Top 25 Celebrity VC Funds & Investors in United States (September 2026)
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Vine St. Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Colombia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Internet, Apps | $70k–$10M |
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General Catalyst
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $1.8M–$125M |
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Harrison Metal
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $1.4M–$40M |
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Rosecliff Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Health Care | $800k–$22M |
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Brainchild Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $30k–$13M |
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Fusion Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $1.1M–$50M |
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SV Angel
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $1M–$100M |
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TCA Venture Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Convertible Note, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Software, Biotechnology | $50k–$8.5M |
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, India | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $6M–$220M |
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Raptor Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $750k–$70M |
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Fuse Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, Belgium | Series B, Series C, Series A | Software, Video, Mobile | $2M–$15M |
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Desert Angels
VC Fund
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1 | United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, SaaS, Software | $702k–$70M |
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Manatt Venture Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Ireland | Series A, Seed, Series B | Mobile, Software, Internet | $600k–$45M |
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RRE Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Financial Services, Internet | $1.1M–$35M |
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Madrona
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Spain | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.5M–$70M |
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Mirae Asset Venture Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology | $789k–$52M |
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Pasadena Angels
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $600k–$3.5M |
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SoftBank Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, India | Series B, Series A | Software, Mobile, Advertising | $2M–$75M |
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Scrum Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, China | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.1M–$31M |
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Sterling Equities
VC Fund
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1 | United States | Seed, Series B | Pet, Video, Retail | $1.1M–$2.5M |
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Third Kind Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $420k–$35M |
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Lerer Hippeau
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | $1.3M–$50M |
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Boxee
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1 | United States | Seed | Retail, Fashion, Celebrity | |
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Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship
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1 | United States | Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $235k–$2.7M |
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Blackpoynt Ventures
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1 | United States | Angel | Beauty, Content, Fashion | |
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Vine Street Ventures is a venture capital investment firm dedicated to investing in internet and mobile businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $70k–$3M; Series A $4M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- Habi — Habi is a technology-driven real estate company that helps middle-class customers buy and sell their homes more quickly and efficiently, without the uncertainty of traditional real estate transactions. Using its proprietary pricing algorithm and scalable processes. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial.
- Hunt Club — We're not like traditional recruiting firms. Hunt Club's recruiting network contains leaders, executives, founders, and entrepreneurs across all industries.
- ActionStreamer — ActionStreamer live streaming software delivers enterprise-grade solutions, combining wearable technology with the best live streaming platform and streaming software for real-time video at scale.
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2219
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$18M; Series A $6.7M–$75M; Series B $14M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Orbem — Transform biological imaging with AI-powered MRI technology. Non-invasive solutions for poultry, fruits, nuts, and health. Building a sustainable future.
- Empathy — Coping with the loss of a loved one is not easy. Download the Empathy App for guidance on what to expect following a loss and the tools to get you through each step.
- Kouper Health — The transitions-of-care platform ensuring patients receive timely access to follow-up care.
Harrison Metal invests in early stage technology companies led by exceptional founders.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 190
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4M; Series A $4M–$15M; Series B $6M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Quilter — Physics-based automated circuit board design tools for professionals and the masses.
- CoreStory — It's not low-code, it's full code made easy. Build business-ready software, apps, integrations, and more with the Crowdbotics App Builder. Hire certified PMs and developers to help build your project at any time.
- Vital Interaction — Vital Interaction is a software provider specialized in automating complex communication workflows. Their premier product, the Automated Patient Interaction System, enables healthcare organizations to communicate more effectively with patients using text messaging, automated voice, and email.This automated system helps both patients and healthcare providers connect quickly through technology to remind patients of appointments, fill open slots and request patient feedback.
We are a New York City based investment firm focused on venture capital and private equity opportunities. Our team invests in technology enabled companies in the financial, consumer, healthcare, and software industries. Our portfolio companies have strong management teams characterized by integrity, intelligence, experience, energy, and passion.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Round size: Seed $800k–$7.5M; Series A $6M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $3.9M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
- Krane — Krane is a construction procurement and material management platform for GCs and subcontractors. Track submittals, purchase orders, supplier lead times, and deliveries in one real-time system.
- Trashie — Just a 'small-town' recycling and rewards platform trying to make it in the big city.
120 companies, 250 founders, $4BB in follow-on capital. Introductions, talent, growth, product, financing and strategy.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Round size: Seed $400k–$3M; Pre-Seed $30k–$500k; Series A $1.1M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Octave — Octave is a modern online therapy solution creating a new standard for mental health with individual, couples & Family therapy that works with insurance.
- Shadow — Community led app
- Biorez — Biorez is a medical device company whose aim is to apply its patented and proprietary technology comprised of PLLA, a degradable polymer, in orthopedic implant devices for regeneration and augmentation of soft tissue. In addition to the L-C Ligament®, Biorez has also developed a suite of associated products, including the biorez GRAFT™, a FDA510(k)-cleared innovative device for soft tissue augmentation of the rotator cuff in the United States.
Fusion Fund supports early-stage entrepreneurs who are looking to build globally disruptive companies using innovative technologies to drive systemic change.They are entering the next wave of technological advancement and foundational innovation is required to enable massive growth. With Fusion Fund’s technical and entrepreneurial backgrounds,we seek to support entrepreneurs who are building companies with strong technical barriers and advantages in their business models.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 152
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$11M; Series A $6.8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $190M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Palona AI — Palona is the AI operating layer for physical businesses, proven first in restaurants. Capture demand, convert revenue, and learn where growth is next.
- Sancho — https://t.co/ptb9Xn8I5U Physical API for advanced manufacturing
- Subtle Medical — Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose.
SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1289
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3M–$38M; Series B $8M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $430M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Docker — Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications. We handle the tedious setup, so you can focus on the code.
- Opendoor Technologies — Opendoor is the new way to sell your home. Skip the hassle of listing, showings and months of stress, and close on your own timeline. Get a free offer today!
- Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
TCA Venture Group 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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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 350
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4M; Convertible Note $50k–$7M; Venture - Series Unknown $400k–$8.5M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- EdgeX — Edokonta builds software that allows hospitals to track mobile equipment, such as IV pumps and ultrasounds. The company was founded in 2018 and based in San Diego, California.
- Nested Knowledge — Nested Knowledge is designing an interface that allows you to examine the data from a comprehensive literature review on research questions of interest. The interactive, nested features facilitate therapeutic comparisons, assist with research organization, and allow physicians to compare nuances across patient characteristics and outcomes.
- Major Medical Devices — Major Medical Devices develops next-generation vascular devices for endovascular repair and related surgical procedures.
We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2368
- Round size: Series A $6M–$50M; Series B $11M–$100M; Series C $12M–$220M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Skai — Skai is an AI-powered platform that offers consumer and market insights, strategic planning, omnichannel media activation, testing, and measurement services to brands and retailers. It is the go-to-market engine that enables smarter decisions and better outcomes with actionable intelligence in making customer connections. It includes a suite ofdata-driven products for market intelligence, omnichannel media activation, testing, and measurement, enabling brands and agencies to make predictions, improve strategic planning and drive growth on the most important customer channels.
- Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
- Agent Universe — Agent Universe is an agent research and development company that provides data analysis and operational support services.
Raptor Group Holdings is an alternative investment firm that provides investment management and advisory services. Raptor Group sources and invest in companies across various stages and asset classes, ranging from early-stage venture to both private and public equity. Raptor focuses on various industries including, but not limited to Sports,Consumer, Technology, Media, Entertainment, and Financial Services. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $750k–$18M; Series A $6.3M–$28M; Series B $11M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $9.7M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
- Dapple — The Enterprise OS Cloud. A new category of AI infrastructure between the public cloud and the private data center. When the outcome matters, it runs on Dapple.
- Applied Atomics — Applied Atomics is a Rapid Response Network in Space.
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Browse database — It's Free!Fuse Capital (formerly Velocity Interactive Group and fused with ComVentures) is a leading investment and strategic equity management firm that focuses on digital media and communications. The firm brings a unique approach to investing by bringing not just financial capital, but also human capital to its investment companies. Fuse has a globalpresence with offices in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, India and China. For more information, please visit www.fusecapital.com.
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- Industry: Software, Video, Mobile
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
- Geography: United States, China, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $6M–$15M; Series C $3M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $300M in 2003
Portfolio highlights
- Quantia — The leading source for trustworthy and timely health and medical news and information. Providing credible health information, supportive community, and educational services by blending award-winning expertise in content, community services, expert commentary, and medical review.
- MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
- Credix — CREDIX is a decentralized credit marketplace connecting investors with FinTechs in emerging markets. Learn more about the future of debt financing now.
Founded in 2000 and based in Tucson, AZ, the Desert Angels is a non-profit organization of accredited investors looking for opportunities to invest in early-stage companies. We focus on companies with new innovations in science, tech and SAAS, and our portfolio spans a broad range of industries. Our members will invest $4million-$6million per yearinto roughly 20 deals, about half of which are follow-on rounds. We offer a Sidecar fund which automatically co-invests when specific criteria are met. We are nationally recognized, and in the most recent ARI HALO report listed #7 in the country and #1 in the southwest region as one of the most active angel groups. The Desert Angels is a charter member of the Angel Capital Association (ACA), the trade association of angel investment groups; and an active member in the Angel Syndication Network (ASN), a network of angel groups that syndicate deals.
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- Industry: Health Care, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $702k–$4.5M; Series A $1.8M–$21M; Series B $1.2M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $638k in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- MessageDesk — Unify text conversations, connect teams, reach more people, and send text message broadcasts from your phone number with a shared SMS inbox.
- Delta Development — Delta Development Team stands as a pioneering force in Transportable Blood Storage Solutions, transforming cold chain logistics with advanced thermal system technology and real-time monitoring capability through a highly intuitive blood program management system.
- Linshom Medical, Inc. — Noninvasive|Respiratory Rate|Relative Tidal Volume
The Manatt Venture Fund is the investment arm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, a Los Angeles-based law firm. The Fund makes early-stage investments, and since its founding in 2000 it has made investments in over 90 companies. The official investment entity is MPP Holdings, LLC.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$11M; Series B $2.7M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Motion — Motion is a visual analysis hub that helps marketers and creative teams identify what works to make high-performing creatives that convert.
- Genome Medical — The leading provider of telehealth genetic services. Access expert guidance, accelerate diagnoses and improve rare disease care.
RRE is a boutique venture capital firm with 30 years of experience, backing bold early-stage founders across diverse sectors. We provide deep expertise, AI-driven insights, and committed partnerships to help companies build and persevere for the long term.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 601
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.5M; Series A $2.7M–$25M; Series B $7.3M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Mingyian — Mingyian is a China brand management company for western celebrities and influencers, and is developing the first micro-event platform for celebrities to host online events that engage, grow, and monetize their fan base in the Chinese market. Early investors include RRE Ventures, #DominateFund, Oscar-Nominated Hollywood Director M. NightShyamalan, Foley Ventures, and Eric Yao, a senior executive at one of China's largest energy companies.Our team is made up of industry giants in the China digital and US entertainment spaces, including the Co-founder of E! Entertainment, Former General Manager of the Television Network, Former SVP at William Morris and EVP at Universal Television, Former Director of Business Development at Live Nation, China's First Blogger, Co-Founder of largest site for engineers and designers in China, among many others.
- Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
- Bread Financial — We provide simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions.
A venture capital firm that teams with technology entrepreneurs to nurture ideas from startup to market success.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 546
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $2.8M–$25M; Series B $6.1M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $5.8M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- AdReady — Digital Remedy is an unparalleled digital media company, providing innovative solutions in OTT, CTV, and performance TV advertising. Discover our tools today.
- Jobalign — Jobalign.com is the leading mobile and bilingual cloud based recruiting technology and marketplace for hourly jobs.Jobalign was founded to make the process of hiring hourly workers simple and efficient by reinventing in the cloud a series of dated and inefficient systems and processes used to match over 44 million low-wage workers with jobsevery year. It makes it easy to find, apply and get matched for jobs from any mobile phone, tablet or computer. Employers pay only for local pre-screened candidates or per-hire. The company serves directly and through their network of certified partners, mid-size and very large corporations that, on average, report a reduction of 60 percent in recruitment expenses and 50 percent in time-to-hire, while saving hundreds of hours in manual pre-screening. For job seekers, the experience is mobile, and free of advertising and marketing solicitations -- ultimately reducing their time to get hired. Jobalign is a private company headquartered in Kirkland, Wash.
- Jama Software — Accelerate complex product development with an AI-powered engineering and requirements management platform that improves collaboration, traceability, quality, and compliance.
Mirae Asset Venture Investment invests in specialized enterprises and provides technology, funding and management consulting.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 336
- Round size: Seed $789k–$14M; Series A $2.3M–$40M; Series B $5M–$52M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $118M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Nexedge — Nexedge is a wealth management firm that offers investment management, estate planning, and business advisory services.
- IHW — iHW is an AI semiconductor company that develops ultra-low-power analog AI chips using Analog Compute-in-Memory (ACiM) technology for mobile and edge devices. The company builds analog-digital computing architectures to improve power efficiency and performance in on-device AI processing.
- Medifab — Medifab is a bio-healthcare center that offers 3D system testing, measurement analysis, and OEM service.
Entrepreneurial small businesses are major engines of job growth and key players in the commercialization of new technologies. However, most entrepreneurial ventures fail to achieve their goals. Among the most common reasons for such business failures are the inability to execute sound business plans and to access capital funding, particularly atcritical early stages of a company's development.Affiliated as Pasadena Angels, Inc., a nonprofit entity, the organization offers early-stage companies the opportunity to benefit from the knowledge of more than 100 experienced entrepreneurs, senior corporate executives, and skilled professionals from a variety of industries and venture capital affiliates.Approximately 80 companies from a broad range of industries are screened each year by Pasadena Angels members and are provided with invaluable counsel, including insights into developing business and financing strategies that are achievable and fundable. Companies also benefit from the group's feedback and the opportunity to connect with individuals who may offer more specialized expertise and advice.The organization's members provide up to $1 million in early-stage financing and seed money to emerging technology-based ventures located in Southern California. The group cooperates with other venture capital firms and angel investment groups to support companies that are raising between $1 to $5 million. Pasadena Angels members invest individually and directly, without any legal pooling of financial resources. The corporate entity, Pasadena Angels, Inc. does not invest or act as an investment agent in any manner.Pasadena Angels charges no fees and provides its services to companies which it believes have a significant potential for success and the potential to benefit from an association with the organization.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $700k–$3.5M; Angel $600k–$2.6M; Series A $1M–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- NuvOx Therapeutics — NuvOx Pharma is a clinical stage biotech company developing an innovative platform of oxygen therapeutics to treat life-threatening diseases where hypoxia plays a role.
- Essenvia — Essenvia is an online software to streamline pre and post-market workflow for medical device companies by streamlining plans or activities to market, improving cross-functional collaboration, and automating steps to manage initial and subsequent device modifications.
- Delta Development — Delta Development Team stands as a pioneering force in Transportable Blood Storage Solutions, transforming cold chain logistics with advanced thermal system technology and real-time monitoring capability through a highly intuitive blood program management system.
SoftBank Group provides venture funding and strategic support to exceptional entrepreneurs building disruptive enduring businesses. They are a small team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who take an "active" approach to helping their companies reach their full potential. They manage $600 million across three funds and investacross a company’s lifecycle, from early to growth stages. Through their close ties to a number of Asia’s leading mobile, internet and technology companies – including strategic partners SoftBank Corp, Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group – SoftBank Capital offers unique expertise to businesses seeking to address the Asian market. Since 1995, SoftBank Capital has partnered with internet pioneers such as Criteo, Gilt Groupe, OMGPOP (Zynga), betaworks, BuzzFeed, Buddy Media (Salesforce.com), Huffington Post (AOL), Associated Content (Yahoo!), Danger (Microsoft), Geocities (Yahoo!), E*Trade and Yahoo!.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Advertising
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 239
- Round size: Series A $2M–$30M; Series B $5M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Swirl Networks — Buy Swirl.com on DomainEasy. Buy it today!
- Rize — Rize is an 3D printing company manufacturing full-color multi-material office-friendly industrial 3D printers. It enables sustainable and inclusive innovation to achieve additive at scale. The company's 3D printers, the world’s first hybrid 3D printers, are a breakthrough combining two discrete technologies, material extrusion and materialjetting. This enables a one-touch experience to produce parts that mimic injection-molded parts and the capability to digitally connect to Industry 4.0 technologies, at the lowest total cost of ownership.
- Legendary Entertainment — LEGENDARY is a global entertainment company with a passion for transportive storytelling across film, television, digital media, virtual reality and comic books. Towering monsters. Inspirational
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Japan, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 150
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6M; Series A $6.6M–$31M; Series B $10M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $68M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- BiPSEE — BiPSEE is a medical XR company that provides treatment support for children for the purpose of nurturing a sense of self-efficacy. They also deploy AR and VR animation with one button dentistry and medicine, whether outpatient or hospitalized in various situations your child's anxiety and pain relieve. It aims to reduce anxiety and pain inchildren in a wide range of medical fields such as dentistry, pediatrics, and dermatology.BiPSEE is abs ed in Tokyo, Japan.
- SEQUENTIAL — 5,971 Followers, 1,054 Following, 268 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sequential Skin (@sequential.skin)
- ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.
Sterling Equities is a family-run group of companies that include The NY Mets, Brooklyn Cyclones, PE, VC and several Real Estate Ventures
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- Industry: Pet, Video, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Moonwalk — Wallet-as-a-Service Platform
- Electrolyte Boost — Electrolyte Boost is a healthcare products company that offers electrolytes without water for energy drinks.
- Rad — Stream thousands of shows free, publish your own videos and earn with memberships and tips, and play your own files on mobile, TV, console and VR.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8M; Pre-Seed $420k–$5M; Series A $1.7M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Transak — Transak offers a simple integration to allow your users to buy more than 100+ cryptocurrencies with credit/debit cards, or bank transfers in more than 120+ countries.
- Architect — Architect gives traders customizable infrastructure that reimagines access to international markets for digital assets. Building institutional-grade infrastructure to link different crypto venues across centralized and decentralized exchanges is one of the project's goals.
- Chatforce — Chatforce is an AI-powered game studio. Four AI agents turn your ideas into playable, shareable games in minutes. No coding required.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 623
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.5M; Series A $3M–$16M; Series B $11M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $200M in 2025
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- Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
- Fresh Nation — Fresh Nation is an enterprise-level B2B wholesale marketplace and management platform for the retail grocery industry, operationalizing local and specialty food assortments for the nation’s largest retailers and distributors. Fresh Nation’s proprietary Virtual Supply Chain™ platform simplifies the complexity of working with thousands of smallvendors, saving time and cutting costs. Incorporating a vendor and product rich CRM, interactive supplier portal, order management suite, accounting and invoicing tools, and flexible EDI/API integrations, Fresh Nation is becoming the grocery industry standard for enterprise specialty food management.
- littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
social networks like Twitter, Facebook, etc.Since it is partially open source, users can create their own apps, plug-ins, and skins for it.The framework for Boxee is based on source code from the
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Celebrity
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- ED01 — ED01 (formerly Edition01) is a product development and distribution platform that's changing how brands, designers and retailers work together. ED01 develops limited edition collection and launches new product categories for a fast growing client-network of designers, brands, celebrity figures and retailers. ED01 then wholesales thecollection to a growing list of international retailers.ED01.com: As the E-Commerce Destination for Design Collaborations, ED01 offers powerful branding and distribution opportunities.
The Dingman Center Angels is a Maryland based angel investment group that provides funding to early-stage companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $235k–$2.5M; Angel $267k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaster — Kaster is purpose-built to simplify certified payrolls and workforce reporting—two of the most time-consuming and compliance-sensitive processes in construction.Our mission is to give contractors a modern solution that makes it easy to stay compliant, automate back-office workflows, and keep projects moving forward without the usual paperworkheadaches.Why Contractors Choose Kaster?Kaster helps project and compliance teams:• Automate Certified Payrolls – Eliminate manual WH-347 prep, automate wage validations, and simplify submissions for subcontractors • Streamline Workforce Reporting – Track workforce participation and demographic data across all projects in one place • Stay Compliant – Centralize subcontractor compliance items including COIs, lien waivers, W-9s, P&P Bonds, closeout docs, and more • Connect Systems – Sync seamlessly with platforms like Procore, Vista, and more to reduce double entry and improve visibility • Reduce Risk, Save Time, and Unlock Faster Payments – Eliminate bottlenecks, lighten the administrative load for your team and subs, and speed up the path to paymentBuilt by Builders for the Realities of the FieldWhether you’re running public works, federal, or private jobs with labor wage reporting needs—Kaster makes the process simple, structured, and audit-ready.Visit www.kaster.app to learn more or schedule a walkthrough.
- BetterU — An all-in-one app that's help you improve your productivity and well being.
- Cursive Technology — Bringing Academic Integrity back to the head of the class. We're using ML to prevent plagiarism and contract cheating. Private Beta opening Spring 2023, DM us.
Blackpoynt Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Beauty, Content, Fashion
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- COVETEUR — Coveteur is a globally-renowned multimedia brand speaking to style-obsessed readers covering luxury fashion, beauty, and lifestyle.
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