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Ludlow Ventures
Detroit, United States
Invests based on authentic friendships, focusing on founder relationships with a no‑ego, relationship‑first approach.
Portfolio
45+
Employees
10+
Founded
2009
AUM
≈ $60.0M
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Ludlow Ventures Detroit IV
Ludlow Ventures Detroit II
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Ludlow Ventures
Invests based on authentic friendships, focusing on founder relationships with a no‑ego, relationship‑first approach.
Portfolio
45+
Employees
10+
Founded
2009
AUM
≈ $60.0M
Funds
Ludlow Ventures Detroit IV
Ludlow Ventures Detroit II
Showing 24 of 29 matched portfolio companies
100 Thieves is an e-sports organization that combines competitive gaming with a lifestyle brand, offering apparel and merchandise tailored for gamers. The company addresses the lack of community and identity in the gaming space by providing high-quality products that resonate with the culture and values of its audience.
Funding: $60.0M
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Funding: $60.0M
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Airspace Link provides a UAS Drone Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) platform that enables cities to manage drone operations safely and efficiently. Their FlySafe Program ensures compliance with federal regulations while facilitating the integration of drones for public safety, infrastructure inspection, and economic development.
Funding: $41.0M
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Funding: $41.0M
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Backbone develops a mobile gaming controller that connects to smartphones, enabling users to play console and PC games via cloud gaming and remote play without latency issues. This technology allows gamers to enjoy a seamless gaming experience from anywhere, effectively transforming their mobile devices into fully functional gaming consoles.
Funding: $40.0M
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Funding: $40.0M
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Provides a token orchestration platform that securely routes payment transactions through multiple payment service providers (PSPs) and partners while maintaining PCI compliance. This enables businesses to customize payment flows, reduce transaction failures, and gain full control over sensitive data without being constrained by processor limitations.
Funding: $33.3M
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Funding: $33.3M
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The startup operates a plant shopping platform that delivers fully grown potted plants directly to customers' doorsteps, complete with care instructions and growth tips. This service addresses the challenge of sourcing healthy, ready-to-go plants, enhancing customer engagement with their greenery.
Funding: $24.2M
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Funding: $24.2M
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Boulevard is a business management platform that provides Precision Scheduling™ for appointment-based self-care businesses, allowing clients to book services easily while optimizing staff calendars. The all-in-one POS system enhances the checkout experience and includes built-in marketing and loyalty programs to improve customer retention and engagement.
Funding: $110.4M
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Funding: $110.4M
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Catalyst is a customer success platform that automates customer journey management and provides actionable insights through data analytics, enabling teams to enhance engagement and retention. By eliminating manual processes and offering real-time visibility into customer value, Catalyst helps businesses capture expansion opportunities and drive post-sale revenue growth.
Channel3 provides a RESTful API that delivers a unified, AI‑ready product graph of over 50 million items, enabling developers to build shopping assistants that can search, recommend, and purchase products via natural‑language or image queries. The platform also ingests and enriches brand catalogs, generates trackable affiliate links, and distributes product data to AI shopping channels, allowing brands to reach new AI‑driven commerce surfaces with minimal integration.
Clora is an intelligent platform that utilizes advanced algorithms to match life science companies with highly experienced consultants for project-specific needs. This approach addresses the inefficiencies of traditional recruitment by providing faster placements, reduced costs, and access to a global talent pool, ensuring that companies can quickly find the right expertise for their fluctuating project demands.
Codex is an IDE extension that allows engineers to attach comments, notes, and questions directly to specific lines of code, enhancing collaboration without disrupting workflow. This tool enables teams to maintain context and track critical information within their codebase, improving productivity and knowledge sharing.
Funding: $4.5M
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Funding: $4.5M
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Comparably is a platform that aggregates and analyzes employee feedback to provide transparent culture and compensation data for public and private companies. This enables organizations to enhance their employer branding and recruitment strategies by showcasing verified employee reviews and insights on company culture.
Copilot is a personal finance application that utilizes machine learning for smart transaction categorization and budget management across multiple devices, including Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It enables users to track spending, manage investments, and monitor net worth, addressing the complexity of personal finance management with a user-friendly interface.
Funding: $11.1M
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Funding: $11.1M
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The startup offers a patient recovery tracking platform that enhances post-acute care management through operational and clinical improvements. By facilitating follow-up calls, the platform enables healthcare providers to monitor patient health at home and identify growth opportunities in clinical outcomes and patient census.
Funding: $2.3M
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Funding: $2.3M
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CoverTree provides specialized insurance coverage for manufactured, modular, and mobile homes, including renter and landlord policies. The company offers streamlined quoting and claims processing for policyholders, community operators, and brokers through its platform. They deliver comprehensive property, liability, and loss of use coverage tailored to various non-traditional housing types.
Funding: $13.0M
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Funding: $13.0M
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Deepgram provides a voice AI platform that offers APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and natural language understanding, enabling developers to integrate advanced voice capabilities into their applications. The technology addresses the need for accurate and efficient transcription and voice interaction, delivering real-time processing and support for over 30 languages at a significantly lower cost and faster speed than traditional solutions.
Funding: $103.2M
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Funding: $103.2M
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Density develops a self-installable radar sensor, Waffle, that provides real-time, anonymous people counting for various spaces, including meeting rooms and phone booths. This technology enables organizations to efficiently monitor space utilization without the need for complex installation or battery maintenance.
Funding: $125.0M
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Funding: $125.0M
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Generates automated work instructions for complex mechanical assemblies by integrating CAD files with 3D renderings, interactive animations, and detailed text descriptions. This reduces the time required to create assembly documentation from weeks or months to hours or minutes, enabling faster production and knowledge retention without major process changes.
Funding: $3.0M
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Funding: $3.0M
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DreamCraft is a game development platform that provides a user-friendly game editor with an event-driven framework, enabling creators without programming or art skills to build, publish, and monetize games efficiently. By offering a library of art assets and tools for both 2D and 3D visuals, DreamCraft allows individual developers to produce commercially viable games in a fraction of the time typically required.
Funding: $15.4M
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Funding: $15.4M
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The startup offers AI-driven accounting software designed specifically for high-growth enterprises, utilizing machine learning algorithms to automate financial reporting and analysis. This technology reduces manual data entry errors and accelerates financial decision-making, enabling businesses to scale efficiently.
Dwolla provides a unified payments API that enables enterprises to automate ACH, Same‑Day ACH, RTP, and FedNow transfers through a single integration. The platform offers real‑time account verification, tokenization, and end‑to‑end encryption, consolidating multiple bank connections and delivering instant settlement and detailed transaction reporting. It serves mid‑size to large B2B firms in insurance, lending, real estate, healthcare, manufacturing, and similar sectors.
Funding: $21.0M
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Funding: $21.0M
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Flex provides a rent payment platform that allows renters to pay their rent flexibly, improving cash flow and credit scores by enabling split payments and deferred repayment options. For property managers, Flex enhances rent collection efficiency and resident retention by offering a modern financial amenity at no additional cost.
Funding: $424.5M
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Funding: $424.5M
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Garage is a specialized marketplace for buying and selling used firefighting apparatus and equipment, including fire trucks, rescue tools, and protective gear. The platform addresses the challenge of sourcing reliable, pre-owned fire equipment by providing a streamlined listing process and dedicated support, ensuring quick transactions and secure payouts for fire departments nationwide.
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Gumloop is a no-code platform that enables users to create and deploy AI-driven business automations by connecting various workflow nodes without requiring programming skills. It addresses the inefficiencies in manual processes by allowing businesses to automate tasks such as data scraping and document processing, significantly enhancing productivity and operational efficiency.
Funding: $20.1M
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Funding: $20.1M
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Hatch is a contact center communication platform that utilizes AI-driven chatbots to manage two-way SMS interactions, enabling businesses to automate lead outreach, appointment booking, and customer follow-ups. This technology increases lead response rates by 400% and reduces overhead costs by up to $64,000 annually, allowing companies to scale efficiently without increasing headcount.
Funding: $13.7M
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Funding: $13.7M
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