Steve T. Kirby

Bluestem Capital Co. LLC (Bluestem Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1989 by Steve T. Kirby. The firm is headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Virtual Incision Corp. engages in the development of miniaturized surgical robots. It offers MIRA (miniaturized in vivo robotic assistant) surgical robotic platform. The company was founded by Shane M. Farritor and Dmitry Oleynikov in 2006 and is headquartered in Lincoln, NE.

Kirby Capital Corp. provides alternative investment management services. The company is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

Pelstar LLC manufactures weighing scales. Its products include physician and primary care, acute care and hospital, long term care, stand-on, wheelchair, chair, bariatric, neonatal and pediatric, professional home care scales. It distributes the brand Health o meter® Professional. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in McCook, IL.

Noteswift, Inc. engages in the development of health information technology solutions. It offers Samantha, an electronic health record (HER) real time transcriptionist, which enables providers to dictate the narrative of a patient encounter and parse the text into usable and valued structured data for patient outcomes. The company was founded by Chris Russell in 2008 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

Valley Queen Cheese Factory, Inc. produces dairy products. It offers chees, whey, anhydrous milk fat, and milk products. The company was founded by Alfred Nef and Alfred Gonzenbach in 1929 and is headquartered in Milbank, SD.

Neurolens, Inc. is a company that commercializes breakthrough technology to improve vision care. The company's patented contoured prism technology provides visual comfort for the nearly 65% of US adults who complain of headaches, neck/shoulder pain, and eyestrain when using digital devices, reading, or doing detail work. The company is based in Coppell, TX. Inspired by a breakthrough discovery linking optometry and neurology, Neurolens is unlocking a new dimension of vision care. The Neurolens contoured prism design helps the eyes work together comfortably, bringing the eyes into alignment to relieve painful symptoms. The technology is only available to independent eye care providers. The company was founded in 2012 by Davis Corley, and Pierre Bertrand has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

BrightPlanet Corp II, Inc. designs and develops search, harvest and document federation technology. The firm's technology allows a user to search huge databases hidden under the surface. The company was founded by Patrick J. Yam in 2009 and is headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD.

VeraSun Energy Corp. engages in the production and sale of ethanol and its co-products. The company owns and operates five of the ethanol production facilities in the United States with a combined ethanol production capacity of 560 million gallons per year. The company also produces Dried distillers grain with solubles, Wet distillers grains with soluble and Corn Oil. It was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Brookings, SD.