Ohio Impact Fund

What they do

Ohio Impact Fund is a $5 million early-stage venture fund focused on uplifting and empowering Ohio’s most promising impact-driven startups. The firm backs enterprises rooted in social, community, or environmental causes, with key focus areas including climate tech and sustainability, expanded equity and access, financial access for all, and good health and wellbeing. It provides capital from pre-seed to early expansion stages in exchange for equity and actively measures the real-world impact of its portfolio while connecting impact investment communities across the state.

What they look for

Ohio Impact Fund invests $5 million in impact-driven startups in Ohio from pre-seed to early expansion stages, focusing on climate tech and sustainability, equity and access, financial access, and health and wellbeing. It targets visionary, often underrepresented entrepreneurs addressing pressing social and environmental challenges while aiming to generate financial returns and measurable impact.

Stage

Pre-seed, Seed, Series A

Sectors

Climate, Fintech, Healthcare

Based

Columbus, US