Top 50 EdTech VC Funds
A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Edtech startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Edtech companies. This investor list updates every month.Top 50 EdTech VC Funds
Reach Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused on education and workforce development, backing the biggest and most beloved brands in teaching and learning.
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Investment focus
- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- GPTZero — Covered by >100 media outlets, GPTZero is the most advanced AI detector for ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard. Check up to 50000 characters for AI plagiarism in seconds.
- Kollegio — Your Personal College Admissions Counselor
- Doowii, Inc — Your data, Your questions, One easy AI tool. Only Doowii empowers you to access all your education data in one platform
LearnCapital is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on funding entrepreneurs with a vision for better and smarter learning. They believe that the future is shaped by the way we teach and learn in the present, and that we’re in the middle of one of the great revolutions in the history of education. New technology platforms, applications, andservices are not only amplifying and augmenting classroom learning, but creating a world in which any Internet-enabled device can become a classroom on demand.
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Investment focus
- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Denmark, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ritual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
- Emergence — Emergence is technology company that advances science and development of AI agent systems for enterprise.
- Superintelligent — Superintelligent's interactive video lessons help you learn and use Al tools for work and fun.
GSV Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs and their companies in the $75 billion learning and talent technology sector. The mission of GSV Ventures is to back innovative learning and talent technology entrepreneurs working to give all people access to the future.
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Investment focus
- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Peru
Portfolio highlights
- Uplimit — Unlock the potential of your organization with scalable, high-impact learning experiences.
- Ednition — Our product, RosterStream, makes rostering awesome. Edtech rostering as a service platform.
- Doowii, Inc — Your data, Your questions, One easy AI tool. Only Doowii empowers you to access all your education data in one platform
Rethink Education is a venture capital fund focused exclusively on education technology that invests in early- and growth-stage start-ups looking to scale their solutions both domestically and across the globe.
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Investment focus
- Education, EdTech, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Peru, France
Portfolio highlights
- Aanaab — Aanaab offers online courses in Arabic for teachers and educators to help them improve their skills in different areas including self-development, educational strategies, education techniques, and educational tools and techniques.
- MagicSchool AI — Join thousands of teachers saving hours of time using AI to help lesson plan, differentiate, write assessments, write IEPs, communicate clearly, and more!
- Backpack Healthcare — Backpack Healthcare provides accessible, inclusive and comprehensive pediatric and family mental healthcare.
Kapor Capital is an Oakland-based venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming startups. We redefine what venture capital is capable of by prioritizing a new outcome: a more fair, just, and equitable society for low income communities and underrepresented communities of color.
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Investment focus
- Education, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Japan, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Malaica — The pregnancy journey can be long, frustrating, and full of unexpected challenges. At Malaica, we want to change this.
- Lumi Story — Free The Creator. Democratize storytelling and unlock the innate storyteller in all of us.
- Yeti Confetti Kids — Yeti Confetti Kids is the ultimate educational app that sparks creativity, learning, and endless fun for young minds. Sign up for an invite and get early access.
University Ventures is the only investment firm focused exclusively on the global higher education sector. UV pursues a differentiated strategy of innovation from within. UV has the deepest respect for the missions and traditions of colleges and universities around the world and is confident that through innovation, these same institutions will besuccessful in fulfilling and expanding their missions.
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Investment focus
- Education, Higher Education, EdTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Cyprus, India
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- Edu101 — 101 builds mobile-first teaching and assessment tools specifically for college STEM courses. Its first app, Chem101, replaces the clicker and provides tools for chemistry professors to engage their students in the classroom. Chem101 features a module that allows students to intuitively draw and visualize Lewis structures on their mobile devices.Its mobile platform enables instructors to engage students in the classroom, assign homework, and provide on-the-go reinforcement.101 Edu was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
- PeopleGrove — At PeopleGrove, we believe the way students experience and value their education has changed. They are seeking an academic experience that addresses:- Job outcomes, not just a degree - Social and digital, not isolated and static - Experiential, not theoreticalIn fact, many are questioning the value of a college education. Only half of USalumni strongly agree their education was worth the cost. Meanwhile, supportive relationships most influenced, even doubled, graduates’ perception that their education was worth the cost.We believe relationships and community are key to student success and engaged alumni. That's why we built PeopleGrove: a unified solution for relationship-driven career success. By making mentors, advisers and coaches accessible, we help students from all walks of life access new opportunities and achieve their career goals.PeopleGrove is on a mission to connect every student and professional with the mentors, advisers and network needed to realize their full potential and find a fulfilling career. PeopleGrove's mentorship and advising platform has been successfully launched at the world's leading institutions, including Stanford, UMUC, K-State and many more.It turns out the student journey aligns with a new hire journey. We're excited to be working with Intuit, Qualcomm and CooperVision so that there employees can better access experts and coaching within their own organizations.
- Techtonic — Techtonic Group is a full service software development services company that also creates talent through a Department of Labor certified Apprenticeship program. The company is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, United States.
Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies.The firm has invested in 24 companies across the education spectrum encompassing early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility/professional learning. Owl leverages its deep domain expertise and takes an active hands-on approach to helpentrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category-leading companies.The firm was founded in 2014 and has over $600 million in assets under management.
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Investment focus
- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Morressier — A platform geared towards the scientific community. From managing abstracts to presenting research content in a virtual conference or in-person meeting.
- Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
- Authentica Solutions — We are thrilled to share the exciting news about the launch of Authentica 2.0, featuring the return of our original founders from Microsoft after successfully reacquiring the brand from Google last year. Our dynamic team, boasting extensive experience in technology and education, is dedicated to addressing the interoperability challenges faced byglobal learning institutions across PK-12, Higher Education, and Workforce solutions. In light of the evolving educational landscape, intensified by the impact of COVID, the demand for secure data exchange, data pipeline management, and data cleansing has never been more critical. Education paradigms have shifted, necessitating not only access to cutting-edge integrated cloud technology but also to seasoned teams capable of addressing long-term challenges. Authentica stands ready to meet these challenges head-on, drawing upon our team's global experience in designing, building, and deploying technology for various education organizations. This marks the inception of our ambitious vision, the Education Intelligence Platform - Seed™. Focused on significant revenue growth through a strategic mix of indirect and direct go-to-market approaches, our primary commitment is to serve our B2B partners, including EdTech Software Providers, Strategic Alliances with Google and Microsoft, Resellers, and System Integrators. It is worth noting that Authentica is already operating profitably and is reinvesting for substantial growth. To propel our platform's growth, market penetration, and B2B expansion at an optimal pace, we are seeking partnerships with the right venture capital firms to raise $7 million. Seed™, our cloud-native platform, is poised to revolutionize education data solutions by addressing challenges such as data integration, analytics, and overall data quality. By focusing on Data Sharing, Security & Control, and Data Quality, Seed™ ensures that valuable data becomes a catalyst for machine learning and artificial intelligence in education. This innovative platform leverages cutting-edge technologies, including IPaaS, Master Data Management, and ML/AI, to empower stakeholders across the education sector. With Seed™, you gain access to a low-cost, scalable solution facilitating data acquisition, data quality and cleansing, cloud-managed storage, and AI-driven performance analytics. This, in turn, enables data-driven decision-making and propels student success by delivering the highest quality data to serve the potential impact of ML and AI technologies.We are the creators of AIM, Adoption Improvement Method. A methodology and practice driven approach to helping our clients reach the full potential, student achievement gains, in deploying their solutions. Our eleven factors create a systemic and dynamic approach to address core needs, issues, and providing immediate solutions to the most complex challenges with software deployment. By focusing on ADOPTION over just the implementation project, purpose changes and allows faster deployments, higher quality expectations, and a faster customer embrace of solutions. The greatest challenge presently with any implementation is data integration. It has been said that the K12 space has more data available with greater challenges to access that data than any other industry. And our focus is on more than profitability, it's about changes students lives.To address the tide of data that every enterprise solution needs to consume and provide to the many disparate systems, we created DataSense. Designed as an IPaaS technology but made ready to meet education institutions where they are today, we can deploy DataSense behind the firewall, ASP, SaaS, or in the Cloud. Designed to reduce implementation time frames by 50% or more over traditional ETL and MDM solutions, DataSense is a required asset to reach faster implementations with less stress on district IT and staying focused on your core application's purpose.
NewSchools Venture Fund is a not-for-profit organization working to close the achievement gap by funding and supporting entrepreneurs who are creating innovative solutions to the problems in public education so that all children have the opportunity to succeed in college and beyond.Since our founding in 1998, NewSchools has invested $180million in more than 70 nonprofit and for-profit educational organizations working to promote student achievement.Recognizing that neither private charity nor capital markets alone are enough to solve the problem of education inequality, we blend the best of both approaches to ensure an excellent education is available to every child. We actively share what we’ve learned through our investments, bring together educational leaders from across the country, and advocate for smart policies at the federal level.
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Investment focus
- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Grant, Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Outline It — Outline It uses the latest advancements of AI and machine learning to empower people to craft better ideas and compelling writing for their essays, research, thesis, or admission papers.
- Tutored by Teachers — Online Tutoring. Powered by Teachers. High Dosage Tutoring Programs.
- Educators for Excellence — Educators for Excellence is a non-profit dedicated to giving teachers a voice in policies that affect their students and profession. The company was founded in 2012 by Sydney Morris and Evan Stone.
Emerge Education is a European seed fund investing in founders solving the $8.5tn skills gap. Emerge provides founders with unrivalled education sector insights, as they're the only fund backed by the world’s foremost education entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Algor Education — Algor Lab is a company that provides tools and materials needed for teaching through artificial intelligence.
- Niyyah — The goal of Niyyah is to give consumers a guided approach to comprehending the Quran in a way that is understandable, significant, and useful. With its short material, tailored suggestions, and gamified elements like leaderboards and prizes, it fits in easily with its users' everyday routines and gives them insight into the Quran'steachings and practical application of faith.
- Solvely.ai — Inspire Every Human Mind
Investing at the intersection of people and technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Education, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Hong Kong, China
Portfolio highlights
- Reap — Reap helps you pay expenses using a credit card, collect payments from around the world, and improve your expense and cash flow management. All in one platform.
- Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
- Tangia — Tangia is an all in one platform that allows content creators to supercharge their viewer engagement, boost income, and unleash viewer creativity
1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare.
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Investment focus
- Education, EdTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Kenya, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
- HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
- Clarametyx Biosciences — Clarametyx Biosciences is a late preclinical stage biotechnology company developing targeted, immune-enabling biologic therapies to counter persistent infections associated with biofilms.
Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ASETS — ASETS develops software for engineers and created the first cloud-based Integrated Design Suite.
- HLRBO — HLRBO is an online hunting network that connects landowners and hunters. List your property on HLRBO. No fees. No commissions. Hunters contact you directly with questions or to lease.
- UBILD — A.I powered construction workforce and vendor procurement platform
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Carv.com — Carv's AI recruiting platform is designed to take over repetitive admin tasks related to intakes and interviews, for a renewed focus on the candidate.
- Elevate Pay — Bloom mobile banking app helps in money transfer in Sudan.
- Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Stanly — Stanly is a all-access digital fan club, empowering fans worldwide to connect, have fun, and earn rewards.
- Elevate Pay — Bloom mobile banking app helps in money transfer in Sudan.
- Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
Brighteye Ventures is the first and largest vertical EdTech Venture Capital firm in Europe. If you are an entrepreneur using technology to reinvent learning and education, we want to hear from you!
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Investment focus
- Education, Software, E-Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Spain, France
Portfolio highlights
- UpHill — Clinical algorithms, medical events, scientific evidence and a simulation software in one place
- Shakers — We are Shakers and we are redefining the future of work. We connect companies and talent with a perfect match between personal and professional life through technology and methodology. We want to achieve a lifestyle in which work is synonymous with happiness so that you can work where, how and when you want. And thus be more productive and havebetter results in the projects in which you collaborate. Sounds good to you? You already have DNA Shakers, follow us !!
- Visibly — Visibly developing technology to bring about the change our built environment requires by providing businesses with the tools they need to reduce the industry's skills gap and ensure our infrastructure can meet the needs of the population.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- CuspAI — CuspAI is a revolutionary AI startup that is developing a platform for next-generation materials to address global sustainability and renewable energy concerns. CuspAI uses cutting-edge generative AI, deep learning, and molecular simulation to accelerate the material design process. Their platform works similarly to a search engine for materials,allowing users to request certain properties for new materials on demand.
- Formic Technologies — At Formic, we want to increase the collective output of humanity by making automation deployments trivial and easy. Every factory should have access to unlimited 'labor' through robotics and automation rentals. We are building technology, financing, operations and services to make this vision possible.Formic is a fast-growingventure-backed startup focused on unlocking robotic automation in labor-starved industries such as food and beverage, advanced manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and other industrial settings. We combine financial innovation with a firm understanding of what robotics are capable of, to enable manufacturing customers to scale up their manufacturing capacity quickly and with minimal risk.
- Rhea — Transforming fertility experiences for many. Recognizing the fragmented nature of the fertility market, we're here to unite and connect.
ah! Ventures is India’s only curated, sector agnostic and the largest fundraising platform for early stage startups raising funds up to 10 MN USD. Very strong network of 3000+ Investors including 2000+ angel investors and 1000+ institutional investors & fund/family houses, Robust deal pipeline of more than 600 business plans/monthand Well-established brand as one of India’s premier aggregators with a cornucopia of offerings to catalyze startup growth.
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Investment focus
- Software, EdTech, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Settl. — Settl - Discover cozy city living with chic coliving spaces in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, and Chennai. Upgrade your homelife through our seamless app.
- FlexifyMe — FlexifyMe is to achieve mental, physical, and spiritual harmony through live 1-on-1 and group sessions with our world-class yoga, meditation, and nutrition coaches.
- Delta X Automotive — An Automotive startup based out of Bangalore, India
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Nagish — Nagish captions your phone calls and empowers you to talk using text or voice. It's fast, private, and free.
- Alinia AI — Alignment Platform for Generative AI. Alinia makes it easy for enterprises to control and guide Gen AI applications based on their policies and preferences.
- Kudos — Kudos is a retail company that offers natural disposable baby diapers with cotton liners. The company's chemical-free diapers are made of plant-based renewable materials, providing parents with natural diapers that suit babies' sensitive skin. It was founded by Amrita Saigal in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Dedicated to transforming the lives of children living in urban poverty through better education, health, and family economic stability.
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Investment focus
- Education, Financial Services, Finance
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- India, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- JOBJACK — JOBJACK: The online platform for entry-level jobs. Find a once-off, part time or permanent job. Or book a demo and get connected to the most relevant staff.
- Airblack — Learn makeup, beauty and culinary skills from India's top experts and get professionally certified. Join a student community of 35,000+ students.
- SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
With deep connections to Stanford and Silicon Valley, Ulu Ventures is a venture capital firm that actively seeks and funds women and diverse founder teams.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Seven Starling — Seven Starling offers comprehensive online care for postpartum mental health. Take the free assessment to get started.
- NewRetirement — The #1 retirement planning tool online. Go beyond savings and investments: comprehensive planning, calculators, classes, and advice.
- Novel Capital — Novel Capital provides non dilutive funding and operational sales expertise to early-stage B2B software companies.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Hebbia — Hebbia's neural search lets you execute research 10X faster and 10X more accurately. Transform your productivity today.
- SDF — SDF is the next generation transformation layer and best developer platform for data. A compiler and execution engine designed to improve the data engineering experience, with compile time guarantees and composable execution.
- Formation Bio — Building the pharma company of the future.
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.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- NovoNutrients — NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and additives for food and feed by developing proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems.
- OncoPrecision — We're developing personalized assays to determine the most suitable medication for cancer therapy at the patient level. Through our proprietary Drug Activity and Resistance Test, oncologists will be able to make data-driven decisions regarding cancer therapy selection based on patient-derived samples. Our goal is to democratize access toPrecision Oncology and improve cancer patients' lives.
- Sodex Innovations — Sodex Innovations is a company which is specialized in developing assistance-systems and automating-kits for excavators
The first European Edtech & Future of Work fund.
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Investment focus
- Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- NOLEJ — NOLEJ is a decentralized skills platform powered by an AI engine, that automatically generates interactive courseware & global knowledge graph
- HappyPal — HappyPal is changing the French employee benefit market ($20bn) replacing paper gift vouchers (o/w 20% expire before usage) with an innovative SaaS and fintech solution. HappyPal offers a new kind of credit card for all employee allowances (gift, culture, vacation, sport...). « After experiencing first-hand the pain points of employeebenefits management in France (hefty fees, unused allowances, poor user experience...), we are now driven by the belief that it is high time employees and admins had access to a modern plug & play solution to offer employee perks »
- MerciApp — MerciApp is a spellchecker that helps people write faster and better in French. It is correcting stylistic, spelling, and grammar errors embedded in a secure and simple interface.
Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Since 2004, they have worked with their partners to create opportunities for people to tap that potential, enabling them to improve their lives and make powerful contributions to theircommunities.They support, scale, and champion the work of their partners in order to maximize social impact. As a philanthropic investment firm, they make both investments and grants, identifying like-minded organizations that they support, help scale, and collaborate with to help realize their full potential. Their efforts are organized around two investment initiatives Access to Capital, and Media, Markets and Transparency.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Education
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Vyng — Vyng has built a next-generation Caller ID platform that visualizes every call. Vyng is helping start better conversations between friends, family, and businesses for the next half billion smartphone users in India and beyond.Vyng boasts 4 billion videos played across 170 countries since its launch in 2018. The company has raised $7MM and isbacked by March Capital, Omidyar Network, a Sequoia Capital partner, and the founders of Giphy and GroupMe.
- Doubtnut — Doubt solutions for Maths, Science, CBSE, NCERT, IIT JEE, NEET & Class 6 to 12. Click, type question to get instant video answers solved by Doubtnut team.
- RailYatri — Indian Railways Train Enquiry, Insights & IRCTC eTicket booking - RailYatri
Inflection Point Ventures, with over 3300 CXOs and professionals, HNIs and Family Offices, is India’s leading angel network investing in early-to-mid stage startups. IPV supports new-age entrepreneurs with not just capital but also uses its wide network of investors to provide startups with access to new markets, customers, guidance and mentorship.Inflection Point Ventures is democratizing angel investing with low membership fee, lowest investment ticket size (per investor), transparent investment process and extensive upfront due-diligence led by industry experts. IPV is industry agnostic, with a focus on committed and competent founders.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Machaxi — Learn Play Shop at Premium Sports Centres
- Metis Intellisystems — Focusing on financial sector to create a data-based platform to help Hyper-target customers using an Artificial Intelligence-based Digital Decisioning Platform
- Palette Brands — Digitally Native Vertical Brands
SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are 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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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lekko — Dynamically configure your software without redeployments. With Lekko, engineers can focus on executing and safely hand off daily reconfigurations.
- Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
- Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Aven — Inventing new ways to save people money
- Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
- Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.
Hustle Fund is a seed fund that seeks to invest in early-stage startups operating in software, business to business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Hemster — Hemster is an on-demand tailoring service that empowers customers to create their own size no matter where they shop. It offers and provides alteration and tailoring services to brand name retailers across the country. Hemster eliminates the most frustrating part of shopping: finding that perfect size. Instead of making shoppers look for theirperfect size, retailers can now create a tailored size from off-the-rack inventory using Hemster’s Perfect Fit Platform.It was founded in 2015 and operates in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York.
- BitBrand — Introducing Digital Watch Faces From Top Luxury Brands
- Kidsy — Shop discounted open-box baby and kids items from all the top brands
At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Focus — The Crypto Social Network.
- Mitra Chem — Mitra Chem is innovating and commercializing iron-based cathode materials to enable mass-market electrification for electric vehicles, energy storage solutions and beyond.
- Tierra Biosciences — Speed, scale and simplicity with protein synthesis on-demand. Discover your portal to thousands of custom proteins. Get testable material with a single input.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Atllas — Atllas is a tech-based real estate organization that leverages software tools to offer brokerage services.
- Proxima — Proxima is a predictive data intelligence platform built to help consumer brands find new customers, maximize marketing performance, and scale profitably.
- Heyday Health — Discover virtual and in-home primary care for seniors on Medicare Advantage. Same day appointments available
This program focuses on addressing the challenges of the modern dynamic labor market through innovative technologies. The first two weeks and the last week of the program will be in person. The remainder of the program will be virtual to maximize accessibility and public health safety.
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Investment focus
- Education, Software, Administrative
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- MFGWorx — #1 Industrial Job Board
- Access Mode — Access Mode is a values-driven organization focused on high-touch mentoring that removes barriers to successful startups for Black, Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and Indigenous tech founders.
- Metta Space — Leading the next generation of compliance by making companies more gender equal, diverse and financially transparent.
LearnStart is a seed fund that focuses on the development of global education technology companies through seed funding.
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Investment focus
- Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Kenya
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- Neol — Neol is a decentralized and tokenized cohort-based learning and on-demand talent platform, powered by a curated global creative community.
- Capybara — Enabling teens to on-ramp into the creative economy
- Fluence — Training in psychedelic integration and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. International workshops, conferences, and consultation related to and mental health, MDMA, Psilocybin, ketamine, Ayahuasca, and other compounds.
Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries
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- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- Literati — Based in Austin,Texas Literati is a subscription book club company. Since 2017, Literati has provided a unique try-before-you-buy book club service to kids 12 and under. Most recently the company has expanded its product line, offering book clubs curated by “luminaries,” a collection of authors, intellectuals, and other notable figures.Literati's team is made up of product people, perfectionistic designers, philosophical hackers, and straight-up hustlers on a mission to build revolutionary excitement in literature. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.
- Redactive — Redactive developer platform eliminates the need for developers to acquire, implement, and maintain specialized data engineering knowledge. This enables to build scalable and secure AI-enhanced applications for customers or productivity use cases for employees more efficiently.
- Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.
Bisk Ventures is a strategic venture capital firm focused on education technology. Founded by Mike Bisk in 2015, Bisk Ventures leverages Bisk Education’s 20 years of online program management expertise in the higher education space and shares the same mission to amplify the potential of people around the world. Learn more at biskventures.com.
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- Education, EdTech, Corporate Training
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Kenya
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- Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
- Lynx Educate — An education to employer marketplace to upskill and reskill your workforce
- enguru — Learn spoken English for free in your native language | Your personal tutor with lessons, videos and live classes. Let's get started.
Better is a micro venture firm that creates and invests in innovative business which deliver value & impact, and have a strong focus on profitability.
Better Labs is our operating portfolio of product businesses that we create and fund and includes ReadyContacts, PicBackMan, DataDoctor, Magik, Simple wall, and Maroun Place.
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- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
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- RapidClaims — Rapid Claims helps businesses autonomously code medical charts, find up-coding opportunities, improve the CDI process and reduce denials.
- InCommon — InCommon streamlines the process of building overseas teams for fast-growing companies, offering services to recruit top talent, manage compliance, and simplify payroll with cost-effective solutions.
- VoiceClub — VoiceClub is an application platform that offers audio and chat consultation services.
Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia
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- Skyqraft — Skyqraft is a visual data analytics provider helping businesses in the linear infrastructure sector make better decisions about their grid. Today, Skyqraft is a trusted partner of some of the most influential and forward looking critical infrastructure organizations in Europe and North America.
- NOVO — Digital analysis, planning and financing of energy renovation for real estate.
- Vero Technologies — Powering Wholesale Financing
Unitus Ventures is India’s leading impact venture fund investing in startups innovating for the masses across healthcare, education and fintech sectors. Founded in 2012, Unitus Ventures is a part of Capria Network, the leading global network of venture fund managers investing in emerging markets of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Unitus Venturesis based in Bangalore and Seattle. Capria has offices in Bangalore, Jakarta, Nairobi, and Seattle. More at: https://unitus.vc and http://capria.vc
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- Education, Health Care, Training
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, Singapore, United States
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- Eduvanz — Eduvanz is NBFC and private finance company offers low interest student, education, career, skill development loan in Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore.
- Cusmat — We Enhance On Job Industrial Worker Performance Through Our Collaborative Physics-Realistic Logistics, Manufacturing and Mining Metaverse
- BetterPlace — People-centric HR technology, employee benefits management, upskilling platform and workforce fulfilment solution. We help organisations achieve operational excellence.
Started in April 2006, the Indian Angel Network is a unique concept which brings together highly successful entrepreneurs and CEOs from India and around the world who are interested in investing in startup / early stage ventures which have the potential of creating disproportionate value.The Network, in addition to money, provide constantaccess to high quality mentoring, vast networks and inputs on strategy as well as execution. The Network members, because of their background are better able to assess the potential and risks at the early stage.
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- Software, Education, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, United Kingdom
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- Fyllo — Fyllo is a next gen agriculture technology company that hepling farmer with precision farming
- LetsDressUp — LetsDressUp is a platform that designs and customizes clothes, aims to be India’s version of US-based Stitch Fix.
- Nanosafe Solutions — Nanosafe Solutions is a science start-up that develops Indigenous and sustainable material science innovations and products which focuses on antimicrobial solutions for the polymer, textile, car, cosmetic, paint, and electronics industries.
New Markets Venture Partners is an early and growth stage venture capital firm that invests in and actively assists innovative education, information technology, and business services companies.
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- Education, Software, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States
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- Datapeople — Recruiting analytics helps hiring teams write inclusive job descriptions and measure the effectiveness of their talent funnel.
- Nexford University — Nexford is a next-generation online university based in Washington DC. Earn a globally affordable, accredited degree program at a flexible pace. Master competencies. Move forward in life.
- Concentric Educational Solutions — Concentric Educational Solutions focuses on student culture, special education, mental health, and organizational development in schools. The company was founded in 2010 by David Heiber.
BossaNova is the number one Brazilian Micro Venture Capital. We are the most active investor in the pre-seed stage in Latin America with more than 1200 investments in over 1000 Startups. We also invest in global companies, directly or through co-investment syndicates on AngelList.
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- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
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- SenseUp — SenseUp provides IoT, big data, machine learning, and computer vision for the real-time needs of the financial market. It improves the way organizations interact with data by using microintegrations to orchestrate different data sources, consumers, and data flows in support of processes and decision-making.
- HubLocal — HubLocal is a platform that attracts more customers to companies, making them automatically found on all Internet maps.
- Hiperbanco — O Hiperbanco é uma Fintech que oferece diversos serviços financeiros, com destaque para o produto “Banco Digital Whitelabel”. Seu público-alvo abrange empresas de diversos setores, que buscam soluções financeiras flexíveis e personalizadas com sua marca, como Conta, PIX, TED, Boleto, Recargas, Cartão, Emprestimos, dentre outros. Os principaisdiferenciais do Hiperbanco incluem sua abordagem centralizada no cliente, desenhando juntos um produto financeiro único e atuando com tecnologias de ponta.
City Light is a venture capital firm that invest in impactful companies in the areas of education, safety and care, and the environment.
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- Health Care, Software, Wellness
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
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- Chamber Cardio — Our mission is to empower cardiology teams to operate in a value-based world, ensuring that providers are compensated for delivering the right care at the right time.
- Conduce Health — Conduce Health is a multi-specialty value-based care marketplace providing turnkey solutions for primary care organizations.
- Clarity Pediatrics — We are specialists in Behavioral Parent Training (BPT), the gold standard therapy for pediatric ADHD care. Our child psychologists bring expert treatment to your family via live video sessions.
VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.
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- Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, India, Kenya
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- Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
- SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
- Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.
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- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- AfterHour — Join the best stock trading community with over $200M+ in verified positions from retail traders. Get trade signals, due diligence, and real-time alpha.
- inspeq ai — Inspeq AI uses metric-based evaluation and improves model performance, helps detect responses with low factual accuracy, and prevents them before serving to the end-users.
- Sentient — Community-built open AGI
First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.
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- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
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- Didero — The AI agent for procurement
- Rillet — Rillet develops accounting software to support financial management for high-growth companies. The solution covers the full spectrum of accounting and finance needs including customer invoicing, GAAP-compliant revenue recognition, automated bank reconciliations, accrual-based expense recognition, real-time SaaS metrics, and other analyticscapabilities. Rillet covers multiple entities, geographies, and currencies and allows for consolidated multi-currency reporting all embedded within one platform.
- Clay — Clay's spreadsheet helps you find, enrich and act on people and company data from any source - without a line of code. Get started for free, today.
Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Poland
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- Gyul Medal — Gyul Medal is a fruit beverage brand that offers quality citrus fruits and zero-sugar juices among various citrus varieties.
- Theta One, Inc. — We build the world's tools to solve "English speaking" in non-English speaking countries.
- Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, United States, Italy
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- REGRIP — Regrip tyres are a high-performance alternative to fresh tyres for big commercial vehicles' dummies and drive axles. Regrip's inexpensive, dependable, and ecological product line assists fleet owners in saving significant money on tyre use.
- Beautywise — Beautywise is a dermatology-led supplement brand with the purpose of empowering everyone to embrace unique beauty by embracing long-term, evidence-based treatments that operate from inside.
- Ghost Kitchens — Join the fastest growing restaurant company in the country
We provide financial, knowledge and network capital to innovative enterprises that are changing the world for good.
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- Education, Health Care, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia
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- WeWALK — WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service.
- Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
- BibliU — BibliU is an innovative learning enablement platform that gives students access to the course materials they need, from etextbooks to courseware and monographs.
Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, United Kingdom
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- Fizz — Fizz, the student debit card that builds credit. Build your credit while you earn amazing rewards! No hidden fees, no credit check & no security deposit.
- CesiumAstro — CesiumAstro builds high-throughput, software-defined phased array communication payloads for airborne and in-orbit platforms.
- Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.
Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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- Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, India, Kenya
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- AquaRech — AquaRech includes Farm management that enhances fish production, enables access to the market & promotes equal trade.
- Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
- ReCircle — They are a Waste Management service that provides a free doorstep pick-up service for offices, institutions, households and schools to dispose their recyclable waste (Raddi). They further supply this recycled waste to authorized recycling centres, ensuring safety and sustainability.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Expressable — Expressable is an online speech therapy practice for everyone with a communication disorder. It has pioneered a parent-focused care model that uses technology and education to integrate speech therapy techniques into children's daily lives, improving outcomes and experiences.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Austin,Texas.
- Footprint — The last identity verification you'll ever need
- Teleskope — Teleskope is a modern data protection platform that automates data security, privacy, and compliance at scale.
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