Partnering with Bold Startups Across Ohio and the Midwest

If you’re searching for a strategic funding partner to help you accelerate the growth of a disruptive technology, 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

$70M in new capital

Continuum of funds: Seed-Series A

20-year track record of success

SERVICES

Lead partner advisor

Talent/recruiting

MKTG/PR/CMO-in-residence

Board & Governance

Follow-on planning/fundraising

CONNECTIONS

SME Network

Preferred Pro Partner
Network (local + regional)

Corporate Partners
(local/regional/national)

Founder Testimonials

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 you build a market-defining company that attracts capital, creates jobs and generates top-quartile venture capital investment returns.

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 you build a market-defining company that attracts capital, creates jobs and generates top-quartile venture capital investment returns.

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

For a detailed look at how our funds and their theses can map to your company’s metrics, download this matrix.

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.

Whether as a board member or observer, your lead partner will work directly with you to avoid blind spots and take advantage of all the services and connections we have to offer – so you can scale with confidence.

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.

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