How I Built Resilience: Jennifer Neundorfer of January Ventures

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🗓️ 3 October 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

January Ventures is an investment firm that is trying to address the unique challenges and biases faced by entrepreneurs often under-represented in business, including women and people of color. The firm's co-founder and managing partner Jennifer Neundorfer says that despite more attention in the recent months, great ideas from these diverse groups have always been there. These conversations are excerpts from our How I Built Resilience series, where Guy talks online with founders and entrepreneurs about how they're navigating turbulent times.

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1:24.0	On these episodes, we're talking with entrepreneurs and other business leaders about how they're meeting this very challenging moment in new and creative ways.
1:33.0	And today, we're going to hear from Jennifer Noondorfer. She's the co-founder and managing partner of January Ventures.
1:39.0	It's an investment firm focused on tech startups founded by women and people of color.
1:45.0	Jennifer joined me to talk about how her company is approaching investment strategies during this unprecedented moment and how they differ from other firms overall.
1:55.0	What we're doing differently is really building a venture firm that is designed around access and transparency.
2:02.0	That's not what venture has traditionally been known for. And it's what has really underserved women and underrepresented founders.
2:10.0	And so we make it very easy for founders to pitch us and find us and everything that we do is focused on removing friction for those founders at the earliest stage.
2:20.0	And what type of startups do you look for?
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