Tech Square Ventures

The firm leans heavily on its location within Atlanta’s Technology Square and its Engage corporate-innovation platform, which links enterprise partners with early-stage startups. That proximity to Georgia Tech, combined with Patton’s legacy network from his ATDC leadership and Venture Atlanta board roles, creates a proprietary pipeline of Southeast-based enterprise founders. The investment team, led by Partner Scott Lopano, runs a structured investment process, while Engage provides a live environment for testing product–corporate fit before a funding decision.

Tech Square Ventures invests primarily at the seed stage, cutting initial checks between $500,000 and $3 million. The firm states it selectively considers pre-seed and Series A opportunities. Follow-on capital is reserved for portfolio companies demonstrating meaningful commercial traction.

Engage is an affiliated startup accelerator and corporate-innovation network run alongside the venture fund. It connects large enterprises — predominantly Southeast-headquartered — with startups in the TSV orbit for pilot projects, customer discovery, and commercial partnerships. The program effectively serves as a sourcing engine and market-access mechanism, giving portfolio companies a structured path to enterprise revenue while providing corporate partners visibility on emerging technologies.

The firm describes itself as enterprise-focused and sector-agnostic within B2B and marketplace technology, with thematic emphasis on applied AI, logistics and supply chain, vertical solutions, infrastructure and productivity, and sustainability and energy. Portfolio evidence confirms activity in warehouse robotics (Slip Robotics), geospatial intelligence (Danti), embedded payments (Rainforest), and sales-demo software (Saleo), among others.

Roughly 80% of the firm’s investments are concentrated in what it calls the Super South — the Southeast US innovation corridor anchored by Atlanta. The firm selectively backs companies in other US regions when the founder, technology, or corporate-partner relationship justifies the exception.

Founder and Managing General Partner Blake Patton leads the firm, with Partner Scott Lopano responsible for managing the investment team and co-investment network. Partner Bill Nussey, a former Greylock investor and serial enterprise CEO, supports early-stage investments and oversees the Engage program. The investment committee draws on this senior partnership group.

All publicly available information describes Tech Square Ventures as a direct-investment venture capital firm writing equity checks into operating companies. No fund-of-funds or LP commitments to external managers are disclosed.