Launching innovative enterprises by combining exceptional talent, proven processes, and capital resources

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Parthenon Ventures is a business development lab and early stage investment firm with an exclusive focus on software.

Parthenon sources great ideas, builds teams, provides resources, and establishes proven business processes.

The company seeks to attract and maintain a team of world-class operators, marketers, and technologists across a portfolio of strategically important businesses.

FOCUS

We look for all of the following in new opportunities

Pre-Seed Stage

Before venture capital or accelerators

Path to Profitability

Products that can be taken to market quickly

Scalable Software

Grow exponentially with people not linearly

Capital Lite

Business that scale with limited investment

Unique Solution

Disruptive offering with no direct competitors

Strong Sales Model

Clear, high potential distribution plan

Operational Need

We can add value in addition to capital

Brilliantly Simple

Innovative solutions that can be built quickly

Home-run Potential

Vision for a game changing solution

Passionate Founder(s)

Obsessive technologists and entrepreneurs

Proven Pain Point

Fixes a major problem for target customers

Sustainable Advantage

Long-term ability to hold off intense competition

Large Market

Requires minimal share for large outcomes

Significant Value Proposition

Step change improvement, not marginal change

Recurring Revenue

Generates predictable revenue streams

We do not work with ad supported business models, inventory based e-commerce, highly cyclical industries, or businesses heavily dependent on federal spending