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Top 50 Beauty VC (Venture Capital) Funds in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Beauty startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Beauty companies. This investor list updates every month.

Top 50 Beauty VC (Venture Capital) Funds in January 2026

Investor	Beauty investments
Unilever Ventures	16
Greycroft	11
L Catterton	10
Fab Co-Creation Studio Ventures	10
Strong Ventures	9
SOSV	9
Backstage Capital	9
BBG Ventures	9
BAM Ventures	9
Right Side Capital Management	8
Lerer Hippeau	8
Silas Capital	8
True Beauty Ventures	7
SoGal Ventures	7
East Ventures	7
Sauce.vc	6
CircleUp	6
Sandbridge Capital	6
Imaginary Ventures	6
Antler	6
Finn Capital Partners	6
TBT	6
Goodwater Capital	6
Bessemer Venture Partners	6
Korea Investment Partners	6
STRIVE	6
Samos Investments	6
Maveron	5
Jungle Ventures	5
Forerunner	5
Female Founders Fund	5
India Quotient	5
Global Founders Capital	5
Precursor Ventures	5
Felix Capital	5
Andreessen Horowitz	5
igniteXL Ventures	5
HV Capital	5
Antai Ventures	5
Sinovation Ventures	5
Lightspeed Venture Partners	5
Pipeline Angels	4
Upfront Ventures	4
Balderton Capital	4
New Voices Fund	4
Nissay Capital	4
Scrum Ventures	4
Brand Foundry Ventures	4
Leo Capital	4
FreshTracks Capital	4

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Unilever Ventures is the venture capital and private equity arm of Unilever. We support forward-thinking founders who are crafting brands for the modern consumer.

Investment focus

Health Care, Beauty, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

indē wild — The First Ever Ayurvedic Beauty Brand, People Powered & Expert Backed. Combining 5000 Years Of Ayurvedic Rituals With Modern Dermatology & Clean Ingredients.
Mealogic — Mealogic is a direct-to-consumer, end-to-end service platform that connects brands to their audiences through freshly delivered, healthy prepared food programs, fully delivered across the Unites States.
Alice Mushrooms — Our chocolates are made w/ high-quality, organic ingredients & no artificial flavors or preservatives. Try Alice Mushrooms today and feel the difference! Alice Mushroom

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

MapAnything — Integrate and leverage location-based data and prioritization in your CRM, using Salesforce maps, to optimize your reps' activities.
Optimus Ride — Optimus Ride is a self-driving vehicle company based in Boston, MA. It designs technologies to enable efficient, sustainable, and equitable mobility systems and solutions.As an MIT spinoff company, it combines over 30 years of interdisciplinary university research in self‑driving technologies (DARPA Urban Challenge), electric vehicles (CityCar),and Mobility-on-Demand Systems. The team includes decades of industrial and entrepreneurial experience that combines manufacturing robots, urban design, and shared vehicle fleet management.
Resonate — Resonate's pioneering approach goes beyond traditional targeting on broad demographics, past behaviors or general interests. Political campaigns, advocacy groups and major consumer brands now use Resonate's motivations based targeting to deliver successful online ad campaigns based on otherwise unidentifiable values such as patriotism,environmentalism, taste for luxury, interest in innovation and thousands of other human dimensions.

L Catterton provides capital to companies to support acquisitions, management buyouts, recapitalizations, and turnarounds. They consider investments across many targeted industry verticals within the consumer industry: food and beverage, retail and restaurants, consumer products and services, and media and marketing services.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Flexjet — Flexjet is a leading luxury private jet company offering aviation services including fractional jet ownership, leasing, jet cards, and our Red Label program.
SUGAR Cosmetics — Discover SUGAR Cosmetics' extensive range of high-quality makeup and beauty products. Shop online for lipsticks, foundations, eyeshadows, and more. Enjoy exclusive offers and free shipping across India.
Healing Hands Clinic — Healing Hands Clinic is a unique and specialty clinic for constipation,piles, hernia & prevention of Lifetstyle diseases. Apart from its heart of the city location, expert consultation, state of the art technology and well qualified staff are few of its assets. It is the first clinic in the city to deliver facility of Defecography forconstipation. Our focus, dedication and inner feeling of curing or treating the patients with care have given us many satisfied patients.Dr. Ashwin Porwal – Our Founder (In Crunch Base)Dr Ashwin Porwal graduated from B.J. Medical College, Pune and completed DNB in General Surgery from Poona Hospital and Research Center. He has undergone a certified training in Advanced Laparoscopy, Bariatric Surgery from Genoa Medical School, Italy and Wound Management from Madeleine Flangan University of Hertfordshire, U.K. Dr. Porwal also holds a Diploma in Laparoscopic Surgery from EITS – IRCAD, Strasbourg University, France. He has the privilege of having obtained training in Proctology (especially in Constipation & Piles surgery) from the world renowned Colo-Procto Surgeon Dr. Antonio Longo at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Austria.To Dr. Porwal’s credit, is the first STARR (Stapled Transanal Rectal Resection) surgery for ODS a form of Chronic Constipation in Maharashtra. He has performed the maximum number of STARR procedures and MIPH (Minimally Invasive Procedure for Hemorrhoids) surgeries for Piles in the state. In 2011, he presented a paper on MIPH and STARR Surgery at the World Congress on Coloproctology in Rome. This year in February, Dr Porwal has achieved a significant milestone of successfully treating more than 2000 Piles patients with the MIPH (Stapler Surgery) procedure & more than 3000 Piles Patients with medicines, which speaks greatly of the care and cure provided by him and his team at Healing Hands Clinic. This milestone is appreciatively dubbed by his team and patients as “5000 Stories of Piles to Smiles”To his name is more than 500+ Starr Surgeries which is highest in ASIA.Recently in Feb 2013, He has performed the First Pelvic Organ Prolapse Suspension Surgery (P.O.P.S.) for Pelvic Organ Prolapse in INDIA.

We care for impact. We are purpose and data-driven people. We grow faster.

Investment focus

Beauty, E-Commerce, Fashion
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

buywith — buywith is a video commerce platform enabling retailers and brands to transform their e-commerce into engaging shoppable videos and dynamic video-led experiences, including an AI-powered digital studio for creating video ads for retail media at scale.
Kintra Fibers — 1,499 Followers, 17 Following, 12 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Kintra Fibers (@kintrafibers)
Cleverman — Cleverman - Customized, Natural-Looking Results in 5 Minutes. Reusable & 100% Vegan. The Most Customized Beard Dye & Hair Color for Men. Try for $12.95

Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
Veramore — Veramore is an online store that sells a wide range of beauty and cosmetic products.
SQUARES — SQUARES build commerce sites with no-code and use and manage them with ease.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

Backstage Capital is a venture capital fund investing in the best startups led by underrepresented founders in the U.S. The firm was founded in 2015 by Arlan Hamilton and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, United States.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BoldHue — BoldHue is a beauty tech company that develops a Bluetooth-enabled handheld device to customize beauty needs. Its platform uses AI technology to scan faces, display color, and match the color of the face to dispense pigmentation into the base foundation. BoldHue was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Aurora, Colorado.
EdLight — EdLight helps teachers focus on student work. With remote learning, it's harder than ever to see authentic student work. EdLight allows teachers to give real time feedback on images of student work.
Cloudnine Augmented Intelligence — Augmented Intelligence Software for Enterprises to unify disparate data for instant intelligence

BBG Ventures is an early-stage, generalist fund focused on startups with a female or diverse founder.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Mexico, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Grayce — Grayce helps individuals care for loved ones or themselves. Personalized care with dedicated experts & guidance. Available worldwide.
MaxHome — MaxHome is an AI-native platform for real estate agents and brokerages. It offers AI-powered tools for real estate agents to streamline lead management and enhance customer experience.
Disclosure Facts — Prevent FTC disclosure risk and ad disputes with a provable system of record for creator and influencer ad disclosures.

BAM Ventures is an early-stage consumer-focused fund based in Los Angeles, CA.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Locker Corp. — The ultimate online marketplace for powersports enthusiasts. Buy and sell dirt bike, motorcycle, ATV, UTV parts, gear and more. Join our community and find everything you need for your next adventure.
VideaHealth — Transforming Dentistry Through AI. By applying AI to X-ray analysis, we unlock insights, experiences, and efficiencies that drive breakthroughs in clinical outcomes and economics for dentists and insurers.
CRED — Compare millions of commercial data points and uncover unique and personalised opportunities for your brand.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vidrovr — Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
Lab Symplified — Lab Symplified provides software for lab inventory, quality management, maintenance logs, and communication automation.
Naviday Health — Naviday Health is building personalized, AI-guided care pathways—starting with menopause—to help individuals confidently navigate complex health transitions. Our platform empowers daily decision-making through tailored insights, symptom tracking, and holistic support, bridging the gap between traditional care and real-world needs. We’re redefiningwhat it means to stay well every day.

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

BLADE — BLADE is a technology-powered, short-distance aviation company committed to reducing travel friction by enabling cost-effective air transportation alternatives. They leverage their technology to enable travelers to utilize and enjoy air travel. BLADE arranges on-demand charter and scheduled flights across a diverse accessible fleet of helicopters,jets, turboprops, and seaplanes.BLADE operates in New York City, Long Island and the Hamptons, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington DC, and many other locations.
Haven Energy — Haven Energy is a climate technology company that is accelerating home energy storage adoption. Haven walks homeowners through the process of selecting, quoting, and financing a home battery system, and then connects them with vetted, qualified electricians to complete the installation. Haven works with homeowners after installation to integratetheir batteries into an aggregated virtual power plant, allowing customers to monetize grid participation and significantly reduce their electricity costs.
Symbiotic Security — Symbiotic Security revolutionizes cybersecurity with an AI-driven coach, offering real-time detection, remediation, and training within the developer's IDE.

A Growth Equity & Venture Capital Firm for Consumer Products Companies

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Beauty, Retail
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Japan, Australia

Portfolio highlights

DÔEN — DÔEN is a women-run business offering collections inspired by a nostalgia for the coastal California of decades past.
DAMDAM Tokyo — DAMDAM is clean skincare born from Japanese craftsmanship and time-honored plant ingredients. We believe in creating thoroughly modern, thoughtfully made products that cultivate a connection between ourselves and the natural world. The line is minimal, made up of purposeful essentials formulated to work alone or in harmonious combination with eachother. All products are made with 100% natural ingredients that have high efficacy without causing irritation. Equally important, they feel weightless on skin.
Business and Pleasure — Discover luxury beach and outdoor furniture. Premium umbrellas, chairs, furniture, coolers, and more for home, pool, and beach. Elevate your outdoor living with style and comfort.

True Beauty Ventures, a firm focused on investing in beauty and wellness startups. True Beauty intends to have a portfolio of 10 to 12 brands with this fund and has already invested in six companies, including hair care brand Crown Affair and CBD brand Feals.

Investment focus

Beauty, Cosmetics, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Canada, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Iris&Romeo — Iris&Romeo is the owner of a beauty brand that sells skincare products. Customers may take care of their skin and have coverage with the company's clean beauty products, which include serums, moisturizers, sunscreens, and blue light and pollution protectors.
The Maker — The Maker is more than a destination, it's an artistic expression. We've collaborated with the finest makers - near and far - to curate the best of everything. Now you can bring our bohemian sensibility home with you.
Sofie Pavitt Face — Sofie Pavitt Face is esthetician-developed skincare to help clear acne, reduce dullness and fine lines, and give you glowy skin with minimal steps.

The first female-led next generation venture capital fund

Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

indē wild — The First Ever Ayurvedic Beauty Brand, People Powered & Expert Backed. Combining 5000 Years Of Ayurvedic Rituals With Modern Dermatology & Clean Ingredients.
Mappa.ai — Use Mappa to hire thoroughly vetted Latin American rockstars in just 48 hours.No two people are the same, and neither are two companies—by applying AI, voice analysis, and big data, we identify what makes each person unique and build powerful connections that drive business success. Our 12-layer brain includes a proprietary voice analysis systemthat extracts 128 voice parameters and integrates with other data models to leverage over 100,000 parameters per user. This helps companies fill open roles in less than a week, saving over 300 work hours and up to 80% in costs. Go from finding to hiring with no upfront fees or hidden costs.Formerly Free The Freela.
Silicon Data — Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets.

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bababos — Bababos is a platform that allows SME manufacturers to quickly access a variety of high-quality raw materials, from polymers and chemicals to steel and other metal products. This eliminates the need to handle numerous suppliers. The company's platform streamlines the buying process by digitizing administrative duties. Additionally, Bababosprovides manufacturers with flexible payment options that lessen their financial burden and enable them to concentrate on what they do best—producing high-quality products. Bababos enhances the SME producers' supply chains.
Bibit.id — Beli Reksa Dana & Obligasi Negara dengan mudah di aplikasi. Mitra Distribusi SBN Terbaik 2022-2024. Diawasi OJK.
Prefab — Prefab offers cutting-edge AI SaaS solutions tailored for the construction industry, enhancing efficiency, safety, and decision-making through data-driven insights.

Sauce is a Early stage consumer VC fund with a high engagement model supported by a deep service partner network working across key support areas for scaling a brand in India.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sammmm — SAMmmm – A teen-founded self-love brand delivering fresh health, beauty, and vibe essentials
Cove & Lane — Cove & Lane is an apparel brand that develops timeless goods to celebrate the dynamic, ambitious Indian.
The Whole Truth — Order online from The Whole Truth Foods with secure payment options and seamless online shopping experience.

Learn more about CircleUp Growth Partners, what we look for in early-stage consumer brands, and the brands we have funded.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GEM — Discover plant based vitamins in delicious flavors, designed for whole body nutrition. Order as you go or choose a monthly vitamin subscription.
Liquid I.V — Liquid I.V. is a health-science nutrition and wellness company.
Partake Brewing — Partake Brewing is the craft non-alcoholic beer brand that focuses on flavor, health, socializing, and inclusivity for people who choose not to drink alcohol whether as a need or increasingly as a lifestyle choice.

Trusted Partner to Leading Consumer Brands. Our focused positioning within the consumer sector represents a differentiated targeted offering of strategic capital geared to passionate founders seeking to elevate their brand. We take a flexible, but tailored long-term approach to truly partnering with innovative brands.

Investment focus

Beauty, E-Commerce, Fashion
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Henry Rose — Henry Rose is an e-commerce website that offers a wide variety of fragrances, scents, gifts and accessories.
R.e.m. Beauty — R e m beauty is established to provide the resources which need to bring most vivid, unlimited, and creative aspirations to reality.
California Naturals — California Naturals is a personal care brand that offers clean, safe, and natural goods to everyone at an affordable price, replacing harmful items in bathrooms and homes around the world.

Based in New York City, Imaginary Ventures is a leading venture capital firm investing in the most generationally-defining consumer businesses.

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Beauty
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hook — Hook operates as a music expression platform that harnesses the power of AI.
Ayoh Foods — Ayoh is mayo with a POV or as we like to call it, Sando Sauce. Our sauces are the ultimate pairing for burgers, fries, nuggets, veggies, or anything else you want to dip or slather. Check out our lineup here.
Lucky Energy — LUCKY F*CK is a better-for-you energy drink company.

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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Singapore, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Balo — Balo is the on-demand platform powered by the Top 1% of Salesforce Experts globally. Get immediate hands-on support for any Salesforce needs.
Voltrac — Voltrac is a robotics company that develops an autonomous, fully electric tractor platform called THOR, designed to operate in demanding environments for both agricultural and logistics use. THOR employs per-wheel electric motors instead of a conventional drivetrain, reducing mechanical complexity and maintenance requirements. It runs on swappable200 kWh battery packs, enabling long-duration operations and continuous work cycles. The platform supports a standard three-point hitch (Category II) and can be configured with a flatbed, making it versatile for fieldwork or transport tasks. Voltrac’s autonomy system combines reinforcement learning with real-time sensor data to adapt driving behavior and implements to changing terrain and crop conditions. Beyond farming, THOR is also intended for frontline logistics missions, with modular designs that can support cargo transport and resilience in challenging settings.
ROLO Robotics — ROLO Robotics is rethinking the kitchens of the future using robotics and automation.

Finn Capital Partners is a family fund born out of a third generation family business and a deep-seated family tradition of entrepreneurship. Led by Founder and Managing Partner Patrick Finn.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Builder.io — Builder is an AI Frontend Engineer that helps teams generate, iterate, and optimize web and mobile experiences in seconds instead of sprints.
Hello Cake — 18K Followers, 6,705 Following, 859 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Cake (@hellocake)
Adgile Media Group — Adgile Media Group is the nation’s leading tech-enabled, data-driven out-of-home media company

TBT is an Adventure Capital.We are more than your average VC investor; we are always up for an adventure. Investment means more than just transfer of capital for us. We want to be a discussion partner that discovers possibilities beyond risk and aligns growth with progress. We want to share decades of industry knowledge and experience in internetand mobile services to build services and products that can make the world a better place.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Beauty
Series A, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

FREECO — FREECO is a content provider for businesses. Consultation, sales, and software development and supply Cosmetics wholesale and retail business Marketing consulting and advertising business.
Two Slash For — Two Slash For is a beauty brand.
Medistream — Medistream operates an integrated platform for oriental medicine.

Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

IRL — Groups, Chats, Events - Tap to see details
Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
Empowerly — We triple students' chances of getting into their top-choice colleges and universities. Get college counseling, essay editing, track university deadlines, and more. Learn more.

We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Aiwyn — Anduin offers a complete accounts receivables software solution for your accounting firm. From billing to collections, Anduin can help your accounting firm!
Unframe — Unframe helps enterprises move beyond generic, low-accuracy AI tools that don’t deliver real business value. Its platform is designed to build tailored production-ready, AI-native solutions fast. Unframe works with each organization to pinpoint the right use case and, in about three days, delivers a fully functional solution that can be tested onsample data or the company’s own data. Only once clear value is demonstrated does Unframe move forward with licensing.The platform supports a wide range of use cases, from observability, business intelligence and analytics to extracting and abstracting unstructured data, and building proactive workflows and agents. Unframe’s platform is built from hundreds of deep technical building blocks that can be tailored and assembled using a Blueprint architecture to meet each customer’s exact needs. Every Unframe solution can run on the customer's cloud, on-premises, or as fully managed SaaS, and is LLM agnostic.
Soufflé Therapeutics — Soufflé Therapeutics is a biotechnology company specializing in the development of nucleic acid medicines designed for precise delivery and targeting of disease-causing cells. The company's mission is to create potent, precise, and safe medicines that can be tailored for a broad range of diseases by leveraging breakthroughs in genetic medicineand drug delivery technology.

Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

90days — 90days is an electronic bill-based P2B investment brokerage platform.
Together Funding — Together Funding offers peer-to-peer financial service.
Geneos Therapeutics — Geneos is developer of a neo-antigen based personalized immunotherapy designed to offer cancer treatment. The company's technology is designed to identify relevant neoantigen targets from individual patient tumors to develop novel treatments for cancer, providing patients with tumor targeted immunotherapies to cure their disease.

STRIVE focuses on investing in early-stage (Seed to Series A) internet and mobile companies. It seeks out companies in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India with top-notch management teams and strong market potential. It is not tied to strategic investments for GREE Inc. and leverages its pan-Asia expertise for guiding its portfolio in an engaged,hands-on role.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Asuene — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!

Samos Investments is a private equity investor with a focus on high-growth European businesses.Samos invests across a range of sectors including digital media, e-commerce, retail, financial services, energy and natural resources.Samos takes a proactive approach with its portfolio companies, working alongside many of the US and Europe’s topventure funds, family offices and private investors.The Samos Partners are also active angel/seed investors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Kenya, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Jude — Science-backed food supplement that makes you feel empowered, not embarrassed.
VIEVE — Shop award-winning and high-performance makeup by expert MUA Jamie Genevieve; bestselling primer, brushes, lip glosses, eyeshadows & more. Vegan & cruelty free.
Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.

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

Daze — Daze is a software development company that reinvents the calendar to be more fun, expressive, and social.Daze is the social calendar for friends to plan events and use creative tools to more vividly capture their time spent together. It’s a social calendar with powerful creative tools for scheduling your future and documenting your past withfriends. They hope to unlock creativity, foster intimacy, and inspire self-reflection by reimagining the format of time. Founded by Willem Simons in 2021 and is located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Sage — Sage is an app helps to improve care with better caregiver tools that ensures older adults receive individual care.
Pro Athlete Community (PAC) — PAC delivers tailored executive education, experiences, and a luminary network designed to unlock your full potential.

Jungle Ventures is one of Southeast Asia's largest independent venture capital firms based in Singapore. We invest in early and growth-stage startups in Southeast Asia and India, focused on building category-defining businesses that stand the test of time.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Singapore, India, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

CityMall — CityMall is a social e-commerce venture, backed by Elevation Capital, aiming to help the 200-300 million new to Internet users realize the power of Internet
Sanlayan — Sanlayan Technologies is a Bengaluru-based aerospace and defense electronics startup that specializes in designing and developing advanced electronic systems such as radar, electronic warfare, and mission-critical avionics, focusing on indigenous technology to enhance India's self-sufficiency in defense electronics.
Milaap — Free fundraising for all. 0% Fees charged on donations received

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

Mindtrip — Mindtrip operates as an AI assistant that provide travel data that includes maps with suggested places to visit.
AmplifyMD — AmplifyMD is the leading EHR-integrated virtual care solution for hospitals and health systems delivering telehealth services at scale.
Homebound — Homebound is a modern homebuilding concept delivering a better, more personal way to build homes.

Female Founders Fund is a seed stage venture fund that invests exclusively in female-founded companies. We believe strongly in the exponential power of exceptional female talent. We invest in e-commerce, media, platforms, advertising and web-enabled services businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Reachify — Reachify empowers restaurants to connect with their customers easily with Call Deflection to capture otherwise lost revenue.
Oula Health — Oula delivers comprehensive maternity care from midwives & OBGYNs, including prenatal care, hospital birth, postpartum care, & gynecology.
Rising Team — Plug and play team sessions that lead to deeper connection, personal growth, and team effectiveness

India Quotient is a new type of early stage investor. We fund companies building disruptive businesses aimed at Indian consumers. We're creating a powerful network of start-up enthusiasts.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

PlatinumRx — PlatinumRx is a healthcare company that is transforming the pharmaceutical market through openness and affordability.
Curie Money — Curie Money offers a unique financial service in India by combining the benefits of high yield savings accounts with the flexibility of mutual fund investments. This innovative approach allows customers to remain invested in mutual funds while having the ability to spend anytime using UPI or Debit Card. Curie Money is focused on redefining banking,spending, and saving for the modern Indian consumer, aiming to make money management more efficient and accessible. With a commitment to providing a seamless financial experience, Curie Money is at the forefront of offering India's first high yield savings bank account that bridges the gap between investing and everyday banking needs.
speakX — Yellow Class is an online hobby platform for young kids.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Personio — Personio is the Intelligent HR platform for companies from 10-5,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
Talentry — Talentry TRM is your central platform for Talent Relationship Management: Sourcing, CRM, Alumni Management, Employee Referrals, Advocacy, Internal Mobility.
Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.

Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in North America. The firm focuses on investments in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware. Precursor Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Alinia AI — Alinia AI is an alignment platform that allows enterprises to implement generative AI in a safe and controlled manner, governed by their rules and operations.
The Beans — The Beans offers a software application platform that creates personalized cash flow plans designed for its users. The Beans is Simplifying the path to financial balance through design and technology so that people can focus on what they love.
Lore — Being a fan used to be fun. We are going to fix it.

A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Jones — Quit vaping products and app. Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and behavioral support for quitting smoking or vaping.
Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
Origin — Origin delivers AI-powered global benefits intelligence to streamline HR, optimize spend, ensure compliance, and simplify employee benefits management.

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

Granular — Corteva Agriscience software and digital solutions give the real-time, field-by-field information needed to maximize yield & manage input costs.
Databricks — Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data Intelligence Platform.
Odyssey — Odyssey connects families with states to get access to funding from states to use with approved vendors to customize education for children who need it most.

WELLNESS TO THE WORLD igniteXL Ventures is a global seed fund investing in game-changing founders at the intersection of technology, beauty

Investment focus

Fashion, Beauty, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

buywith — buywith is a video commerce platform enabling retailers and brands to transform their e-commerce into engaging shoppable videos and dynamic video-led experiences, including an AI-powered digital studio for creating video ads for retail media at scale.
Lion Pose — Daily Skincare Products for People of Color
Uncover — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

n8n — n8n is a free and source-available workflow automation tool
Tzafon — Tzafon's vision is to broaden the lightcone of awareness by pushing the boundaries of machine intelligence, striving to extend the frontier of what intelligent systems can perceive, understand, and contribute.
Yapily — Scalable and reliable open banking infrastructure that is built to power the next wave of innovation. Connect to thousands of banks within minutes and access financial data and payment infrastructure via our secure open banking API.

We back incredible people and help them build disrupting products with the potential of changing the lives of millions.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Shopping, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, Chile, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Domma — Domma counsels and supports women who are reaching the menopause stage so that the symptoms they may experience do not affect their daily life.
Piper — Piper is a next-gen sales productivity and intelligence solution that puts AI to work for both sales reps and sales managers.Through its advanced interpretation of sales conversations from video calls, emails and audio notes, Piper automatically populates deal-related fields in the CRM, freeing up sales capacity and ensuring unbiased, highquality data.Piper further lightens the daily workload of salespeople by assisting through every stage of the client engagement: enhancing meeting prep, drafting follow-up emails, scheduling the next call, and more.For sales reps, Piper is a game-changer, letting them focus on selling without the admin drag. For sales directors and revenue ops, Piper provides top-notch data insights into the sales pipeline, enhancing sales forecasting and data-driven decision-making.
Piper — Piper is an AI-based software tool that offers CRM data to keep flawless records of customer interactions, and relations.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

HPC-AI Technology — HPC-AI Technology provides a cloud-based platform to enhance AI computations by increasing CPU and GPU processing speeds.
Lanzhou Technology — Lanzhou Technology is a cognitive intelligence company that provides business insights products.
SiliconFlow — Silicon Mobile Technology is an AI infrastructure company that specilaizes in large models inference and deployment system to reduce the cost in the AIGC and LLM industries.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Suno — Suno is a music start-up that enables anyone to make the songs they want. The company aims to help people rediscover the joy of play and exploration.
Landed — LANDED makes hiring top-notch candidates onto your team effortless.
Periodic Labs — Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict the properties of materials using machine learning. The company applies computational models to support the discovery and design of materials used in sectors such as energy, electronics, and infrastructure. It builds tools that aim to reduce the time and costassociated with traditional research and development processes. Periodic Labs uses AI to analyze large-scale scientific data and collaborates with academic and industry partners to support material science research.

Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs. Our members serve as the friends and family round for entrepreneurs who may not already have support at that critical stage.

Investment focus

Health Care, Education, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Mahmee — Mahmee is an integrated care delivery platform for maternal and infant health. Our team is building the digital infrastructure needed to connect patients, independent health professionals, and enterprise healthcare organizations together to ensure that moms and babies do not fall through the cracks of the U.S. healthcare system, which has thehighest maternity costs and mortality rates of all developed nations. Mahmee increases access to comprehensive care prenatal and postpartum care and reduces severe disparities in mortality and morbidity for Black mothers and infants. We power digital maternity initiatives for some of the largest public and private health systems in the country by connecting those enterprises to community-based perinatal health providers who use Mahmee EHR SaaS to manage their practices. Mahmee's marketplace helps new and expecting parents discover those providers and get fast access to care, in-person and virtually.
CarpeDM — CarpeDM app is an exclusive member-only dating community created for singles seeking meaningful relationships with professional Black women.
Avisi Technologies — Avisi Technologies is developing a nanotechnology-enabled defense against blindness from glaucoma.

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

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Jiko — Jiko is a financial technology company that offers a new way to store and move money, designed to create a fluid and rewarding banking experience for all. In September of 2020, Jiko became the first Fintech to acquire a national bank, in addition to being a licensed broker dealer. Prior to that accomplishment, Jiko spent 4 years developing afull-stack technology infrastructure that merges payment rails with real-time, 24/7 principal trading capabilities. This innovative combination is the backbone for Jiko’s transparent and rewarding model, which doesn’t use deposited funds for it's own investment purposes. Instead, customer’s funds are transparently invested in U.S. government-backed Treasury Bills (T-Bills), enabling cutting edge features such as virtual cards, tokenized bank account numbers, automated investments in T-Bills, and cashback on debit purchases. This model is made available to individuals through a mobile banking app, and to business partners through it's API platform. Jiko is a creative and hard-working team with cross-functional expertise in technology, trading, payment, and creative fields. The team is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with offices in New York City and Reykjavik, Iceland. Since its inception in 2016, Jiko has raised over $50M from trusted investors such as Upfront Ventures, Wafra Inc., Radicle Impact, NYCA Partners, and Anthem Ventures among others.
Grove — AI-accelerated Participant Relationship Management (PRM) for Clinical Research
Arcade — Arcades are super easy to create. Build interactive product tours to embed within websites, blogs, and social media.

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
Taktile — Taktile's no-code platform enables you to easily build automated decision flows and iterate on them in a data-driven way leveraging backtests and A/B testing.
Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.

New Voices Fund is a venture capital firm and our mission has been to deliberately build purposeful businesses serving the needs of underserved and oftentimes marginalized consumers and communities.

Investment focus

Beauty, Consumer Goods, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

LOOP — We measure what matters so you can save on car insurance.
Slutty Vegan — Support your local Slutty Vegan. We are a Black-owned restaurant serving the best vegan food in Atlanta, period. Order your meatless masterpieces today.
Young King Hair Care — Young King Hair Care is a plant-based, natural hair care line intentionally crafted for multicultural boys.

Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

Welyco — Welyco is an information technology company.We operate smart restaurant "solto". Utilize IT to realize efficient and diverse restaurant management.
Pale Blue — Water propulsion systems for sustainable space development
Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.

Scrum Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that has invested in over 80 startups across a range of industries in the U.S. and Japan. Based in San Francisco with extensive experience and networks in both Silicon Valley and Japan, Scrum Ventures accelerates portfolio companies with global opportunities. Scrum Studios is reinventing the traditional accelerator -- taking a stage-agnostic approach in connecting best-in-class startups with leading Japanese corporations.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, China

Portfolio highlights

Jericho Security — Train your team to defend against the latest cyber attacks with our complete cybersecurity platform.
ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.
Campus Ink - NIL Store — Campus Ink Screen Printing & Embroidery, Champaign - Urbana, Custom T-Shirts, Fraternity & Sorority Apparel Simple

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

CollX — Snap photos of them and instantly get the current market price. Add them to your collection and track your overall portfolio value.
Ledgebrook — Best in class service and pricing from industry veterans delivered at the speed of InsurTech
Zippy — Zippy engages in providing a simple, online, and fast loan. It aims to expand access to affordable homeownership through manufactured home loans. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Leo capital is a venture capital fund, investing in early stage, technology centric opportunities in India, India based global SaaS and SEA.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Unosecur — Unosecur is a cloud security platform that helps organizations detect, quantify, remediate and centrally manage identity and access risks across multi-clouds at all times.
Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
BitSave — BitSave provides a platform for secure and straightforward cryptocurrency investments. Users can download the BitSave app from the Play Store or App Store, sign up using their mobile number, and add funds to start investing. The company emphasizes transparency and compliance, offering features like proof-of-reserves and easy UPI deposits. Foundedby a team of crypto pioneers, BitSave aims to democratize crypto investing with user-friendly tools and clear data practices.

FreshTracks Capital - a Vermont based venture capital fund investing in Northern New England seed & early stage entrepreneurial companies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

AskFora — AskFora is an AI powered skills platform for personalized upskilling. We believe that effective learning from expert insights helps you do better work with people you know.We've built a system that delivers expert-backed learning paths tailored to your specific career goals.
DataBlend — Integrating the Everyday Applications of Finance and Accounting - Trusted by finance and accounting departments at nearly 150 companies.
Verde Technologies — Verde Technologies Inc. is a lightweight flexible solar panel company. Our panels will achieve 28% efficiency and be 10x lighter than traditional silicon panels

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