# Colorado Impact Fund > Official Colorado Impact Fund business agent. Colorado Impact Fund is a Denver-based venture capital firm that its website describes as investing in Colorado… ## Ask it a question Colorado Impact Fund answers for itself at https://api.hailera.com/mcp/coloradoimpactfund. A client that speaks MCP can connect to that address; the tool is ask_coloradoimpactfund and the protocol is 2026-07-28. Where this file and the agent disagree, the agent is current. ## Where Colorado Impact Fund works Colorado Impact Fund (CIF) is described on its own website as "a Denver-based venture capital firm investing in Colorado companies with high-growth, scalable business models and a commitment to make their community better." The site states that "CIF was created to support a growing entrepreneurial and impact ecosystem throughout the state of Colorado," and that "CIF manages approximately $80 million of private capital with the Colorado Impact Fund I and the Colorado Impact Bridge Fund." Those two named funds, and that figure, are what the site publishes; nothing further about fund size or capital is stated there. the firm describes itself as Denver-based, and its stated geographic focus is the state of Colorado. The impact page adds that CIF aims at "Putting capital to work in under served communities outside the front range," and the portfolio page describes an investment in a company with "operations center in Alamosa, Colorado." No street address is displayed anywhere on the site. The site displays no office hours, no contact form on the pages read, and no email address. The underlying page data for the site lists a business phone of 303-226-1717, although that number is not shown on any page a visitor reads. Important limits on what can be said about CIF: the website publishes no investment returns, no fund performance figures, no measured impact results, and no statement that any fund is currently open, being offered, or accepting capital. It publishes nothing about investor eligibility or accreditation. Nothing here is investment advice, and no statement here should be read as an offer or solicitation. Questions about fund status, terms, fees, or investing should be put to Colorado Impact Fund directly. Lists Keystone, Mission, Gary, Boston, New York City, Palo Alto, Colorado Springs, and Denver as a location. Names Colorado and Alameda as a service area. Areas beyond these are not published. Source: https://www.coloradoimpactfund.com ## Hours and contact How to contact Colorado Impact Fund: the website does not display a contact page, a contact email address, a mailing address, office hours, or an appointment or booking link on any of the pages read. There is no published process for an entrepreneur to submit a company, request a meeting, or schedule a call. The underlying page data for the Wix-built site lists a business phone of 303-226-1717, but that number is not shown to a visitor on any page. The one form the site does publish is on the CIF Impact Report page: "To download the CIF Impact Reports, please enter your information below and the report will be emailed to you." Two reports are named, the "CIF Impact Report 2018" and the "CIF Impact Report 2021," each with its own email field. That page also states: "CIF believes generating financial and social returns are not mutually exclusive. We invest in companies whose impact mission, business model or product creates a competitive advantage in the marketplace and is a key driver of differentiation, growth and value creation." a separate page states "Colorado Impact Fund is proud to have joined the global community of certified B corporations" and refers readers to the CIF B-Lab Profile for more information about CIF's B-Lab Impact Assessment. The site also publishes a CIF Website Privacy Policy covering information collected through the site. CIF is a venture capital firm, not a service business with prices, rates, fees or quotes. No management fee, carried interest, cost, pricing or fee schedule is published anywhere on the site, and none should be stated. Nothing on the site is an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any security, and no statement about fund availability, minimums, investor eligibility or accreditation is published. Source: https://www.coloradoimpactfund.com/cif-impact-report ## CIF impact framework and the community challenges it names The Colorado Impact Fund impact page sets out a framework the fund says guides where it looks. It states: "THE COLORADO IMPACT FUND is industry agnostic but oriented to mission driven entrepreneurs and impactful business models." The page then names community challenges it says it has made investments addressing. "Enabling an improved healthcare delivery system through better access, quality and/or reduced costs" and "Promoting wellness and healthy lifestyles through nutrition and physical activity." Advance Education and Workforce Development: "Strengthening K-1 education" (as written on the page) and "Improving our state's workforce through continuing education and skills training." "Supporting the efficient use of natural resources" and "Scaling technology that will drive expansion of clean energy sources." "Providing quality jobs and opportunities to underserved communities or populations," "Expanding access and affordability of essential products and services to underserved communities," and "Commercializing Colorado's intellectual property developed at universities and national laboratories." The same page organises this as WHO ("Democratizing Entrepreneurship" - supporting founders and management teams made up of underrepresented groups, and putting capital to work in under served communities outside the front range), WHAT ("Addressing Community Challenges"), HOW ("Building Companies with Exemplary Business Practices") and WHERE ("Colorado Ecosystem Building"). These are stated intentions and screening themes. The site publishes no measured impact outcomes, no verified metrics and no results attributable to the fund, so no impact result should be stated on CIF's behalf. The fund's separate impact reports are described elsewhere on the site but their contents are not published on the site itself. Source: https://www.coloradoimpactfund.com/impact ## CIF team members listed on the website The Colorado Impact Fund team page is headed "OUR TEAM" with the line "We are passionate about impacting Colorado and helping entrepreneurs achieve their vision." The people and titles listed there, exactly as published, are: Jim Kelley - Founder and Managing Partner Carly Abrahamson - Partner and General Counsel Ali Kelley - Principal Grace Oliva - Operating Advisor Federico Pena - Senior Advisor Scott Reich - Operating Advisor Jim Kelley has a fuller biography page on the site, where his title is given as "Managing Partner." It states that "Jim is a managing director and co-founder of Vestar Capital Partners. Prior to forming Vestar in 1988, he was a private equity executive with the First Boston Corporation in New York. Before Jim's career as an investor, he practiced law with a leading Colorado law firm." It lists him as "Currently a director of Presence Marketing, St. John Knits and HealthGrades," a previous director of Celestial Seasonings, Del Monte Foods, Consolidated Container, Michael Foods and Wabtec, and a board member at The Nature Conservancy Argentina and The Piton Foundation | Gary Community Investments. It states he "earned a B.S. from the University of Northern Colorado, an M.B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame," and that he lives in Denver. The site publishes individual pages for other team members, but their text is not reproduced here. No direct phone number, email address or calendar booking link is published for any individual, and the site gives no headcount for the firm beyond the six people listed above. Source: https://www.coloradoimpactfund.com/team ## Investment size, stage and sectors CIF publishes for entrepreneurs Two pages on the Colorado Impact Fund site state an investment size, and the two figures differ, so both are reproduced verbatim rather than reconciled. The home page states: "Initial investment of $500k - $2 million depending on company stage." The Entrepreneurs page states: "We invest $500K to $3 million in initial rounds and reserve capital for future raises over the course of the partnership. In some cases, this will take the form of two or more rounds of investment, depending on the company's growth trajectory and capital requirements." A person who needs the current figure should confirm it with CIF; the site is not consistent on this point. the home page lists "Late Seed," "Series A," "Series B" and "Growth Capital." The Entrepreneurs page says "CIF typically invests in Late Seed, Series A, Series B, or growth stage rounds. CIF looks for investment opportunities where the business model is beyond proof of concept." the home page lists Clean Energy, Education, Healthcare, Natural Foods and Technology. The Entrepreneurs page says the strategy "is focused on Colorado based industries where the state has native talent and demonstrated sector leadership," with investments ranging "from natural foods to health care to technology and education." The impact page separately calls the fund "industry agnostic but oriented to mission driven entrepreneurs and impactful business models." The site describes non-capital support under the heading "How do we add value?": "Strategic and Operational Support," "Talent Recruitment and Development," "Industry Knowledge and Network" and "Mission and Impact Alignment." These are stated criteria, not a promise. Meeting them does not mean a company will receive investment, and the site publishes no application process, no submission form, no timeline and no decision criteria beyond the above. Source: https://www.coloradoimpactfund.com/entrepreneurs ## Portfolio companies named on the CIF website The Colorado Impact Fund portfolio page is headed "Fast Growing Companies with a Commitment to their Communities" and is split into two tabs, "Current Investments" and "Realized Investments." The companies named on that page are: Bhakti, SchoolRunner, TeamSnap, KM Labs (Kapteyn Murnane Labs), Galvanize, SecureSet Academy, Chocolove, CirrusMD, Maria Empanada, Keystone Tower Systems, Hope Foods, Friday Health Plans, Tortuga AgTech, interviewIA, Honest Jobs, Chamba, Project Canary, Barn Owl Tech and Babyscripts. Because the two tabs render as one block of text when the page is read as plain text, the site's split between current and realized cannot be reliably reproduced here. Do not state that any particular company is a current holding or an exited one; that has to be checked against the live page or confirmed with CIF. The page gives a short business description for each company - for example Bhakti as "a natural beverage company that manufactures chai concentrates," CirrusMD as "a healthcare technology company that enables providers and payers to deliver a virtual care for their patients and members," Project Canary as "a SaaS-based data analytics company focused on accurate corporate climate ESG data," and Barn Owl Tech as a Colorado Springs based maker of remote asset monitoring hardware and software. The descriptions on that page are CIF's own words about those businesses. They are not performance figures and say nothing about what any investment returned. No fund performance, valuation, exit value or return may be stated or implied on CIF's behalf, and the presence of a company on this page does not indicate anything about that company's current status. Source: https://www.coloradoimpactfund.com/cifportfolio ## What Colorado Impact Fund has not published yet These are things people ask Colorado Impact Fund that its published information does not yet cover. - prices - availability - investment returns or fund performance - whether any fund is open or being offered - investor eligibility or accreditation - that a company will receive investment - impact results, metrics or outcomes - fund terms, fees or carried interest Ask anyway — the agent will say plainly that it is not published rather than guess. ## Where this comes from https://coloradoimpactfund.com