# Top 50 Art Startup Investors in June 2026

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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

## Galaxy Interactive
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Software

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

## Active Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

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.

## Id4 ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Industrifonden
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

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.

## Collab+Currency
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Eugene, Oregon, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

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

## Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## Sony Music Entertainment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Music, Software, Digital Media

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.

## SV Aangel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

## P101
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector.

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## Firstrock Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Art, Hardware, Software

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

## Animoca Brands
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

## Craft Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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

## Jorg Mohaupt
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Music, Mobile Apps, Art

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.

## Social Starts
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Grace Beauty Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail

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.

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

## Cyan Banister
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Social Media

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.

## Erdem Yurdanur
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, iOS, Advertising

Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost

## Moment Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

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.

## Betaworks
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

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

## Melih Odemis
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

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.

## Bashar Hamood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

## GFR Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Information Technology

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.

## Thomas Bunnik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Art, Home Decor, Marketplace

Thomas Bunnik is a Dutch serial entrepreneur and investor based in Amsterdam. He is the co-founder and CEO of Whoppah, Europe's largest secondhand design marketplace, operating across 16 countries with double-digit million sales. Prior to Whoppah, he founded Pritle, an award-winning digital wealth management platform acquired by BinckBank in2017 for €12.5 million. He has raised over €25 million in equity financing across his ventures and led multiple cross-border acquisitions, including Design Market (France) and Showroommodellen (Netherlands).

## Oliver Slipper
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cobham, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Art, B2B, B2C

Building Sports & Tech Companies

## Fuel Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

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.

## Piton Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet

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).

## Keiretsu Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

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.

## Ruttenberg Gordon Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software

Ruttenberg Gordon Investments (RGI) is a private company specializing in equity investments in real estate, venture capital and private equity as well as loans secured by hard assets such as real estate. RGI's two founding partners, David L. Ruttenberg and Jonathan D. Gordon, have deep experience ac

## UJ Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Altos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Software

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

## Eldridge Industries
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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

## Marc Bell Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boca Raton, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

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.

## Lux Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

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.

## LongLing Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Xiamen, Fujian, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, E-Commerce

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.

## Arts Alliance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Advertising, Mobile, Software

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.

## Sound Media Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Music, Internet, Apps

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.

## Eleven Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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

## Tunlan Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, SaaS

Tunlan Captial is a professional venture capital management company based in Hangzhou,China.Its management team contains successful entrepreneurs,former senior managers from Alibaba and other Fortune 500 companies.Tunlan is committed to provide capital and professional management experience helping start-up companies to achieve sustainablegrowth and gain competitive advantages with its governmental,capital,technological and other resources internationally.Tunlan has about 20 billion RMB of assets under management since establishment. It has invested in over 60 companies and established multiple funds including "FengyunZheshang"VC funds,regional funds,PE M&A funds,and oversea M&A funds.Through portfolio diversification and professional investment methods,Tunlan has invested in a series of high-potential start-ups including Canaan,Sun Harmonics,Xinfeng,Asunistar,Baizijian,and Tecenet. In the future,Tunlan will persist in the philosophy of using capital to promote technological innovation and becoming a professional and innovative international investment management corporation.

## Saviu Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services

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

## Flamingo DAO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sacramento, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

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

## TRAC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sonoma, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

TRAC is a Venture Capital Firm that uses Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms to make every single investment.

## Azure Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

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.

## Amazon Alexa Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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.

## Gaingels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

## FireStarter Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, FinTech

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.

## Exponential Creativity Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Music, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence

Technology to maximize humanity's creative and expressive potential

## Real Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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

## Mayfield Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, Enterprise Software

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.

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