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Flywheel invests in pre-seed, seed, and early-stage companies in emerging regions of the U.S. and around the world. We target startup founders and teams building business-to-business (B2B) products based on innovation in information technology and/or physical sciences. We often also collaborate with innovators at leading research universities and national laboratories on the formation and incubation of new ventures designed to commercialize their technology assets.
Our typical initial investments range from $100,000 to $1,000,000. We typically reserve up to two times the initial investment amount to make follow-on investments in support of the company’s future growth.
We view ourselves as service providers, and we look for opportunities where we can provide helpful consultation, expertise, and/or relationships in specific areas, such as company strategy and management; recruiting and hiring; product development; customer development, sales, and marketing; growth and scaling; fundraising for follow-on investment capital; and exits and liquidity.
Flywheel also looks for startup founders and teams who will participate in and contribute to our worldwide community of entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators. We have cultivated this unique network over more than twenty years of investing, mentoring, and teaching, with a particular emphasis on connecting participants in emerging startup ecosystems with people and resources in other peer ecosystems as well as Silicon Valley.
