DVRGNT Ventures

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DVRGNT Ventures Investing in the future of America—one underestimated founder at a time. We fund the bold, the brilliant, and the overlooked. Welcome to the Great 38™.

DVRGNT Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, specializing in providing strategic investment and operational support to innovative startups in the Midwest, Mountain West, and Southern states. Founded in 2022 by B. Pagels-Minor, a seasoned operator with over 15 years of product and business experience, the company is dedicated to fostering the growth and success of its portfolio companies through a commitment to partnership and collaboration. With a targeted fund size of $10,000,000, DVRGNT Ventures is focused on investing in early-stage companies at the prototype and seed stages. The firm's geographic focus on companies outside the traditional tech ecosystem is aimed at capturing significant opportunities for growth and innovation in these regions.

Summer’s winding down. Let’s get back to building.September Signals from DVRGNT: closer attention to where founders are ...
09/25/2026

Summer’s winding down. Let’s get back to building.

September Signals from DVRGNT: closer attention to where founders are building, what they understand about their markets, and how more people discover that work.

Two places to look this month:
• the new Great 38 website
• the Borderless Pitch Contest (Oct 12–13)

Full note: https://blog.dvrgntventures.com/p/dvrgnt-ventures-signals-september

05/25/2026

A year of change. A second chance. A future worth building.

DVRGNT Ventures founder, B. Pagels-Minor had the opportunity to talk about the differences in smaller VC funds and large...
06/19/2023

DVRGNT Ventures founder, B. Pagels-Minor had the opportunity to talk about the differences in smaller VC funds and larger one's for TechCrunch

Smaller funds raising less institutional capital gives them more leverage to take risks, which is what investing in diversity is seen as.

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03/09/2023

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Gabrielle Union opens up to PEOPLE about being an entrepreneur and her haircare brand's first grant initiative supporting Black women-owned businesses.

03/01/2023

Igniting the next generation of innovation in the overlooked Midwest, South, and Mountain West regions. DVRGNT Ventures is committed to supporting and investing

More on our why with our founder B. Pagels-Minor.
02/09/2023

More on our why with our founder B. Pagels-Minor.

Today we discuss the background behind DVRGNT Ventures. How my southern roots and desire to take the road less traveled, has led me on a path of creating rea...

01/30/2023

How startups targeting M&A as an exit strategy can be less risky

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