Osage Partners
Osage Ventures
Our investment criteria include:
Management
  • Repeat successful entrepreneur
  • Proven business builder
  • Sales leadership
  • Domain expertise
Industry focus
  • Technology: IT, software, SaaS, internet, business services
  • Healthcare: healthcare IT, healthcare services, medical devices, diagnostics
  • Other sectors considered on a case by case basis
Business Model
  • Repeatable sales model and recurring revenue
  • Product versus project based revenue models
  • Proven market size in excess of $500MM
  • Innovation versus incremental step change improvements
Geography
  • Mid-Atlantic region, which we broadly define as Washington, D.C., to New York to Pittsburgh
  • Other regions considered on a case by case basis
Stage
  • Our investments typically have trailing 12 month revenues of $500K - $1.5MM
  • We seek strong evidence of market traction, such as revenue, pilot customers, partnerships or license agreements, etc.
Deal Size and Structure
  • We invest $750K - $1.5MM initially and reserve 2-3x initial invested capital for follow-on rounds
  • We prefer to invest in the Series A round or the first institutional round
  • We typically lead or co-lead the round
  • We prefer companies that require $5-10MM or less of equity capital to achieve cash flow break-even or exit