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Open Opportunity Fund is a venture and growth investment firm backing B2B software companies across Enterprise IT, Fintech, and People Ops.

Open Opportunity Fund is a technology venture capital firm focused on investing in software companies founded by outstanding overlooked founders. Open Opportunity Fund's portfolio spans B2B SaaS, enterprise IT, artificial intelligence, fintech, and health tech. Opportunity Fund 1 is a $100 million fund with SoftBank as an anchor LP. The firm has invested in 75 tech companies including Atomic, Brex

, Cityblock Health, Eight Sleep, Esusu, Lumu, Paystand, QuickNode, Squire, and Subject. The fund has achieved seven portfolio company exits. In 2023, the team led by Paul Judge and Marcelo Claure acquired the Fund from SoftBank and announced Fund 2 to continue to execute the thesis.

08/21/2026

𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈🚀

Thank you to Reggie Marable, Chief Customer Officer at Sierra, for recently joining us for a sharp fireside chat on how enterprise selling is changing.

Three takeaways we're still thinking about:

1. Earn trust with proof, not promises. Low-commitment entry points and outcome-based pricing make it easy to say yes to something small - then prove your way to a bigger relationship.

2. Engineer credibility early. Respected design partners, founders in the room with early customers, and security and compliance handled head-on build confidence before you have scale.

3. AI accelerates, but people close. The stack is a multiplier for research, prep, and pipeline - but in-person relationship building still closes big enterprise deals

08/10/2026

Atlanta showed up, the founders delivered, and Open Pitch 2026 ended with two champions. 🏆🏆

From hundreds of startups → 4 finalists → 2 winners, each receiving a $125,000 investment prize. 🚀

🏆 Groundwork Health: an Atlanta-based, AI-powered platform helping healthcare organizations deploy and manage community health workers.

🏆 Path Intelligence: an AI-powered spatial intelligence and buyer engagement platform for the real estate industry.

Congratulations to our winners and welcome to the Open Opportunity Fund family! 🎉

And congrats to fellow finalists Greens Health and Facecard for an incredible showing.

Thank you to our judges Master P, La La Anthony, Angela Simmons and Paul Judge, our partners Earn Your Leisure and Invest Fest, Troy Millings, Rashad Bilal, and our host Kendra G.

📍 Atlanta | August 9, 2026
Presented by Earn Your Leisure + Open Opportunity Fund

06/22/2026

repost: Forbes At the Forbes Self-Made 250 Celebration, Paul Judge, managing partner of Open Opportunity Fund and a serial entrepreneur, told Forbes senior editor Alex Knapp that a deeper understanding of any industry will become more valuable as artificial intelligence transforms how companies are built.⁣⁣
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05/12/2026

Coworked is bringing agentic AI to one of the most capacity-constrained functions inside the enterprise: project management.

We’re thrilled to announce our co-lead investment in Coworked’s $1.8M Round.

Enterprise PMOs and transformation teams have spent years adding tools, but the real challenge has not been more software. It has been ex*****on capacity. According to PMI, the industry will need 25 million additional project managers by 2030. That pipeline does not exist. Coworked Harmony closes that gap.

"Project managers should be spending more time on leadership, judgment, and stakeholder alignment, not chasing updates or keeping logs current," said Shawn Harris, PMP, CEO and Co-Founder of Coworked. "Harmony handles the ex*****on grind so PMs can focus on strategy and stakeholders. We built this because we lived it while working in Fortune 500 enterprises. We knew exactly where the work breaks down."

"Agentic AI has the ability to fill critical talent gaps by adding AI workers into an enterprise. Project management is one of the clearest examples of where this shift will happen: work that has historically required human coordination, follow-through, and judgment can now be done by AI agents. Coworked's team brings the subject matter expertise in enterprise project management to understand the workflows and organizational dynamics needed to build a solution that works inside large organizations,” said Paul Judge.

We’re proud to partner with the Coworked team as they build the future of enterprise project ex*****on.

Learn more: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/coworked-raises-1-8m-to-bring-agentic-ai-to-enterprise-project-management-302769549.html

05/05/2026

Thank you to the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) for spotlighting Open Opportunity Fund and our mission to invest where traditional venture capital often isn’t looking.

At Open Opportunity Fund, we believe some of the most compelling opportunities are being built by overlooked founders in emerging tech hubs and across business-critical software categories shaping the next decade of innovation.

Read the full feature from NAIC here: https://naicpe.com/member-profiles/open-opportunity-fund-investing-where-traditional-venture-capital-isnt-looking/

05/01/2026

“Developers are changing how they build, and AI is becoming a more natural interface for how they build software. They now expect to interact with APIs more dynamically and move from idea to production much faster. By bringing Finix into tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, we’re aligning with that shift and making it easier to go from a question about payments to building on our platform.”

- Richie Serna, CEO and co-founder of Finix

A timely look at how payments infrastructure is adapting to the way developers build today.

Learn more: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/finix-launches-mcp-integrations-with-chatgpt-claude-and-gemini-to-bring-payments-infrastructure-into-ai-native-developer-workflows-1036071863

04/13/2026

Thank you to the Power100 presented by Blueprint Capital Advisors for recognizing Paul Judge and Sháka Rasheed
as part of the 2026 Power100 Asset Managers honorees.

This list highlights leaders across venture capital, advisory platforms, fund-of-funds, and institutional investment organizations who play a critical role in the investment ecosystem by sourcing managers, conducting rigorous diligence, and deploying capital with discipline and conviction. Their leadership helps shape the next generation of investment firms and market-defining companies. We are honored to see both Paul and Shaka recognized among this year’s group and proud to be part of a broader community helping shape the future of venture capital.

We’re looking forward to attending the Power100 event in LA on May 4th. Thank you to Blueprint and the Power100 family for organizing this. Congrats to all of our peers recognized in the list.

For more important, visit http://power100family.com

04/11/2026

📣 Deadline Extended: Apply by April 20 at 11:59 PM ET

We’ve extended the application deadline for Open Pitch, our startup competition at Open Opportunity Fund, presented live at Invest Fest 2026.

As part of our commitment to backing exceptional early-stage founders, Open Pitch is designed to spotlight bold entrepreneurs building the next generation of AI and agentic companies. From finance and healthcare to cybersecurity, marketing, logistics, education, and beyond, we’re looking for founders using AI to reshape what’s possible.

The winning company will receive a $125,000 investment prize. Five finalists will pitch live on stage at Invest Fest 2026 in Atlanta, gaining national exposure, investor access, and the opportunity to share their vision in front of thousands.

📅 New deadline: April 20 at 11:59 PM ET
📍 Live at Invest Fest (Atlanta) | August 7-9, 2026
🎤 Presented by Earn Your Leisure + Open Opportunity Fund
🔗 Apply now at theopenpitch.com

03/04/2026

Congratulations to our portfolio company Eight Sleep and founders Matteo Franceschetti and Alexandra Zatarain on their recent $50M financing at a $1.5B valuation.

Eight Sleep has built a category-defining platform at the intersection of health, longevity, and applied AI, using real-time physiological signals to deliver personalized sleep optimization at scale.

“What we’re building doesn’t exist yet — a system that understands your body better each night and acts on that knowledge. Our goal is to build the defining health technology company of this generation.” - Matteo Franceschetti, co-founder and CEO of Eight Sleep.

We are proud to have invested in 2021 and to have witnessed the team’s exceptional ex*****on and long-term vision.

02/24/2026

We’re excited to bring Open Pitch back for 2026. As part of Open Opportunity Fund’s pre-seed sourcing strategy and our ongoing focus on identifying exceptional entrepreneurs early, Open Pitch is designed to expand our reach and surface high-potential founders building the next generation of AI-native and agentic tech companies.

Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules across every industry, from finance to healthcare, cybersecurity to sales & marketing, logistics to education. If you’re building in this space, we welcome you to apply. The winning company will receive a $125,000 investment from Open Opportunity Fund, with finalists pitching live on stage at Invest Fest in Atlanta (August 7-9, 2026) in partnership with Earn Your Leisure.

Applications are open now at www.theopenpitch.com and close April 10 at 11:59 PM ET. Founders are invited to apply today.

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