# venVelo

> venVelo is a VC fund in Winter Park backing Software and SaaS. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Winter Park, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/venvelo
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/venVelo
- Website: http://venVelo.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/venVelo/286077324838395?sk=info&tab=page_info

venVelo is a VC fund in Winter Park focused on Software and SaaS. venVelo directs the successful entrepreneur through a detailed program with a strict set of guidelines necessary to create effective business operations that lead to successful go-to-market strategies. venVelo is also amassing a mentor network of the best and brightest: successful, proven entrepreneurs who have demonstrated – often many times –they know how to help our portfolio companies do what they need to do to grow. This network of industry experts provides real-world experience. The mentors are hand-picked and matched to the specific needs of our portfolio companies.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 35% |
| SaaS | 4 | 20% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 15% |
| Analytics | 2 | 10% |
| Medical Device | 2 | 10% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 35% |
| Series A | 3 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 10% |
| Series B | 2 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 10% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Patrick R. McNair | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-r-mcnair |
| Peter McAlindon | Co-Founder and Chief Community Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-mcalindon |
| Richard Licursi | CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-licursi |
| Allen Kupetz | COO | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allen-kuptez |
| Jonathan Molayem | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-molayem |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Urban SDK | Urban SDK is a geospatial AI platform that helps governments empower public safety, transportation, infrastructure, and administration with real-time location analytics. |  | Seed | Jul 05, 2023 |  |
| Ecospears | ecoSPEARS is a cleantech solutions company ushering in the carbonless future of environmental cleanup. ecoSPEARS has designed and developed green and sustainable remediation technologies to extract and destroy PCBs, dioxins, and other Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) from the environment - forever. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 21, 2023 |  |
| Erbon Software | Most hotels are stuck with limited software that keeps them from achieving their maximum potential. Trusted by more than 500 hotels in seven countries, Erbon is an all-in-one hotel management solution giving you the power to boost your business from the lobby to the back office. |  | Seed | Sep 22, 2022 |  |
| Kalogon | Kalogon is the trailblazer in smart seating, best known for developing innovative solutions that reduce the stresses of sitting and improve seated health. Serving healthcare, defense, and aviation, Kalogon’s patent-pending Advanced Pressure Management System (APMS) powers products with adaptive customizations, ambient adjustments, and personalizedsettings to enhance comfort, restore blood flow, and reduce fatigue for those who sit for extended periods.With four Medicare-coded products on the market, Kalogon leverages its core technologies and user-centered design process to create a strong market fit across multiple industries. Beyond healthcare, Kalogon partners with the U.S. Air Force and leading aviation clients to adapt its technologies for demanding environments, improving comfort, sustaining performance, and promoting healthy seated living. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida and founded in 2019, Kalogon is on a mission to eliminate the stresses of sitting. | $3.3M | Seed | Aug 23, 2022 |  |
| Urban SDK | Urban SDK is a geospatial AI platform that helps governments empower public safety, transportation, infrastructure, and administration with real-time location analytics. | $2.9M | Seed | Nov 30, 2021 |  |
| Switchboard Live | We've developed a cloud-based product named Switchboard that simplifies the management of distributing multiple live streams to social media destinations, platforms, and web pages in a single unified dashboard. Switchboard empowers IT, marketing, and communication teams successfully manage the three stages of a live stream; pre, during, andpost-stream. | $1.5M | Seed | Dec 04, 2017 |  |
| Stax | Fattmerchant is a provider of payment technology solutions for businesses across the United States. Their integrated, omnichannel technology supports retail and restaurant locations with physical terminal and POS integrations, an online business with shopping cart capabilities, professional services businesses with a robust online invoice andbilling solution, and on-the-go businesses with a mobile application. In addition, their open API empowers developers to create custom payment experiences with all of the benefits of processing with Fattmerchant. Based in Orlando, Florida, Fattmerchant exists as a partner to small business owners to help improve their overall payments experience. Their integrated payment platform, simple subscription-style pricing structure, and a team of friendly support specialists make payment processing something business owners can rely on, not feel intimidated by. Since its inception, Fattmerchant has powered more than $1 billion in transactions and is backed by the largest payment facilitator in the country - Vantiv. Fattmerchant exists as a partner to small business owners to help improve their overall payment experience. Their simple subscription-style pricing structure, a team of friendly support specialists, and valuable data insights make payment processing something business owners can rely on, not feel intimidated by. Fattmerchant supports over $1 billion in transactions and is backed by the largest payment facilitator in the country - Vantiv. | $5.5M | Series B | Oct 24, 2017 |  |
| Actionable Quality Assurance | Actionable Quality Assurance simplifies the task of quality assurance and food safety management to improve the quality and safety of every dining experience, and in doing so, measurably reduce the number of consumers suffering from food borne illnesses every year. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 15, 2017 |  |
| Details Flowers | Wealth comes from productivity. This is the key to our sales pitch both to users and to investors. Increased productivity equals a better standard of living. Details Flowers softwares improves the time to do a flower proposal from 6 hours to 20 minutes. While other flower companies are vertically integrating or consolidating to createefficiencies, Details Flowers is changing the game through leveraging extremely valuable data that can decrease waste, thereby increasing profitability.The traditional floral industry is a $25 billion industry. With a unique and innovative software program, Details Flowers has the opportunity to leverage this blooming industry and reinvent the world of floral design and events. In an environment where traditional florists are feeling pressure from supermarkets, order gathers, and online retailers, the tools offered by Details Flowers will draw florists, wholesale companies, import distributors and farms to our marketplace and impact the future of the industry. While traditional florists benefit from the advanced features, data infrastructure and ease of design, wholesalers & distributors will have the opportunity to sell their products to these florists through our sophisticated marketplace. |  | Seed | Sep 07, 2016 |  |
| Vigilant Biosciences | Vigilant Biosciences is an innovator and developer of solutions that aid in the early detection and intervention of cancer. The Vigilant Biosciences OncAlert Oral Cancer and OncAlert Labs product lines include point-of-care and lab-based products that are simple, accurate, and cost-effective, and empower healthcare practitioners to improve livesthrough earlier intervention.The Vigilant Biosciences product line is based on patented technology that measures an unprecedented combination of CD44, a tumor-initiating, and stem cell-associated biomarker, and total protein levels – markers clinically validated to be associated specifically with oral cancer when measured in an oral rinse – to aid clinicians in the early detection and intervention of oral cancer. The simple, oral rinse procedure is easy to administer and non-invasive for the patient. The OncAlert product line currently includes the OncAlert Labs OraMark Test, the OncAlert Oral Cancer RAPID Test, and the OncAlert Oral Cancer LAB Test. The OncAlert Oral Cancer RAPID Test and the OncAlert Oral Cancer LAB Test are both CE Marked and available in select markets outside the United States. OraMark is a laboratory-developed test and will be available in the United States through OncAlert Labs, a CLIA certified laboratory, starting in 2016. | $5M | Series B | Jul 11, 2016 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DeepWork Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-fan-fund) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Florida Angel Nexus](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/florida-angel-nexus) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Florida Opportunity Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/florida-opportunity-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Florida Technology](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institute-for-the-commercialization-of-public-research) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Angel Street Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-street-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MassChallenge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masschallenge) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does venVelo invest in?

venVelo invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 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 venVelo?

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### Who are the partners at venVelo?

The team at venVelo includes Patrick R. McNair (CFO), Peter McAlindon (Co-Founder and Chief Community Officer) and Richard Licursi (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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