# OPENAIR Equity Partners

> OPENAIR Equity Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Mobile. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kansas City, United States
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Apr 2019
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last fund: Jan 2014
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openair-ventures/about/
- Website: http://www.openairep.com

OPENAIR Equity Partners is a venture capital firm focused on early stage investments in mobile/wireless and connected device startups.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 29% |
| Mobile | 5 | 21% |
| Analytics | 3 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 13% |
| B2B | 2 | 8% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 8 | 33% |
| Series B | 5 | 21% |
| Series A | 4 | 17% |
| Series C | 3 | 13% |
| Seed | 2 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 58% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kathy Walker | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kathy-walker |
| Lance LeMay | Managing Director | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lance-lemay |
| Ronald LeMay | Managing Director and Co-Founder | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ronald-t-lemay |
| Ron LeMay | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ron-lemay |
| Scott Ford | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-ford-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Main Street Data | Main Street Data is an ag-focused, data-driven product company that brings precise data science practices to agriculture. It transforms the agricultural industry by applying sophisticated analytical instruments to massive amounts of field data. It also develops and distributes products to the grain and cotton farmer marketplaces, the specialty cropsegment and large partners to leverage public and proprietary data to create services for the agriculture-based B2B food supply chain. The company's mission is to provide increasingly specific, faster, and more value-creating insights, tools, and solutions to lead the ​risk management and decision-making revolution across agriculture.Founded in 2017, Main Street Data is headquartered in Mission, Kansas. | $1.9M |  | Apr 28, 2019 |  |
| Main Street Data | Main Street Data is an ag-focused, data-driven product company that brings precise data science practices to agriculture. It transforms the agricultural industry by applying sophisticated analytical instruments to massive amounts of field data. It also develops and distributes products to the grain and cotton farmer marketplaces, the specialty cropsegment and large partners to leverage public and proprietary data to create services for the agriculture-based B2B food supply chain. The company's mission is to provide increasingly specific, faster, and more value-creating insights, tools, and solutions to lead the ​risk management and decision-making revolution across agriculture.Founded in 2017, Main Street Data is headquartered in Mission, Kansas. |  | Seed | Jul 11, 2018 |  |
| Pepper | Pepper offers an IoT operating system and service delivery platform that empowers enterprises to deploy sophisticated IoT solutions. The introduction of billions of new connected devices (and other "things") requires a new user-experience paradigm—one that enables both consumers and enterprises the ability to effectively manage, control,and engage with their increasingly connected worlds. Pepper solves the problems associated with this increased complexity through the combination of its user operating system and service delivery platform. |  | Series B | Mar 29, 2017 |  |
| Zubie | Zubie is a connected vehicle services company focused on providing consumers and businesses relevant vehicle health, location, and safety information. With a simple plug-in of the Zubie key, users can easily monitor their vehicle data through its Zubie mobile apps for both iOS and Android. Learn more about our low-cost fleet management solution forbusinesses at http://zubie.com/fleet or our consumer offering at http://zubie.com.A Zubie subscription includes the Zubie Key (OBDII device), iOS/Android apps, and online web portal. | $6M |  | May 25, 2016 |  |
| Commerce Signals | Commerce Signal unlock merchant acquirer payment data for use in media measurement.To develop a new data-sharing model, Tom Noyes (the Founder), partnered with Russ Schrader, the former Chief Privacy Officer of Visa and a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy Committee. Together they designed a model, Federated Data, thatenables insight sharing between businesses without losing control of the data or sacrificing consumer privacy.Commerce Signals was founded in 2014 to bring better, unique payment data sets to the market at speed and in a privacy-centric manner. | $4M | Series A | Oct 26, 2015 |  |
| C2FO | C2FO provides a platform with many dynamic tools to help manage businesses' accounts payable and accounts receivable on-demand. C2FO is the first working capital market in the world. Their ability to create a seamless match between A/R and A/P has enabled efficiency in the riskless provisioning of working capital between suppliersand buyers. Finally, suppliers can take control of their cash flow while buyers can increase EBITDA and gross margin and earn a better return on short-term cash while improving the financial health of their supply chains. | $40M | Series E | Aug 11, 2015 |  |
| FarmLink | FarmLink is an AgTech company that enables the next transformation in agriculture and land conservation. It presents farmers with objective data that allows them to understand the full range of performance potential for their entire portfolio, down to the field, zone, and micro-field level. | $40M | Series B | Aug 19, 2014 |  |
| Zubie | Zubie is a connected vehicle services company focused on providing consumers and businesses relevant vehicle health, location, and safety information. With a simple plug-in of the Zubie key, users can easily monitor their vehicle data through its Zubie mobile apps for both iOS and Android. Learn more about our low-cost fleet management solution forbusinesses at http://zubie.com/fleet or our consumer offering at http://zubie.com.A Zubie subscription includes the Zubie Key (OBDII device), iOS/Android apps, and online web portal. |  | Series B | Aug 11, 2014 |  |
| AgLocal | AgLocal wants consumers to understand what they eat, where it comes from and teach consumers how they can support these family farms. | $1.3M |  | Apr 24, 2014 |  |
| Pepper | Pepper offers an IoT operating system and service delivery platform that empowers enterprises to deploy sophisticated IoT solutions. The introduction of billions of new connected devices (and other "things") requires a new user-experience paradigm—one that enables both consumers and enterprises the ability to effectively manage, control,and engage with their increasingly connected worlds. Pepper solves the problems associated with this increased complexity through the combination of its user operating system and service delivery platform. |  | Series A | Feb 01, 2014 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does OPENAIR Equity Partners invest in?

OPENAIR Equity Partners invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Analytics startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 24 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 OPENAIR Equity Partners?

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### Who are the partners at OPENAIR Equity Partners?

The team at OPENAIR Equity Partners includes Kathy Walker (Managing Director), Lance LeMay (Managing Director) and Ronald LeMay (Managing Director and Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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