Get 250+ investors tailored to your startup

Invest in your industry and stage
Emails & contact info included
Excel and CSV export
Automatically

Trusted by 3,000+ startups

Top 50 Franchise Startup Investors in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Franchise startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Franchise companies. This investor list updates every month.

Top 50 Franchise Startup Investors in December 2024

Investor	Franchise investments
Business Finland	5
Cecily Drucker	2
Alerion Ventures	2
IDEA Fund Partners	2
Fuel Ventures	2
TechOperators	2
Alchimia Investments	2
Pekka Koskinen	2
HOWZAT Partners	2
Digital Future	2
Vendep Capital	2
EchoVC Partners	2
Innovestor	2
Pembroke VCT	2
Andreas Mihalovits	2
Dirk Schneider	2
Matthias Willenbacher	1
SBI Investment	1
Tribeca Venture Partners	1
Telescope Investment	1
Alex Jankelevich	1
SIG China (SIG Asia Investments)	1
Burda Principal Investments	1
Chile Ventures	1
CABRA VC	1
Murat Abdrakhmanov	1
LDC	1
Joey Katzen	1
Sean Fannan	1
Flyer One Ventures	1
Tencent	1
Nick Bilogorskiy	1
NV NOM	1
Kima Ventures	1
Murat Abdrakhmanov	1
Chicago Ventures	1
My Petroleum	1
Food Retail Ventures	1
kopa ventures	1
GC Angels	1
focal	1
DAAL	1
GSA Venture Partners	1
Firstminute Capital	1
Horacio Broggi	1
100 Ventures	1
Auxxo	1
BIP Capital	1
Hans Limmer	1
Sampo Parkkinen	1

Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.

Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.

Investor list

Business Finland finances business R&D projects and public research projects at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences. Read more about R&D and business funding.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Serres — Serres provides fluid management, surgical suction system, supply chain management, and medical devices services.
Grafintec — Grafintec Oy is a Finnish company focused on developing and utilizing carbon technology to produce graphite. Graphite is an essential material in many industries, particularly in energy storage, electronics, and battery technologies, due to its unique properties such as high conductivity, heat resistance, and stability.
Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made

Ms. Drucker, one of Peter and Doris Drucker’s four children, is the founder and CEO of Start-Up Strategies, a San Francisco consultancy. Ms. Drucker is also an attorney who has focused her practice in the areas of real-estate tax planning and financing, as well as other business and commercial transactions. She has specialized, in particular, onstructuring and implementing complex 1031 tax-deferred exchanges. She is the co-author of Real Property Exchanges, published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — One marketing platform to easily consolidate your marketing tools, assets, data,and workflows for seamless collaboration with franchisees.

Alerion Ventures is an evergreen venture capital firm focused on early stage investments in scalable startups. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, Alerion prefers to partner with entrepreneurs in the Southeast.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

RepVue — RepVue has the largest set of sales specific company ratings, sales jobs, sales compensation and salary benchmarking data, and other sales specific insights.
biospatial — biospatial's EMS data platform combines ePCR from EMS providers to support the missions of public sector and commercial healthcare entities.
Case Status — Case Status is the easiest and most secure way to update clients and automate communication through a firm-branded mobile app and text messaging.

As one of the oldest and most active early-stage investment firms in the Southeast, IDEA Fund Partners' investment philosophy has been honed from years of experience. We fund entrepreneurs who are applying technology and business model innovations to industries in the earliest stages of digital disruption with an emphasis on underservedpeople, places and stages.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

RightRev — Simplify and streamline your accounting process with RightRev's automated revenue recognition software. Get in touch with us to know more.
Cognota — Synapse helps companies around the world improve the productivity of their corporate learning and development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes to make training teams more digital, agile, and efficient.This first-of-its-kind software allows our customers toget better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate the disparate tools they are using so they can access capacity data for better decision making and author course content with unprecedented speed.Collaboration with subject matter experts takes place directly within the platform ensuring knowledge is effectively captured and easy to update as required.The Synapse mission is to enable more people to learn and grow. Founded in 2015, Synapse has clients in multiple sectors and is based out of Toronto Canada with offices in San Diego and Merida, Mexico. For more information about Synapse software, visit www.getsynapse.com.
Cognota — Cognota is the first and only operations platform for learning and development teams. Our platform enables L&D teams to streamline training request management, improve project and capacity planning, rapidly design content and collaborate more effectively with SMEs. Clients across all industries are leveraging Cognota to improve theirproductivity by eliminating the need for multiple tools to manage learning operations.Looking to thrive in the L&D industry? Join the vibrant LearnOps® Community, a hub where L&D professionals gain insights, engage in thought-provoking discussions, access curated resources, and stay ahead of industry trends. Unlock the power of collective wisdom and experience in the #LearnOpsCommunityJoin for free at LearnOps.com

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

R.grid — Research Grid is the automation engine for admin-free clinical trials. Research Grid has developed two industry-leading products that leverage its AI-powered automation engine.
Levellr — Levellr software helps creators & brands to build, manage and monetise messaging communities within existing apps, including Discord & Telegram. Our tools, which sit on top of Discord & Telegram, help our customers to acquire powerful-first party data on superfans, build highly engaged communities & generate tangible revenueopportunities, whilst also providing our customers with community strategy & on-going moderation services to ensure their communities thrive.
Groov — Get the measure of merchant business - Access merchant-consented, up-to-the-day transaction data to streamline customer journeys and lending decisions

TechOperators is a venture capital firm which focuses on solutions in software, internet, cloud computing, security, and infrastructure.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Security
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States

Portfolio highlights

BlackCloak — BlackCloak provides digital executive protection. Personal cybersecurity and digital privacy protections for individuals and companies.
Evo Security — Multi-factor Authentication, Single Sign-On, Privileged Access Management, and Password Management Engineered for MSPs and their Customers
Reach Security — Reach Security helps security leaders and operators measure, manage, and maximize the value they’re getting from their security investments. They contain control recommendations and supporting materials tailored to the threat profile.

Alchimia is an investment company primarily operating in the Venture Capital Sector. Leveraging the expertise of our team and a wide network of international advisors, we invest and co-invest in high growth potential opportunities offering capital, as well as dedicated strategic and operational resources.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Italy, Israel

Portfolio highlights

NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
Prestatech — Prestatech is a digital credit factory that has developed an innovative underwriting platform for banks and financial institutions in Europe. Currently active with major European banks, Prestatech offers them a variety of digital credit services from data enrichment to end-to-end instant lending solutions. Thanks to technological innovation,Prestatech has gained an extensive expertise in the digital credit space and through its open-platform is currently offering API-based solutions that leverage on AI, advanced algorithms and Big Data technologies.
Stellar — At Stellar we bring perfect internet on the move to vehicles and passengers, leveraging the combined strength of cellular, wi-fi, and satellite networks, through AI and fully integrated solutions. We offer SaaS, data plans, and all-inclusive options for enterprise connectivity needs on the move.

Founder at Leadfeeder

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Angel, Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — One marketing platform to easily consolidate your marketing tools, assets, data,and workflows for seamless collaboration with franchisees.
Cuutio Software —

Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.

Investment focus

Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
Handiscover — Handiscover is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website, dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classiﬁcation system which allows users to select accommodation based on their diﬀerent levels of mobility/physical disability. It was founded by SebastienArchambeaud in 2014, a father to a boy with a muscle disease.
Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.

Digital Future is a leading Ukraine-born VC firm. We provide late seed and early stage funding to revenue-enabled companies with initial traction, scalable business model, indefatigable team and global ambition. Our portfolio includes companies from Ukraine, Europe, Israel, and United States.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Advertising
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Moodmate — I will help you learn more about mental health and self-care, fight stress and stay optimistic no matter what
OneNotary — Looking for a reliable and convenient online notary service? OneNotary platform offers fully legal and secure notarization services in all 50 states.
Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.

B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in the Nordics and Baltics. We invest in the best early-stage software entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cluby — Cluby is a technology platform that provides restaurants with the best tools for managing and communicating with loyal consumers.
Claimlane — Claimlane is an end-to-end returns management solution for brands and retailers to manage any type of return, across all sales channels and markets. Perfectly document claims and returns. Streamline workflows. Get quality insights. Turn unhappy claimers into loyal customers. That's Claimlane.
Eyeball — Eyeball operates as a digital platform for youth football.

EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
Snowstorm — Snowstorm is a decentralized microproxy network. Already proven in crisis zones, it must now evolve into a next-generation system and internet freedom tool.
Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.

Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, Denmark, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

AISPECO — AISPECO systems for aerial inspection, surveying, mapping. Tailored for airplanes, helicopters and drones. Multiple camera and LiDAR options.
Clair Scientific — CLAIR Z1 is a versatile microscope based on our patented bio imaging platform that is suitable for life science and nano science research
Polku Therapeutics — Polku Therapeutics | Disease-Modifying Therapies for Neurodegeneration

Pembroke VCT PLC is a venture capital trust specializing in investments in any stage of business development. Their focus is on companies in the health and fitness, hospitality, apparel, and accessories, and media and technology sectors.

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Pembroke VCT — Pembroke VCT PLC is a venture capital trust specializing in investments in any stage of business development. Their focus is on companies in the health and fitness, hospitality, apparel, and accessories, and media and technology sectors.
Cydar Medical — Leveraging cloud-based AI technology and data fusion to empower clinical teams with the insights they need to make faster, easier, and more informed decisions.
With Nothing Underneath — WNU is all about simplicity - paired back, laid back, timeless, effortless shirts - just like the woman who wears them. Our shirts are not about trends or fleeting style moments, but about a wardrobe essential in which to live a life.

Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dost — Dost automates the process of incoming supplier invoices to help CFOs and Finance Managers of mid-size and large companies with a high volume of invoices to improve efficiency, accuracy in data entry and reduce time when processing incoming invoices by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent process automation (IPA).
CheKin — Chekin has developed a framework that covers everything related to guest registration on touristic accommodations. Chekin has made it extremely easy to register guests for third-party software providers (startups, travel companies, Hospitality software and so on..), in two aspects, 1. It helps with all the local touristic regulations across theEuropean Union and 2. With a set of APIs that facilitates all the guest registration process. Chekin is the premier supplier of trusted software solutions for digitalizing the check-in and check-out (and all the key legal points to take into consideration in between). We provide a stack of optimized, ready-to-run software solutions, and support for implementation on travel tech companies. Further, Chekin rapidly updates applications according to regional law changes to ensure optimal results. Chekin integration model is to be embedded into the partner solution, this native integration provides a better experience for the end users, a trusted tool for the hotelier, and lower their cost due to the guest data collection process.
GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.

Dirk Schneider is Co-Founder at BackWerk.

Investment focus

Franchise, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pottsalat — Pottsalat provider of delivery service intended to deliver freshly prepared salads & Bowls.

Matthias Willenbacher is an entrepreneur, investor and visionary in the field of renewable energies and sustainability.

Investment focus

Energy, Battery, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany

Portfolio highlights

E-mobilio — E-mobilio is a consulting and mediation platform for electromobility.
Pottsalat — Pottsalat provider of delivery service intended to deliver freshly prepared salads & Bowls.
VoltStorage — VoltStorage develops and produces solar energy storage systems based on the eco-friendly Redox Flow technology to store surplus solar energy by day and use it during periods of low sunshine. With its sustainable energy storage solutions, VoltStorage follows the vision of making 100 percent renewable energy available around the clock – and thusmaking the world cleaner and fairer for future generations.

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
AI model — AI model specializes in the development and transformation of real-like virtual models for modeling on E-commerce platforms.
Ultra Social — Ultra Social offers marketing support, management creator production, and tiktok live production services.

Tribeca Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in digital media, e-commerce, fintech, education, ad tech, and mobile apps sectors. The firm was founded in 2011 by Brian Hirsch and Chip Meakem and is based in New York, United States.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Israel, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Actuate — Drastically increase the efficiency of your existing surveillance systems with Actuate's AI camera software. No hardware required.
Finix — Finix Payments is a payment infrastructure platform that gives businesses an alternate way to own, manage, and monetize their entire payments experience without the headaches or expenses associated with building an in-house system from scratch. Payments are the lifeblood of every business, and it is critical to company revenue and customerexperience that companies get the underlying technology right. Through its Visa partnership, Finix also facilitates real-time push-to-card payments.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Quantum Circuits — Quantum Circuits accelerates the path to fault-tolerant quantum computing with powerful dual-rail qubits with built-in error detection.

Telescope Investment is a private equity fund focusing on VC/PE investment projects in Chinese market. The office is located in Beijing. The founding team created its unique investment system out of their profound experience in consumer industry and advanced investment philosophy. Telescope Investment mainly focus on those top enterpriseswith high brand value in consumer goods, chain service, education, medical&health and culture industry. The investment stage covers both early stage and maturity stage and the investment scale varies from millions of dollars to tens of millions of dollars according to the specific circumstances of the projects.The investment team is composed of intelligent investment professionals with remarkable management ability and profound financial practical experience. As an emerging force in Chinese capital market, Telescope Investment spares no efforts to help Chinese enterprises achieve success with its advantages on intelligence, social resources and capital operation.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Online Portals
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Sucheon — Sucheon is an artificial intelligence high-tech enterprise that focuses on machine noise recognition and non-contact production process monitoring and equipment failure prediction.The main solution for the company's product machine auscultation master is to collect machine noise from the SC Box, which is placed in an industrial environment, toextract sound feature values, and to use machine learning to identify the real-time operating status of industrial equipment and the various components. Health indicators .
Starwhale — Starwhale is an MLOps platform to manage machine learning projects, models and datasets.
Beacon Education — Beacon Education their marketing, recruitment, support, and analytics technology services platform is a single-point solution for outstanding teaching and learning.

Alex Jankelevich is the Co-Founder & Ceo of Hunger Brands. He attended IESE Business School.

Investment focus

Franchise, E-Commerce, Restaurants
Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Hunger Brands — Crave Me. Gluten Free Cookies. Dairy Free Cookies. Kosher Cookies. Cookies. Peanut Free Cookies. Soy Free Cookies. Seed Oil Free Cookies. GMO Free. Mini Crunchy Cookies.

SIG's China venture capital and private equity activities are operated through SIG Asia Investments, LLLP (SAI) and its wholly foreign owned enterprise (WFOE) based in Shanghai with a branch office in Beijing. The SIG China team seeks to commit the firm’s capital to venture capital and private equity investments in China.SAI is a member ofthe Susquehanna International Group of companies (SIG), which has evolved over the past 20+years into a leading financial institution focusing on trading and market making, institutional sales and research, private equity, and venture capital. With more than 1,400 employees across offices worldwide, SIG’s professionals develop ideas in an entrepreneurial environment, taking full advantage of SIG’s cutting edge technology and quantitative research.SIG is committed to expanding its global businesses in China. As part of that effort SAI has been mandated to commit SIG's proprietary capital in VC and PE investments in companies operating in the PRC.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Insgeek — Insgeek is a one-stop service platform for corporate employee welfare insurance and health management. It is committed to providing intelligent employee benefits insurance and health management solutions through technological innovation. It integrates the products of various insurance companies, covering accidents, female births, and criticalillnesses, and provide a variety of cost-effective protection combinations.Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Beijing, China and currently has branches in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Xi'an, and other places, covering the whole country.
RapidBox — Rapidbox is ecommerce website for footwear and fashion accessories
Enjoy Shop — Enjoy Shop is a franchise chain one-stop collaboration empowerment platform to help brands improve the efficiency of franchise management.

Burda Principal Investments (BPI) is a division of Hubert Burda Media which provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Neotaste — Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.
Kasagi Labo — Kasagi Labo is an anime venture studio that brings authentic Japanese craft to a global audience through licensing, distribution and merchandising.

Admiramos a los fundadores

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Chile, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Nutrix — The future of glucose monitoring
Leasity — Leasity is an online platform to manage properties online. They are the main data in the rental contract, and they automate it. They receive rental payments and stay updated at all times about properties.
Shinkansen — Shinkansen enables fintechs and startups to transport money automatically to consumers, suppliers, banks, and conventional networks. They free engineers, automate treasury, and reduce the cost of making transfers. Shinkansen is headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana.

Cabra.vc is a venture fund for technological startups that want to scale out to international markets

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Adwisely — Adwisely is a perfect online ad solution for eCommerce stores with $1.5k+ monthly ad budget
Pitchly — Freakishly fast & perfectly consistent document solutions because we're different than everyone else. Click, if you want to learn more.
Collectly — Collectly helps healthcare organizations collect more patient payments faster, automate and streamline internal revenue cycle operations, and elevate patient financial experience.

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Beksar — Beksar offers A flexible reporting system for business of the company from its initial days.
GoDays — AI-driven Continuous passive and active analytical tool, preventing burnout of employees. Continuous well-being based on passive collaboration data, sentiment analytics.
PLATMA — PLATMA is a workspace for developing low/no-code solutions with ready-made constructors that reduce the need for large resources and decrease time to market

For over 40 years, LDC has been the trusted investment partner for ambitious management teams. We invest in a diverse range of businesses across every region and sector of the UK economy.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Private Equity, Funding Round, Secondary Market
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Waterscan — Whether you're striving for water neutrality as a business, looking to safeguard supply chains through collaboration, embrace catchment management or share
Deltron Lifts — Deltron Lifts, a highly trusted, 5-STAR Google Reviews. Specialists in lift repair, maintenance and low cost lift service contracts for the UK market.
LendingMetrics — Delivering cutting-edge financial technology and innovative solutions including the multi-award-winning Auto Decision Platform (ADP). ISO-accredited credit reference agency licensed and regulated by the FCA.

Joey Katzen is an entrepreneur and attorney whose expertise has been instrumental in the founding, growth, and exit of multiple Inc-500 companies.He is a volunteer Lead Mentor at Hawaii-based Blue Startups and a Selection Committee member of Honolulu-based Hawaii Angels.A storyteller by trade, he now spends much of his time helpingentrepreneurs distill new or difficult concepts into readily accessible verbal and visual stories that others can’t say no to.Whether for a fundraising deck, a sales pitch, or product and onboarding conceptualization, Joey's process is aided by his varied background in angel investing, law, marketing, product development, engineering, and visual design.While earning his law degree at the University of Virginia, Joey was a member of the founding team of Atlanta-based Vendormate, a healthcare compliance platform later acquired by Cleveland-based Primus Capital and then Louisville-based GHX, Inc. He went on to serve as interim CEO of DC-based Roomtag, a commercial leasing and space-optimization tech suite later acquired by Austin-based Asure Software. Later, he cofounded Atlanta-based KidsLink, a child-management app for parents.His first claims to fame came while attending Georgia Tech in the 2000s when he founded--and promoted with early gonzo marketing--the university-oriented web portal Walksideways.com, visited weekly by a third of the Georgia Tech student body, and developed the Retail Alphabet Game, an early Internet branding puzzle which appeared in the New York Times, National Post, Detroit Free Press, and Christian Science Monitor.Let's build some FOMO.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Restaurants
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series C
United States

Portfolio highlights

ClassCalc — Students can use their smartphones instead of using or buying a TI calculator, and teachers can ensure they only use the ClassCalc calculator app in class. We believe students and teachers should have a choice other than the same expensive, difficult to learn and use dedicated-purpose TI calculator they have been forced to use for decades.ClassCalc provides a multi-subject math calculator with scientific, graphing, and matrix functionality in an easy-to-use smartphone app. Teachers are able to lock down the student’s phone to only the ClassCalc app for class time, quizzes, tests… no cheating or outside distractions (social media, texting etc).
Turno, formerly TurnoverBnB — Find now a local Airbnb cleaning service; automatically schedule your existing cleaners. Integrated with all reservations platforms and channel managers.
Instant Teams — As a customer experience marketplace we partner with companies on remarkable talent solutions and empower military spouses with remote work.

Sean Fannan is co-founder and CTO of Chartboost, a technology platform for mobile developers to find new users and monetize their games. Chartboost works with over 32,000 games, serves over 12 billion game sessions per month and has raised $21M from Sequoia Capital and other investors. Prior to Chartboost, Fannan was one of the early employeesat Tapulous, that was acquired by Walt Disney in 2010 to become Disney Mobile.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Franchise
Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

FranShares — Diversify your portfolio and potentially earn passive income through franchise investing.

Flyer One Ventures is an international early-stage venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups from CEE region. The fund invests in future-proof startups, founded by exceptional teams, and operating on global markets worth more than $10 billion. Flyer One Ventures funds startups in Mobile, Health Tech, EdTech, Fitness & Wellness, B2BSaaS, Gaming, FoodTech, and AI/ML industries and helps them scale on international markets. Founded by the co-founder of BetterMe and supported by Genesis Tech, Flyer One Ventures has deep expertise in Digital Marketing, Product, PR, Branding, and Recruiting. Along with the financial investment, Flyer One Ventures actively supports its portfolio companies, helping them optimize Digital Marketing campaigns, hire R&D staff, build user-friendly products, and fundraise Series A and Series B rounds. Flyer One Ventures' ultimate goal is to support early-stage startups in the geographies with low access to early financing and help them become global leaders by mentorship and daily support.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Cyprus, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

99math — 99math is e-sports in school math! Global online tournaments for kids. They get excited and start achieving in math.
Peech — text to speech
Cooper Pet Care — Cooper Pet Care - Compare and buy the best pet insurance at lowest price. Give your pet the protection they need.

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ualá — Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS.
Krinwave — Krinwave is an ultrasound imaging equipment company. Kunwei Technology's original kOS imaging platform achieves the perfect combination of ultra-high penetration and deep resolution for the first time in the industry, resulting in deep super-resolution images.
Upsider — - Vue - Nuxt.js - TypeScript - SCSS

Nick Bilogorskiy is a founding team member at Cyphort, a next-generation anti-malware startup, and is currently leading security research there. He came to Cyphort from Facebook where he was the chief malware expert and a security spokesperson for the company, keeping 1 billion active users safe and secure.His Facebook focus was on annihilatingbotnets that targeted Facebook (e.g., Koobface) by developing countermeasures, remediating victims and working with law enforcement agencies on bad actor attribution and enforcement. Prior to joining Facebook, Nick managed virus research teams at SonicWALL and Fortinet.Nick is skilled in reverse engineering, analysis, writing patterns and tracking malware, frequently quoted in the media. He presented and published research papers at major security conferences. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computing science and philosophy from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and a GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) certification. He holds several patents in computer security.Nick has been an angel investor since 2012, investing into 2-3 seed stage companies per year, focusing on cybersecurity, AI and IOT. He invested in Petcube, Cymmetria and Uber, among others.Nick Bilogorskiy is also the founder and a Director of the largest Ukrainian charity in California, Nova Ukraine, helping Ukraine by fighting corruption, providing humanitarian aid, and increasing awareness about Ukrainian culture in the US.

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Security
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

AiSDR — AiSDR sales automation acts as your inside sales rep. From outbound to inbound emails, AiSDR runs your outreach and drives leads to customers
Ability.ai — Artificial Marketing Intelligence at Your Fingertips.
Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.

NOM ondersteunt ondernemers in Noord-Nederland bij het realiseren van hun plannen. Bekijk wat de NOM voor jou kan betekenen.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

SeaO2 — SeaO2 is an ocean carbon removal startup that offers scalable carbon dioxide removal technology at the giga-ton level. It aims to prevent global warming by lowering CO₂ concentrations in the water and indirectly in the atmosphere.
Enatom — Enatom specializes in advanced 3D visualization for human anatomy teaching.
Naya — Naya is an electronics company that designs modular and multipurpose split keyboards for physically demanding programming and design tasks.

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Topo.io — Topo.io helps sales teams better engage with their prospects by bringing together resources, stakeholders and next steps in a single space.
Siphon Lab — Siphon Lab is a cryptocurrency DeFi startup, aims to maximize the capital efficiency of SUI across the ecosystem.
Kairos Loan — Kairos Loan is a new type of lending protocol allowing you to borrow instantly using an NFT as collateral and with the best rates on the market.

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Advertising
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Kazakhstan, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Zeely — Zeely is a website development platform designed to assist businesses in marketing their web pages. The company's platform allows businesses to create and promote websites without using codes or UI/UX designs, and these codes can be linked with Google Ads or other social media platforms to increase reach, allowing businesses to create awebpage based on AI and expand their audience network.
Kwaaka — Kwaaka is a subscription-based service that integrates Food Delivery services like Glovo, Wolt, Bolt Food, Deliveroo direct into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, streamlining order taking processes and menu management through a single interface and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manually repunchorders into their existing system.
Yope — Salo is a discussion platform that erases the borders for people with diverse opinions to let anyone speak up and be heard.

Chicago Ventures leads seed investments in overlooked teams.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

OneRail — OneRail is a final mile delivery orchestration platform providing real-time visibility, actionable data, and data-driven optimization capabilities for its enterprise clients. OneRail’s cloud-based “delivery switch” simplifies same-day and on-demand delivery execution by connecting the demand signal (POS, eCommerce, ERP) with the ecosystem ofdelivery networks and internal fleets in real-time. The result of OneRail’s centralized view of disparate final mile data enables data-driven optimization, positively impacting the dependability, speed, and cost of final mile fulfillment.
GoodShip — Streamline your shipping with Goodship. Discover efficient, cost-effective solutions and optimize your logistics for better results.
GreenLite Technologies — GreenLite makes getting a construction permit fast, predictable, and transparent. Let the GreenLite Platform handle your permitting needs so you can focus on growing your business.

My Petroleum is an emerging Oil Marketing Company by has experienced Oil & Gas sector entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Franchise
Seed
Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

MyTM — MYTM is a fintech company and provides mass transit e-ticketing, branchless banking, microfinance services (loan lead generation through agent network), and financial services.

Venture capital Retail technology Food technology Early stage investment Retail startups

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

FoodMaven — FoodMaven is a food distributor, bringing agility and flexibility to the big food system. It sells local and oversupplied food–lost food–to commercial kitchens, at about half price. Its zero-waste sustainability philosophy means unsold food is donated to food banks, animal feed, and composting operations, benefiting both hunger initiatives and theenvironment. With its Internet marketplace, big data optimization technology, and agile logistics model, FoodMaven is for profits, for people, and for the planet.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Colorado Springs.
Veeve — Shopper engagement platform for the physical store
Flashfood — Get massive savings on fresh food items like meat and produce that are nearing their best before date at grocery stores across Canada and the U.S.

kopa is a venture capital investment firm. kopa ventures, formerly Wi Venture, is a leading early-stage impact investment firm focusing on Europe's most innovative climate tech startups in the areas of Energy, Mobility, and Nature & Carbon Tech. Since its inception in 2017, Wi Venture has successfully invested in over 25 incubations andstartups, resulting in numerous exits, an IPO, and more achievements on the horizon.As an early-stage investor, we prioritize the impact potential of startups during our investment decision-making process. Our mission is to support and empower these groundbreaking startups as they develop cutting-edge solutions to foster a climate-positive economy.

Investment focus

Energy Management, Software, Solar
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Daato — One platform for all your key ESG reporting frameworks. Simple, efficient, and compliant.
Pluvion — Pluvion provides innovative AI-powered solutions for water management. Explore our technology for efficient extraneous water detection and learn how we're shaping the future of water management.
Tomorrow — Tomorrow combines mobile banking with sustainability. Open your sustainable account in minutes & start protecting the climate right away.

The Growth Company’s two Angel services, Co-Angel Investment Service and North West Business Angels have recently merged creating a more cohesive offer, enabling increased access to early stage equity funding. The service now known as GC Angels, supports businesses seeking access to angel investment, ranging from £25,000 up to £2m. Developed by GCas the next evolution of its successful Co Angel Investment Service, GC Angels forms part of the GM Combined Authority's response to supporting the early stage investment market, and integrates with the range of wider GC business finance and business support services. It will incorporate the network offer (NWBA); the fee-bearing advisory service (Co Angel) alongside the new GM Co-Investment Fund, providing an innovative, single solution equity funding service.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Your FLOCK — Your FLOCK helps teams stay together longer by increasing employees engagement by asking the right questions based on a team member's values.
Simplifai Systems — Simplifai Systems is a provider of a traffic management system that uses artificial intelligence so that it can achieve a number of goals beyond simple congestion control. The company's product generates real-time traffic control strategies that solve complex issues, such as major events, pollution, traffic incidents, and unexpectedcongestion. It exerts real-time control of city-wide traffic management systems such as traffic signals, to achieve a wide variety of citizen-focused and coordinated goals.Simplifai Systems was established in 2017 and is headquartered in Huddersfield, England.
Guardian Angel — Death is tough enough. We're here to make it that little bit easier. By making planning for and through death simpler. So you can focus on what really matters.

True 0 to 1 specialists, laser focused on helping you cut through Seed and get to Series A and beyond with velocity.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Keragon — Keragon is an Integration and Automation platform to enable you connect all your homegrown & 3rd party solutions and build healthcare-specific automations without code, in weeks.
Harmonyze — Harmonyze makes it easier for franchisors to run exceptional and profitable businesses. Using AI agents, Harmonyze centralizes and automates operational compliance, monitoring and reporting, and rapid two-way experimentation across scaled franchise networks. This innovative approach not only drives down costs but also frees up teams to focus onstrategic, revenue-generating activities, ultimately improving margins.
Thoras.ai — Thoras is an ML-powered platform that helps SRE teams view the future of their Kubernetes workloads.

The aim of Daal is to create excellent opportunities for investment by providing mentorship and business development insights to companies within the IT space.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Tunisia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Pulppo — Pulppo is the first Tech Enabled broker for Latin America. We partner with the best brokers in the region and empower them with tools, technology and resources to create a simple and transparent buying process. Pulppo was founded by Agustin Iglesias, former GM of Inmuebles24 and founder of Tokko Broker (Acquired by Navent) and Matias Gath, formerGM of Glovo in Argentina and founder of Kadabra (acquired by Glovo).
Kamioun — Kamioun is a mobile platform that connects FMCG manufacturers to local retail shops by fast free delivery of inventory.
Paper.id — Atur tempo pembayaran bisnis serta kirim & terima pembayaran dengan kartu kredit, invoice juga langsung sah dengan e-Meterai. Coba Sekarang!

GSA Venture Partners was acquired by Tribeca Venture Partners in October 2011 and all its investments under the portfolio TVP I. GSA Venture Partners was a New York-based early stage venture fund that helps entrepreneurs build innovative companies.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services, Credit
Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Lendio — Lendio is the free, easy way to see all your loan options and find the best rate. We make small business loans simple. Get funded in as little as 24 hours.
RealDirect — RealDirect is a next-generation real estate technology company and brokerage that uses the power of the web to help people buy and sell real estate better. Founded in 2010 by Doug Perlson, a real estate lawyer and online technology industry veteran, RealDirect features services for both sellers and buyers of New York City real estate. RealDirectfor Sellers is the first web-based, data-driven marketing platform for homeowners to maximize their net proceeds in the sale of their home. Whether buyers want to work with an agent or on their own, RealDirect for Buyers helps clients accurately assess their living needs and recommends the right properties based on this analysis. RealDirect is located in the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan.
Crowdtap — Crowdtap harnesses collective insights from millions of consumers worldwide to deliver real-time intelligence. It was founded in 2009 and is based in New York.

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Layla — Find, plan & book your next trip in seconds using AI. Layla will give you personalized ideas for where to go, help you plan an itinerary & book hotels & flights.
Risk Ledger — Risk Ledger ensures your supply chain security by providing tools to run and respond to cyber security-led, third-party risk management programmes at scale.
Arcane Intelligence — The AI Copilot for modern Marketers. Arcane accelerates and automates mundane tasks. Join the waitlist today.

Horacio Broggi

Investment focus

Franchise, E-Commerce, Restaurants
Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Hunger Brands — Crave Me. Gluten Free Cookies. Dairy Free Cookies. Kosher Cookies. Cookies. Peanut Free Cookies. Soy Free Cookies. Seed Oil Free Cookies. GMO Free. Mini Crunchy Cookies.

100 Ventures is an investment firm and its invests in pre-seed and seed startups companies.

Investment focus

B2C, SaaS, Beauty
Seed
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

AlGooru — AlGooru is a tutoring network marketplace that connects students with qualified tutors on a mobile app. Our mobile app uberizes the tutoring market. Students can find reliable tutors, and tutors can manage their sessions/price their own rates.
Glamera — Glamera B2B2C: SaaS platform to power beauty salons, spa, Gym and barber shops, to optimize sales, booking, marketing, inventory and HR. Glamera White Label: Every service provider can create his own website, to help his customer in pre-booking his services. Glamera B2C: Mobile application for end user to book beauty and wellness appointment.
MyTM — MYTM is a fintech company and provides mass transit e-ticketing, branchless banking, microfinance services (loan lead generation through agent network), and financial services.

The Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund is a sector agnostic pre-seed and seed stage investors that backs female (co-)founded startups in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

BIOVOX — Mit Biokunststoff aus nachwachsenden Rohstoffen bis zu 85% CO2 einsparen. Hergestellt unter ISO 13485, biokompatibel nach ISO 10993.
Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management
Exakt Health — Exakt Health is the physio app for sports injuries. The Exakt Health app guides users through self-diagnosis for frequent sports injuries and then creates an individualized rehabilitation plan.

BIP Ventures connects ambitious founders with bold investors to build innovation and wealth. Get to know us and join the innovation economy.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

OncoLens — OncoLens develops technologies that improve cancer treatment planning, simplify tumor board management, facilitate survivorship care planning, and automate accreditation and quality reporting through an intelligent workflow engine that streamlines business processes and enables more informed clinical decision-making.
ConnexPay — ConnexPay is a payments gateway that connects payment acceptance & issuance for marketplace and intermediary companies. Discover a better way to pay!
Kobiton — Kobiton is a mobile device testing platform that accelerates mobile testing and delivery of mobile applications by offering a wide array of testing services.

Hans Limmer

Investment focus

Franchise, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pottsalat — Pottsalat provider of delivery service intended to deliver freshly prepared salads & Bowls.

Co-founder @Revieve. General Partner @LandInChicago. Co-founder & COO @ RapidBlue Solutions (acquired in 2013). Member of Board @PromoRepublic. Mentor, advisor and early stage angel investor in startups.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — One marketing platform to easily consolidate your marketing tools, assets, data,and workflows for seamless collaboration with franchisees.

Investors by industry

Artificial intelligence