Justin Wright-eakes
Managing Partner at Oval Park Capital
Raleigh, North Carolina
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2018 - Current
Oval Park invests in and actively partners with visionary founders building early-stage deeptech and hardtech startups, commercializing disruptive and protectable technologies, and solving the world's most complex and costly problems. Oval Park invests in a wide range of technology verticals (advanced materials, artificial intelligence & machine learning, robotics & automation, microfluidics, nanotechnology, and sensors & photonics) focused on solving problems in a wide range of industries (agriculture, climate, construction, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, waste, and water).
Oval Park Capital is a Early-Stage Venture Capital Firm.
Board Member
2024
Novel chlorine-tolerant reverse osmosis membranes for wastewater reuse and desalination applications.
NALA Membranes provides environmental services with an intention to bring new reverse osmosis membranes.
Raised $4,537,335.00 from Good Growth Capital, Oval Park Capital, RTP Capital Associates, Oval Park Capital and Good Growth Capital.
Board Member
2022
Talli is the operating system for caretakers, enabling seamless event logging, data sharing, and insights.
Board Member
2022
Lemurian Labs has developed a novel, unified software stack and streamlined computer architecture specifically designed for AI acceleration.
Lemurian Labs develops efficient, high performance programmable hardware accelerators for edge AI and robotics workloads.
Raised $9,142,174.00 from Oval Park Capital, Futureland Ventures, Tola Capital, AI Fund, Alumni Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, Silicon Catalyst, Blue Lake Capital, Good Growth Capital and Green D Ventures.
Board Member
2022
Archaius is developing two critical dual-use technologies, addressing longstanding navigation and positioning challenges and critical communications resilience issues.
Archaius develops a patented field and phase technology to deliver Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing.
Raised $1,350,000.00 from XN, Oval Park Capital and Stony Lonesome Group.
Board Member
2022
Phinite has developed proprietary waste-to-value systems that convert hog waste into fertilizer, solving costly environmental compliance issues for farmers while providing a sustainable new source of nutrient-rich organic fertilizer.
Phinite provides technology to transform manure into regenerative biofertilizer.
Raised $2,683,690.00 from Triangle Tweener Fund, Innova Memphis and Ag Startup Engine.
Board Member
2021
AI-powered video technology platform that seamlessly converts long-form videos into munchable marketing content ready for distribution.
Board Member
2021
Medicom's federated healthcare information network (Medicom Connect) enables unparalleled imaging and clinical data interoperability between health systems, radiology groups, and other healthcare industry participants. Its data commercialization platform (Medicom Intellect) enables network participants to deidentify and commercialize valuable datasets to support third-party development of new medical technologies and therapeutics.
Medicom is a SaaS Healthcare IT company.
Raised $36,323,287.00 from Oval Park Capital, Cone Health Ventures, Grayhawk Capital, Triangle Tweener Fund, TGH ventures, UPMC Enterprises, Triangle Venture Capital Group, Carolina Angel Network and Triangle Tweener Fund.
Board Member
2021
Axil Health is a tech-enabled healthcare services company that delivers chronic care management, remote patient monitoring, and other care coordination services through a proven pharmacist-led care model.
Board Member
2021
FortifyData is an integrated cyber risk management & ratings platform for identifying, monitoring and presenting cyber risks.
Raised $6,300,000.00 from Open Opportunity Fund, Oval Park Capital, Tech Square Ventures and BIP Ventures.
Education
BS
2004 - 2008