Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in United States in September 2025

Investor	Consumer United States investments
SOSV	77
SV Angel	67
Right Side Capital Management	66
Lerer Hippeau	61
Andreessen Horowitz	58
New Enterprise Associates	57
First Round Capital	54
Alumni Ventures	54
Forerunner	53
Khosla Ventures	52
Greycroft	48
Accel	44
Lightspeed Venture Partners	42
BAM Ventures	42
Uncork Capital	41
Maveron	40
Slow Ventures	40
Founders Fund	40
RRE Ventures	37
Upfront Ventures	35
General Catalyst	34
Intel Capital	34
Brand Foundry Ventures	33
Founder Collective	33
Social Starts	32
FJ Labs	32
Portfolia	32
True Ventures	31
Social Capital	31
Great Oaks Venture Capital	30
Liquid 2 Ventures	30
MaC Venture Capital	29
Sequoia Capital	29
VTF Capital	29
Bolt	29
Bain Capital Ventures	29
Backstage Capital	28
Flybridge	27
Precursor Ventures	27
Tuesday Capital	27
Gaingels	27
BBG Ventures	26
Jason Calacanis	26
Peterson Ventures	26
Red Sea Ventures	26
Portland Seed Fund	25
Madrona	25
Service Provider Capital	25
ff Venture Capital	25
Felicis	25

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ai.work — Amplify your team with intelligent AI Workers connected to your systems, knowledge, and policies - built to work the ticket queues, automate the repetitive tasks, and get things done - lightning fast.
TravoAI — Mobile app for annotating PDF worksheets with real-time AI tutoring. Made by Stanford students.
Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Jayla Health — Jayla Health is a virtual clinic for menopause care to test, manage, and treat menopause symptoms from home.
Lab Symplified — Lab Symplified provides software for lab inventory, quality management, maintenance logs, and communication automation.
Naviday Health — Naviday Health is building personalized, AI-guided care pathways—starting with menopause—to help individuals confidently navigate complex health transitions. Our platform empowers daily decision-making through tailored insights, symptom tracking, and holistic support, bridging the gap between traditional care and real-world needs. We’re redefiningwhat it means to stay well every day.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lava — Lava is the credit and wallet infrastructure that enables the internet to finance artificial intelligence. We enable businesses to track usage, issue credits, and receive payment for any pricing model, including subscription, prepaid, and usage-based. Without developing unique charging systems, entrepreneurs may monetize in minutes with a single,easy integration.
Ayoh Foods — Ayoh is mayo with a POV or as we like to call it, Sando Sauce. Our sauces are the ultimate pairing for burgers, fries, nuggets, veggies, or anything else you want to dip or slather. Check out our lineup here.
Small Door — Veterinary care reimagined. Small Door Veterinary's membership model offers best-in-class personalized & convenient pet health care in NYC, Boston and DC

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lead — Lead Bank is a community-minded, independent commercial bank with a national client base recognized for its imaginative approach to community banking.
Databricks — Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data Intelligence Platform.
Allocate — Allocate is the operating system for private market alternatives investing

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aurelian — Aurelian is an AI platform designed to automate routes, triage, and resolve non-emergency police calls.
Mojo Vision — Mojo Vision is a developer of augmented reality products and platforms intended to invent the future of computing. The company has developed a smart contact lens with a built-in display that gives timely information without interrupting the focus and delivers immediate, powerful, and relevant information without the intrusions of today'smobile devices, enabling users to connect with others at a glance, anytime, anywhere handsfree.Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.
Strive Health — Strive Health is a built-for-purpose company working with innovative payors and providers to transform kidney care. Strive Health significantly improves patient outcomes and experience with a high-touch, technology-enabled clinical model that cares for chronic kidney disease patients across their entire healthcare journey, from primary care-levelengagement through dialysis. Strive was launched out of Oxeon’s Venture Studio and is backed by New Enterprise Associates, Town Hall Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, and Ascension Ventures.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Flex — Start growing your business today by accepting HSA/FSA payments. Flex offers the most comprehensive solution on the market with a solution for all e-commerce needs.
Central — Central simplifies payroll, hiring, benefits, and compliance for startups, automating back-office tasks to save time and reduce risks.
Parallel — Parallel is a technology company focused on adapting the web for artificial intelligences. It builds retrieval, ranking, and reasoning systems that enable AIs to perform high-value tasks using web data. The company's initial offering is an API designed to facilitate these interactions, enhancing the capabilities of advanced AIs.

Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC.It helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor withexpertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography.Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, and Mike Collins co-founded the firm in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2013.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kognitos — Kognitos is in stealth mode.
CRED — Compare millions of commercial data points and uncover unique and personalised opportunities for your brand.
Spekter Games — Spekter Games offers well-tested free-to-play Web2 mobile games that have been improved with a skillfully designed Web3 incentive layer, as well as chat-based super apps.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Novig — Novig is a peer-to-peer sports betting exchange and the first platform to offer commission-free bets.
Topline Pro — Receive a optimized website built for you in 24hrs with online tools to grow your service business. Take your business to the next level.
Koah Labs — Koah Labs is an advertising platform that develops AI-native monetization solutions to generate revenue

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Inkeep — inkeep provides conversational search for developer-focused companies. We use LLMs to understand a company’s docs, GitHub issues, Stack Overflow threads and more to answer developer questions and increase customer activation.
Aven — Inventing new ways to save people money
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lead — Lead Bank is a community-minded, independent commercial bank with a national client base recognized for its imaginative approach to community banking.
Penguin Ai — Penguin AI uses AI to analyze health records and support care decisions, improving patient outcomes.
H2Ok Innovations — H2Ok Innovations Harnesses Artificial Inteligence and Data Science to Empower Comunities With the Knowledge for Clean Water.

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CityMall — CityMall is a social e-commerce venture, backed by Elevation Capital, aiming to help the 200-300 million new to Internet users realize the power of Internet
FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.
ASTRO — Situs Belanja Kebutuhan Harian Online dengan Harga Terjangkau dan Kualitas Terbaik. Pesan Kebutuhan Harian di ASTRO Pasti Sampai dalam Hitungan Menit

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sphinx — Sphinx is AI that thinks in statistics and patterns and generates artifacts and insights that an adult can reproduce and fully own.
Rocksalt — Rocksalt operates an AI marketing coach platform that provides machine learning solutions for businesses. The company focuses on developing innovative technologies that enhance data analysis and decision-making capabilities. Rocksalt offers a range of services, including predictive analytics, natural language processing, and custom AI modeldevelopment, tailored to meet the specific needs of various industries. The firm emphasizes collaboration with clients to create effective strategies that leverage AI for improved operational efficiency.It identifies high-value conversations, surfaces relevant discussions, and delivers personalized email digests and daily action suggestions to drive visibility and thought leadership. Plans range from a free tier that supports limited influencers and Slack channels to paid tiers with expanded engagement, analytics, team access, and CRM integration.
ASTRO — Situs Belanja Kebutuhan Harian Online dengan Harga Terjangkau dan Kualitas Terbaik. Pesan Kebutuhan Harian di ASTRO Pasti Sampai dalam Hitungan Menit

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Koobz — Koobz is revolutionizing footwear with fully automated, on-demand production. Discover sustainable, high-quality shoes made faster and more efficiently in the USA. Join us in shaping the future of footwear manufacturing.
DroneDeploy — DroneDeploy is a provider of cloud-control software solutions for drones which include automated flight safety checks, workflows, and real-time mapping and data processing.The company has partnered with leading drone manufacturers like DJI to provide its software to end users in a variety of industries, including agriculture, real estate, mining,construction and many other commercial and consumer arenas. DroneDeploy is compatible with any drone.
Amperos Health — AI coworkers for healthcare billing teams that help collect on claims.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Heave — The Heave App is revolutionizing heavy equipment service. We connect businesses with on-demand diesel mechanics for fast, reliable repairs and maintenance. Our nationwide network of qualified contractors ensures your equipment stays up and running, minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity.
Meroka — Meroka specializes in helping you seamlessly transfer ownership of your medical practice to your employees. Discover expert guidance for a smooth transition today.
Sundial — Stop writing pipelines and complex SQL. Go from raw data to entities, metrics, visualizations and answers in just a few clicks

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Armada — The Armada Platform is a whole new way to succeed at the Edge with Starlink connectivity, mobile data centers & AI. Schedule a demo today.
Eight Sleep — Fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer with personalized cooling and heating for each side of the bed. The Pod reduces snoring, tracks your sleep, and works with any mattress. Try it risk-free for 30 nights.
Aven — Inventing new ways to save people money

RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that is in it with founders when it matters

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, China

Portfolio highlights

TrueX — TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets.
Farsight — Farsight develops AI automation tools tailored for financial services and insurance workflows. The company provides document synthesis and autonomous workflow agents that process unstructured data within native tools like Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF viewers. It supports use cases including investment banking analysis, private equity deal screening,hedge fund research, and underwriting automation, integrating AI into existing workstreams. The company pursues open-source contributions and collaborates with major financial institutions through customizable enterprise AI services.
Foundation EGI — The EGI platform from the Foundation is designed to speed up all phases of the product development cycle, from design and research to production and documentation, enabling engineers to create better products more quickly and effectively.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CX2 — CX2 is a next-generation defense technology company, headquartered in El Segundo, California. Our mission is to secure spectrum dominance for the United States and our allies, by building AI-enabled hardware and software platforms to detect, disrupt and defend the electromagnetic spectrum across land, air, sea and space. Founded by a team of veteran entrepreneurs, with backgrounds from Meta, SpaceX, Epirus and a16z, we are backed by the leading venture investors in the defense ecosystem.
Certify — CertifyOS is an API-first, UI agnostic, end-to-end provider network management platform for credentialing, monitoring, licensing, provider health plan enrollment, and provider sourcing. With integrations into 100’s of primary sources, enabling near real-time verification and credentialing for enrollment, CertifyOS is uniquely positioned to be theone-stop shop for all provider networking needs, including provider sourcing, licensing, credentialing, health plan enrollment, and ongoing monitoring.
Eventual — Eventual builds software and markets to protect real estate owners from new climate risks.

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Harbor Health — Harbor Health is a multi-specialty clinic group that provides smarter health care using technology. The company co-creates a health path that is dedicated to knowing individuals' health goals with the guidance of specialists when needed. Harbor Health was founded in 2022 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Aven — Inventing new ways to save people money
Lila Sciences — Lila Sciences is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to support research in life sciences, chemical sciences, and materials sciences. It develops AI-driven tools and autonomous labs to improve research efficiency and facilitate scientific discoveries. The platform is designed to enhance various aspects of the scientific method andcontribute to advancements in technology and innovation.

Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, edge, 5G, autonomy, cybersecurity, client & gaming, enterprise applications, silicon design and manufacturing, and a wide range of other disruptive technologies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mueon — semiconductor-based systems for AI and hyperscale computing
Figure — Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.
proteanTecs — proteanTecs' platform applies machine learning & analytics to data from chip-embedded Agents providing insights & predictions on performance and reliability.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CollX — Snap photos of them and instantly get the current market price. Add them to your collection and track your overall portfolio value.
Ledgebrook — Best in class service and pricing from industry veterans delivered at the speed of InsurTech
Lucky Energy — LUCKY F*CK is a better-for-you energy drink company.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Coverflow — Coverflow is an AI-powered platform designed for policy checking, AMS updates, and generating proposals. Users can upload policies, and the AI automatically identifies and organizes them for analysis, flagging discrepancies and highlighting key details. The platform enables the generation of personalized proposals and provides complete checks toensure accurate decision-making. It also offers integration with other systems, automatic updates, and secure data handling with SOC2 compliance.
Weavy — Weavy is a company focused on enhancing team collaboration by providing developers with pre-built, seamlessly integrated collaboration features for web applications. Their platform offers components such as chat, messaging, file sharing, AI tools, and cloud integrations designed to save developers from repetitive coding tasks, enabling them tobuild smarter and faster without reinventing the wheel. Weavy's tools emphasize developer-friendliness, intuitive user experience, and cost-effectiveness, aiming to empower developers across skill levels to embed collaboration and AI-driven capabilities into internal apps efficiently.
General Medicine — General Medicine provides accessible healthcare services, including virtual visits, lab testing, imaging, referrals, and prescriptions to cater to patient needs. The organization is committed to supporting patients throughout their healthcare journey, whether through local specialists or in-house clinicians for various health concerns.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hey Jane — Get safe, effective and affordable abortion pills delivered fast to your home. Hey Jane is the first digital abortion clinic, connecting you to licensed providers in your state through telemedicine.
Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Heave — The Heave App is revolutionizing heavy equipment service. We connect businesses with on-demand diesel mechanics for fast, reliable repairs and maintenance. Our nationwide network of qualified contractors ensures your equipment stays up and running, minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity.
VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
Garage — Garage is the trusted marketplace for buying and selling emergency vehicles, equipment, and more.

Investing Funds Designed for Women Backing Innovative Companies We Want in the World - For Returns and Impact

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Harvest Thermal — We are manufacturers of the cleanest home energy solution on the market today. We offer a cloud-enabled, ultra-clean heating, cooling and hot water system for residential customers. The brains of the system is our award-winning Harvest Pod that slashes carbon emissions, saves on utility bills, and
Mercy BioAnalytics — We are making early stage cancer 100,000x easier to find using extracellular vesicles found in blood, specific to their parent cells.
Zero Point Five Therapeutics — A drug development company treating soil transmitted helminthiasis (STH) through the FDA as a single dose formulation. STH is a disease impacting poor rural communities of color with poor sewage systems.

A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Audos — Where everyday entrepreneurs build small AI companies
Conversion — Smarter marketing, better results. Our AI teammates maximize ROI and win more customers.
The Nuclear Company — The Nuclear Company is a fleet-scale nuclear deployment firm that offers for nuclear sectors.

At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Biz AI Last — Are you ready to elevate your business efficiency and productivity? Say hello to Biz AI, your intelligent business assistant designed to streamline operations, boost productivity, and give you more time to focus on what matters most – growing your business.
Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
Perimeter Medical Imaging — Perimeter Medical Imaging is a medical device company driven to transform cancer surgery with advanced OCT technology for surgeons as they strive for clean margins to avoid re-excisions.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Nimblemind.ai — Nimblemind offers a faster and safer way to structure, label, & manage multimodal health data with automation, audit trails, and APIs.
Streamline AI — Spend more time on legal analysis, less time on admin work. Streamline AI's intake and workflow automations help in-house legal teams and their business stakeholders work faster. Build conditional routing and automate manual business processes based on custom rules.
Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Aurelian — Aurelian is an AI platform designed to automate routes, triage, and resolve non-emergency police calls.
Confido — Confido is a software company that provides financial operations automation for consumer packaged goods brands. Confido helps CPG brands save time and money by automating cash applications, fighting deductions, and tracking trade costs in a platform. The company is based in New York, New York.
Blaxel — Blaxel is a cloud infrastructure to deploy and scale AI agents.

MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious. The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace.MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful LosAngeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Blok — Prioritize the right experiments and simulate potential product decisions. Discover the future of product development driven by AI.
Quilt Health — Quilt Health is a digital health company focused on improving access to innovative treatments for people living with rare and complex conditions, starting with sickle cell disease. The company leverages technology, data integration, and artificial intelligence to streamline clinical trial recruitment, enhance patient access to therapies, andstrengthen provider networks
Carrot Credit — Carrot Credit is a financial services company that provides line of credit to the customers and businesses.

We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Medallion — Provider credentialing and enrollment reimagined. Accelerate time-to-revenue, stay compliant, and scale provider operations, without adding headcount, through automated credentialing and enrollment.
STARK — STARK is a technology-driven defence company with the mission to deliver the systems that Europe and NATO need now.
Zed Industries — Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

We Invest In The Future of Commerce

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Ross & Snow — Ross & Snow is the brainchild of four good friends (the “shoe dogs,” each a longtime veteran of the footwear industry) coming together one evening for wine, laughter and a discussion about the current state of footwear quality. We wanted to see mountain-inspired footwear that was also perfect for the city, footwear that is both functional andcraveworthy, footwear that’s made in a family-owned Italian workshop but designed with American edge. We wanted to produce the kind of shoe or boot we would want to wear all day, the kind that takes us seamlessly from a chilly morning’s breakfast meeting all the way through to drinks in our favorite bar.
The/Studio — Manufacture high-quality custom products in small batches with fast turnaround and free shipping online from The/Studio. Browse our custom products, here.
ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Bain Capital Ventures helps founders build iconic businesses that transform the way we live and work.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Meela — Meela is an AI voice companion that helps older adults feel less alone and caretakers stay close.
Pylon — Talk to your customers over Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Discord? Meet Pylon. We'll help you scale your sales, success, and support processes over chat and integrate that data back into your existing systems.
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BoldHue — BoldHue is a beauty tech company that develops a Bluetooth-enabled handheld device to customize beauty needs. Its platform uses AI technology to scan faces, display color, and match the color of the face to dispense pigmentation into the base foundation. BoldHue was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Aurora, Colorado.
EdLight — EdLight helps teachers focus on student work. With remote learning, it's harder than ever to see authentic student work. EdLight allows teachers to give real time feedback on images of student work.
Cloudnine Augmented Intelligence — Discover CloudNine AI, where augmented intelligence transforms enterprises. Explore innovative AI-driven solutions for enterprise knowledge management enhanced capex investments, streamlined operations, and advanced analytics.

New York and Boston Based Early-Stage Venture Capital Firm Backing Seed Stage AI Companies. Focused on AI Enablement, Developer Platforms, Agentic Business Applications, and Native AI for Human Ingenuity

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Mako — Mako leverages an LLM agent to generate, validate, and inject custom GPU kernels into your PyTorch workloads, then serves them with SGlang or vLLM
NetBox Labs — NetBox Labs makes the management of complex networks easier for operators by delivering open and composable products. The company's product NetBox Cloud offers an enterprise-grade, SaaS version of open-source NetBox.
Covenant — An AI Law Firm

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Parento — Parento is a pioneering national insurance-based solution for paid parental empowering companies to support working parents with proactive, tangible paid leave coverage and employee resources.
Voiceops — Your high-volume calls contain the blueprint for business growth, cost reduction, and risk management. Voiceops doesn't just analyze calls - it works alongside your team to automatically implement improvements that most businesses miss.Founded in New York and backed by top-tier investors on both coasts, Voiceops has driven billions ofdollars of revenue and cost-savings for industry leaders in education, financial services, and insurance. Real results: 80% increase in close rates, 98% reduction in compliance violations, 70% reduction in post-call work, 93% reduction in attrition, and 50% reduction in cost per lead.We're a fast-growing AI platform, with customers who have called our AI teammate “stunning” and the most advanced capability they’ve seen “by a landslide” — and we're just getting started.
PlayMaker — PlayMaker is building the modern operating system for sponsorships—centralizing inventory, contracts, activations, and reporting in one place so commercial teams can move faster and prove ROI. Designed and built by industry insiders who sat in the seat of rights-holders and brands, PlayMaker combines intuitive workflows with AI to extract contractterms, surface under-utilized assets, streamline approvals, and generate executive-ready reporting.

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

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Kollegio — Kollegio is an AI-driven platform for college applications.
Paypercut — Paypercut is a fintech startup that allows small and mid-scaled merchants to offer Buy Now, Pay Later at checkout via a single integration.
EVERBLOOM — Bloomlabs provides a method to catalyze waste value by regenerating it as adaptable and appealing bio-plastics and textile fibers. It envisions a future in which outmoded, resource-intensive processes are phased out in favor of cutting-edge, sustainable, and scalable alternatives.

Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of diversity, inclusive of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
ZeroMark — ZeroMark is a defense product company building technology to ensure safety and precision when using kinetic and non lethal weapons.
Wild West Systems — Wild West Systems is a Defense and Space Manufacturing firm developing weapon systems for the future war.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Naya Homes — Proptech, real estate, vacation and short-term rentals, consumer finance
Grayce — Grayce helps individuals care for loved ones or themselves. Personalized care with dedicated experts & guidance. Available worldwide.
MaxHome — MaxHome is an AI-native platform for real estate agents and brokerages. It offers AI-powered tools for real estate agents to streamline lead management and enhance customer experience.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
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.

Peterson Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on SaaS, digital commerce, and healthcare. They provide seed funding to entrepreneurs looking for a partner to help solve the challenges that accompany rapid growth.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mobly — Mobile lead scanner engagement platform for sales reps. Integrates with your CRM and creates a fully enriched lead for your team within seconds. No badge needed
Casca — Join FDIC-insured banks & non-bank lenders who automate 90% of manual effort in business loan origination with our AI-native Loan Origination System.
DiversiFi — DiversiFi helps 3PLs increase shipping profitability by 28% with AI-powered carrier routing and automated markup pricing. Get started today!

Red Sea Ventures invests in early stage technology-enabled companies that have the potential to transform industries and consumer experiences for the better.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Reclip — Real life, captured by Reclip.
Elm — skincare brand
Jacob Bar — Jacob Bar is a food manufacturing company that specializes in clean‑ingredient, high‑protein snack bars.

The Portland Seed Fund invest in pre-seed and seed-stage companies across the Pacific Northwest. The majority of investments are in Oregon, with 10-20% of investments in other parts of the Northwest. Typical initial investment size of $50,000-$100,000 with participation in multiple follow on rounds. Sector agnostic - the largest sector is B2Bsoftware / SaaS with investments in data center infrastructure, AR/VR, health care IT, direct-to-consumer, e-commerce, mobile, cleantech, food, and apparel. 10-20 investments per year. Now investing out of third fund with more than $20 million AUM. Since 20011 PSF has invested $8 million in more than 90 companies who have gone on to raise more than $370 million from other sources. More than half of PSF companies have a female or person of color on the founding team, and more than a third have a female CEO.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Rapta — Rapta solves the critical shortage of skilled workers and provides continuous training and continuous quality improvement using AI for every manufacturing role in any industry.
Trace — Trace is the simplest way ever to create AR content and experiences for your product and business.
Backpack Healthcare — Backpack Healthcare provides accessible, inclusive and comprehensive pediatric and family mental healthcare.

A venture capital firm that teams with technology entrepreneurs to nurture ideas from startup to market success.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Fyxer AI — Save 1 hour every day with an AI assistant. Fyxer AI organizes your inbox, drafts extraordinary emails and writes better-than-human meeting notes.
Clarify — Clarify consolidates your customer data into one platform, streamlining collaboration and unifying teams around their customer.
Dropzone AI — Autonomous alert investigation agent for SecOps analysts. Reinforce your SOC with a pre-trained LLM-based security AI.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MOONNOX — Moonnox: the only AI-powered OS for professional services. Built by consultants for consultants to drive a future of work led by human ingenuity.
Outrider — Autonomous yard operations have set a new standard. Yard automation transforms yard operations into an efficient, safe, and sustainable solution.
Chief — hief is the first and only predictive operations platform designed for B2B SaaS enterprises in their growth stage. Chief turns unprocessed data into useful insights by combining and scaling up machine learning and generative.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Parento — Parento is a pioneering national insurance-based solution for paid parental empowering companies to support working parents with proactive, tangible paid leave coverage and employee resources.
Civ Robotics — Unmanned systems with precise marking capabilites for the construction industry. Laying out points with sub-inch accuracy with a press of a button.
Microamp — Microamp is a leading tech innovator designing and delivering multi-gigabit and ultra-low latency 5G mmWave wireless networks based on purpose-built radios. The company merges deep tech know-how and a broad portfolio of technology partners, empowering industries, system integrators, MNOs, DSPs, governments, and research institutions with newdimensions of wireless connectivity. Microamp's cutting-edge networks enable the implementation of the most bandwidth-hungry and technologically advanced use cases across verticals such as energy, mining, logistics, production, entertainment, and public service.

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Knox — Knox Systems is a provider of security solutions, dedicated to enhancing safety and efficiency for businesses and organizations. With a focus on innovative technology, Knox Systems offers a comprehensive range of products and services, including access control systems, surveillance solutions, and integrated security management.
Slingshot AI — Slingshot AI is a mental health research lab building a foundation model for psychology. Our mission is to use AI to make mental health care more accessible, and to help people change their minds and lives the way they want to.
Cambridge Terahertz — Cambridge Terahertz, a leader in terahertz (THz) imaging technology, offers an AI-powered Concealed Weapons Detection (CWD) solution to enhance workplace security. Our patent-pending system can see through clothing, luggage, plastic, paper, ceramics, and cardboard to detect concealed threats, including firearms, knives, and explosives.