Howdy Partners
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Howdy Partners is a venture capital firm that provides first-check capital to early-stage companies headquartered in rural Colorado. It focuses on founders who choose to build outside major metropolitan areas.
Howdy Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in Durango, United States, founded in 2018. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in aerospace, AgTech, AI and B2B SaaS. Its stated cheque size is $250,000-$500,000. 30 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in founders who make deliberate choices about where they build.”
— Howdy Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Durango, United States
- Invests in
- rural Colorado, Colorado
- Sectors
- Aerospace, AgTech, AI, B2B SaaS, Consumer Applications, Cybersecurity, Ed Technology, FinTech, Food & Beverage, GovTech, Health Tech, IoT, Outdoor Products, Robotics, Telecommunications, Web3
- Cheque size
- $250,000-$500,000
- Founded
- 2018
- Portfolio
- 30 companies
- How to reach it
- Its pitch / apply page on its own site
Team, as Howdy Partners publishes it
- Cory Finney Founder, Managing Partner
- Marc Nager Founder, Managing Partner
- Jamie Finney Founder, Venture Partner
- Kiki Hooton Community & Events
Names and roles exactly as listed on howdy.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 12 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Firstmile Ventures, LLC 5 shared companies: precog.com, kamiwaza.ai, barnowlag.com, farclip.ai…
- Range Ventures 2 shared companies: precog.com, bettrdata.io
- Service Provider Capital 2 shared companies: barnowlag.com, ziosec.com
- Matchstick Ventures 1 shared company: precog.com
- Venture Guides Management, L.P. 1 shared company: precog.com
- Flyer One Ventures 1 shared company: hackernoon.com
- FundersClub 1 shared company: hackernoon.com
- Marathon Venture Capital 1 shared company: hackernoon.com
- Citta Capital Management, LLC 1 shared company: kamiwaza.ai
- Eden Road Capital, LLC 1 shared company: kamiwaza.ai
and 2 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Howdy Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.howdy.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, description, status, confidence
- https://www.howdy.vc/who-we-arehq_country, hq_city, founded, people
- https://www.howdy.vc/process-criteriainvests_in_geographies
- https://www.howdy.vc/thesisstage_min, stage_max, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://www.howdy.vc/investorssectors, portfolio_count
- https://www.howdy.vc/founder-resourcesapproach_url
Record 8466 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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