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Jonathan Fentzke

General Partner at Far Out Ventures

Boulder, Colorado

Overview 

Jonathan Fentzke is an Investor and Co-Founder at Far Out Ventures, with a background in science and entrepreneurship. He has invested in a variety of startups, including Scout Space and Kayhan Space, focusing on sectors like insurance, logistics, and enterprise applications. Fentzke has served as an All Star Mentor at Techstars and invested in companies like AltScore and Hyperspec-ai, showcasing a strong track record in guiding and supporting early-stage ventures in their growth and development.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder | GP

    2022 - Current

    FOVC investors at pre-seed to seed stage at the intersection of vertical saas and fintech in overlooked geos and founders with B2B/Enterprise business models.

  • All Star Mentor

    2021

    Top 1% of mentors across the Techstars network - nominated by founders. Provided mentorship to 50+ programs and 1000+ founders during this time.

  • LP: TSV 2017, TSV 2022, TSA 2024

    2020

  • Capital Team

    2021 - 2022

    Capital formation analytics and capital deployment strategy for techstars global network of funds.

  • Managing Director

    2019 - 2021

    2021 Vintage: 10 investments | 1 exit 2020 Vintage: 10 investments | 2 exits

Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.

Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.

  • Investor

    2020

Kayhan Space ensures satellite operators maintain situational awareness of their space assets

Raised $11,270,000.00 from EVE Atlas, Castor Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Booz Allen Hamilton, Beyond Capital, Space Capital, Techstars Ventures, Overline, Techstars and Root Ventures.

  • Investor

    2021

Seasats: Effortless ocean data.

Raised $10,010,000.00 from Monozukuri Ventures, Keith Masback, Techstars Ventures, L3 Harris Technologies, Techstars and Monozukuri Ventures.

  • Investor

    2020

Cognitive Space develops a generation machine intelligence platform for satellite constellation management.

Raised $9,620,000.00 from OpAmp Capital.

  • Investor

    2021

  • Investor

    2021

Scout is developing orbital products and services to enable a new era of space safety, transparency, and improved Space Domain Awareness.

Raised $355,000.00 from Leonid Capital Partners.

  • Investor | Board Director (Former)

    2020

  • Investor

    2021

We are expand navigable roadways for autonomous vehicles from 3% to 95%, today, by equipping each car with our onboard vision hardware.

Raised $1,880,000.00 from StratMinds and Techstars.

  • Investor

    2021

Pierce Aerospace develops Remote ID technologies for unmanned aircraft under the Flight Portal ID product suite.

Raised $1,080,000.00 from Techstars.

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