# Plains Ventures

> Plains Ventures is a VC fund in Oklahoma City backing Software and Health Care. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oklahoma City, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/plainsvc
- Website: https://plainsventurepartners.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/plainsvc

Plains Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that uncovers groundbreaking ideas and entrepreneurs and invests in them. We’ve worked in the industry for 20 years, specializing in Seed and Series A stage funding between the coasts. We are uniquely equipped to help founders build successful ventures outside of the traditional coastalenclaves.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 30% |
| Health Care | 3 | 30% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 30% |
| Medical | 2 | 20% |
| Aerospace | 2 | 20% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Series A | 3 | 30% |
| Series B | 2 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ordinal | Ordinal is an AI-powered research assistant that helps municipal governments streamline operations by providing quick, accurate answers from their approved documents and data. | $1.6M | Seed | Aug 28, 2025 |  |
| CerTracker | Healthcare Compliance, ReimaginedCerTracker Manager is an AI-powered compliance platform for healthcare, giving hospitals, clinics, nursing schools, staffing agencies, and nurses a real-time view of credentials. It replaces spreadsheets and chasing documents with Upload Once, AI data extraction, and one-click reviews, syncing everything to anaudit-ready dashboard. Delivered on flexible cloud plans that scale from small clinics to health systems.Our self-service, AI-powered platform helps organizations:Streamline credentialing and primary-source verification Gain real-time visibility into workforce compliance Deploy clinicians faster when and where they’re needed most Continuously monitor credentials to ensure staff remain compliantWith CerTracker, organizations can build and manage a national network of clinicians without the administrative burden.What We Built CerTracker Wallet is the upload-once, sync-anywhere secure digital wallet for nursing credentials, certifications, and CE credits.• For Nurses: Upload everything once. Sync your wallet with any facility. Disconnect when you leave. Repeat as your career takes you forward. • For Leaders: Real-time dashboards, primary source verification, and audit-ready compliance without the manual chase. • For Nursing Excellence Leaders: MagnetReady™ by CerTracker is a full-spectrum Magnet® and Pathway® support system that helps healthcare organizations plan, prepare, organize, and operationalize their nursing excellence journey.Together, the nurse-facing wallet and the CerTracker Manager platform put both frontline staff and leadership back in control with less paperwork, fewer headaches, and more time for patients. | $150K | Pre-Seed | May 09, 2025 |  |
| Firehawk Aerospace | Firehawk Aerospace is a defense technology company that replaces traditional propulsion production methods with additive manufacturing (3D printing) to produce solid rocket motors, hybrid rocket engines, and propellant. This proprietary process creates customized propellant grains and fuel structures, which allows for rapid manufacturing andincreased design flexibility for defense systems. | $60M | Series C | Jan 05, 2025 |  |
| Cadenza Bio | Cadenza Bio accelerates and supports the development of a new class of highly selective Estrogen Receptor targeted small molecules. We are committed to developing therapeutic medications that will improve the lives of patients suffering from terrible diseases. | $2.4M | Seed | Dec 14, 2023 |  |
| Wilder Systems | Wilder Systems is a robotics and automation company that specializes in the aerospace industry. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $7.5M | Seed | Nov 02, 2023 |  |
| Deka Biosciences | Early stage biotechnology start-up developing next generation cytokine therapeutics | $20M | Series B | Sep 28, 2023 |  |
| PatchRx | PatchRx is a remote therapeutic management platform that boosts adherence and helps increase patient compliance. PatchRx's 360-degree approach to medication compliance is designed to assist clinics in capitalizing on remote therapeutic monitoring. PatchRx uses data-driven technology to improve prescription adherence and assist users inremembering to take their medication. The service, which consists of a universal smart pill bottle device, a patient-facing app, and a web app, assists patients in taking their medications on time, allows refills, rewards patients for good adherence, and streamlines true adherence data back to care providers. | $8M | Series A | Aug 30, 2023 |  |
| Wheeler Bio | Wheeler Bio is a new biomanufacturing company designed to accelerate the translation of therapeutic innovation into clinical impact. Through parallel integration with pre-clinical discovery, Wheeler is democratizing access to comprehensive discovery-to-IND programs with its rapid, high-quality biomanufacturing and portable CMC platform. | $31M | Series A | Oct 04, 2022 |  |
| Firehawk Aerospace | Firehawk Aerospace is a defense technology company that replaces traditional propulsion production methods with additive manufacturing (3D printing) to produce solid rocket motors, hybrid rocket engines, and propellant. This proprietary process creates customized propellant grains and fuel structures, which allows for rapid manufacturing andincreased design flexibility for defense systems. | $15.5M | Series B | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| Access Optics | Access Optics is able to combine innovating manufacturing engineering, process development, and optical fabrication with advanced coating technology. The pioneering product development and advanced materials solutions have fostered breakthrough products for leading OEMs in endoscopy, dermatology, aerospace, and chromatography. | $4.5M | Series A | Oct 25, 2021 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cortado Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cortado-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Echo Investment Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/echo-investment-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Atento Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atento-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cubit Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cubit-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Oklahoma Life Science Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oklahoma-life-science-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Star Castle Ventures — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Plains Ventures invest in?

Plains Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Biotechnology 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.

### When did Plains Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Plains Ventures closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 10 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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