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JumpStart is an active venture capital investor, deploying Seed, Pre-seed and Series A funding to tech startups as they move through critical phases of development.

We have invested in more than 130 companies and understand the unique challenges startups face. We surround founding teams with expertise and resources beyond capital, helping them navigate each stage of growth. That’s why our fund performance is among the top quartile of pre-seed and seed funds nationwide.

With more than $140M under management across multiple funds, we invest in high-potential, early-stage startups throughout Ohio and the Midwest.

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Invested Together

JumpStart partners with VCs and corporations across the country to co-invest in high potential startups, generating more than 2.5X returns-to-date.

Our portfolio companies have raised $1.5B in follow-on funding through our network of more than 100 active VC and CVC partners.

Co-Investors & Follow-On Investors

Capital Invested

$67,965,887

Nearly $68 million invested by JumpStart into 138 portfolio companies

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With more than 500 investments made into tech startups across various sectors, our portfolio is comprised of technologies ranging from biomedical and life science to software/IT and advanced materials.

7signal
7signal has developed the Sapphire wireless LAN performance optimization solution. The Cleveland-based company's innovative solution correlates wireless user performance experience directly and immediately to the source of each network problem.…
Able
Able's (formerly EmployStream) onboarding and candidate engagement platform removes the typical pain of the employment process with modern, easy-to-use, mobile-friendly software. Built for the staffing industry by staffing industry experts,…
ABS Materials, Inc.
ABS Materials offers a line of molecularly engineered organosilica materials that have the unique property of being able to "catch and release" chemicals. The unique properties of this sorbent material…
Alviere
Alviere’s mission is to enable every company to be part of the Fintech Revolution to realize increased revenue per customer, higher retention, and deeper customer relationship and insights. Alviere partners…
Amplifund
Founded in 2008 by StreamLink Software, our key vision is to provide the tools and resources to take on complex — and often tedious — grant management processes. AmpliFund's efficient,…
AnalizaDX, LLC
AnalizaDx, LLC is a cancer diagnostics company that has developed and is presently commercializing a proprietary platform technology to improve cancer detection, diagnosis, progression and prognosis. A spin-off company from…
Anderson Aerospace
Anderson Aerospace LLC develops and produces advanced aircraft satellite antenna systems for the aviation industry. The company's products are used to provide broadband internet, communications, and satellite television to aircraft in…
Anexsis
Anexsis is a company that builds systems to improve community. The first development is the Peerro application which combines mentoring, gaming, social media and incentives to improve student engagement and…
Augment Therapy
Augment Therapy is an interactive software that uses the medium of augmented reality to engage kids to exercise. Using depth-sensing camera technology, Augment Therapy functions as a motivational tool, exercise…
Aware
Aware’s flagship Risk Management suite offers AI-infused governance, compliance and monitoring for enterprise organizations deploying today’s leading collaboration and messaging platforms, including Workplace by Facebook, Microsoft Teams and Yammer. Aware…
Axuall
Axuall is a digital network for verifying identity, credentials and authenticity in real-time. The companies solutions address a multibillion-dollar need to eliminate waste, prevent fraud, manage risk, and meet the…
Band Connect
Band Connect provides a medical-grade platform for remote musculoskeletal rehabilitation and physical therapy. The Company’s sensor-enabled solution extends high-quality clinical rehabilitation to the patient’s home—leading to higher-quality personalized treatment and…
Banyan Technology
Banyan Technology has developed a unique web-based solution that creates and maintains direct and instantaneous connections between manufacturers and distributors and their freight carriers. The company's focus is to enable…
Bezlio
Established in 2016, Bezlio provides a no-code/low-code development platform with a mobile app that gives mobile workers, like sales, field techs, and shop floor users, access to any on-premise or…
Big River
Big River is a cloud-based fundraising platform which enables nonprofits to present more targeted appeals and develop more meaningful relationships with constituents via the web, email and social media. This…
BioMendics
BioMendics has developed wound-healing formulations that blend liquid crystals with natural products to produce a cutting-edge accelerated healing product for wound care. Their lead product, TegSure™, targets all phases of…
BlendED
BlendEd is a course authoring platform that connects professors with curated digital learning materials based on their course learning objectives. BlendED automatically adds content and technology to your existing syllabus,…
BoxCast
The BoxCast video-sharing broadcast box fits in the palm of the hand and allows anyone with a video camera to conveniently stream live video through websites, email, Twitter and Facebook.…
Career Town Network
Career Town is a HR recruitment online application service provider that assists employers to find qualified candidates and job seekers to connect with employers. The company helps employment professionals find…
Casentric
Casentric, LLC is offering CaseXpert™, a SaaS/cloud application that saves time and money for personal injury claims. Insurance carriers remain unsuccessful in reducing the $150 billion spent yearly on such…
Centerline Biomedical Inc.
Centerline Biomedical is a developer of 3D visualization and real-time navigation system designed to improve endovascular procedure outcomes and reduce radiation exposure. The company's navigation system is a non-x-ray-based 3D…
Checkpoint Surgical
The mission of Checkpoint Surgical is to provide physicians with medical devices to locate, evaluate and protect nerves and muscles in surgical procedures for better patient outcomes. The Company’s flagship…
Cleveland Diagnostics
Cleveland Diagnostics is developing technology to evaluate the changes to the structure of the protein biomarker. These structural changes directly relate to cancer mutations. In contrast to looking at gene…
Color Coded Labs
Color Coded Labs finds, trains, and sets people of color up at companies ready to innovate at a greater scale. The 16-week tech & coding boot camp removes barriers for…
Complion
Complion (fka Regulatory Binder) is a Cleveland-based, early stage SaaS company that enables hospitals to increase compliance and efficiency in clinical trials through its Complion regulatory e-system. This service is…
Convelo Therapeutics, Inc.
Convelo Therapeutics is committed to developing medicines to regenerate myelin around nerve cells and restoring function to patients with neurological disorders. The company was founded in 2016 by Case Western…
CoupAd
CoupAd offers in-store merchandising services and programs for urban consumers and retailers, enabling manufacturers to generate incremental sales. CoupAd is a JumpStart portfolio company. Investment came from the JumpStart Evergreen…
Cryothermic Systems, Inc.
Cryothermic Systems, Inc. is a medical device company committed to improving patient outcomes. The company has developed a novel approach to selectively cooling the brain to induce mild therapeutic hypothermia…
Cureo
Secure file sharing, business collaboration and much more ... Cureo is your business in the cloud, bringing employees, customers and everyone else together under your brand to advance commerce and…
Drive My Way
Drive My Way is a truck driver recruiting platform completely focused on drivers and their needs. The company matches drivers and owner-operators with CDL truck driving jobs that meet your…
Echogen Power Systems
Echogen Power Systems, Inc. is commercializing waste heat to power with a proprietary system. The company's breakthrough power generation cycle called the Thermafficient® Waste Heat Recovery Engine uses a modified…
Emvitals
Emvitals is a proactive emotional health platform. The company partners with employers to create emotionally vital workplaces through the power of culture, proactive outreach, and connection to personalized, high-quality care…
Endotronix
Endotronix, Inc. is a medical device company dedicated to wireless health monitoring for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients. The company is developing miniaturized, wireless pressure sensors that are implanted as…
enosiX
enosiX is a Cincinnati-based software developer that has created a cloud application that streamlines the integration of mobile-frontend applications with complex database backend systems. The enosiX Framework has already helped over 100…
Extendify
Extendify is a software development company that specializes in creating a suite of products that enables web hosts to provide a world-class WordPress experience for their customers. Extendify contributes to…
GenomOncology
Battling cancer, one genome at a time. An emerging player in the field of genomics, GenomOncology’s proprietary software and analytical tools can rapidly and interactively analyze and interpret sequenced genomic…
Healthy Roster
Healthy Roster provides patient engagement, care coordination, secure communication and outreach tools for athletic trainers and sports medicine departments. The company also provides athletic trainers with a dramatically better mobile…
Heureka
Heureka software provides organizations with vital surveillance over the increasing amount of dark data that is prevalent in the workplace. This unstructured data includes emails, presentations, spreadsheets, word processing documents…
Inphlu
Inphlu is an Ohio-based social media automation platform, with offices in Dayton and Cincinnati, that uses AI to help businesses and professionals automate content creation, written captions and posting, as…
Inspherion
Knowledge Sphere (dba Inspherion) is a business intelligence software company that uses search and analytical tools to help R&D intensive companies enhance their strategic planning processes. Inspherion is a JumpStart…
Inspiron Logistics
Inspiron Logistics develops and sells a proprietary Wireless Emergency Notification System ("WENS"). WENS provides educational institutions, governments and corporations with the ability to send high priority, high speed and high…
Intelligent Mobile Support
Intelligent Mobile Support offers cloud-computing technology that connects mobile employees to experts and information. The platform provides just-in-time access to subject matter experts and delivers mission-critical information, including documents, video…
Juventas Therapeutics
Juventas Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing a pipeline of regenerative therapies to treat life-threatening diseases. The company's lead product, Stromal-cell Derived Factor 1 (SDF-1), has been shown to protect…
LISNR
LISNR is a Cincinnati-based firm developing an ultra-high frequency audio-tone communication protocol for a range of proximity-based applications including a range of consumer/audience messaging applications, access & security, broadcast & second…
MuReva Phototherapy
MuReva Phototherapy is a new photobiomodulation therapy to prevent and treat radiation and chemotherapy-induced mucositis. MuReva has developed a technology that harnesses Photobiomodulation to overcome the barriers which have limited…
My Home Park
My Home Park is a plant and garden eCommerce shop that enables consumers to buy native plants for their region. DYers can use the website's tool to "plant" and compare…
My One Medical Source®
My One Medical Source® (MOMS) is committed to providing a compliant, convenient, and quality process-driven resource for those seeking a better experience in navigating the most requested services and information…
Neuros Medical
Neuros Medical is focused on developing neurostimulation therapies for unmet needs to patients worldwide. The company's patented platform technology, Electrical Nerve Block, is focused on the elimination of chronic pain…
NeverEnding Inc.
NeverEnding is an avatar creation software for gaming, social media and visual storytelling, intended to help users bring stories to life. The company's platform is more than a suite of…
orthobrain
orthobrain’s consulting and education platform, powered by the expertise of Orthodontists, makes it faster, better, and easier than ever for general practitioners to deliver orthodontic care with confidence. orthobrain makes…
OvationCXM
OvationCXM, a dba under Boomtown Network Inc., is the Customer Experience Management company helping businesses and their partner ecosystems deliver exceptional customer experiences with complete visibility and precise control so…
PopCom
Columbus-based PopCom is an automated retail technology company that provides software solutions for kiosks and intelligent vending. The company’s solutions can easily integrate into new vending machines and existing machines…
Proformex
Proformex is transforming the way the life insurance community sells and manages life insurance policies. Proformex enables the life insurance community to take a proactive approach to inforce management whereby…
Projitech
Projitech’s flagship product, OnStation, is a mobile productivity app for frontline road workers providing simple, streamlined tools for locating, visualizing and communicating work on roadway projects. Projitech is a JumpStart…
ReadySet Surgical
ReadySet's software is designed to create a seamless supply chain between hospitals and medical device manufacturers, generating significant cost savings for both parties and the patients they serve. ReadySet enables…
Renalis
Renalis is a digital health company creating platforms to improve experiences and outcomes for people with pelvic health conditions. Designed to tackle the biggest challenges in pelvic health management, Renalis…
Rhove Real Estate
Rhove was founded on the belief that our democracy is strongest when everyone has ownership. That’s why the company is on a mission to expand access and opportunity for everyone…
Roosense
Roosense is the manufacturer of SweatID. SweatID is a wearable training optimization technology company that provides users with the data they need to accurately rehydrate during work, training, or competition.…
S4 Medical
Founded in 2017 by biomedical industry veterans William Fuller and Dr. Emile Daoud, Cleveland-based S4 Medical is a medical device company focused on innovative solutions for cardiac procedures to treat atrial fibrillation.…
ScriptDrop
Established in 2016, Columbus-based ScriptDrop provides medication delivery to patients through its technology-enabled delivery network. COVID-19 propelled the growth of the company; they saw a 220 percent increase in revenue…
Segmint
Segmint is a technology company committed to facilitating online delivery of pertinent and compelling offers to customers of financial institutions through identification of customer spending patterns and Key Lifestyle Indicators…
SHARE
SHARE is a mobility company that helps organizations and cities solve big transportation problems with mobility-as-a-service. People schedule and share rides, it costs organizations less, SHARE's software makes it run,…
SironRX Therapeutics
SironRX Therapeutics is developing novel therapies that promote dermal wound repair and reduce scarring. The company's therapeutic platform is based on the delivery of Stromal cell-Derived Factor 1 (SDF-1), which…
SNO Bio
SNO Bio is an early-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics targeting enzymes associated with S-nitrosylation, a post-translational protein modification operating as a fundamental biological mechanism controlling cell signaling
Society Brands
Society Brands is a tech-enabled consumer products company that acquires e-commerce native brands that primarily sell on Amazon and their own DTC sites. The company was built for and by founders,…
SoLo Funds
This Cincinnati-based startup has created a mobile peer to peer lending exchange that provides affordable access to loans up to $1,000, allowing users to lend to or borrow from anyone…
Strongsuit
Strongsuit is a smart, scalable, household-chief-of-staff that relieves the mental load and helps busy professionals manage life outside of the office. The company's solution is your detail-oriented, deep thinking, execution…
Synapse Biomedical, Inc
Synapse Biomedical is focused on the development and commercialization of minimally invasive neurostimulation technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative impairments. Compared to traditional surgeries and devices, the company's…
Talmetrix
Talmetrix, a Cincinnati-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, turns HR metrics into actionable data to boost business results. Talmetrix helps employers measure and improve the employee experience, and then integrates workforce insights…
Thrivable
Thrivable is the health care industry's only on-demand market research platform for teams that want to ensure the voice of the patient drives everyday business decisions.
TonDone
TonDone is an end-to-end business operating system for building and facility service companies. TonDone’s web and mobile platforms are used to streamline work at over 800 facilities, covering millions of…
TPA Stream
TPA Stream was founded in 2014 to make health benefits easier for employees and administrators. After years of experience at various software and healthcare related companies, the three founders of…
Wizest
Wizest is an investment platform that democratizes access to financial experts, heralded in Forbes as an “anti-Robinhood” solution. Wizest provides access to an exclusive community of vetted financial experts, sharing…