Wedbush Ventures
About Wedbush Ventures
A pre-seed and seed fund backing "visionary problem solvers": execution-oriented founders with strong founder/market fit who take a user-centric approach to big, market-transforming problems, in industries that are in transition. Software must be a core part of the solution.
Founders with unique, deep insight into a market and the tenacity to execute; a product users will love, aimed at a meaningful problem; a vision to redefine or create a market. Technology should serve the problem rather than be the product.
Petra Stuhmeier Griffith
Managing Director
Launched Wedbush Ventures; product, strategy, marketing and operations leadership at Netflix, Yahoo! and 24 Hour Fitness; Los Angeles-based for 20 years and focused on the SoCal tech ecosystem.
Per wedbushventures.com: likes companies raising $1-3M rounds; core areas are fintech, future of commerce and media, future of work, and future of healthcare; stays away from regulated sectors it does not know (biotech, cannabis, medical devices) and from CPG. Partnered with Wedbush Capital, the Los Angeles investment firm, which is the first investor in its funds and supports its infrastructure, giving portfolio companies access to Wedbush's research and investment-banking network. Committed to Southern California but backs founders across the US. Portfolio page groups companies under Fintech, Healthcare Tech, Future of Work and Commerce Tech (names not published in a form this listing could verify).
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