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Top 50 Fitness Startup Investors in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Fitness startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fitness companies. This investor list updates every month.

Top 50 Fitness Startup Investors in January 2026

Investor	Fitness investments
SOSV	23
Global Founders Capital	14
Courtside Ventures	14
Khosla Ventures	13
Antler	13
Alumni Ventures	12
Atlantic	12
Right Side Capital Management	11
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	11
General Catalyst	10
Fireside Ventures	10
First Round Capital	10
Bpifrance	10
StartUp Health	10
Collaborative Fund	10
Human Ventures	9
FJ Labs	9
Triventures	9
Octopus Ventures	9
Founder Collective	9
Founders Fund	9
True Ventures	8
Accel	8
Gaingels	8
Rock Health Capital	8
Inflection Point Ventures	8
Everywhere Ventures	8
Passion Capital	8
Kleiner Perkins	8
The Blue Venture Fund	7
Northstar Ventures	7
The Blue Venture Fund	7
George Godula	7
IBB Ventures	7
Anupam Mittal	7
Boost VC	7
Flying Fox Ventures	7
Wei Guo	7
Blume Ventures	7
Goodwater Capital	7
Compound	7
Secocha Ventures	7
Trinity Ventures	7
HealthTech Capital	7
City Light Capital	7
Scrum Ventures	6
Hatzimemos / Libby	6
Mercia Fund Managers	6
Partech	6
iSeed Ventures	6

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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.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Personio — Personio is the Intelligent HR platform for companies from 10-5,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
Talentry — Talentry TRM is your central platform for Talent Relationship Management: Sourcing, CRM, Alumni Management, Employee Referrals, Advocacy, Internal Mobility.
Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.

Courtside Ventures is the leading early-stage fund focused on Sports, Lifestyle, and Gaming. We invest in passionate entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, Fitness
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Fello — Fello is a savings and investment platform that helps to save, invest and earn higher returns than a traditional savings account.
Venly — Venly is a blockchain technology provider creating tools and products to help companies benefit from blockchain technology. Venly offers users of blockchain projects digital wallets to store assets with a native solution that also works on mobile devices. Venly also recently launched the Venly Market, positioning itself as a holistic user-friendly solution to help blockchain projects scale faster and more securely.
Storycraft — Storycraft is a mobile video game creation platform with AI-powered maps, characters, and gameplay.

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

Portfolio highlights

Periodic Labs — Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict the properties of materials using machine learning. The company applies computational models to support the discovery and design of materials used in sectors such as energy, electronics, and infrastructure. It builds tools that aim to reduce the time and costassociated with traditional research and development processes. Periodic Labs uses AI to analyze large-scale scientific data and collaborates with academic and industry partners to support material science research.
Vectra AI — Vectra is the world leader in AI threat detection and response. The Cognito platform uses AI to detect attackers in real time and perform conclusive investigations.
Point One Navigation — Precise Positioning for the next generation of transportation. 10cm accuracy everywhere.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Singapore, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Balo — Balo is the on-demand platform powered by the Top 1% of Salesforce Experts globally. Get immediate hands-on support for any Salesforce needs.
Voltrac — Voltrac is a robotics company that develops an autonomous, fully electric tractor platform called THOR, designed to operate in demanding environments for both agricultural and logistics use. THOR employs per-wheel electric motors instead of a conventional drivetrain, reducing mechanical complexity and maintenance requirements. It runs on swappable200 kWh battery packs, enabling long-duration operations and continuous work cycles. The platform supports a standard three-point hitch (Category II) and can be configured with a flatbed, making it versatile for fieldwork or transport tasks. Voltrac’s autonomy system combines reinforcement learning with real-time sensor data to adapt driving behavior and implements to changing terrain and crop conditions. Beyond farming, THOR is also intended for frontline logistics missions, with modular designs that can support cargo transport and resilience in challenging settings.
ROLO Robotics — ROLO Robotics is rethinking the kitchens of the future using robotics and automation.

Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers accredited investors access to diversified venture portfolios. The firm operates multiple funds, including alumni-focused and thematic funds, and co-invests alongside established venture firms. Investors can choose between fund-based investing or selecting individual deals. Alumni Venturesleverages a broad network to source capital, evaluate opportunities, and support portfolio companies. The firm manages a portfolio encompassing over 1,400 venture-backed companies across various sectors and stages.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
ZZ Driggs — ZZ Driggs is an award-winning company reimagining how we furnish our lives for a new economy and a more sustainable future. We offer exceptional, sustainable, and ethically-made heirloom-quality furniture to rent, buy, or both, made by the best independent & emerging designers today.
Mythical Games — We are Mythical Games, a Venture-backed next-generation game technology company at the intersection of video games and economics led by industry veterans.

Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures. <br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Voyfai — Voyfai provides a platform to manage shipments, procurement, back-office tasks, and logistics services for freight forwarders.
Omnisent — Passive acoustic AI for tactical drone detection and localization. Reliable, jam-resistant situational awareness for defense and homeland security.
Mirelo AI — Mirelo AI offers AI-driven tools that generate custom sound effects and music to match video content through upload or API integration. It enables users to produce synced audio from silent footage and refine or edit audio tracks with an intuitive online editor. The platform also provides APIs and model fine-tuning options that let other productsembed its video-to-sound capabilities directly into their workflows. Mirelo’s technology is based on proprietary AI models designed to interpret visual media and automatically generate corresponding audio elements. The company sources and processes input files to output audio that aligns with visual action and creative intent.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vidrovr — Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
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.

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
Newsrooms.ai — Newsrooms.ai is an AI-powered content production and management platform that enables businesses and news organizations to automate their whole content pipeline—from research and content generation to publishing across many digital channels.

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

Arphie — AI-powered software to respond to RFPs, RFQs, questionnaires, and DDQs. Secure, live integrations with company-approved data. Win more, and save 80%+ time.
Doccla — We are a start-up. However, our management and advisors combine 100 years of experience in service delivery to large public and private healthcare operators in six European states, as well as several years in wearable device implementation in the global consumer space.
Backupify — Protection, restoration, security, and compliance for all your SaaS data.

Fireside Ventures is proposing a New Approach to Investing in Consumer Brands. Fireside Ventures invests in early stage consumer brands.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Moxie Beauty — Moxie Beauty offers the best hair care products. From shampoos to styling gels, find everything you need for perfect hair. Buy online now!
Tuco Kids — A natural personal care range for kids and teens with a vision to make this planet plastic free
Oroos Confectionery — India's trusted bakery startup from Greater Noida, which prepares premium packaged cakes with passion and quality. Supported by Fireside 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, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Actively — A seamless booking assistant for your favorite fitness classes & wellness experiences
House Rx — House Rx is a health technology platform focused on improving affordability and patient access to specialty medications.
Troops — Never miss a revenue signal with Troops. Easily update Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, and Jira right from Slack and Microsoft Teams. Get started for free.

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

AUSTRAL Dx — AUSTRAL Dx is developing a new imaging technique based on airborne ultrasounds in order to map the vibrations coming from the lungs. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Paris.
IsentroniQ — Isentroniq solves the critical cryogenic power and space bottleneck in quantum computing. Our dense, near-heatless wiring solution unlocks 1000x more qubits.
Brevo — Brevo is a developer of a cloud-based digital marketing platform used to meet the demand of businesses to engage with customers. Its platform encompasses the entire chain, from the creation of a newsletter to analysis and reporting tools to targeting modules that enable businesses, eCommerce sellers, and agencies to build customer relationshipsthrough digital marketing campaigns, transactional messaging, and marketing automation.Unlike other marketing solutions built for enterprise-level budgets and expertise, Sendinblue tailors its all-in-one suite to suit the marketing needs of growing SMBs in tough markets.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Organizing and investing in a global army of entrepreneurs committed to achieving health moonshots

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

doc-doc — Accede a los mejores especialistas en medicina, cuando y donde quieras.
Jiseki Health — Jiseki is built on the belief that families and communities need and deserve a safety net, and to have peace of mind when things go wrong. We provide access and delivery of key advice, help, products and services through highly scalable SMS technology, powered by a combination of professionals and AI, and sold as a portable life benefit package..Text #help to 543210, to discover Jiseki services.
Biome Analytics — Providing doctors and hospitals precision insights needed to deliver better care at a lower cost. Cardiovascular program improvement, clinical performance applications, precision clinical and financial insights.

Collaborative Fund is a leading source of capital for entrepreneurs pushing the world forward.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

makr — Makr is a design app for next-generation makers: the creative entrepreneur, the DIYer, the next-level home entertainer. Headquartered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we’re inspired every day by our local maker community. We developed Makr specifically for iPad to bring DIY to the 21st century, using digital tech to enrich the handmade movement and ourshared love of old-fashioned craft. Makr provides sophisticated design tools – exclusive to professional studio use until now – to the local maker’s workshop and DIYer’s home.
Endolith — Endolith is a biotech company transforming sustainable mining by leveraging microbes, synthetic biology, and cloud computing to extract more critical minerals like copper from low-grade ores. Working with the many of the leading mining companies, Endolith is advancing its innovative technology to commercial scale. Recognized as a finalist in theBHP Unearthed BioMetals cohort and a member of the Alaska Critical Minerals Collaborative, Endolith is driving the future of mining with sustainable, efficient, and responsible solutions for the clean energy transition.
PhageLab — Record time development of tailor-made solutions to control bacterial outbreaks in the livestock and poultry industries.

Human Ventures is a business creation platform.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Fitness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Adelaide — Adelaide helps marketers move beyond viewability with AU, the first omnichannel metric that increases the transparency of media quality.
Capsule — Capsule is a startup that makes tools for editing short-form videos.
Salvo Health — Salvo Health is a digital care team for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), GERD, SIBO, and other chronic gut health conditions. Sign up today!

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

Secfi — Secfi is the leading provider of equity education and stock option financing. Get the expertise, planning, and cash to own your startup stock options with confidence.
Clutch — Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates.
Transparency Analytics — Transparency Analytics is a new company dedicated to measuring risk and delivering transparent, technology-driven solutions for clients in the evolving world of private credit.

Triventures is a global, early stage fund that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs. We partner with disruptive ventures with innovative breakthroughs in healthcare and beyond. Our vision is to create a better, healthier future through data driven solutions and cross industry convergence.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Grin — Grin is a comprehensive digital orthodontic platform providing teeth straightening for all types of patients with a real local orthodontist. The platform also connects patients with a real orthodontist from the convenience of their smart device. They deliver responsible care from orthodontic specialists in an easily accessible and cost-effectiveway, Grin provides patients quality care that results in an exceptional smile together with all of the modernized convenience that they expect.Grin technology, aligned with a network of local trusted orthodontists, ensures that every patient gets the right care. The platform Grin App and Grin Scope is a patent-pending technology that offers remote monitoring for a variety of orthodontic needs. The Grin experience includes high-quality self-scans with the latest teeth straightening solutions. Practitioners and patients can now use these telemedicine tools to achieve a new, more convenient treatment journey.It was founded by Dr. Adam Schulhof, Pamela Oren-Artzi, and Alon Lipnik in 2019 and is based in New York and Austin.
Cala Health — Cala Health is a bioelectronic medicine company transforming the standard of care for chronic disease. The company's wearable neuromodulation therapies merge innovations in neuroscience and technology to deliver individualized peripheral nerve stimulation. The first indication for Cala Health's wearable therapy is an essential tremor, adisease experienced by more than seven million people and characterized by severe hand tremors. New therapies are under development in neurology, cardiology, and psychiatry. The company is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and backed by leading investors in both healthcare and technology.
TailorMed — Moving Mountains for Patients

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Baselime — Use logs, metrics, distributed tracing and wide-events to detect, diagnose and resolve issues before they impact your users.
Rekord — The AI-native platform to design, scale and monitor intelligent decision flows across underwriting, onboarding, compliance and fraud.
Zendo Energy — Zendo Energy is dedicated to the mission of decarbonising computing power. The company aims to empower data centres to become smarter, more efficient, and prepared for the increasing future demand of computing by leveraging advanced software solutions. Their platform utilizes real-time analytics and predictive tools to optimise energy consumption,reduce emissions, and integrate renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, thereby supporting the transition to sustainable digital infrastructure. This mission addresses the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of data centres amid the exponential growth of AI and computing workloads globally

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

Appy.AI — Appy.AI platform enables anyone to build complete AI businesses through natural conversation without coding.
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.

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

Newfront — Modern insurance platform transforming risk management, employee experience, insurance, and retirement solutions with transparent data to lower your total cost of risk.
Nubank — Nubank issues, administrate, processes, and transfers payments related to post-paid credit cards and equity investment in other entities. It serves clients in Brazil. The company launched its proprietary loyalty rewards program ("Nubank Rewards"), as well as a digital account ("NuConta") that is already used by more than 17million people.Cristina Junqueira, David Velez, and Edward Wible founded EO2 Solucoes de Pagamento on May 6, 2013 that became Nubank in on June 25, 2013. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.
Vest — Vest is an app-based brokerage that wants to provide Latin American savers with access to American assets that are differentiated by product, pricing, and content. Latin Americans are known for saving, but many prefer to do so in cash or in zero-interest savings accounts.

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

Gridware — Using remote telemetry and edge AI, Gridware wildfire prevention technology powers a grid that is smarter and more reliable than ever before.
PlanYear — Accessible Professional-Grade AI for Benefits Consultants
Parry Labs — Parry Labs is a solutions provider to the U.S. Department of Defense and commercial companies. Parry designs and deploys solutions ranging from mission computing, power systems, manned and unmanned system architectures, and RF solutions. Parry’s Stellar Relay products, is a full system suite of high-performance mission computing, ArtificialIntelligence (A.I.) processing, and cross-domain systems.

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

Cyera — Cyera provides organizations with data reality for cloud data security. Cyera was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in San Mateo, USA.
Corelight — Corelight helps network defenders reach the high ground where they can see more and react faster.
H Company — H is an AI Research Lab and Product Company

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ashby — Ashby is a developer of recruitment software used for high-growth companies. It develops usable, enterprise-grade employment software that enables company leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers to run their hiring process significantly better. It was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Paxton — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
Viridian Space — Viridian Space develops a propulsion technology intended to use oxygen to stay in ultra-low earth orbit. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Culver City, California.

Rock Health Capital is a full-service seed fund that invests in and supports startups working in digital health. The company invests in entrepreneurs working at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Rock Health Capital is a digital health-focused investment firm.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Pear Suite — Pear Suite empowers community health workers with technology, education, and community, helping them do their best work and serve their communities.
Synapticure — The era of personalized care is finally coming to ALS. Synapticure will give all ALS patients access to the best care while fueling the advancement of personalized treatments for every type of ALS.
Ours Privacy — Ours Privacy provides a HIPAA-compliant CDP for secure, privacy-focused data management, analytics, and compliant advertising.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ARX — ARX smart contracts and HaLo chips enable creators build decentralized, immutable and composable physical crypto assets.
Bharatsure — Bharatsure provides an entire set of technology, services, and product infrastructure to power insurance access in India. By bridging the gap between traditional practices and modern technology.
MangoPoint — MangoPoint provides a sustainable, integrated value chain for mangoes with single-origin, carbide-free, chemical-free high-quality fresh mangoes, and processed mango products through sustainable farming, planet-friendly processing, and eco-friendly packaging.

Everywhere Ventures (fka "The Fund") is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created by founders for founders to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators acrossten micro funds. The Fund's $70M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

VOW — Meet Quick, a purpose-built Webflow template to promote SaaS and software apps without writing code. Its pre-built content will help you get your website up and running in no time at all.
Fusepay — Modern Finance & Payments for Indian Ocean Islands
Outfox Health — Healthcare answers quick as a fox

Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators who are applying our experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. We are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe, and we believe that the criticaldifferentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders. We take pride in the calibre and success of all of our founders and teams including but nowhere near limited to GoCardless, Tray.io, Mendeley, Digital Shadows, Adzuna, Smarkets, Ravelin, Tide, Marshmallow, Butternut Box, PolyAI, Lendable and Monzo Bank

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.
Teal — Teal is a payroll data API platform building financial data solutions for the credit industry. Payroll is the source of income for most people, it offers the most direct, consistent, and reliable foundation for assessing creditworthiness. Teal’s technology puts this data in the hands of both lenders and borrowers, helping lenders meet regulatoryexpectations, while giving individuals more control over how they access the credit they need.Teal is partnering with payroll and HCM providers to bring more transparency and control to how income data is used across financial services, helping lenders streamline underwriting and perform ongoing income and employment checks. Its modular API architecture ensures faster integration and adaptability, making it easier for lenders to customise Teal to their existing workflows with minimal effort.
Sequence — Dynamic billing and collections to scale your B2B Company from seed to IPO

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Telogis — Telogis provides a comprehensive cloud-based Mobile Enterprise Management (MEM) software platform for companies that require dynamic routing, real-time work order management, navigation, telematics and mobile integration services for their mobile workforces. Telogis’ consistent innovation drives its ability to provide near-instant return oninvestment while improving driver safety and efficiency and reducing the environmental impact of commercial vehicles. Founded in 2001, Telogis is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif. and has development and support centers in Australia and New Zealand, Latin America, Europe and throughout North America. Its products and services are used and distributed in more than 100 countries worldwide.
Phia — Build your closet seamlessly, and find the best prices instantly.
Reevo — Unlock the true potential of AI with Reevo's best-in-one sales platform. Featuring smart meeting management, pipeline tracking, and powerful integrations to help sales teams work more efficiently.

The Blue Venture Funds (BVF), a unique collaboration among Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) companies, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) and Sandbox, is owned, governed and capitalized by participating Blue Plans and affiliates. The Funds invest in venture and growth opportunities within healthcare technology, healthcare services and clinical sciences.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Wayspring — A Clearer Path From Risk to Recovery
Octave — Octave Bioscience is an early-stage molecular diagnostics company focused on neurodegenerative diseases and conditions. The company was co-founded by Melinda Thomas and William Hagstrom in 2013. Octave Bioscience is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.
Perspectum — Perspectum delivers cutting-edge digital technologies that help clinicians provide better care for patients with liver disease, diabetes, and cancer.

Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Nanovery — Founded by scientists specialised in Nanotechnology, Medicinal Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence, we are on a mission to enable early detection of cancer through a rapid and affordable blood test Backed by academics at top universities, clinicians, industrial leaders, and Entrepreneur First.
AI Hay — AI Hay develops an AI-driven answer engine that allows users to access information through a question-and-answer format. The company combines hyperlocal, culturally nuanced knowledge discovery engines with social loops to enhance community validation and perspectives. It utilizes in-house specialized large-language models, retrieval-augmentedgeneration (RAG), and social features to build a knowledge discovery platform that serves the community.
Magnitude Biosciences — Magnitude Biosciences is a biotechnology firm combine experience in ageing research, the nematode C. elegans and automation.

The Blue Venture Fund is a strategic investment vehicle that aims to foster innovation within the healthcare system. The Blue Venture Fund invests in emerging healthcare companies that have the potential to improve the quality of care, enhance patient experience, and reduce costs. It seeks to support companies that align with the needs andpriorities of Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) member companies and their policyholders.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fort Health — Help with the hard stuff. Fort Health provides children and adolescents with online therapy and psychiatry covered by insurance.
Humata Health — Humata Health | Transforming Prior Authorization with AI and Automation harnesses a powerful blend of AI, automation, and payer connectivity to transform prior authorizations. Designed to scale, Humata supports high-volume service lines, including Radiology, Cardiology, Neurology, Sleep Studies, and Surgery.
Tuesday Health — Tuesday Health is a value-based supportive care organization delivering patient-directed, whole-person supportive care to seriously ill patients and their caregivers.

Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments. Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO)

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, China, Algeria

Portfolio highlights

Mila Cares — Air breathers, rejoice. Meet Mila, the first air purifier designed with real, air-breathing humans in mind.
Yassir — Access on-demand daily services like ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments with Yassir, your super app.
Truck It In — is a platform tech company focused on simplifying road freight for 3.3M+ businesses in Pakistan to unlock 1 Billion dollars in resource potential

IBB Ventures is for all those who make a difference and create a sustainable future. We invest public funds as venture capital and, together with Berlin startups, help to promote our capital as a business location.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AnyTax — AnyTax modernises and automates the tax process by creating infrastructure for automated tax solutions that are directly integrated with financial platforms.
Lumoview Building Analytics — Lumoview digitizes buildings in 2 seconds per room with a device that can be used by everyone. The data is then analyzed highly automated in the cloud. The connected online platform empowers building owners to take action and improve their buildings and reduce CO2 emissions.
dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung — dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung provides easy and sustainable solutions for climate-friendly homes energy-efficient renovations for homeowners.

Anupam started his entrepreneurial journey by founding People Group - A New Media & Entertainment group, which includes businesses such as Shaadi.com, Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile, and People Pictures. Today the group is recognized as one of the most innovative enterprises in the country. Besides his operational roles, Anupam is also one ofIndia's most active angel investors.He attended Boston College.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Offmint — Welcome to Offmint, where style is a personal statement and originality meets fashion. At Offmint, we think of clothes as a medium for self-expression.
HealthFab — Seen on Shark Tank India! Buy GoPadFree period panties & GopainFree Period relief cream online by HealthFab. Shop for best menstrual products!
HireForCare — HireForCare is a healthcare digital platform that offers screening tools and online therapy.

Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

forml — Use forml to build and integrate intelligent workflows for any task in seconds, with flexible integrations.
ego AI — Building intelligent, embodied characters that bring human-like behavior to games, simulations, and beyond.
Neurvona — AI Digital Twin Personas

Flying Fox Ventures is an early stage investment firm that invests across industry and across the micro-stages of pre-seed and seed.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
Factor — Plug and play forecasting and pricing tools for modern energy utilities.
Factor House — We make Kpow for Apache Kafka, Flex for Apache Flink, and the Factor Platform for Streaming Data.

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ozi — Ozi operates as a quick commerce platform for parents.
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.
WizCommerce — WizCommerce is an AI-powered platform that empowers B2B wholesalers, distributors, and manufacturers. Sales reps can take orders at tradeshows, online, in the field find hidden upsell opportunities to increase their average cart value. WizCommerce seamlessly integrates with websites, ERPs, CRMs, and accounting systems, helping users manage theirentire data on a single platform.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

IRL — Groups, Chats, Events - Tap to see details
Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
Empowerly — We triple students' chances of getting into their top-choice colleges and universities. Get college counseling, essay editing, track university deadlines, and more. Learn more.

A thesis-driven, research-centric investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Deepgram — Deepgram helps enterprises unlock the potential of their audio data with custom-trained speech recognition for accuracy and scale. Deepgram's deep learning speech recognition system searches for keywords in transcripts by sound and text within audio and video files, used for transcribing calls, meetings, and voicemails for searchable notes,providing businesses with a fast, high accuracy speech-to-text on an easy-to-use API.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Pear Protocol — The Home of Pair Trading.
The Clearing Company — The Clearing Company is an on-chain prediction market that aims to build an on-chain, permissionless prediction market that is compliant with regulatory standards and friendly to retail users.

Secocha Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

10club — Discover unique home decor at 10clubhomes. Explore a wide range of living room, dining, kitchen, garden, and home improvement products today!
CarePredict — CarePredict @Home detects changes in the daily activity pattern of a senior and alerts family members when things are different than usual.
Allocate — Allocate is the operating system for private market alternatives investing

Trinity Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with passionate entrepreneurs to transform revolutionary ideas into reality. With over $1 billion under management, Trinity Ventures believes in personal engagement, mutual respect and goal alignment with the entrepreneurs. Trinity focuses on early stage and seedtechnology investments with particular emphasis on social commerce and entertainment, digital media, Saas, and cloud and infrastructure. Trinity Ventures has invested in such leading companies as Aruba Networks, 21Vianet, Blue Nile, LoopNet, Photobucket, SciQuest, Starbucks, BeachMint, Infoblox, Trion Worlds and Zulily.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Opsera — Opsera automates any CI/CD toolchain, enables declarative pipelines, and provides unified insights across your entire software delivery process.
Baton Systems — Baton Systems is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of payments, clearing, settlement, technology, fintech, and shared ledger. It features a clearing and settlement platform that brings a new level of efficiency to the payments infrastructure across the capital markets.The company was founded in 2016 andheadquartered in Fremont, California.
Squire — Squire is a booking and payment platform that connects people with great barbers nationwide. Squire makes it easy to discover and book the best barbers wherever you are, in just a few taps. Squire is also the premier management platform for barbershops. Using Squire, barbers are able to engage their customers, process bookings and payments andbetter market their business through Squire’s “barbershop discovery” capabilities. Fully integrated with a point of sale, inventory management and payroll systems, Squire is a one-stop solution for barbershop owners to efficiently operate their business. With headquarters in New York and a presence in major cities in the United States and Canada, Squire has quickly become a market leader in technology solutions for the barbershop industry nationwide.For more information, please visit getsquire.com or download the Squire iOS app from the App Store.

Private angel investors and corporate venture ecosystem investing in healthtech, digital health and other healthcare technologies startups

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

xCures — An AI-assisted platform that gathers medical records from anywhere. It extracts clinical insights, resulting in significant information gain.
S2 Genomics — The Singulator Platform automates the dissociation of tissues into single cells and nuclei for genomics applications. Learn more at S2genomics.com
GT Metabolic Solutions — GT Metabolic Solutions has developed minimally-invasive incisionless bypass technology for bariatric, metabolic and digestive surgery.

City Light is a venture capital firm that invest in impactful companies in the areas of education, safety and care, and the environment.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Salvo Health — Salvo Health is a digital care team for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), GERD, SIBO, and other chronic gut health conditions. Sign up today!
Bicycle Health — Embark on your journey to recovery with Bicycle Health, an online medication assisted treatment provider for opioid dependence.
Affect — Get addiction and mental health treatment through an app that offers a full outpatient program, complete with medications and therapy.

Scrum Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that has invested in over 80 startups across a range of industries in the U.S. and Japan. Based in San Francisco with extensive experience and networks in both Silicon Valley and Japan, Scrum Ventures accelerates portfolio companies with global opportunities. Scrum Studios is reinventing the traditional accelerator -- taking a stage-agnostic approach in connecting best-in-class startups with leading Japanese corporations.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, China

Portfolio highlights

Amptalk — Amptalk is a software development firm specializing in operating automatic transcription and analysis of online business negotiations.
Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
Athenic AI — Athenic AI is a data analytics platform that gets you mission critical insights in seconds, not days. Its platform also offers intuitive data infrastructure, data unification, creating pipelines that measure business, use machine learning for accurate predictions, and sharing dashboards to visualize results.

H/L Ventures helps mission-driven founders build inspiring, valuable companies from inception to exit.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CNote — CNote makes initial Cash Deposits easy for corporations, foundations, and individuals. Align your financial goals with your values and drive change in communities.
inCitu — The future of cities is built on embracing radical transparency and co-creation.
Automotus — Curb management for cities, airports and fleets. Real-time data. Automated payments. Smart loading zones. Zero emissions delivery zones.

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

Administrate — Administrate is a comprehensive, configurable training management platform that helps organizations streamline enterprise learning and development. Organize, deliver, plan, automate, analyze, and scale your training program effectively -- all through one system. Deliver multi-modality learner experiences, maximize training resources, anddemonstrate business results with insight-rich reporting. Hundreds of organizations serving millions of learners choose Administrate to manage their training program.
Warwick Acoustics — Warwick Acoustics believe in creating products that are designed from the ground up in order to deliver the best personal audio listening experience available to customers.
Melius Cyber — Melius Cyber continuously monitors an organization's IT network, testing security and protecting it from the latest threats.

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect 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 !!
AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .

iSeed is an early-stage investment company. They focus on consumer mobile technology with a keen interest in healthcare. iSeed is committed to partnering with the next generation of technology startups to grow a lasting and impactful company.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Philippines, Austria

Portfolio highlights

GroupUltra — GroupUltra is a platform that allows users to program their groups and design their communities.
Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
Humble Sustainability — Humble Sustainability provides products and accessories reuse and recycle services.

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