# Top 50 Community Startup Investors in June 2026

## SV Aangel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 56
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

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

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 51
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Access curated startup investment opportunities and diversified venture capital exposure designed for accredited investors.

## SOSV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 46
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

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

## Gaingels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 44
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Lerer Hippeau
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 41
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

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

## Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 41
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 40
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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

## General Catalyst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 39
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

## Index Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 39
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

## East Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 38
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

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

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 36
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

## Slow Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 35
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

Slow Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in companies central to the technology industry as well as those operating at the intersection of science, society, and culture. The firm seeks to support innovative ideas and solutions that shape the future across various sectors.

## Greycroft
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 34
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

Venture capital and technology investments

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 32
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## BoxGroup
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 32
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

BoxGroup is an early stage investment fund focused on technology companies. Contact Us: hello@boxgroup.com

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 31
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 31
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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

## Forerunner
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 30
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Software

Forerunner is a venture capital firm focused on the modern consumer, investing at the intersection of culture and invention.

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 30
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

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

## Precursor Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 30
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in North America. The firm focuses on investments in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware.

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## Blume Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 30
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Backing the next wave of revolutionary founders, from India, for the world.

## BBG Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 30
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

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

## Maveron
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet

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

## Great Oaks Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

Great Oaks Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with a mission to support and invest in the most innovative and disruptive startups. Visit our home page to learn more about our portfolio companies, investment approach, and the experienced team behind our success.

## First Round Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Felicis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 28
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

## Goodwater Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burlingame, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 28
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

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

## Primary Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 28
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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## HV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 27
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

## Kima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 26
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.

## Social Starts
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 26
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds.

## Female Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 26
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce

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

## New Enterprise Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 26
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

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

## Strong Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 26
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

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

## Khosla Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech,offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies.

## Bessemer Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

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

## Freestyle Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Freestyle is an early-stage venture capital firm with investments in over 130 technology companies including Airtable, Intercom, Patreon, and BetterUp.

## Kleiner Perkins
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

## Casa Verde Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Health Care, Software

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.

## Spark Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence

Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.

## Backstage Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

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

## LVX Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Connect with 10,000 plus angel investors. Raise funding seamlessly. Find startups to invest in. Easy to use & seamless technology platform for startup investing & funding.

## Brand Foundry Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness

Brand Foundry Ventures they invest in early-stage companies operating in the consumer and business sectors.

## UpHonest Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

UpHonest Capital is a sector agnostic early-stage VC based in Silicon Valley. We invest in Seed, Pre-A, and Series A stages and many of our portfolio companies go on to receive later-stage investments from Sequoia, Accel, a16z, and others. We have invested in over 400 portfolio companies including Checkr, Boom, Astranis, Rippling, Turing, etc.  We have an overseas vision and an active innovative ecosystem, which integrates a high-quality entrepreneur community, innovation events, media & communication coverage, and entrepreneurship education.

## Poseidon Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, SaaS

Home of the pioneer cannabis hedge fund, focusing solely on marijuana and hemp.

## Halogen Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion

Halogen Ventures is a Los Angeles, California-based Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-stage consumer technology startups with a female on the founding team. Halogen Ventures invests in pre-seed, seed, and series A companies creating groundbreaking technologies and products in the consumer space. It is hands-on and supports foundersthrough their full lifecycle. The firm helps them build their networks, get brand exposure, hire great talent, raise follow-on rounds and find their path to acquisition or IPO.

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Graph Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Graph Ventures is an investment group that specializes in seed and early-stage venture investments. It was founded in 2011. Investments include:
* BetterUp
* Birdies
* BlueApron
* Dapper Labs
* Earnin
* Envoy
* Hinge
* Houseparty
* Ipsy
* Loft
* Lever
* Lingokids
* Moon Express
* Papaya
* PicsArt
* Porch
* Quinto Andar
* RideOS
* Saildrone
*Very Good Security
* VivaReal
* Zeplin

## Founder Collective
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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