EPIC Ventures is a venture capital firm in Salt Lake City that prefers to invest in the software and the internet infrastructure sectors. Founded 1994 by Kent Madsen, Nick Efstratis, Tim Draper, and Todd Stevens in Salt Lake City, Utah, the firm invests in debt, late stage ventures, private equity, seed, Series B, Series C, and Series A rounds. The notable investment portfolio of EPIC Ventures includes Medsphere Systems, Vndly, Canopy, and Shape Security. As of January 2020, EPIC Ventures has made 132 investments and 24 exits, and is actively looking for new investment opportunities.
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A biotechnology and data science company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, founded in 2013, that combines biology with artificial intelligence for drug discovery. Using human cell models of diseases, Recursion captures microscopic images to build biological datasets and computational techniques identify disease-associated biological changes.
A healthcare technology company offering a platform for organizing healthcare data from multiple systems.
Shape Security is a Mountain View, California-based company.
Homie is a South Jordan, Utah-based company founded in 2014 by Dan Might, Johnny Hanna, Matt Thorne, Mike Peregrina and Mike Trionfo.
HyTrust is a Mountain View, California-based company founded by Renata Budko.
Instructure makes software for learning. Products include Canvas LMS, Bridge and Canvas Network.
Conversa Health is a Portland, Oregon-based company founded by Philip Marshall MD.
A software company offering a blockchain and cloud technology platform for business to business payments.
Area 1 Security is a Redwood City, California-based cybersecurity company developing protection for businesses against phishing attacks.
Insidesales.com is a company designing and develops sales automation platforms.
RiskSense is a Sunnyvale, California-based cybersecurity company developing a cloud-based vulnerability management platform.
UbiQD is a company developing and manufacturing semiconductor nanocrystals or quantum dots for research applications. Hunter McDaniel founded UbiQD in 2014 and is based in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Marketware helps hundreds of health systems target, track & trend provider insights with robust healthcare relationship management & analytics technology.
EveryoneSocial is an employee advocacy platform
GuideCX® is a client onboarding platform for internal and customer teams
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Chris Calder
Employee
David Carter
Investor
Katie Szczepaniak Rice
Employee
Kyle Eklund
Employee
Nick Efstratis
Employee
Ryan Hemingway
Employee
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Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
AppDetex
Area 1 Security
HealthJoy
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
RecVue
RiskSense
Shape Security
Simplus
Vndly
Vndly