Cortado Ventures

United States - Oklahoma City, OK

• 26/04/2023
• Series A
• $12,600,000

Cortado Ventures is a venture capital firm that’s working to define the Midcontinent’s success story for generations to come. We go beyond raising capital to support businesses – our team’s deep experience as leaders and innovators helps our portfolio companies accelerate their growth through strategic planning, training, and guidance.

Founded by a team of seasoned CEOs and industry veterans in 2020, Cortado Ventures focuses its efforts on entrepreneurs and startups who are founder-led by people with innovative, disruptive, and business-to-business ideas in the insurtech, biotech, aerospace, fintech, energy tech, or ag tech sectors that are a natural fit for the mid-continent region.

We exist to build a legacy of great technology companies that will add to Oklahoma’s economic renaissance. Our edge is sourcing proprietary opportunities through our robust network and investing in overlooked and underfunded tech sectors where we have operating experience. We believe in investing in smart and ambitious entrepreneurs who leverage technology to scale quickly. We target specific industries based on the Midcontinent's historical and emerging strengths, including energy tech, logistics, life sciences and future of work.

Cortado Ventures is ideally positioned to help entrepreneurs create shared wins. Our greatest strength is our seasoned CEO leadership with each member of the General Partner having successfully led innovative companies through transformation.

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David WoodsFounder

United States - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Contact: David@MagellanExecs.com

Current:
- CEO - Magellan Executive Partners (www.MagellanExecutivePartners.com)
- Co-Founder and Partner - Cortado Ventures (www.Cortado.Ventures)
- Author of: "The Art of Networking... Beyond the Handshake"
- Strategic Facilitation Expert
- Executive Coach
- Business Conference Speaker

BOARDS:
- Board of Directors - Pelco Products, Inc.
- Board of Directors and Past Chairman - Leadership Oklahoma
- Board of Directors - Water 4 (www.water4.org)
- Board of Directors and Strategic Planning Chairman - Allied Arts
- President's Board of Advisors - University of Central Oklahoma

Past Roles and Positions
- CEO of GiANT Partners and co-owner of Giant Worldwide and Giant Capital
- CEO of Ditch Wtich (World's largest mfg. of underground construction equipment)
- CEO of EXIM Group (International strategy company)
- Chairman of AEM - The Association of Equipment Manufacturers.
- Chairman of Leadership Oklahoma
- Chairman of the Hospital Foundation Board.
- Chair of City Planning Commission
- Board of Directors of Distribution Contractors Assoc.


Notable Honors:
- Named as one of Top 100 grads of OSU over the past 100 years
- Named as one of Oklahoma's "CEO of the Year"
- Recipient of the National Outstanding Eagle Scout Award (https://nesa.org/for-eagle-scouts/awards-and-recognition/outstanding-eagle-scout-award/)

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-woods-9b31114/