"While everyone's chasing the next AI infrastructure play in San Francisco, some of the most defensible AI companies are being built by founders with deep expertise in legacy industries - and they're not getting funded. January Ventures aims to fill that gap, writing pre-seed checks for underrepresented founders transforming healthcare, manufacturing, and supply chain with AI. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Dominic-Madori Davis sat down with Jennifer Neundorfer, Co-Founder and General Partner at January Ventures, for a live episode of Equity."
"January Ventures aims to fill that gap, writing pre-seed checks for underrepresented founders transforming healthcare, manufacturing, and supply chain with AI. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Dominic-Madori Davis sat down with Jennifer Neundorfer, Co-Founder and General Partner at January Ventures, for a live episode of Equity. The pair dug into how early-stage investing is changing in the age of AI and why building different networks matters."
Many investors focus on AI infrastructure in San Francisco, leaving founders with deep domain expertise in legacy industries underfunded despite building defensible AI companies. January Ventures writes pre-seed checks to support underrepresented founders transforming healthcare, manufacturing, and supply chain with AI. The fund targets founders who combine industry expertise with AI to create durable competitive advantages in regulated or complex sectors. Early-stage investing is shifting in the age of AI, increasing the importance of building different networks to surface and fund non-traditional founders and infrastructure-light enterprise opportunities.
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