Top 50 Art Startup Investors

Investor	Art investments
Galaxy Interactive	6
Industrifonden	6
Id4 ventures	5
Social Starts	5
Active Venture Partners	5
Founders Fund	5
Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures	5
Collab+Currency	5
SVA	4
Melih Odemis	4
Betaworks	4
P101	4
Erdem Yurdanur	4
Cyan Banister	4
Animoca Brands	4
Oliver Slipper	4
Jorg Mohaupt	4
Azure Capital Partners	3
Arts Alliance	3
Lux Capital	3
Chicago Ventures	3
Grace Beauty Capital	3
Bullish	3
Saviu Ventures	3
FireStarter Fund	3
Flamingo DAO	3
Vanadium Capital Management LLC	3
Piton Capital	3
Firstrock Capital	3
Real Ventures	3
Kima Ventures	3
Exponential Creativity Ventures	3
Eleven Ventures	3
Scott Belsky	3
Galaxy Digital	3
LetsVenture	3
Angels Capital	3
The LAO	3
LongLing Capital	3
Thomas Bunnik	3
Amazon Alexa Fund	3
Antler	3
Sony Music Entertainment	3
Divergence Ventures	3
Craft Ventures	3
Hesham Zreik	3
Bashar Hamood	3
Placeholder	3
Founder Collective	3
Nicolas Julia	2

Play the Future. Galaxy Interactive is a leading sector-focused VC investing in interactive entertainment, at the intersection of content, social, finance and technology.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Finland, India

Portfolio highlights

Sword & Wand — Sword & Wand is a fully remote studio that focuses on shared online experiences and systemically driven replayability. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Kissimmee, Florida, United States.
Protopia AI — Retain ownership of your plain-text queries and context and still use the most powerful Large Language Models
Oasys — Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.

Industrifonden is a Nordic evergreen venture capital firm with a fund size of $600m, that focuses on early-stage technology and life science companies with international potential. The company works long term with the entrepreneurs we invest in, and have a strong track record of building game changing companies. Industrifonden-backed companiesinclude tech companies Qlik, Arcam, Soundtrack Your Brand, Fishbrain, and life science companies CellaVision, Oncopeptides and AMRA.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Sweden, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Retein — Aquammodate is a greentech company that produces highly pure water at minimum energy cost.
Open Payments — Open Payments connects you to multiple banks through one single unified API. This removes the complexity and frictions of many diverse integrations
Teitur Trophics — Teitur Trophics is a biotech company developing circular peptides for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.

Id4 is an asset manager, designed for family offices and private investors, committed to unearth valuable and outstanding tech opportunities in Europe

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
France, United Kingdom, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Gensyn — The Gensyn protocol provides hyperscale, cost efficient, compute capacity for all deep learning workloads.
Amalia.io — Streamline Sales Compensation. Incentive & Compensation Management platform that accelerates your business while uniting your team.
AYES — AYES provides the leading AI service to create accessible mobility for blind and visually impaired people.

Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hey Jane — Get safe, effective and affordable abortion pills delivered fast to your home. Hey Jane is the first digital abortion clinic, connecting you to licensed providers in your state through telemedicine.
Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.
Fulcrum — Designed with technology in mind, be free of paper with Fulcrum, the manufacturing ERP of the future. Ai scheduling, visual BOM, live tracking

ACTIVE is a European venture capital company focused on positively disrupting its traditional sector. Spearheaded by a diverse, passionate and multinational team, it is building a reputation for providing support that goes beyond capital for high growth businesses.With a presence in Spain, Germany and Scandinavia, ACTIVE targets entrepreneurialteams driving digital start-ups and seeking holistic partnerships based on shared values and pro-active support. Start-up founders connect to the unique ACTIVE community to engage with sector specialists, growth experts and senior advisors.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Spain, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Odilo — Odilo removes the technology barriers, allowing any institution to offer all kinds of digital content to its users whilst ensuring compliance with copyright laws.Their company is one of the leading software solutions for libraries offering a comprehensive product suite to discover, manage and distribute digital content as well as print.They are headquartered in Cartagena, Spain and have offices in Madrid, Spain; Miami, Florida; Mexico City, Mexico; and New York, New York.Their aim is to develop the market’s most innovative and creative solutions. They lead the way in defining and designing efficient, user-friendly products, serving the needs of public, private, university, school and special interest libraries today, while enabling them to transition into the future.
Whisbi — Live commerce platform leader for Enterprises. Improve the quality of online leads, grow your digital revenue and enhance online customer experience with your live streams and live shopping
Healthify — Healthify builds the infrastructure that integrates social determinants of health into the era of value-based healthcare by creating networks of social service organizations.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
Mendaera — Mendaera enables all healthcare providers to perform precise and consistent point-of-care interventions. Their platform combines real-time imaging, robotics, and artificial intelligence to aid physicians in image acquisition and interpretation.
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.

O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) is in the business of funding disruptors, innovators, and hackers of the status quo. From open source to the early days of the web and its recent resurgence, O'Reilly Media has played a key role as trend spotter and advocate for putting world-changing technologies on the map. OATV effort is to bring thelegacy, resources, and relationships of O'Reilly to each investment they make.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pachama — Harnessing AI to drive carbon capture and protect global forests
Impart Security — Real-time API Security spanning discovery, monitoring, and enforcement.
Videra Health — Videra Health often provides vital signs, such as heart rate, blood pressure, etc. The richness of the whole can drive insight into the relationship with the providers, medications, and treatment programs. Videra Health aims to empower patients and healthcare providers through AI-powered care-related analytics and insights to improve patientengagement, develop treatment plans, track symptoms, evaluate progress, monitor medication responses and safety, and achieve positive outcomes.

Collab+Currency is a crypto-focused venture fund that backs early-stage projects developing the next generation of financial infrastructure, culture, and human organization.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

DRiP — Collectibles every week from your favorite creators. For free.
ZTX — ZTX is a web-3 virtual world that supports communities and creators. ZTX is a blockchain project that jump crypto and ZEPETO, the largest avatar social network, have collaborated on.
Sound — Sound connects artists and listeners to take ownership over the culture they create together.

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.

Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Deplike — Everyone can make music!
UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!

Betaworks Ventures is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund, having invested in more than 150 companies. We invest in new consumer behaviors and trends powered by frontier technologies, and are often amongst the first institutional investors to invest.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Wand App — Wand is a co-creative, AI-driven tool that allows artists the manual control and customization they need to realize their ideas.
Tableland — A 3k generative NFT built from 1,074 handcrafted works of art for the builders and creatives of cyberspace.
Ghost Message — Ghost your messages

P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

mama health — mama health is a platform to find others around the world living the same journey as you - and learn form each other's experience.
Mundimoto — Mundimoto is a motor cycle trading platform.
Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.

Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost

Investment focus

Mobile, Advertising, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Tiramisu — TIRAMISU MOBILE GAME STUDIO
Charmy — Charmy is a music social media site available online. Users can create playlists, share photos, and search for songs they prefer.
Ulak — [ENG] ULAK is a mobile app, that helps you find nearby couriers and place a custom order. With ULAK, the nearest courier to your location is directed to you, serves with the shipment you choose, app displays the instant location information until your shipment is delivered, shares delivery details with you, securely collects your payment from yourcredit card and completes the transaction. If you wish, you can get service with cash payment as well...[TUR] ULAK akıllı telefonlar üzerinde çalışan, motorlu kuryeye ihtiyacı olanlarla, güvenilir motorlu kuryeleri buluşturan bir mobil uygulamadır. ULAK ile size en yakın kuryeyi çağırarak gönderinizi yapabilir veya özel sipariş verebilirsiniz. ULAK ile bulunduğunuz konuma en yakın kurye size yönlendirilir, seçeceğiniz gönderi şekli ile hizmet verir, gönderiniz teslim edilene kadar anlık konum bilgisini gösterir, teslimat detaylarını size iletir, ödemenizi güvenli bir şekilde kredi kartınızdan tahsil eder, işlemi tamamlar. Dilerseniz nakit ödeme seçeneği ile hizmet alabilirsiniz.

Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Orson — Meaningful connection is a universal human need. It's our stories that create empathy and bind us together.
Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.
TipTop — Buying stuff is easy, selling it is hard. But maybe there is a world where you don't have to sell things any longer? Curious?

Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner and ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification that is working to advance digital property rights and contribute to the establishment of an open metaverse. The company develops and publishes a broadportfolio of products including the REVV token and SAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. It has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Grease Monkey Games, Eden Games, Darewise Entertainment, Notre Game, and TinyTap. Animoca Brands has a growing portfolio of more than 340 investments, including Colossal, Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others. For more information visit www.animocabrands.com.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Open Campus — The Open Campus is a community-driven protocol that leverages the power of blockchain and invites all to build the future of education by putting the power of learning back in the hands of educators, students, and the community.
GET Protocol — Supercharge your tickets with NFTs and the Blockchain. Easily implement the latest technology and unlock the benefits of truly digital tickets with GET Protocol.
SuperSight — SuperSight (https://supersight.xyz/), a UK-based start-up, is building crypto-specific Large Language Models (LLMs) to revolutionise the way we interact with crypto data. With 420 million crypto users but only 30,000 able to code for onchain insights, SuperSight bridges the gap, enabling easy access to information from a range ofboth on-chain and off-chain sources like Discord, Telegram, Twitter, Mirror, Podcast Transcripts, and news sites. Beyond just collecting data, SuperSight uses AI to improve the search experience, making it personalised, accurate, and ultimately, more insightful.

Building Sports & Tech Companies

Investment focus

Art, B2B, B2C
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

PickGuru — Pickguru is a social gaming platform where friends and fans may participate in a range of fun sports prediction games.
Aura - Museum Genius — MEET AURA - THE MUSEUM GENIUS With Aura, you can explore Britain's leading museums and galleries, design your own journey, and listen to professionally produced audio stories of artworks and exhibits. THEMED ROUTES: For those with limited time You can personalise your way through the museums with cover with our themed routes. Whether you areshort on time, or you are interested in a specific theme, our themed routes will help find the must-see exhibits in your favourite museums. AUDIO STORIES WITH OFFLINE PLAYBACK We are partnering with high-profile museum curators, academics and skilled storytellers with distinct areas of expertise to create short and detailed audio stories of the must-see highlights of the museums. As Aura allows you to download audio content, you don't need an internet connection to listen during your visit. INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLANS Through our innovative technology, we provide interactive floor plans of the museums so you can enjoy your visit with time-efficiency, practicality, and ease. Simply search for a destination point and our indoor navigation system will help you get there easily. KEYPAD FOR EASY ACCESS If the museum is offering a traditional audio guide system, you will see signs next to exhibits with numbers on them. You can use our keypad at these museums. Simply use the keypad function to dial the number of the exhibit and we will take you directly to that exhibit's page on Aura.
Split — Split will let you know each time someone you’re avoiding is around & suggest an escape route. Split will display ‘hot zone’ map pointers on any location that the people you avoid tend to frequent. Know who the people you avoid are hanging out with (the ‘two birds, one stone’ feature).

Jörg was appointed to the Board when Access Industries acquired the Company in 2007. Jörg is responsible for the media/online and telecom businesses at Access Industries, which he joined in May 2007. He was previously a Managing Director of Providence Equity Partners. Jörg has been active in the media and communications space since 1992. Hehas, as an investor, been involved with several businesses dealing with sports rights (RGE Group, Digiturk), internet services (Bibit NV, Adyen, Speedera Networks) and content delivery (Casema NV, Comhem AB). Jörg’s current board positions include Tory Burch LLC, Rebate Networks GmbH, AINMT Holdings AB, RGE Group Limited, Icon UK Distribution Holdings Limited and Mendeley Research Networks. Prior board positions include Digiturk, Casema NV, Comhem AB, Bibit BV, VersaTel Telecom NV and Speedera Networks Inc.

Investment focus

Music, Mobile Apps, Art
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Penfold — Our flexible, simple and powerful pension is designed to get you to your saving goals and stay with you for life, whichever direction it takes you.
Tracklib — Tracklib is the only service where anyone can legally clear samples from real music. From Isaac Hayes to Mozart, we got it.
Aura - Museum Genius — MEET AURA - THE MUSEUM GENIUS With Aura, you can explore Britain's leading museums and galleries, design your own journey, and listen to professionally produced audio stories of artworks and exhibits. THEMED ROUTES: For those with limited time You can personalise your way through the museums with cover with our themed routes. Whether you areshort on time, or you are interested in a specific theme, our themed routes will help find the must-see exhibits in your favourite museums. AUDIO STORIES WITH OFFLINE PLAYBACK We are partnering with high-profile museum curators, academics and skilled storytellers with distinct areas of expertise to create short and detailed audio stories of the must-see highlights of the museums. As Aura allows you to download audio content, you don't need an internet connection to listen during your visit. INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLANS Through our innovative technology, we provide interactive floor plans of the museums so you can enjoy your visit with time-efficiency, practicality, and ease. Simply search for a destination point and our indoor navigation system will help you get there easily. KEYPAD FOR EASY ACCESS If the museum is offering a traditional audio guide system, you will see signs next to exhibits with numbers on them. You can use our keypad at these museums. Simply use the keypad function to dial the number of the exhibit and we will take you directly to that exhibit's page on Aura.

Azure Capital Partners provides develops products based upon a technology that allows them to compete effectively with much larger incumbents and that enables time to market advantage It seeks to invest in the internet and information technology sector with a focus on software, media, infrastructure technologies, mobile, communications services andequipment, mobility solutions, and communications applications, web, and digital media.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Voilà! Technologies — Learn how Evolia's employee scheduling app can save you time managing schedules and increase employee engagement.
Better & Better — Premium toothpaste that's better for your health and better for the planet. Natural, clean ingredients, made even better with vitamins and packaged in 50% less plastic pouches.
Selector — Industry-leading AIOps platform for operational intelligence. Selector Analytics provides instant and actionable insights to IT operators.

Arts Alliance is a venture capital organisation supporting a growing network of entrepreneurs. They have a "hands on approach" to investment and provide both creative talent and strategic advice to Portfolio Companies in the technology and services, and communications sectors.

Investment focus

Advertising, Mobile, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Spoonshot — Spoonshot's technology leverages food science and artificial intelligence to predict consumer tastes and food trends. We've built our several solutions from this core technology to solve some of the food & beverage industry's key challenges.
Growth Street — Growth Street offers UK businesses a faster alternative to bank overdrafts.They see that many growing businesses need flexibility to manage their cashflow. Whether it’s managing the seasonal cycle of business or balancing invoice payments against outgoings, managing cashflow can take a lot of time, focus and energy. Often balancing the booksmeans delaying payments, leaning on suppliers or juggling costs, which can suck up your time, put pressure on your supplier relationships and generally make businesses less efficient.
Aprila Bank — Aprila is a product- and technology company offering innovative financial solutions to small and medium sized businesses. Aprila’s API-based technology platform is connected to around 130,000 SMEs through partnership agreements with leading online accounting systems and other relevant system providers.

Lux Capital manages over $5 billion in assets focused on founding, seed, early-stage, and growth investments at the intersection of technology and the sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high growth sectors. Its investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux's investmentstrategy ensures our portfolio companies are better connected, have a deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
Pivotal Commware — Pivotal Commware was established in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough in electromagnetic physics, Holographic Beam Forming™ (HBF). Years ago, Pivotal’s founders recognized that wireless demand for data would outgrow the complex coding, multiplexing and modulation schemes that network operators have deployed thus far. Beamforming was theanswer, but existing high cost, size, weight and power-consuming (C-SWaP) solutions were not. That’s why Pivotal assembled a team experienced in advanced commercial antenna and RF circuit design, advanced DARPA technology programs, and, uniquely, active/nonlinear metamaterials. Beyond technology, Pivotal also offers the depth and breadth of skills to develop integrated, end-to-end solutions.
Mendaera — Mendaera enables all healthcare providers to perform precise and consistent point-of-care interventions. Their platform combines real-time imaging, robotics, and artificial intelligence to aid physicians in image acquisition and interpretation.

Chicago Ventures leads seed investments in overlooked teams.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Leverage — Answering the Fundamental Question: "Where
CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
GoodShip — How shippers and carriers digitally procure, measure, and optimize contract business more easily and accurately than ever before.

Grace Beauty Capital is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to the consumer & retail sectors founded on the core belief that deep domain and industry knowledge, operating expertise and extensive networks are essential to support early stage entrepreneurs and generate superior investment returns. Our mission is to become the premierpartner for early stage digital brands, consumer and retail technology startups on the journey from kitchen table to household name.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Bravo Sierra — Bravo Sierra is the first military-native performance wellness company, pioneering a user-driven performance personal care and nutrition organization developed within the U.S. military community. Powered by the insight generated through social manufacturing including direct collaboration with its core community of 1,000 U.S. military active dutyservice members, the company delivers performance goods with unprecedented responsiveness and accuracy for those who serve and for the benefit of all. Designed to support and enhance today's ultra-active lifestyle and engineered with critically relevant innovation and stress-tested in the field, the products include first-to-market technologies and formulas that are clean, vegan, and cruelty-free. Bravo Sierra is built around a revenue share model contributing 5% of all sales to the Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) program, which offers a complete range of community support and quality of life programs for members of the U.S. Armed Forces, their families, retirees, and veterans.
Voray — Voray is a community of professionals who gather for small networking dinners (15 or so people) on a regular basis. The purpose of each Voray is to develop more authentic relationships and build value for each other in the long run. The community is enabled through a web platform that helps members identify interesting events, suggest others, andcontinue communicating and connecting. The goal of Voray is to build a more authentic professional network of people you have actually met (over dinner) so connections are more longstanding and meaningful.
Eloquii — Eloquii is your one-stop shop for the latest fashion styles and trends in Women's Clothing! Unbeatably low prices. Shop brand new dresses, tops, pants, sweaters, denim jackets, lingerie, jumpsuits, activewear, shoes, and more!

One part Consumer Investment Firm, one part Strategic Creative Agency. Bullish is an early stage consumer investment firm based in NYC. Current and past investments include Peloton, Casper, Harry’s, Warby Parker, Care/Of, Function of Beauty, Hu Chocolate, and Sunday Lawn.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Consumer Goods
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cake — 18K Followers, 6,705 Following, 859 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Cake (@hellocake)
Autumn — Autumn modernizes the way Americans manage loss with the world’s first deathcare marketplace. With free guides and tools, and over 500,000 providers for hire, Autumn is on a mission to transform the American deathcare landscape for the better.
beehiiv — Access the best tools available in email, helping your newsletter scale and monetize like never before.

Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Tajiri — Tajiri is a SaaS application that designs and improves restaurant management to get profits.
Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.

FireStarter Fund is a self-managed investment fund focused on the digital media and marketing, Software-as-a-Service, and e-commerce sectors, giving priority to web, social, mobile, and big data projects. Making most of its investments in series A and B rounds, the company consists of 42 members and has $5.7 million in committed capital.FireStarter Fund was founded in January 2012 and is based in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Investment focus

Software, Finance, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

LogicGate — LogicGate's governance, risk, and compliance software enables businesses to build agile GRC management processes at scale. Learn more about our GRC platform.
Kapow — Discover unique corporate events and book event packages at the best venues. Browse corporate events in major markets.
Blitsy — Blitsy is where creative people shop online. It aims to provide the best selection, value, inspiration, and online shopping experience for creative people worldwide. It was founded in 2011 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Flamingo DAO is an NFT-focused DAO that aims to explore emerging investment opportunities for ownable, blockchain-based assets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Art
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Croatia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Hook — Hook provides an NFT-native options protocol that enables active traders to earn more with less. For active traders, options allow them to earn multiples of buying the floor for the best trades.
Metahood — Metahood offers services for discovering, purchasing, and selling land in the open metaverse.
Hume — Hume provides a web3 record label creating music-driven metastars.

Investor and advisor to companies providing novel sustainability solutions.

Investment focus

Art, Events, Retail
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Arcadia Earth — WHAT IS IT? Arcadia Earth is a large scale multi-sensorial journey through underwater worlds, fantasy lands, and inspirational art installations.

Piton Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Piton focuses exclusively on network effects businesses (marketplaces, exchanges and platforms) as this provide one of the few moats or forms of defensibility to achieve dominance. There are several forms of great network effects businesses thataren’t marketplaces that include data network effects (including machine learning and AI), businesses that rely on user generated content, as well as SaaS businesses with the potential to layer network effects around it. The firm is a stage and style-agnostic and seeks to invest from seed to late stage (€200k to €15m).

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom, France

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Patient 21 — Patient21 believes that the doctor-patient connection is the cornerstone to good healthcare and that it is their responsibility to remove any impediments to it. They think that the greatest healthcare necessitates cross-specialty collaboration and universal data access. Always with one purpose in mind: to help patients and physicians make betterdecisions.In comparison to today's linked world, healthcare appears to be trapped in the past. It continues to use the same analogue and isolated processes. Patient21 is on a quest to usher healthcare into the twenty-first century. They use data to help doctors give the most personalized treatments possible. And, with the help of their professional network, they are attempting to give a comprehensive perspective of their client's health.
enmacc — The enmacc OTC platform is a energy trading platform for the future of the global energy markets. We are building a next-generation trading platform, powered digital RFQ technology, that will help you to trade smarter, faster and better.
Ferryhopper — Book cheap ferry tickets to over 500 destinations worldwide! Join 2 million travelers as you compare ferry companies, find deals, and book ferries.

Firstrock Capital is an early-stage VC fund that helps founders reach their goals faster. We focus on helping founders build elite engineering teams.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Productivity Tools, Art
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
Alphaa.io — Crowdsourced purpose driven art platform, our mission is to revolutionize the arts, whilst honoring the profoundly human aspects of collecting.
Clipboard Health — Clipboard Health is a marketplace where nurses can search for jobs based on what they're qualified for and what they care about, and apply with one click.

Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Depot — The fastest place to build Docker images.
finres — Understand, Evaluate and Invest to Become Resilient to a Changing Climate. With finres, access the latest science, state-of-the-art decision-making methods and big data to transform your vulnerabilities into opportunities.
Fairlyne — Fairlyne is a software company that specializes in resale SaaS for travel brands. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Paris, France.

Technology to maximize humanity's creative and expressive potential

Investment focus

Music, Media and Entertainment, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
Parallux — Parallux is a creative technology company empowering immersive storytelling and collaboration at scale.
Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.

We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cupffee — Cupffee creates and sells edible coffee cups and stirrers, manufacturing procedure produces no industrial waste, only clean steam and the delicious aroma of freshly baked cookies. Moreover, all leftover materials from the production of cups are utilized as ingredients for other edible products.
Pluria — Flexible offices in LATAM & Europe: hundreds of coworking spaces and meeting rooms for employees and teams. Hybrid work model for companies.
FlatAway — FlatAway is an online booking platform for hotels, vacation rentals, and apartments.

Scott Belsky joined Adobe as Chief Product Officer, Executive Vice President - Creative Cloud in 2017.Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Millions of people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent acrossthe creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott served as Adobe's Vice President of Products, rebooting Adobe's mobile product strategy and leading Behance until 2016 when he became a full-time venture capitalist as a General Partner at Benchmark. Scott returned to his love for the creative world, and building products and teams full-time, as Chief Product Officer and EVP of Creative Cloud, at Adobe in late 2017. He continues to work with Benchmark as a Venture Partner, as well as several other early stage venture firms. Scott also manages a portfolio of over 150 private companies from his early investments and product advisory roles in companies including Pinterest, Uber, Carta, Flexport, Airtable, sweetgreen, and many others in the early stages.Scott is also the author of the bestselling books Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010 and Oct 2018, respectively).Scott is also the founder of the 99U conference for leaders in the design world, and is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family live in New York City and San Francisco.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

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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.
LLM Shield — Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today.
Infringements — Monitor your patents and get instant alerts on potential infringements.

Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals shape a changing economy.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
OP3N — Founded in 2021 as a subsidiary of EST Media Holdings, OP3N is the global Web3 superapp that serves as a one-stop-shop for all communication, connection and commerce with on-chain interactions in a simple unified interface. With a mission to create a more frictionless, decentralized and democratized creator economy on a global scale, OP3Nconsolidates the tools needed to mint, share and engage with digital goods and digital tokens into one vertical stack. OP3N’s leadership team leverages its cross-industry expertise from the entertainment, gaming and tech ecosystems, to lay the foundations for a new era of community-driven, inclusive entertainment while bringing everyone together on a journey into Web3. OP3N is co-led by media executive, artist, and serial entrepreneur Jaeson Ma, who has a successful track record launching companies including EST Studios, Stampede Ventures, East West Ventures, and 88rising, and who’s raised capital and advised on transactions totaling over $1 billion; and Eric Tu, an award-winning development executive who’s worked with major brands including Nike, Beats by Dre and Google, and as an Executive Producer with Bjork, Radiohead, Kendrick Lamar and more. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit: https://op3n.world.OP3N’s portfolio of projects includes a partnership with Tokyo fashion label AMBUSH; an intergalactic children’s book from Grimes; a partnership with entertainment icon Simon Fuller to produce an innovative musical film with the global pop group Now United; and the “Maybe You’re the Problem” music video from the singer-songwriter Ava Max, directed by the celebrated music video director Joseph Kahn.
Superplastic — Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company. It creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation based on characters created in collaboration with some of the greatest artists in the world. Superplastic is founded on the principle that effort and scarcity are intrinsic components of value. The companyappropriates the tools of mass media and mass production to create limited edition works of art for a limited audience. It was established in 2017 and is based in Burlington, Vermont.

Connect with 10,000 plus angel investors. Raise funding seamlessly. Find startups to invest in. Easy to use & seamless technology platform for startup investing & funding.

Investment focus

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

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Bluwheelz — BluWheelz is a Tech-enabled Mid-mile and last-mile logistics solutions company, with an Exclusive EV Fleet, addressing cost & timelines challenges for E-commerce, Quick commerce, Food Tech industries and creating a positive environment impact.
Supplynote — End-to-end supply chain management tool to track inventory, orders, payments and suppliers online
Clensta — Clensta is a biotechnology start-up to improve the National Hygiene condition whilst addressing the aspect of water conservation. Clensta is an Indian startup and in association with IIT Delhi, works to create innovative healthcare solutions to make hygiene accessible for anyone, anytime, and anywhere. Driven by their aim to create products thatpromote complete cleaning solutions without water.

Angels Capital philosophy is to find and support at 1 able to lead a project. Their goal is to support the entrepreneurial, helping to create new businesses, help grow their business sector, generate employment and create wealth.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Playoffnations — THE ADVERTISING GENERATION Z ENJOYS
Biozell Ventures — Biozell Ventures was created as an investment company focused on startups and scaleups in biotech, pharma and healthcare.
YSOTOPE THERANOSTICS — YSOTOPE uses specific ligands to design co-diagnostic radiotracers to monitor CAR-T cells inside the patient’s body. YSOTOPE is a Spanish company founded in 2022 by a team with experience in deeptech entrepreneurship and radiochemistry. The loss of CAR-T in blood is a problem for oncologists making them more difficult to personalize the treatment.Molecular imaging is a non-invasive solution for providing information about CAR-T therapy to oncologists.

The LAO is a global group of Ethereum enthusiasts and experts supporting the work of Ethereum builders.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Hook — Hook provides an NFT-native options protocol that enables active traders to earn more with less. For active traders, options allow them to earn multiples of buying the floor for the best trades.
Keyp — Improve onboarding and payments in your games & apps effortlessly with OAuth logins and debit card transactions. Use simple API calls to verify users, create, transfer & airdrop assets.
Gateway.fm — UnbreakableWeb3 InfrastructureThat Seamlessly Scales With You All the infrastructure you need to build and scale your web3 project with great uptime, predictable pricing and amazing technical support Try free RPC How It Works https://gateway.fm/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Welcome-to-Gateway.fm_.mp4 Close Solutions we offer Gateway Grow Gateway Grow is our solution built for institutional staking validators across several Proof-of-Stake (POS) chains

Longling Investment Is An Equity Investment Institution Founded By The Famous Angel Investor Cai Wensheng. It Aims To Help More Innovation And Entrepreneurship And Provide Strong Support For Technological Innovation Entrepreneurs. Longling Investment Mainly Focuses On The Investment Direction Of The Internet And TMT Fields. The MainInvestment Stages Are: Seed Round, Angel Round And A Round. The B Round Will Selectively Follow The Investment, And At The Same Time, It Has A Clear Exit Plan. Pre-IPO Or Later Mature Projects.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Angel, Seed, Series A
China, Singapore, Mexico

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Galactic Holdings — Galactic Holdings offers a series of digital finance products.
Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.
Matters Lab — A Web3 social media ecosystem that lets users collaboratively create and monetize digital assets with complete control.

Since I was young, international entrepreneurship inspired me. Investing and leading people caught my significant interest in my early twenties. Technology followed. Lacking a convincing idea to start a business, I looked for opportunities to gain experience.After an invitation to start working at Abn Amro Bank I found my ideal personaldevelopment path. I even let go of my earlier dreams during 8 years as I worked in various roles in investment services, strategy, technology and global product approval governance. When I was 29 I defined an automated solution to make investing easier for individuals and help them safeguard a healthy financial future. On my 30th birthday I resigned to start realising my dream to build Pritle. After having laid the foundation in 2014, me and my business partners acquired investment firm Fundix in 2015, which we transformed into Pritle. At its peak, Pritle became the largest independent online wealth manager of continental Europe.As competition was rising quickly and raising significant growth capital became costly, we sold Pritle to BinckBank in April 2017 for €12.5 million. Following a business handover process, in 2018, I resigned from Binck. During the last months of 2017 I studied Spanish after work. In 2018 I spent 2,5 months in Latin America to relax. Since then I evaluated new opportunities and specialised further in technology. Later in 2018 me and my wife Evelien Remmelts built new generation marketplace Whoppah. Offering first class secondhand design furniture and art. We are thrilled by all your enthusiasm and are determined to make Whoppah enormously successful. It is an extremely valuable journey perfecting our product-market fit, striving for excellence and accelerating growth. Restless late at night while always reflecting and improving our strategy and tactics I started studying Mandarin. Now we are establishing product market fit and seeking intercontinental expansion.

Investment focus

Art, Home Decor, Marketplace
Seed
The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Whoppah — Whoppah, is the top-notch second-hand marketplace for second-hand furniture and art. Always in good condition and curated by our stylists and art connoisseurs.

The Amazon Alexa Fund is Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, frontier tech, voice, robotics, and digital health across consumer and enterprise. We invest in early- to growth-stage companies globally. To learn more, visit us at alexafund.com.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hyper — Hyper is an avatar-based social network. We're building the metaverse.
Superplastic — Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company. It creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation based on characters created in collaboration with some of the greatest artists in the world. Superplastic is founded on the principle that effort and scarcity are intrinsic components of value. The companyappropriates the tools of mass media and mass production to create limited edition works of art for a limited audience. It was established in 2017 and is based in Burlington, Vermont.
Scythe — Self-driving, all-electric mowers for commercial landscaping. Learn how Scythe can help your business do more.

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.
Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.

Sony Music is a United States music corporation owned and operated by Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony Corporation. It is a global music company with a roster of current artists that includes both local and international superstars, as well as a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordingsin history. In 1929, the enterprise was first founded as American Record Corporation (ARC) and, in 1938, was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation, following ARC's acquisition by CBS. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records. In 1987, SCA bought the company and, in 1991, renamed it SME. In 2004, SME and Bertelsmann Music Group merged as Sony BMG Music Entertainment.

Investment focus

Music, Digital Media, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Japan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Slip.stream — The world's largest creator safe music library built for creators. One subscription gives you unlimited downloads, for unlimited channels, on unlimited digital platforms. Royalty free. No takedowns.
Tiger Media — tigermedia develop media for children as they should be: child-friendly, safe and with a lot of heart
MakersPlace — MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators. The company enables creators to protect and sell authentic and unique editions of digital creations. The company connects creators with fans and collectors worldwide through a marketplace and network of partners. Creators are ableto sign and set a limited supply on the work while delivering proof of authenticity, ownership. and scarcity on the blockchain.With MakersPlace, creators are able to better capture the full underlying value of the digital work.MakersPlace was founded on 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Divergence Ventures

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Cubist — Cubist brings modern software engineering practices and first-class security to web3 builders. Cubist’s toolkit makes it safe and easy to build, test and deploy multi-chain and cross-chain dapps in automated pipelines that handle keys and sequencing.
Backd — Backd offers to maximize the power of assets and begin generating yield. Backd is a protocol for reactive liquidity decentralized finance (Defi).
Aperture — Aperture is a DeFi cross-chain investment ecosystem.

Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to the craft of building great companies. Craft has brought together a rare combination of entrepreneurial experience and investor acumen. Over the past twenty years, David, Bill, Jeff and Sky have built and invested in some of the most iconic companies of this generation.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Bandana — Find better hourly jobs in New York City with Bandana. Look up company pay and salaries, filter for healthcare and full-time benefits, and improve your overall livelihood.
Trellis Research — Trellis Research is a research tool for litigators.
Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.

Hesham has been ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits. Hesham has invested in +100 startups. He has co-founded more than 40 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak,read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish. Hesham is a founder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is an online incubator who has border-less reach. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) and invested as an angel investor in more than 40 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide and more than 400 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 40 incubated startups. During his work at FasterCapital, Hesham has co-founded: - co-founded Edunoor.com: online learning platform with social components. - invested in Dooet.com: a discovery and search engine for mobile applications and other content. - invested in Letuscloud.com: Bridging the gap between enterprises and virualization - invested in abcmob.com: Mobile business application. 18 sectors already covered. - invested in Mobayle.com: an instant AppStore creator and customizer - invested in Meody.com: Cross platform messenger with focus on enterprises and operators. - invested in TVlize.com: a platform for social and engaging TV - He also cofounded and invested in Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com, B2Butterfly.com and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 50 companies. Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc (it would have been the first company in MENA region to be acquired by a public company). ZGroup Mobile is a developer and publisher of mobile content (mobile games, mobile apps, mobile music, mobile videos) and services. He has been ranked 7th in Baccalaureate tests among 200,000th participants. He has completed his engineering degree at HIAST then he has done an MBA at Edinburgh business school and a Master in computer information science at AABFS.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

AIR AGRO — MarketPlace para o mercado de Pulverização Áerea por drones, aviões ou helicópteros agrícolas. Auditoria em tempo real. Certificação dos fornecedores. Analise agronômica tempo real. Boas práticas e compliance que o mercado exige. Segurança Alimentar. Moeda Agro Cash Back que o produtor rural escolhe uma entidade da sua comunidade para ajudar oualguma cadastrada no nosso banco de dados. Produzir mais, com menos, de maneira sustentável e contribuindo com sua comunidade.
TVlize — TVlize is a company specialized in improving and socializing TV experience. At TVlize we change the viewing experience from lean backward to lean forward.
Dietfoodi — Dietfoodi is a cloud kitchen idea is essentially a kitchen space meant for production of food for delivery-only purposes. Since this food can be ordered online, hence, the name, Cloud kitchen. In this pandemic time cloud kitchen is a very supportive & positive business idea where we want to mix international cuisine cultural with very vastway.This commissary kitchen are also known as ghost kitchens, shared kitchens, or virtual kitchens with the delivery-only food brands operating within them called virtual restaurants. But moving to a delivery-only model has been made possible recently by advances in technology and changes in consumer habits. It offers certain advantages over offering delivery from a traditional brick-and-mortar restaurant.

Bashar Hamood is a result oriented professional with versatile experience across diverse organizational domains. He is well versed in the development of marketing strategies, branding, direct marketing, new products/brands launches, analysis, reporting, and positioning.He is an entrepreneur and self-starter with expansive experience in brandawareness and development, community outreach.Bashar is a versatile business manager with proven competencies in optimizing team dynamics uniting diverse agenda to common goal and harnessing strategic and operational drivers to deliver results.He has a strong analytical mind with rigorous study for each case and the output of each variation for each parameter.Bashar loves to take risk and new challenges.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Event Arena — Event Arena organizes events, corporate events, conferences, sales promotions, and presentations.
Safedeploy — Fault free software update platform for tracking your software reliability in real time for every device and every software application
Palacio Inc. — Palacio Inc. aims to inspire every living space through innovation in art and technology. Our first product Canvia is a revolutionary content platform for art and photography, which utilizes patented technology for a seamless and authentic experience in any environment. We bring content from leading contemporary creators and world class culturalinstitutions into our living spaces like never before.

Placeholder is a venture capital firm that invests in decentralized networks and web services.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Cayman Islands, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DRiP — Collectibles every week from your favorite creators. For free.
Nori — Nori helps organizations, companies, and individuals meet their climate goals with high-quality carbon removal offsets. We currently fund farmers that use regenerative agriculture practices to sequester carbon in their soil.
Infinity Exchange — Infinity is an Institutional Money Markets protocol with the most efficient market-making mechanism across DeFi.

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.

Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.

Investment focus

FinTech, Gaming, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Israel, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.
ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.