Jovono
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
Jovono is a venture capital firm that invests in paradigm-shifting founders. The firm supports missionary founders to help build companies that solve hard problems or make delightful products. Jovono was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 4%
Last updated:
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Industries Jovono invests in
Stages Jovono invests in
Countries Jovono invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.4M–$4M
- Pre-Seed
- $150k–$1.2M
- Series A
- $7M–$15M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (26%)
- Information Technology 5 (19%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (11%)
- Legal 2 (7%)
- Big Data 2 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (19%)
- Series A 5 (19%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (15%)
- Secondary Market 3 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (11%)
Country
- United States 15 (56%)
- Israel 3 (11%)
- United Kingdom 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Evan Zimmerman
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Persist assist pharmaceutical companies in developing long-acting formulations 50% faster. Because the formulation development process is manual and relies on scientific intuition, it takes a pharmaceutical company 5-10 years to develop a long acting formulation for a drug. This effort is divided into five years of pre-clinical development and fiveyears of clinical testing. Their goal is to use machine learning and automation to reduce the time required for pre-clinical formulation development to three months, making the formulation development process 50% faster. | $4M / Seed / Apr 12, 2023 | ||
| Safe is an app that provides an email security service that verifies contacts. Safe was founded in 2021. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Mar 23, 2023 | ||
| Apollo Brokers provides software, digital wholesale brokers, technology, sales, and data services for commercial insurance. The company was founded in 2020, and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | $14.5M / Series A / Oct 19, 2022 | ||
| Apollo Brokers provides software, digital wholesale brokers, technology, sales, and data services for commercial insurance. The company was founded in 2020, and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | Aug 05, 2022 | ||
| Paragon is an embedded integration platform for SaaS apps, enabling companies to build products that integrate with the SaaS ecosystem. With Paragon, software companies can integrate with hundreds of different SaaS apps in minutes while providing their customers with a seamless, unified integration experience. Paragon's vision is to build theconnecting layer for all software that enables every application in the world to work together seamlessly.In the last year, they've grown by over 6x and now work with nearly 100 customers around the world. They've raised over $3.5M from world-class investors like Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, Soma Capital, and Village Global, and have been featured in Techcrunch and Forbes. | $13M / Series A / Jul 27, 2022 | ||
| Proof is an identity-assured transaction management platform that verifies identities and secures digital transactions. It offers digital trust by verifying identities and securing transactions, ensuring protection for businesses and their customers. | Secondary Market / Mar 27, 2022 | ||
| The AI Platform for Architects, Builders, and Engineers | $500K / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2022 | ||
| We're building the infrastructure to bring digital experience into the real world. Starting with an SDK for retail stores, which uses maps, AR and hyper-accurate indoor location. The biggest retailers in the world use our technology to drive customer experience. | $3.4M / Seed / Nov 23, 2021 | ||
| Synapbox is a startup that uses AI-powered tools to understand consumer engagement towards Ads. It utilizes emotional recognition, eye tracking, and surveys to understand consumer behavior and deliver key findings to improve the decision making processes among companies. Synapbox is cloud-based and deployed remotely using the participants ownlaptop or mobile camera. This innovative solution collects consumer data at speed and scale, providing Synapbox clients with a real and holistic view of their target audience. | Seed / Nov 01, 2021 | ||
| DoNotPay is an online robot lawyer that allows anyone to automatically claim asylum in the U.S, U.K, and Canada for free. | $10M / Series B / Aug 01, 2021 | ||
| See all 27 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Jovono invest in?
Jovono invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Jovono invest in?
Jovono typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$4M at Seed, $150k–$1.2M at Pre-Seed and $7M–$15M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Jovono's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Jovono took part in.
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Who are the partners at Jovono?
The team at Jovono includes Evan Zimmerman (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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