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Factor[e] Ventures

VC
Fort Collins, CO / Nairobi, KenyaWebsite

Factor[e] Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Fort Collins, CO / Nairobi, Kenya investing in Other, Deep Tech. The firm typically writes $50K–$500K checks and has 7 portfolio companies in our records.

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$50K – $500K

AUM

$10M

Portfolio

7+ companies

Team

6 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Factor[e] Ventures backs early-stage ventures addressing energy, agriculture, and mobility in emerging markets, leveraging technology to deliver impact.

How Factor[e] Ventures invests

Factor[e] Ventures is a vc firm based in Fort Collins, CO / Nairobi, Kenya. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Deep Tech.

Factor[e] Ventures typically writes checks of $50K–$500K per investment, backed by approximately $10M in assets under management.

Factor[e] Ventures has backed 7 companies in our records, including Ampersand, Altech Group, Sistema.Bio.

Meet the Team

HM

Hillary Mizia

Executive Assistant

MD

Morgan Defoort

Managing Partner

NG

Nick Goddard

Venture Partner

JW

Joel Wanjohi

Investment Director

KT

Kiette Tucker

Chief Operating Officer

CJ

Chris Jurgens

Managing Partner

Energy
IoT
Emerging Markets
Hardware

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Deep Tech

Portfolio Companies (7)

Other

AM

Ampersand

Clean Energy, Mobility
AL

Altech Group

Energy, IoT
SI

Sistema.Bio

Sustainable Agriculture

Sistema empowers family farms with innovative biodigester and biofertilizer technology, training, customer service, and financing to enable them to become more independent and productive.

S4

S4S Technologies

Sustainable Agriculture

S4S provides a transformative solution for smallholder farmers through solar-powered dryers.

OP

Open Access Energy

Clean Power

Open Access Energy is building the software layer to connect independent power producers, and distributed consumers.

OD

Odyssey Energy Solutions

Clean Power

Odyssey unlocks the energy access market and facilitates rapid deployment of microgrids and distributed power plants in emerging markets.

CL

Clean Crop Technologies

Sustainable Agriculture

Clean Crop’s technology uses electricity and cold plasma to decontaminate food by treating seeds and finished products.

How to pitch Factor[e] Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Other, Deep Tech — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $50K – $500K check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Hillary Mizia, Executive Assistant.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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