About High Country Ventures
High Country Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2005. It is primarily based out of Boulder, United States. As of Oct 2022, High Country Ventures has invested in 23 companies. It primarily invests in Series B round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Life Sciences and Enterprise Infrastructure. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Switch Therapeutics Overall, High Country Ventures portfolio has seen 1 IPO and 8 acquisitions including key companies like TriSalus Life Sciences, LogRhythm and Sovrn. A lot of funds co-invest with High Country Ventures, with names like Partisan Management Group sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. High Country Ventures has team of 2 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
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Portfolio Sectors
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Series A, Series B & 1 more
Portfolio IPOs
Portfolio Soonicorns
High Country Ventures' List of Top Investments
High Country Ventures has a portfolio of 23 companies. Their most notable investments are in Sinopsys Surgical and Covalent Data.Their portfolio spans across and United States. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Life Sciences, Enterprise Infrastructure and 7 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Series B and 1 more. Here is the list of top investments by High Country Ventures:TriSalus Life Sciences is involved in developing drug delivery devices to treat cancers. They have developed a technology platform, Pressure-Enabled Drug Delivery (PEDD), which is designed to improve the distribution and penetration of therapy in solid tumors.
Key facts about TriSalus Life Sciences
- Founded Year: 2009
- Location: Westminster (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $10M - $50M as on Dec 31, 2025
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $83.4M
- Employee Count: 133 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Nantahala Capital Management, Tullis Health Investors and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Apr 30, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Public
2. LogRhythm
Cloud based platform offering SIEM and enterprise network monitoring solutions. It provides solutions such as enterprise class log management, logs analysis, and event management solution that empowers organizations to comply with regulations, secure the networks, and optimize IT operations. It allows automation of the collection, organization, analysis, archival, and recovery of log data.
Key facts about LogRhythm
- Founded Year: 2003
- Location: Boulder (United States)
- Annual Revenue: £10M - £50M as on Dec 31, 2024
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $131M
- Employee Count: 501 - 1,000 as on Mar 01, 2026
- Investors: Adams Street Partners, Section Partners and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series F, Aug 30, 2016, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
3. Team Liquid
Online eSports organization platform. The company has developed an online platform that enables eSports gaming community to play esports games, makes collective teams, communicate, and more. The platform also provides news and has stores and quests for fans.
Key facts about Team Liquid
- Founded Year: 2000
- Location: Santa Monica (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $80M
- Employee Count: 405 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: Tullis Health Investors, Partisan Management Group and 11 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, May 05, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Sovrn
Platform offering SSP solution. It offers various tools, resources, and services that enable publishers to run ad auctions to monetize sites. It also owns and operates a global Ad Exchange which provides advertisers with a differentiated inventory. The platform provides an ad management solution that offers a report on ad performance.
Key facts about Sovrn
- Founded Year: 2006
- Location: Boulder (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $99.9M
- Employee Count: 118 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: De Anda Capital, Archer Venture Capital and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series E, Jul 26, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
5. Kapost
Platform offering content optimization software. The platform offers tools for content marketing that include a workflow system for creating branded content such as blogs, ebooks, videos, etc, a publishing system that can push this content to a wide range of platforms, and an analytics system for tracking the content success. It integrates with marketing automation software like Marketo and Eloqua.
Key facts about Kapost
- Founded Year: 2010
- Location: Boulder (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $19.9M
- Employee Count: 51 - 200 as on Mar 01, 2026
- Investors: Floodgate, Lead Edge Capital and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, May 12, 2015, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
High Country Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
High Country Ventures has invested in 23 companies over the last 21 years, with an average of 0 new investment annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Switch Therapeutics and most recent follow-on round was in Collective IP.High Country Ventures' Investments by Stage
High Country Ventures has made 10 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $3.74M, 5 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $6.56M and 4 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $5.78M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series A | 10 |
Series B | 5 |
Seed | 4 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
High Country Ventures' Investments by Sector
High Country Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Life Sciences, Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Food and Agriculture and Gaming. Notably, it has invested in 18 Tech companies, 17 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 11 Software companies and at least 5 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Life Sciences | 8 |
Enterprise Applications | 7 |
High Tech | 2 |
Food and Agriculture | 1 |
Gaming | 1 |
Others | 2 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
High Country Ventures' Investments by Geography
High Country Ventures has made most investments in United States (19).High Country Ventures' recent investments
High Country Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by High Country Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Oct 04, 2022 | United States | Seed | 5645 | ||
Jun 01, 2017 | United States | Series A | 2619 | ||
Apr 14, 2016 | United States | Series A | 3011 | - | |
Apr 07, 2016 | United States | Series A | 8377 | - | |
Nov 05, 2015 | United States | Series C | 3692 |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in High Country Ventures' Portfolio
1 of High Country Ventures' portfolio company became public - TriSalus Life Sciences. It got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Mar 2021.Here are High Country Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 19, 2021 | Jul 06, 2011 | Series A | 5216 |
Acquired companies in High Country Ventures' Portfolio
8 companies from High Country Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Envysion in Nov 2021 by Motorola Solutions for $*****.Here are High Country Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 02, 2021 | Feb 20, 2007 | Series B | 1567 | |
May 28, 2019 | Sep 20, 2010 | Series A | 7468 | |
May 31, 2018 | - | - | 3869 | |
Jul 10, 2017 | Nov 20, 2013 | Series A | 1503 | |
Jul 15, 2016 | - | - | 2118 |
Team profile of High Country Ventures
High Country Ventures has a team of 2 members including 1 Partner and 1 Principal located in United States. High Country Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of High Country Ventures
Over the past 21 years, 81 investors have co-invested in High Country Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before High Country Ventures: Techstars, BEAR Business Valuation and 4 others have invested in rounds before High Country Ventures. There are 2 companies where Techstars has invested before High Country Ventures and 1 company where BEAR Business Valuation has invested before High Country Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of High Country Ventures: 21 investors entered a company along with High Country Ventures. These include investors like Partisan Management Group (3 companies).
- Invested after High Country Ventures: A total of 54 investors have invested in High Country Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Foundry (2 companies), MCG Capital (1 company) and Tullis Health Investors (1 company).
Recent News related to High Country Ventures
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1 Funding to Expand Innovation Intelligence Platform — Covalent DataCovalent Data•Apr 14, 2016•Covalent Data, High Country Ventures, Collective IP
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Tech licensing platform Covalent raises $1.2 mln Series A-1 - PE HubPE Hub•Apr 14, 2016•Covalent Data, High Country Ventures, Collective IP, Techstars
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Surefire Medical Closes $15M Series C Financing |FinSMEsFinSMEs•Dec 02, 2015•TriSalus Life Sciences, Tullis Health Investors, KMG Capital Partners, Partisan Management Group and 1 other
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Kapost Announces $10.25 Million in New Funding | Business WireBusiness Wire•May 12, 2015•Kapost, Access Venture Partners, Cue Ball, Salesforce and 3 others
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Nutrinsic Corporation Raises $12.7 Million to Fuel Growth | ArtimanArtiman•Aug 13, 2014•Nutrinsic, Artiman, High Country Ventures, IDG Capital
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Nutrinsic Raises $12.7M to Turn Waste Into ProteinDow Jones•Aug 13, 2014•Nutrinsic, Artiman, High Country Ventures, IDG Capital
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EndoShape raises $6.8M for vascular plugs and coils - MassDeviceMassDevice•Jun 20, 2014•EndoShape, High Country Ventures, Volcano Capital Management
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Collective IP Closes Series A Funding to Advance Revolutionary Innovation Intelligence Platform Featuring the Only Organization of Technologies and Researchers PRWeb•Nov 20, 2013•Covalent Data, High Country Ventures
