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Brightstone Venture Capital

Brightstone Venture Capital manages a $100 million venture fund focused on early-growth stage investments. The firm invests primarily in Technology and Life Sciences sectors and leverages the operating experience and investment background of its partners to support portfolio companies.

Brightstone Venture Capital

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, North America

https://brightstonevc.com/

plan@brightstonevc.com

Services

Equity investments (early-growth stage)

Provides capital through the Fund for early-growth stage companies across technology and life sciences.

Board / director roles and portfolio management

Partners hold corporate board director/advisor roles and provide portfolio management based on multi-decade operating and board experience.

Sector expertise and advisor network

Access to an advisor network covering IT/cloud, healthcare, EAS/SaaS, dermatology, AI/ML, MedTech and UX/UI.

Portfolio

VRchat

Recently raised $80M in a Series D funding.

#Virtual reality / social VR

Celcuity

Company completed an IPO on NASDAQ (CELC).

#Cellular diagnostics / personalized medicine

BiteSquad

$321 million sale to WAITR Holdings (NASDAQ WTRH).

#Food delivery / logistics marketplace

StemoniX

Provides iPS-based micro-organ platforms for drug toxicity and efficacy testing; IPO on NASDAQ (VYNT).

#Stem cell technologies / drug testing platforms

Wasabi

Described as a cloud storage platform; recently raised $112M in a Series C funding.

#Cloud storage / infrastructure

CNEX Labs

Delivers SSD controllers with host-based FTL and Ethernet I/O; recently raised $10M in a Series G funding.

#Semiconductor / SSD controller IP

Gravie

Next-generation health insurance platform; recently raised $75M in a Series E funding.

#Health insurance platform / insurtech

Miromatrix

Develops technologies aimed at enabling creation of fully biological replacement organs.

#Medical technology / organ bioengineering

Homespotter

$40 million sale to LoneWolf Technologies (private).

#Real estate technology / mobile search

Flipgrid

$91 million sale to Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT).

#Education technology / social learning

CodeStream

$40 million sale to New Relic (NASDAQ NEWR).

#Developer tools / collaboration

Viosera

Platform to predict and block resistance evolution in bacteria and cancer.

#Biotech / antimicrobial resistance

Intact Therapeutics

Next generation localized drug delivery technology platform.

#Drug delivery / medical device

Aria CV

Developing a pulmonary assist device for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.

#Medical device / cardiopulmonary assist

Eternal

Avatar-based social network for groups of users.

#Avatar-based social networks / consumer social

Cryosa

Developing treatments for sleep disordered breathing; recently raised $21.5M in a Series B funding.

#Medical devices / sleep-disordered breathing

Afriex

Blockchain-based mobile remittance platform; recently raised $10M in a Series A funding.

#Fintech / mobile remittance (blockchain)

Xplore

Mission platform for challenging destinations beyond low earth orbit; recently raised $25M in a Series Seed funding.

#Aerospace / long-range spacecraft

Mosaic

Full-stack construction technology company; recently raised $44M in a Series B funding.

#Construction technology / full-stack construction services

Flyr Labs

AI-driven predictive modeling for airline revenue forecasting; recently raised $150M in a Series C funding.

#AI / predictive modeling for airlines

Brilliant

Affordable smart home platform integrating with Internet-enabled devices; recently raised $40M in a Series B funding.

#Smart home platform / IoT

CREXi

End-to-end solution for commercial real estate transactions; recently raised $40M in a Series B funding.

#Commercial real estate technology

Versus Game

Consumer prediction and wagering marketplace; recently raised $30M in a Series A funding.

#Consumer prediction / social wagering marketplace

LifeLens

Platform for real-time monitoring of physiologic and cardiology measurements.

#Remote physiologic monitoring / cardiology

Vori Health

Healthcare platform offering physical medicine, virtual therapy, prescriptions, imaging & lab ordering, and care services.

#Healthcare / virtual physical therapy and rehabilitation

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