Backs underrepresented founders (people of color, LGBTQ+, women, people with disabilities) in the Mighty Middle—preferring Ohio, Tulsa, Arkansas—providing accelerator and policy integration and an Anchor Fund backing managers globally. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
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Led by Tricia Black (Facebook’s first VP of Sales, 7th employee), centered on commerce, care and connectivity, runs an Investor Fellows program and targets founders who build growth flywheels. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Physician-led, immigrant-founded VC built by third-culture founders using cross-cultural insight to back healthcare founders with lived experience and target structural health inequities over generic digital tools. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Thesis-driven TechBio fund oriented toward engineering, computation, and biology, operating a BIOS community platform with podcasts, events, content, and a year-long Venture Residency training future TechBio VCs. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Early-phase investor focused exclusively on software/software-enabled companies across five behavior-change themes, delivering a structured, lean impact-assessment framework tailored to early ventures and rejecting mainstream ESG box‑checking. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Invests at pre-seed and seed in deep‑tech climate hardware (water, built environment, alternative materials), presenting a large government/academic domain team plus GPs who commercialize physics‑heavy products. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Pre-seed specialist investing at the team and a dream stage in deep-tech applied AI and machine-centric businesses, using a proactive Frontier Curve framework organized around three vectors. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
