# J Ventures

> J Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 76 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 76
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/j-ventures/about/
- Website: http://www.jventures.com

J Ventures is a venture capital firm. They move fast on decisions, are patient with growth timelines, and hustle to help entrepreneurs reach their goals.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$17M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.8M–$4.7M |
| Series A | $6M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 16% |
| SaaS | 9 | 12% |
| Health Care | 8 | 11% |
| FinTech | 6 | 8% |

112 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 32 | 42% |
| Series A | 22 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 12% |
| Series B | 4 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 39 | 51% |
| Germany | 4 | 5% |
| Colombia | 2 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| China | 1 | 1% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Nordin | Co-founder and Investor | 28 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-nordin |
| Joshua Jacobson | Co-Founder & Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joshua-jacobson |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Taxwire | Global Sales Tax Compliance Software | $25M | Series A | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| Character Quilt | Character Quilt enriches your target account lists with qualitative data. That allows marketers to build precise campaigns around pain points, helps AEs/SDRs research accounts 10X faster, and helps demand gen marketers automate with the voice of your ideal customer. |  | Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Baskit | baskit (baskit.app) was founded by a team of FMCG and distribution tech veterans obsessed with solving the world's most pervasive supply chain puzzles. We provide emerging market distributors and wholesalers with digital tools to streamline their operations and accelerate their cash conversion cycle. | $4.4M | Series A | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| Pillar | Pillar provides SaaS for commodity and currency risk management that automates data analysis, trade execution, and post‑trade accounting. | $20M | Seed | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| Mia Labs | Mia Labs is an Artificial intelligence employee to answer calls, schedule appointments, and provide assistance. | $20M | Series A | Jan 22, 2026 |  |
| SOC Prime | SOC Prime operates the world's largest and most advanced platform for collaborative cyber defense following its mission to transform threat detection with the power of collective cybersecurity expertise. Relied upon by over 11,000 global organizations, SOC Prime supercharges cybersecurity operations enabling teams to hunt for threats anddefend against attacks easier, faster, and more efficiently than ever before. Founded in 2015 by security analysts and Detection Engineers, we have built the platform to help companies establish basic security practices, improve threat visibility, and advance automated incident response. Our technology helps enterprises, governments, MSSPs, and MDR providers overcome the challenges of the global talent shortage, threat complexity, alert fatigue, data quality, and cost-efficiency. SOC Prime Platform enables security teams to address the challenges of building advanced and threat-specific detections, organize and execute around strategic detection objectives, and manage the deployment of content at scale across a diverse range of security analytics tools. We serve Fortune-100 and Forbes Global 2000 enterprises, as well as government organizations by providing a platform for global collaboration, open-source technologies, and the highest level of support.SOC Prime helps customers centrally source and support detection content to maximize the value of their existing security investments. Powered by collaboration from a global cybersecurity community, our Detection as Code platform curates the most up-to-date Sigma rules and integrates with over 44 SIEM, EDR, and Data Lake platforms. Flexible subscriptions ensure that both organizations and individual operators can benefit from enhanced cyber defense capabilities. Threat Detection Marketplace, the world's leading and largest security analytics repository powered by SOC Prime Platform, delivers access to a constantly growing library of 500,000+ context-enriched detections aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK® framework and continuously updated. SOC Prime supports continuous content quality improvement backed by feedback from 11,000+ organizations, 55,000+ users, and 800 threat bounty members, who actively contribute their own detection content to the SOC Prime Platform while receiving recurring rewards for their input. Our team is diverse and distributed, comprising seasoned security experts with 20+ years of experience in the industry, creative designers, multilevel software developers, young and ambitious security researchers, analysts, and business leaders. We strongly believe that cybersecurity is one of the major challenges for humanity and can be improved by open source, knowledge sharing, and a performance-driven culture. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 04, 2025 |  |
| Develop Health | AI Copilot for Medication Prior Auth | $17.6M | Series A | Aug 20, 2025 |  |
| Taxwire | Global Sales Tax Compliance Software | $9M | Seed | Jul 09, 2025 |  |
| Bolo AI | At Bolo AI, we are pioneering the future of knowledge management in heavy industries, starting with Oil & Gas. Our groundbreaking platform combines domain-specific models with cutting-edge AI technology to redefine how millions of heavy industry professionals access and create vital knowledge. Our products, Bolo AI Answer and Bolo AI Writer,streamline access to critical information and documentation processes, setting new standards in productivity, safety, and efficiency. | $8.1M | Seed | Jun 11, 2025 |  |
| Filed | Filed renders digital marketing, social marketing, campaign optimization, retargeting, facebook advertising and social media services. | $17.2M | Seed | May 21, 2025 |  |

10 of 76 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does J Ventures invest in?

J Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 76 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is J Ventures's check size?

J Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$17M at Seed, $1.8M–$4.7M at Pre-Seed and $6M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds J Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact J Ventures?

Public channels for J Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at J Ventures?

The team at J Ventures includes John Nordin (Co-founder and Investor) and Joshua Jacobson (Co-Founder & Advisor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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