Wedbush Ventures is built with the belief that leveraging your own experience and background leads to market transforming solutions.
We believe that founders need to start with the user and deeply understand the needs and motivations of their potential users. While market forces are important, we believe solving for market problems will lead to undifferentiated solutions.
We believe that founders need to then look at problems through their own unique lens because that leads them solutions to complex problems that others simply haven’t seen.
We are excited by big, hairy, and new problems and like unique technology solutions that enable a compelling product. But technology should be focused on the problem and not the product itself.
Finally, we back founders who are deeply passionate about the problems they are solving; founders who are driven and don’t give up.
We've been on the frontlines of product innovation, defining product strategy and operating at startups and organizations that have grown to be leaders in their industry. We want to be your sounding board, partner, connector, (and shoulder to cry on), to help you be the next leader in your industry.
What we look for in companies
We look for founders with strong founder/market fit who deeply understand the problem they are looking to solve. We also like industries that are in transition and have the opportunity to be redefined.
Visionary Founders
Founders who have unique and deep insights into markets and the tenacity to execute
User Centric Focus
A product (or service) that solves a meaningful problem that their customers will LOVE
Redefining a Market or Creating a New Market
A vision to truly transform an industry, and scale
Are we the right fit for you?
Industries
While we like to be surprised by founders whose background and experience has given them a unique lens to solving a problem, but we typically like to invest in industries we know and can add value in.
The core areas we focus on are: fintech, future of commerce & media, future of work, and future of healthcare (if you couldn’t tell, we like companies who are defining the future!)
Software needs to be a core part of your company’s solution (as much as we love CPG, it’s not our expertise). We stay away from sectors with regulations that we are not experts including biotech, cannabis, and medical devices.
Stage
We focus on pre-seed and seed stage companies. We like companies raising $1-3M.
Wedbush Ventures + Wedbush Capital =
Entrepreneurial Expertise + Network and Resources
We are proud to partner with Wedbush Capital. Not only is Wedbush Capital the first investor in our fund, they also support the infrastructure so we can focus on making our investments and helping our founders. We have access to their research and investment banking network to provide even more connections for our portfolio companies.
Who is Wedbush Capital?
Wedbush Capital is a Los Angeles based, privately held, diversified investment firm that has been investing in private and public companies for more than 40 years, both directly as well as through its sponsored funds, such as Wedbush Capital Partners and Wedbush Ventures. Its largest holding, Wedbush Securities, is a leading financial services firm that provides its clients, both private and institutional, with a wide range of wealth management, research and investment banking services. Visit Wedbush Capital
