Hifestus Ventures is a Founder-Led firm headquartered in Tampa, Florida. Our Principals are entrepreneurs-turned-investors, with 25+ years of industry and startup expertise.We focus on finding and nurturing early-stage product-focused software technology companies.Our hands-on approach, combined with a data-driven methodology helps us support tech entrepreneurs with highly scalable resources and strategies.
We identify and support product-focused founders with a SaaS Solution to an industry problem who are looking for help with Go-To-Market and scaling their company. We invest in software companies that are founder-led, have bootstrapped their way to a strong product market fit, and are looking to accelerate growth.We are the Strategic Venture Partner of choice of founders because of our extensive experience in building software companies.
We identify and support product-focused founders with a SaaS Solution to an industry problem who are looking for help with Go-To-Market and scaling their company. We invest in software companies that are founder-led, have bootstrapped their way to a strong product market fit, and are looking to accelerate growth.We are the Strategic Venture Partner of choice of founders because of our extensive experience in building software companies.
We invest in founders building early-stage SaaS companies. Our team brings an experienced SaaS operating voice and has built a unique platform to help our portfolio grow and scale.
Our companies have early signs of product-market fit, but do not have a strong GTM Strategy in place yet. There must be potential for growth with some revenue and a product live in market.
- Series Seed, A or B
- Some previous funding, but generally not raising more than $15M
We invest in exceptional founders from diverse backgrounds who solve large-scale problems using innovative technologies in sectors including: CyberSecurity, FinTech, Edtech, Climate Technology, Health Tech and Life Sciences, Ag-tech Systems, Data, AI and other critical technologies.
We focus on serving a specific segment of businesses that have a strong industry knowledge and have built a solution to automate a problem within their industry sector.
Founding teams are comprised of experienced operators with 10+ years of industry experience.
They may be struggling with original founder evaluation. or may need to buy out other founders who are not committed to the cause.
