Overlooked Ventures

Pipe is an embedded finance platform designed to provide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with access to working capital through innovative financial solutions. By integrating with various services, such as Uber, Pipe empowers businesses to optimize their cash flow and manage their finances more effectively.

Prometeo is a software company specializing in solutions for the construction industry and internet services, offering products like Atlante for project management, MySphere for fieldwork organization, and advanced AI integration.

Femly is revolutionizing menstrual health by providing sustainable and accessible menstrual health products, focusing on organic menstrual products and smart dispensing solutions.

Lalo offers a range of baby and toddler products designed for safety, functionality, and aesthetic appeal, catering to both children and their parents.

A domain name for sale, offering premium domain acquisition services with secure payment options.

Optain Health provides an AI-powered retinal imaging platform that enables rapid, non-invasive screening for diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and other eye conditions, integrating seamlessly into existing healthcare workflows.

Blooming Health empowers organizations to seamlessly connect with their communities through a powerful AI-assisted engagement platform, ensuring every message is personalized and effectively delivered, regardless of age, communication method, or language.

Founded by Arlan Hamilton while homeless with no finance or tech background, Backstage Capital requires at least one founder to be a woman, person of color, or LGBTQ. The fund treats capital allocation as activism and argues that 'underestimated' founders are systematically mispriced assets that create alpha rather than requiring concessionary returns.

Sixty8 Capital is a seed-stage venture fund that deliberately operates from Indianapolis to back Black, Brown, women, LGBTQ+, and disabled founders across the Midwest and South, arguing that coastal VCs systematically overlook innovation from these underrepresented groups in "flyover" regions. The fund is built on years of grassroots work running Black tech incubators and pitch competitions, and operates alongside Be Nimble Foundation to create an integrated platform spanning workforce development, accelerators, and pre-seed/seed capital—with a stated goal of creating 100 millionaires from historically overlooked communities.

Founded by first-time managers, Harlem Capital Partners publicizes its playbook and data-heavy research, runs internships and content programs that reverse-engineer VC knowledge, and aims to back 1,000 diverse founders. The firm systematically documented their journey from a small angel syndicate to raising over $250M+ and turned that playbook into public content to help other emerging diverse managers.

Built on a national community of Black technologists and an integrated nonprofit-for-profit talent pipeline, providing structural access to Black operators and focusing on overlooked founders outside Silicon Valley. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, deliberately positioning the city as a national hub for Black venture capital while funding Black founders and developing Black venture capitalists as a talent factory for the next generation.

Very early ($10K–$100K) pre-seed investor exclusively for Black, Latino, and Native American tech founders, offering hands-on venture building, faith-informed justice lens, tribal-government partnerships, and co-created equity-finance solutions.