# North Coast Ventures

> North Coast Ventures is a VC fund backing Health Care and Software. See 101 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cleveland, United States
- Total investments: 101
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last fund: Jan 2013
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/348793
- Website: https://www.northcoast.vc/

North Coast Ventures is a VC fund in Cleveland focused on Health Care and Software. North Coast Ventures (formerly North Coast Angel Fund) is comprised of four contributed capital funds with a focus on early-stage technology investments. Our membership consists of a number of Ohio's leading investors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders who are dedicated to accelerating early-stage ventures.North Coast Ventures members playan active role by generating deal flow, serving on due diligence teams, working with portfolio companies, or serving on the Investment Screening and Executive Committees. Through this involvement, our goal is to provide a supportive environment for our portfolio companies and ultimately enhance the performance of our Fund.Northeast Ohio has a long tradition of active and successful angel investing, but until recently, the success of this crucial form of funding has hinged on the efforts of a relatively small number of individual investors. As the region’s first professionally managed angel fund, North Coast Angel Fund works to improve the early-stage funding environment for both entrepreneurs and investors.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $350k–$5.5M |
| Series A | $1.2M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 24 | 24% |
| Software | 19 | 19% |
| Medical Device | 13 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 13 | 13% |
| SaaS | 11 | 11% |

106 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 31 | 31% |
| Seed | 27 | 27% |
| Funding Round | 15 | 15% |
| Series B | 6 | 6% |
| Angel | 3 | 3% |

11 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Claiborne R. Rankin | Managing Member | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claiborne-r-rankin |
| Daniel Luketic | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-luketic |
| Todd Federman | Executive Director | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/todd-federman |
| Ben Sheridan | Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-sheridan |
| Ben Sheridan | Member | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-sheridan-772f |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Healia Health | Healia is a company that provides revolutionizing health insurance for dual-income households, saving employers 85% each registered family. | $14M | Series A | Jul 28, 2026 |  |
| FinOpsly | FinOpsly is on a mission to redefine cloud cost management through the power of artificial intelligence. As your AI Copilot for implementing FinOps, the platform delivers a comprehensive, single-view solution for multi-cloud environments. It delivers complete visibility and transparency into unit cost economics, equips you with intelligentrecommendations and anomaly detection, and offers virtual tagging and governance capabilities, all through a user-friendly interface designed to drive collaboration and accountability across finance, product and engineering teams. FinOpsly isn't just about cost savings – it’s about enhancing the quality and velocity of your cloud investments. | $6.4M | Seed | Jan 14, 2026 |  |
| InnerActiv | InnerActiv is a cybersecurity software company that protects organizations from insider threats, fraud, and data loss at the endpoint. Built with an AI-driven, behavior-based approach, InnerActiv delivers real-time visibility into how users interact with sensitive data, systems, and devices—detecting risky activity such as data grazing, policytesting, and low-and-slow reconnaissance before it leads to a breach. The platform’s lightweight, encrypted agents and endpoint-first design provide proactive protection, faster response, and seamless integration with existing security stacks. | $2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 31, 2025 |  |
| Primum | Primum is a digital platform that connects general oncologists to subspecialist oncologists for help on their most complex cases. |  | Seed | Sep 25, 2025 |  |
| TandemStride | TandemStride provides genuine, individualized support to survivors and their loved ones, whether in the form of a peer mentor with training, resources, or just someone who knows what it's like to be in recovery. | $5.5M | Seed | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| 1Logtech | 1Logtech provides an AI-driven self-service connectivity platform for EDI and API integrations in logistics. The solution allows operational teams, without coding expertise, to build and manage integrations with carriers, customers, TMS, ERP, and WMS systems. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| OnStation | OnStation is the leading digital stationing platform for road construction. Founded in 2013, OnStation replaces physical survey stakes, paper field logs, and GPS rovers with live, station-referenced location and documentation on any phone — no special hardware required.Field crews, CEI inspection teams, and state DOT agencies use OnStation toknow exactly where they are on a project, document work in real time with geo-referenced photos and notes, and build defensible records for pay applications, change orders, and DOT closeout. Every photo, flag, and note is automatically anchored to a precise station reference and timestamp.OnStation is used on more than 5,000 road construction projects by over 400 contractor organizations and 16+ state DOT agencies across the United States. Customer retention is approximately 97%. The platform is SOC 2 Type 2 certified.Key outcomes reported by customers include $18,000 saved per density technician per year (Mathy Construction), guardrail location disputes resolved in seconds vs. hours (RS&H — I-4 Corridor), and elimination of GPS rover dependency from daily field workflows (APEX Engineering). | $8.5M | Series A | Jun 10, 2024 |  |
| Redi.Health | Redi.Health is a healthcare technology company that develops health management platforms for patients. The company aims to connect patients with chronic diseases to patient support programs. These programs are created in partnership with pharmaceutical manufacturers and are always free to patients.Founded in 2021, the company is based inColumbus, Ohio, United States. | $14M | Series B | Feb 28, 2024 |  |
| Narratize | Narratize is an AI-Powered Storytelling Platform where innovators create high-impact stories in 20 minutes or less. With Narratize, everyone from entrepreneurs to enterprises can transform scientific, technical, and medical insights into compelling content that accelerates time-to-market using proven story patterns. | $2M | Seed | Jan 23, 2024 |  |
| Narratize | Narratize is an AI-Powered Storytelling Platform where innovators create high-impact stories in 20 minutes or less. With Narratize, everyone from entrepreneurs to enterprises can transform scientific, technical, and medical insights into compelling content that accelerates time-to-market using proven story patterns. | $2.1M | Seed | Dec 18, 2023 |  |

10 of 101 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does North Coast Ventures invest in?

North Coast Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Software and Medical Device startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 101 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is North Coast Ventures's check size?

North Coast Ventures typically joins rounds of $350k–$5.5M at Seed and $1.2M–$14M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds North Coast Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact North Coast Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at North Coast Ventures?

The team at North Coast Ventures includes Claiborne R. Rankin (Managing Member), Daniel Luketic (Director) and Todd Federman (Executive Director), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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