# January Ventures

> January Ventures is a VC fund in Boston backing Health Care and Software. See 42 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 42
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Fund size: $21M
- Last fund: Apr 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/january-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/JaneVentureCap
- Website: http://january.ventures

January Ventures is a VC fund focused on angel/pre-seed in the US & Europe. We are replacing the friends & family round and re-writing the networks in venture.We invest early and opens doors for the visionary founders of the future. We believe the founders of the next decade will look fundamentally different: more female, morediverse and more distributed. Our firm is built on the principles of transparency and access, and we back founders based on their tenacity and ambition, not their pedigrees or who they know. January Ventures was founded in 2018 and is based in Boston, MA and London, UK.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for January Ventures. Shizune tracks 10 team members at January Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/jane-vc?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 9 | 21% |
| Software | 8 | 19% |
| SaaS | 5 | 12% |
| Wellness | 5 | 12% |
| Human Resources | 5 | 12% |

66 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 21% |
| Series A | 8 | 19% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 24 | 57% |
| United Kingdom | 10 | 24% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Amy Allen Martin | Operator Network | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-allen-martin |
| Erika Balbuena | Operator Network | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erika-balbuena |
| Heidi Robinson | Operator Network | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heidi-robinson-5e5c |
| Jennifer Neundorfer | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-keiser-neundorfer |
| Kelly Esten | Operator Network | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kelly-esten |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Systole Health | Systole Health enables women to take immediate action to improve their health, prevent heart disease, and regain their well-being. Systole Health's mission is to transform women's heart health care by offering prompt, transformative assistance. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jan 27, 2025 |  |
| RYE | The intelligence layer for modern business energy |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2024 |  |
| Clarity Pediatrics | Clarity Pediatrics is reimagining pediatric chronic care, starting with ADHD. Nearly 10% of American children are diagnosed with ADHD, and for parents it can feel impossible to get the right care. We are building a virtual pediatric ADHD clinic that delivers trusted care to all families. Our new clinical model is tech-enabled, backed by the bestscience, and has the potential to deliver exceptional health outcomes to transform a child’s trajectory. | $10M | Seed | Apr 22, 2024 |  |
| Belong | Belong, a revolutionary wealth-building platform. Belong strives to make wealth-building opportunities available to a broader market, with a concentration on professionally employed millennials. | $3.7M | Pre-Seed | Mar 25, 2024 |  |
| Helios Artificial Intelligence | Helios Artificial Intelligence, Inc., is building the world’s most predictive AI software for supply chain disruptions. Our vision is to build an AI platform that analyzes billions of signals in real-time to identify and predict supply chain disruptions before they happen, helping our customers identify risks from political, economic, and climatechanges. | $2.8M | Pre-Seed | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Treefera | Treefera provides the data, insight, and clarity to accelerate the path to a positive future for businesses, organizations, and the planet. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 13, 2023 |  |
| Bloom Money | Bloom Money is a savings club app designed to help growing communities in migrant communities and use technology to promote community, safety, and convenience. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 27, 2023 |  |
| Pano | Pano offers hardware and software technology solutions for fire professionals to detect threats. Pano provides tools to the government, utilities, insurers, and private landowners in order to mitigate wildfire threats and protect lives, property, and the environment. Pano is a unified enterprise solution that combines cutting-edge hardware,artificial intelligence, and software. | $17M | Series A | Jul 10, 2023 |  |
| Gable | Gable platform helps remote professionals across the globe can use to access a nearby neighborhood workspace to work, focus, innovate, connect, and thrive. Gable hosts accommodate small groups between four and 20 people, so companies can book a Gable for employees clustered in the same neighborhood to collaborate efficiently. Everyone is screenedwith background and health and safety checks, and all spaces must meet certain quality criteria to pass muster. All amenities like WiFi, phone calls, tea, restroom, parking, kitchen, printers, whiteboard, AC are provided. | $16M | Series A | Feb 28, 2023 |  |
| Oula Health | Oula is redesigning maternity care from the ground up. Its modern maternity center combines the best of obstetrics and midwifery care to deliver a more evidence-based and personalized pregnancy experience. From its collaborative medical team, welcoming clinic, and remote care platform, we are setting a new standard for pregnancy that unifies modernmedicine and human intuition.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. | $19.1M | Series A | Jan 12, 2023 |  |

10 of 42 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [January Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/january-ventures) — VC Fund, 41 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Precursor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/precursor-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [BBG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bbg-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Congruent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/congruent-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Female Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/female-founders-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does January Ventures invest in?

January Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 42 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact January Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at January Ventures?

The team at January Ventures includes Amy Allen Martin (Operator Network), Erika Balbuena (Operator Network) and Heidi Robinson (Operator Network), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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