Idea Fund Partners, LLC
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Idea Fund Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, investing in technology companies in underserved regions, with a focus on underrepresented founders.
Idea Fund Partners, LLC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Chapel Hill, United States, founded in 2007. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in technology, automation, data-driven decisions and democratizing expertise. Its stated cheque size is $250K to $500K. $100M under management and 65 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in anyone with a good idea and the capacity to execute it, but we have a self-imposed target to build a portfolio where 1/2 of our companies are started by underrepresented founders (female, black, Latinx).”
— Idea Fund Partners, LLC, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Chapel Hill, United States
- Invests in
- US, Baltimore to Atlanta region
- Sectors
- technology, automation, data-driven decisions, democratizing expertise, reducing inefficiency
- Cheque size
- $250K to $500K
- Founded
- 2007
- Assets under management
- $100M
- Portfolio
- 65 companies
Team, as Idea Fund Partners, LLC publishes it
- Zach Herak Venture Fellow
- Krish Gandhi Venture Fellow
- Nazreen Nazeer Venture Fellow
- Michael Jaberi Venture Fellow
- Kriss Ascanio Gomez Venture Fellow
- Michael Baiardi Venture Fellow
- Dewi Aung Venture Fellow
- Takunda Mutee Venture Fellow
Names and roles exactly as listed on ideafundpartners.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 48 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Grotech Ventures 5 shared companies: ceterus.com, cognota.com, ecomap.tech, payzer.com…
- AAF Management Ltd. 2 shared companies: sense-photonics.com, finmark.com
- B Capital 1 shared company: pendo.io
- Bonfire Ventures 1 shared company: pendo.io
- Contour Venture Partners 1 shared company: pendo.io
- Geodesic Investments, L.L.C 1 shared company: pendo.io
- Sapphire Ventures 1 shared company: pendo.io
- Congruent Ventures 1 shared company: sense-photonics.com
- Piva Capital 1 shared company: sense-photonics.com
- Civ Investment Management, LLC 1 shared company: sift.com
and 38 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Idea Fund Partners, LLC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.ideafundpartners.com/name, is_investor, type, hq_country, hq_city, description, status, confidence
- https://www.ideafundpartners.com/philosophylayer, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, founded, aum, portfolio_count
- https://www.ideafundpartners.com/teampeople
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