James David Vance
Co-Founder and Partner @ Narya Capital
San Francisco, United States
James David Vance is a Series A investor at Narya Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. J.D. Vance is the Co-Founder and Partner of Narya Capital, an investment firm based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Vance previously served as a U.S. Senator from Ohio, having won election as a Republican in 2022. He is also a contributor for National Review and an author for HarperCollins Publishers India. Vance graduated from Ohio State University and YaleLaw School. He began his career in the U.S. Marine Corps, later working as a Litigation Associate at Sidley Austin and as a Principal at Mithril Capital Management.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
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Industries James David Vance invests in
Stages James David Vance invests in
Countries James David Vance invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (40%)
- SaaS 3 (30%)
- Logistics 2 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (20%)
- FinTech 1 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (50%)
- Seed 3 (30%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
Investments
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Gig Wage
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Gig Wage is a fintech payroll company that provides a financial social safety net for gig workers and contractors. Its scalable platform enables businesses to manage contractor payroll, payments, and compliance while delivering greater transparency to their gig workers. Whether they are paying 100 contractors or 100,000 Gig Wage gives the tools toefficiently manage the process while alleviating payments related support.Gig Wage provides an online platform that allows independent contractors to track the amount and type of work they perform for companies, initiate invoices, and receive payments from companies. The partnership also allows Gig Wage the ability to introduce a new debit card with no monthly fee, free online bill pay, and free cash withdrawals at more than 19,000 ATM locations, free cash pick-up at over 7,000 retail locations nationwide, and other products and tools designed for gig workers and their employers. By leveraging Green Dot’s Banking as a Service platform, Gig Wage can now design and deploy its own customized banking and money movement solutions for its customers.Gig Wage is founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA. | $8.3M / Series A / Dec 03, 2024 | |
Anvl
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Anvl promotes worker engagement and efficiency with an easy to use mobile application that provides in-the-moment guidance through smart, dynamic workflows. The flexible platform supports safety, quality and operational processes with a configurable user interface, flexible content, triggered process steps and configurable alerts. The applicationcollects and acts on real-time data issuing leading indicator prompts and notifications to both the frontline worker and management when proactive interventions are needed. Leaders benefit from a live feed of data, real-time alerts and remote monitoring of all in-progress and completed workflows. Dashboards, standard and custom reports deliver actionable insights to support continuous improvements and positive cultural changes. | $2M / Seed / Jun 13, 2019 | |
FreightWaves
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FreightWaves is a data and content forum that provides market participants with near-time analytics on the state of the freight market. The company offers current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.The company's SaaS product, SONAR, is a freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregatingbillions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. The platform is mode agnostic and has time-series and geo-based data from all modes of freight, including truck, rail, ocean, air, and warehouse.FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As a provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market. | $21M / Series B / Feb 25, 2019 | |
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Gig Wage
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Gig Wage is a fintech payroll company that provides a financial social safety net for gig workers and contractors. Its scalable platform enables businesses to manage contractor payroll, payments, and compliance while delivering greater transparency to their gig workers. Whether they are paying 100 contractors or 100,000 Gig Wage gives the tools toefficiently manage the process while alleviating payments related support.Gig Wage provides an online platform that allows independent contractors to track the amount and type of work they perform for companies, initiate invoices, and receive payments from companies. The partnership also allows Gig Wage the ability to introduce a new debit card with no monthly fee, free online bill pay, and free cash withdrawals at more than 19,000 ATM locations, free cash pick-up at over 7,000 retail locations nationwide, and other products and tools designed for gig workers and their employers. By leveraging Green Dot’s Banking as a Service platform, Gig Wage can now design and deploy its own customized banking and money movement solutions for its customers.Gig Wage is founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA. | $2M / Seed / Dec 11, 2018 | |
Lumenari
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Lumenari is an advanced materials discovery company founded in Silicon Valley and currently operating in Lexington, KY. We develop novel materials that enable new applications and facilitate new device architectures. | $3M / Series A / Oct 10, 2018 | |
Aatmunn
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Aatmunn, meaning "soul," is an industrial technology company with a clear mission: to revolutionize the lives of over 2 billion frontline workers globally. In 2023, over 2 million frontline workers tragically lost their lives, despite a $1 trillion investment in safety and productivity improvements. The adoption of technology among theseworkers has been inconsistent, leading to stagnant or declining outcomes.Aatmunn aims to change this narrative with its AI-powered data fabric and applications, already trusted by 150+ marquee customers like SpaceX, PepsiCo, and Amazon, as well as device manufacturers such as 3M and RKI. We've achieved remarkable growth, with a 100% YoY increase in ARR. | $20M / Series A / Sep 27, 2018 | |
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FreightWaves
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FreightWaves is a data and content forum that provides market participants with near-time analytics on the state of the freight market. The company offers current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.The company's SaaS product, SONAR, is a freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregatingbillions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. The platform is mode agnostic and has time-series and geo-based data from all modes of freight, including truck, rail, ocean, air, and warehouse.FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As a provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market. | $13M / Series A / Jun 12, 2018 | |
DemandJump
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DemandJump is a customer acquisition software that shows marketers new sources of growth online. Their mission is to understand the world’s competitive digital data and make it actionable for marketers everywhere. The company's software uses artificial intelligence that shows a holistic view of the data, overlays absent data, and maps thattarget market behavior, thereby, enabling marketers to make better decisions by providing actions that maximize return on investments.DemandJump was founded in 2015 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana. | $6M / Series A / Apr 11, 2018 | |
ENGAGE Talent
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ENGAGE is the world’s first AI-powered recruiting platform to combine Talent Mapping, Competitive Intelligence, Passive Candidate Sourcing, and Outbound Recruiting in one brilliant Talent Targeting and Engagement engine.ENGAGE is an AI-powered recruiting platform that helps companies identify and target new talent that they were not finding viatraditional methods and in traditional pools.ENGAGE aggregates data from over 30K sources to create talent profiles on 100M professionals and 13M companies. ENGAGE's AI and machine learning engine predicts the likelihood that a candidate will respond to a conversation about a potential job change, and recommends personalized messaging based on factors like their career progression, skills, peer actions, and the news and events surrounding their company.ENGAGE's product helps recruiters connect with new talent pools, at the right time, with the right message. The result is a more efficient and productive talent acquisition team who fills roles proactively by engaging qualified talent instead of waiting for the right applicant to come to them. By leveraging ENGAGE predictions and recommendations, our customers have identified candidates for difficult-to-fill roles in a fraction of the time and doubled their candidate response rates. | $3M / Series A / Feb 14, 2018 | |
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Aatmunn
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Aatmunn, meaning "soul," is an industrial technology company with a clear mission: to revolutionize the lives of over 2 billion frontline workers globally. In 2023, over 2 million frontline workers tragically lost their lives, despite a $1 trillion investment in safety and productivity improvements. The adoption of technology among theseworkers has been inconsistent, leading to stagnant or declining outcomes.Aatmunn aims to change this narrative with its AI-powered data fabric and applications, already trusted by 150+ marquee customers like SpaceX, PepsiCo, and Amazon, as well as device manufacturers such as 3M and RKI. We've achieved remarkable growth, with a 100% YoY increase in ARR. | $16.9M / Seed / Apr 26, 2017 |
Co-Investors
About Narya Capital
Narya is a thesis-driven, early-stage venture capital firm based in Ohio. Our LPs include some of the most successful investors, entrepreneurs, innovators and institutions in the world. We invest long term capital in people who use technology to solve significant challenges.
Narya Capital Contacts
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What does James David Vance invest in?
James David Vance invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Logistics startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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