Our Approach

Be First. Be Impactful. Be Rewarded.

The Pre-Seed Fund

Adaptation Ventures is a pre-seed venture capital fund that sees the opportunity for market-rate returns and impact in disability, neurodivergence, and accessible tech startups – this includes diagnostics, caregiving, and women’s health.

Market

We look for exceptional founders who run companies that serve or can serve the disability/neurodivergent communities, and demonstrate the ability to be venture-scalable. This can be permanent, temporary, or situational disabilities.

Sector

We proudly differ from other funds in that we are sector-agnostic. This means that we will consider investments in B2B and B2C startups that provide technology and hardware for any part of the disability market and community.

Stage

We are an early-stage fund. Our primary objective is to lead pre-seed rounds and co-invest in seed rounds. This is where we believe we can help make the biggest impact.

Diligence

Select companies will move to diligence and engage in a diligence process that is designed to be thorough, yet short. We aim for 2-3 weeks to reach a decision, and actively help our founders syndicate their rounds.

Innovation

Our portfolio is a mixture of next-generation software and hardware companies. We do not consider therapeutics or services businesses.

Speakers & Education

We aim to bring difficult topics in the accessibility/disability tech space to the forefront, inspire future founders to start accessible tech companies, and educate investors about the incredible opportunities for investment in these types of companies.

Hands-on Approach

We want to be active in helping our founders grow successful companies. As a result, we have developed a framework and network for our portfolio companies to access subject-matter experts that we believe will be most impactful to them.

Amplification

Our job is not only to deploy money to startups, but to bring a voice to the opportunities and needs of our portfolio companies and the countless other startups doing important work for the disability community and the world.

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