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November 29, 2023

SquareStack CEO Bill Furlong Featured on the Chief Influencer Podcast

SquareStack CEO discusses "The Shifting Landscape of B2B Marketing"

November 3, 2023

STRATAFOLIA CEO Jeri Frank Featured on The Deal Scout Podcast

STRATAFOLIA CEO discusses "Portfolio Performance Software"

October 14, 2023

Under CEO Jeff Shea Featured on the Merchant Sales Podcast

Under CEO discusses "Underwriting in Era of AI"

July 25, 2023

SquareStack CEO Bill Furlong Featured on the R&B Show

SquareStack CEO discusses "A New Dashboard to Help You Better Manage Your Business"

July 10, 2023

Under Selected to Stage 2 Capital 2023 Catalyst Cohort

Under was selected as one of the 15 B2B companies for Stage 2 Capital's 2023 Catalyst Cohort

June 25, 2023

Innovare Receives Funding from Google for Startups Black Founders Fund

Innovare has been selected as one of the fortunate recipients of the prestigious Google for Startups Black Founders Fund!

April 6, 2023

Education Intelligence Company, Innovare, Raises $2M in Additional Seed Funding Despite Economic Downturn with Support from Existing and New Investors In the U.S. and Mexico

Chicago-based EdTech company, Innovare, announced that it has raised $2M in additional seed funding to continue to scale its impact on education leadership via its cloud-based strategy and analytics platform Inno™️.

March 23, 2023

Charleston Angel Partners Invests in SquareStack

Charleston Angel Partners has invested in Chicago-based start-up SquareStack to drive expansion and growth.

February 25, 2023

STRATAFOLIO and Intuit QuickBooks are joining forces to provide a bundled solution for new customers

Learn more about STRATAFOLIOS's new collaboration in the QuickBooks Solution Provider program from the firm's CEO, Jeri Frank.

November 13, 2022

Propellant Ventures Makes an Investment Into Proptech Company, STRATAFOLIO

Propellant Ventures is excited to announce that we made an investment into Cedar Rapids, IA based Proptech firm STRATAFOLIO.

Thought Leadership

September 19, 2024

How AI Is Revolutionizing Marketing (Webinar)

On September 19, 2024, Propellant Ventures hosted an engaging virtual discussion to talk about the importance of AI in the marketing industry.

July 10, 2024

Riding the Wave of Water Innovation (Webinar)

On July 10, 2024, Propellant Ventures hosted an engaging virtual discussion to talk about the importance of innovation in the water industry.

May 15, 2024

The Paws-itive Rise in the Pet Tech Industry (Webinar)

On May 15, 2024, Propellant Ventures hosted an engaging virtual discussion to talk about the rise in the Pet Tech industry.

April 30, 2024

Early-Stage Venture Capital: The Next Great Alternative Investment Class

Early-stage funds often outperform later-stage funds due to a variety of factors, including a higher risk-return profile and the significant added value that investors (funds) can provide to startups.

April 24, 2024

Building Connections: Priorities for Effective Business Networking (Podcast)

On a Solvecast podcast, Jason discusses thought leadership, relationship building, paying-it-forward, and much more.

April 17, 2024

Solving the “Unsolvable” with Quantum Computing (Webinar)

On April 17, 2024, Propellant Ventures hosted an engaging virtual discussion to talk about quantum computing as an investment opportunity.

March 13, 2024

The Transformative Innovation of Tokenization (Webinar)

On March 13, 2024, Propellant Ventures hosted an engaging virtual discussion to talk about the substantial interest in tokenization as an investment opportunity.

February 29, 2024

The Importance of Building Business Relationships For Capital Raising (Interview)

On February 29 2024, our Managing Partner was interviewed by Gary Fowler GSD Venture Studios about "The Importance of Building Business Relationships For Capital Raising".

February 14, 2024

2024 Outlook: Opportunities for Investors & Startups (Webinar)

On February 14, 2024, Propellant Ventures hosted an engaging virtual discussion to talk about the 2024 outlook of the investment and startup landscape.

February 6, 2024

Venture Capital 101 (Webinar)

On February 6 2024, our Managing Partner recorded the recorded the discussion, "Venture Capital 101", for the Thought Leadership Series of Gildre.

Industry News

July 23, 2024

AI-powered legal-tech startups cut the hype, gain more traction

AI is coming for the centuries-old legal profession, an area once written off by venture capitalists as uninvestable.

February 9, 2024

Why the next supply chain revolution will be a digital one

It was more than 100 years ago when Sears and Montgomery Ward sparked a trade revolution in Chicago, leveraging rail to innovate in trade.

January 29, 2024

The Fastest Growing Software Sectors in 2024

The fastest growing software category in the public markets is security.

November 3, 2023

Sizing up the boom in defense tech

Recent wars and rising tensions with China have highlighted the Pentagon's ongoing need to retool its arsenal with the latest technologies. VCs increasingly believe startups will play a meaningful role in these innovations.

August 24, 2023

The startup seed deal landscape is changing — and not just because there are fewer deals

In the last quarter of 2021, there were 880 seed rounds on Carta's platform. In the second quarter of 2023, that number was cut in half to just 440 seed deals. It's indicative of the broader pullback in startupland, but seed deals have also mirrored a larger venture-capital trend: a geographic shift in where startups are raising capital.

June 16, 2023

Smaller VCs are having an impact on diverse investors and founders

Smaller funds, those that have $50 million or less in assets under management, are helping to usher in a new wave of diversity within venture capital. And the reasons for this are simple.

June 2, 2023

Generative AI Is Moving Into Adtech. But Which Companies Will Stand The Test Of Time?

Generative AI is bulldozing through every industry possible, and the world of advertising and brand marketing isn’t immune. Startups are popping up that promise to create flawless ad copy and brand design fast, and at a fraction of the price and time it would take people to do that work.

May 22, 2023

In the world of startup valuations, there's generative AI—and everything else

If you talk to many early-stage investors, they'll say they're now living in two different worlds. Part of their day is filled with reviewing pitches of startups that show the exciting potential of generative AI, and the other part is spent helping their existing portfolio companies survive the slump.

May 8, 2023

Investors Rain Funding Down On Climate Prediction Startups

As climate issues flood nearly every sector, climate and weather analytics startups are offering companies and consumers predictions about everything from the chances for inclement weather for that upcoming vacation to the long-term flood or fire risks of building new properties.

April 14, 2023

Generative AI startups jockey for VC dollars

Roughly $1.7 billion was generated across 46 deals in Q1 2023, according to PitchBook data. An additional $10.68 billion worth of deals were announced in the quarter but have not completed.

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