January Ventures

January Ventures is a pre-seed, woman- and Latina-led venture firm founded in 2018 that backs 'outlier founders transforming traditional industries and processes.' The firm invests in moonshot B2B software founders based on their differentiated industry expertise, outsized ambition, and demonstrated tenacity — not their pedigrees or networks — explicitly replacing the friends-and-family round with an open, no-warm-intro application process. Their portfolio is deliberately diverse (90% female founders, 32% Black or Latinx founders, 42% immigrant founders), reflecting their thesis that the market systematically underprices women and founders of color relative to performance. January focuses on the digitization of legacy industries — future of work, digital health, fintech, climate, and manufacturing — and invests across the US and Europe. Beyond capital, the firm provides a 100+ operator network drawn from unicorn companies to help portfolio companies with early customer acquisition, follow-on fundraising, and scaling. They believe 'Silicon Valley is a mindset, not just a geography or network,' and that the next decade's category-defining companies will be built by founders from an increasingly wide range of geographies, sectors, and backgrounds.