Why January Ventures is funding underrepresented AI founders

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

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Dominic-Madori Davis sat down with Jennifer Neundorfer, Co-Founder and General Partner astatine January Ventures, for a unrecorded occurrence of Equity. The brace dug into however early-stage investing is changing successful the property of AI and wherefore gathering antithetic networks matters.