# Queen City Angels

> Queen City Angels is a VC fund in Cincinnati backing Health Care and Software. See 58 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cincinnati, United States
- Total investments: 58
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 21%
- Fund size: $10M
- Last fund: Mar 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/queen-city-angels/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/QueenCityAngels
- Website: http://www.qca.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QCAngels/

Queen City Angels (QCA) is a group of experienced, accredited investors committed to accelerating the growth of early-stage businesses.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Queen City Angels. Shizune tracks 9 team members at Queen City Angels. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/queen-city-angels?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 13 | 22% |
| Software | 10 | 17% |
| Medical | 5 | 9% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 9% |
| Biotechnology | 5 | 9% |

81 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 29% |
| Series A | 13 | 22% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 7% |
| Angel | 3 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John A. Kraeutler | Investor Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-a-kraeutler |
| Laura Duerring | Member Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laura-duerring |
| Ted Capossela | spokesman | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ted-capossela |
| Tricia Collins | Operations Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tricia-collins |
| Dan Kincaid | Investor Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-kincaid |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TeamCentral | TeamCentral is a company focused on optimizing productivity through improvements in how data is managed and governed across business systems. | $3.9M | Seed | May 27, 2025 |  |
| SureImpact | SureImpact creates an impact management and reporting solution for social-good organizations and their funders. SureImpact elevates service coordination by assisting mission-driven professionals in moving beyond simply measuring what they did (outputs) to how individuals, families, and communities benefit (outcomes and impact). SureImpact solutionsare specifically designed for the non-profit sector to capture invaluable insights that can be used to improve their organization's delivery of mission-critical services, engage their communities, attract new sources of funding, and increase trust among their constituents. | $2M | Seed | Apr 06, 2023 |  |
| Tactile Engineering | Tactile Engineering develops and manufactures affordable tactile graphics tablets for use by blind and visually impaired individuals. | $1.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| C360 Technologies | C360 Technologies is a video technology that delivers quality non-stitched immersive video products to date. C360 is a different kind of 360/VR company. Unlike most, they don’t stitch or require multi-headed cameras to deliver our stunning 6K immersive broadcast and streaming video. They've worked in the industry since 2008 pioneeringoriginal 360 technologies that continue to deliver the highest quality, non-stitched immersive video in the world. Their live output for linear broadcast and OTT streaming platforms coupled with the industry's smallest pro-grade immersive camera is unique compared to others. C360 delivers multiple HD-SDI outputs directly to the broadcast backhaul for live television events while simultaneously delivering a 4K stream to the OTT platform for distribution across VR and second screen (magic screen) applications. Unlimited users are now empowered to independently control their camera location and P/T/Z during the live event.The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Wexford, Pennsylvania. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 11, 2022 |  |
| Alphyn Biologics | Alphyn Biologics is a life science company that develops proprietary drug therapy for treating skin diseases. Alphyn's initial target indication are skin infections caused by deadly drug-resistant MRSA bacteria based on their proprietary Multi-Target Therapeutic (MTT) plant-derived technology platform. | $3.3M | Series A | Sep 15, 2022 |  |
| Cloverleaf.me | Cloverleaf improves team dynamics by integrating disconnected HR data and insights into personalized, actionable development experiences at scale. Cloverleaf enables personalized coaching, clearer communication, and stronger team alignment throughout the entire employee lifecycle. Built upon validated behavioral assessments and real-timeperformance insights, Cloverleaf empowers managers and teams to collaborate effectively, resolve challenges proactively, and unlock greater human potential. Trusted by more than 30,000 teams, Cloverleaf helps organizations create cohesive, aligned teams, improving employee performance, engagement, and productivity. For more information, visit cloverleaf.me. | $9M | Series A | Jun 09, 2022 |  |
| AKRU | AKRU’s commercial real estate investment platform uses blockchain technology to create a secure and easy-to-use marketplace. AKRU offers investors the opportunity for fractionalized ownership for as low as $1,000 in the form of security tokens. The platform’s technology enables instantaneous transactions to be recorded on an immutable ledger,building investor trust. Tokenization shortens the transaction cycle and is able to compress the closing and settlement period of assets to mere seconds – making the world’s largest investment class more accessible and liquid for investors. Since launching the paid beta in October 2020, AKRU has secured 14 assets and over 50 investors for the marketplace. AKRU relaunched its platform in March of 2021 as the Title Sponsor for the Security Token Summit. Akru has been mentioned in major publications like Coin Telegraph, Investor.com, securities.io & Business Journals. | $2M | Seed | Sep 07, 2021 |  |
| Resonado Labs | Resonado Labs develops innovative audio hardware solutions that deliver a wide spectrum of new possibilities for sound reproduction. We are on a mission to bring real innovation to the audio market, starting at the hardware level. We have developed audio hardware products ranging from miniaturized sub-woofer drivers for all-in-one integrated soundbars to long range sonic projection arrays capable of delivering a hyper directed sound beam audible at distances of over 1500m. With a core focus on transducer design and engineering, we are capable of high velocity innovation and development on a never ending quest to continually improve the acoustic performance of our products through endless experimentations with materials, motor structure architectures, industrial and system designs. We are pushing our proprietary transducer technology into new industries through both simulation engineering environments and rapid prototyping with physical materials on site at our Chicago headquarters and in conjunction with our commercial partners. | $3M | Seed | Jul 20, 2021 |  |
| Kurome Therapeutics | Kurome Therapeutics is a preclinical stage company focused on subverting cancer's ability to evade therapy. The company is developing therapies that target cancer cells that have co-opted immune signaling pathways to avoid destruction by traditional therapeutic agents and subvert adaptive resistance mechanisms. | $15M | Series A | Jun 10, 2021 |  |
| Standard Bariatrics | Standard Bariatrics is a medical device company that develops and offers surgical instruments for weight-loss surgeries.The company offers Standard Clamp, an instrument that helps surgeons standardize their individual techniques to reduce variation, improve efficiency, and eliminate waste when performing a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.Standard Bariatrics was founded in 2014 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. | $35M | Series B | Jun 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 58 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [QCA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/QCA-Ventures) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [CincyTech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cincytech) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [North Coast Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/north-coast-angel-fund) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Rev1 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techcolumbus-2) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Connetic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connetic-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Cincinnati Children’s](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cincinnati-childrens) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Queen City Angels invest in?

Queen City Angels invests primarily in Health Care, Software and Medical startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 58 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 Queen City Angels?

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### Who are the partners at Queen City Angels?

The team at Queen City Angels includes John A. Kraeutler (Investor Member), Laura Duerring (Member Investor) and Ted Capossela (spokesman), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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