J2 Ventures

“We're very young funds. We're four years in we've had, we've raised two funds. We've been successful at our raise. We were, we broke met our cap and we had to turn money away for fun too”

“We believe there's never been a transformative technology in the United States that has not touched or had not been the recipient of the defense funding or some sort of large federal funding. If you go back all the way to the beginnings of Silicon Valley with …”

“So we look for companies that are right there on that line between science and engineering risk.”

“And so when J two looks at that market for us, it's not necessarily a great market to get into now. Because of that question of cost saturation and challenge to compete in when you come, when you look at against Chinese manufacturers”

“About 60% of our firm is former service”

“Unlike, I think a lot of other dual tech, dual purpose investment funds, we tend to place the emphasis on companies that have large commercial TAMs and large commercial opportunities. Looking for those companies that we can then bring in using our former gover…”

“We'll take two to 3000 meetings a year as a firm and then make an investment in eight or 10 companies.”

“The world is safer, I think, when you have large commercial companies that are headquartered in the United States. So where do we want the next Google to be created? Well, we definitely don't want it to be Created an adversary who wanted to be created here, an…”

“We invested very early on and then connected them to the Air Force during COVID and received some non-dilutive capital to experiment to see if the ring could help detect COVID symptoms prior to onset and so in a way to preserve the health of Air Force personne…”

“Internally, it takes a high bar to get across it because there has to be consensus with all of our partners. And so that's a difficult bar to reach”