We believe entrepreneurs pursuing big bets and scalable businesses are vital to our community's health and success. We invest in idea to growth stage companies and technologies across industries and sectors, supporting exceptional founders with a vision to go the distance.
Our approach
We take on financial risk and strive to venture with founders and their companies in hopes they have a successful run building and scaling new businesses in Kentucky. We work with investors, advisors, and strategic partners to help founders gain early wins and growth.
Investment Criteria
We make pre-seed and seed stage venture capital-type investments in high-growth startups and entrepreneurs based in or interested in relocating to KENTUCKY.
Companies should 1) be building an innovative, technology-enabled product, process, or service, 2) have developed a prototype, be seeking product-market fit, or entering early growth stage of development, and 3) present a well-articulated market opportunity with some level of customer validation and a strong founding team.
You might qualify for investment if your business:
- has a prototype, MVP or product-market fit
- possesses an innovative technology and or business model
- has high-margin opportunity
- demonstrates the ability to generate revenue
- serves customers beyond your local market demonstrating ability to execute on incremental growth at scale i.e. regional to national, even global
- shows significant potential for stimulating economic growth and a reasonable probability to enhance employment opportunities within the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Investment Process
- Application
- Screening
- Preliminary Due Diligence
- Final Due Diligence
- Investment Committee Review
- Closing