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First Capital

13355 Noel Rd, Dallas, TX, 75240, United States

Overview

First Capital Group is a growth capital investment firm that caters to middle market companies. It offers its services in Texas and the Southwest. First Capital Group assists companies’ management teams in their business plans, and financial and operational objectives. Its services focus on planning, capital formation and budgeting, merger and acquisition evaluation, and the planning and execution of exit strategies. First Capital Group was acquired by Bluestreak Technology and Mimix Broadband. First Capital Group was founded by Jeffrey P. Blanchard and Gary Graham in 1984. It is based in Dallas, Texas.

Total investments
3
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
4

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • UPTIQ

    Participated · Series B · Feb 2026

    Uptiq develops Qore, an AI orchestration platform that bundles document intelligence, financial reasoning skills, multi-agent workflows, and secure integrations into a single, compliance-ready system for regulated financial institutions. Its pre-packaged applications power commercial lending, covenant monitoring, advisor onboarding, compliance documentation, underwriting, and other banking and wealth-management workflows. More than 140 financial institutions—including Focus Financial Partners, Alpha Modus, Orion, Broadridge, Nano Banc, and TransPecos Banks—use Uptiq, and the platform has processed over $1 billion in transactions. Reported customer outcomes include underwriting decisions up to 41 % faster, 29 % lower operational costs, and double the volume of loan applications processed without adding staff. With its new capital, the company will expand Qore into a self-serve platform so internal bank teams and external developers can prototype and deploy financial AI solutions in days. Longer-term, Uptiq intends to foster an ecosystem of SMB and consumer-facing applications built on Qore that come with built-in compliance and risk controls. The company is headquartered in Dallas and led by founder and CEO Snehal Fulzele.

  • Hylé

    Participated · Equity · May 2024

    Hylé is a modular zero-knowledge (ZK) project provider that builds infrastructure to support ZK proofs. The company provides a secure, decentralized and censorship-resistant settlement layer for all ZK proofs. It has developed the Hylé network, which leverages zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) to deliver scalability and privacy. The offering targets settlement and verification layers for ZK-based systems. Hylé recently received outside capital in the form of a strategic investment, indicating early external investor interest. No operating metrics or financial details beyond the disclosed strategic investment amount were reported in the article.

Team

  • Jeffrey Blanchard

    Founder and Managing Member

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  • James A. O’Donnell

    Managing Member

  • Larry W. Daniel

    Vice President of Operations

  • Gary Simanson

    Managing Director

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