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Top 50 Art Startup Investors in United States in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Art startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Art companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Art Startup Investors in United States in July 2025

Investor	Art United States investments
Founders Fund	5
Galaxy Interactive	5
Betaworks	4
Cyan Banister	4
Sony Music Entertainment	4
Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures	4
Craft Ventures	4
Firstrock Capital	4
Social Starts	4
Grace Beauty Capital	4
Moment Ventures	4
Founder Collective	3
Bullish	3
The LAO	3
Gaingels	3
TRAC	3
Marc Bell Ventures	3
UJ Ventures	3
Eldridge Industries	3
Lux Capital	3
Keiretsu Capital	3
Patricio Worthalter	3
Mayfield Fund	3
Collab+Currency	3
Antler	3
GFR Fund	3
Galaxy Digital	3
Vanadium Capital Management LLC	3
Sound Media Ventures	3
Amazon Alexa Fund	3
Divergence Ventures	3
Fuel Venture Capital	3
Anorak Ventures	3
Forerunner	3
Chicago Ventures	3
Exponential Creativity Ventures	3
FireStarter Fund	3
Scott Belsky	3
Binh Tran	2
Phoenix Capital Ventures (PCV)	2
Jenny Lefcourt	2
David Mahoney	2
Inflection Ventures	2
Jemison Investment Company	2
Palta	2
Brand Foundry Ventures	2
Uncork Capital	2
Nion McEvoy	2
Keith Rabois	2
Lemniscap	2

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Armada — The Armada Platform is a whole new way to succeed at the Edge with Starlink connectivity, mobile data centers & AI. Schedule a demo today.
Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies — Bitmine Immersion Technologies engages in bitcoin mining and hosting.

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, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Superlogic — OneOf is the mass-consumer Web3 company connecting the next 100M non-crypto-native fans to iconic brands, artists, and athletes. OneOf technology enables global brands and enterprises to reimagine commerce, loyalty and engagement, allowing consumers to seamlessly collect or trade digital assets with no prior crypto expertise. Deeply committed to a sustainable and inclusive blockchain future, minting digital assets on OneOf's platform uses up to 2 million times less energy than previous generation proof-of-work networks, and costs up to 99% less in gas fees. A leader in diversity, over 80% of the collections curated by OneOf come from minority or female creators.
DeltaStream — Deltastreasm is a secure and scalable unified streaming data platform driven by SQL - built for teams to process and share easily.
OpenOrigins — OpenOrigins ensures pixel-perfect authentication at the source, restoring believability in visual media.

Betaworks is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome
Flower Labs — A unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. Federate any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language.
Quadratic — Spreadsheet with Python, JavaScript, and SQL built-in. Data Connectors to pull in your data. Take your data and do something powerful with it now!

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

Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.

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.

Investment focus

Music, Software, Digital Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Portfolio highlights

SymphoMe — SymphoMe is an innovative music education platform designed to revolutionise the way music is taught and learned. Utilising advanced AI-driven multimodal music teaching technology, SymphoMe provides a personalised, engaging, and effective learning experience for music students and teachers alike.
Vermillio — Vermillio is an AI platform that allows content creators to style, own, and tracks their digital creations. The company's tools generate content that is authenticated using its proprietary blockchain technology which determines ownership. Vermillio was founded by Dan Neely and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
Turne Solucoes Artisticas — The Turne business model combines the functionality of a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform with a marketplace, focusing on meeting the needs of musicians in managing their concert schedules and generating new revenue streams. Here's a more detailed description:1. SaaS - Concert Management Turne offers a digital tool that allows musiciansand bands to manage all aspects related to organizing and planning their live performances. This includes:Schedule Management: The platform centralizes all information about dates, times, and venues, making it easier to control the performance calendar. The schedule can be synced with other devices and apps.Logistics Organization: Musicians can manage details such as hiring auxiliary services (sound technicians, transportation, etc.), planning travel and stage setup, as well as receiving automated reminders about deadlines and specific needs for each show.Contracts and Payments: The platform also facilitates the generation and signing of contracts, and it allows users to manage payments through integration with digital payment systems. This reduces bureaucracy and provides better financial control.2. Marketplace - Expanding Revenue Streams In addition to being a management tool, Turne stands out by acting as a marketplace, directly connecting musicians to new gig opportunities, partners, and products. The main components of this part of the model include:Gig Opportunities: The marketplace serves as a digital showcase where event promoters, venues, bars, and other organizers can find and book musicians directly through the platform. This creates a continuous source of new opportunities for registered artists.3. Monetization Turne monetizes through two main streams:SaaS Subscription: Musicians pay a monthly or annual subscription to use the concert management platform, with different service levels and premium features available depending on the selected plan. The subscription model ensures recurring revenue.4. Benefits for Musicians Information Centralization: The SaaS allows musicians to keep all essential data for their live career organized in one place, saving time and reducing errors.New Revenue Opportunities: The marketplace increases visibility and business possibilities, enabling musicians to diversify their income streams beyond traditional shows.Scalability: Turne enables musicians of all levels, from beginners to established artists, to find opportunities for growth.This hybrid business model, combining SaaS and marketplace, allows Turne to create a comprehensive and robust platform, capable of offering practical management solutions while fostering new business opportunities and increasing revenue generation for musicians.

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
Paintbrush — Paintbrush provides access to funding for idea-stage founders who are too early for other options.
Impart Security — Real-time API Security spanning discovery, monitoring, and enforcement.

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
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Horizon3.ai — Continuously assess, fix, and verify your security posture. Securing enterprises across many attack surfaces.
Unframe — Unframe solves all your AI use cases with secure, scalable solutions on one unified platform. Say goodbye to generic software and complex implementations. Get tailored AI solutions in days, not months.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful new way to animate characters for videos, games, 3D, movies, ads or social media.

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

Art, Marketplace, Hardware
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 — Problem: Filling walls at scale is an expensive, limited and localized process. Options are either expensive art or posters which are detrimental to design concepts. Artists have limited access to the market.Solution: Alpha’a is one of the largest art collectives in the world, but holding no inventory. A cloud based platform that offers thequality of a gallery, with the speed of online, high customization and accessible pricing. Open to all artists, licensing artwork and dropshipping limited edition prints in 3 continents. Why now? The entire art market has had to go online overnight, where we’ve always operated as a virtual platform. We can provide global reach for thousands of artists and art institutions worldwide creating a steady source of revenue for creatives.Market Size The interior and furnishing market have around 96 billion in sales a yearout of which 5% is art. Combination of this and the hospitality industry (number of new hotel rooms under construction) leads to a addressable market of around 6 Billion. Our current client pool has a combined revenue potential of $130MM.Competition & Differentiation Companies like artsy work with the expensive art galleries and art advisors as a white pages, they don’t provide customizable solutions which are essential in the design process. On Alpha’a every artwork can be produced in any size or medium. Companies like society 6 provide affordable solutions which are completely disposable on alpha’a every artwork purchased brings with it the image copyright in perpetuity.Business Model We’re an inverted marketplace, we outsource production of all our works to suppliers in 3 continents.Team Manuela Seve, CEO, 5 years experience in South America’s leading hedge fund. Significant global experience in money management and BD. Longstanding relationships in the art world, through family business and collecting. Renata Thomé, CCO, Masters in modern contemporary Art and market. Worked at Christies & David Zwirner, two of the largest art institutions. Founded global art consultancy Haroldo Tinoco, CTO, Experience as head developer for huge projects, for example: The Voice and Big Brother mobile applications.Financial overview: Q1 2020 =$15k (Mid covid), gross margins 67%, Net Burn for Q1 = $41k, Cash at hand $170k = 11 months of Runway. Raising $1MM, for platform improvements, sales team and operations.Address: Mailing address – 157 Columbus Ave, 4th Floor, New York, NY Email – manuela@alphaainc.com Website – alphaainc.com Videos - https://youtu.be/xrVJ9HVGMSw
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.

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

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!
Bravo Sierra — Bravo Sierra creates performance body care products for the most active individuals. Every formula undergoes rigorous field-testing to meet strict standards of quality and efficacy. Designed and manufactured in the U.S.A, a portion of every purchase directly supports military veterans and their families.

Moment Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of work. The firm invests in early-stage institutional rounds of companies in the future of work and prefers to invest in the logistics, food, oil and gas, education, transportation, and construction sectors.Moment Ventures was founded in 2013 and is headquartered inPalo Alto, California.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Farmdar — We give you the power of precision agriculture, by providing accurate data on your crops.
Rune Labs — Software and data platform for neuromodulation
Aviz Networks — Aviz Networks is a leading provider of solutions for Open, Cloud, and AI-first networks. Aviz delivers switch platform agnostic, easy-to-use applications for network observability, orchestration, and assurance. Aviz also provides disaggregated support for multi-vendor SONiC deployments in data centers & edge networks. Aviz is on a mission to make SONiC a ubiquitous, accessible, and intelligent NOS for every stakeholder.

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

Weavy — Weavy is a company focused on enhancing team collaboration by providing developers with pre-built, seamlessly integrated collaboration features for web applications. Their platform offers components such as chat, messaging, file sharing, AI tools, and cloud integrations designed to save developers from repetitive coding tasks, enabling them tobuild smarter and faster without reinventing the wheel. Weavy's tools emphasize developer-friendliness, intuitive user experience, and cost-effectiveness, aiming to empower developers across skill levels to embed collaboration and AI-driven capabilities into internal apps efficiently.
Trek Health — Maximize Practice Revenue with Smart Payment Solutions
General Medicine — General Medicine provides accessible healthcare services, including virtual visits, lab testing, imaging, referrals, and prescriptions to cater to patient needs. The organization is committed to supporting patients throughout their healthcare journey, whether through local specialists or in-house clinicians for various health concerns.

We are a marketing operating partner, blending the worlds of capital, consulting and creation to design the most remarkable businesses in the world.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Goodhood — FixMyCar is a mobile auto repair platform that offers car repair services to every car owner. FixMyCar provides affordable and trusted rates, convenient service locations, sends in mobile car mechanics to homes, offices, or parking lots, and has flexible hours, thereby enabling customers to book their highly-rated mobile car repair services attheir convenience.
Daisy — Technology curated formodern living Helping people easily use and enjoy technology in their homes and offices. Contact an expert Our purpose There is a
Daisy — Technology curated formodern living Helping people easily use and enjoy technology in their homes and offices. Contact an expert Our purpose There is a

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.
Solv Protocol — Decentralized Liquidity Infrastructure
Reservoir — Infrastructure and APIs to bring efficient token markets to every chain, wallet, and app

Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of diversity, inclusive of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Nava — Nava Benefits is a modern employee benefits brokerage leveraging technology and benefits innovation to tackle the rising costs of healthcare.
Akash Systems — Akash is a pioneer in thermal management, offering solutions that set the global standard for technology.
Galileo — Galileo provides high-touch, data-driven, multi-specialty, longitudinal care to a diverse and complex patient population—over the phone, at home, and everywhere in between. Regional and national health plans, employers, and Fortune 500 companies all regard Galileo as the leading solution for improving population health. It aims to use that talentand scientific thinking to transform society by solving the most difficult healthcare problems while also bringing patients and providers closer together.

TRAC is a quantitative venture capital firm that uses collective intelligence, data, math, and common sense to identify future unicorns. Generally, TRAC invests in the 2nd or 3rd round of targeted startups. The firm was founded in 2020 in Sonoma, California.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
PlayAI — The Best AI Voice Generator with 200+ realistic AI voices. PlayAI is the voice platform for creators & enterprises. See our low latency Text to Speech API.
Starfish Space — Starfish Space: We're developing the first on-demand fleet of versatile and efficient space tugs prepared to service on-orbit satellites. --- Active life extension, debris removal, autonomous transportation

Marc Bell Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers early-stage and private equity investment services to firms in the finance, hospitality, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 2000 by Marc Bell and is based in Florida.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CodeHS — CodeHS is a comprehensive teaching platform for helping schools teach computer science. We provide web-based curriculum, teacher tools and resources, and professional development. Schools have access to a 6th-12th grade computer science curriculum for free, and much more on pro — including lesson plans, a gradebook, progress tracking and dedicatedsupport.
The Crown League — The Crown League is professionalizing fantasy sports by creating the first investment gaming platform – owned by the public and managed by experts.
Vector Launch — Vector Launch | New Team | New Mission | New site coming soon

Uj Ventures is a tech-focused seed-stage fund targeting e-commerce and enterprise software companies.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Genee — You're too busy to schedule meetings. Let us take care of it for you.
Liveli — Qualified candidates queued up. The right candidate is already waiting. You can review, approve, and schedule interviews from your mobile device. They work hard for you, so you can get back to work.
Rhumbix — Rhumbix is Field and Workforce Management built for Construction industry professionals. Consolidate field workflows for Time and materials.

Eldridge is an asset management and insurance holding company with over $70 billion in assets under management.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fixated — Fixated is raising the bar and setting the standard for the digital entertainment industry.
CoreWeave — CoreWeave provides flexible compute services and products to empower innovators. The company provides GPU accelerated compute solutions to the CGI and machine learning industries. Backed by quality hardware and systems management infrastructure, CoreWeave is built to help clients scale and adapt to evolving compute requirements at industry leadingeconomics.
Isar Aerospace — Isar Aerospace is a space technology company that builds rockets in an automated production. It offers launch services dedicated to deploying and resupplying satellite constellations and to ensure low-cost space access for small satellites. The company was founded in 2018 in Europe.

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 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, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Lanai — The AI Empowerment Platform - Help your team achieve the extraordinary in the age of AI.
Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
Frontera Health — Save 5-6 hours on every ABA diagnosis and assessment report. Frontera ABA clinical report automation software helps you spend more time with patients. Let our BCBA-trained AI do the heavy lifting.

Keiretsu Capital LLC is an affiliate of the World's Leading Angel Network, Keiretsu Forum, and manages funds which enable limited partners to co-invest in the proprietary deal flow of the angel investors.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

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.
Healionics — Healionics aims to provide safer, more reliable means of bloodstream access for dialysis in patients with kidney failure.
Another Tomorrow — Discover consciously crafted wardrobe icons : sustainable, and ethically made. Enjoy flat rate international shipping, free shipping in the US, and easy returns. Explore our new arrivals and join our list for exclusive access to future collections.

Patricio Worthalter is the Founder of POAP - The Proof of Attendance Protocol. He previously worked at Milliwatt as a CEO.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Art
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Argentina, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
Taiko Labs — Taiko is a fully permissionless, Ethereum-equivalent based rollup. Inspired, secured, and sequenced by Ethereum.
Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.

Mayfield is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on investing in enterprise, deeptech, and human and planetary health sectors. The firm partners with founders from inception to build impactful companies, leveraging its extensive experience and resources.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Sema4.ai — The Enterprise AI Agent Company
Scrunch AI — Scrunch AI is a platform that empowers businesses to understand and optimize their presence in AI search.
Zucca — Zucca provides the quickest and smartest method for bringing new food and drink products to market.

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, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NPC Labs — NPC Labs is a core contributor to B3 - a Base gaming ecosystem
Pulse — Pulse is a developer of an all-in-one health and wellness platform designed to integrate a wearable gadget and a fitness tracking software.
Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.

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, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Rovers — Global Agricultural IP Company
Vern — Made with love in Sydney
Whisper — Whisper offers next-gen, real-time threat intelligence by leveraging a vast semantic graph built from 45 billion interconnected data points.

GFR Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups that are disrupting the consumer entertainment industry. GFR Fund is managed by GREE VR Capital, an affiliate of GREE Inc., a global leader in the mobile gaming industry.With over a decade of experience driving innovators in multi-platform entertainment,we see emerging technologies such as VR, AR, AI, Video Streaming and Blockchain as powerful tools that will propel the entertainment industry into a new generation of consumable content. We are looking for talented entrepreneurs who share our passion and values to help realize their vision and expand their businesses globally.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Unvale — UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online.
Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.
Final Boss Sour — Final Boss Sour is a gaming-themed snack brand offering a healthier alternative to traditional sour treats. Inspired by retro gaming aesthetics, our snacks deliver bold flavors and a fun experience for gamers of all ages.

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, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Turnkey — Turnkey is an encryption service provider that offers secure APIs to manage private keys.
Function — Function builds the financial infrastructure that activates Bitcoin, , transforming it from a passive asset into a fully functional, yield-generating, and capital-efficient reserve asset for both DeFi and TradFi markets.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies — Bitmine Immersion Technologies engages in bitcoin mining and hosting.

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.

We are a team of entrepreneurs, investors, engineers, data scientists, operators and risk managers focused on stewarding capital and helping to responsibly build a globally-connected market and industry. We facilitate differentiated investment vehicles by seeking novel, scalable and defensible technologies that positively impact their respective ecosystems. We apply operating experience, relationships, and market intelligence in select high-growth sectors to cultivate the next generation of leading founders.

Investment focus

Music, Internet, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Georgia

Portfolio highlights

Overplay — Videos you Play. Games you Make
Loupe — LOUPE is the #1 art streaming platform and service on connected TV and web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of home, ad supported on living room TVs or with a commercial license for public display, and allows users to purchase the artwork, select prints & originals. Loupe launched exclusively onApple TV where it is ranked #1 Lifestyle app around the world, now with 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2M monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theater/home entertainment, interior design, art market, music streaming, and hospitality.
Persona AI — Persona AI is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions.

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, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Heyboss.xyz — Talking AIs that helps kids learn and play!
Heyboss — AI engineer for non-coders, backed by OpenAI. Get your personal AI engineer to build apps, websites and games without you writing any code.
Volley — Volley offers the most exciting Alexa games and Google Home games. Check out the available Google Home and Alexa trivia games to partake in the fun!

Experiments in capital formation

Investment focus

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

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.
Panoptic — The Panoptic protocol enables the minting, trading, and market-making of perpetual put and call options.
Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

Fuel Venture Capital is a firm located in the heart of Miami's iconic Coconut Grove where it works to fund the world's most promising startups and integrate lifelong investors into the creative economy. Fuel Venture Capital applies a tested methodology to mitigate the risk of early-stage investing. Founded in 2016, Fuel Venture Capital isindustry agnostic in its venture sourcing, targeting instead exceptional entrepreneurs with experience and vision. The firm’s “founder-focused, investor-driven” approach is led by a core team with decades years of combined experience in investment banking, wealth management, and executive leadership.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Curve — Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015.
Aracor AI — Discover how Aracor AI delivers advanced Legal AI solutions to streamline business processes, enhance decision-making, and drive efficiency for modern enterprises.
Leap Financial — Transforming financial services and customer interactions.

Anorak Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco investing in seed-stage technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Ghana, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Koobz — Koobz is revolutionizing footwear with fully automated, on-demand production. Discover sustainable, high-quality shoes made faster and more efficiently in the USA. Join us in shaping the future of footwear manufacturing.
Schemata — Schemata is a three-dimensional content creation company intended to help the Department of Defense and enterprises.
Level Zero Health — Utilizing cutting-edge DNA-Based sensors to provide real-time monitoring of hormone levels in the interstitial fluid, a minimally invasive method unlocking access to hormonal data.

Forerunner is a venture capital firm focused on the modern consumer, investing at the intersection of culture and invention.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Prenuvo — Changing the medical paradigm from sick care to proactive healthcare
Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.

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

OneRail — OneRail is a final mile delivery orchestration platform providing real-time visibility, actionable data, and data-driven optimization capabilities for its enterprise clients. OneRail’s cloud-based “delivery switch” simplifies same-day and on-demand delivery execution by connecting the demand signal (POS, eCommerce, ERP) with the ecosystem ofdelivery networks and internal fleets in real-time. The result of OneRail’s centralized view of disparate final mile data enables data-driven optimization, positively impacting the dependability, speed, and cost of final mile fulfillment.
Entegrata — Entegrata is turnkey legal data lakehouse designed to help law firms become more data driven and maximize their investment in Azure. With our data lake, law firm leaders can access valuable insights that can help them make better business decisions, improve their services, and optimize their operations.
FranShares — Diversify your portfolio and potentially earn passive income through franchise investing.

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

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.
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.

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

Routific — Routific is a route planning software platform that helps delivery businesses plan their routes more efficiently, saving time and up to 40% on fuel.
LogicGate — LogicGate provides industry-leading Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software solutions that streamline and automate processes, helping organizations reduce risks and support compliance.
Kapow — Discover unique corporate events and book event packages at the best venues. Browse corporate events in major markets.

Scott Belsky is currently a Partner at A24, where he leads technology and innovation projects. He previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eudia — Eudia offers an augmented intelligence platform designed to enhance the efficiency of legal teams. The platform integrates artificial intelligence tools that streamline legal processes, enabling teams to transition from traditional bottlenecks to more productive business drivers. Eudia provides features such as document analysis, contract review,and workflow automation, which assist legal professionals in managing their workload effectively. By leveraging AI technology, Eudia supports legal teams in making informed decisions and improving overall operational efficiency.
Lemni — Set up custom Ai agents in minutes
Extend — The document processing platform built for the next generation.

Binh Tran is a General Partner of Ascend Vietnam Ventures and a Partner for 500 Startups Vietnam, a seed-stage fund investing in Vietnam-connected startups. Prior to 500 Startups, Binh was a Co-founder of Klout and Evalulogix. He attended the UC Irvine.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Finblox — Finblox is a platform that helps crypto investors buy and earn rewards on their crypto assets like Bitcoin, USDC, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, Axie Infinity
CatalyzeX — Browse open-source code for AI & other research papers to catalyze your projects. Easily connect with authors and experts when you need help.
Nearside — FDIC-insured business checking account and cashback rewards debit card. Get 2.2% cashback in 2022 on all eligible business purchases. Rewards, discounts, no overdraft fees or monthly minimums, and a Mastercard Enhanced Debit Card. Get started today!

Phoenix Capital Ventures (PCV) is an early stage venture capital firm partnering with companies in the sports, gaming, human performance and interactive media industries.

Investment focus

Health Care, Fitness, Fantasy Sports
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Loupe — LOUPE is the #1 art streaming platform and service on connected TV and web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of home, ad supported on living room TVs or with a commercial license for public display, and allows users to purchase the artwork, select prints & originals. Loupe launched exclusively onApple TV where it is ranked #1 Lifestyle app around the world, now with 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2M monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theater/home entertainment, interior design, art market, music streaming, and hospitality.
Noteefy Inc — Noteefy (pronounced ‘notify’) is bringing cutting edge technology and innovation to golf operators. Noteefy has the first automated tee time assistant / waitlist for golfers and golf courses to improve the golfer booking experience, while accelerating course revenue and efficiency. The Noteefy booking assistant enables golfers to input theirpersonalized playing preferences, then get a real time notification when their desired tee time comes available. The golfer then books on the existing POS tee sheet as they normally would and the course keeps 100% of the revenue.
Season Share — There are 3.2M season tickets holders in the U.S. and 70% of season ticket holders share their tickets with other fans. We are the only mobile app that enables fans to buy, group, split and share season tickets to live sporting events. Season Share was founded by three sports fans with deep ties in tech, entertainment, sports and ticketing. Ourtechnology is ready to disrupt the stagnant ticketing industry, increasing team and league revenue while making the fan experience easier and more realistic for today’s consumer. Let’s change the game together.

Jenny Lefcourt is a General Partner at Freestyle. Jenny earned her B.S. in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 1998 she left Stanford to found Wedding Channel.com (sold: XOXO). In 2003 she co-founded Bella Pictures (sold: CPI). In 2014 Jenny joined Freestyle,and was promoted to GP in 2015. Some of Jenny’s notable investments include BetterUp, Crexi, Daily.co, Embark, Ridwell, Narvar and WELL Health. She is also a founding member and board member of All Raise. Jenny is an angel investor in Discord, MainStreetHub and Minted.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Idiomatic — Turn your customer feedback data into instant voice of customer within minutes. Any help desk, any survey, any feedback, any scale. Try it for free today.
Inspectiv — Identify complex security vulnerabilities and sensitive data exposures to reduce risk of security incidents and provide assurance to your customers.
Change — CHANGE is a platform that powers the giving economy. Brands add a button to checkout, and we do the rest. With CHANGE, brands eliminate the time and resources spent on connecting, vetting, and integrating with nonprofits. The platform streamlines corporate giving, provides real-time analytics, and actively engages the most coveted demographic withshareable content.

David Mahoney was appointed to Symantec's board of directors in April 2003. He previously served as co-CEO of McKesson HBOC, Inc. and as CEO of iMcKesson LLC from July 1999 to February 2001. Mahoney joined McKesson in 1990 as vice president for Strategic Planning, and was responsible for planning and corporate development. He had overallresponsibility for McKesson's strategic relations with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, was responsible for the establishment of the Pharmaceutical Partners Group at McKesson, and the launch of a new generics program.Prior to joining McKesson, Mahoney was a principal with McKinsey & Company from 1981 to 1990. He serves on the board of directors of Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Corcept Therapeutics, Inc., Schwab Funds/Loudus Funds, SFMOMA, and Mercy Corps.He has a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a master's of business administration from Harvard University.

Investment focus

Art, Video, Retail
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

20x200 — 20x200: It's Art For Everyone! Limited-edition, museum-quality prints by emerging, established and legendary artists.
Surphace — Surphace (formerly Sphere) provides contextual content tools that make connections between text, video, photos and ads. Surphace helps online publishers create a more engaging reader experience leading to longer time spent on site and increased PVs per visit along with a new incremental revenue stream. Surphace is currently integrated into over150,000 leading sites and is live on over 1.2 Billion monthly article pages across the web. Surphace's core technology is a patent-pending process utilizing Sphereâ€™s proprietary Content Genome.â„¢ The Content Genomeâ„¢ was developed specifically to deliver high-precision, low-cost (automated) related content delivery in dynamic online publishing and news environments. Unlike many other solutions, the Content Genomeâ„¢ does not require a taxonomy or training â€” Surphace can index any text artifacts, or media with associated text, and generate related content out of the box. Integration time on the publishersâ€™ side is minimal, and no additional meta-data is required. Surphace has a broad range of partners including leading A-list publishers, micro-publishers and independent blogs.

Inflection Ventures invests in founder-driven, technology product companies that aim to change their industries and maybe even the world.

Investment focus

Art, Apps, Software
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sarcophagus — Sarcophagus is an autonomous, incentivized dead man's switch dApp built on Ethereum and Arweave.
Defined — Real-time token prices, charts, wallet tracking & trading terminal for Solana, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Sui, BSC, Tron & many more networks
Async Art — Async Art is helping to create a new art revolution built on the Ethereum blockchain. Our users create, collect, and trade programmable art comprising a Master work and Layers that are independently owned and controlled: our users become part of the art themselves. Imagine pointing to a landscape painting and knowing that you own the sky or thestars. Meanwhile, an anonymous collector in Tokyo owns the lone figure in the background and an AI in London controls the snaking river running through the piece. All three of you alter the painting at any time within parameters designed by the artist. You might, depending on your artistic whim, change the sky from day to night while the Tokyo collector may lie dormant for years... throughout the entire time, the AI adjusts the saturation of the river’s water based on daily stock market volatility. Welcome to 21st century art.

Jemison Investment Company, based in Alabama, seeks to finance privately-held and early-stage companies with high growth potential.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Conserv — Conserv is a modern environmental monitoring platform for museums, libraries, archives. Wireless data empowers real-time analysis & alerts.
HighFive Healthcare — HighFive Healthcare is a practice management service provider that provides healthcare management for dentistry practices. The company's services include targeted marketing, online scheduling, electronic check-in to surveys, and other associated services, allowing dentists to operate their business more efficiently and provide patients withsuperior dental care.
Freedom Games — Freedom Games is a game publishing company that provides support to independent developers, helping them bring unique games to life. Freedom Games was founded in 2020 and is located remotely.

Palta is a health & well-being technology company led by entrepreneurs on a mission to create a global positive impact.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A
Cyprus, Belarus, United States

Portfolio highlights

Flo Health — Track your periods, ovulation, and pregnancy with the Flo app. Log your cycle symptoms so you can understand your body better.
Prisma Labs — Building the future of photo and video editing.
Simple — Simple is a game-changing AI-powered intermittent fasting & nutrition platform, aiming not only to offer a tracking tool but to provide education, motivation, and personalized digital nutrition. The mission is to simplify intermittent fasting adoption by bringing users scientifically accurate expertise and personalized assistance.

Brand Foundry Ventures they invest in early-stage companies operating in the consumer and business sectors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Vizit — Vizit is the Visual Brand Performance Company.Vizit enables leading brands and retailers to simulate the visual perspective of consumer audiences with patented AI technology. The company’s Visual Brand Performance Platform measures, optimizes and monitors visual content at scale, driving increased traffic, conversions, and sales, while providingproduct and design teams a powerful new source of visual insights to bring products to market more efficiently and effectively than ever before
Ledgebrook — Best in class service and pricing from industry veterans delivered at the speed of InsurTech
Lucky Energy — LUCKY F*CK is a better-for-you energy drink company.

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.

Nion McEvoy, Chairman and CEO, joined Chronicle Books in 1986. He became Editor-in-Chief of the Adult Trade division until the acquisition of the company in February of 2000 by The McEvoy Group. He previously worked in the Business Affairs offices of Wescom Productions and the William Morris Agency. He is a graduate of the University of Californiaat Santa Cruz, and the University of California's Hasting's College of the Law.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

20x200 — 20x200: It's Art For Everyone! Limited-edition, museum-quality prints by emerging, established and legendary artists.
Editr (Tablo Inc.) — Matchmaking Visual Style with Shopping
Seven Seas Music — Seven Seas Music is a Paas—desktop & mobile—that enables users to discover and share authentic music from around the world. It solves numerous issues associated with global music licensing for media producers.

Keith Rabois is the Co-Founder of Datadoor.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Delphi — Delphi is digital cloning that scales time, monetizes knowledge, and interacts audience at scale.
Pomelo — Pomelo is a fintech startup combining credit and international money transfer in one unified product.
Palm Tree Crew — Palm Tree Crew operates and invests in companies at the intersection of consumer, entertainment, and technology. Palm Tree Crew was co-founded by Kygo, alongside Myles Shear and Austin Criden.

Lemniscap is an investment firm specialising in investments in emerging cryptoassets and blockchain startups.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Memes Lab — Memes Lab is a multi-level meme infrastructure on TON, integrated with Telegram Stars, which allows users to purchase meme coins without a wallet.
Pulse — Pulse is a developer of an all-in-one health and wellness platform designed to integrate a wearable gadget and a fitness tracking software.
DeCharge Network — DeCharge Network lays the groundwork for a global energy network that will power automobiles, drones, and future technology.

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