January Ventures

“One of the things we did and continue to do is an event called Pitch Collective. We have all these inbound cold pitches, right, where we're meeting founders who aren't in our network, but we realize that, you know, they're just pitching us, and at the end of t…”

“From the day that we launched, we had been open to cold pitches.”

“I would say that that supply of black Latinx, LGBTQ, that supply has always been there. And so for us, it's not that we're suddenly seeing a new surge now.”

“One of the ways that bias can show up is in the things that venture capitalists ask founders when they're in a diligence meeting, and so we've taken a really hard look at that, and I've actually begun to script out our, you know, the key questions that we want…”

“Right after COVID hit in April, we did a survey of our early stage founders. We talked to 250 early stage founders in our community, and it was interesting. 50% felt that COVID would negatively impact their business, but 50% had already pivoted, which just spe…”

“One thing that we really love is when founders do, you know, whether it's using Loom or some other screen recording, Send us a pitch that is not just a slide deck. It's them delivering the pitch, and there's nothing better than that.”

“We saw 400 pitches within the first week.”

“What we're doing differently is really building a venture firm that is designed around access and transparency. That's not what venture has traditionally been known for. And it's what has really underserved women and underrepresented founders.”