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
Ohio's venture ecosystem is open.
Find your place in it.
Founders
Understand where capital is flowing, who's deploying it, and what it takes to raise in Ohio.
Investors
Map the ecosystem, connect with fellow investors, and access deal flow before anyone else.
Students
Gain real exposure to Ohio's venture ecosystem before you graduate.
Sponsors
Reach the most connected founders, investors, and operators across Ohio's startup ecosystem.
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