At Nationwide Ventures, we're focused on one, and only one, mission: to help talented entrepreneurs build great technology companies. That's what drives us and everything we do - from how we organize our organization to our investment strategy. Our investment strategy is simple: be the first venture investor in technology companies that seek to create new markets. We focus on early-stage investing and take a labor-intensive, service-oriented approach in markets where we have direct experience. These markets include application services, infrastructure services, Internet retail, Internet Services - Business, Internet Services - consumer, mobile/wireless Internet services, and software.  To make sure that each of our portfolio companies gets the support it needs to succeed, we actively limit the number of companies we invest in. This strategy gives us an unusually high partner-to-capital ratio and ensures portfolio companies get the attention they deserve.