January Ventures
Status
ACTIVE
Global HQ
Boston, United States
Countries of investment
- United States
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Ireland
- France
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Austria
- Switzerland
- Denmark
- Sweden
- Norway
- Finland
- Iceland
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Poland
- Czechia
- Slovakia
- Hungary
- Slovenia
- Croatia
- Romania
- Bulgaria
- Greece
- Italy
- Spain
- Portugal
- Malta
- Cyprus
Investment stages
- Pre-Seed
- Seed
Industries
- Enterprise Software
- Healthtech
- Fintech
- Climate
- Future of Work
- B2B SaaS
About
January Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm focused on backing overlooked founders at the earliest stages. Their focus spans B2B software, healthtech, fintech, and climate across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. The firm supports founders from pre-seed through seed.
January Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm focused on backing overlooked founders at the earliest stages. Their focus spans B2B software, healthtech, fintech, and climate across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. The firm supports founders from pre-seed through seed.
Investment Thesis
January Ventures is a pre-seed to seed venture capital firm deploying capital across enterprise software, healthtech, fintech, climate, and future-of-work. They invest in ambitious, capital-efficient founders from outside traditional venture networks, with a heavy weighting toward female and diverse founding teams. The firm differentiates itself through an open application process that removes the warm-introduction requirement, plus a structured founder community and operator network supporting portfolio companies post-investment.
Manager's Experience
Founded in 2019 by Jennifer Neundorfer (Founding Partner) and Maren Bannon (Founding Partner). Fund I ($21M) closed 2021, Fund II ($30M) closed 2023. Focused on pre-seed enterprise software and healthcare technology with underrepresented founders. Portfolio includes 45+ companies including Whyzey, Dropzone AI, and Hyperlaw.
Team
Maren Bannon-Co-founder & General Partner
Jennifer Neundorfer-Co-founder & General Partner
Portfolio
Pano AI
Turing Biosystems
PlanetFWD
Gable
Treefera
Prado
Sano Genetics
Ethena
Guidewheel
Fabric Health
Sonantic
Sorcero
Oula
M7 Health
Unitary AI
Clarity Pediatrics