Partnering with visionary founders to build iconic companies in the central U.S.
Lewis & Clark Ventures is an early stage venture firm managed by former founders and operators. We invest in late seed through Series B companies between the coasts.
Lewis & Clark Ventures is an early stage venture firm managed by former founders and operators. We invest in late seed through Series B companies between the coasts.
Amper enables manufacturers to always meet production targets and level-up operations using real-time visibility. With our powerful machine monitoring and analytics tools, teams can easily identify the root causes of issues and systematically unlock hidden capacity and production losses. Born on the shop floor, Amper is simple to use and takes only minutes to deploy on any kind of machine. We empower entire manufacturing teams - from operators to plant managers - with actionable data and intuitive software. Amper's vision is to create a FactoryOS to unleash the potential of every manufacturer and create world-class operations. Amper is headquartered in Chicago IL and was founded in 2016 by Akshat Thirani and Philip House.
Beam Dental is a digital-first provider of dental benefits for businesses. The company's product experience focuses on ease-of-use and tailored pricing that is fundamentally built on preventive care. Beam incorporates rewards for dental hygiene into policy pricing.
Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.