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.
