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Top 50 Cannabis Startup Investors in United States in December 2024

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

Top 50 Cannabis Startup Investors in United States in December 2024

Investor Cannabis United States investments
Poseidon Asset Management 27
Casa Verde Capital 21
Phyto Partners 14
Silverleaf Venture Partners 7
Delta Emerald Ventures 6
AFI Capital Partners 5
Babel Ventures 5
Gotham Green Partners 5
JW Asset Management 4
7thirty Capital 4
HALLEY Venture Partners 4
Robert Stavis 4
Merida Capital Holdings 4
Michael Lazerow 3
WGD Capital 3
Lerer Hippeau 3
Base Ventures 3
Achari Ventures 3
Euclid Ventures 3
iSelect Fund 3
HPA (Hyde Park Angels) 3
Alexandria Venture Investments 3
Outbound Ventures 3
Navy Capital 3
Entourage Effect Capital 3
Arcview Group 3
Bruce Macfarlane 3
Jason Calacanis 3
IA Capital Group 3
Arcview Collective Fund 3
Rose Capital 3
Subversive Capital 2
32 Ventures 2
Greenhouse Capital Partners 2
Satori Investment Partners 2
Kingsley Advani 2
KEY Investment Partners 2
Anslinger Capital 2
Duke Software Investments 2
Cresco Capital Partners 2
Chingona Ventures 2
Jack McCue 2
Winnebago Seed Fund 2
Jon Oringer 2
Tech Coast Angels 2
Emles Venture Partners 2
Right Side Capital Management 2
AltaIR Capital 2
Max Ventures 2
Mission and Market 2
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Poseidon Asset Management VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Home of the pioneer cannabis hedge fund, focusing solely on marijuana and hemp.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Distru — Seed-to-Sale Cannabis ERP that helps operators manage their inventory, orders and customers from a single interface, while staying compliant with Metrc.
  • Dogwood Green — Dogwood Green is a purpose-driven licensed dispensary that provides best-in-class service and high-quality products.
  • BLKBRN Dispensary — BLKBRN Dispensary is a retail dispensary that offers cannabis products and wellness education.
Casa Verde Capital VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States
As both the domestic and international markets continue to evolve and mature, Casa Verde maintains a view that cannabis will be among the most compelling investment themes of our generation.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Growlink — Growlink offers advanced software and hardware solutions to streamline your grow operations. Automate climate, irrigation, and nutrient delivery while gaining valuable insights to boost yields, reduce waste, and ensure consistent quality. Discover how our tools can transform your cultivation process.
  • Prelude — Purpose-built to help cannabis dispensaries improve sales, profitability and cash flow by optimizing purchasing and inventory management
  • Frontier Risk — Frontier Risk is the first tech-enabled insurance brokerage for the cannabis sector, led by former executives from leading cannabis companies.
Phyto Partners VC Fund · Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Phyto Partners is a Venture Capital Fund focused on Neurowellness and Brain Health
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Muse — Muse is an immersive meditation device that provides real-time feedback on your mental activity, heart rate, breathing, and body movements to help you build a consistent meditation practice.
  • HealingMaps — Find Ketamine Clinics and other psychedelic therapy providers near you. We are changing the way we treat mental health.
  • Wonder Sciences — Science for the Soul
Silverleaf Venture Partners VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States
An Opportunistic Investment Manager focusing on sectors with outsized returns, limited competition and misunderstood risk. Distressed Real Estate, Legal Cannabis VC, Emerging Technology and Life Sciences Venture Capital
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series B
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Nabis — Nabis is a licensed cannabis wholesale marketplace that distributes cannabis products to retailers. It provides a lightning-fast distribution, sales, marketing, financing, and data analytics services. The company's technology coordinates the entire cannabis distribution lifecycle from production to delivery.
  • Perfect Blends — A blend of terpene-rich sauce infused cannabis varieties formulated to help you feel the way you want to feel.
  • Happy Cabbage Analytics — Happy Cabbage Analytics is a revenue optimization toolkit for cannabis retailers. Our products improve your returns from marketing, inventory management, and business operations.
Delta Emerald Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
A founder-focused, data-forward investment firm based.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Software, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Fernway — At Fernway, we believe cannabis makes the good life even better. Good music, good food, good company, good scenery: cannabis elevates it all.
  • Happy Cabbage Analytics — Happy Cabbage Analytics is a revenue optimization toolkit for cannabis retailers. Our products improve your returns from marketing, inventory management, and business operations.
  • Biopharmaceutical Research Company — Biopharmaceutical Research Company is a botanical cannabinoid API producer based in United States of America, focusing on federally compliant active pharmaceutical ingredients and plant-based therapeutics for academic researchers, biotech drug developers and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies.
AFI Capital Partners VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States
AFI Capital Partners
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Biotechnology, Alternative Medicine
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Botanica Seattle — Botanica Seattle specializes in the production of natural and handmade cannabis edibles. Its products include mixed fruit chews, chocolate pattie, infused cannabis oil, and cannabis mint made from an alcohol-based extraction process with multiple stages of quality control to guarantee accurate and consistent dosing during final formulation,enabling people to enjoy the taste of handmade cannabis product.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
  • Compassionate Cultivation — Compassionate Cultivation is a medical cannabis company that grows, processes, and dispenses CBD medicine.The company provides patient consultations, physician outreach resources, and detailed information on their products and retail merchandise. Conditions including epilepsy, seizure disorders, multiple sclerosis, spasticity, ALS, autism,terminal cancer, CTE, and other incurable neurodegenerative disorder now have access to medically prescribed cannabis.
  • Biopharmaceutical Research Company — Biopharmaceutical Research Company is a botanical cannabinoid API producer based in United States of America, focusing on federally compliant active pharmaceutical ingredients and plant-based therapeutics for academic researchers, biotech drug developers and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies.
Babel Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Babel Ventures is an early stage VC fund backing driven, impact-oriented entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. The firm typically invests in seed-stage consumer biotech, longevity, health & wellness, and F&B verticals.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Cannabis, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
  • Nabis — Nabis is a licensed cannabis wholesale marketplace that distributes cannabis products to retailers. It provides a lightning-fast distribution, sales, marketing, financing, and data analytics services. The company's technology coordinates the entire cannabis distribution lifecycle from production to delivery.
  • Mellows — Mellows is a producer of cannabis-infused marshmallows intended to offer safe and unique confectionery alternatives for adults. Its low-dose and handcrafted marshmallows are medicated using coconut oil infused with solventless hash, enabling customers to enjoy sweets without worrying about dosage and portion splitting.The company was founded in2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Gotham Green Partners VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States
A leading private equity firm investing exclusively across the global cannabis industry.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Retail, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Lucid Green — Lucid Green aims to provide supply chain operational efficiency and brand marketing solutions to help cannabis brands, distributors and retailers reduce costs, increase transparency, and drive revenue.
  • Trait Biosciences — Trait Biosciences is an emerging cannabis biotechnology company harnessing the best-in-class research scientists in biotechnology and cannabis R&D to change the face of the industry. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.
  • Engin Sciences — Engin Sciences develops AI-Driven HR software that plugs into existing job boards, giving companies access to a virtual talent management system for hourly jobs, allowing HR managers to gamify the job application process on any site, quickly evaluating applicants, engaging and routing viable candidates to the jobs to which they’re best suited.Saving time and reducing churn, Engin saves companies thousands of dollars in HR personnel expenses.
JW Asset Management VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
An SEC-registered investment adviser in New York City - investing primarily within the healthcare sector - with over $1B in assets under management.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Medical, Pharmaceutical
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Allumia — Choose Allumia for your next energy efficiency upgrade to save yourself money and save the planet, too.
  • Tyson 2.0 — Tyson 2.0 is a cannabis company producing cannabis products known for purity, precision, and wide accessibility. Providing consumers an outstanding selection of products, Tyson 2.0 is an extraordinary balance of premium and affordable, full-spectrum cannabis flower, concentrates, and consumables available at retailers nationwide. The company isformed by the legendary boxer, entrepreneur, and icon Mike Tyson.
  • Pistil Data — Market Intelligence Cannabis Data | Pistil makes it easy for cannabis brands of all sizes to get into new stores, expand shelf space & get faster re-orders
7thirty Capital VC Fund · Boulder, Colorado, United States
The 7thirty Opportunity Fund is an early-stage growth equity fund targeting private cannabis-related technology investments around the world. The fund is closely partnered with the CanopyBoulder business accelerator for unparalleled deal flow and access to top-tier investments. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, the fund is ideally situated tocapitalize on the 30% average compound annual growth in the legal cannabis industry. A highly disciplined investment approach allows the fund to build a diversified portfolio of exceptional investments poised to grow with the industry.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Software, AgTech
  • Seed, Series C
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Trym — Cannabis software built for commercial growers. Improve efficiency & consistency to optimize your grow for more ROI and less WTF.
  • Apex Trading — Built for wholesale cannabis by cannabis industry professionals. Delivering all the software tools needed to simplify wholesale operations while creating an environment in which Buyers and Sellers interact directly ensuring the best value for all.
  • The Blinc Group — Headquartered in New York City, The Blinc Group designs, develops, supplies and supports premium cannabis vaping hardware. The company offers a curated collection of proven cartridges, batteries, ready to use vaporizers and complete bespoke device development to multi-state operators, licensed producers, processors and brands. Blinc completes thevalue chain by providing its clients access to a suite of support services ranging from research and development, production, testing, standard operating procedures, training and all the way to go-to-market strategy and brand communications consulting. With full control of the supply chain, the company’s unique “Powered by Blinc” process enables clients to provide innovative, safe and quality controlled products to cannabis consumers worldwide. To learn more about Blinc, visit http://www.theblincgroup.com.
HALLEY Venture Partners VC Fund · Lafayette, California, United States
HALLEY is focused on building elite companies in the legal cannabis, hemp and traditional agriculture spaces and is investing early in these truly life-changing trends.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Cannabis, Health Care
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • springbig — BETTER TEXT EMAIL PUSH MARKETING THE LEADING MARKETING PLATFORM FOR REGULATED INDUSTRIES Increase retention, boost revenue, build customer loyalty, and create smarter marketing campaigns with the highest deliverability for regulated industries. SCHEDULE A DEMO MARKETING GUIDE Proudly Serving Enterprise Clients with Excellence Loyalty rewards programs are the most effective way to build customer loyalty, increase
  • Lucid Green — Lucid Green aims to provide supply chain operational efficiency and brand marketing solutions to help cannabis brands, distributors and retailers reduce costs, increase transparency, and drive revenue.
  • Willow Industries — Mitigate mold and bacteria in cannabis with Willow Industries Ozone Systems. WillowPure provides clean and effective solutions to cannabis contamination.
Robert Stavis Angel · New York, New York, United States
Rob Stavis is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Series C, Series B, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
  • FLOWER CO — We sell weed on the internet. Thousands of products delivered overnight throughout California from Humboldt to San Diego
  • Bespoke Financial — Bespoke Financial is a licensed lender supporting cannabis companies. They alleviate working capital constraints across the entire cannabis supply chain. Bespoke supports their clients as they scale and grow with unique financing solutions and cannabis business loans.
Merida Capital Holdings VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Merida Capital Holdings is a private equity firm focused on responsible investing across the cannabis ecosystem.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Phylos — Phylos is a cannabis genetics company that empowers growers of all sizes to produce the highest-quality cannabis in the most cost-effective way.
  • Pilgrim Soul — Pilgrim Soul is a mission-driven company focused on optimizing human creative performance to gain a competitive edge in business and life. We collaborate with top creative minds to create products and content that facilitate enhanced creative thinking - Including The Original Creative Thinking Journ
  • Happy Cabbage Analytics — Happy Cabbage Analytics is a revenue optimization toolkit for cannabis retailers. Our products improve your returns from marketing, inventory management, and business operations.
Michael Lazerow Angel · New York, New York, United States
Michael Lazerow is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Velvet Sea Ventures.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Advertising, Mobile
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Torre — Torre Technologies is a recruitment platform, matching talent from unconventional careers with fulfilling professional opportunities.
  • Howard — World's first flex-use real estate platform. Paving the way for a more flexible future in real estate.
  • Mint Songs — Music artists create NFTs with Mint Songs. Our toolkit and marketplace helps you mint 1/1 music NFTs that you can sell to fans and collectors. Own your creative, own your community in web3.
WGD Capital VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States
WGD Capital invests in early- and expansion-stage private companies.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Software, Business Intelligence
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
  • Katalys — Katalys is a partnership marketing technology platform that provides Brands and Publishers with a better way to generate revenue in the performance marketing channel. Formed out of the recent merger between RevOffers, a ‘cookieless’ graph attribution technology, and the embedded commerce innovation of 1o.io, Katalys is set on a course to disruptthe digital marketing landscape.Katalys' disruptive innovation in the performance marketing space is an embedded commerce technology that allows consumers to transact at any point of product discovery. This includes the ability to complete an eCommerce transaction inside a display advertisement, in-app, in-video, blog post, social media platforms, and even inside a VR/AR environment.
  • Birchmount Network — Birchmount Network is a gift card and marketing services company that provides comprehensive revenue and brand solutions.
Lerer Hippeau VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships
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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.
Base Ventures VC Fund · Berkeley, California, United States
We founded Base Ventures to turn access into opportunity for investors, founders, and the next disruptive idea.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
  • Mansa — Built by Black creators with a passion for making culture-positive content, Mansa is the only place to stream the best in Global Black stories
  • Bootup — Bootup creates a marketplace for tech talent. Bootup's goal is to build tools to help bridge the gap between those looking for economic upward mobility and technology companies looking for strategies to solve for the impending talent crisis. We are excited to support all of the individuals looking to break into tech, the educators fuelingtheir growth, and the enterprises who power the industry.
  • Parade — Find and manage carriers, boost margins. Precise pricing, optimized bidding, shipper connectivity.
Achari Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Achari Ventures is an investment firm that invests in cannabis & cannabis-related companies.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Vangst — Vangst is the cannabis industry's top recruiting platform. We connect cannabis job seekers with employers and offer a wide range of recruitment solutions.
  • Komplyd — Komplyd is an enterprise-class cannabis technology platform that manages risk and compliance easily. Komplyd’s API provides enriched data, increasing the team’s productivity. It provides real-time and accurate compliance updates. It is a common data model and a single endpoint that empowers the team to rapidly deliver cannabis compliance solutionsin days.
  • Biopharmaceutical Research Company — Biopharmaceutical Research Company is a botanical cannabinoid API producer based in United States of America, focusing on federally compliant active pharmaceutical ingredients and plant-based therapeutics for academic researchers, biotech drug developers and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies.
Euclid Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
We help domain experts build industry-transforming businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Insurance, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Frontier Risk — Frontier Risk is the first tech-enabled insurance brokerage for the cannabis sector, led by former executives from leading cannabis companies.
  • Frontier Risk — Frontier Risk is the first tech-enabled insurance brokerage for the cannabis sector, led by former executives from leading cannabis companies.
  • Machinery Partner — Machinery Partner is a marketplace buying heavy machinery and equipment directly from manufacturers. Browse our range of construction and mining equipment.
iSelect Fund VC Fund · St Louis, Missouri, United States
Venture investing in Food, Health, and AgTech. A generational investment thesis. Food is Health is longevity
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Agriculture
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Holobiome — Holobiome is an owner and operator of a therapeutic company intended to treat diseases of the enteric and central nervous systems. The company's platform delivers microbiome-based therapeutics to patients and the marketplace by treating depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems including our metabolism and the immune response,enabling patients to recover quickly from their diseases easily without any pain and suffering.Holobiome was established in 2015 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • MEND — Mend is the scientifically proven way to heal and enhance your body faster.
  • Triplebar — Triplebar provides sustainability, biotechnology, and synthetic biology research.
HPA (Hyde Park Angels) VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
HPA operates in the financial services sector, focusing on early-stage investments. The company's People First model combines venture capital, a robust business network, and top-tier operating expertise to support the growth of its portfolio companies. HPA's services extend to all stages of a company's lifecycle, from seed to growthstages, providing financial and strategic support to help businesses thrive.It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Paccurate — Paccurate is the smartest cartonization software for efficient shippers. Find the best way to pack every shipment to reduce supply chain costs and waste. Learn more.
  • Alphathena — Empower your RIA with AI-enhanced direct indexing technology from Alphathena and take advantage of tax-loss harvesting tools and more.
  • Digit — Digit is a simple yet powerful ERP designed for small manufacturers and distributors.
Alexandria Venture Investments VC Fund · Pasadena, California, United States · 20 investments in the past 12 months
Alexandria Venture Investments is a venture capital firm that develops work in real estate technology, and healthcare sectors. The company's strategic venture capital platform is Alexandria Venture Investments. Since its inception in 1996, the company has invested in disruptive life science, agrifood tech, and technology companies that aredeveloping transformative new modalities and platforms to meaningfully improve human health.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Jupiter BioVentures — Jupiter BioVentures is a creation engine company that focuses on de-risking early-stage projects.
  • Valora Therapeutics — Valora Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that provides engineering of chimeric antibodies .
  • Autoimmunity BioSolutions — ABS is developing a next-generation, immuno-corrective therapy to restore normal immune function in a genetically-defined subpopulation of autoimmune disease patients.
Outbound Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
We invest in our generation. Millennials not only represent the largest buying group in US history, but are also reshaping the way business is done.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • Sanzo — The 1st Asian-inspired sparkling water, Sanzo uses real fruit + no added sugars to deliver refreshing taste. Whether these flavors are a taste of home or a source of discovery, we're excited to bring you authentic flavors in the most delicious way we know how.
  • Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
  • Worky — At Worky, we are revolutionizing the way HR is managed at Small and Medium Companies. We want to disrupt the way these firms communicate with their employees, and these employees’ financial health
Navy Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Navy Capital’s research-oriented, fundamentally-driven investment process focuses on identifying attractive opportunities within the legal cannabis space. Navy Capital seeks to find the best in class businesses within key verticals of the global cannabis industry. Those verticals include Consumer, Healthcare, Technology, Industrials, andAgriculture.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity, Seed
  • United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Trading.TV — Tech-driven, human-centric advice and services to help you prosper.
  • Sanity Group — Sanity Group is a holistic European Cannabis company focusing on health, wellbeing, and scientific research. To utilize the full potential of its health benefits, Sanity Group is investing in fundamental research of the cannabis plant and its active ingredients as well as in specific areas of application.It was founded in 2018 and headquarteredin Berlin, Germany.
  • C3 Industries — Building a premier, vertically-integrated cannabis company with a national presence, high-quality products, and strong brand recognition. Learn more.
Entourage Effect Capital VC Fund
Entourage Effect Capital, LLC (formerly Cresco Capital Partners, LLC) is a private investment firm, dedicated to investing in the cannabis industry. EEC’s mission is to actively leverage our sector and investment experience, networks, and investment process, and to identify, invest and accelerate high quality emerging growth companies. EECstands apart by taking an active role in adding value to the management teams of its companies. Some have called it a “Keiretsu”, but as we are in Cannabis, we call it “the Entourage Effect.” The Entourage Effect is a term used to describe a novel method of endocannabinoid regulation. It means that the compounds within the cannabis plant work in concert to create a sum greater than any of its individual parts. This is the same strength they bring to investing. From early stage acceleration, to acquisition sourcing, to strategy, to creating exit opportunities, they believe in being the most valuable names on their founder’s cap tables.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Cookies — Cookies Inc., is a cannabis brand, which currently has 7 dispensaries in California, 1 in Detroit.
  • Botanica Seattle — Botanica Seattle specializes in the production of natural and handmade cannabis edibles. Its products include mixed fruit chews, chocolate pattie, infused cannabis oil, and cannabis mint made from an alcohol-based extraction process with multiple stages of quality control to guarantee accurate and consistent dosing during final formulation,enabling people to enjoy the taste of handmade cannabis product.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
  • Hoodie Analytics — Next Day & Real-Time Cannabis Product Pricing, Promotion & Sales Insights. Global Coverage. SKU Level Pricing & Stocking Levels for Brands and Cannabis Dispensaries.
Arcview Group VC Fund · Oakland, California, United States
The ArcView Group works in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry by establishing connections between investors and entrepreneurs in an effort to meet the needs of cannabis cultivators, dispensaries, and customers. With industry experience, The ArcView Group is working to help usher in the next generation of cannabis-related businesses with thecreation of The ArcView Angel Network and the MyDispensary Mobile App.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Cannabis, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Wurk — Wurk is the leader in HR, Payroll, and Payment technology servicing the fastest-growing emerging industry, cannabis! Wurk's proprietary Compliant Payment Cloud underwriters cannabis businesses enabling them to process payments for payroll, taxes, 401k, benefits, and more positioning Wurk as the largest payments processor in the industry. TheirSaaS HCM Cloud provides Modern HR, Payroll, Time & Attendance, Scheduling accessible on any device, including tablets and mobile. Wurk's Intralytics Cloud (integration meets analytics) connects the industries leading technology providers allowing operators to combine and analyze data to inform mission-critical decisions. Wurk is also assembling this data to provide industry benchmarks to help operators compare their KPIs to the trends of the industry. Wurk's unique platform is proving that Human Capital Management, Workforce Management, and Payment technology providers can add significant value to their customers by focusing on their vertical-specific needs.Wurk was founded in August 2015 by Keegan Peterson. And it is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Bruce Macfarlane Angel
Bruce Macfarlane is a angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Insurance
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Frontier Risk — Frontier Risk is the first tech-enabled insurance brokerage for the cannabis sector, led by former executives from leading cannabis companies.
  • Frontier Risk — Frontier Risk is the first tech-enabled insurance brokerage for the cannabis sector, led by former executives from leading cannabis companies.
Jason Calacanis Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
  • Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
  • Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
IA Capital Group VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
IA Capital Group is a New York-based venture capital firm and manager of the Inter-Atlantic funds. Since 2000, IA Capital Group has partnered with entrepreneurs to shape the future of the financial services and insurance industries.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Insurance, Finance
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series C
  • United States, Canada, Bermuda
Portfolio highlights
  • Delos Insurance — An insurance company which uses advanced technology and artificial intelligence to protect California homeowners from wildfires.
  • Summit — Summit provides the best Commercial Insurance, Liability, Business, Tech & Cyber Insurance in Canada. We are specialized in custom insurance Solutions.
  • PayGround — PayGround provides healthcare businesses of all sizes a modernized payment solution in which they can easily upload their A/R and trigger digital-first requests for payment (via a mix of email/text/U.S. Mail). Patients can make payments in just a matter of a few seconds.
Arcview Collective Fund VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Arcview Collective Fund is an early-stage and opportunities for the cannabis industry. The Collective invests across subsectors where it leverages its members’ expertise, to make investments averaging $50,000 to $250,000, each, over the life of the investment. The firm was founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • UbiQD — ADVANCED MATERIALS Quantum Dot Innovations in Agriculture, Clean Energy, and Security POWER THE FUTURE Enabling industry leaders to harness the power of sunlight
  • Trym — Cannabis software built for commercial growers. Improve efficiency & consistency to optimize your grow for more ROI and less WTF.
  • Hoodie Analytics — Next Day & Real-Time Cannabis Product Pricing, Promotion & Sales Insights. Global Coverage. SKU Level Pricing & Stocking Levels for Brands and Cannabis Dispensaries.
Rose Capital VC Fund · Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
Rose Capital is a leading investment firm in the emerging legal cannabis sector. We understand the intricacies of public and private investment as well as the challenges and complexity of this explosive market.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, AgTech, Consumer
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Eaze — Get the best THC and CBD products delivered same-day with Eaze. Shop flower, vapes, edibles, and joints from legal marijuana brands. Free, fast weed delivery for first-time customers.
  • Thrive Agritech — Thrive Agritech designs and manufactures advanced lighting fixtures for indoor agriculture. We have a patent pending LED lighting system that precisely targets various photosynthetic spectrums.Many thousands of our LED lighting fixtures have been installed in some of the world's leading indoor farms. Our products are saving millions ofwatt-hours of energy every day in vertical farms, greenhouses and cannabis production facilities.Agritech expands beyond lighting and so do we. Our R&D team is actively involved in creating advanced sensor and communications networks to work with both human and artificial intelligence to create the optimized farm of the future.
Subversive Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Subversive Capital is dedicated to investing in radical companies whose core missions subvert the status quo and require sophisticated government and regulatory strategies for success.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Health Care, Consumer Goods
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • AEXLAB — AEXLAB is a virtual reality technology studio creating meaningful technologies for gaming, training, simulation and more.
  • Betty — Betty is a mobile gaming entertainment company that develops the intersection of casual mobile gaming and real money online casinos.
  • Synchron — The endovascular brain computer interface.
32 Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
32 Ventures specializes in direct investments in early stage companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Portugal, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Community — Community is a text messaging service that connects individuals and organizations instantly and directly to their audiences through text messaging at scale.
  • TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
  • Strata Identity — Strata provides an identity orchestration platform built specifically for hybrid and multi-cloud environments for easy management of distributed identity systems
Greenhouse Capital Partners VC Fund · Sausalito, California, United States
Greenhouse Capital Partners invests in B2B technology solutions that improve resource efficiency, drive climate change resiliency and unlock new value streams across legacy industrial supply chains and infrastructure.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing
  • Series B, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, Mauritius
Portfolio highlights
  • Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
  • Fido Tech — FIDO AI provides innovative water leak detection and management solutions using cutting-edge technology to drive sustainability and efficiency in water systems.
  • Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
Satori Investment Partners VC Fund · Us, Picardie, France
Satori Investment Partners is a privately held investment firm focused on providing growth equity to cannabis companies.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Consumer, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zyp Run — Get the best THC and CBD products delivered same-day with Zyp Run. Shop flower, vapes, edibles, and joints from legal marijuana brands.
Kingsley Advani Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Kingsley Advani is a British investor. He started investing in 2013, funding 50 companies, 4 funds and donating to non-profits including: SENS Foundation, Methuselah Foundation, Stanford University, National University of Singapore. He is particularly interested in regenerative medicine for age-related disease. Investments: Oisin, Turn Bio,Oncosenx, Monzo, Robinhood, Abra, Coinbase, Momentus, Demonpores, 64-x, Nectome. Investment areas: biotechnology, neurotechnology, longevity, space, fintech.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
  • Allocations — 10,000+ investors and fund managers build, onboard and close funds on Allocations - the fastest and most advanced fund platform in the world
  • Ashvattha Therapeutics — Ashvattha Therapeutics creates products that selectively target and treat human diseases. Ashvattha enables precision targeting for therapeutics eliminating off-target toxicity, systemic side effects, and immunogenicity seen in other platforms. Ashvattha has a pipeline of nine therapeutics in neurology, oncology, and ophthalmology.
KEY Investment Partners VC Fund · Denver, Colorado, United States
KEY Investment Partners is a venture capital fund focused on providing growth equity to early-stage cannabis companies.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Advertising, Business Intelligence
  • Seed, Series B, Series C
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Katalys — Katalys is a partnership marketing technology platform that provides Brands and Publishers with a better way to generate revenue in the performance marketing channel. Formed out of the recent merger between RevOffers, a ‘cookieless’ graph attribution technology, and the embedded commerce innovation of 1o.io, Katalys is set on a course to disruptthe digital marketing landscape.Katalys' disruptive innovation in the performance marketing space is an embedded commerce technology that allows consumers to transact at any point of product discovery. This includes the ability to complete an eCommerce transaction inside a display advertisement, in-app, in-video, blog post, social media platforms, and even inside a VR/AR environment.
  • springbig — BETTER TEXT EMAIL PUSH MARKETING THE LEADING MARKETING PLATFORM FOR REGULATED INDUSTRIES Increase retention, boost revenue, build customer loyalty, and create smarter marketing campaigns with the highest deliverability for regulated industries. SCHEDULE A DEMO MARKETING GUIDE Proudly Serving Enterprise Clients with Excellence Loyalty rewards programs are the most effective way to build customer loyalty, increase
  • Botanica Seattle — Botanica Seattle specializes in the production of natural and handmade cannabis edibles. Its products include mixed fruit chews, chocolate pattie, infused cannabis oil, and cannabis mint made from an alcohol-based extraction process with multiple stages of quality control to guarantee accurate and consistent dosing during final formulation,enabling people to enjoy the taste of handmade cannabis product.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Anslinger Capital VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States
An emerging market fund, focused on the legal cannabis market, which as of 2015 was the fastest growing industry in the U.S.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, B2B, SaaS
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Tradiv — Get full access to this domain. Easy, seamless transactions. Zero percent financing available.
  • Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
Duke Software Investments VC Fund
Duke Software Investments is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • B2B, CRM, Cannabis
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Leaf Trade — Leaf Trade simplifies the entire wholesale cannabis process by providing a cannabis wholesale marketplace that makes ordering, fulfillment, and payments easier.
Cresco Capital Partners VC Fund · Dallas, Texas, United States
Cresco Capital Partners, LLC is a United States private equity investment firm, dedicated to investing in the cannabis industry out of the firm's two committed investment funds. We use our combined professional, political and community resources to source investment opportunities throughout the supply chain from genetics and farming toretail, branding and distribution.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Agriculture, Art
  • Seed, Series A, Private Equity
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Cann — Cannabis Infused THC & CBD Social Tonic For a Light, Uplifting Buzz Without the Hangovers
  • PathogenDx — PathogenDx has developed a microarray based test specifically designed for the cannabis, botanical, food and agricultural testing markets. Our technology allows test labs to conduct between 12- 48 tests in parallel, testing up to 20 pathogens per test in less than a days’ shift. This is done at a fraction of the cost of plate counts or RealtimePCR. Our Raw Sample technology allows laboratories to bypass almost 20 steps that Real-time PCR must perform for DNA extraction and purification. PathogenDx technology bypasses the need for purification, quantitation, and normalization increasing the speed and affordability of pathogen screening. This helps our customers reduce testing time by 12 hours on the front end, and avoid spending money on sample prep kits and additional instrumentation.
  • Future State Brands — Future State Brands is a consumer goods and marketing company that is bringing cannabis from the black market to the supermarket.
Chingona Ventures VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Chingona Ventures, headquartered in Chicago, focuses on industries that are massively changing and founders whose backgrounds uniquely position them to create businesses in growth markets that are often overlooked. Chingona Ventures' focus areas are in financial technology, female technology, food technology, health/wellness, and futureof learning at the pre-seed/seed stage.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Education
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Hoop — Hoop helps make sure you don't miss a thing by automatically capturing your todos and action items from meetings and chat.
  • Linker Finance — Linker Finance is the Secure, Core-Agnostic, Digital Banking Platform for Community Banks and Embedded Finance. We combine White Label Solutions, Low-Code Front-End Tools, and Plug-and-Play integrations enabling Quick Time-to-Market, Easy Customization, Quick and Simple Integrations, and Freedom for Agile Expansion.
  • Yeti Confetti Kids — Yeti Confetti Kids is the ultimate educational app that sparks creativity, learning, and endless fun for young minds. Sign up for an invite and get early access.
Jack McCue Angel
Jack McCue is the Co-Founder of Fabletics.
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Investment focus
  • Women's, Cannabis, Wellness
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • House of Wise — Luxury, full-spectrum CBD products for women by women. All natural. gluten-free. and ethically sourced products from the U.S. A Wise Woman takes control of her sex, stress, sleep, strength, and wealth.
Winnebago Seed Fund VC Fund · Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
The Winnebago Seed Fund is a newly-formed venture capital fund based in Neenah, Wisconsin with a focus on seed investments in startup companies primarily in the Fox Valley and secondarily through the state of Wisconsin. The Fund’s primary purpose is to generate investor return by partnering with talented entrepreneurs to rapidly grow theirbusinesses.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AirDeck — Discover the power of narrated presentations. Use AirDeck AI to create and share clear, effective, and compelling documents.
  • RoddyMedical — SecureMove-TLC Confidence in Safety and Mobility | RoddyMedical | Wauwatosa
  • Sift Healthcare — Sift helps healthcare providers and revenue cycle managers prioritize RCM workflows & accelerate cash flow with analytics & optimizations around denials, payer behavior, patient payments and utilization trends.
Jon Oringer Angel · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
  • Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
  • NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Tech Coast Angels VC Fund · Newport Beach, California, United States
Tech Coast Angels is the largest angel investor group in the United States, possessing more than 300 members in five networks in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Central Coast, and the Inland Empire. Its members provide funding and guidance to more early-stage, high-growth companies in Southern California than any other investment group.Members invest in companies in a wide range of industries, including the life sciences, biotech, IT, services, retail, Internet, financial, software, media, consumer products, and tech startups. TCA as a whole gives companies more than just capital; they also provide counsel, mentoring, and access to an extensive network of potential investors, customers, strategic partners, and management talent. Tech Coast Angels has been ranked by CB Insights to be among the Top 20 Angel Groups in the US; TCA was also ranked as #1 for Network Centrality, meaning we have more connections than anyone! If you are in the game-changing business, we are here to help.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Reglagene — Reglagene is a therapeutics company that leverages its expertise in the design and development of brain penetrant medicines to create breakthrough therapies for the safe and effective treatment of brain diseases.
  • RealSeq Biosciences — We're discovering new biomarkers to advance next-generation diagnostics that provide deeper insights and improve more lives.
  • Trio Pharmaceuticals — Trio Pharmaceuticals is a cancer therapeutics company that develops dual-action drugs for immunogenic tumors. These drugs directly stop tumor growth and selectively stop immunosuppression in the tumor without targeting the current immune checkpoint pathways. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Emles Venture Partners VC Fund
Emles Venture Partners is a venture capital company.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Logistics, Cannabis
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Canix — Seed-to-sale cannabis software and cannabis ERP for marijuana cultivators, manufacturers and distributors. Metrc approved inventory compliance tracking.
  • Seabound — Seabound's carbon capture method allows professionals to process carbon dioxide on land. The limestone produced by the reaction can be sold directly, or it can be heated to separate carbon dioxide to generate calcium oxide for secondary recycling, and the carbon dioxide will be stored or sold.
  • HENRY — Tu carrera como desarrollador comienza ahora. Estudia Desarrollo Web Full Stack y paga solo cuando consigues trabajo.
Right Side Capital Management VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital
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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.
AltaIR Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
We foster innovation and work together to find and grow breakthroughs all over the world
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Israel, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
  • Stayf — Cultivating a Healthy Corporate Culture through Sport and Wellness in One App
  • Substrata — Substrata.me | #1 AI Real-Time Sales Email Coach | Designed by data scientists, psychologists and linguists to help you book more meetings and close more deals
  • Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
Max Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Max Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in consumer tech and health-tech companies. Max Ventures primarily invests in digital commerce, digital media, fintech, and digital Health. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Sweden, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • UnityAI — At UnityAI, we specialize in developing innovative AI solutions that drive business success. Our state-of-the-art technology and expert team empower companies to optimize operations, enhance decision-making, and unlock new opportunities. Discover how UnityAI can transform your business with our comprehensive suite of AI services. Partner with us to turn your vision into reality.
  • Adonis — Adonis is the first revenue intelligence and automation platform that delivers AI-driven insights to help your medical practice, hospital, or digital health clinic beat revenue KPIs.
  • Hello Patient — AI meets Healthcare Operations Coming soon
Mission and Market VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Mission and Market is a micro-venture capital firm focused on seed investments in many areas, including big data, software-powered biotech.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Japan, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Fove — FOVE offers an eye tracking head mount display. Dive into virtual worlds that know where you are looking, what you are looking at and react to it. Think Iron Man meets Oculus. By tracking gaze position in real time it is possible to interact with and control objects on the screen in new ways.
  • Akido Labs — At Akido, we collaborate with healthcare, government, and non-profit institutions to implement programs that tackle inequities in public health.
  • Cofactor Genomics — The Leaders in RNA-Seq
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