TCP Venture Capital
Using our extensive experience and industry knowledge, we help companies achieve their goals.
Who we are
About Us
TCP Venture Capital is a Baltimore, Maryland-based early-stage technology focused venture capital firm. We partner with entrepreneurs to build great businesses.
Please note that our focus is on unique technology applications; we do not invest in franchises, brick-and-mortar operations, or online retail sales.
Operating Partners
Our Team
TCP Venture Capital is managed by a team with over 140 years of combined experience.
Christopher G. College
Managing Partner
Mr. College is a seasoned venture capital professional with extensive experience in structuring, negotiating, and executing transactions. Over his career, he has closed more than 100 deals totaling over $2.5 billion. Currently, he leads the strategic and operational efforts at TCP Venture Capital.
Previously, Mr. College served as Head of the Private Finance Group at Stifel Nicolaus and held roles in the Private Finance Department at Legg Mason Wood Walker and its investment banking team, focusing on M&A and IPOs in technology. Earlier in his career, he worked as an investment banker at Robert W. Baird & Co.
Mr. College earned a BA in Economics from Northwestern University and an MBA from Emory University.
- Employees
- 1,800+
- Follow on Funding
- $730,000,000
- Active Portfolio Companies
- 16+
Our Investments
Portfolio
We partner with entrepreneurs building unique technology companies.
Pixee
Pixee is the first enterprise platform to automate the final step of application security, turning alerts into fixes. It integrates with developer workflows, using agentic AI and deterministic methods to deliver trusted code fixes with an 87% merge rate.
Infinity Bio
Infinity Bio, Inc. is a technology company that provides detailed insights into the immune system using its proprietary antibody reactome profiling platform.
Minnow Tech
Minnowtech's data platform allows shrimp farmers around the world to maximize growth, minimize feed cost, detect mortality, recognize theft and optimize operations.
Rocket Doctor
Rocket Doctor is a rapidly growing digital health platform and marketplace that provides comprehensive care virtually, incorporating advanced at-home medical devices.
Indicio
Market-leading decentralized identity, digital wallet, SSI, and Verifiable Credential solutions, interoperable with global standards, and platformless so you have full control of your data.
emocha Health
emocha Health is a digital health company whose mobile platform combines video and human engagement to help patients take every dose of their medication.
WellDoc
WellDoc is a healthcare company that develops technology-based solutions to support chronic disease management.
Yet Analytics
Yet Analytics powers experience intelligence. Clients across industries use the Yet Analytics software platform to unify experience data from diverse sources.
Pixelligent
Pixelligent Technologies is the world's leading manufacturer of High Refractive Index Materials for Solid State Lighting, Displays and Optical Components.
Snag-A-Slip
Find Marinas and Rent Boat Slips Online.
Scene Health
Breakthrough medication support for better health.
WBX Commerce
By combining all functions of the ecommerce process into one service, Whitebox makes it easy for manufacturers and brands to scale to a global level, while shrinking overhead.
SocialToaster
SocialToaster mobilizes Super Fans of media and entertainment, brands, and sports teams to increase fan engagement, propel website traffic, strengthen brand loyalty, and drive revenues.
Traitify
Traitify is an image-based personality assessment platform striving to create the world's first personality API. Traitify was acquired by Paradox.
Link Labs
Link Labs is a leading innovator in low power, wide-area network technologies that power the Internet of Things (IoT).
ZeroFox
ZeroFox provides enterprises external cybersecurity, protecting organizations against threats across the public attack surface, including social media, the web, mobile, and the dark web.
RedOwl Analytics
RedOwl Analytics applies inferential statistics to the corporate digital trail to reduce risk and inefficiencies.
Insightin Health
Insightin Health is the industry's only single platform which provides data driven decision making for complete life-cycle of healthcare member journey to improve member acquisition, retention, and engagement.
Qualytics
Qualytics provides data firewalls and surveillance for the enterprise.
EcoMap
One Platform to Power Any Ecosystem From local business communities to entire industries, EcoMap is the first platform built to power ecosystems of all types and sizes
Impruvon Health
Help your agency and clients take back their independence, automate the medication management process to ensure compliance and optimal care, and automate the medication monitoring and record keeping process.
Cerebro
Source corporate loans, receive pre-qualified borrower leads and manage covenant compliance using the latest technology.
Real Time Medical Systems
Solving Healthcare Challenges With Data-driven Insights We deliver software solutions that improve healthcare outcomes for nursing facilities, hospitals, health systems, ACOs and hospice care.
Terbium Labs
Terbium Labs empowers organizations to reduce the risk of inevitable data exposure.
Bambeco
Bambeco is an online retailer that sells sustainable home products that have been sourced from unique locations.
Protenus
Protenus technology looks at every access to every patient record, every day. It understands how patient data should be accessed, and alerts you when privacy is violated.
In their words
What Founders Say
“TCP Venture Capital is a great partner for us; they believed in our vision and team at the very beginning.”
“TCP provided leadership at an important time in the growth of the company and helped galvanize our early rounds of financing.”
“TCP Venture Capital has been a true partner adding value at each stage of Link Labs' growth.”
Our thinking
Investment Thesis
The severe undercapitalization of post-Series Seed companies in Baltimore City represents an attractive opportunity for investment.
The Propel Baltimore Fund addresses the critical need for more early-stage capital in Baltimore City. It is our belief that venture-stage businesses represent an attractive investment opportunity that, when proper due diligence is applied, can produce superior returns on invested capital.
We believe that Baltimore has a number of unique attributes that enable companies based in the city to thrive.
- A high concentration of human capital, particularly in burgeoning industries such as education technology, healthcare, and cybersecurity.
- A wide breadth of promising technologies emerging from research universities and federal laboratories in the region.
- A number of unique state funding resources that mitigate risk by advancing technologies to commercially viable stages.
We believe that these unique attributes present Propel with an opportunity to help encourage more entrepreneurial activity within Baltimore City, while also generating attractive returns for our investors.
Capital
Funds
Purpose-built vehicles supporting early-stage technology companies.
Propel Baltimore Fund
Early-stage capital for technology companies willing to locate in Baltimore City.
The Propel Baltimore Fund makes investments in early-stage technology companies willing to locate in Baltimore. The Fund addresses the critical need for more early-stage capital in Baltimore City, encourages more entrepreneurial activity in the City, creates more high-paying jobs, and helps to realize Baltimore City's full potential as a destination for growing businesses.
What we look for
Investment Criteria
We're investing in Baltimore's best technology companies.
- Geography
- Located in Baltimore City or committed to headquartering in Baltimore City.
- Stage of Development
- Early revenue or have a product or service that can be evaluated for commercial readiness.
- Industry Focus
- High-growth technology companies (excluding bio-tech, medical device, and real estate).
- Business Plan
- High-growth, scalable, and capital efficient.
- Structure
- Typically convertible debt or preferred stock.
- Investment Duration
- Typically 5 years to exit or sale.
- Style
- Lead or value-added co-investor.
- Involvement
- Active minority investors; typically require a board observer seat.
- Employment
- Creates full-time jobs in Baltimore City with living wages and benefits.
Our commitments
Diversity Equity and Inclusion
TCP Venture Capital's DEI strategy is centered upon the realization that our greatest impacts on DEI can be delivered through ensuring our investment funds are assisting a broad array of entrepreneurs and helping to build-out a network of like-minded co-investors.
We look outside of our organization to find ways to multiply our impact in the underserved entrepreneurial ecosystem and believe that we can accomplish more by working with others than by tackling big goals by ourselves. To that end, we've adopted two best practices that have been developed by other organizations doing important work in the entrepreneurial DEI space.
Diversity Rider
Following the lead of Act One Ventures, we have committed to including the TCP Diversity Rider in all of the deals that we lead, with the goal of increasing opportunities and access to wealth for underrepresented communities via cap table representation.
The Company and TCP, consistent with any applicable securities law, will use commercially reasonable efforts to identify potential co-investors with the goal of fostering an inclusive and diverse investor-base in Baltimore. The Company, consistent with applicable securities law, will use commercially reasonable efforts to offer investment opportunities (in the round and any conversion therefore) to those potential co-investors.
DEI in Action Pledge
Capitalizing on the Maryland Technology Council's Technology Inclusivity Initiative, we have signed the organization's DEI in Action Pledge. By signing this pledge and publicly committing to our DEI efforts, we acknowledge the value and need to strive for greater diversity, equity, and inclusivity both internally and in the community, through intentional development and implementation of actionable strategies, and to identify and enable technological solutions for the greater good of the community, our state and the world.
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