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Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in United States in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Automotive startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in United States in December 2024

Investor	Automotive United States investments
Trucks Venture Capital	15
BMW i Ventures	13
Fontinalis Partners	12
Automotive Ventures	11
Expansion Venture Capital	10
Toyota Ventures	9
Maniv Mobility	9
General Motors Ventures	9
Alumni Ventures	9
Upfront Ventures	8
Khosla Ventures	8
Right Side Capital Management	7
Crosslink Capital	7
SV Angel	7
Andreessen Horowitz	7
Slow Ventures	7
M25	7
Intel Capital	7
Maveron	7
MaC Venture Capital	7
Stage 1 Ventures	7
StageDotO	6
The Engine	6
Hyundai Motor Company	6
Tuesday Capital	6
Soma Capital	6
Maven Ventures	6
Airbus Ventures	6
Bolt	6
The Engine	6
New Enterprise Associates	6
Romulus Capital	6
1984 Ventures	6
KCRise Fund	6
FJ Labs	6
Invus	6
Lerer Hippeau	6
EnerTech Capital	6
Shasta Ventures	6
Florida Funders	5
BP Ventures	5
Service Provider Capital	5
Unpopular Ventures	5
ff Venture Capital	5
Amplo	5
Comcast Ventures	5
Porsche Ventures	5
Climate Capital	5
First Round Capital	5
Techstars Ventures	5

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Trucks Venture Capital funds the entrepreneurs building the future of transportation.

Investment focus

Transportation, Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Teleo — Teleo is revolutionizing material moving industries by turning heavy equipment into supervised autonomous machines.
BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
Carvis.AI — Carvis is an AI mechanic shop co-pilot that enables your mechanics to communicate and identify car issues, cutting your shop's diagnostic time by up to 50%.

We operate with the speed and rigor of a Silicon Valley VC firm, while leveraging the value-add of BMW as a corporate partner

Investment focus

Automotive, Software, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

DeepDrive — We are DeepDrive. We are powered by fusion. Absolute professionalism mixed up with our deeply rooted urge to discover. Deep expertise meets revolutionary innovations.
Cyclic Materials — Cyclic Materials has created the first circular supply chain for rare earth elements with the goal of helping the world transition to an environmentally responsible future.
RunSafe Security — Secure embedded systems with RunSafe Security's runtime cybersecurity protection, integrating build-time defenses without affecting performance.

Fontinalis Partners, with offices in Detroit and Boston, is a venture capital firm strategically focused on next generation mobility. Fontinalis’ mission is to leverage the team’s considerable management experience, market access, strategic relationships, international expertise, and background in transportation innovation to scale companiesproviding next-generation mobility solutions. Fontinalis invests as a strategic partner across all facets of the world’s mobility systems on a stage- and size-agnostic basis. Fontinalis is not affiliated with Ford Motor Company.

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Hgen — Hgen provides affordable green hydrogen for deep decarbonization.
Etched.ai — Transformers etched into silicon. By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we're creating the world's most powerful servers for transformer inference.
Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.

Welcome to Automotive Ventures, founded by Steve Greenfield. We offer fundraising, growth strategy and transaction guidance advice to automotive technology entrepreneurs and strategic buyers. We support the success of automotive entrepreneurs, businesses and investors.

Investment focus

Automotive, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

WarrCloud — Warrclouds automated warranty management software helps to optimize warranty management solutions. Simplify warranty coverage, claims and processing.
EECOMobility — Advanced AI Software for condition monitoring, fault detection, diagnosis and prognosis
Safire Technology Group — SAFIRE, our patented li-ion shear thickening battery electrolyte additive stops explosion/fire through an instantaneous liquid-to-solid transformation upon mechanical impact, and imparts ballistic protection -- all inherent in the electrolyte chemistry.

Expansion Venture Capital, is a venture capital firm focused in early and growth stage companies. Located in New York City, EVC was founded by brothers, Joseph and Ryan Melohn. EVC’s team is comprised of entrepreneurs. Fifteen years of combined experience has enabled EVC to help build great companies across the US. As entrepreneurs, “we havebeen in their shoes and speak the same language”.We pride ourselves on being available for our teams of entrepreneurs 24/7. We work side by side with them, providing intellectual capital and assistance in any way we can. From mentorship to business development, raising capital, getting the right press, are some of the ways “we work for you”. When one of our founders have a question we want to be the first place they turn. Their success is our success!We are founder friendly! “Entrepreneurs, not VCs, build great companies”

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Thoughtly — Thoughtfully assists companies in creating and implementing AI speech agents that mimic humans.
Bedrock Materials — Bedrock Materials pioneers affordable sodium-ion batteries with revolutionary materials and production techniques, changing energy storage for a more sustainable future.
Reshape Automation — AI-powered industrial automation marketplace and platform that simplifies the discovery, design, deployment, and support of automation

Toyota Ventures is a San Francisco Bay Area-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups from around the world. Founded in July 2017, its mission is to discover what’s next for Toyota by helping startups bring disruptive technologies and business models to market quickly. With more than $500 million in assets under management,the firm’s funds include the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund focused on artificial intelligence, cloud computing, autonomy, mobility, robotics, smart cities, digital health, financial technologies, materials, and energy; and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund focused on innovative solutions for carbon neutrality.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ecolectro — Ecolectro is solving the biggest challenges in making Green Hydrogen. Our alkaline ion-exchange membranes and polymers make clean fuel and decarbonize industry.
Pickle Robot — We make robots that unload trucks without retrofitting the warehouse
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

Maniv Mobility is a global venture capital fund investing in the world's leading mobility start-ups.

Investment focus

Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

Anaphite — A breakthrough nanomaterial
FreshBus — Book bus tickets online at the best price on Fresh Bus. Travel in comfort with AC & electric buses. Book bus ticket booking service easy and securely.
Circular.co — Circular makes sustainable sourcing faster and easier, using data-powered digital tools to connect PCR buyers to the right suppliers at the right price.

GM Ventures combines investing in automotive-related tech startups with General Motors support to drive innovation and advance the future of mobility.

Investment focus

Automotive, Software, Energy
Funding Round, Series C, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Silverfort — Silverfort offers a revolutionary agentless and proxyless authentication platform for enterprises. It extends Multi-Factor Authentication, Risk-Based Authentication and Zero Trust policies in a unified, AI-driven manner across all corporate users, devices and systems, both on-premise and in the cloud, without requiring any modifications toendpoints and servers. That includes systems that couldn't be protected before, such as homegrown applications, legacy systems, IT/OT infrastructure, file shares, command-line tools, machine-to-machine access (service accounts) and more. Silverfort allows companies to detect and prevent identity based attacks (including account compromise, lateral movement, brute force, password spraying and more), achieve compliance with regulations like PCI DSS, NIST and HIPAA, and securely migrate servers and applications to the cloud without modifying them.
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Addionics — Addionics creates the next generation of rechargeable batteries by using smart 3D structures to improve battery performances

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cake AI — Cake is the fastest way to drive AI initiatives to success. Cake manages the entire stack - compute infrastructure, open source platform elements, common integrations, and pre-built project components.
Rosie AI — Rosie is ChatGPT for Excel—your on-call expert business analyst. She integrates seamlessly with your spreadsheets to build, update, and explain complex Excel models. Whether you're aiming to streamline data analysis or automate repetitive tasks, Rosie is designed to boost productivity and sharpen decision-making. With Rosie, Excel becomes lessabout wrestling with formulas and more about driving strategic insights.
StoreCash — StoreCash is a digital bank built for teens and young adults. Unlock massive cashback rewards & learn financial literacy by signing up.

Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. We invest in technology businesses across digital media, SaaS, consumer internet and retail innovation.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BrightAI — BrightAI is on a mission to disrupt the future by transforming anything in the physical world into digital, infusing intelligence and control where there was none, and unlocking unimagined potential for business growth and social good.
Feno — Feno provides oral health insights that could signal systemic issues. Its headquarters is located in Culver City, California.
GlassFlow — GlassFlow is a serverless and production-ready setup that empowers everyone in your data team to build and transform event-based pipelines in minutes.

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Moonvalley — The imagination research company building ML video and image models that captivate.
Vitara Biomedical — Vitara Biomedical has developed a therapeutic platform to support premature infants. Vitara Biomedical's platform was inspired by natural physiological processes to transform neonatal care.
Outsmart Education — Join the waitlist and see why higher education will never again be the same.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Averi — Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growthoperation in one seamless experience.
UBILD — A.I powered construction workforce and vendor procurement platform
Hutsy — Hutsy is your go-to financial app, offering personalized financial guidance based on your unique situation. Our mission is to help you improve your financial health through tailored advice on spending, savings, credit building, investing, debt management, and more.

Crosslink, founded in 1989, is a premier early-stage venture capital firm with over $1.3B in assets. Crosslink partners with founders that are market disrupters and category creators, typically at the Seed-Series A stage, across highly dynamic enterprise and consumer technology sectors. Over its history, Crosslink has had the opportunity topartner with defining companies such as Bleacher Report (acquired by TWX), BuildingConnected (acquired by ADSK), Chime, Coupa (COUP), DataStax, Molekule, Omniture (acquired by ADBE), Personal Capital (acquired by Empower Retirement), Postmates (acquired by UBER), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Verodin (acquired by FEYE), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone) and Weave.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

arqu — arqu is a tech-enabled wholesale insurance brokerage transforming how large-scale, complex commercial risks are transacted in the $100bn Excess & Surplus (E&S) market.
Argo Space — Argo will harvest lunar water and use it as propellant to create a true in-space transportation network. By sourcing propellant from the moon, we will provide the freedom to maneuver throughout space.
Abstract Security — The Future of Security Engineering is Abstract. Find out how you can transcend next-gen SIEM and get back to business value.

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are 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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kalshi — Kalshi is a federally regulated financial exchange that allows investors to trade directly on the anticipated outcome of future events. Kalshi’s markets cover a wide range of topics including economics, international affairs, media and entertainment, climate/weather, and public health. Because Kalshi’s market topics can be more specific thanother instruments like stocks or bonds, investors can get direct exposure to the events and trends that they are interested in. For example, a Kalshi market on whether a certain free trade agreement will be signed can help retail investors get exposure to emerging markets and fluctuations in international trade.Website: https://kalshi.com
New Lantern — New Lantern provides cutting-edge AI-powered cloud-native PACS solutions for healthcare providers, enabling faster and more accurate radiology diagnostics.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
HappyRobot — Happyrobot is the AI that extracts quantitative data from geospatial imagery with English queries
Sinatra — Sinatra's AI copilot for e-commerce assists medium and big firms in streamlining operations. through process automation, real-time anomaly detection and analysis, auditing of sales pipelines to increase profitability and cut expenses, and platform integration.

Slow Ventures is a community built on the collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Avian Labs — We're building software so that you can pay people, not numbers. Anywhere in the world.
Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.
Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.

M25 is an early-stage venture firm based in Chicago, investing solely in companies headquartered in the Midwest.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Pear Commerce — Pear is the retail ecommerce platform that connects omnichannel CPG brands to retailers, combining shoppable media, where-to-buy, and closed-loop data to help strategically capture greater share of wallet.
Continuum — Simplify B2B returns, warranties, and repairs with Continuum; the only Returns Management Software designed for distributors and manufacturers.
Hummingbirds — Our platform helps businesses find & work with hyper-local content creators and influencers on-demand. Drive awareness and growth by working with our hummingbirds today!

Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, edge, 5G, autonomy, cybersecurity, client & gaming, enterprise applications, silicon design and manufacturing, and a wide range of other disruptive technologies. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested US$12.9 billion in more than 1,582 companies worldwide.Intel Capital has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cherre — Connect all your real estate data and make it available to the entire organization for better investment, management, and underwriting decisions.
Tuskira — Tuskira provides cutting-edge threat defense system using a security mesh driven by AI.
Freshpaint — Codelessly connect your site or app to over 100+ integrations for analytics, advertising, email, warehousing, and more with one click. Automate site instrumentation and tedious integrations. Try free today.

Maveron is a consumer-only venture capital firm focused on partnering with world-class entrepreneurs building standout consumer brands.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Roon — Your Trusted Guide for Health Conditions. Today we are focused on GBM, ALS, Dementia, and Fertility and Family Building.
Goodbill — Goodbill helps people fight hospital bills. It's the fastest and simplest way to save money without weeks of research and hours of phone calls.
Rebelstork — Rebelstork was born to make Parenting Lighter. We are the largest tech-driven marketplace for baby gear in North America - diverting overstock and retailer returned baby gear away from landfills and into the homes of customers at a fraction of the retail price.

MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Fin — Last mile delivery using e-cargo bikes in London. Faster, greener and cheaper deliveries. Zero emissions, zero congestion and warehousing.
StoreCash — StoreCash is a digital bank built for teens and young adults. Unlock massive cashback rewards & learn financial literacy by signing up.
Fully Ramped — Fully Ramped is for sales teams that prioritize phone calls. With the help of the voice AI platform Fully Ramped, your representatives may rehearse their phone sales techniques with simulated prospects who sound exactly like your clients. With many at-bats and various settings, practice pitching, resolving objections, product

Stage 1 Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that is seeking to build partnerships with great entrepreneurs that are flexible and who want to build meaningful companies. They want to assist you with their global network of relationships as well as provide the capital you need to fuel the growth of your company.Their market focus todayis in Mobile, the Executable Internet or Software as a Service (SaaS) , IPTV and Internet Video, Pay-For-Performance Marketing and Advertising, and Security.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Spain, Ireland

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
LandTrust — Find recreation experiences or discover farms and ranches for your next great outdoor adventure. Landowners, host recreators and start earning income from your private land.
Gigpro — Jobs at Gigpro

StageDotO is an early stage investment fund actively identifying pre-Series A companies with energetic entrepreneurs driven by world-changing ideas. We add ten companies to our portfolio every two years. StageDotO is a well-rounded, highly successful partnership team led by experienced and proven entrepreneurs and investors. We’ve celebratedmultiple successful tech startup exits and managed a successful small-cap hedge fund, generating top quartile returns for over 10 years. We’re lead by a philosophy that company building is the most critical element to achieving startup success. We believe it’s generally missing from today’s early-stage venture investing environment. StageDotO delivers this through day to day involvement that leverages a combined 40+ years of startup and investing experience. Co-investment and pro-rata rights for limited partners allow continued investing in the best-performing companies.

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Plotify — Plotify is a real estate company that specializes in Buying, owning, managing, and selling an investment property. Its plot structure aims to help its users, to keep the perks of property ownership, without the hassle. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, England.
Karus — Karus is the AI decisioning tool that efficiently empowers lending and private credit capital allocation in auto finance for all participants.
Teal — Teal Communications enables any IoT device to get connected on any cellular network around the world through a single eSIM platform - intelligently, securely, reliably, affordably.

A home for Tough Tech founders.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Osmoses — Osmoses is a cleantech company that is transforming chemical separations. Its mission is to eliminate energy waste with efficient membrane technology, reducing production costs for customers and CO2 emissions for the environment. Hydrogen, carbon capture, and renewable natural gas are some of the in
Amide Technologies — Amide synthesizes peptides that are difficult to obtain through existing means, bridging the gap between traditional solid phase peptide synthesis and biological expression. By using unnatural amino acids and artificial protein backbones, our team is expanding what is biologically possible. Amide’s Automated Fast Flow Peptide Synthesizer (AFPS)leverages flow to dramatically improve solid phase peptide synthesis. Using the power of flow, we can generate highly reactive intermediates in situ, maintain excellent heat and mass transfer, and achieve much better synthetic outcomes than alternative SPPS methods. With all these advantages, AFPS allows biopharma pioneers to dramatically re-think what’s possible. Let Amide broaden your horizons with better, faster synthesis.
Vaxess Technologies — Vaxess engineers novel technologies that uniquely engage the human immune system, enabling improved efficacy and simplified access for vaccines and therapeutics.

The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer. It has various vehicle lineups, brand vision, and global campaigns like clean mobility, sustainability, art, and sports partnership.The company was founded in 1967 and, along with its 32.8% owned subsidiary, Kia Motors, together comprise the Hyundai Motor Group,which is the world's fifth-largest automaker based on annual vehicle sales in 2012. In 2008, Hyundai Motor (without Kia) was ranked as the eighth largest automaker. As of 2012, the company sold over 4.4 million vehicles worldwide in that year, and together with Kia total sales were 7.12 million.

Investment focus

Automotive, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

42dot — The answer to mobility and everything
Surff — Surf is a logistics company that offers a solution that allows for both the comparison of shipping/forwarder freight rates by route, which was previously difficult to provide on other platforms, and actual shipment reservations.
Obsidian Sensors — Obsidian Sensors develops a glass microelectromechanical system designed to manufacture automotive sensors. The MEMS uses infrared imaging for applications like security cameras and autonomous vehicles, enabling clients to get incumbent silicon MEMS-based sensors easily. it was founded in La Jolla, California in 2017.

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

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Grazzy — Grazzy improves retention and recruiting for hotels, bars, restaurants and salons by powering cashless tipping and instant payouts. Safe, secure, and simple to get started.
Kollegio — Kollegio is an AI-driven platform for college applications.
Foundation Health — Foundation Health is a telehealth and nationwide pharmacies and diagnostic distribution centre

Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders that focuses on software. It has invested seed in startups now worth over $60 billion combined including Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, and Lambda School among others (20 unicorns) It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Aquaria — Discover how you can secure access to safe, clean water from air using Aquaria's atmospheric water generators.
PlayAI — PlayHT is #1 AI Voice Generator with 600+ AI voices that creates ultra realistic Text to Speech voiceovers. Convert text to audio and download as MP3 & WAV files.
Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.

Maven is a seed stage venture firm investing in tech companies addressing emerging consumer behavior and trends. The Maven team identifies and backs bold founders with a vision worth fighting for, then helps founders unlock their potential to change the world, building iconic brands like Zoom and Cruise. Maven maintains a concentrated investmentstrategy, making only 6-8 core investments each year. 16% of Maven companies have achieved an exit or valuation at $500M or more, 10x industry average.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
Medeloop — Medeloop is an end-to-end AI-driven platform for early stage clinical research and trials.
Fathom — Instantly summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversation instead of taking notes.

Operating in service of deeptech entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Aerospace, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, France, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Bifrost AI — Build AI in a day instead of a year, at a fraction of the price, with the Bifrost synthetic data engine.
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.
Impulse Space — Economical and nimble last-mile space payload delivery

Bolt: Investing at the intersection of the digital and physical worlds

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Hardware
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

FYTO — Revolutionary Sustainable Agriculture
Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.
Foundation — Self custody is finally attainable. Secure your Bitcoin with an unprecedented combination of elegance and ease of use.

A home for Tough Tech founders.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Osmoses — Osmoses is a cleantech company that is transforming chemical separations. Its mission is to eliminate energy waste with efficient membrane technology, reducing production costs for customers and CO2 emissions for the environment. Hydrogen, carbon capture, and renewable natural gas are some of the in
Amide Technologies — Amide synthesizes peptides that are difficult to obtain through existing means, bridging the gap between traditional solid phase peptide synthesis and biological expression. By using unnatural amino acids and artificial protein backbones, our team is expanding what is biologically possible. Amide’s Automated Fast Flow Peptide Synthesizer (AFPS)leverages flow to dramatically improve solid phase peptide synthesis. Using the power of flow, we can generate highly reactive intermediates in situ, maintain excellent heat and mass transfer, and achieve much better synthetic outcomes than alternative SPPS methods. With all these advantages, AFPS allows biopharma pioneers to dramatically re-think what’s possible. Let Amide broaden your horizons with better, faster synthesis.
Vaxess Technologies — Vaxess engineers novel technologies that uniquely engage the human immune system, enabling improved efficacy and simplified access for vaccines and therapeutics.

Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Sana — Sana is an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
Fastino — Fastino provides enterprise AI developers with high-performance, task-optimized language models built to scale.
Avenzo Therapeutics — Developing the next generation of oncology therapies for patients.

Romulus Capital invests in early-stage technology companies that are looking to become industry leaders. We invest between $100K-$1M in brilliant – often first-time – entrepreneurs who are frequently affiliated with top universities and incubators. As a given company grows, our total investment can scale to $5M+ over time. We are focused oncompany-building, rather than betting, and we remain strong partners throughout the trajectory of growth. Our firm is young, entrepreneurial, and established, with a powerful investor base from around the world. We are a venture capital firm of the future, one that merges the classic, humanist focus on building large, impactful entities with the exciting realities of modern entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Albiware — Award-winning platform loved by our customers and trusted by 1000s of restorers Worldwide. See how our restorers scale their business.
Zerocater — ZeroCater delivers personalized local corporate catering and snacks services for any office size. ZeroCater makes office catered meals and snacks simple!
Soil Connect — Soil Connect is a platform created for excavators, contractors, builders, landscapers and other building professionals who work with soil on a regular basis. Our platform connects those who have soil, with those who need soil.

1984 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that seeks to invest in fintech, healthcare, SaaS, e-commerce, and consumer sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Airfold — Airfold automatically analyzes all your customer-facing calls and emails so you know for sure what drives or kills your pipeline.
Clarium — Clarium is transforming healthcare by empowering providers with an AI-powered platform with intelligent workflow automation and actionable insights.
Revv — Revolutionize your calibration processes with Revv ADAS: lightning-fast calibration identification, comprehensive OEM data, and seamless insurance-ready invoicing, all in one powerful solution for increased efficiency, accuracy, and profitability.

Founded by Darcy Howe, KCRise Fund launched in 2016 as an initiative of KCRising, a long term vision for the greater Kansas City region to build capacity, bring existing businesses to scale, and fully realize the KC region’s potential. Decidedly for-profit, KCRise Fund is a traditional venture capital fund which invests side-by-side with otherinstitutional VC investors in early stage companies based in Kansas and western half of Missouri. Our investors include corporations, university endowments, family offices and prominent business leaders in the region. In 2019, KCRise launched KCRise Fund II, and KCRise currently has $70 million in committed capital under management.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Ox — Wearable technology that directs frontline operators to perform their work through software intelligence.
Vytelle — With Vytelle, cattle producers increase accuracy of feed intake and bodyweight measurement, improve certainty of genetic selection and accelerate progress.
Cariloop — Cariloop has an employee benefit that helps people navigate the demands of childcare, complex diagnoses, eldercare, mental health, special ed needs, and more.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Leland — Leland is a marketplace that connects ambitious people with world-class coaches who can help them reach their career and educational goals via 1:1 coaching and small group classes.
Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.

Invus recognizes that every company is unique and that extraordinary business performance cannot be achieved by following a formulaic approach. Due to their unique structure, they have a great deal of flexibility in the types of companies and situations where they can get involved.Perhaps most importantly, they know that real transformationtakes time and that itâ€™s never a straight line. They fully align their incentives with their partners and have the wherewithal and long-term commitment to see through any bumps along the way.They have been successfully empowering owner-managers since 1985. They have been reinvesting the same pool of money from the same group of European families (through their Artal investment vehicle) since their founding. Today they manage over $4 billion in an evergreen fund and work out of offices in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, France, China

Portfolio highlights

PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
Tisento Therapeutics — Tisento Therapeutics is a MA-based developer of novel medicines to treat diseases with significant unmet medical needs.
ADARx Pharmaceuticals — ADARx is a genetic medicine company focusing on the editing of Messenger RNA Targeting transcripts and oligonucleotide-based therapeutics.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MOTORMIA — Meet Mia! MOTORMIA - Curated by auto enthusiasts, powered by AI. MOTORMIA is revolutionizing personalized discovery of aftermarket upgrades for your enthusiast vehicle
Conflixis — Conflixis develops conflict monitoring platform intended to manage conflicts inside organizations.
Symbiotic Security — Symbiotic Security revolutionizes cybersecurity with an AI-driven coach, offering real-time detection, remediation, and training within the developer's IDE.

EnerTech Capital works hand-in-hand with pioneers and innovators daring to change the world. For 25 years EnerTech’s fundamental focus has been investing and partnering with innovative companies driving informational impact across the energy landscape; with a focus on Mobility, Industry 4.0, and Connected Customer. Since its founding in 1996,EnerTech has made 74 investments and has managed over $500 million in capital commitments. EnerTech works with investors and stakeholders from corporates with growing innovation programs to seasoned investors seeking differentiated opportunities for strategic capital deployment or tailored solutions. EnerTech partners with companies across all stages of enterprise value creation from late development and seed through commercialization and growth. While investment activities are predominantly focused in North America, EnerTech partners with teams globally on an opportunistic basis.

Investment focus

Energy, Software, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

SHAED — SHAED offers a mobility platform. It focuses on Shared, Hydrogen, Autonomous, Electric, and Distribution technologies. It speeds up the shift from traditional engines to electric and sustainable vehicles in the commercial sector.
Car IQ — Car IQ is the first payment solution developed for vehicles and fleets that enables vehicles to autonomously initiate and complete payments for services such as tolls, fuels, parking and more.
Aperia Technologies — The Halo automatic tire inflation system for semi-truck tractors and trailers installs in minutes to increase fuel efficiency and tire life.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Voxel51 — We build software that enables ML engineers to build better models, more quickly. Try FiftyOne, our powerful platform for dataset curation, analysis, and model development.
LeakSignal — Sensitive data and attack observability/mitigation across service mesh architecture. WAF, Data Exfiltration, Data protection, Real time mitigation.
Overland AI — Overland AI is a manufacturer and developer of autonomous navigation for off-road autonomous vehicles.

Florida Funders is a hybrid of a venture capital fund and an angel investor network that discovers, funds & builds early-stage tech companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

HealthSnap — Manage chronic conditions, improve outcomes, and incorporate new guidelines for remote patient monitoring at scale - all on one platform! Schedule a demo to learn more.
Manifest — Manifest is an anchor for a generation seeking direction.
Marco — Marco provides access to fast, flexible financing so you can manage cash flows and invest in growth. Factoring made easy.

bp Ventures plays a key role in helping the company reinvent itself as an integrated energy company, in line with our new purpose: reimagining energy for people and planet.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Hysata — Hysata is a developer of hydrogen electrolyzer designed to accelerate the world's shift away from fossil fuels to green hydrogen
Mantel — Mantel is developing the material solution to carbon capture
BluSmart Mobility — Blu Smart Mobility is a provider of electric shared smart mobility platform for transportation. Blu Smart is an all-electric, shared, and smart mobility platform for ride-sharing, car-sharing, and scooter-sharing. Blu Smart is a 100% electric mobility platform that partners with electric vehicle manufactures.

Venture fund whose limited partners include the most knowledgeable, respected and best connected service providers in the industry.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hydden — Proactively manage your identity attack surface by continuously discovering all identities so you can address threats existing security tools miss
Outrider — Autonomous yard operations have set a new standard. Yard automation transforms yard operations into an efficient, safe, and sustainable solution.
Data Quality Co-Op — As the independent clearinghouse for data quality signals, we transform how buyers and suppliers of 1st-Party data measure, understand and manage quality.

The best companies, off the beaten path.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

UnVale — UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online.
Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
Omnic.AI — The way to be a professional in esports. Omnic Data uses computer vision and a deep learning network to provide virtual coaching for the aspiring esports gamer.

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Poland

Portfolio highlights

ForActive — ForActive The Best App to Buy & Sell Memberships
Tilta — Provide a financial service, drive your GMV, and add a new revenue stream without the hassle of being a financial servicer provider.
PrivacyHawk — PrivacyHawk is a Personal Data Protection service that makes opting out, unsubscribing, and deleting your data from thousands of companies easy.

Amplo is a global venture capital firm helping build companies that matter. It specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital and financial exchanges. Amplo was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Spring, Texas.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Nodal — Nodal is a platform that efficiently connects vetted surrogates and intended parents, offering transparency, equity, education, and support for all parties on their journey.
Ensemble — Discover how a novel representation learning algorithm can increase the predictive power of your data in any domain and with any model.
Kyan Health — Prioritise your employees' mental health and well-being with Kyan Health. Our evidence-based solutions address employees' mental well-being, stress at work & boost your workforce productivity.

Comcast Ventures is the venture capital affiliate of Comcast Corporation and partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs building transformative consumer and enterprise companies.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Hume AI — Empathic AI research lab building multimodal AI with emotional intelligence. Experience our API: https://demo.hume.ai
HealthSnap — Manage chronic conditions, improve outcomes, and incorporate new guidelines for remote patient monitoring at scale - all on one platform! Schedule a demo to learn more.
SafeBase — Share your security posture with customers. Automate access to sensitive security and compliance documents with SafeBase.

Porsche Ventures is a global venture capital firm investing in frontier technology to advance the industrial sector.

Investment focus

Automotive, Transportation, Information Technology
Series B, Seed, Series A
United States, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Chemix — Chemix is using AI to develop breakthrough EV battery technologies.
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.

Climate Capital is an investment firm that supports companies that directly or indirectly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

SirenOpt — SirenOpt platforms provide non-destructive, real-time, inline and off-line materials characterization and classification solutions for manufacturers
Climatize — Invest in solar & energy efficiency projects starting from $5. Download the Climatize App to browse investment offerings
Matereal — Matereal is a biobased polyurethane manufacturer that seeks to replace the toxic polyurethane industry and bring a new environmentally safe plastic to market.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Reducto — Reducto is an API that provides high quality data ingestion for large language models (LLMs). It works with any vector database or embedding system. It can parse PDFs, Excel, PowerPoint, and more.
Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
Prepared — We are harnessing the power of everyday technology to enhance the way that people communicate during emergencies.

Techstars helps founders succeed. Through our global accelerators, we invest in early-stage startups led by founders building a better future for everyone.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

MD Ally — MD Ally allows dispatchers and first responders to connect non-emergent calls to telehealth, in-network resources, social services & more in real-time.
Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
Chargerzilla — Search and Book EV Charging stations near you. List your charger with us and start earning $$.

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