | Solgari’s all-channel, all functionality cloud business communications solution is empowering our customers in over 40 countries worldwide. We run all their global digital communication needs including telephony, chat, SMS, video, collaboration & more, on our integrated cloud software platform on a per user per month SaaS model. We also helpcompanies meet all their current & future compliance requirements including FCA, PCI DSS, MiFID II and GDPR. The impact on our customers is far more efficient, giving them a truly integrated experience, while reducing costs by up to 50%.We're also a leading Microsoft ISV partner with our cutting edge integration at the forefront of the Dynamics 365 communications layer via the Channel Integration Framework. | $4.4M | Series A | Sep 08, 2020 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [World Within Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/world-within-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Anorak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anorak-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Dundee Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dundee-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [First Leaf Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-leaf-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Illinois Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/illinois-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does GAN Ventures invest in?

GAN Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is GAN Ventures's check size?

GAN Ventures typically joins rounds of $100k–$4.9M at Seed and $4.3M–$4.4M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds GAN Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact GAN Ventures?

Public channels for GAN Ventures include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at GAN Ventures?

The team at GAN Ventures includes Pat Riley (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Reilly Flynn (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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