# Iron Gate Capital

> Iron Gate Capital is a VC fund in Louisville backing Software and Advertising. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Louisville, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/irongate-capital-advisors
- Website: http://irongatecapital.com

Iron Gate Capital is a venture capital firm formed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Initial investments are $3 to 5 million in category-leading B2B enterprise technology companies starting at the "early growth" stage ($3-10M revenue).

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 30% |
| Advertising | 3 | 11% |
| SaaS | 2 | 7% |
| Security | 2 | 7% |
| Marketing | 2 | 7% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 19% |
| Series B | 5 | 19% |
| Series C | 5 | 19% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 15% |
| Seed | 2 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AJ Dye | Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aj-dye |
| Doug Fahoury | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doug-fahoury |
| Ryan Pollock | Managing Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-pollock-3 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Respondology | Respondology develops a customizable comment moderation tool for businesses or anyone with a large online audience. It enables brands of all types to regain control of their presence in social media by immediately and discreetly removing damaging social comments and bots across paid, organic, and influencer social marketing. | $5M | Series A | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| RunSafe Security | RunSafe Security is on a mission to immunize software from cyber attacks and disrupt hacker economics without developer friction. RunSafe's patented technology, Alkemist, inoculates customers' systems from an entire class of cyber attacks by stopping the infection at its source. Our customers integrate our product across build and deploytoolchains to protect open source, in-house code, and 3rd party binaries. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with an office in Huntsville, Alabama, RunSafe Security's customers span the critical infrastructure, IIoT, automotive, medical, develops, and national security industries. | $12M | Series B | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| Respondology | Respondology develops a customizable comment moderation tool for businesses or anyone with a large online audience. It enables brands of all types to regain control of their presence in social media by immediately and discreetly removing damaging social comments and bots across paid, organic, and influencer social marketing. | $11M | Series A | Apr 06, 2023 |  |
| Lonestar | Lonestar is an information technology company that provides secure, immutable storage and edge processing services to customers. They provide data services to the moon for both the terrestrial archival market and to support space operations with data analytics, archival services, and broadband relay to terrestrial public and private clouds. | $5M | Seed | Mar 06, 2023 |  |
| KoreLock | KoreLock is a rapidly growing global leader in turnkey embedded smart lock technology. The company specializes in embedded PCB solutions that assist lock manufacturers in overcoming the complexities of developing connected smart locks, lowering costs, and reducing overall time-to-market. |  | Series A | Feb 02, 2023 |  |
| SHARE Mobility | SHARE Mobility is a cloud-based transportation management platform built for fleet operators, NEMT providers, municipalities, and private employers. The platform handles scheduling, dispatch, driver management, and rider communication for any transit model, from on-demand paratransit to employee shuttles, without hardware requirements or customdevelopment. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. SHARE supports fixed-route, on-demand, microtransit, flex-route, and demand-response operations from a single instance. The dispatch dashboard provides real-time GPS tracking, route status, and fleet visibility. AI-powered routing optimizes trips based on rider demand, vehicle capacity, and timing constraints. The platform includes three apps: an admin portal for dispatchers, a driver app with turn-by-turn navigation, and a rider app available in 11 languages. All apps support full white-label branding. Software-only, cloud-based, no proprietary hardware or on-premise servers required. | $12M | Series A | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| RemoteLock | RemoteLock sets the standard in universal access control for the multifamily, commercial security, and vacation rental markets. We have been at the forefront of internet connected devices and cloud-based access control solutions for over a decade, servicing customers in over 65 countries with our easy-to-use, scalable, and future-proof software.Our SaaS platform is unlike other access control solutions in that we provide users the ultimate in flexibility and control—the ability to easily grant any person access to any space, from anywhere, using smart locks from any of the leading manufacturers, hardwired access control devices or any combination of the two. Through partnerships with Yale, Schlage, HID, Mercury Security, Airbnb, Guesty, and many more, RemoteLock is transforming access control management by integrating the hardware and essential software systems our customers use into a single cloud-based platform. Headquartered in Denver, CO, RemoteLock is backed by KKE, Iron Gate Capital, Nelnet, and Service Provider Capital. | $17.8M | Series B | Jan 20, 2022 |  |
| Liqid | Liqid is an IT company that provides comprehensive, software-defined composable infrastructure solutions and services. The company composable infrastructure platform empowers users to manage, scale, and configure physical, bare-metal server systems in seconds and then reallocate core data center devices on-demand as workflows and business needsevolve. The Command Center software enables users to dynamically right-size their IT resources on-the-fly.Liqid intuitive GUI, REST API, or CLI enables an end-user to create servers in seconds from those resource pools to deploy applications on-demand. The company’s software disaggregates the server components in your datacenter—CPU, GPU, FPGA, NVMe, Optane, and NICs and places them into resource pools. | $100M | Series C | Dec 07, 2021 |  |
| Fetch Package | Fetch solves the package problem for apartment buildings. Fetch partners with property managers to accept all packages at local facilities and coordinates scheduled, door-to-door delivery with residents. It specializes in the fields of delivery services, logistics, and mobile apps.It was founded in 2016 and is currently headquartered in Austin,Texas. | $50M | Series C | Jul 21, 2021 |  |
| Fetch Package | Fetch solves the package problem for apartment buildings. Fetch partners with property managers to accept all packages at local facilities and coordinates scheduled, door-to-door delivery with residents. It specializes in the fields of delivery services, logistics, and mobile apps.It was founded in 2016 and is currently headquartered in Austin,Texas. | $18M | Series B | Aug 18, 2020 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DH Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dh-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [A.M.E. Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-m-e-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Foundry Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundry-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Foundry Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundryvc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [High Alpha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-alpha-llc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Iron Gate Capital invest in?

Iron Gate Capital invests primarily in Software, Advertising and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B 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.

### How do I contact Iron Gate Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Iron Gate Capital?

The team at Iron Gate Capital includes AJ Dye (Partner), Doug Fahoury (Co-Founder and Managing Partner) and Ryan Pollock (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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