Westwood Ventures

Westwood Ventures was a venture capital investment firm based in West Jefferson, North Carolina, established in 2004. The firm focused on investing in companies within the internet, software, and technology-enabled sectors. Through its investments, Westwood Ventures aimed to support innovative businesses that operated in these dynamic industries.

Larry Jen

Managing Partner

5 past transactions

Tellus

Venture Round in 2022
Tellus, Inc. is a financial technology company that offers an online real estate mobile platform designed to connect landlords, renters, property managers, realtors, and service providers for efficient property management. The platform features a property management application that assists users with renting and leasing properties, processing rent payments, handling reimbursement requests, managing work orders, and organizing essential documents related to properties and homes. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Newark, Delaware, Tellus aims to empower users to build wealth through its suite of high-yield cash accounts, which provide significantly higher interest rates compared to traditional savings accounts. The company prioritizes security, employing bank-level encryption to safeguard users' funds, and collaborates with reputable financial institutions to ensure insured banking services.

Ayraa

Seed Round in 2021
Headquartered in Silicon Valley with planned operations in Mumbai & Pune, India, Ayraa AI aims to simplify and modernize workplace security, compliance, facilities, and operations.

Ardius

Seed Round in 2021
Ardius is a technology-driven company focused on transforming the tax credit application process through automation and artificial intelligence. It operates a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform that assists businesses in discovering and claiming available tax credits annually. By leveraging automation, machine learning, and partner API integrations, Ardius simplifies the complexities associated with tax credit applications. This innovative approach enables startups to effectively reduce their payroll taxes and optimize their financial resources.

True Link Financial

Series B in 2020
True Link Financial provides financial services aimed at protecting and increasing independence for people at financial risk, including individuals with disabilities, vulnerable older adults, and people in recovery. The company offers Visa prepaid cards for families and professionals to safeguard beneficiaries, along with investment management and fiduciary accounts. It also provides a software platform that supports budgeting, disbursements, record keeping, reporting, and communication for conservators, guardians, attorneys, independent fiduciaries, nonprofit pooled trusts, family member trustees, and trust companies. The platform helps prevent financial exploitation, limits impulsive cash use that could threaten stability, and preserves access to government benefits. True Link also offers personalized retirement investment planning to deliver steady retirement income. By combining payment tools, investment services, and guardianship-focused technology, the company aims to help vulnerable clients maintain financial independence and stay informed about unusual or potentially fraudulent activity across accounts.

Notable Labs

Series B in 2019
Notable Labs, Inc. is a clinical-stage company that specializes in personalized lab testing services for cancer patients, particularly those with brain cancer. Founded in 2014 and based in Foster City, California, the company utilizes its proprietary Predictive Precision Medicines Platform to conduct drug combination experiments on patients' tumors. This platform allows Notable Labs to simulate cancer treatments and predict patient responses to specific therapies, enabling healthcare providers to prioritize combinations of FDA-approved treatments that can be prescribed without the need for clinical trials. By providing detailed reports to physicians, Notable Labs aims to enhance treatment efficacy and expedite therapeutic development for patients.
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