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About SJF Ventures SJF Ventures is a leading impact venture capital firm dedicated to driving innovation and sustainability. With offices in Durham, New York City, and San Francisco, we partner with entrepreneurs who are transforming their industries to deliver superior financial returns and positive environmental and social impact. Since its […]

By Kelsey Jarrett And we’re back again. It’s time to talk about annual reporting. Every year, SJF Ventures conducts a comprehensive impact survey to assess the social and environmental impacts of our portfolio companies. The survey comprises a set of standard questions about employee experience and job quality, as well as […]

By Kelsey Jarrett and Elizabeth Roberts When we think about cyberattacks, we tend to think about big targets and big ransoms. With costly incidents on the rise, private equity and venture investments have followed. Yet the impact of cybercrime isn’t just on large institutions. Over the past few years, a […]

By Joey Barrick As the frequency and severity of climate-related events increase, investors, insurers, and entrepreneurs are turning their attention to climate adaptation and resilience. But how do we actually prepare for and recover from the current impacts of climate change, and what steps can accelerate innovation for a more […]

By Joey Barrick Annual record-setting in the climate crisis is becoming the new normal. This year is on pace to be the hottest ever recorded. Last year saw a record number of weather events that caused more than a billion dollars in damages. Investing in climate mitigation strategies is essential […]

At SJF Ventures, we look to conduct impact-oriented value creation projects with portfolio companies, helping to ensure additionality in our investments. This work can begin as early as pre-investment diligence, when we identify potential impact initiatives that we can drive during the holding period. These initiatives have ranged from job […]

Earlier this year, SJF Ventures completed its 2023 Impact Survey — a comprehensive review of each of our portfolio companies that assesses the social and environmental impacts of their operations. Our goal as an impact investment firm is to accelerate the positive benefits these companies bring to society, “bending the […]

Congratulations to Easy Metrics on a $31 million investment by Nexa Equity. Easy Metrics empowers leaders to drive operational speed and efficiency, cut waste, prioritize investments, and adopt labor and automation strategies that ultimately fuel the growth of their businesses. Easy Metrics is based in Bellevue, Washington, and serves more […]

The funding, led by SJF Ventures, will fuel the company’s expansion of its technology platform, broker network and innovations in the short haul industry. “By giving brokers a technology platform that incentivizes haulers, helps reduce administrative burden and alleviates cash flow challenges, they can provide better service and grow their […]

By Arrun Kapoor Over the last 12–18 months, we’ve seen some dramatic shifts in the economic and technology environments surrounding education and workforce development. The post-pandemic era of flush corporate budgets has been replaced with more conservative purchasing and decision making. To make things more challenging, advances in generative AI […]

As the earth’s climate crisis continues to unfold, SJF Ventures is engaging with a broadening array of companies fighting climate change. We are looking to back businesses not only in areas where we a have been active for decades – such as in clean energy, energy efficiency, mobility, circular economy […]

Menopause has long been overlooked and misunderstood. It is a condition that is, at worst, the butt of jokes and, at best, discussed in whispers. In recent months, however, that narrative has shifted. The New York Times (here,  here and here), Bloomberg, and Axios have all called attention to menopause, […]

The funding, led by Primetime Partners, SJF Ventures, and CEOC‘s Aging Innovation Fund, will fuel the digital health company’s continued expansion of its technology platform and engagement services for older adults and caregivers. NEW YORK, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — 3 – DUOS, a digital health company focused on empowering older adults to […]

SAN FRANCISCO, May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Carrum Health today announced an oversubscribed $45 million Series B financing led by OMERS Growth Equity. Revelation Partners joined the round along with return investors Tiger Global, Wildcat Venture Partners, Cross Creek and SpringRock Ventures. Carrum Health will use the funding to expand its growing oncology benefit offerings and scale its surgical […]

LAS VEGAS — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Today, City Innovate – the expert in accelerating document-centered workflows for government procurement, contracts, grants, and budgeting for federal, state, and large local government – is announcing the general availability of three City Innovate end-to-end solutions built on ServiceNow: City Innovate S2PInsight™ – Source […]

NEW YORK — (BUSINESS WIRE) — True, the premiere global platform of innovative talent management products and services, announced today it is acquiring Jopwell, a hiring platform focused on advancing the careers of Black, Latinx and Native American students and early-to-mid-career professionals. Jopwell perfectly complements the executive-level recruitment focus of True Search and […]

BOULDER, Colo., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Respondology, a Boulder Heavy Industries portfolio company (BHI) co-founded by digital veterans to eradicate hate, abuse and spam on social media and to empower brands and organizations to optimally manage social engagement across multiple platforms, has announced the closure of its Series A round of […]

DURHAM, N.C. – Validic – NOV. 14, 2022 – Validic Inc., a market-leading digital health and remote care company devoted to its mission of improving the quality of life by making personal data actionable, today announced it closed a $12 million financing round led by Kaiser Permanente Ventures, a national strategic healthcare […]

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BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 2, 2022 / PRNewswire / — Terabase Energy today announced a $44 million Series B financing co-led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Prelude Ventures with additional participation by SJF Ventures and other existing investors. The round brings Terabase’s total funding to $52 million and will be used to support the company’s mission to reduce the cost and increase the […]