Queen City Angels: Funding, Team & Investors

Queen City Angels, now operating as QCA Ventures, functions as an angel investment group providing capital and expertise to early-stage companies. The organization invests across diverse sectors such as advanced materials, life sciences, and information technology. Leveraging its network of accredited investors, QCA Ventures partners with entrepreneurs to develop and scale successful businesses.

Founded in 2000 by Tony Shipley, Scott Jacobs, and John Habbert, the firm was established with the insight to create a structured vehicle for experienced individuals to support emerging companies. This approach aimed to bolster the Midwest's entrepreneurial ecosystem by offering both financial backing and guidance.

QCA Ventures serves early-stage founders seeking capital and mentorship to scale their operations. The organization's long-term vision centers on broadening access to angel investing opportunities and enhancing the impact of its investment activities. It strives to empower innovative ventures, contributing to the growth of the national entrepreneurial landscape.

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Nov 25, 2024	Trinity Guardion	$3.5M Series B	Queen City Angels	—
May 23, 2023	SureImpact	$2.0M Seed	Kristy Campbell	—
Sep 19, 2022	Alphyn Biologics	$3.3M Series A	Queen City Angels	Angel Physicians Fund, Serial Stage Venture Partners
Jun 1, 2022	Cloverleaf.me	$9.0M Series A	Origin Ventures	BBG Ventures, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Rethink Education, Village Capital, 1809 Capital, Airwing Ventures, JobsOhio, Mucker Capital, ScOp Venture Capital
Feb 28, 2022	Standard Bariatrics	$9.0M Series B Extension	Casey Tansey	Emergent Medical Partners, Hatteras Venture Partners, RiverVest Venture Partners
Feb 1, 2022	Aside	$17.0M Series A	Ribbit Capital	1776, 305 Ventures, Accel, ACME Capital, AIX Ventures, Altair Capital Management, AME Cloud Ventures, American Express Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Animoca Brands, Ardent Venture Partners, Arrive, Astanor Ventures, Atlantic Bridge University Fund, Bain Capital Ventures, Balderton Capital, Bennu, Better Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures, BITKRAFT Ventures, Bling Capital, Blossom Capital, Bond, Browder Capital, C2 Investment, Canvas Ventures, Casa Verde Capital, Cherubic Ventures, Coatue, Cometa, Construct Capital, CRV, Curie.bio, Draper Associates, DTX Ventures, Emergence Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Expa, Exponent Founders Capital, Fifth Wall, FJ Labs, Flex Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Founder Collective, Founders Fund, Four Rivers Group, Franklin Templeton Investments, Fyrefly VC, Gain, Gaingels, General Atlantic, General Catalyst, Giant Ventures, Gigascale Capital, Gradient Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Greylock, Hardware Club, Heavybit, Horizon 3 Venture Studio, Human Augmentation Syndicate, Insight Partners, Interplay Ventures, Khosla Ventures, LA Famiglia, LGF, Locus Ventures, LUX Capital, Jared Hecht, Market ONE Capital, Mischief Venture Capital, Moonshots Capital, Glenn Solomon, Oren Yunger, ON Deck, ONE Planet Group, Operator Partners, Operator Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Pear VC, Precursor Ventures, QED Investors, Queensbridge Venture Partners, Quiet Capital, Ravelin Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Richmond Global Ventures, Sarona Ventures, SciFi VC, Sequoia Capital, Sherpa Ventures, Silicon Valley Connect, Silicon Ventures, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Sound Ventures, Storm Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, Summit Partners, SV Angel, TenOneTen Ventures, TET Ventures, ThirdLove, Thirty Five Ventures, TMV, Todd And Rahul's Angel Fund, Tuesday Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, UpHonest Capital, Walden International, Webb Investment Network, Y Combinator, Aaron Levie, Adam Gross, Adrian Aoun, Akshay Kothari, Amit Agarwal, AMY Chang, Armando Mann, Assaf Wand, Augusto Marietti, Baron Davis, BIZ Stone, Christian Oestlien, Chris Wang, Cristina Cordova, Curtis LEE, David Petersen, David Peterson, Diogo Teles, Dylan Field, Eddie Hartman, Elliot Shmukler, Emmett Shear, Eoghan Mccabe, Eric WEI, Eric WU, Evan Brown, George HU, Gerald Parloiu, Gina Bianchini, Girish Mathrubootham, Gokul Rajaram, Greg Tseng, Harris Barton, Hunter Horsley, Immad Akhund, James Park, Jason Robins, Jenna Hannon, Jeremy CAI, Jesse Leimgruber, Joshua Reeves, Karim Atiyeh, Kathleen Hale, Kevin LIN, Kevin Weil, Kunal Shah, Luke Sherwin, Mark Cuban, Mark Pincus, Matias Woloski, Neil Parikh, Nick Hunley, Pamela Valdes, Samvit Ramadurgam, Saturnin Pugnet, Scott Belsky, Scott Kleper, Sebastian GIL, Sebastien Borget, Shervin Pishevar, Sohail Prasad, Steve Chen, Tony XU, Venus Williams, Vivek Patel, John Lilly, Michael Schroepfer, Reid Hoffman, Coinbase Ventures, Queen City Angels, XYZ Venture Capital
Oct 1, 2017	SonarMed	$3.0M Series C	South Coast Angel Network	BioCrossroads, Baylor Angel Network, Central Texas Angel Network, Hyde Park Angels, Spring Mill Venture Partners, VisionTech Partners
Aug 3, 2017	3Bar Biologics	$2.0M Seed	—	Carmen Innovations, Maumee Ventures, Ohio Tech Angel Fund, Dave Bergeron, SVG Ventures
Mar 6, 2017	Airway Therapeutics	$6.3M Other Equity	—	Cincinnati Children, CincyTech USA
Mar 20, 2015	Medacheck LLC	$1.1M Series A	Queen City Angels	—
Sep 10, 2014	Airway Therapeutics	$4.6M Series A	Mike Venerable	Nicole Robinson
May 2, 2013	nChannel	$2.4M Series A	—	Benjamin J. Garber, North Coast Ventures, John Huston, Rev1 Ventures
Mar 6, 2013	SoMoLend	$2.2M Seed	Frank Rotman	Bruce Terry, Carlin Stamm, Cheryl, Cliff Holekamp, Elizabeth Crowell, Robert Baron, Blue Chip Partners, CincyTech USA, Clarion Direct Investment, Eldar Investment, North Coast Ventures, Shaker LaunchHouse
Jul 18, 2012	Neuros Medical	$3.5M Other Equity	Boston Scientific, Stephen R. Haynes	BlueTree Allied Angels, Case Tech Ventures, JumpStart Ventures, Modelvest, North Coast Ventures, Ohio Tech Angel Fund, Physician Investment Group, RiverVest Venture Partners
Dec 2, 2011	Define My Style	$690K Seed	Mike Venerable	Tech Coast Angels
Oct 23, 2009	Neuros Medical	$1.8M Series A	Claiborne ("clay") Rankin	Stephen R. Haynes, Ohio Tech Angel Fund
Jan 23, 2008	ShareThis	$6.0M Other Equity	—	TIM Schigel, DFJ Mercury, Illinois Ventures, RPM Ventures

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Nov 25, 2024	Trinity Guardion	$3.5M Series B	Queen City Angels	—
May 23, 2023	SureImpact	$2.0M Seed	Kristy Campbell	—
Sep 19, 2022	Alphyn Biologics	$3.3M Series A	Queen City Angels	Angel Physicians Fund, Serial Stage Venture Partners
Jun 1, 2022	Cloverleaf.me	$9.0M Series A	Origin Ventures	BBG Ventures, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Rethink Education, Village Capital, 1809 Capital, Airwing Ventures, JobsOhio, Mucker Capital, ScOp Venture Capital
Feb 28, 2022	Standard Bariatrics	$9.0M Series B Extension	Casey Tansey	Emergent Medical Partners, Hatteras Venture Partners, RiverVest Venture Partners
Feb 1, 2022	Aside	$17.0M Series A	Ribbit Capital	1776, 305 Ventures, Accel, ACME Capital, AIX Ventures, Altair Capital Management, AME Cloud Ventures, American Express Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Animoca Brands, Ardent Venture Partners, Arrive, Astanor Ventures, Atlantic Bridge University Fund, Bain Capital Ventures, Balderton Capital, Bennu, Better Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures, BITKRAFT Ventures, Bling Capital, Blossom Capital, Bond, Browder Capital, C2 Investment, Canvas Ventures, Casa Verde Capital, Cherubic Ventures, Coatue, Cometa, Construct Capital, CRV, Curie.bio, Draper Associates, DTX Ventures, Emergence Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Expa, Exponent Founders Capital, Fifth Wall, FJ Labs, Flex Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Founder Collective, Founders Fund, Four Rivers Group, Franklin Templeton Investments, Fyrefly VC, Gain, Gaingels, General Atlantic, General Catalyst, Giant Ventures, Gigascale Capital, Gradient Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Greylock, Hardware Club, Heavybit, Horizon 3 Venture Studio, Human Augmentation Syndicate, Insight Partners, Interplay Ventures, Khosla Ventures, LA Famiglia, LGF, Locus Ventures, LUX Capital, Jared Hecht, Market ONE Capital, Mischief Venture Capital, Moonshots Capital, Glenn Solomon, Oren Yunger, ON Deck, ONE Planet Group, Operator Partners, Operator Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Pear VC, Precursor Ventures, QED Investors, Queensbridge Venture Partners, Quiet Capital, Ravelin Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Richmond Global Ventures, Sarona Ventures, SciFi VC, Sequoia Capital, Sherpa Ventures, Silicon Valley Connect, Silicon Ventures, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Sound Ventures, Storm Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, Summit Partners, SV Angel, TenOneTen Ventures, TET Ventures, ThirdLove, Thirty Five Ventures, TMV, Todd And Rahul's Angel Fund, Tuesday Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, UpHonest Capital, Walden International, Webb Investment Network, Y Combinator, Aaron Levie, Adam Gross, Adrian Aoun, Akshay Kothari, Amit Agarwal, AMY Chang, Armando Mann, Assaf Wand, Augusto Marietti, Baron Davis, BIZ Stone, Christian Oestlien, Chris Wang, Cristina Cordova, Curtis LEE, David Petersen, David Peterson, Diogo Teles, Dylan Field, Eddie Hartman, Elliot Shmukler, Emmett Shear, Eoghan Mccabe, Eric WEI, Eric WU, Evan Brown, George HU, Gerald Parloiu, Gina Bianchini, Girish Mathrubootham, Gokul Rajaram, Greg Tseng, Harris Barton, Hunter Horsley, Immad Akhund, James Park, Jason Robins, Jenna Hannon, Jeremy CAI, Jesse Leimgruber, Joshua Reeves, Karim Atiyeh, Kathleen Hale, Kevin LIN, Kevin Weil, Kunal Shah, Luke Sherwin, Mark Cuban, Mark Pincus, Matias Woloski, Neil Parikh, Nick Hunley, Pamela Valdes, Samvit Ramadurgam, Saturnin Pugnet, Scott Belsky, Scott Kleper, Sebastian GIL, Sebastien Borget, Shervin Pishevar, Sohail Prasad, Steve Chen, Tony XU, Venus Williams, Vivek Patel, John Lilly, Michael Schroepfer, Reid Hoffman, Coinbase Ventures, Queen City Angels, XYZ Venture Capital
Oct 1, 2017	SonarMed	$3.0M Series C	South Coast Angel Network	BioCrossroads, Baylor Angel Network, Central Texas Angel Network, Hyde Park Angels, Spring Mill Venture Partners, VisionTech Partners
Aug 3, 2017	3Bar Biologics	$2.0M Seed	—	Carmen Innovations, Maumee Ventures, Ohio Tech Angel Fund, Dave Bergeron, SVG Ventures
Mar 6, 2017	Airway Therapeutics	$6.3M Other Equity	—	Cincinnati Children, CincyTech USA
Mar 20, 2015	Medacheck LLC	$1.1M Series A	Queen City Angels	—
Sep 10, 2014	Airway Therapeutics	$4.6M Series A	Mike Venerable	Nicole Robinson
May 2, 2013	nChannel	$2.4M Series A	—	Benjamin J. Garber, North Coast Ventures, John Huston, Rev1 Ventures
Mar 6, 2013	SoMoLend	$2.2M Seed	Frank Rotman	Bruce Terry, Carlin Stamm, Cheryl, Cliff Holekamp, Elizabeth Crowell, Robert Baron, Blue Chip Partners, CincyTech USA, Clarion Direct Investment, Eldar Investment, North Coast Ventures, Shaker LaunchHouse
Jul 18, 2012	Neuros Medical	$3.5M Other Equity	Boston Scientific, Stephen R. Haynes	BlueTree Allied Angels, Case Tech Ventures, JumpStart Ventures, Modelvest, North Coast Ventures, Ohio Tech Angel Fund, Physician Investment Group, RiverVest Venture Partners
Dec 2, 2011	Define My Style	$690K Seed	Mike Venerable	Tech Coast Angels
Oct 23, 2009	Neuros Medical	$1.8M Series A	Claiborne ("clay") Rankin	Stephen R. Haynes, Ohio Tech Angel Fund
Jan 23, 2008	ShareThis	$6.0M Other Equity	—	TIM Schigel, DFJ Mercury, Illinois Ventures, RPM Ventures

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