The Next VC land grab is evaluating investment opportunities at scale For decades, Venture Capital Funds have been pitching “proprietary deal flow” as one of the top reasons LPs should invest in their funds. Their networks — scouts, entrepreneurs, investors, venture partners, and employees — could not be replicating by…

Do coastal investors and founders put more emphasis on higher levels of education? Connetic Ventures invests Coast-to-Coast across North America. We have invested in 37 states and hope to get to 50 in the coming years! We do have a small geographic limitation — we do NOT invest in the…

2021 was another challenging year for all of us. Despite the continued disruption to all of our lives, VC continued its tear reaching new highs in terms of funding and valuations. …

Another year in the books and female entrepreneurs are still being treated completely different from their male counterparts. Over the last 5 years we have had the privilege of meeting hundreds of female founders. Which has resulted in investments in over 35 amazing female entrepreneurs. In fact, 37% of our…

Ranking all US tech ecosystems by extraversion If you know anything about Connetic and the work we do, then you know understanding the behavioral psychology of entrepreneurs is a passion of ours. So much so, that we built TeamPrint, one of the world’s leading behavioral assessments from the ground up. …

Scientific findings from the world’s largest behavioral study on early-stage startup founders 3 years ago, we started our data-driven mission of becoming the first Venture Capital Firm in America to use data from sourcing all the way through to investment decisions. As we initially built out our technology, we started…

And our first Venture Partner, Matt Price. We are excited to announce the launch of our Venture Partner Program and our very first Venture Partner, Matt Price. …

In this post, I will compare the startup ecosystems of Ohio’s 3 main cities to identify a potentially winning formula for manufacturing startup success. — I am a Partner at Connetic Ventures, a pre-seed and seed-stage fund located in Covington, KY just across the river from Cincinnati. Though we are based in the Greater Cincinnati area, we have invested in more than 85 startups across 35 different states and 3 countries. We have also established…

5 Ways Corporations Can Move Beyond Incremental Innovation So, I think some backdrop is in order. I live, work, and play in a small-town community in the middle of the country called Union. Union is in the northern part of an agricultural state (KY) and is a southern suburb of…