Innovent Fund is ready to help you

fund your entrepreneurship journey.

You’re a founder building something new.

Focus and execution is what distinguishes the most successful entrepreneurs. We want to fund startups with founders who live and breathe their product, their customer’s needs, and their business’s success.

We’re a partner who’s been there before.

Our approach to investing is rooted in our own experience in building, scaling, and exiting businesses. We bring decades of wins and losses to our perspective as investors and as advisors and incubation partners, especially for first-time founders.

Climate Tech

Climate change and energy innovation will change the shape of our economies during our lifetimes. Demand for clean and renewable energy, restorative agriculture, more sustainable processes, and carbon and green finance applications will explode in the next ten years. If you are working on viable and scalable solutions to these problems, we want to fund you.

  • EV vehicles and charging: infrastructure and software 

    Solar and wind technology and Internet of Things to maximize impact

    Carbon Mitigation and Sequestration Solutions: Hardware and Software 

    Sustainable management and workflows

Blockchain

Permissionless and distributed ledgers, and cryptographic identity and decentralized value networks represent an evolution of existing web technologies and are already having a shapeshifting impact on e-commerce and finance at large. We believe this technology will streamline and democratize investing and fundraising, create new possibilities in community engagement and marketing, organizational management, identity, and much more. We are builders in this space and we want to meet and partner with entrepreneurs working on real world applications with transformative potential.

  • Institutional finance and digital securities

    Real Estate

    Climate mitigation projects

    NFTs of real world assets

PropTech

The real estate industry in the United States is incredibly large and stubbornly inefficient. Investment strategies and web applications which arbitrage or chip away at these inefficiencies and reduce friction are an important area of focus for us. As investors and managers in real estate for over 25 years, we are looking for founders who can stand out in this gargantuan space with a clear and scalable product that addresses these problems in a new way.

  • SFR Shared Economy

    Private Lending Solutions

    Real Estate FinTech

    Blockchain Solutions

FinTech

We invest in financial tools that use technology to innovate around rigid and regulated industries like banking, payments, credit, investing and securities. We are looking to partner with founders who are building products that can change how money moves, expand access to financial tools and opportunity, and disintermediate existing ways of doing business.

  • Enterprise software

    Government software

    Health software

    Ecommerce software

    Tax and Tax Credit software

SaaS

We have been investing in and building software businesses throughout the history of the Internet. We have seen software ‘eat the world’ with no signs of stopping. We are looking for visionary founders who see opportunities for technology that others don’t, especially ourselves. If you have a product or company using software to solve a problem and earn recurring revenue, pitch us using the form below.

  • B2B Solutions

    Personal finance

    ESG solutions

What we look for:

Are you ready for funding?

Innovent Fund invests a standard $100K check size per round in early stage companies. Our team is looking for companies that are developing or have an established Proof Of Concept and are poised for go-to-market and growth. Innovent has invested and incubated companies across a multitude of industries and has core strengths in B2B platforms, financial services, FinTech, ClimateTech, carbon mitigation, DTC fashion, Retail, Digital Media, DeFi and blockchain technology.

What kind of team is expected?

We want to partner with founders who live and breathe their product, their customer’s needs, and their business’s success. We can provide a ton of support to early stage founders because we’ve been there many times before. We are not interested in investments in companies whose key operators are not founders or have yet to be hired, or companies with large mastheads but no operators.

What companies don’t you consider?

We invest in companies in the United States with an emphasis on New York and Los Angeles based companies. We believe our local focus gives us an edge and makes us better partners for our portfolio companies, as we can provide support and connectivity quickly and easily on both coasts. We also won’t consider your company if the turn-around for investment is rushed, we need time to review your materials and do our diligence, so no “exploding rounds.”

What are your capital needs?

We look for companies where the valuation cap is at or less than $15M Pre Money, as we look to be at the earliest stages of business building.

What do your financials look like?

Your Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) is between $0 - $1M (real or projected). You have identified use of funds raised and how they will incrementally grow the business. You know how much capital will be needed to breakeven. You have developed reasonable financial projections - including an income statement, cash flow and balance sheet and supporting spreadsheets - based on logical and realistic assumptions. You have a clear exit strategy that will enable us to generate a return of at least ten times our initial investment.

What sets you apart from competitors?

Your potential competitors are identified, and there is an understanding of the company’s differentiation points. True barriers to entry can help the company to maintain a competitive advantage. You have a plan to achieve widespread market penetration for the products and services. You have determined if an internal direct sales team will be created or if external channel partners will be used.