About
Janine Sickmeyer is a former legal tech founder who started Overlooked Ventures after experiencing firsthand how difficult it was for a solo woman founder to raise capital, and she runs her fund like a scrappy startup using no-code tools while putting in her own money and paying herself very little to prioritize deploying capital to founders. She accepts no warm introductions and instead routes all founders through an open Airtable form where both partners personally review every application and send individualized feedback when they pass, creating structured access that levels the playing field for underestimated founders. Janine Sickmeyer is a former legal tech founder who started Overlooked Ventures after experiencing firsthand how difficult it was for a solo woman founder to raise capital, and she runs her fund like a scrappy startup using no-code tools while putting in her own money and paying herself very little to prioritize deploying capital to founders. She accepts no warm introductions and instead routes all founders through an open Airtable form where both partners personally review every application and send individualized feedback when they pass, creating structured access that levels the playing field for underestimated founders.
