Prevail Venture Capital Team.Prevail Venture Capital Fund I · MedTech · Defense · Fintech · Deep Tech · AI · Robotics

Timothy Bledsoe

Tim was an early member of the Salient Surgical team, which was acquired by Medtronic in 2011 for $645 million. He subsequently led development at a private-equity-backed high-acuity surgery center business that transacted in 2022, and is a co-founder of NextStage Clinical Research, a company focused on bringing clinical trials to community physicians.

Tim leads Fund I, sourcing MedTech and life-science opportunities, structuring rounds, and serving on the boards of portfolio companies for which Prevail acts as lead investor. The investments that draw his interest tend to be those with regulatory complexity that other firms are reluctant to underwrite.

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Andrew Stafford

Andrew grew up in a fourth-generation family business and has subsequently co-founded three ventures of his own. Inside a $750 million company, he scaled two business units from $5 million to $30 million and from $60 million to $100 million in revenue over the course of three years.

Andrew is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the firm, including portfolio-company governance, the EOS rollout inside each company, and operational diligence on new investments. When a portfolio company encounters operational friction, he is generally the first call.

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Matthew Burleigh

Matt is a Chartered Financial Analyst with twenty-five years of buy-side experience. His career has focused on sectors driven by M&A activity, which substantially overlaps with the categories Prevail evaluates today.

Matt builds the financial model on each investment opportunity, pressure-tests the founder’s underlying assumptions, and presents the resulting diligence findings to the IAC. When a portfolio company is working through pricing decisions, fundraising mechanics, or an exit conversation, Matt is generally the partner they call first.

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Marcia Vander Wal

Marcia is responsible for the firm’s internal coordination, vendor relationships, and the operating cadence of the partner team. The operational work that allows the rest of the firm to function on schedule.

When a transaction needs to close on a defined timeline, Marcia ensures that signature pages, wire instructions, and the right participants are in place. The firm’s operating rhythm reflects her work behind it.

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Brian Pfannenstiel

Brian spent twenty-five years inside Commerce Bank in senior roles across audit, lending, and compliance. He joined Prevail in 2018 to lead the same functions at the firm, with particular focus on operations, regulatory compliance, and the areas the SEC reviews during examinations.

Brian is responsible for the firm’s regulatory posture and ongoing compliance program. The firm’s ability to move efficiently when an investment opportunity requires it depends on the regulatory work he has already completed.

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Regan Smith

Regan is the first point of contact for the firm’s limited partners. She manages investor onboarding, subscription documentation, capital calls, distributions, and ongoing investor communications, and has been with the firm for four years.

Regan brings a background in banking and real estate and is a licensed realtor in Kansas. Investors who reach out to her can expect a same-day response, which she views as the foundation of the firm’s investor relations practice.

venture-capital@prevailiws.com

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Noormah Khan

Noormah spent three years at a strategy and financial advisory firm in the Middle East, advising large enterprises on commercial and financial due diligence, valuation, market sizing, and policy questions.

At Prevail, Noormah runs the initial commercial diligence on inbound opportunities, including market sizing, comparable-company analysis, founder reference work, and financial model build. So that opportunities reaching the IAC have already been substantively pressure-tested.

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