Blackhorn Ventures

Blackhorn Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2016 and based in Boulder, Colorado, with additional operations in Denver. The firm focuses on investing in innovative companies that utilize advanced engineering to enhance resource productivity. Blackhorn Ventures primarily targets sectors such as energy, information technology, materials and resources, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and industrial applications. The firm aims to make impact investments in the United States, Canada, and Europe, aligning its strategies with sustainability standards. Its investment philosophy emphasizes the potential for technological advancements to drive productivity and efficiency across various industries.

Melissa Cheong

Managing Partner

Ryan Hurst

Co-Founder and Development Partner

Mark Loch

Operating Partner

Philip O'Connor

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Bill Ritter

Operating Partner

Amanda Rohrer

Senior Associate

Omar Smith

Senior Associate

Past deals in Infrastructure

Golioth

Seed Round in 2023
Developer of a cloud platform designed to bring IoT protocols into the cloud-native ecosystem. The company's platform offers broad hardware vendor support, connectivity options, secure e2e communication by default, and fleet management, enabling hardware companies to experience quick, easy, secure cloud integration at compile time.

ecoworks

Convertible Note in 2022
ecoworks GmbH is a construction and geothermal company based in Berlin, Germany, specializing in the modernization of multi-family houses up to four stories. The company focuses on the renewal of building facades, roofs, windows, and basement ceiling insulation. Additionally, ecoworks provides heat and power solutions through solar systems installed on rooftops. Utilizing industrial prefabrication, digital processes, and efficient energy systems, ecoworks aims to complete these modernization projects within a few weeks, enhancing the sustainability and energy efficiency of residential buildings.

Briq

Series B in 2021
Briq offers a comprehensive suite of modern technology for construction companies that includes AI based forecasting, search and automation to help modernize financial management of construction companies of all sizes. Briq helps general and specialty contractors use their data to drive better outcomes for all phases of construction. We use great technology such as automation, machine learning, and predictive technology to help enhance fee, stop fee erosion, and freeze overhead costs.

Safehub

Series A in 2021
Safehub Inc. specializes in technology and structural health monitoring services aimed at enhancing property-related risk modeling and planning. The company offers the Safehub Global Platform, which utilizes physics-based technology, sensors, and artificial intelligence to provide real-time, building-specific data on structural health. This platform enables corporations to manage catastrophe risk effectively, refine insurance and risk reduction strategies, and expedite emergency response and recovery efforts shortly after a disaster occurs. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Safehub is dedicated to delivering critical risk information that supports risk managers in their decision-making processes.

VEERUM

Series A in 2021
VEERUM Inc. is an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) company based in Calgary, Canada, specializing in digital asset management through its innovative Asset Visualization Platform. Founded in 2014, VEERUM leverages artificial intelligence and digital twin technology to create a digital replica of physical assets, enabling stakeholders to visualize and optimize projects throughout their entire lifecycle—from design and fabrication to construction. The platform provides a secure, cloud-based solution that offers data transparency and real-time insights within a 3D model, facilitating enhanced collaboration and decision-making. By allowing users to access aggregated asset data and maintain a comprehensive audit history, VEERUM aims to improve productivity and ensure business continuity in capital-intensive industries, thereby supporting clients in the transition to digital asset ownership.

Sustainment

Seed Round in 2020
Sustainment is an online software platform that efficiently connects manufacturing vendors and heavy industry to enable American manufacturing. Their platform incorporates data infrastructure technology, algorithm-based matching and optimization, encrypted transfer protocols, semi-autonomous sourcing techniques, and excellent UX design to provide an intuitive customer experience for sourcing teams and manufacturing vendors.

Safehub

Seed Round in 2020
Safehub Inc. specializes in technology and structural health monitoring services aimed at enhancing property-related risk modeling and planning. The company offers the Safehub Global Platform, which utilizes physics-based technology, sensors, and artificial intelligence to provide real-time, building-specific data on structural health. This platform enables corporations to manage catastrophe risk effectively, refine insurance and risk reduction strategies, and expedite emergency response and recovery efforts shortly after a disaster occurs. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Safehub is dedicated to delivering critical risk information that supports risk managers in their decision-making processes.

GridRaster

Venture Round in 2020
GridRaster provides the underlying compute and network stack to power high-end VR/AR experiences on mobile platforms by leveraging the edge cloud. The solution provides high-performance graphics at ultra low latency, while improving the overall performance by 10x. Our vision is to drive the mass adoption of VR/AR by dramatically improving the reach of exciting content and bringing breathtaking immersive experiences to users.

Briq

Series A in 2020
Briq offers a comprehensive suite of modern technology for construction companies that includes AI based forecasting, search and automation to help modernize financial management of construction companies of all sizes. Briq helps general and specialty contractors use their data to drive better outcomes for all phases of construction. We use great technology such as automation, machine learning, and predictive technology to help enhance fee, stop fee erosion, and freeze overhead costs.

Briq

Seed Round in 2019
Briq offers a comprehensive suite of modern technology for construction companies that includes AI based forecasting, search and automation to help modernize financial management of construction companies of all sizes. Briq helps general and specialty contractors use their data to drive better outcomes for all phases of construction. We use great technology such as automation, machine learning, and predictive technology to help enhance fee, stop fee erosion, and freeze overhead costs.

GridRaster

Seed Round in 2019
GridRaster provides the underlying compute and network stack to power high-end VR/AR experiences on mobile platforms by leveraging the edge cloud. The solution provides high-performance graphics at ultra low latency, while improving the overall performance by 10x. Our vision is to drive the mass adoption of VR/AR by dramatically improving the reach of exciting content and bringing breathtaking immersive experiences to users.

Safehub

Convertible Note in 2019
Safehub Inc. specializes in technology and structural health monitoring services aimed at enhancing property-related risk modeling and planning. The company offers the Safehub Global Platform, which utilizes physics-based technology, sensors, and artificial intelligence to provide real-time, building-specific data on structural health. This platform enables corporations to manage catastrophe risk effectively, refine insurance and risk reduction strategies, and expedite emergency response and recovery efforts shortly after a disaster occurs. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Safehub is dedicated to delivering critical risk information that supports risk managers in their decision-making processes.

GridCure

Convertible Note in 2019
GRIDCURE INC. provides advanced metering infrastructure solutions. Its solutions enable users to monitor bulk and individual power usage at finer granularity, allowing for analysis on large (grid health, energy balancing, load distribution, and peak load detection) and small (individual health detection and outage detection) scale of power data. The company specializes in grid health analysis, consumption signal processing, fraud detection, and automated communication and alert system. Its solutions also used for automated billing purposes. The company is based in Toronto, Canada.

VEERUM

Seed Round in 2018
VEERUM Inc. is an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) company based in Calgary, Canada, specializing in digital asset management through its innovative Asset Visualization Platform. Founded in 2014, VEERUM leverages artificial intelligence and digital twin technology to create a digital replica of physical assets, enabling stakeholders to visualize and optimize projects throughout their entire lifecycle—from design and fabrication to construction. The platform provides a secure, cloud-based solution that offers data transparency and real-time insights within a 3D model, facilitating enhanced collaboration and decision-making. By allowing users to access aggregated asset data and maintain a comprehensive audit history, VEERUM aims to improve productivity and ensure business continuity in capital-intensive industries, thereby supporting clients in the transition to digital asset ownership.
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