This month at January Ventures: Sano Genetics named startup to watch by Bloomberg, Oula Health is one of LinkedIn’s top startups of 2024, Pano AI makes MIT Tech Review’s list, and more!
Portfolio Highlights
Sano Genetics, focused on leveraging AI to manage precision clinical trials, from design to patient recruitment to genetic testing, has been named one of Bloomberg’s Startups to Watch for 2024. The annual list, which highlights UK-based startups that lead the way in innovation and diversity, is a wonderful milestone that “highlights the business’s significant growth and impact improving access to clinical trials and precision medicine.” Congratulations to the Sano team!
Oula Health, a maternity clinic offering both in-person and virtual care from preconception counseling through a patient’s postpartum period, has been named one of LinkedIn’s Top Startups of 2024. The list features 50 US-based companies on the rise and recognizes them for being fast-growing and shaping the future of their industries. Congratulations to the Oula Health team!
Pano AI, the leading developer of artificial intelligence-driven wildfire detection, has been named to MIT Technology Review’s “15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch” list for 2024. “Pano has emerged as a clear leader in early fire detection. The startup has already deployed its cameras in nine states throughout the western US, including California, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado” and currently monitors “nearly 20 million acres around the world, spotting almost 100,000 fires.” Congratulations to the Pano AI team!
More Portfolio News
Treefera has teamed up with Growth United to form a partnership aimed at revolutionizing supply chain transparency, building on the Grow blockchain for open transactions of commodities and carbon credits.
Sano Genetics has won silver in the Global Good Awards “Technology for Good” category.
Clarity Pediatrics’ co-founder and CEO Christina LaMontagne accepted the Rising Star, Kids Health award from The Digital Health Hub Foundation’s Digital Health Awards.
Guidewheel has partnered with Siemens and #SiGREEN to provide manufacturers with shop-floor data to drive productivity and reduce emissions.
Unitary’s co-founder and CEO Sasha Haco was featured in Entrepreneur UK.
Planet FWD’s Julia Collins was recently on The Startup Lead to share insights on what it means to be an entrepreneur and how she took the leap.
Elektra's Chief Medical Officer Nora Lansen, MD discussed the critical need for employers to provide menopause support in the workplace.
Food for thought
Bérénice Magistretti, writer & disabilities advocate and member of the January Ventures operator network, took to the TEDxMilan stage to deliver her talk “Making The Invisible Visible” where she shared her journey as a visually impaired activist, transitioning from an invisible to a visible disability.
Maren Bannon wrote a contributor article in Forbes about how tech leaders are reacting to the “smartphone-free childhood” debate: Is the real evil social media?
The 2% vs. 20% Dilemma: How misaligned incentives in venture capital impact founders.
Where we were last month
Jennifer Neundorfer attended the Third Annual Emerging Manager Circle Summit hosted by Equal Ventures where she enjoyed candid discussions and meaningful engagement with fellow emerging managers and LPs and explored opportunities and challenges present in the current landscape.
Maren Bannon was a judge for the HearstLabs Startup Pitch Competition in London.
January Ventures hosted lunch for our founder and operator community at Huckletree in London.
Maren Bannon spoke on a panel at the Sie Impact Bootcamp in London, which is an accelerator for early stage female founders.
Jennifer Neundorfer attended the SomosVC Fall Kick Off Dinner in New York. SomosVC is a group of experienced venture investors focused on growing and supporting the Latino/a venture capital ecosystem.
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A blast from the past
Flashback to the early days of building January Ventures in 2019! Community has been a central part of January Ventures from the beginning and we’ve loved seeing it grow over the past five years. Many thanks to Jaqueline Purcell from our Operator Network for sharing this memory from 2019.