L37 Ventures
VC Fund
Houston, United States
L37 Ventures is a VC fund in Houston focused on Software and Sports. L37 is a new generation, hybrid venture capital and private equity investment firm. The firm works alongside executive and founding teams leveraging frameworks and systems, capital, and talent to engineer opportunities for investors and impact at scale.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 70%
Last updated:
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Industries L37 Ventures invests in
Stages L37 Ventures invests in
Countries L37 Ventures invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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John Tilney
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Randall Ussery
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2 more contacts available
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (30%)
- Sports 2 (20%)
- Information Technology 2 (20%)
- SaaS 1 (10%)
- Retail 1 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (40%)
- Series A 3 (30%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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John Tilney
Investor
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Investor | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Kemal Farid
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
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Randall Ussery
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Nalu Bio
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Nalu Bio is a biotech company developing CBD (and cannabinoids) through chemistry (not plants), for companies who want pure and safe ingredients that are better for the planet. Ranked as the #1 CBD producer on the “google for ingredients.” Like plant-based meats, Nalu Bio will fundamentally disrupt CBD production with chemistry. Nalu Bio uses 700xless land, 70x less water, and 14x less energy to produce its cannabinoids while ensuring best-in-class purity and quality (0% THC, no chemicals, no pesticides) without the high capital investment costs of hemp extraction and biosynthesis. | $12M / Series A / Feb 28, 2023 | |
Appalachia Made
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Appalachia Made's mission is simple, diversify the economy, create sustainable wage jobs, and reframe the national narrative around Appalachia. | Seed / Dec 10, 2021 | |
Data Gumbo
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Data Gumbo’s mission is to empower enterprises and their business networks to transact securely, efficiently, and transparently. Data Gumbo provides the industry’s only smart contract platform enabling organizations, their customers, suppliers, and vendors to successfully incorporate real-time sensor level and field data to validate and automatetransactions—eliminating payment delays, disputes, and complicated reconciliations. Subscribers are able to increase operational efficiencies, accountability, transparency, contract, and cash flow certainty.Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform provides a unique combination of state-of-the-art distributed ledger technology, real-time IoT sensor data, and applications with APIs to eliminate the need for countless audits. This reduces friction to deliver streamlined operations and transactional certainty while maintaining security controls to protect our customers and their network. Created specifically for enterprises, Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform reinvents the way companies transact.Data Gumbo is a venture-backed organization that serves clients globally, across multiple industries. Learn more at www.datagumbo.com. | $7.7M / Series B / Aug 04, 2021 | |
Scepter Inc
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Scepter is on a mission to revolutionize anomaly detection via a global, real-time, multi-sensor Earth and atmospheric intelligence platform. By fusing data from satellites, aircraft, stratospheric platforms, drones, and ground-based sensors, we give governments, industry, and civil society the tools they need to detect and respond to methaneleaks, detect rare-earth mineral deposits and underground infrastructure, and locate CBRN incidents—quickly, precisely, and at scale. | $5.2M / Seed / Jun 04, 2021 | |
Porter Road Butcher
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Porter Road is a omnichannel whole animal butcher changing the broken food system, by working directly with farmers to offer exceptional, sustainably raised meat direct to consumer. The company was founded by James Peisker and Chris Carter. | $10M / Series A / Mar 08, 2021 | |
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Nalu Bio
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Nalu Bio is a biotech company developing CBD (and cannabinoids) through chemistry (not plants), for companies who want pure and safe ingredients that are better for the planet. Ranked as the #1 CBD producer on the “google for ingredients.” Like plant-based meats, Nalu Bio will fundamentally disrupt CBD production with chemistry. Nalu Bio uses 700xless land, 70x less water, and 14x less energy to produce its cannabinoids while ensuring best-in-class purity and quality (0% THC, no chemicals, no pesticides) without the high capital investment costs of hemp extraction and biosynthesis. | $1.5M / Seed / Jan 07, 2021 | |
Pure Watercraft
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Pure Watercraft is building the technology that enables a new era in boating that is more enjoyable, accessible, and environmentally friendly than ever before. | $14.1M / Series A / Dec 18, 2020 | |
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Data Gumbo
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Data Gumbo’s mission is to empower enterprises and their business networks to transact securely, efficiently, and transparently. Data Gumbo provides the industry’s only smart contract platform enabling organizations, their customers, suppliers, and vendors to successfully incorporate real-time sensor level and field data to validate and automatetransactions—eliminating payment delays, disputes, and complicated reconciliations. Subscribers are able to increase operational efficiencies, accountability, transparency, contract, and cash flow certainty.Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform provides a unique combination of state-of-the-art distributed ledger technology, real-time IoT sensor data, and applications with APIs to eliminate the need for countless audits. This reduces friction to deliver streamlined operations and transactional certainty while maintaining security controls to protect our customers and their network. Created specifically for enterprises, Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform reinvents the way companies transact.Data Gumbo is a venture-backed organization that serves clients globally, across multiple industries. Learn more at www.datagumbo.com. | $4M / Series B / Sep 24, 2020 | |
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Pure Watercraft
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Pure Watercraft is building the technology that enables a new era in boating that is more enjoyable, accessible, and environmentally friendly than ever before. | $23.4M / Series A / Sep 22, 2020 | |
Mogul Hotels & Residences
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Founded in 2019, Mogul is a minority owned, hotel brand, software and data sciences company whose purpose is to perfect meritocracy and accelerate diversity in hospitality and service industries. Our founders and advisors have over 50 years of C-Suite experience in luxury branding, real estate, software and hospitality in the U.S. and Asia.Mogul’s engine includes an integrated suite of AI-powered technology and branding solutions that can be applied to all forms of accommodations. | $2M / Seed / Aug 13, 2020 |
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FAQ
What does L37 Ventures invest in?
L37 Ventures invests primarily in Software, Sports and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 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 L37 Ventures?
The team at L37 Ventures includes John Tilney (Investor), Kemal Farid (General Partner) and Randall Ussery (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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