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Justin Wright-eakes

Managing Partner at Oval Park Capital

Raleigh, North Carolina

Overview 

Justin Wright-Eakes is the Managing Partner at Oval Park Capital, specializing in early-stage DeepTech venture capital in Raleigh, North Carolina. With a background in distressed debt and special situations investing, he has served on the boards of multiple companies and has expertise in areas such as valuation, financial modeling, and corporate finance. Highlights of Justin's career include his role as Managing Partner at Oval Park Capital and his involvement as a board member in various companies, showcasing his expertise in guiding businesses through financial restructuring and strategic decision-making.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Partner

    2018 - Current

    Oval Park Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm on a mission to back breakthrough physical and industrial technology startups that solve complex and costly problems in industries that have traditionally been underserved by technology. Oval Park invests primarily in the Southeastern U.S. and other overlooked startup ecosystems, with sector focus spanning Advanced Manufacturing & Materials, AI Infrastructure & Computing, Climate Tech & Sustainability, Healthcare Data & Interoperability, Robotics & Automation, and other mission-critical solutions.

Oval Park Capital is a Early-Stage Venture Capital Firm.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Sironix Renewables is a cleantech company pioneering plant-based, high-performance surfactants and ingredients that enhance sustainability and safety in consumer products.

  • 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 specifically designed for AI acceleration and enabling unparalleled hardware interoperability.

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

    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 a cybersecurity risk management platform that provides continuous monitoring, real-time vulnerability assessment, and targeted remediation solutions to help organizations secure their digital ecosystems.

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.

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