Partnering With Bold Startups Across Ohio And The Midwest

If you’re searching for an experienced and strategic venture investor to help you accelerate the growth of your startup, look no further. JumpStart Ventures empowers visionary tech founders like you with critical resources, industry connections and early-stage capital from seed through series A.

Empowering You To Go Further, Faster 

CAPITAL

$140M under management

170+ portfolio companies

Continuum of funds: Seed-Series A

20-year track record of success

SERVICES

Strategic and operational expertise

Talent/recruiting

Marketing/PR/CMO-in-residence

Board & Governance

Follow-on planning/fundraising

CONNECTIONS

Subject Matter Expert Network

Preferred Pro Partner
Network

Corporate Partners

Founder Testimonials

“JumpStart has helped me grow as a person, as an entrepreneur and as a leader.”

Beth Potratz, Drive My Way

“They didn’t give me a cookie-cutter solution. They really met me where I was as a founder.”

Joshua Reid, Inphlu

“JumpStart was not only rooting for us but came to the table with the resources we needed – not just capital, not just advice, but connections.”

Afif Ghannoum, BIOHM Health

Backing Visionary Founders With Passion, Purpose And Grit

We invest in entrepreneurs with breakthrough, market-driven technologies positioned to excel in high-opportunity markets. Our goal: Help startups build a market-defining company that grows rapidly, attracts capital and generates top-quartile venture capital investment returns for the founders and investors.

Backing Visionary Founders
With Passion, Purpose And Grit

We invest in entrepreneurs with breakthrough, market-driven technologies positioned to excel in high-opportunity markets. Our goal: Help startups build a market-defining company that grows rapidly, attracts capital and generates top-quartile venture capital investment returns for the founders and investors.

Perfect Partner Criteria

Talented Team

  • Unique market insights
  • Coachable
  • Observable success
  • Ability to attract A+ talent

Significant Market Opportunity

  • Large and Growing Addressable Market
  • $500M to > $1B TAM

Compelling Market Need

  • Solves urgent market pain points
  • Meets high-priority needs

Demonstrable Market Potential

  • Market feedback
  • Input from industry experts
  • Paying and/or beta customers

High-Return Potential

  • Ability to generate top-quartile returns

Competitive moat

  • Patents/proprietary know-how
  • Unique partnerships Software algorithms
  • Significant first-mover advantage

Funding plan

  • 18+ month runway
  • Focused on achieving inflection points to de-risk investment
  • Demonstrate value prop/business model

Business stage

  • Prelim market validation
  • Beyond MVP
  • Raising capital to demonstrate product-market fit or scale revenues

Target sectors

  • Enterprise Software & Data Analytics
  • Biomedical Tech & Devices
  • Insurtech & Fintech
  • Life Sciences

Investing More Than Capital

Partner with us and we’ll pair you with a JumpStart Ventures lead partner to help your company achieve the milestones that will drive its value – from demonstrating product-market fit to building a repeatable go-to-market model to validating technical performance.

Along with venture capital funding, JumpStart provides companies with access to critical resources in areas like operations, marketing, finance and talent recruitment. In addition to 1:1 advising, we offer deep-dive workshops and accelerator programs to help entrepreneurs avoid pitfalls.

Learn more about our startup services at JumpStartInc.org

Are we a fit for your startup?
Take the next step.

If you’re an innovator relentlessly focused on your customers and passionate about building a diverse team that can scale a business, then we want to hear from you. Use the form below to share your business model and vision and we’ll reply with the next steps.