Windward Ventures

About The Fund

Windward Ventures is an investment firm that specializes in early-stage investments, focusing specifically on the information technology (IT) and Telecommunications, Media, and Technology (TMT) sectors. They do not invest in seed-stage companies. Instead, Windward Ventures targets companies that are a bit more established within the early-stage category. The firm's detailed investment approach encompasses a variety of sub-industries, including communication and telecommunication, electronics, broadband technologies, optoelectronics, semiconductors, systems engineering, software, Internet infrastructure, data storage, and medical devices sectors. They predominantly invest in private companies that are based in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego, fostering growth within this geographic hotbed of innovation. When it comes to financing, Windward Ventures has a minimum investment of $1,355,000 and a maximum investment of $25,000,000, aiming to strike a balance between substantial monetary support and manageable funding portions. Their investments also usually involve taking a minority stake in the companies they finance, and they prefer to have board representation to actively participate in guiding the companies toward success. Their specialties in investment stages include primarily early but not seed stages, signifying that they look for companies that have moved beyond the conceptual phase and have started to demonstrate some level of market traction or product viability.