Start on the Ground Floor

The partners and affiliates at Inspovation have built many companies, and we've had the good fortune of taking a few public. However, our fondest memories are the earliest days of each company when we truly thought that our innovation would change the world and the entire team functioned as one close-knit family. This is the stage at which we choose to partner with startups.

Go Deep Not Wide

Building companies is a lot more fun than managing portfolios. Our model revolves around a small number of selective investments where we can devote significant bandwidth and add substantial value.​

Teams That Inspire Us

We believe that the founding team is the engine of any successful company. So we like to partner with founding teams that have a balance of deep technical experience and business acumen. It's also vital that they are well versed with the target market and domain.

Innovations that Matter to Us

Smart people have been around forever. So ideas that excite us must clearly address a basic question: “Why now?" Is there a technology, business, cultural or regulatory trend that is making a solution compelling? Is there a large enough opportunity for such a solution to become a large viable business?​

The Sixth Man

In addition to investing, we like to “fill the gaps” and be the partners “on call” for entrepreneurs starting new companies. We provide advice as requested and leverage our collective network for initial customer acquisition, recruiting, fundraising and more.