Accelerate Venture Partners

Accelerate Venture Partners (AVP) is a Wichita, Kansas-based collaborative investor group founded in 2018, bringing together seasoned entrepreneurs, experienced investors, and angel-investment newcomers from diverse professional backgrounds to back early-stage, high-growth companies in Wichita and the broader US Midwest. Collectively, AVP members manage $1.7 billion in assets under management across their broader investment portfolios, reflecting significant professional depth within the network. AVP is structured differently from a traditional fund: individual investors make their own investment decisions on a deal-by-deal basis through purpose-built LLCs, rather than committing to a pooled vehicle. This format lowers the barrier to entry for new angel investors while giving experienced members the flexibility to participate selectively. The firm has made 17 portfolio investments, including Spinal Simplicity, an orthopedic device company, and Transportant, a logistics technology startup, with checks typically ranging from $100,000 to $1 million. AVP's core mission is to bring institutional-quality venture capital practice to non-traditional technology geographies in the US Midwest, where access to early-stage capital has historically been limited. By aggregating the experience, networks, and capital of members across diverse industries, AVP creates a collaborative investment community that supports Wichita-area founders at stages when they have few alternative sources of growth financing. The firm focuses on software, health technology, and transportation startups with clear regional or national growth potential.