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Cowles Company

999 West Riverside Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99201, United States

Overview

Cowles Company is a fourth generation family-owned enterprise that operates a portfolio of legacy companies and seeks to invest in high potential growth businesses for the long-term benefit of shareholders, customers, employees and the communities in which it operates.

Total investments
10
Lead investments
3
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
4

Sector focus

  • Finance
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Investment portfolio

  • Gestalt Diagnostics

    Led · Series A · Apr 2025

    Gestalt's core product, PathFlow, is a digital pathology platform that integrates with laboratory information systems to enable remote case viewing, collaboration, and AI-powered image analysis. Customers include healthcare providers, academic medical centers, and research organizations that use the platform for faster, more accurate diagnoses and expert consultation. PathFlow supports biomarker scoring, image and data analysis for disease-progression studies, and interoperable workflows that reduce missed diagnoses and streamline pathologists' work. The company plans to use new funding to expand its customer base, enhance AI capabilities, and pursue FDA clearance. Management says the funding will also facilitate broader market adoption and increased profitability as the company scales. Founded in 2017 and based in Spokane, Gestalt positions its technology as a scalable, digital-first solution to address rising cancer rates and a declining number of practicing pathologists.

  • Quintar

    Led · Series A · Apr 2024

    Quintar provides technology and platforms for content owners to build multilayered spatial worlds, beginning with sports entertainment. Its core product, Q.reality, is a device-agnostic platform designed to deliver relevant, data-driven interactive spatial XR experiences to fans wherever they are. The platform combines patented Spatial VPS and True Spatial Video technology to create accurate, dynamic AR content. Quintar gives content creators and rights holders the ability to deliver personalized, interactive experiences on mobile phones, TVs, and AR wearables at venues or in users' homes. In February, Quintar enabled PGA TOUR Vision for the Apple Vision Pro, described as spatial computing’s first professional golf application. The company plans to use the newly raised funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach under CEO Dr. Sankar (Jay) Jayaram.

  • Treasury4

    Participated · Series A · Sep 2023

    Treasury4 provides modular, API-enabled solutions that give treasury and finance practitioners real-time, data-rich visibility into corporate finance and liquidity. Its platform is founded on legal entity data and aggregates fragmented information across internal systems to produce consolidated analytics and visualizations. Flagship products include Entity4 for legal entity management and Cash4 for global cash management, with a growing library of bank data integrations. The company positions its technology to help treasurers and CFOs move from transactional record-keeping to strategic liquidity and risk management. Treasury4 will use the $20 million Series A to enhance Entity4, expand Cash4 integrations, accelerate its product roadmap, and build strategic ecosystem partnerships. The company is led by CEO Steve Helmbrecht, CPO and Treasurer Ed Barrie, and Chief Analytics Officer Nathan Brown, and is headquartered in Spokane, Washington.

  • Vega Cloud

    Participated · Equity · Oct 2022

    Vega Cloud offers a SaaS multi-cloud management and optimization solution that uses data context and automation to help businesses make decisions and accelerate time to value. The platform provides unified visibility across major cloud providers, simplifies core optimization routines, and concentrates on lowering the cost of cloud consumption. Kris Bliesner serves as Chief Executive Officer. The company intends to use the new funding to scale product development and meet growing demand in the FinOps category. The raise strengthens its position in cloud cost optimization and supports broader commercial growth efforts. Vega Cloud builds a cloud management platform to help businesses manage public cloud infrastructure. The company is developing the Vega Cloud Management Platform and plans to expand sales and marketing using the new funding. Vega Cloud positions itself against complex, highly technical cloud infrastructure, addressing a market the company describes as a $50 billion annual marketplace. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Kris Bliesner, who co-founded Vega Cloud in April and previously co-founded 2nd Watch. Financially, Vega Cloud raised a $2.3 million seed round and also secured $250,000 in debt financing. The equity and debt will be used to grow go-to-market efforts and continue product development.

  • Vega

    Participated · Equity · Sep 2022

    Vega Cloud is a Software-as-a-Service platform focused on enterprise cloud optimization, offering a unified view across major providers and simplification of core optimization routines. The company uses a proprietary unit economics and outcomes-oriented approach, combined with data context and automation, to help businesses make trade-offs between cost, quality, and speed. Vega provides near real-time data to influence spending decisions and accelerate time to value, with clients reportedly realizing compounding savings within months. Demand for Vega's multi-cloud management and optimization solution climbed sharply this year, accelerated by the global pandemic, and the company has experienced word-of-mouth growth. Vega plans to scale product development and advance cloud optimization technology and interoperability to help clients maximize their public cloud investments. The platform emphasizes putting fully optimized infrastructure into the hands of business teams, not just architects or DevOps engineers.

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