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Inspired Capital Wants the Napkin, Not the Hype Cycle
The New York firm has nearly $900 million, fewer than 10 new bets a year and a taste for founders still sketching the future. Its wager is that operating experience and patient conviction can beat venture capital by trend cycle.
The $83 Million Fund That Turned Healthcare Operators Into a Sales Force
HC9 Ventures built its pitch around a simple diagnosis: healthcare startups rarely fail for lack of software alone. They fail in the maze between a promising product and the institutions that must buy, trust, and deploy it.
The Chicago Firm That Made a Business Out of Betting on the Boring Pipes of Finance
Spun out of one of the world's most secretive trading firms, Jump Capital has spent a decade quietly funding the infrastructure that markets, money, and software run on - and it prefers the unglamorous parts.
The Company That Runs on Boring: How Simplify Group Turned 17 Years of Health Insurance Plumbing Into an AI Portfolio
For 17 years, Simplify Healthcare quietly ran the paperwork behind 70-plus health plans. In late 2025 its founder folded that experience into a four-company group betting that operational scar tissue, not just models, is what makes enterprise AI actually work.
The Atlanta Venture Studio That Took Its Operator Playbook to the Future Battlefield
Rule 1 Ventures spent years turning freight, finance and security headaches into B2B software. Now the Atlanta firm is applying the same operator-first logic to aerospace and defense - where access, speed and execution matter as much as capital.
The Million-Dollar Commute Between Seattle and L.A.
Unlock Venture Partners built its seed strategy around a simple map: two major technology cities, too little early capital, and founders who need more than a wire transfer.