Invest Detroit
VC Fund
Detroit, United States
Invest Detroit is a development financial institution and source of private sector financing. Detroit Innovate is an early-stage investment fund focused on the Detroit Region. Detroit is a growing entrepreneurial community and they're at the center of it. Their focus is high potential seed stage companies founded on unique, IP-based technologies.
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Invest Detroit invests in
Stages Invest Detroit invests in
Countries Invest Detroit invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 10 (34%)
- Enterprise Software 6 (21%)
- Information Technology 5 (17%)
- Internet 4 (14%)
- Health Care 4 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (41%)
- Series A 9 (31%)
- Convertible Note 2 (7%)
- Grant 1 (3%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cayse Llorens
Senior Associate
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Senior Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Derek Edwards
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jason Barnett
Senior Vice President
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Senior Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Martin Dober
SVP, Invest Detroit and Managing Director, ID Ventures
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SVP, Invest Detroit and Managing Director, ID Ventures | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Patricia Glaza
EVP and Managing Director
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EVP and Managing Director | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bloom is an operations-as-a-service platform designed for hardware innovators. By connecting product companies with trusted manufacturers, logistics partners, and service providers, Bloom streamlines production, assembly, and after-sales support. Whether in mobility, robotics, clean energy, or emerging tech, Bloom helps brands bring their ideas tomarket faster and more efficiently. | $3.6M / Seed / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| CircNova is a biotechnology company that utilizes AI to generate, analyze, and identify circular RNA for therapeutic development. | $3.3M / Seed / Feb 21, 2025 | ||
| Treehouse is a software-enabled service for home electrification, starting with turnkey residential EV charging installation in CA and AZ. | $16.6M / Series A / Oct 16, 2024 | ||
| 360ofme is a new platform that provides consumers with portability, ubiquity and insights from their digital life. From healthcare to financial and insurance to automotive and home, 360ofme provides a simple means of securely sharing critical data with family members, doctors and others that consumers choose. Utilizing cognitive computing from IBM,new insights about people's lives will be surfaced. Consumers will gain control of their digital footprint. Visit 360ofme.com for more information. | Seed / Sep 25, 2023 | ||
| Judy Security is a cyber security company servicing small and medium businesses. The company's technology Judy uses a secure and private vault to create, store and protect all their passwords, keeping unauthorized users out of their login data. | $5M / Series A / Apr 26, 2023 | ||
| Plinqit provides smart savings app. | $5M / Series A / Feb 22, 2022 | ||
| Judy Security is a cyber security company servicing small and medium businesses. The company's technology Judy uses a secure and private vault to create, store and protect all their passwords, keeping unauthorized users out of their login data. | $3.1M / Seed / Jan 27, 2022 | ||
| FlexTal matches companies with Experts for hourly and fixed-fee projects. We use AI to help companies source, vet, match and engage the world’s best Experts. With solid revenue and 100%+ year-over-over growth, FlexTal has one of the largest flexible talent networks in the world.The future of work is here, and most companies aren’t equipped tohandle the speed of change within the workforce. Access to specialized, hand-matched Experts is the key to agility in today’s landscape, yet many don’t have the resources to source, vet, and match the Experts they need. We’re trying to fix this by making world-class Experts more accessible than ever. Companies with access to our Expert network have 3-4x more operating leverage than those without. By democratizing access to our Expert network, we can help shape the future of work while increasing the pace of human evolution. As our work continues to evolve alongside digital transformation and automation, more professionals will choose how they work. The question is: Who will they work for? What tools will multiply their efficiency?Our platform allows companies and workers to achieve work faster and easier than ever before. Through FlexTal™, millions of people are discovering a better way to work that enhances productivity, efficiency, and quality of life. And we are just getting started. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Feb 01, 2021 | ||
| Airspace Link digitizes local airspace for urban air mobility. It provides government, citizen, and business drone solutions to support local government airspace management, fostering citizen empowerment, and business innovation through consumer and b2b air logistical support and services. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. | $3M / Seed / Dec 10, 2019 | ||
| Orbion Space Technology develops and manufactures plasma propulsion systems for small satellites. Orbion’s thrusters can save spacecraft operators millions of dollars in operating costs while increasing the value of the spacecraft’s data products. Its manufacturing approach enables the production of plasma thrusters at the unprecedentedly highrates that are required to equip the space revolution. | $9.2M / Series A / Aug 28, 2019 | ||
| See all 29 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Invest Detroit invest in?
Invest Detroit invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Information Technology 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.
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Who are the partners at Invest Detroit?
The team at Invest Detroit includes Cayse Llorens (Senior Associate), Derek Edwards (Vice President) and Jason Barnett (Senior Vice President), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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