# Sica Ventures

> Sica Ventures is a VC fund in Columbus backing Software, Aerospace and Information Technology. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Columbus, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Apr 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sicaventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/SicaVentures
- Website: http://www.SicaVentures.com

Sica Ventures is an early-stage investment company that provides seed capital for innovative tech startups. The firm seeks to make minority seed and early-stage investments and prefers to invest in the Aerospace, Defense, and Space sectors. Sica Ventures was founded in 2019 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$4M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 22% |
| Aerospace | 4 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 22% |
| InsurTech | 3 | 17% |
| Logistics | 3 | 17% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 44% |
| Seed | 6 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pay Theory | Pay Theory is a payments platform built to serve the complex payment and money movement needs of SaaS Platforms in Education, Healthcare (especially emerging healthtech), Senior Care, Child Care, Government, Property and Insurance. By creating simple, beautiful and impactful financial solutions, we ensure all families are able to maintain access totheir most important service providers while providing SaaS vendors a unique new revenue stream. Pay Theory brings families and vital service providers together at the payment. | $4M | Seed | Oct 15, 2023 |  |
| Holocron Technologies | Holocron uses publicly available information to track global science and technology developments. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Apr 27, 2023 |  |
| Kall Morris Inc | Developer of a space logistics platform designed to enable sustainable orbital operations and optimize satellite missions. The company platform offers proprietary software, innovative relocation hardware, and debris mitigation services, enabling satellite operators to extend mission duration, enhance capabilities, and address orbital congestioneffectively. | $455K | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| Kall Morris Inc | Developer of a space logistics platform designed to enable sustainable orbital operations and optimize satellite missions. The company platform offers proprietary software, innovative relocation hardware, and debris mitigation services, enabling satellite operators to extend mission duration, enhance capabilities, and address orbital congestioneffectively. |  | Seed | Jul 22, 2022 |  |
| Velontra | Velontra provides hypersonic weapon technologies and attributable aerospace solutions. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| Adranos Energetics | Adranos Energetics develops propellants, explosives, and other energetic materials for use in space and military platforms. It is currently developing a cost-effective solid rocket propellant that is more efficient, more powerful, and better for the environment than traditional solid rocket propellants. Its proprietary solid propellant, ALITEC,simultaneously increases rocket performance and eliminates the harmful hydrochloric acid (“HCl”) emissions of traditional, aluminum-based propellants. It provides a competitive advantage for its military users by extending missile range and enabling smaller, more affordable missiles. It will also enhance the capabilities of its space launch users by expanding payload capacity and lowering the cost of space access. | $20M | Series A | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| Pay Theory | Pay Theory is a payments platform built to serve the complex payment and money movement needs of SaaS Platforms in Education, Healthcare (especially emerging healthtech), Senior Care, Child Care, Government, Property and Insurance. By creating simple, beautiful and impactful financial solutions, we ensure all families are able to maintain access totheir most important service providers while providing SaaS vendors a unique new revenue stream. Pay Theory brings families and vital service providers together at the payment. | $2M | Seed | Feb 04, 2022 |  |
| TransAstra | TransAstra is developing breakthrough technologies in the areas of space resources and in-space transportation to enable massive growth to existing space industries and whole new space industries. TransAstra leads the world in the technologies to find, prospect, harvest, and use space resources. Space resources include water and other valuablematerials to be found on asteroids and lunar poles.TransAstra knows how to extract these resources and use them as rocket propellant for use in today's commercial satellites and whole new industries including space tourism. | $125K | Pre-Seed | Jul 31, 2021 |  |
| MRI Online | MRI Online is an e-learning platform that provides the largest collection of online MRI teaching cases and courses for radiologists. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 29, 2021 |  |
| Velontra | Velontra provides hypersonic weapon technologies and attributable aerospace solutions. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 23, 2021 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Sica Ventures invest in?

Sica Ventures invests primarily in Software, Aerospace and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 18 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 Sica Ventures's check size?

Sica Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$4M at Seed and $125k–$1.5M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sica Ventures participates in.

### When did Sica Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sica Ventures closed in Apr 2023. Shizune tracks 18 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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