Cortado Ventures is an Oklahoma-based seed fund where all three general partners are former founders and CEOs who invest in the same heavy industries they previously built companies in—energy, biotech, manufacturing, and logistics—specifically targeting frontier tech for hard-hat environments across America's Midcontinent. The fund uses a demand-driven model where roughly 80 owner-operators and industry CEOs serve as limited partners and test product-market fit for potential investments before the fund commits capital.