Come Up Capital

Come Up relies on deep operator networks built over decades in the Midwest technology community, including relationships with university spinout programs at the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin. The firm's general partners maintain active involvement in the region's startup ecosystem through events like MinneDemo, where they connect with founding teams long before formal fundraising processes begin. Their thesis is that personal introductions within the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes industrial corridors generate higher signal-to-noise opportunities than broadly marketed coastal deal flow.

The firm invests at the pre-seed and seed stages, positioning itself as a lead or co-lead in initial rounds. Come Up targets enterprise software, applied artificial intelligence, and frontier hardware including robotics and automation companies in the Great Lakes region. Their approach emphasizes capital efficiency and early go-to-market design over rapid unprofitable scaling.

Come Up is deeply embedded in the Twin Cities and broader Midwest technology community through the track record of its founders at Sport Ngin, a Minneapolis-based SaaS success story prior to acquisition. The firm co-hosts and participates in MinneDemo, the region's flagship startup showcase, and maintains active ties with local angel networks, corporate venture arms, and university commercialization offices.