Why January Ventures Is Funding Underrepresented Ai Founders

While everyone’s chasing nan adjacent AI infrastructure play successful San Francisco, immoderate of nan astir defensible AI companies are being built by founders pinch heavy expertise successful bequest industries — and they’re not getting funded. January Ventures intends to capable that gap, penning pre-seed checks for underrepresented founders transforming healthcare, manufacturing, and proviso concatenation pinch AI.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Dominic-Madori Davis sat down pinch Jennifer Neundorfer, Co-Founder and General Partner astatine January Ventures, for a unrecorded section of Equity. The brace dug into really early-stage investing is changing successful nan property of AI and why building different networks matters.