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Learn what we invest in, and what we don't

Not all angel groups are created equal. Take a moment to understand how Frontier Angels evaluates start - ups and their founders. We invest for the long term and seek to support our founders through their journey to build something impactful long after the checks are cashed. 

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Our Investment Criteria

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What We Invest In

In order to be the very best at what we do, we need to stay focused. So we can only invest in opportunities that meet all of the following criteria:

Tech-leveraged business models where the product is based on some proprietary technology the company developed or licensed.

Scalable opportunities that have the potential to get very big – companies that plan to be doing $10M or more in annual revenue in just a few years.

Montana-based companies looking for a lead investor. We also invest in companies from outside Montana, but only those introduced to us by our network of 50+ highly respected angel groups across the US who have already committed to investing in those companies.

Companies who have a product that is at least in beta test stage if not further along. If you are a regulated medical device or advanced technology company with an SBIR or NIH grant, or have early stage clinical evidence, that’s fine. If you are selling software or apps, we need to see evidence that customers are buying (or willing to buy).

A FEW OF OUR INVESTMENTS...

BIOsqueeze

BioSqueeze creates non toxic, high performing sealants targeting problematic oil and gas wells that cannot be sealed through coventional methods. BioSqueeze extracts aerobic microbes from soil and grows them in a controlled environment in a very high concentration form. The microbes are then exposed to a combination of minerals in a “reactor” to form a slurry, within hours the mix turns to a solid, inorganic, calcium carbonate (limestone). There are no chemical components. It is completely non-toxic to humans, animals, and plants. The process is called “biomineralization” and was created jointly with the biofilm engineering lab at Montana State University.

Bone Health Technologies

Innovative device to help women build strong pelvic bones, slow the progression of osteopenia into osteoporosis, and avoid a lifetime of expensive drug therapy.

Croft Technologies

Croft Technology is a vertical SaaS company providing back-office automation solutions for labor-intensive farms, particularly those using the H-2A visa program to hire foreign, seasonal crop labor. Their flagship product, Croft Connect, acts as a virtual HR manager, automating administrative processes for both the farmer and the agents they use to hire H-2A seasonal labor. Currently, this process is managed via spreadsheets and emails for the majority of labor-intensive crop farms.

CurvaFix

A medical device company with a patented new technology the uses advanced engineering and materials science for better fixation of fractures to curved bones (pelvis, clavicle, mandible).

Factal

Real-time security alert platform with fast, reliable information from an advanced network helps corporate security officers of multi-national companies protect people and assets worldwide.

GridMatrix

GridMatrix is a vertical SAAS platform founded by former Apple engineers and backed by 8VC and other well known GovTech investors. The company’ cloud analytics is designed to aggregate and analyze the torrent of data that is available from . The platform is sensor agnostic and essentially converts the thousands of dumb cameras and other sensors that state and local governments have installed over the last decade into a networked system for identifying and addressing critical inefficiencies in urban infrastructure across roads, bridges, tunnels, container ports and airports.

KickFurther

A financing marketplace where manufacturers with great new products can find funding for inventory orders before banks will loan to them, while investors earn attractive returns.

Materna Medical

Innovative medical devices to prevent childbirth delivery injuries to moms and help women maintain sound pelvic floor health and quality of life.

MYbiometry

myBiometry's mission is to empower people with asthma (and COPD) to live healthier lives by giving them proactive and actionable data to prevent attacks. The company provides early detection of asthma attacks up to 20 days in advance using intelligent diagnostics and cloud connected monitoring, covered by 12 issued patents. Currently, there is no way for this patient population to proactively manage their disease and prevent asthma attacks.

NExt Power 360

NextPower360 is positioned to revolutionize the electric generator and motor industry by developing simplified, more powerful, and highly efficient electric generator with a novel, patent protected design. The fundamental design of electric motors and generators has not changed in 100 years.

ONSTAtION

OnStation is digitizing the heavy highway & civil engineering industry with a stationing platform that makes site documentation and location quick and easy. Reliable project data (pictures, chats, e-tickets, test locations, and much more) is captured on-site and is visible within an organization’s dashboard presented within OnStation’s user portal. Never be lost or look for project record again.

SmART APPLY (ACquired by John DeeeRe)

Smart Apply has designed a LIDAR-based guidance system which comes in a kit and mounts to a tractor or ATV. LIDAR monitors the size/shape of trees in real time as it passes, sending detailed instructions to a controller chip box which in turn then individually controls the spraying rate of up to 40 independent nozzles. The system is based on a patent licensed from the USDA, along with substantial trade-secret components.

TET Medical

TET Medical, Inc. (Tethered Enzyme Technologies) is a clinical stage platform nano-medicine company focused
on enabling actionable insights for high-consequence disease decision making. TET emerged out of groundbreaking innovations originating at Cornell University. The first use case for this platform technology is rapid detection and confirmation of stroke where "time to treatment" is critical. 

tympanogen

Tympanogen – is a medical technology company with a patented non-surgical solution for chronic eardrum perforations, which affect 170k patients in the US every year. Tympanogen’s solution is superior to competitors and will reduce costs and time to perform procedures by 80% and 90% respectively. 

Vartega

Advanced chemistry process for cost-efficiently recycling scrap carbon fiber for “light-weighting” auto parts (and other applications). Stronger, lighter parts and significant reductions in landfill impacts.

ANGEL FUNDING SELF-ASSESSMENT

Check all statements that are TRUE about your business:

We are headquartered in MT and organized as a C-Corp or an LLC in MT or DE
We are headquartered outside MT, organized as a C-Corp, and already have a lead investor angel group or VC firm
We expect our business to grow to have annual revenues of over $10M in just a few years
We have developed unique tools/technologies based on specialized expertise that would be VERY hard for competitors to duplicate OR we have patents granted or applications pending