Beta Boom

Beta Boom is a Salt Lake City-based pre-seed venture fund focused on under-represented founders, including women and founders of color, in non-coastal US markets. The firm typically invests $50k-$250k at pre-seed. Healthcare exposure is opportunistic, with the firm focused more broadly on under-represented founders building software, consumer-tech, and digital products in geographies typically overlooked by coastal VCs. Best fit: under-represented pre-seed founders in non-coastal US markets building digital health, healthcare software, or consumer health products who would benefit from a small but signal-rich pre-seed check from a firm with a real diversity thesis; founders with limited access to coastal venture networks. Entry path is the Beta Boom website (which has a clear application process) and warm intros through the firm’s portfolio and non-coastal accelerator networks. Not a fit for biotech, medical devices, life sciences tools, or coastal founders with strong existing venture access. For an under-represented healthcare software founder in a non-coastal market, this is a credible early check; for founders outside the firm’s stated focus, the fit is much more limited and the firm is unlikely to be the right primary check.