# High Country Venture

> High Country Venture is a VC fund in Boulder backing Medical and Software. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, United States
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Apr 2016
- Lead investor: 26%
- Fund size: $25M
- Last fund: Feb 2010
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/high-country-ventures
- Website: http://highcountryventure.com

High Country Venture is a VC fund in Boulder focused on Medical and Software. The Colorado Fund is a venture capital fund seeking to invest in seed and early stage businesses in Colorado. The fund will focus its investments in Life Sciences (including biotechnology, clean technology, and medical devices), information technology (including software and Internet companies) and retail. They encourage all qualified businesses inrural areas who are seeking capital to submit a business plan, regardless of the industry you are in.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical | 4 | 12% |
| Software | 4 | 12% |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 12% |
| SaaS | 3 | 9% |
| Health Care | 3 | 9% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 12 | 35% |
| Series B | 7 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 18% |
| Series C | 3 | 9% |
| Seed | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher A. Marks | Team Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-a-marks |
| Mark T. Lupa | Managing Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-t-lupa |
| Rob Schmiedeler | partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rob-schmiedeler |
| Scott Beck | Founder & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-beck-1de8 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Covalent Data | Covalent Data is the leader in innovation intelligence, featuring the world’s most comprehensive and accurate collection of content illuminating the global innovation landscape. By stitching together disparate sets of public and private data, we make it possible to trace the journey of invention from the earliest stages of research throughsuccessful commercialization. We enable researchers to showcase their expertise, institutions to market their assets, foundations to evaluate grant applicants, and licensing professionals to discover groundbreaking technologies. Through the Covalent Data platform, all participants in the innovation ecosystem can efficiently track trends, analyze opportunities, and connect with each other. | $1.2M | Series A | Apr 14, 2016 |  |
| TriSalus Life Sciences | Surefire Medical, based in Westminster, Colorado, was founded in 2009 to develop a novel infusion system for the interventional radiology market. The Surefire's Infusion System is designed to precisely deliver embolic agents through the sophisticated expandable tip portion of its catheter. Because of this differentiated expandable tip, whichcollapses in forwarding flow to maintain blood flow and dynamically expands to the vessel wall in reverse flow to minimize reflux, Surefire's Infusion System is designed to substantially reduce damage to healthy tissue. | $15M | Series C | Dec 02, 2015 |  |
| Kapost | Kapost is the leading provider of Content Marketing software that enables companies to manage their content marketing as a structured business process. Through its platform that manages the ideation, production, distribution, audience development and analytics of content marketing, Kapost empowers marketers to generate more content, more trafficand more leads. Kapost customers include brands like Eloqua, Marketo, AT&T, Intel and more. Kapost also produces The Content Marketeer, a blog providing content and education for marketers. | $10.3M |  | May 12, 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 |  |
| Nutrinsic | Nutrinsic (formerly Oberon FMR) is a pioneer in providing commercial nutrition solutions through the upcycling of unused nutrients.By recovering nutrients, we help food and beverage processors deliver clean water to the environment and eliminate the need to dispose of waste. This process creates an economically and environmentally sustainablesource of premium protein for animal nutrition.We are committed to creating win-win sustainability solutions through smart thinking and technology. | $1.6M |  | Apr 20, 2015 |  |
| Nutrinsic | Nutrinsic (formerly Oberon FMR) is a pioneer in providing commercial nutrition solutions through the upcycling of unused nutrients.By recovering nutrients, we help food and beverage processors deliver clean water to the environment and eliminate the need to dispose of waste. This process creates an economically and environmentally sustainablesource of premium protein for animal nutrition.We are committed to creating win-win sustainability solutions through smart thinking and technology. | $12.7M | Series C | Aug 14, 2014 |  |
| Nutrinsic | Nutrinsic (formerly Oberon FMR) is a pioneer in providing commercial nutrition solutions through the upcycling of unused nutrients.By recovering nutrients, we help food and beverage processors deliver clean water to the environment and eliminate the need to dispose of waste. This process creates an economically and environmentally sustainablesource of premium protein for animal nutrition.We are committed to creating win-win sustainability solutions through smart thinking and technology. | $12.7M | Series B | Dec 18, 2013 |  |
| Collective IP | Collective IP develops data exploration platforms. It features the world's most comprehensive and accurate organization of technologies emerging from universities, companies, and research institutes. The Collective IP marketplace provides technology transfer and corporate licensing professionals with a unique asset marketing platform, and anovel search solution for business development professionals who focus on asset identification within companies and technology transfer organizations. The Collective IP platform provides unrivaled access to licensing and acquisition opportunities around the globe, saving time and money for those engaged in the opportunity identification of time decaying assets, due diligence, competitive intelligence, and intellectual property strategy. | $2.5M | Series A | Nov 21, 2013 |  |
| Covalent Data | Covalent Data is the leader in innovation intelligence, featuring the world’s most comprehensive and accurate collection of content illuminating the global innovation landscape. By stitching together disparate sets of public and private data, we make it possible to trace the journey of invention from the earliest stages of research throughsuccessful commercialization. We enable researchers to showcase their expertise, institutions to market their assets, foundations to evaluate grant applicants, and licensing professionals to discover groundbreaking technologies. Through the Covalent Data platform, all participants in the innovation ecosystem can efficiently track trends, analyze opportunities, and connect with each other. | $2.5M | Series A | Nov 20, 2013 |  |
| TriSalus Life Sciences | Surefire Medical, based in Westminster, Colorado, was founded in 2009 to develop a novel infusion system for the interventional radiology market. The Surefire's Infusion System is designed to precisely deliver embolic agents through the sophisticated expandable tip portion of its catheter. Because of this differentiated expandable tip, whichcollapses in forwarding flow to maintain blood flow and dynamically expands to the vessel wall in reverse flow to minimize reflux, Surefire's Infusion System is designed to substantially reduce damage to healthy tissue. | $18.2M | Series B | Nov 07, 2013 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Access Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/access-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HealthCare Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/healthcare-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Zelkova Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zelkova-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does High Country Venture invest in?

High Country Venture invests primarily in Medical, Software and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 34 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 High Country Venture?

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### Who are the partners at High Country Venture?

The team at High Country Venture includes Christopher A. Marks (Team Member), Mark T. Lupa (Managing Partner) and Rob Schmiedeler (partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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