{"id":8257,"date":"2025-11-20T11:38:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/this-pre-seed-fund-is-backing-the-ai-founders-everyone-else-is-missing-equity-podcast\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:38:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:38:02","slug":"this-pre-seed-fund-is-backing-the-ai-founders-everyone-else-is-missing-equity-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/this-pre-seed-fund-is-backing-the-ai-founders-everyone-else-is-missing-equity-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"This pre-seed fund is backing the AI founders everyone else is missing | Equity Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While everyone&#8217;s chasing the next AI infrastructure play in San Francisco, some of the most defensible AI companies are being <!--more--> built by founders with deep expertise in legacy industries \u2014 and they&#8217;re not getting funded. January Ventures aims to fill that gap, writing pre-seed checks for underrepresented founders transforming healthcare, manufacturing, and supply chain with AI. <\/p>\n<p>At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Dominic-Madori Davis sat down with Jennifer Neundorfer, Co-Founder and General Partner at January Ventures, for a live episode of Equity. The pair dug into how early-stage investing is changing in the age of AI and why building different networks matters.  <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Equity on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While everyone&#8217;s chasing the next AI infrastructure play in San Francisco, some of the most defensible AI companies are being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}