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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 48 co-investors found.
- 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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