Different Funds

WHO WE ARE

We’re investors and operators with unique access and insights in over 65 markets across the US and around the world. We’ve architected our team to blend expertise across multiple industries, bridging venture capital, institutional asset management, marketing and technology product development.

TARGET SIZE OF FUNDS

Sector

Extended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, AI/ML, Big Data

Stage

N/A

Region

North America

Countries

Founder(s)

Leslie Jump

Leslie has over 30 years experience building, advising and investing in new companies, in the US and across the globe. She is the Founder and CEO of Different, the first platform designed and built for investing in venture funds. Prior to that, she was a Partner in Sawari Ventures, LLC, a Cairo-based early stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs across the Middle East/North Africa. She continues as an advisor to Flat6Labs, Sawari VenturesÕ dedicated startup accelerator for seed stage investments. Leslie has served on the Board of UP Global, a network of entrepreneurs and startup community leaders, and Ubongo, a leading children’s edutainment company reaching over 440M children in Africa. She is an alumna of St. Johns College (Annapolis, MD/Santa Fe, NM), and serves on its Board of Visitors and Governors.

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.