# Joyance Partners

> Joyance Partners is a VC fund backing Health Care and Biotechnology. See 119 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 119
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last fund: Jan 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/joyance-partners/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/joyancepartners
- Website: https://www.joyancepartners.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoyancePartners/

Joyance Partners is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Health Care and Biotechnology. Joyance Partners invests in companies that, through science and tech, cultivate joy to improve how we live, focusing on the health and consumer sectors from Pre-Seed to Series A.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $960k–$5.2M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$2M |
| Series A | $3.6M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 42 | 35% |
| Biotechnology | 23 | 19% |
| Wellness | 18 | 15% |
| Food and Beverage | 17 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 9% |

105 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 52 | 44% |
| Series A | 19 | 16% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 6% |
| Convertible Note | 7 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 53 | 45% |
| Germany | 8 | 7% |
| Switzerland | 5 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 4% |
| Japan | 4 | 3% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Holly Jacobus | Investment Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holly-jacobus |
| Andrew Nealon | Chief Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-nealon |
| Charles Smith | Venture Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-c-smith |
| Charles Smith | Venture Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-smith |
| Claire Cherry | Investment Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claire-cherry |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| KilgourMD | KilgourMD develops hair and scalp care products for reducing shedding and supporting scalp health. They formulate topical serums and treatment solutions. Their products address hair loss prevention and scalp maintenance. |  | Series A | Mar 26, 2026 |  |
| Lucky Energy | LUCKY F*CK is a better-for-you energy drink company. | $25M | Series B | Nov 11, 2025 |  |
| NOMU | NOMU provides the personalized drinking experience with its proprietary reusable cup drink machine. | $3M | Seed | Oct 15, 2025 |  |
| KilgourMD | KilgourMD develops hair and scalp care products for reducing shedding and supporting scalp health. They formulate topical serums and treatment solutions. Their products address hair loss prevention and scalp maintenance. | $5M | Seed | Oct 15, 2025 |  |
| Japan Culture and Technology | Japan Culture and Technology assists artists and craftspeople in expanding their activities by providing IT support. | $7.8M | Series B | May 15, 2025 |  |
| Epicore Biosystems | Epicore Biosystems develops a proprietary wearable microfluidic platform that is ‘skin-like’ and capable of analyzing small droplets of sweat for proteomics, inflammatory markers, hydration, and health biomarkers to enable personalized management of health, performance ,and nutrition. Epicore's wearable sensing technology is based on over twodecades of microfluidics and soft materials research by Prof. John Rogers and Dr. Roozbeh Ghaffari at Northwestern University's Querrey-Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics. | $6M | Series B | May 01, 2025 |  |
| PostCoffee | PostCoffee is an online coffee platform that provides coffee subscription and delivery services. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 25, 2025 |  |
| Millie | Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there. | $12M | Series A | Feb 20, 2025 |  |
| DAMDAM Tokyo | DAMDAM is clean skincare born from Japanese craftsmanship and time-honored plant ingredients. We believe in creating thoroughly modern, thoughtfully made products that cultivate a connection between ourselves and the natural world. The line is minimal, made up of purposeful essentials formulated to work alone or in harmonious combination with eachother. All products are made with 100% natural ingredients that have high efficacy without causing irritation. Equally important, they feel weightless on skin. | $3M | Seed | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Kyan Health | Kyan Health is the first Swiss digital health company to provide end-to-end, fully personalized, evidence-based mental wellbeing and health solutions for employees and their families. The company's mission is to create a frictionless experience when accessing and engaging with mental health and wellbeing support services at work – fromemployee engagement and awareness creation over self-improvement and self-care to coaching and counseling. | $12.7M | Series A | Nov 26, 2024 |  |

10 of 119 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Joyance Partners invest in?

Joyance Partners invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Wellness startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 119 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 Joyance Partners's check size?

Joyance Partners typically joins rounds of $960k–$5.2M at Seed, $500k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $3.6M–$21M 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 Joyance Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Joyance Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Joyance Partners?

The team at Joyance Partners includes Holly Jacobus (Investment Partner), Andrew Nealon (Chief Analyst) and Charles Smith (Venture Partner), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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