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