The firm, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, focuses on funding entrepreneurs who are applying technology and business model innovations to industries in the earliest stages of digital disruption, with a particular emphasis on underserved people, places, and stages. IDEA Fund Partners seeks to invest in the software, big data, and healthcare sectors, and its investment philosophy has been honed from years of experience as one of the oldest and most active early-stage investment firms in the Southeast.