# Notre Dame Pit Road Fund

> Notre Dame Pit Road Fund is a VC fund in South Bend backing Software and Sensor. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: South Bend, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Notre Dame Pit Road Fund is a VC fund in South Bend focused on Software and Sensor. Notre Dame Pit Road Fund

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Sensor | 1 | 17% |
| FinTech | 1 | 17% |
| Big Data | 1 | 17% |
| Computer | 1 | 17% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PrīmSphera | Vital View Technologies is a company that is developing sensor technology that generates new insights to solve real-world problems. It's making a paradigm shift in product development, design, and commercialization. | $5.5M | Seed | Dec 05, 2023 |  |
| SIMBA Chain | Simba Chain is a cloud-based, smart-contract-as-a-service (SCaaS) platform that enables users to implement decentralized applications dappS for blockchain. These apps allow secure, direct connections between users and providers, eliminating third parties. The easy-to-use platform is tailored for users, developers, government, and enterprises toquickly deploy blockchain dapps for their enterprise.Simba Chain uses the Microsoft Azure Government cloud platform for rapid transaction finality. The company offers a platform that gives access to smart contract methods that transact on the blockchain ledger and enables access control groups for reading and writing.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Plymouth, Indiana. | $25M | Series A | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| SIMBA Chain | Simba Chain is a cloud-based, smart-contract-as-a-service (SCaaS) platform that enables users to implement decentralized applications dappS for blockchain. These apps allow secure, direct connections between users and providers, eliminating third parties. The easy-to-use platform is tailored for users, developers, government, and enterprises toquickly deploy blockchain dapps for their enterprise.Simba Chain uses the Microsoft Azure Government cloud platform for rapid transaction finality. The company offers a platform that gives access to smart contract methods that transact on the blockchain ledger and enables access control groups for reading and writing.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Plymouth, Indiana. | $25M | Series A | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Lucata Corporation | Lucata leverages patented migrating thread technology to massively scale unified memory and conduct high performance, multi-hop analytics, including exhaustive breadth-first search (BFS), on unpruned and unsharded databases with 1 trillion vertices and beyond. Organizations can now use their existing graph database software or custom graphsolutions to analyze deeper connections on much larger graphs than ever before possible. Lucata solutions support groundbreaking graph analytics and improved machine learning and AI for organizations in financial services, cybersecurity, blockchain, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, ecommerce, government and more. The company has offices in Palo Alto, New York City, and South Bend, Ind. For more information, visit www.Lucata.com. Key technical claims: 1. Data doesn’t move, processing context moves to the data in a global unified address space. 2. Latency of both network and memory access are hidden due to the migrating threads and multithreaded Lucata cores. 3. Energy efficient high density memory architecture. 4. Drastic reduction in OS intervention. 5. Architecture doesn't rely on data locality for optimal performance. 6. Linear performance growth with hardware scale up to 64,000 nodes. 7. Single shared address space up to 18 Exabytes. | $11.9M | Series B | Apr 22, 2021 |  |
| SIMBA Chain | Simba Chain is a cloud-based, smart-contract-as-a-service (SCaaS) platform that enables users to implement decentralized applications dappS for blockchain. These apps allow secure, direct connections between users and providers, eliminating third parties. The easy-to-use platform is tailored for users, developers, government, and enterprises toquickly deploy blockchain dapps for their enterprise.Simba Chain uses the Microsoft Azure Government cloud platform for rapid transaction finality. The company offers a platform that gives access to smart contract methods that transact on the blockchain ledger and enables access control groups for reading and writing.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Plymouth, Indiana. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 13, 2020 |  |
| SIMBA Chain | Simba Chain is a cloud-based, smart-contract-as-a-service (SCaaS) platform that enables users to implement decentralized applications dappS for blockchain. These apps allow secure, direct connections between users and providers, eliminating third parties. The easy-to-use platform is tailored for users, developers, government, and enterprises toquickly deploy blockchain dapps for their enterprise.Simba Chain uses the Microsoft Azure Government cloud platform for rapid transaction finality. The company offers a platform that gives access to smart contract methods that transact on the blockchain ledger and enables access control groups for reading and writing.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Plymouth, Indiana. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Feb 19, 2019 |  |

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## Co-investors
- [Elevate Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevate-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [J. Hunt Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jhh-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [J. Hunt Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-hunt-holdings) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Stanford Law School](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stanford-law-school) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Valley Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valley-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blu Venture Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blu-venture-investors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Notre Dame Pit Road Fund invest in?

Notre Dame Pit Road Fund invests primarily in Software, Sensor and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Notre Dame Pit Road Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Notre Dame Pit Road Fund closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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