Joyance Partners

Joyance Partners is a venture fund that invests in what it calls delightful moments: the small experiences that leave people calmer, stronger and happier. It looks for new science and technology that can deliver those experiences.

The firm runs alongside a sister fund, Social Starts, and describes itself as focused on individual health experience rather than process.

What Joyance Partners offers

• Early-stage investment — backing new products at their point of origin.
• Sector focus — genetics and bioscience, the microbiome, neuroscience, virtual and augmented reality, next-generation food and drink, and community.
• Commentary — articles and interviews on early-stage investing, including a conversation with the chief executive of a company developing plant-based fur.

Who it works with

Founders developing products that give people fresh ways to take control of their own health and happiness.

Key facts

• Managing partner: Mike Edelhart
• Sister fund: Social Starts