# Rockies Venture Club

> Rockies Venture Club is a VC fund in Denver backing Software and Health Care. See 120 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Denver, United States
- Total investments: 120
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last fund: Jan 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/rockies-venture-club
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/RockiesVenture
- Website: http://www.rockiesventureclub.org
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rockiesventure

Rockies Venture Club (RVC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to economic development by funding entrepreneurial companies. RVC hosts the Angel Capital Summit and Colorado Capital Conferences as well as over sixty events each year. Rockies Venture Club is also an active Angel group, with over 30 investments in the last 2 years. AlongsideRockies Venture Club, is Rockies Venture Fund I, an Angel sidecar fund.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $250k–$2.3M |
| Series A | $1.2M–$7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 14% |
| Health Care | 15 | 13% |
| Medical Device | 11 | 9% |
| Medical | 10 | 8% |
| SaaS | 8 | 7% |

144 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 45 | 38% |
| Series A | 13 | 11% |
| Convertible Note | 11 | 9% |
| Series B | 5 | 4% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 3% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 62 | 52% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christine Kopec | Angel Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christine-kopec |
| Dave Harris | Director of Operations | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-harris |
| Don Brown | Private Investor and Start-up Champion | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/don-brown-4 |
| Gali Baler | Assistant Director Venture Capital Analytics | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gali-baler |
| Jim Hooton | Private Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-hooton |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MyUTI | MyUTI is a healthcare company that focuses on providing solutions for urinary tract infections (UTIs). They offer home collection test kits and lab tests for UTIs, aiming to provide timely care and reduce antibiotic resistance. Their services include the MyUTI Complete package, which encompasses the home collection test kit and UTI lab test. Theyalso offer the MyUTI Just In Case Kit, allowing customers to conveniently test for a UTI at home. In addition to these services, MyUTI provides educational resources on their website to help customers understand and prevent UTIs. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 17, 2024 |  |
| Pure Blue Tech Inc. | Pure Blue Tech uses ultrasonic technology to reduce membrane fouling and can significantly lower the costs associated with membrane maintenance and replacement. The elements will allow industrial companies and municipalities to filter and purify more water, wastewater, seawater, milk, and other liquids with less money. They provide maintenance,chemicals, downtime, and waste disposal. They serving systems and plants treating. |  | Convertible Note | Dec 12, 2024 |  |
| Green Steel Environmental | Developer of sustainable clean products designed to clean hydrogen sulfide into renewable gas. The company uses clean tech upcycled materials to remove excess nutrients from wastewater and renewable natural gas, enabling returns of those nutrients to the earth as fertilizer. | $1.1M | Seed | Jul 18, 2024 |  |
| Noninvasix | Noninvasix, Inc. (the “Company” or “Noninvasix”) is a medical technology company that has developed a novel solution to non-invasively monitor for the first time, oxygen sufficiency in organs and veins. The Company was founded in 2007 by Dr. Donald Prough and Dr. Rinat Esenaliev at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) and is based out ofHouston, Texas. The Company has raised over $4.8 million to date including an oversubscribed $2 million seed round in Q2 2020. The platform technology of the Company has been developed with $6 million in grants from the NIH and DOD. The Company has also been a part of prestigious accelerator programs such as Philips Healthworks, TMCx, JLabs, Health Wildcatters and has won multiple awards for their innovation. The non-invasive technology has been clinically validated in multiple peer-reviewed journals. FDA pre-submission has been completed and the FDA has agreed for a De-novo clearance pathway. The IP portfolio of the Company includes 30 worldwide patents and 10 U.S. patents. |  | Convertible Note | Jul 03, 2024 |  |
| CirrusMD | CirrusMD is a text-first enterprise solution that connects people and doctors with no-barriers access to human experts who can always help. It develops a solution to deliver guidance beyond primary care. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. |  | Convertible Note | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Vitro3D | Vitro3D develops volumetric 3D printing solutions producing dental aligners and scaffolds for 3D cell culture and tissue engineering. | $3.9M | Seed | May 08, 2024 |  |
| Wander + Ivy | Wander + Ivy offers premium wine made with certified organic grapes used to offer single-serving bottles. It partners with family-owned vineyards around the world to produce wine made with certified organic grapes and packaged in convenient bottles that enables consumers to purchase small sized bottles while avoiding any wastage.Wander + Ivy wasestablished in 2017 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. | $1.6M | Series B | Apr 26, 2024 |  |
| PHARMAJET | PharmaJet is a user-friendly, inexpensive device for fluid injection into the body without a needle. Able to compete with traditional needle-syringe delivery, which inherently poses costly needle-stick, re-use, and pass-along disease risk, the technology creates a positive ROI back for every injection. Unique in the field of jet injection becauseof its ability to reach all target tissues (IM, SC--0.5 mL, and ID--0.1 mL) accurately and comfortably, supported by wide regulatory claims (global and country-specific) PharmaJet's platforms are the only commercially available devices that effectively address the 3 B annual immunization market. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Golden, Colorado. |  | Corporate Round | Oct 31, 2023 |  |
| GeoVisual Analytics | GeoVisual Analytics Using routine monitoring of fields with airplanes, drones and mobile phones. |  | Convertible Note | Oct 01, 2023 |  |
| Aspero Medical | Aspero Medical focuses on improving gastrointestinal balloon endoscopy for the patient and physician. Our technology enhances device performance, saving time and money, while improving patient outcomes. |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 120 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Rockies Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rockies-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [BELLE Michigan, LP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/belle-michigan-lp) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Nebraska Angel Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nebraska-angel-network) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Stout Street Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stout-street-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Texas HALO Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/texas-halo-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Arizona Tech Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arizona-technology-investor-forum) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Rockies Venture Club invest in?

Rockies Venture Club invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Medical Device startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 120 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Rockies Venture Club's check size?

Rockies Venture Club typically joins rounds of $250k–$2.3M at Seed and $1.2M–$7M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Rockies Venture Club participates in.

### How do I contact Rockies Venture Club?

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### Who are the partners at Rockies Venture Club?

The team at Rockies Venture Club includes Christine Kopec (Angel Investor), Dave Harris (Director of Operations) and Don Brown (Private Investor and Start-up Champion), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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