Building a successful tech startup is hard, especially for early-stage entrepreneurs.
Brass Ring Ventures partners with founders, boards, and leadership teams to advance their experience and extend their reach, putting success within their grasp.
Who We Help
We support early-stage companies that meet the following criteria:
Focused in education, workforce, community health & wellbeing, and/or financial inclusion
Driving economic opportunity
Solving major, foundational pain point(s)
Clear founder/market fit
Visible exit pathway
How We Help
We support early-stage founders on a highly-selective basis through our growth studio and with investment
Pre-Seed
We provide value to Pre-Seed founders, while building relationships for possible future investment. Through our growth studio, over six to twelve months, we advise and help to execute the fundamentals including:
Developing a predictable and repeatable sales process
Creating and executing against a financial model
Raising early financing from dilutive and non-dilutive sources
Seed
We invest in Seed and Pre-Series A companies, while rolling up our sleeves to help them achieve critical milestones through our growth studio support over 12 to 18 months. Through our growth studio, we advise on and help to execute for scale as fractional executives, including:
Setting and executing against KPIs to prepare for Series A and/or acquisition
Developing and executing a pathway to profitability
Coaching leaders in internal and external communications
Creating and and launching a commercializable product roadmap
Optimizing opportunities for cross sell and upsell
Acquiring key talent and creating a positive company culture
Series A
We double down our support to existing portfolio companies that go on to raise their Series A through follow-on investment.
Growth Studio
Our growth studio brings founders and leadership teams through a six-to-eighteen-month customized program, which leverages our Advise, Educate, Execute model. We support a select number of startups by providing expert guidance and adding capacity to execute across all areas of the business, including:
Revenue generation
& cross selling
Customer retention
& upsell
US market entry
& expansion
Marketing, branding,
& communications
Fundraising
Finance
Product, tech, & AI
Investments
We invest capital in Seed through Series A stage companies with a proven track record of strong growth, customer retention, and impact, which have a clear, scalable market opportunity.
Equally important are passionate founders who display a strong founder-market fit.
We typically work with Seed stage founders for a minimum of three months through our Studio before considering an investment. Our Series A stage investments are typically follow on investments in our existing portfolio companies.
Our Studio + Investment model is differentiated from traditional venture capital.
Founder and Operator Expertise
The leadership team brings a strong track record of building and exiting several successful companies to both public and private entities. The team applies this expertise to its portfolio companies.
Hands-on Growth Studio
Providing deep operational support to portfolio companies, such as business strategy, sales coaching, executive communications, and fractional CFO services, increases their chances of success and growth.
Seed through Series A Stage
BRV is the only Studio and Fund in this space that focuses specifically on Seed Stage to Series A stage companies. We specialize in supporting businesses as they seek to “cross the chasm” from early traction to achieving the milestones required to close the Series A.
Our Companies
