Accelerate Venture Partners

Feel free to apply on our website: https://www.avpict.com/entrepreneurs We are a collaborative group of active investors from diverse professional and industry backgrounds investing in early stage, high potential companies in Wichita and the Midwest. Providing more than just money, we bring connections, knowledge, mentoring and operational assistance to bold early-stage entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas.

Josh Oeding

Founder and Managing Member

34 past transactions

Compression Works

Seed Round in 2022
Compression Works manufactures the AAJT-S, an advanced abdominal aortic and junctional tourniquet designed to control severe bleeding and stabilize pelvic fractures. This innovative device is applicable in multiple areas, including the axilla, abdomen, and inguinal region. It effectively addresses junctional and pelvic bleeding, providing a crucial alternative for hemorrhage control. The AAJT-S is recognized for its capacity to deliver aortic compression that is comparable to zone 3 REBOA, thereby enhancing patient outcomes and reducing preventable deaths associated with traumatic injuries. Compression Works aims to improve the quality of life for patients by offering life-saving solutions that address critical medical challenges.

Sunny

Seed Round in 2022
Sunny is an online retail company focused on women's menstrual health. It offers a range of self-care products, including menstrual cups and reusable applicators designed for ease of use. The company aims to provide sustainable alternatives to traditional period care products while ensuring affordability. In addition to its product offerings, Sunny also provides educational materials aimed at young people, promoting awareness and understanding of self-care and menstrual health. Through these efforts, Sunny seeks to empower women by making essential menstrual products accessible and fostering a stigma-free environment around menstruation.

Ronawk

Seed Round in 2022
Ronawk is a biotechnology company that specializes in the development of T-Block technology, which produces patient-specific biologics for the treatment of diseases, including cancer, organ injuries, and burns. The company has created a proprietary method for growing primary stem cells in a three-dimensional environment, allowing these cells to retain their essential characteristics outside the body. This innovative approach enables the rapid expansion of stem cells, making them suitable for early-stage diagnostics and the repair of injured tissues. Additionally, Ronawk focuses on preserving primary cells from patients for future use in reconstructive surgeries, thereby enhancing the efficiency and density of human cell growth for tissue generation and disease modeling.

GREENFIELD

Venture Round in 2022
GreenField | Bots, not Chems! Eat, Make and Grow Food without all the chems! GreenField Incorporated uses robots to replace chemicals. Healthy Ingredients, Regenerative Farming. GreenField provides ingredients without all the chems to manufacturers who make healthy food for families and pets. GreenField’s Fleet-to-Farm delivers robots to farmers who replace chemicals and improve profits. GreenField helps you manage the adoption curve of regenerative agriculture. Wherever you are and wherever you want to go, we can help.

Spinal Simplicity

Series D in 2022
Spinal Simplicity, LLC is a medical device company based in Overland Park, Kansas, that specializes in designing and developing percutaneously inserted interspinous inter-laminar fusion devices for spinal disorders. Founded in 2008, the company primarily markets its flagship product, the Minuteman, which addresses conditions such as spondylolisthesis, lumbar stenosis, and degenerative disc diseases. Spinal Simplicity's devices are intended to provide safe and minimally invasive therapeutic options for complex spinal and orthopedic issues, thereby enhancing surgical outcomes for patients. The company distributes its products through a network of distributors across the European Union.

Artio Medical

Series A in 2022
Artio Medical, Inc. specializes in the development and commercialization of catheter-based medical devices aimed at treating cardiovascular diseases. The company offers a range of products, including Solus Gold and Solus Flex, which are embolization devices designed for precise and immediate vessel occlusion. Additionally, Artio Medical provides Aneura and Endura, which utilize a combination of coils and accessory balloons to effectively occlude saccular peripheral and cerebral aneurysms respectively. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Prairie Village, Kansas, and operates as a subsidiary of Novita Therapeutics, LLC. Artio Medical's innovative medical devices enhance the safety, speed, and effectiveness of vascular occlusion procedures for healthcare professionals.

InterShunt

Series A in 2022
InterShunt designs and develops a catheter-based minimally-invasive procedure to provide relief for millions suffering from heart failure. It believes that left atrial decompression holds the key to reducing symptoms for those who suffer. It also believes that they can do this using a simple catheter procedure. Most importantly, they believe they can do this without the use of an implant. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.

Transportant

Debt Financing in 2022
Transportant, Inc. is a company that develops software tools to enhance school bus services, focusing on improving safety and efficiency in pupil transportation. Founded in 2017 and based in Shawnee, Kansas, Transportant offers a suite of products that includes MyBusHopper, which helps parents and students track bus arrivals, and Smart Bus, providing technical support for drivers and students. Additionally, the Fleet Dashboard enables school administrators to monitor and manage bus operations effectively. Transportant's innovative platform integrates features such as ridership information, live camera views, and fleet tracking, allowing real-time updates for parents regarding their children's transportation. The company aims to transform the traditional school bus experience, making it safer and easier for millions of students and their families.

Ten-Nine Technologies

Series B in 2022
Ten-Nine Technologies, LLC, established in 2009 and located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, specializes in the development and design of innovative battery materials for the energy and chemical sectors. The company focuses on creating advanced materials that cater to various applications, including catalysis, energy generation, and energy storage. With a commitment to curiosity, honesty, and generosity, Ten-Nine Technologies emphasizes strong relationships with its employees, clients, and the community, driving its mission to contribute to new economies through groundbreaking material solutions.

InnovaPrep

Series C in 2022
InnovaPrep is engaged in product development, manufacturing, sales, service, and related out-licensing of a collection of novel technologies. InnovaPrep products provide the critical macro-to-micro interface between real-world samples and the input volumes of modern molecular methods for analysis. InnovaPrep tools increase sensitivity and enable a faster, easier, and more efficient means of delivering the most highly concentrated sample possible for subsequent analysis for a variety of biomonitoring applications. It was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Drexel, Missouri.

Artio Medical

Venture Round in 2022
Artio Medical, Inc. specializes in the development and commercialization of catheter-based medical devices aimed at treating cardiovascular diseases. The company offers a range of products, including Solus Gold and Solus Flex, which are embolization devices designed for precise and immediate vessel occlusion. Additionally, Artio Medical provides Aneura and Endura, which utilize a combination of coils and accessory balloons to effectively occlude saccular peripheral and cerebral aneurysms respectively. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Prairie Village, Kansas, and operates as a subsidiary of Novita Therapeutics, LLC. Artio Medical's innovative medical devices enhance the safety, speed, and effectiveness of vascular occlusion procedures for healthcare professionals.

Voltage

Seed Round in 2022
Voltage is a Bitcoin infrastructure provider. It adds enterprise-grade capabilities to both Layer 1 and Layer 2 technologies. It provides Bitcoin-centric infrastructure to engineering teams, enabling enterprise-grade experiences. Users benefit from the fastest and most scalable Lightning solution that meets the highest security and privacy standards by leveraging Voltage. Users can build, deploy, and scale faster than ever before with modern modular tools and processes. Voltage brings to market a suite of node, liquidity, and data services that elevates your value proposition via Lightning Network architecture.

Transportant

Series A in 2021
Transportant, Inc. is a company that develops software tools to enhance school bus services, focusing on improving safety and efficiency in pupil transportation. Founded in 2017 and based in Shawnee, Kansas, Transportant offers a suite of products that includes MyBusHopper, which helps parents and students track bus arrivals, and Smart Bus, providing technical support for drivers and students. Additionally, the Fleet Dashboard enables school administrators to monitor and manage bus operations effectively. Transportant's innovative platform integrates features such as ridership information, live camera views, and fleet tracking, allowing real-time updates for parents regarding their children's transportation. The company aims to transform the traditional school bus experience, making it safer and easier for millions of students and their families.

Clara Biotech

Seed Round in 2021
Clara Biotech is a platform technology that allow for the isolation of specific cellular markers (exosomes) from very small fluid samples enabling liquid biopsy for the very early detection of cancer, Alzheimer's Disease and many others. These same markers can also be turned into a precision medicine drug delivery platform delivering targeted drugs directly to the cells being targeted. The current gold standard is a 12 hours ultra-centrifugation process. Ours is the only platform that can take any biofluid source, and extract any species of pure viable exosome into pure solution. We are the bridge that moves research to patient. Exosomes are one of the next major breakthroughs in Biotech. We are Clara. We are exosomes.

Spinal Simplicity

Series D in 2021
Spinal Simplicity, LLC is a medical device company based in Overland Park, Kansas, that specializes in designing and developing percutaneously inserted interspinous inter-laminar fusion devices for spinal disorders. Founded in 2008, the company primarily markets its flagship product, the Minuteman, which addresses conditions such as spondylolisthesis, lumbar stenosis, and degenerative disc diseases. Spinal Simplicity's devices are intended to provide safe and minimally invasive therapeutic options for complex spinal and orthopedic issues, thereby enhancing surgical outcomes for patients. The company distributes its products through a network of distributors across the European Union.

Unified Esports Association

Seed Round in 2020
Unified Esports Association offers virtual and onsite Esports competitions for aspiring gamers. The company makes eSports a healthy, structured, and educational sport.

Bellwethr

Seed Round in 2020
Bellwethr Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a customer decision optimization platform aimed at enhancing business processes through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Founded in 2017 and based in Wamego, Kansas, Bellwethr's platform automates personalized, next-best actions during critical events in the customer journey, thereby improving customer retention and lifetime value. The company focuses on making machine learning and AI accessible to users regardless of their technical expertise, enabling subscription-based businesses to optimize their customer lifecycle processes effectively. By leveraging data and advanced algorithms, Bellwethr assists clients in attracting new leads while retaining existing customers.

Spinal Simplicity

Series D in 2020
Spinal Simplicity, LLC is a medical device company based in Overland Park, Kansas, that specializes in designing and developing percutaneously inserted interspinous inter-laminar fusion devices for spinal disorders. Founded in 2008, the company primarily markets its flagship product, the Minuteman, which addresses conditions such as spondylolisthesis, lumbar stenosis, and degenerative disc diseases. Spinal Simplicity's devices are intended to provide safe and minimally invasive therapeutic options for complex spinal and orthopedic issues, thereby enhancing surgical outcomes for patients. The company distributes its products through a network of distributors across the European Union.

Ten-Nine Technologies

Series A in 2020
Ten-Nine Technologies, LLC, established in 2009 and located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, specializes in the development and design of innovative battery materials for the energy and chemical sectors. The company focuses on creating advanced materials that cater to various applications, including catalysis, energy generation, and energy storage. With a commitment to curiosity, honesty, and generosity, Ten-Nine Technologies emphasizes strong relationships with its employees, clients, and the community, driving its mission to contribute to new economies through groundbreaking material solutions.

InnovaPrep

Series B in 2020
InnovaPrep is engaged in product development, manufacturing, sales, service, and related out-licensing of a collection of novel technologies. InnovaPrep products provide the critical macro-to-micro interface between real-world samples and the input volumes of modern molecular methods for analysis. InnovaPrep tools increase sensitivity and enable a faster, easier, and more efficient means of delivering the most highly concentrated sample possible for subsequent analysis for a variety of biomonitoring applications. It was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Drexel, Missouri.

Transportant

Series A in 2020
Transportant, Inc. is a company that develops software tools to enhance school bus services, focusing on improving safety and efficiency in pupil transportation. Founded in 2017 and based in Shawnee, Kansas, Transportant offers a suite of products that includes MyBusHopper, which helps parents and students track bus arrivals, and Smart Bus, providing technical support for drivers and students. Additionally, the Fleet Dashboard enables school administrators to monitor and manage bus operations effectively. Transportant's innovative platform integrates features such as ridership information, live camera views, and fleet tracking, allowing real-time updates for parents regarding their children's transportation. The company aims to transform the traditional school bus experience, making it safer and easier for millions of students and their families.

Artio Medical

Series A in 2020
Artio Medical, Inc. specializes in the development and commercialization of catheter-based medical devices aimed at treating cardiovascular diseases. The company offers a range of products, including Solus Gold and Solus Flex, which are embolization devices designed for precise and immediate vessel occlusion. Additionally, Artio Medical provides Aneura and Endura, which utilize a combination of coils and accessory balloons to effectively occlude saccular peripheral and cerebral aneurysms respectively. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Prairie Village, Kansas, and operates as a subsidiary of Novita Therapeutics, LLC. Artio Medical's innovative medical devices enhance the safety, speed, and effectiveness of vascular occlusion procedures for healthcare professionals.

Wichita Esports

Seed Round in 2019
Wichita eSports is engaging in semi video game tournaments. They provide the platform to all participating players through an umbrella of products, software, and services. They provide a physical tournament experience catered to both esports enthusiasts and casual gamers alike.

Unified Esports Association

Seed Round in 2019
Unified Esports Association offers virtual and onsite Esports competitions for aspiring gamers. The company makes eSports a healthy, structured, and educational sport.

Spinal Simplicity

Series D in 2019
Spinal Simplicity, LLC is a medical device company based in Overland Park, Kansas, that specializes in designing and developing percutaneously inserted interspinous inter-laminar fusion devices for spinal disorders. Founded in 2008, the company primarily markets its flagship product, the Minuteman, which addresses conditions such as spondylolisthesis, lumbar stenosis, and degenerative disc diseases. Spinal Simplicity's devices are intended to provide safe and minimally invasive therapeutic options for complex spinal and orthopedic issues, thereby enhancing surgical outcomes for patients. The company distributes its products through a network of distributors across the European Union.

Bellwethr

Seed Round in 2019
Bellwethr Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a customer decision optimization platform aimed at enhancing business processes through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Founded in 2017 and based in Wamego, Kansas, Bellwethr's platform automates personalized, next-best actions during critical events in the customer journey, thereby improving customer retention and lifetime value. The company focuses on making machine learning and AI accessible to users regardless of their technical expertise, enabling subscription-based businesses to optimize their customer lifecycle processes effectively. By leveraging data and advanced algorithms, Bellwethr assists clients in attracting new leads while retaining existing customers.

CritiTech

Venture Round in 2019
CritiTech, Inc. specializes in particle engineering technologies that facilitate the development and manufacturing of drugs and medical devices for both human and animal health markets. Founded in 1997 and based in Lawrence, Kansas, the company focuses on optimizing the delivery of challenging drug substances, including potent molecules and poorly soluble compounds. CritiTech employs advanced methods such as supercritical precipitation technology and spray drying to enhance bioavailability and micronize small-molecule and biotechnology drugs. In addition to its core technologies, the company provides a range of particle engineering solutions, including compatibility testing, proof of concept studies, and various analytical services related to particle characterization and stability testing. CritiTech's expertise in fine-particle compound production and its commitment to delivering high-quality results position it as a key player in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

Transportant

Seed Round in 2018
Transportant, Inc. is a company that develops software tools to enhance school bus services, focusing on improving safety and efficiency in pupil transportation. Founded in 2017 and based in Shawnee, Kansas, Transportant offers a suite of products that includes MyBusHopper, which helps parents and students track bus arrivals, and Smart Bus, providing technical support for drivers and students. Additionally, the Fleet Dashboard enables school administrators to monitor and manage bus operations effectively. Transportant's innovative platform integrates features such as ridership information, live camera views, and fleet tracking, allowing real-time updates for parents regarding their children's transportation. The company aims to transform the traditional school bus experience, making it safer and easier for millions of students and their families.

Spinal Simplicity

Series D in 2017
Spinal Simplicity, LLC is a medical device company based in Overland Park, Kansas, that specializes in designing and developing percutaneously inserted interspinous inter-laminar fusion devices for spinal disorders. Founded in 2008, the company primarily markets its flagship product, the Minuteman, which addresses conditions such as spondylolisthesis, lumbar stenosis, and degenerative disc diseases. Spinal Simplicity's devices are intended to provide safe and minimally invasive therapeutic options for complex spinal and orthopedic issues, thereby enhancing surgical outcomes for patients. The company distributes its products through a network of distributors across the European Union.
Spot something off? Help us improve by flagging any incorrect or outdated information. Just email us at support@teaserclub.com. Your feedback is most welcome.