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Journey Venture Partners

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Our community has funded more than 500 portfolio companies across all stages and sectors, with an emphasis on enterprise, life sciences, consumer, and frontier technology.

  • WE INVEST IN THE BEST FOUNDERS: We invest up to $250k in talented Founders around the world.
  • YOUR PARTNERS FROM START TO FINISH: We’re focused on Founders that have an exit in mind from the start.
  • FOUNDERS HELPING FOUNDERS: We’ve been Founders so we know the challenge you face and have your back.

Early Capital is Just The Beginning

Our portfolio of early stage investments spans industries, markets, and countries. We work with all kinds of founders to get them that early capital, but we don’t stop there. Raising early capital is difficult, but once attained a founder has to set the foundations for scale and further fundraising which is much harder. JVP and its community are there as resources to help founders beyond that early capital.

We know that capital isn’t enough. A first raise is just the beginning, and we use our industry knowledge and expertise to guide early stage companies past the initial investment and through the challenges of first hires, go to market strategy, developing strong intellectual property and scalability.

We are founders ourselves, and understand the journey to profitability and exit. We combine our management expertise with rigorous quantitative analysis to guide our founders and their companies on the path to global impact.

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