Top 50 Android Startup Investors

Investor	Android investments
Great Oaks Venture Capital	10
Google Ventures	8
SVA	8
First Round Capital	7
Kleiner Perkins	7
Sequoia Capital	6
Baseline Ventures	6
Accel	6
Tencent	6
Tuesday Capital	6
Andreessen Horowitz	5
General Catalyst	5
Social Capital	5
CAA Ventures	5
Raymond Tonsing	5
Uncork Capital	5
Tandem Capital	5
Lerer Hippeau	5
Ridge Ventures	5
Band of Angels	5
Unilazer Ventures	5
Felicis	4
CVP Management	4
aws Gründerfonds (aws Founders Fund)	4
Don Dodge	4
DCM Ventures	4
SGH CAPITAL	4
Xavier Niel	4
Shasta Ventures	4
High-Tech Grunderfonds	4
Hinge Capital	4
Makers Fund	4
Sinovation Ventures	4
Patrick Lütjens	4
UpWest	4
Paul Buchheit	4
Merus Capital	4
LaunchCapital	4
OpenOcean	4
Founder Collective	4
Northstar Ventures	4
Paul Graham	3
TMT Investments	3
Inventure	3
PortfoLion Capital Partners	3
Sand Hill East	3
Quest Venture Partners	3
Jarl Mohn	3
CRV	3
Novator	3

Great Oaks Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with a mission to support and invest in the most innovative and disruptive startups. Visit our home page to learn more about our portfolio companies, investment approach, and the experienced team behind our success.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Leverage — Answering the Fundamental Question: "Where
Dashy Dash — Dashy Dash is a free community powered tool that makes it easy to manage invoices, discover new products & compare prices to help you save money.
Pesto — Pesto is a San Francisco-based fintech business that recently released the Pesto Mastercard a next-generation asset-backed secured credit card.

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Context.ai — Context.ai is product analytics for LLM applications. Understand your users and improve their experiences in your LLM powered products.
deepset — We build Haystack NLP framework and deepset Cloud enterprise ML/NLP SaaS platform. We help you implement NLP.
EpiBiologics — EpiBiologics develops first-in-class antibody based targeted therapies against membrane and extracellular proteins that drive underlying disease biology.

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Our experience spans from helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe scale. Over the last 30 years of early-stage investing, our core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with our founder-first approachhave driven our strategy. We are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. We support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging our network to help them propel their businesses forward.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.
Amber Bio — Amber Bio is rewriting the rules of medicine.
Nomic AI — Nomic AI engages in improving both the explainability and accessibilty of AI.

First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Ossium Health — Ossium is building the world's first bone marrow bank to treat blood cancers, improve organ transplantation, and repair damage from radiation.The cells of the immune system are the human body’s natural defenders against disease. At Ossium, they are developing better methods of recovering, preserving, deploying these critical cells to keepdisease at bay.
Cymbal — The human readable block explorer. Explore any wallet, NFT or collection to understand their activity, all in real time.
Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lightforce Orthodontics — LightForce Orthodontics, founded in 2015, makes the world’s first and only fully customized 3D-printed bracket system that is based on the anatomy and tooth morphology of each patient. The company’s mission is to apply modern technology and mass-customization to improve the orthodontic experience for both patients and doctors. LightForce’s platformunites the latest in digital treatment capabilities with cutting-edge, on-demand, 3D manufacturing to offer clinicians the first significant advancement in bracket-based treatment protocol in the past 50 years. A first-of-its-kind in the orthodontic space, Lightforce offers an unparalleled platform for orthodontists and LightForce technicians to collaborate on treatment plans for each individual patient. The company’s solution significantly reduces patient visits to the orthodontist and time spent wearing braces by providing 100 percent fully-customized solutions that improve both convenience and quality, ensuring patients receive the gold standard of care.
Flagship — Flagship develops a SaaS data science solution that brings predictive machine-learning intelligence to retail. Its centralized platform helps businesses make timely, data-driven decisions across internal stakeholders and channels. Flagship enriches retail brands' first-party data with machine learning algorithms to optimize customer retention,inventory sell-through, and revenue.
Captions — Say hello to Captions, the only camera and editing app that automatically transcribes, captions and clips your talking videos for you.

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Rockset — Build blazing fast search and AI applications in record time.
Apollo.io — Search, engage, and convert over 265 million contacts at over 70 million companies with Apollo's sales intelligence and engagement platform.
Buidler DAO — Buidler DAO describes itself as a "network of web3 projects and talents." The effort brings together developers, researchers, and operators with the goal of providing an infrastructure and accelerator for cryptocurrency ventures.

Baseline addresses the gap between individual investors and institutional venture capitalists.Since its inception, Baseline has invested in more than 100 companies and helped more than 50 companies exit profitably for founders and investors alike. We are proud to be a seed investor in the following companies (which were acquired by theseenterprises):PagerDuty (IPO) SFIX (IPO) Twitter (IPO) Instagram (Facebook) Freckle (Renaissance) Spacious (WeWork) Bloc.io (Thinkful) PacketZoom (Roblox) Apiary (Oracle) Datalot (Lightyear Capital) Pocket (Mozilla) TaskRabbit (IKEA) Gild (Citadel) Launchkit (Google) Pronoun (Macmillan) Librato (SolarWinds) Reverb (Wordnick) (News Distribution Network) TrialPay (Visa) TastemakerX (Rdio) ExactTarget (SalesForce) StackMob (Paypal) GoInstance (SalesForce) CoTweet (ExactTarget) Heroku (SalesForce) IndexTank (LinkedIn) Versly (Cisco) BookFresh (Sugar Media) DocVerse (Google) Stax (CloudBees) Town.me (fka MixerLabs (GeoAPI)) (Twitter) Parakey (Parakey) Shape Security Inc (F5 Networks) Machine Zone (AppLovin) n'Way (Animoca Brands) PopSugar (Group Nine) Weebly (Square) MangoHealth (TrialCard) Thinkful (Chegg) mLab (MongoDB) Smyte (Twitter) Appuri (Docusign) Iron.io (Xenon Ventures) Soma (Full Circle) Careport (Allscripts) Kanjoya (Ultimate Software) Piqora (Olapic) Blekko (IBM) Path (Daum Kakao) TellApart (Twitter) Citrus Lane Inc. (Care.com) Crashlytics (Twitter) Metaresolver (Millenial Media) Xobni (Yahoo) OMBPop (Zynga) Flowtown (Demandforce) Hunch (eBay) Instructables (Autodesk) Aardvark (Google) Cake Financial (E*Trade) ScanScout (Tremor Media) Yardbarker (Fox Sports) Sendori (IAC) Rupture (Electronic Arts) Parakey (Parakey)

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Haus Analytics — Automated incrementality experiments and durable, cookieless attribution to help brands make informed investment decisions.
Patented.ai — Building the world's first infringement detector.
LLM Shield — Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today.

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
Agave — Use Agave to connect construction software in minutes - project management, ERP, CRM, precon, and more. Agave makes integration fast and easy with standardized data, docs, permissions, and auth.
ProjectDiscovery — ProjectDiscovery is a remote-first open-source software company simplifying security operations for hackers and developers.

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
Lighthouse Games — Lighthouse works at the bleeding edge of video game development, and our studio attracts and nurtures the best talent in the industry.

Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Mexico, Israel

Portfolio highlights

ConﬁAbogado — ConﬁAbogado is an online legal firm that provides legal solutions to low-income people.
Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
Vendict — Streamline your security questionnaires. Respond to security questionnaires faster, with elaborated answers and supporting evidence. At Vendict, we use state-of-the-art AI technology to fully automate the response process.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ideogram — Ideogram: Helping people become more creative.
Genesis Therapeutics — Their academia-leading research was the initial component of our expanding portfolio of AI technologies. They are combining novel deep neural networks, biophysical simulation, and massively scalable computing infrastructure to achieve industry-leading performance in a molecular generation and property prediction.The company was founded in 2019and based in South San Francisco, California.
Thyme Care — Thyme Care is a dedicated team of nurses and care experts offering value-based cancer care to help you through all phases of the cancer experience.

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Modular — Modular is the next-generation AI developer platform unifying the development and deployment of AI for the world.
Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
Georgiamune — Georgiamune is a biotechnology company developing next-generation immunotherapeutics for cancer and autoimmune diseases.

At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
Flock — Fair and flexible motor fleet insurance for cars, vans, and mixed fleets. Expert support, online policies and stress-free claims. For UK fleets of 20+ vehicles.
Early is Good — OUR SCIENCE Early is Good is taking a biomarker-based approach to help you get there early because we believe that early detection matters to you and your treatment team. Initial BC diagnosis, including non-visible tumors missed by cystoscopy Monitoring for recurrence/progression Reducing the frequency of expensive and uncomfortable cystoscopies Risk stratification and informing patient-specific

CAA Ventures is the venture arm of Creative Artists Agency.

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

DeSo Foundation — DeSo is a layer -1 blockchain designed to build and scale decentralized social apps to 1 Billion users. Take back ownership of your content and social graph with web3 versions of Twitter and LinkedIn.
Bungalow — Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States.Bungalow offersprivate bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members.Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.
Harper Wilde — Harper Wilde owns and operates an online portal for shopping lingerie.The company is committed not only to lifting up ladies, but also to lifting up the future generation of leading ladies. Harper Wilde's purposeful designs and curated options not only make things easier for customers, but also allow us to save money in production costs andpass those savings onto their customers. In this way, they empower women by providing them with more fairly-priced products, at nearly half of what competitors charge.

Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and now serves as its managing director. Raymond holds a bachelor's degree in Arts from University of Colorado Boulder.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Blowfish — Blowfish makes it easy to identify & stop fraud before it happens. Join the leading wallets protecting their users funds with the blowfish security engine
Merkle Manufactory — Merkle Manufactory is a software company contributing to the Farcaster protocol and working on clients.
Polywork — A network that doesn’t restrict you to telling your story through a list of arbitrary job titles; that doesn’t let any random stranger you’ve never even met endorse you for skills you never knew you had. They want to build a network that empowers you and gives you control over your identity and your future opportunities.

Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GPTZero — Covered by >100 media outlets, GPTZero is the most advanced AI detector for ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard. Check up to 50000 characters for AI plagiarism in seconds.
Inscribe — Inscribe helps financial institutions manage risk by empowering teams with fraudulent document detection, intelligent automation, and the ability to better understand customer creditworthiness.
Memfault — Memfault's IoT reliability platform empowers teams to build more robust devices at scale via performance monitoring, debugging & OTA updates.

Tandem Capital is a seed stage venture capital fund investing in stellar founding teams whose innovation extends beyond their products into how they acquire their customers, develop their distribution channels and build their overall brands. Its portfolio companies are disrupting such industries as construction, consumer packaged goods andelectronics, entertainment and media, food and beverage, manufacturing, and transportation and logistics. These businesses originate from various locations around the world but often run global operations and always benefit from a strong connection with Silicon Valley and the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Apps
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, India, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Lambda School — Lambda School is a combination of a school and an investment fund. Lambda School's mission is to find untapped or underutilized talent, and train that talent for the most in-demand jobs in the world. Lambda School is pioneering a new model of higher education in which the school invests in the students, instead of the other way around.
Boom.tv — Your all in one hub for playing games, watching esports, and growing your fans!
Coral Labs — Coral Labs offers a smart manicure device that can automatically paint nails. The company is solving complex problems to simplify personal care. It was founded in 2017 by Bradley Leong and Ramya Venkateswaran and is headquartered in San Mateo, California, United States.

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
Teleskope — Teleskope is a modern data protection platform that automates data security, privacy, and compliance at scale.
Advocate — Advocate will help Americans engage with federal agencies through a scalable technology-enabled services platform to provide disabled Americans with a transparent, hassle-free way to receive the government benefits they deserve. We believe that the application process for these benefits should be easy and the financial support accessible to allqualified claimants

Ridge Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures) is an early stage venture capital fund investing in experienced founders redefining how the world uses software.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
WireMock — WireMock develops an API Developer productivity platform. With the increasing growth of Microservices and API first architecture, dev teams' increased dependency on 3rd party APIs as well as internal APIs presents challenges that impact their dev productivity. WireMock helps developers to mock/virtualize APIs, break that dependency andimprove productivity.WireMock delivers the popular WireMock open-source tool as well as a cloud edition - WireMock Cloud.
Aeqium — A better way to understand, decide, and automate how businesses pay for their most important assets: people.

The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest angel investment group. We are an active group of 150 angel investors who are former and current high tech executives who are interested in investing their time and money into new, cutting edge, startup companies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Champions Round — Champions Round is a sports entertainment company focused on building engaging fan experiences for the fantasy sports industry. Currently available for download on iOS.
Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
Parrable — Parrable is a privacy-friendly identification platform. At the core of its technology is Parrable's proprietary and deterministic identification technology (patents pending) that unifies the user's profile across a given device connecting multiple browsers and apps together without the use of Personally Identifiable Information(PII). Parrable’s identification solution also solves the issue of third-party cookie restrictions in Safari. Given that identity is at the core of what is required for people-based marketing, Parrable provides visibility for marketers into 43% of the U.S. smartphone market that is currently unavailable for them (iOS Safari) where Apple smartphones yield the highest conversion rate. Parrable's Vision Product applies Artificial Intelligence to its existing technology using data (e.g. audience, conversion, click, intender data) to weigh buying decisions. This further enables marketers to reach the right user with the right message at the optimal time maximizing ROI.

Unilazer Ventures is a uniquely positioned Investor with deep experience in the fast growing Indian Consumer, Services and High Impact Sectors.Our interest is in any business that is part of the India Consumption Story which can build Brand and Scale, as well as high Impact Sectors like Agriculture, Health Care, Micro Finance and Education.Unilazer is promoted by First Generation Entrepreneur - Ronnie Screwvala. As a team, we have immense experience in building and scaling consumer and media businesses over the last three decades.Unilazer also supports The SWADES Foundation focused on empowering Rural India through Health & Nutrition, Water & Sanitation, Education, Agriculture & Livelihood and Community Mobilization and has identified One Million people in Rural Maharashtra in its first phase.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Education
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Lido Learning — India's best live, online tuitions for KG to 12 in Maths, Science, English, and Coding with India's top 5% teachers for higher marks. Just 6 students per class.
UpGrad — UpGrad is an online platform that offers educational services to its clients.UpGrad’s range of programs consists of digital marketing, product management, entrepreneurship, data analytics, data-driven management, and digital technology management. It offers industry insights and student support services.UpGrad was launched in 2015 by PhalgunKompalli, Ronnie Screwvala, Ravijot Chugh, and Mayank Kumar and is based in Mumbai.
Niki — With the mission statement “Nobody left behind”, Niki is ushering Bharat into the internet economy. Niki is Bharat’s very own “Full Stack Ramu Kaka" delivering trust and service to over 150 Million customers. Niki has pioneered the Do-It-For-Me Model and it is built with the most advanced proprietary conversational technology that understandsand fulfills customer's needs via voice. Its value chain has a strong supply side gatekeeping that ensures quality goods and services and is coupled with a digital and human stack that provides end to end proactive assistance to the Bharat customers. Niki is backed by US based fintech-focused fund EMVC, Unilazer Ventures, Mr. Ratan Tata, Japan’s Recruit Partners and Haresh Chawla among others.

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Poolside — Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform intended to offer cutting-edge foundation concepts and infrastructure.
Voiceflow — Visually design, prototype and publish voice and chat apps across channels like Alexa, Google or any custom channel/modality. Get started today, with no code.
Weights & Biases — Weights & Biases, developer tools for machine learning

CVP Management is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, startup, early Series A, and early stage investments. It does not invest in life sciences, medical devices and energy production companies as well as businesses that require $5 million to $10 million of upfront capital before validating the concept. CVP Management seeks to invest inbeta, working prototype, and go-to-market stages. It prefers to invest in Information Technology infrastructure with focus on software application, internet, digital media, digital marketing, vertical SAAS, cloud, embedded software, mobile, financial service technologies, and cutting-edge information technology ventures. CVP Management invests in companies based in the Northeast corridor with a concentration on Boston, New York and Toronto. It typically invests between 0.1 million and $1 million and for Seed and Series A rounds it invests between $1 million and $3.5 million. CVP Management invests in companies with enterprise value of $5 million. It prefers to have a seat on the company’s board of directors in its portfolio companies. CVP Management prefers to invest in preferred stock. It began operation on June 1, 1998, with its headquarters in Cambridge in Massachusetts with an additional office in Boston, Massachusetts.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

BlueConic — BlueConic, the leading pure-play customer data platform, liberates companies’ first-party data from disparate systems and makes it accessible wherever and whenever it is required to transform customer relationships and drive business growth. Over 300 companies worldwide, including Hearst Newspapers, Heineken, ING, T-Mobile, and VF Corp, useBlueConic to unify data into persistent, individual-profiles, and then activate it across customer touchpoints and systems in support of a wide range of growth-focused initiatives, including customer lifecycle orchestration, modeling and analytics, digital products and experiences, audience-based monetization, and more. BlueConic is a global company with offices in the US and Europe.
APDS — The US corrections system is broken, but evidence shows that inmate education, rehabilitation, and re-entry services can change this reality. APDS is transforming corrections through best-in-class education technology.
Chainalysis — Chainalysis helps government agencies, cryptocurrency businesses, and financial institutions engage confidently with cryptocurrency.

aws Gründerfonds is Austria's 70m venture capital fund. We invest as co-investor in Austrian high-growth start-ups in their later seed and (pre-)series-A stages.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Austria, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Valutico — Valutico is the world‘s leading provider of web-based company valuation tools.Started in 2014 by a team of enthusiastic Corporate Finance professionals and web developers, the concept was born out of frustration with the status-quo in Corporate Finance practice: That professional company valuations used to be the domain of only the mostsophisticated of investors.At Valutico, it has been their mission from the outset to offer cutting-edge valuation tools to a much wider audience. Today they empower everybody to perform company valuations that meet and exceed the standards of even the leading investment banks and advisory firms.The company today is headquartered in Vienna/Austria and has an additional office in Frankfurt/Germany.
Arkeon Biotechnologies — Arkeon turns CO2 into functional, carbon-negative ingredients for food
ToolSense — Connecting the way OEMs do business.ToolSense enables OEMs to improve customer service, generate insights for R&D and increase customer loyalty - through digitizing their products with the 'ToolSense NOW' IIoT platform and 'ToolSense IOT' Hardware.ToolSense is the winner of Austrian Foreign Trade Award "Born GlobalChampion 2018", ORF Futurezone Award "Best IoT Startup 2017", part of Deutsche Telekom's "hub:raum NB-IoT Warp Program", part of SAP's "Startup Focus Program" and part of University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna's "Student Startup Incubator Program".

Don Dodge

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Hubble Network — a Satellite network connecting billions of bluetooth devices. GLOBALLY.
addapptation — The ABM library of tools and workflows designed to maximize your ABM strategy. Easy to set up, easy to use, easy to scale.
Nimble CRM — A G2 Crowd Market Leader, Nimble helps you build relationships everywhere you engage -- from your inbox to across the web. Try it free - no credit card required.

DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology.DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investingpartners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses.DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Japan

Portfolio highlights

FancyTech — FancyTech creates social media data analytics software that is intended to give users marketing options. Its software creates reports and placement recommendations for marketing, allowing users to target a wider, more relevant clientele.
CADDi — CADDi is an online ordering platform for manufacturing industry.
BentoML — BentoML is the platform for software engineers to build AI products.

Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Asset Reality — Asset Reality manages and realises seized and confiscated assets for public and private sector clients globally.
Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
TabTrader — TabTrader - Cryptocurrency trading terminal. Over 20K+ trading instruments on 20+ major exchanges in one app.

Xavier Niel currently works as the Co-Founder & CEO for NJJ Capital. Xavier Niel is the Iliad Group's majority shareholder and founder. He has been involved in the data communications, Internet and telecommunications industry since the late 1980s. In 1993, before dedicating himself full-time to developing the Group, he founded Worldnet,the first Internet service provider in France, which was sold to Kaptech (LDCom Group) in December 2000. He has been responsible for the Group's major strategic developments, from the launch of the ANNU service and the development of Internet access services based on France Télécom’s repayment scheme as a financial model to the launch of the Freebox project.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Poolside — Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform intended to offer cutting-edge foundation concepts and infrastructure.
Mistral AI — Mistral AI is a platform that assembles team to develop the generative AI models.
Skarlett — Skarlett is a real estate firm that provides purchasing power to the old age people by releasing the wealth blocked in real estate assets.

Shasta is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise technology like SaaS, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence & camera vision.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Deep Sentinel — Deep Sentinel offers the only video surveillance systems on the market with live security guards. See how it works and prevent crime on your property now.
Lightup — Stay on top of data quality with Lightup.ai. Detect data drift and data outages before they hurt product experience and business decisions. Get started in minutes with a free trial. Continuously monitor all your data assets across the enterprise. Be data-driven with confidence.
Tracksuit — Tracksuit has created beautiful, always-on, and radically affordable brand tracking for modern consumer brands. Brand marketers and leaders at consumer brands have access to enterprise-tier brand tracking, specifically built for them, at a price point that works. Teams can easily track awareness, consideration, preference and brand associationsfrom real humans within the wider market, and compare results against competitors.

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is a seed investor that finances high-potential, tech-driven startups. With EUR 895.5 million in total investment volume across three funds and an international network of partners, HTGF has already helped forge more than 500 startups since 2005. Driven by their expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion, its teamof experienced investment managers and startup experts help guide the development of young companies. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech startups in a range of sectors, including software, media, internet, hardware, automation, health care, chemistry, and life sciences.To date, external investors have injected over EUR 2 billion into the HTGF portfolio via about 1,400 follow-on financing rounds. HTGF has also successfully sold interests in more than 100 companies. Investors in this public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry For Economic Affairs and Energy, the KfW Banking Group, and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V., as well as the companies ALTANA, BASF, BAYER, B.Braun, Boehringer Ingelheim, Robert Bosch, BÜFA, CEWE, Deutsche Post DHL, Dräger, Drillisch AG, EVONIK, EWE AG, FOND OF Haniel, Hettich, Knauf, Körber, LANXESS, media + more venture Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, PHOENIX CONTACT, Postbank, QIAGEN, RWE Generation SE, SAP, Schufa, Schwarz Gruppe, STIHL, Thüga, Vector Informatik, WACKER and Wilh. Werhahn KG.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

BeeOLED — BeeOLED’s technology enables OLED displays with significantly improved efficiency, brightness and operational stability at lower overall costs due to a less complex device structure.
sewts — Founded in 2019 and based in Munich, sewts GmbH provides cutting-edge perception software, pushing the boundaries of robotics in processing of easily deformable materials. sewts has developed and demonstrated a unique technology that uses high-precision finite element method (FEM) simulations to efficiently train machine learning algorithms. Theintelligent software solution enables countless applications in industrial automation like the handling of textiles in industrial laundries or the manufacturing of garment. sewts is backed by APEX Ventures, Bayern Kapital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, UnternehmerTUM Initiative for Industrial Innovators and a couple of highly experienced business angels.
Yond — Yond is Prepared to scale your business with our Gym Operating System.

They may have a new flag, but they've been at it for almost a decade now. They’ve learned a lot and they’re a different company than they were in 2009, and they needed a new brand to represent their vision. Venture51 is now H//NGE Capital. They've backed companies like Ripple, Dollar Shave Club, Bird, Getaround, Classpass, eToroand Life360. H//NGE Capital invests in high technology companies leveraging their new, modern venture platform that supports the most promising founders in high-growth markets. They’re not commodity capital; they’re a platform led by operators, data scientists, designers and engineers, guided by investors, and equipped with patient and flexible capital to make risk-on investments in next-generation vertical technologies.Since the best early-stage companies require more than just capital, their platform utilizes people, data and software, in addition to their capital, to provide a differentiated experience at the seed stage. Their DNA is grounded in technology and product — just like the companies they invest in. They believe that this approach to venture capital is fundamentally different from a traditional seed firm.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Sarcophagus — Sarcophagus is an autonomous, incentivized dead man's switch dApp built on Ethereum and Arweave.
Classy — Classy's fundraising solutions help you transform transactions into relationships. Discover why thousands of nonprofits choose Classy.
twine — twine helps build healthier remote teams by bridging silos through guided conversations.

Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection — Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection is a Web3 digital collection platform that includes encrypted art production, promotion, and collecting, as well as IP permission.
HypeLab — HypeLab is a web3 ad network that helps clients acquire new users in a scalable way. It serves both images and video creatives and uploads assets directly on the self-service advertiser portal. HypeLab is located in San Francisco, California.
Hyper — Hyper is an avatar-based social network. We're building the metaverse.

Sinovation Ventures is a full-service venture capital firm that actively invests in the Chinese technology market.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Ruishi Technology — Ruishi Technology develops Myopia prevention and control medical devices.
MetaCene — MetaCene is a blockchain company that aims to create an accessible Web3 world for the masses, with a focus on player-centric entertainment.
Guangjing Energy — Guangjing Energy is a perovskite solar cell module developer, dedicated to the R&D of long-life large-area perovskite solar cell modules.

Patrick Lütjens is an investor, an Experienced Senior Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity industry.

Investment focus

iOS, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Uepaa® — Uepaa AG is the Lone Worker Safety and Peer2Peer (P2P) communication pioneer for mobile devices. After 10+ years of research, Uepaa AG has developed a revolutionary wireless P2P communication technology. Its first product - the Uepaa! Safety app - launched in 2013, successfully showcased this technology’s leadership position. This award-winningproduct evolved into today's industry standard for mobile-based lone worker safety protection. The daily companion for thousands of employees and field forces - working at risk or alone. Uepaa AG, founded in January 2012 by Mathias Haussmann and Dr Franck Legendre, is a Swiss ETH spin-off, headquartered in Zürich.

UpWest is a Silicon Valley-based seed fund investing in Israel’s most promising entrepreneurs. UpWest is focused on a hands-on approach to supercharge the growth of its startups, providing the essential ingredients for success: seed funding, proximity and access to markets and capital, and a supportive community of talented peers. For moreinformation, visit upwest.vc.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Unity SCM — Data across your entire supply chain easily collected and organized in one place
BeeHero — BeeHero - Your precision pollination provider for almonds, berries, apples and more We raise and keep exceptional bees by combining generations of commercial beekeeping experience with cutting-edge technology. Get premium bees & pollinate your crops with precision.
InnerPlant — InnerPlant transforms fields into living sensors with biotech, remote sensing, and data science. We enable plants to express stress within hours of emergence.

Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Character.ai — character.ai is bringing to life the science-fiction dream of open-ended conversations and collaborations with computers.

Merus Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded by former M&A leaders at Google and Microsoft. Merus empowers ambitious teams building tomorrow’s industry-defining platforms. The firm partners with founders that possess unique industry and customer insights, an unwavering commitment to product innovation, and a relentless focus onexecution.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Parabola — Parabola is your toolkit for faster, smarter work. Automate any manual task you usually do in a spreadsheet.
NeuralSpace — NeuralSpace is a one-stop solution for all your Natural Language Processing needs. Train, deploy and integrate your very own speech and text models in more than 80 languages with a click of a button.
DynamoFL — The #1 Solution For Optimized Model Training. DynamoFL delivers state-of-the-art and regulation-compliant AI at a fraction of the cost.

LaunchCapital invests in entrepreneurs who build the future. It focuses on the seed and early stages of development. They plan to make significant follow-on investments in exceptional companies as they continue growing.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Qeepsake — The easiest way to capture and preserve memories about your child or pregnancy.
Logiwa — Warehouse software and 3PL Software - empower companies to run a digital fulfillment network & grow their DTC business.
Wyebot — Ready for worry-free WiFi, proactive problem solving, and money-saving remote capabilities? You're ready for Wyebot.

OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe with offices in London & Helsinki.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hygraph — Hygraph is the next generation GraphQL-Native Federated Content Platform. Integrate all your services with our unique content federation approach and deliver to any destination of choice using our content APIs
Nosto — Use Powerful Personalization Made Easy on e-Commerce Platforms. Nosto generates a 10-30% Average Increase in Revenue.
Sunlight.Io — Sunlight makes performance possible anywhere - from the cloud to the edge. Demanding applications like AI, Big Data, Analytics and Rendering run 3x faster on Sunlight compared to legacy virtualisation, and because Sunlight has a tiny footprint - it’s perfect for the edge. Enterprises and MSPs use Sunlight to cut the costs of delivering highperformance IT by 70%.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Cambridge, UK.

Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Akooda — AI-powered wizard for understanding and optimizing how you deliver value as a team
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Pollen — Grow your freelancing business with step-by-step playbooks from industry experts who have been in your shoes. Join the waitlist for early access.

Northstar Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in innovative solutions to help solve the most pressing societal issues we have today. Our ticket sizes range from £100k to £500k into early stage tech companies. We provide added value in leveraging our network of university partners, funders, non-executive directors and talent to supporteach investment.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
Peek Home — Peek Home provides sketch plans, prices and planning advice for people who are puzzled by the process of creating their perfect home. All we need is your house number & postcode - no home visit needed.
Asaren — The First DNA Test Service at Affordable Prices, Diversity of Reports About Lifestyle is displayed in an Easy-to-Under App. You Can Get it Only in Asa Ren

Paul Graham

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Roforco — Roforco runs a Roblox game accelerator that makes games successful by providing funding, resources and hands-on support. It's YCombinator for Roblox games, built by two YCombinator Alumni. Co-founders Artem and Brain have been building games together since they were 14 were developers on 12 top grossing titles, accounting for over 2.74billion plays/downloads.Prior to building the accelerator, Roforco was a game studio with a portfolio of games that reached benchmarks including 10 million monthly active users and 16,000 concurrent users. Roforco also worked with notable brands such as Unilever, for whom they made an branded game with over 50 million plays.In 2022, Roforco joined YCombinator's coveted startup accelerator and went on to secure a $1.5 million seed funding round from investors including Paul Graham, Dentsu Group, the prev. COO of Activision and the CEOs of Guilded and Jellysmack. Learn more about us at https://roforco.com/For press: tom@roforco.com Based and founded in San Francisco, CA
Novig — Novig is a peer-to-peer sports betting exchange and the first platform to offer commission-free bets.
Manara — We identify and thoroughly vet undiscovered talent. You hire them directly for onsite or remote jobs, diversifying and accelerating your team. Our mission is to accelerate the growth of the Arab tech sector by untapping its human potential. Did you know that 52% of computer science graduates in Palestine are women? Follow us and visit our websiteto learn more.

TMT Investments PLC invests in high-growth technology companies across a number of core specialist sectors and has a significant number of Silicon Valley investments in its portfolio. Founded in 2010, TMT has invested in over 65 companies to date. The Company’s objective is to generate an attractive rate of return for shareholders,predominantly through capital appreciation. The Company is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.tmtinvestments.com.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
Feel — We make the cleanest, potent supplements in the world. Delivered straight to your door. Designed by nutritionists for energy, sleep, stress and hair, skin & nails.
MEDvidi — Telemedicine (Telehealth) consultations with doctors. MEDvidi provides telehealth appointments for mental health, therapy and prescriptions. Competitive pricing, licensed therapists, professional

Inventure is a venture fund that specializes in helping its portfolio companies with talent and expansion. Since 2005, the team has been in venture with over 70 companies ranging from deep tech to consumer internet brands, including Wolt, Detectify, Blueprint Genetics, Swappie, and Insurello. With its €230 million assets under management, Inventurefocuses on Seed and Series A investments across Nordics and Baltics, with offices in Helsinki and Stockholm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Value.Space — Space based risk assessments & monitoring
Melon — Save & organise content from any source. Follow experts and friends. Share your knowledge with others.
Finch — Optimize building design with AI and graph technology. Get immediate feedback on performance, detect errors and find optimal solutions.

Portfolion is a CEE-focused multi-stage investor with a flexible fund structure that allows it to back companies from or before 1st client until the end of their journey. The fund manager has backed some of the CEE region’s most successful companies including SEON, Novakid, Tresorit, Packhelp, and Starschema.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Big Data
Seed, Series A, Series B
Hungary, Poland, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

FLOWX.AI — FLOWX.AI wraps and orchestrates legacy systems, making it incredibly easy for enterprises to create web and mobile front-ends for mission-critical business flows. The revolutionary AI-enabled Apeiron UX engine is able to automatically create a modern, intuitive front-end for customers and employees, helping to consolidate in a unified UI all thebusiness logic cross-systems.This enables companies with complex technology landscapes to create and launch mission-critical digital products fast, and then facilitate an easy path forward to full digital transformation.The revolutionary novel approach is 100x faster and cheaper than existing alternatives. FLOWX.AI allows delivery of enterprise-grade mobile and web digital front-ends as fast as 10 weeks, and requires much smaller engineering teams.
Coding Giants — Put description here
NORBr — Build your no-code payment stack with the best payment providers. One API to rule them all. Move faster. Go further.

Sand Hill East serves as trusted advisors to CEOs and Founders to help navigate them through the inevitable challenges of companies’ early stages of development. Sand Hill East brings substantial business management, operational and technical expertise to bear on companies’ products and market strategy, improving the overall value of products andcompanies.

Investment focus

SaaS, Security, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Roomi — Rent rooms and find roommates in a verified community
Untapt — Data Science and Technology for Talent Acquisition and Recruitment. AI matching, Hiring Marketplaces, Candidate engagement, Custom Solutions
Scorenomics — Scorenomics is a behavioral data and analytics firm that delivers real-time behavioral scores to creditors at the point of transaction. Its platform addresses both the emotional and financial aspects of delinquency, improves customers' payment rates, and identifies normally declined applicants, enabling lenders to easily build empathy intocollections treatments and have consumers engage and get up-to-date.

Quest Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm located in Palo Alto CA. They invest between $300k-$1.5MM in early stage companies, with typical investments being around $500k.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Switchboard Software — Aggregate disparate data at scale, reliably and in real-time, to make better business decisions with Switchboard - a data engineering automation platform used by market-leading digital companies.
Simple HealthKit — Simple HealthKit (SHK) is healthcare from anywhere. Re-built for everyone. We build affordable, accessible and accurate end-to-end diagnostic and digital health solutions.
GameOn Technology — GameOn Technology is the industry-leading AI chat platform that powers authentic conversational experiences for some of the world's largest and most popular retail brands, sports teams and content properties.

Jarl Mohn is the President and Chief Executive Officer at NPR, one of the country's most iconic news and cultural content organizations. In this capacity, Jarl oversees NPR's strategy to continue NPR's mission to create a more informed public by working in partnership with Member stations across the country. Today NPR contentreaches: 32 million people who visit npr.org every month, 26 million people who listen to NPR programming every week, and listeners who download NPR podcasts 72 million times each month. Jarl's deep media experience has spanned all media platforms as well as rapid changes in audience trends. Jarl spent almost 20 years in radio, many as a disc jockey at stations including WNBC in New York. In addition to his on-air work in radio, Jarl served as a programmer, general manager, and owner of a group of radio stations. Jarl created E! Entertainment Television and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer for almost a decade. Jarl is the former Executive Vice President and General Manager of MTV and VH1 where he architected the strategy of long-form programming at the heart of the network today and diversified the networks' audiences by developing innovative programming around alternative music formats. Jarl was also founding President and Chief Executive Officer at Liberty Digital, a public company that invested in cable networks, the Internet and online businesses. Prior to joining NPR in July of 2014, Jarl served the as a Member of the Board of Trustees at Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) for more than a decade, including two years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Jarl also spent over 12 years on the board of The Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, including six years as its Chairman of the Board of Directors. Jarl has also been a Corporate Director and Advisor to a number of media companies, making direct early stage angel and seed investments in digital media/technology ventures. Since 2008 he has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Scripps Networks Interactive. Jarl and his wife Pamela created The Mohn Family Foundation in 2000. Jarl attended Temple University, where he studied Mathematics and Philosophy.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Abstract — Abstract is a software-as-a-service company that is developing a next-generation tool for experts to influence politics and policy.
Dack — DACK is the smartest and most complete software solution for optimizing guest experience.
Lantern — From proactively planning your end-of-life wishes to navigating what to do after experiencing a loss, Lantern has got your back.

CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise and consumer startups. Since 1970, the firm has invested in more than 400 startups at their most crucial stages, including DoorDash, Airtable, Patreon, Drift and Iterable. Founders need more than capital to build a great company. It takes a partner who understands the entrepreneurial journey and knows what it takes to win. From founding to IPO and beyond, CRV is there every step of the way. Founders rely on CRV to be trusted, long-term, committed partners, which has helped make CRV into one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the world. Learn more about CRV and the companies shaping the future at https://www.crv.com.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Demox Labs — Demox Labs develops a decentralized, trustless oracle protocol for the connection of smart contracts to any off-chain data source. The company's data bridge from web2 to web3 unlocks all online data for smart contract development. Demox Labs was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.
Zip — Zip is the new concierge for procurement. Increase employee adoption and get spend and risk under control.
Cable — Cable Tech develops a financial risk control platform that helps reduce the amount of financial crime. Its platform features automated, independent effectiveness testing and assurance for controls and real-time alerts that help clients manage, track, and demonstrate complete oversight of the controls.

Novator is an alternative investment firm founded and led by the international investor and entrepreneur Thor Bjorgolfsson.Novator's investment portfolio is focused around following sectors: Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy. In addition, Novator operates a Private Equity Fund and a Credit Opportunities Fund.Novator focuses on developing strong management teams in each of its portfolio companies. While granting them the autonomy to create value, Novator maintains a supervisory role, principally through representation on the Boards of its investee companies. Novator differentiates itself from many other private equity companies in concentrating on complex situations, either by virtue of their structure or their cross-border nature. To create value, Novator undertakes the restructuring or "de-risking" of investment opportunities through re-financing, combining acquired assets with existing businesses, through sale to strategic or financial buyers, or through flotation. Novator's investment portfolio is focused around four main sectors:Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Iceland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Klang Games — Klang Games is an entertainment & game development studio in Berlin, developing the MMO Simulation and Virtual World, Seed. Klang is always hiring!
Sidekick Health — Our mission is to develop and deliver effective personalized digital therapeutics that prevent suffering and add millions of quality life years to people around the world. Our multi-chronic digital care platform allows us to scale the production of clinical treatments across major chronic diseases.
Olive — Olive's technology evaluation platform finds & compares your best-match enterprise software & manages the selection process. Build requirements from pre-built libraries. Compare all solutions in the market against your unique business needs. Olive takes the best practices of digital transformation and shortens the process allowing you to make smart decisions, faster.