# Thad Langford

> Thad Langford is a seed investor at Flyover Capital backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Flyover Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flyovercapital)
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thad-langford-b34639
- Website: http://www.flyovercapital.com/

Thad Langford is a seed investor at Flyover Capital focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. After establishing his business chops in both Fortune 500 and early-stage environments, Thad is one of the founding partners at Flyover Capital. Before Flyover, Thad was President and CEO of Zave Networks (acquired by Google), a venture-backed digital advertising tech company. Prior to that, he spent eight years at Sprint leading several businessesduring the formative years of mobile data and wireless wholesale services. One of his executive positions included managing Sprint’s Innovation program and co-founding Sprint Nextel Ventures.Since moving to the Midwest after stints on both coasts, Thad is committed to bolstering the regional early-stage technology scene. As such, he co-founded BlackOps Development, a high-quality software development company, and serves on the Board of several rapidly developing companies. Thad graduated from the University of Arizona where he played on the Wildcat’s nationally ranked NCAA tennis team. He also earned his MBA from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 25% |
| Mobile | 2 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |
| Banking | 1 | 8% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Series A | 3 | 25% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Trially | Trially brings deep knowledge of the clinical trial landscape together with cutting-edge AI, offering unprecedented agility to research. | $4.7M | Seed | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| Nickels | Nickels assist consumers of banks and credit unions in managing their money using behavioral science. | $4M | Seed | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| Filo.co | Filo.co is a collaborative platform for virtual events, meetings, and workshops. It helps organizations produce collaborative events, all-hands meetings, kick-offs, team brainstorms, war rooms, sprint weeks, workshops, and virtual offices quickly. | $3M | Seed | Oct 27, 2021 |  |
| Snappy Kraken | Snappy Kraken, is a SaaS marketing solution that helps financial advisors personalize, automate, and track marketing campaigns and business processes. Users can choose from a number of ready-made campaigns, each containing combinations of professionally designed and written email drip series, social media posts, ads and more. | $6M | Series A | Apr 13, 2021 |  |
| LendingStandard | LendingStandard provides a collaborative platform to drastically improve a lender's ability to acquire, process, and fund a complex commercial loan transaction.Their LendingStandard service allows banks to provide the differentiation they need to set them apart from the bank next door and also provide better service to their businesscustomers with technology. They provide an easy up-front application that can be shared with the business owner, their controller, accountant, partners, or anyone that needs or can provide the information to start the decision process a bank needs for a commercial loan. | $2.5M | Series A | Nov 05, 2018 |  |
| LendingStandard | LendingStandard provides a collaborative platform to drastically improve a lender's ability to acquire, process, and fund a complex commercial loan transaction.Their LendingStandard service allows banks to provide the differentiation they need to set them apart from the bank next door and also provide better service to their businesscustomers with technology. They provide an easy up-front application that can be shared with the business owner, their controller, accountant, partners, or anyone that needs or can provide the information to start the decision process a bank needs for a commercial loan. |  | Series A | Nov 01, 2018 |  |
| DemandJump | DemandJump is a customer acquisition software that shows marketers new sources of growth online. Their mission is to understand the world’s competitive digital data and make it actionable for marketers everywhere. The company's software uses artificial intelligence that shows a holistic view of the data, overlays absent data, and maps thattarget market behavior, thereby, enabling marketers to make better decisions by providing actions that maximize return on investments.DemandJump was founded in 2015 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana. | $6M | Series A | Apr 11, 2018 |  |
| AgLocal | AgLocal wants consumers to understand what they eat, where it comes from and teach consumers how they can support these family farms. | $1.3M |  | Apr 24, 2014 |  |
| AgLocal | AgLocal wants consumers to understand what they eat, where it comes from and teach consumers how they can support these family farms. | $1M |  | Jun 29, 2012 |  |
| EyeVerify | EyeVerify is a security company that provides EyePrint ID, a biometric verification solution for mobile devices. This patented authentication solution uses existing cameras on smartphones to image and pattern match the blood vessels in the whites of the eye. Available on smartphones and tablets, the application protects data with a high entropyencryption key which is equivalent to a 50-character complex password. Requiring only a 1MP camera, this B2B solution enables businesses secure its customers. EyeVerify is available for use on iOS and Android platforms.The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Kansas City, Missouri | $1.5M | Seed | May 25, 2012 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [OPENAIR Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/openair-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [4G Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4g-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alpaca VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpaca-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atria Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atria-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bicknell Family Holding Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bicknell-family-holding-company) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blu Venture Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blu-venture-investors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Flyover Capital

VC Fund · Overland Park, United States

Flyover Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies funds. We do one thing, and we do it well: We support people who are underestimated for no reason other than doing business in the Flyover region. When we invest, we do it early — and with great conviction. Then we get to work because your success is our success.We're here for you in the good times and especially the bad times, all to ensure you have the resources to be successful.

5 contacts available at Flyover Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dan Kerr | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-kerr |
| Katie Coens | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katie-coens |
| Keith Molzer | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keith-molzer |
| Patrick Berry | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-berry-339a |
| Thad Langford | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thad-langford |

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## FAQ

### What does Thad Langford invest in?

Thad Langford invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.

### When did Thad Langford last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Thad Langford closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 12 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?

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