A NATIVE AMERICAN FIRM
TRIBAL OUTREACH & THE NATIVE IMPACT COUNCIL
Led by Kelly Holmes, Tribal Outreach Ambassador, Relevance Ventures and NACIA
The connection between Native Americans and buffalo goes deeper than looking at the bison only as food. Native Americans consider the buffalo as a brother. Buffalo are a part of Native Americans and Native Americans are a part of the buffalo, culturally, materially, and spiritually. Buffalo represent unity and strength and are admired and respected in Indigenous cultures.
South Dakota State University, August 2024
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Health, understood the way Indigenous communities have understood it for generations
Western notions of health emphasize illness, symptoms, and profit. Native conceptualizations of health build on deep connections to each other, our environment, and the Earth itself, on balance, and on taking only what is needed. This definition of health is not a modern invention. Relevance Ventures invests in companies that are finally catching up.
THE FIRM
Relevance Ventures is the nation's first independently owned Native American venture capital firm. Founded by brothers Cameron Newton and Dean Newton, members of the Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia, joined by Bryan Hunt, CFA, as the firm's third General Partner. The firm invests in early-growth health companies, Series A, B, and C, across Personal, Community, Digital, and Financial Health.
THE THESIS
Relevance Ventures is the nation's first independently owned Native American venture capital firm. Founded by brothers Cameron Newton and Dean Newton, members of the Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia, joined by Bryan Hunt, CFA, as the firm's third General Partner. The firm invests in early-growth health companies, Series A, B, and C, across Personal, Community, Digital, and Financial Health.