Access Venture Partners

🏛 🔐 Next week, on May 29, Access Venture Partners, DataTribe, and Virtru will be hosting a cybersecurity startups & investors networking breakfast in Washington, DC. Whether you’re curious about “building something new”, or are already off to the races with funding and product, join us and local DC cybersecurity investors for some coffee, breakfast, and new relationships. Space limited, RSVP here: https://lu.ma/w8dvu475 Access Venture Partners is an early stage VC firm based in Denver and investing across the United States. We've invested in companies such as Red Canary, ThreatX, RADICL, Tidal Cyber, and Dapple Security. #cybersecurity #startups #venturecapital #DC

Last year, Aaron Stachel, Charlie Kelly, Matthew Hyde, and I hosted a few get togethers for Colorado military veterans working in tech and innovation. We've had an amazing group of founders, investors, operators, and transitioning servicemembers come by to swap stories and build new relationships. I'm excited to partner with them again to host the next happy hour on May 2 from 4:30-6:30PM MT. Space is limited so be sure to sign up soon! https://lu.ma/n8cv69h9

Announcement day!! 🗣 🗣 Excited to finally come out of stealth and announce Iris Finance to the world, along with our $2MM funding round led by Revolution with Rosecliff, Access Venture Partners, DA Ventures VC and several strategic angels. Iris is the data orchestration platform that seamlessly integrates with existing systems to provide real time profitability insights and financial forecasts - the future of strategic finance for consumer brands, a next generation FP&A tool. Over the last 12-24 months, our industry has had a horrible reckoning. Investment and M&A for CPG has fallen off a cliff, online distribution continues to get more expensive, and physical retail has never been more expensive. The 'growth at all costs' era is officially over, and the 'profit or die' era is well underway. This massive shift in the 'northstar KPI' from growth to profitability has turned an entire industry on its head, as outside capital flowing into the industry has reached a near standstill. CPG founders and operators have been navigating one of the most difficult eras in one of the most difficult industries without proper tooling. Modern CPG brands are unique in 2 senses; 1) every dollar that moves in, on, and around these businesses occurs digitally and in its own silo; 2) they exist as 'high velocity commerce' businesses that transact dozens of times per hour - making real time visibility crucial to driving profits as day to day profitability can vary significantly. Perhaps miraculously, the macro shift toward profitability coincides with the most profound technological advancement likely of all time - generative AI. In a true 'iphone moment', advancements in LLMs and ELT are what enable Iris to not only ingest, process, and contextualize massive amounts of siloed financial data - but also to identify & articulate areas of opportunity via a role-based agent. Think ChatGPT for the CFO. Our mission is to give CPG brands better insights and better forecasts to ultimately run better businesses With iris you can track your CPG brand's contribution, gross, and net margins in real time, identify your most profitable cohorts, model weekly cash flows, plan your strategic finances, and benchmark apples to apples vs your category peers; for approximately 2% of the cost of hiring a finance leader. We are well out of beta and working with 30 existing brands who have decided to invest in their financial infrastructure. If you are a consumer brand looking to upgrade your financial source of truth, shoot me a DM or check us out at irisfinance.co. I am extremely proud to be working on iris with my partners and friends in Alexander Heckmann, Yiheng(Intel) Chen, Marko Iwanik, Denton Zhao, Paul Sung Read more about iris here: https://lnkd.in/gv2qm5xv

Proud to have our our company, Dapple Security, and our CEO Gadalia Montoya Weinberg O'Bryan covered in the Denver Business Journal today! What a wonderful ecosystem to be a part of. #denvercolorado #startup #fundraising #cybersecurity #smb https://lnkd.in/guKk79d9

Thrilled to officially come out of stealth, share news of our recent fundraising, and begin securing SMBs critical to our defense supply chain and critical infrastructure. Thanks Matt Petersen and David Graff for being my co-founders in this venture. Thanks Team RADICL for all the incredible work you've done getting us to this point! Thanks Paladin Capital Group, Access Venture Partners and all our other investors for believing in us and having our back! #TeamRADICL Ben Aldrich Nicholas Carnival David Graff Frank Hassanabad Adam Forward Jackie F. James Lamar Jennifer Loveland Dustin S. Mooney David Pack Chris Petersen Matt Petersen Scott Petersen Josh Shepard