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North Coast Ventures
Angel syndicate
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North Coast Ventures invests in highly scalable, business-to-business SaaS ventures focused on solving big problems where its membership and network can provide domain and functional expertise to help achieve superior outcomes, and its strong relationships with regional corporations can drive added value and lead to market-making reference customers. The firm operates a Seed Fund that backs companies demonstrating initial indicators of success, and an Acceleration Fund that targets firms with meaningful commercial traction and a credible plan to deploy larger amounts of capital for continued growth. NCV's 500+ member-investor network — the largest single-chapter investor group in the country — is central to its value-add model, enabling strategic introductions and corporate partnerships across its Ohio-focused, nationally relevant portfolio.
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“I lead North Coast Ventures, a for-profit group of over 400 individual investors across 7 funds that invest in B2B SaaS startups in Ohio and beyond. We are currently the largest single-chapter investor group in the country, and we try to leverage that network to open doors for our portfolio companies in a strategic and systematic way.”
“When we think about the future we often think in terms of secular trends. What are these big things happening? Whether we like it or not we know they're happening, though we might not know how quickly.”
“The entire Midwest/Heartland region has massive untapped potential to grow the amount of investment and new economy jobs. Connected communities grow, and we're starting to see more of that.”
Team
Daniel Luketic
Director
Leen Ajlouni
Investment Associate
Michael Leonard
Investment Associate
Clay Rankin
Managing Director Emeritus
Recent investments
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| JumpStart Ventures | 6 |
| Ohio Tech Angel Fund | 3 |
| M25 Ventures | 3 |
| Flare Capital Partners | 2 |
| BlueTree Allied Angels | 2 |
| Drive Capital | 2 |
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