OUR STORY
Built by someone who has been in the room and wanted to open the door.
Ohio Venture Pipeline exists because the data was always there. It just was never being shared.
We exist to make Ohio's venture ecosystem impossible to ignore. Too much capital flows past great ideas simply because those ideas were never visible. Ohio Venture Pipeline changes that by mapping every deal, surfacing every opportunity, and connecting every player so the right people find each other faster.
THE MAN BEHIND IT
Jeff Davids has spent decades in the room where deals get made.
An Ohio native who spent 28 years building in California, JD founded a software startup and served as CFO/COO of 7 other startups that collectively raised over $100 million in venture capital and closed more than $1.3 billion in exit deals. He came back to Ohio and found a thriving ecosystem that nobody was talking about. So he built the platform to change that and the Collegiate Edition to ensure the next generation of Midwest founders and investors do not have to figure it out alone.
8 Startups
$100M Raised
$1.3B in Exits
STUDENTS
STUDENTS
Get real exposure to Ohio's venture world before you graduate.
SPONSORS
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FOUNDERS
Know where capital is flowing, who's deploying it, and what it takes to raise in Ohio.
Now you know why we built it. Here is how you can be part of it.
Reach the most connected founders, investors, and operators in Ohio's startup scene.
INVESTORS
Map the ecosystem. Find co-investors. Source deal flow before anyone else does.