Untapped Capital

Who we are

Untapped Capital is launching a $10MM seed stage venture firm to fund startups founded by undernetworked founders. Today, there are an increasing number of seed VCs, most of them relying on referrals, inflating valuation for rounds led by well networked founders. We narrowly focus on investing in great founders on the fringes of the startup ecosystem. Two reasons: first, a more reasonable valuation for similarly great companies produces better ROI, and second, from an impact perspective, identifying great founders that might otherwise be overlooked is great for the ecosystem. We find these founders by optimizing the firm, operations, and CRM, for proactive outreach - we expect about 90% of our pipeline to be outbound. Uncovering great startups and building relationships with them is what Yohei Nakajima has specialized in through his time working at Techstars and Scrum Ventures, and with organizations such as The Walt Disney Company and Nintendo.

Current AUM

<25M

Sectors

AI/ML, B2B, Business Intelligence, Cleantech, E-commerce/Consumer Internet, Education, Enterprise Tech, Fintech, Healthcare, Other

Stages

Pre-Seed, Seed

Regions

Europe, North America

Countries

Canada, Estonia, UK, US

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TBDF Ventures LLC (TBDFV), the organizer of Beyond The Billion (BTB), is a company serving the global consortium of investors pledged to invest beyond $1bn collectively into women-founded technology companies and funds and firms that invest in them. BTB builds on the success of The Billion Dollar Fund for Women, the initial campaign co-founded by our founders. BTB is not a venture fund, an investment bank, a broker-dealer, investment clearinghouse, or an investment adviser, but rather a forum in which investors may be educated on aspects of investment and business, as well as introduced to companies for possible investment, in particular, those led by women. Each investor and allocator pledged to BTB’s mission is responsible for his or her own investment decisions, and neither TBDFV nor BTB recommends companies or financial products for investment. Participating funds may be highlighted to various institutional and other investors and managers, with the aim of catalyzing capital towards women-founded companies; but are not guaranteed allocations from any specific fund. The Founders of TBDFV and BTB may hold interests directly or indirectly in featured funds and associated companies. Information is obtained from participant funds, believed to be reliable, but is in no way guaranteed by TBDFV or BTB. No guarantee of any kind is implied or possible where projections of future conditions are attempted.