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FirstMile Ventures

630 Southpointe Ct, Ste 200, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 80906, United States

Overview

FirstMile Ventures invests in seed stage technology companies. They aim to invest early in a company's life and help them set the pace for future success. They are located in Colorado but consider investment opportunities across the U.S.

Total investments
14
Lead investments
3
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
2

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Kestrel Labs

    Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

    Kestrel Labs builds an AI-powered compliance platform that integrates directly inside Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows, notably Autodesk Revit. Its product suite includes Kestrel Compliance Analysis (one-click model checks with element-level results and code citations), Kestrel Compliance Chat (an AI building code assistant that cites exact code sections), and the Kestrel Portal (a web dashboard for project and firm leaders). The company draws compliance content from an agreement with the International Code Council (ICC). Kestrel emphasizes an annual firm-wide licensing model with no per-seat fees and charter-customer preferred pricing. Founders Austin Pulford (AIA, NCARB) and Marian Pulford (Co-Founder and CEO) built the product from their domain experience in licensed architectural practice. The company is located in Denver, Colorado.

  • Dreambase

    Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

    Dreambase builds an AI-native analytics platform that connects to Supabase in seconds and automates analytics through specialized AI data agents that query data, build pipelines, surface patterns and deliver recommendations. Its product suite includes Supabase Report Cards for database health assessments, production-ready dashboards with a natural-language AI assistant, AI-generated reports with supporting visualizations, a semantic Topics layer for reusable KPIs, and an Analyst Agent tuned for Postgres best practices. Users access the platform via MCP, CLI or the Dreambase UI. The company plans to deepen core capabilities and broaden integrations with systems that complement Supabase. Dreambase was co-founded by Andy Keil and Kyle Ledbetter and will deploy its newly raised seed capital to expand operations and accelerate development.

  • Cloverleaf AI

    Participated · Seed · Nov 2024

    Cloverleaf AI offers a platform that provides transparency into every government meeting, alerting contractors the moment a project is discussed so they can engage early with decision-makers. The platform covers projects ranging from stadiums and roads to EV infrastructure and school safety, helping contractors understand opportunities, policy, and reputations. The company has launched Vocal Fingerprinting, which monitors and reports government officials’ positions from each public meeting, and an Opportunity Database, a searchable index that captures more than 100,000 monthly government opportunities before they reach the RFP stage. Led by CEO Adam Zucker and based in Denver, Colorado, Cloverleaf AI plans to use the $2.8M seed to expand operations and accelerate development efforts. The Opportunity Database's monthly capture metric indicates broad coverage of pre-RFP government activity.

  • Paccurate

    Participated · Equity · Aug 2023

    Paccurate offers cartonization software and an API that determines the most cost-effective and sustainable way to ship items by accounting for size, weight and packaging requirements. The product is used by brands such as Daily Harvest and Our Place and is positioned as a more accurate alternative to embedded cartonization in larger supply‑chain platforms. The founders, James Malley and Patrick Powers, launched the company in 2018 after identifying a persistent packaging‑optimization gap while consulting. Paccurate initially bootstrapped, took a seed round in 2022 amid pandemic-driven demand, and has since scaled rapidly. Operational throughput climbed from about a million shipments a month last year to roughly a million shipments a day today. The company cites regulatory tailwinds (EU rules and proposed U.S. state bills requiring fuller boxes) and a less saturated market segment as drivers for continued growth. Paccurate is a New York-based cartonization platform that suggests the optimal packing methodology for every shipment using patented technology. Its solution accounts for external factors such as labor, material and complex carrier rates to create cost-optimal packing recommendations. The company delivers dynamic, real-time suggestions via a lightweight API designed for quick integration. Paccurate aims to use its recent funding to drive expansion and further develop its solution. The platform currently optimizes more than 1 million shipments per month and has helped customers save millions of dollars in shipping, cardboard and filler costs. The product targets shippers of all sizes and emphasizes reductions in waste, costs, and item damage. Paccurate provides a containerization engine with a lightweight API designed to reduce costs and the carbon impact of the ecommerce supply chain. Led by CEO James Malley, the company serves retailers and 3PLs and has implementations at Hunter Douglas, Crate & Barrel, Dillard’s, and other retailers. In March the company optimized a record 2.7 million shipments. The platform focuses on fulfillment optimization to lower shipping costs and environmental footprint. Paccurate intends to use new funding to onboard major retailers and 3PLs faster and to expand its suite of fulfillment optimization tools. The company recently raised seed funding to support that growth.

  • ShowLabs

    Led · Seed · Jun 2023

    ShowLabs operates a bleeding-edge visual content studio that pairs robotic photography and video systems with workflow automation, and an AI-powered software platform for managing and deploying assets. The studio produces photography, 3D, mixed reality, interactive photography, and video at high speeds. ShowLabs launched in July 2021 and was founded in April 2021; it is based in Denver, Colorado. The company reported 287% year-over-year growth in 2022 and has signed marquee clients such as The North Face, Outdoor Research, Royal Robbins, Spyder, and others. The $3.2M Series Seed will fund software platform development, studio expansion, and team growth. Management intends to integrate generative AI and mixed-reality into its visual content offerings and build an end-to-end platform to curate, manage, and deploy assets across the commerce lifecycle.

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