# NCT Ventures

> NCT Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 48 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Columbus, United States
- Total investments: 48
- Last investment: Jan 2020
- Lead investor: 23%
- Fund size: $34M
- Last fund: Apr 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/nct-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/nctventures
- Website: http://www.nctventures.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NCTVentures

NCT Ventures is a VC fund in Columbus focused on Software and Information Technology. NCT backs seed and early stage technology companies that are disrupting major industries.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 21% |
| SaaS | 6 | 13% |
| Analytics | 6 | 13% |
| Internet | 5 | 10% |

99 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 18 | 38% |
| Seed | 14 | 29% |
| Series A | 7 | 15% |
| Series C | 3 | 6% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bill Frank | Principal | 1 | — |
| JT Kreager | Venture Partner | 0 | — |
| Kyna McCarley | Controller & Office Administrator | 0 | — |
| Michael Butler | Partner | 5 | — |
| Bret Bowman | Venture Partner | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Enlace Health | Enlace Health delivers the end-to-end solution that solves the infrastructure challenges driving today’s unsustainable healthcare system. Connecting payers, providers, and patients, Enlace™ empowers any type of healthcare delivery model, from facilitating retrospective programs to enabling risk for prospective programs. | $27M | Series C | Jan 09, 2020 |  |
| 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. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2019 |  |
| Healthy Roster | HHealthy Roster provides patient engagement, care coordination, secure communication and outreach tools for athletic trainers and sports medicine departments.The company provides athletic trainers with a dramatically better mobile documentation and communication platform. This allows athletic trainers to provide better care to their athletes andprove value for sports medicine. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Healthy Roster has one mission - help healthcare organizations utilize technology to better support parents, coaches, and athletes with athletic training services. | $1.5M | Convertible Note | Sep 01, 2019 |  |
| IUNU | IUNU is an industrial computer vision company that connects plants, facilities, and people through a single interface. Luna turns commercial greenhouses into precise, predictable, demand-based manufacturers. Luna is an AI born in the heart of Seattle; trained in Silicon Valley and the greenhouses of Skagit Valley; accessible from everywhere.Founded in 2013, iUNU is an industrial computer vision company headquartered in Seattle, with offices in San Francisco and San Diego. | $7.5M |  | Feb 26, 2019 |  |
| OROS | OROS designs, develop, and integrates insulative technology that delayers outerwear. It's patented Aerogel-based Solarcore technology is what makes the delayering possible. Originally developed from the NASA technology used for space suit insulation and the Mars Rovers, OROS has successfully extended Aerogel infusing it to create Solarcore,helping to make outerwear thinner, warmer, and more flexible. In doing so, OROS makes the impossible possible. | $5M | Seed | Oct 04, 2018 |  |
| SafeWire | SafeWire provides software to title companies to combat wire fraud in real estate transactions. | $3M | Seed | Jun 25, 2018 |  |
| Rhyme | PriorAuthNow provides solutions that accelerate access to patient care for all stakeholders. PriorAuthNow is a corporation that was founded for the sole purpose of empowering medical providers and its staff with solutions that will improve the patient experience, drive satisfaction, and change health care for the better.The company works withEHR’s, medical providers, and payers to create a seamless prior authorization experience that fits within the existing workflows.PriorAuthNow was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. | $10.6M | Series A | May 15, 2018 |  |
| SafeWire | SafeWire provides software to title companies to combat wire fraud in real estate transactions. |  | Seed | Dec 26, 2017 |  |
| PopCom | Popcom provides touchless vending machines that track transactions to create live sales and product reports. Their machines are distributed to retail sectors that are regulated like the pharmaceutical, alcohol, tobacco and cannabis sectors. | $600K | Seed | Dec 20, 2017 |  |
| Buzz Solutions | Buzz Solutions provides a software platform powered by Artificial Intelligence, Actionable Insights, and Predictive Analytics for faults and anomaly detection for the power line inspection process for power utilities. The company's platform automates the process of storing and organizing visual data (captured in the field through drones andhelicopters), analyzing for faults using its AI algorithms, mapping the data and providing heat maps as well as predictive insights for when, where and what kind of faults are happening on power line and assets. Using its solutions, power utilities save over 50% of cost and time to analyze data which makes condition-based maintenance efforts easier and time-efficient, thus, preventing wildfires, power outages, and other climate change effects on the physical infrastructure of the grid. |  | Seed | Nov 16, 2017 |  |

10 of 48 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Rev1 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techcolumbus-2) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Detroit Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/detroit-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Aspect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aspect-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Break Trail Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/break-trail-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does NCT Ventures invest in?

NCT Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 48 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 NCT Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at NCT Ventures?

The team at NCT Ventures includes Bill Frank (Principal), JT Kreager (Venture Partner) and Kyna McCarley (Controller & Office Administrator), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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