Access Ventures
Impact investorLouisville · Pre-Seed–Series B · 7 people tracked
Also known as ACCESS VENTURES CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC
Investment thesis
Access Ventures argues that economic agency is shaped by systems and place, and that flourishing regional economies require intentional alignment of capital rather than fragmented, siloed funding. The firm champions blended finance — combining catalytic, philanthropic, public, and private dollars — as infrastructure that absorbs early risk, aligns incentives, and creates durable pathways to ownership and participation. It emphasizes supporting early-stage founders, growth-stage small businesses, and community-rooted enterprises outside established capital hubs, retaining value locally, and building resilience during macro volatility. The approach prioritizes alignment over attraction, shared risk and reward, and coordinated capital as a foundation for durable community flourishing.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 16, 2026.
Team · 7 people
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What they invest in
from 29 of 44 portfolio companiesFintech ×9SaaS ×8AI & Machine Learning ×7Cybersecurity ×6Enterprise Software ×4Impact & Social Good ×4Marketing Tech ×4Healthtech ×3
HQs:United States×17United Kingdom×1
Investments · 44 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 22024 · 12023 · 14 dated
Ascent360 is an AI-powered Customer Data Platform (CDP) designed for the hospitality industry that unifies guest data from multiple sources and enables omnichannel marketing automation to drive direct bookings and reduce dependency on online travel agencies.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSGolden, US
Scott Buelter(President and Chief Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAccess Venture Partners
Singapore-based venture fund investing in Series A and B+ companies with stakeholder-focused cultures.
Bonusly provides a platform for employee peer recognition, rewards, and culture building, helping teams foster engagement and connection in the workplace.
HR TechSaaS
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersAnkona CapitalBloomberg Beta
Catalyze provides emerging and underrepresented fund managers with capital, working capital loans, and support services such as fund strategy, fundraising, and networking, while also connecting allocators to fund managers through investment consulting.
Fintech
Cloud Campaign is a social media management platform with scalable pricing and workflow tools aimed at agencies and brands managing social media services.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSSocialBoulder, US
Ryan Born(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Ross Gray(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Eric Kirby(Director)Jason Burby(Director)
BoardKirk Holland(Director)in
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersKokopelli Capital
Denver, US
Paul J. Ironside(Executive Officer, Director)Nathan Smalley(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardFrank Medicino(Director)Joseph R. Zell(Director)John Steward(Director)Kyle Lefkoff(Director)in
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersCrawley VenturesBoulder VenturesFirstMile VenturesGrotech Ventures
Marathon is a credit investment firm founded in 1998 that provides financing across strategies including direct lending, opportunistic credit, asset-based lending, and specialty finance for sectors such as transportation, healthcare, real estate, and consumer finance.
FintechBoston, US
Dapple Security provides data security and privacy features for businesses, built on encryption and data governance technologies.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechCentennial, US
Gadalia Montoya Weinberg O'Brian(Founder/CEO)Gadalia Montoya Weinberg O'Bryan(Founder and CEO)Keith Bucher(Co-Founder and CTO)Gadalia O'Bryan(Executive Officer, Director)William Ackerly(Director)
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersEx/AnteTechstarsAccess VenturesFirst In
Donate Equity offers a software platform and expert support that lets nonprofits, foundations, and donors handle early-stage equity gifts before a business sale.
FintechImpact & Social GoodSaaS
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersRange VC
Fortress is an investment management firm focused on alternative assets, investing across public and private markets, asset classes, and geographies.
Fintech
Drew McKnight(Co-Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner)
Co-investorsWorldQuant Ventures
GoodBuy Gear is an online marketplace selling quality-checked secondhand and open-box baby and kids' gear, including strollers, car seats, high chairs, carriers, and bassinets.
Circular EconomyE-commerceMarketplaces
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersInterlock PartnersDenver VenturesKokopelli CapitalRelay Ventures
GoodMaps builds AI-driven indoor navigation technology to help people, including those with visual impairments, orient and move through indoor spaces.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareHealthtechImpact & Social GoodLouisville, US
Neil Barnfather(Executive Officer)Charlie Meredith(Executive Officer)Theresa Reno-Weber(Executive Officer, Director)Jose Gaztambide(Executive Officer, Director)Anne Durham(Director)
BoardYung Nguyen(Director)
Co-investorsVenture First
Granny's Birth Initiative is a nonprofit maternal support organization that helps pregnant women and families facing barriers such as incarceration, housing instability, and lack of family support.
FemTechHealthtechImpact & Social GoodLouisville, US
A non-collateralized loan of up to $35,000 for small-business owners lacking access to traditional capital.
A fund started by Access Ventures investing in pre-seed and seed startups building creative-economy tools.
Hydden provides an AI-powered identity data layer that discovers and monitors all human and machine identities across enterprise infrastructure—including cloud, on-premises, and SaaS systems—and automates access governance and compliance tasks.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersService Provider Capital
Co-investorsAccess Venture Partners
Invesco is a global asset management firm offering investment products and strategies, including ETFs (such as Invesco QQQ) and college savings plans, to individual investors, financial professionals, and institutional clients.
Fintech
Iris Finance is an AI-native financial platform for consumer packaged goods brands, providing real-time P&L visibility, cash flow forecasting, and margin analysis across sales channels and SKUs.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Drew Fallon(Founder & CEO)inMarkoin
Co-investorsBarrel VenturesFounder CollectiveGlasswing VenturesRosecliff VenturesAccess Venture PartnersSID Venture Partners+2 more
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardwareLongmont, US
Jeremy Goeckeritz(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardYoav Lurie(Director)
Co-investorsAccess Venture Partners
Nivati is an employee mental health and wellbeing platform that combines an AI-powered companion app with access to licensed therapists, dietitians, financial coaches, group workshops, self-guided content, and 24/7 call and chat therapy.
Digital HealthHealthtechHR TechMental HealthWellness & FitnessSouth Jordan, US
Amelia Wilcox(Founder)Pamela Stevenson(Director)Cydni Tetro(Director)Dan Tyre(Director)Adam Slovik(Director)
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersFirebrand VenturesReno Seed Fund
Peregrine offers a leadership development programme combining an online curriculum with an on-site residential experience in Oxford, drawing on Augustine's philosophy of rightly ordered desire.
EdTechFuture of WorkOxford, GB
PlanetiQ operates a satellite constellation using NASA-heritage GNSS radio occultation (GNSS-RO) receivers to collect atmospheric data used as input for weather forecasting models.
Climate TechDefense TechSpace Tech
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersAV8 VenturesMoonshots CapitalNew Science VenturesTremendous View CapitalVTC Ventures
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersCyber Mentor Fund
Atomic Red Team is an open source, community-maintained library of small security tests mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, letting security teams validate their ability to detect threats across Windows, macOS, Linux, and cloud environments.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSterling, US
Brian Beyer(CEO)
BoardFrank Mendicino(Director)Alan Taetle(Director)inW Daniel Hall(Director)
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersNoro-Moseley PartnersSavano Capital PartnersService Provider CapitalSummit Partners
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersFirebrand Ventures
The Louisville neighborhood where Access Ventures began its community revitalization work in 2014.
Tetra Insights is a user research platform that helps teams plan studies, recruit participants, and analyze interviews using AI to surface themes and findings directly cited to transcript excerpts.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSPlantation, US
Michael Bamberger(Executive Officer, Director)Patrick Matthews(Director)
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersNext Frontier Capital
TextUs is an SMS marketing platform that enables go-to-market teams (sales, marketing, recruiting, customer success) to send and receive text messages at scale with CRM/ATS integrations and TCPA compliance built-in.
Marketing TechSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersBlossom Street VenturesBonaventure CapitalEastside Partners
The AV Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity that acts as a boutique fiscal sponsor for donor-advised funds (DAFs), offering DAF administration, grantmaking, and philanthropic advisory services.
Impact & Social Good
The Leadership Experience is a faith-based community for Christian marketplace leaders, offering peer relationships and support built around durable friendships, generosity, and integrated faith.
Future of Work
CybersecurityAustin, US
Edwin Bret Settle(Executive Officer, Director)Andrius Useckas(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersCrawley VenturesStout Street Capital
Tidal Cyber develops tools and services that help enterprises adopt MITRE ATT&CK framework for threat-informed defense.
CybersecurityEnterprise Software
Rick Gordonin
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersBright Pixel CapitalDreamit VenturesGlasswing VenturesStoneMill VenturesTFX Capital+6 more
Trinity Capital is an alternative asset manager providing private credit financing—including loans, equipment financing, and asset-based lending—to privately funded growth-stage companies.
Fintech
TurboTenant provides tenant screening reports and rental application services for independent landlords managing rental property investments.
PropTechSaaSFort Collins, US
Sarnen Steinbarth(CEO)
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersLLRRET Ventures
A grant program run with VSCO funding creators who use art to empower marginalized US communities.
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersBreak Trail Ventures
ZioSec provides an autonomous AI red-teaming platform that runs continuous, deep-chained attacks (such as prompt injection, tool misuse, privilege escalation, and exfiltration) against AI agents across any framework, then converts findings into audit-ready evidence with remediation guidance.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSteamboat Springs, US
Andrius Useckas(Executive Officer, Director)Aaron Walls(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardV. Frank Mendicino III(Director)
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersGreater Colorado Venture FundService Provider CapitalSuperhero Capital
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesTidal · esgtoday.com · May 29, 2026
Fig · businessinsider.com · Mar 6, 2026
Dapple Security · dapplesecurity.com · Nov 17, 2025
ZioSec · ziosec.com · Jul 17, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Access Ventures made?
- Access Ventures has 20 tracked investments.
- What stage does Access Ventures invest at?
- Access Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B stages.
- What is Access Ventures's typical check size?
- Access Ventures typically writes checks of $500K – $3M.
- What sectors does Access Ventures focus on?
- Access Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Climate Tech, Crypto & Web3, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Impact & Social Good, SaaS.
- Where is Access Ventures located?
- Access Ventures is headquartered in Louisville, US.
- Does Access Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Access Ventures leads investment rounds.
- Who does Access Ventures co-invest with?
- Access Ventures most often shares deals with Techstars, Upper90, Venture First, among 4 tracked co-investors.
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