# Rocket Ventures

> Rocket Ventures is a VC fund in Toledo backing Software and Computer. See 12 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toledo, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Dec 2014
- Lead investor: 0%
- Fund size: $6M
- Last fund: Jan 2016
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rocket-ventures-llc
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/rocketventures
- Website: http://www.rocketventures.org

Rocket Ventures is a resource for capital and commercialization assistance to Northwest Ohio technology-based companies. Signed client companies are eligible for funding consideration and automatically access our professional team, who provide unparalleled knowledge, assistance, and track records of success in launching early-stage tech companies.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 58% |
| Computer | 3 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 25% |
| SaaS | 2 | 17% |
| Medical | 2 | 17% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Angel | 3 | 25% |
| Series B | 2 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 17% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Trumbull | Fund Manager | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-trumbull |
| Blake Culver | Director of Business Analytics | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blake-culver |
| Dan Slifko | Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-slifko |
| Dave Dorner | Director of Business Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-dorner |
| David Slaughter | Finance/Marketing Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-slaughter |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Venture Med Group | VentureMed Group (VMG) designs, develops and markets innovative medical devices which enable interventionalists to cost effectively treat peripheral artery diseases and improve the lives of their patients.Founded by physicians who understand the clinical, medical and financial demands in today’s healthcare environment, VMG creates truly costeffective solutions. Their flagship product, the FLEX Scoring Catheter enables providers to reduce expensive inventory costs while offering the interventionalist more treatment options from a single device. |  | Angel | Dec 11, 2014 | http://www.venturemedgroup.com/ |
| Beyond Software | Beyond Software started with the vision of making powerful, easy-to-use project profitability software, designed specifically for project centric businesses. This software facilitates an organization’s ability to manage and execute around their projects, making companies more profitable by increasing visibility into projects, creatingaccountability within the projects, and improving cash flow through faster and more accurate invoicing and expense management. |  | Angel | Sep 16, 2014 | http://beyondsoftware.com/ |
| Satelytics | Satelytics is a cloud-based geospatial analytics software suite built to analyze terabytes of imagery to produce actionable insights. We specifically focus on providing timely, actionable alerts to our industrial customers in the oil & gas, power, mining, and water/wastewater sectors. Customers employ these alerts to direct field teams toact on operational anomalies before those anomalies cause extensive environmental damage and before they result in additional operational costs. Satelytics ingests multispectral or hyperspectral imagery gathered from satellites, aerial platforms, or fixed cameras, then processes these large data sets with algorithms designed to hunt for specific spectral signatures that indicate a problem. |  | Angel | Jul 29, 2014 | https://www.satelytics.com |
| Roost | Roost enables push notifications for websites.With the decline of RSS and the death of services like Google Reader, Roost fills a vacuum for readers who want to stay engaged with their favorite websites. Roost enables readers to receive up to the minute, light touch reminders whenever their preferred web publishers post new content, but withoutcrowding their inbox or overwhelming them with heavy messaging.Roost, in turn, allows web publishers to identify their most loyal readers and consistently create new interactions with them. Apart from Roost, desktop push notifications are too cost and resource prohibitive for publishers to integrate with their websites. Roost solves this problem.With the emergence of mobile apps, push notifications quickly became the preferred method of content consumption within apps. Roost is applying this communication channel to the web.Founded in 2009 as Notice Software, Roost began to earnestly pursue a mobile web push in 2012. | $185K | Seed | Jun 27, 2014 | https://goroost.com/ |
| DocuSphere | Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Perrysburg, Ohio, their entire focus is on the development, enhancement, maintenance, implementation, and support of their own DocuSphere solution for accounts payable automation. They deliver “The DocuSphere Difference: The preeminent connected, business-driven AP automation solution – delivered by experiencedpeople for a fixed fee.”Their seasoned professionals are skilled in ERP applications such as accounts payable, sales order processing, billing and shipping. They’ve assisted mid-size to large multinational organizations in a wide variety of industries, in locations across North America and around the world. | $500K | Debt Financing | Mar 01, 2014 | http://www.docusphere.com/ |
| Mithridion | Mithridion is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops drugs for central nervous system disorders, with an initial focus on Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. | $1.3M | Series C | Jan 11, 2011 | http://www.mithridion.com |
| DocuSphere | Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Perrysburg, Ohio, their entire focus is on the development, enhancement, maintenance, implementation, and support of their own DocuSphere solution for accounts payable automation. They deliver “The DocuSphere Difference: The preeminent connected, business-driven AP automation solution – delivered by experiencedpeople for a fixed fee.”Their seasoned professionals are skilled in ERP applications such as accounts payable, sales order processing, billing and shipping. They’ve assisted mid-size to large multinational organizations in a wide variety of industries, in locations across North America and around the world. | $1M | Series A | Dec 01, 2010 | http://www.docusphere.com/ |
| Mithridion | Mithridion is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops drugs for central nervous system disorders, with an initial focus on Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. | $2.9M | Series B | Jan 21, 2009 | http://www.mithridion.com |
| Active Network | ACTIVE Network® is the premier global marketplace for activities and events, connecting participants and activity organizers, while offering intelligence solutions through our industry-leading data and insights platform. Our enterprise-level ACTIVEWorks® platform offers organizers advanced SaaS technology that streamlines the administration ofactivities and events. Our ACTIVE Network Activity Cloud® platform combines intelligence solutions and data tools to provide actionable insights that help organizers better manage their events and increase both revenue and participation. Founded in 1999, ACTIVE Network is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, please visit ACTIVEnetwork.com and follow us on Twitter at @ACTIVEnetwork. | $92.3M | Series F | Sep 12, 2008 | http://www.activenetwork.com |
| Integrated Materials | Integrated Materials, Inc., a silicon science and technology company, manufactures poly silicon furnaceware products for integrated circuit manufacturers. It offers boats, injectors, liners, pedestals, ring boats, and shelf boats. The company‘s products are used in high temperature processes, LPCVD processes, and thermal operations. IntegratedMaterials, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. As of July 12, 2010, Integrated Materials, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Ferrotec (USA) Corporation. | $8.5M | Series B | May 01, 2004 | http://www.integratedmaterials.com |

10 of 12 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Rocket Ventures invest in?

Rocket Ventures invests primarily in Software, Computer and Information Technology startups, most often at Angel and Series B stage. Most of the 12 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 Rocket Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Rocket Ventures?

The team at Rocket Ventures includes Ben Trumbull (Fund Manager), Blake Culver (Director of Business Analytics) and Dan Slifko (Chief Operating Officer), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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