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Top 20 Franchise Startup Investors in United States in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Franchise startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Franchise companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Franchise Startup Investors in United States in September 2025

Investor	Franchise United States investments
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IDEA Fund Partners	2
TechOperators Venture Capital	2
Chicago Ventures	2
Alerion Ventures	2
Bowery Capital	2
Highway 12 Ventures	1
Tribeca Venture Partners	1
XTX Ventures	1
Daniel Rutberg	1
Sean Fannan	1
Joey Katzen	1
French Partners	1
Chile Ventures	1
BIP Capital	1
Daren Cotter	1
Square 1 Bank	1
Grotech Ventures	1
Overline	1
Invest Nebraska	1

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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

On Me — The hobbies gift card you can tap-to-pay.
Harmonyze — Harmonyze transforms fragmented franchise operations data into clear, daily, revenue-boosting recommendations with AI-powered coaching.
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.

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

Keep Company — Keep Company is a coaching community for parents & caregivers.
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.
Lucid Bots — Lucid Drone Technologies is a robotics company that specializes in exterior spray drones. We are committed to safety, innovation, and customer satisfaction.

TechOperators is the leading early-stage venture capital firm specializing in Cybersecurity. Backing technical founders and category-defining companies in AI security, cloud security, threat intelligence, and beyond.

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.
Jentic Technology — One integration, thousands of APIs and workflows. Connect your AI agents to real APIs with secure execution and credential management.
SafeGuard Privacy — SafeGuard Privacy automates the assessment of compliance with privacy laws to help reduce risk, save costs, and increase efficiency.

Chicago Ventures leads seed investments in overlooked teams.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
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.
Entegrata — Entegrata is turnkey legal data lakehouse designed to help law firms become more data driven and maximize their investment in Azure. With our data lake, law firm leaders can access valuable insights that can help them make better business decisions, improve their services, and optimize their operations.

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.

We are early-stage venture capital investors focused on helping our founders build the next generation of B2B market leaders.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
Harmonyze — Harmonyze transforms fragmented franchise operations data into clear, daily, revenue-boosting recommendations with AI-powered coaching.
Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.

They invest in people, not companies. What kind of people? They place on bets on passionate people who are committed to the ideas and principles that drive their businesses. People who don't know the word "quit," who aren't afraid to enter new territory and face unseen challenges. People who seek a different path, a better way,and who are entrepreneurs at heart.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
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.
Sphero — Sphero bridges the gap between the real world and the virtual world with its smartphone-controlled robots. It began the connected play revolution in 2010 by creating something unlike anything and they never stopped. They fuse robotic and digital technology into immersive entertainment experiences that ignite imagination and defy expectations.Optimized by data and powered by fun, these ever-evolving experiences are changing the way the world thinks about play.
GutCheck — Powered by technology, AI, and engaged consumers, amplified by our advanced platform and deep human expertise, we help brands turn insights into opportunities and challenges into success.

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

Swivel — PilotDesk advances ad operations by automating tedious processes, allowing humans to concentrate on strategy and creativity.
Streamline AI — Spend more time on legal analysis, less time on admin work. Streamline AI's intake and workflow automations help in-house legal teams and their business stakeholders work faster. Build conditional routing and automate manual business processes based on custom rules.
Circuit — Provider of micro-transition services intended to be offered through electric cars. The company's services uses electric vehicles which can be booked through application which are provided with responsible and efficient drivers, enabling users to access their shuttle service at their convenience.

XTX Ventures is the venture capital arm of XTX Markets. XTX Markets is a leading, innovation-driven algorithmic trading firm.XTX Ventures focuses on early stage startups (Seed to Series A) applying machine learning and leverages XTX Markets’ deep expertise in ML and financial technology to help grow and enhance those businesses. We are geographyand industry agnostic.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

iGent — iGent AI focus on integrating advanced AI capabilities into the software development process.
TILKI — TILKI is an AI-powered game creation platform that democratizes video game development by enabling all creators to build immersive games without coding.
Prior Labs — Prior Labs develops Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) like TabPFN to solve AI's structured data challenge, enabling native understanding & boosting ML performance.

Daniel Rutberg is a CoFounder & COO at MuteSix.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Franchise
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Skio — Skio helps brands on Shopify sell subscriptions without ripping their hair out. Easily migrate from ReCharge. Increase conversions by 72% with 1-click checkout (Shop Pay). Reduce customer tickets by 25% with passwordless login.
FranShares — Diversify your portfolio and potentially earn passive income through franchise investing.

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.
Classify — Classify is a digital advertising company that offers smart contextual advertising.

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, Outsourcing
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series C
United States, Puerto Rico

Portfolio highlights

Quibble — Price Optimization and Revenue Management Software and Consulting For Vacation Rentals & Alternative Accommodations - We created Quibble to address the gap in the market between the simple rules-based software applications currently available and a truly science-based optimization. Quibble bundles our software with a full service offering togive our clients complete Pricing Ease of Mind. With many years of revenue management experience in the travel and hospitality industries, we know the pains and uncertainty revenue management brings. At Quibble, we aim to increase your revenue performance by engineering and implementing your custom pricing strategy while developing long-lasting partnerships.
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.

French Partners is the first co-investment club dedicated to qualified investors wishing to accompany and finance companies led locally by French entrepreneurs. French Partners targets start-ups and growing SMEs with revenues of up to several tens of millions of euros, who already have or wish to accelerate their international presence, as well asinnovative investment funds. French Partners invests from €1 million to €5 million, often on a minority basis, alone or in co-investment, in the capital of companies founded and managed by french entrepreneurs internationally.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Payments
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, China

Portfolio highlights

Reebelo — Reebelo is APAC’s leading marketplace for pre-loved tech devices. Our vision is to reduce e-waste by building the circular economy for refurbished electronics. While doing so, we enable consumers to save up to 70% on their favorite brands and flexibly rent devices instead of buying them. Reebelo is based in Singapore with additional offices inAustralia, New Zeland & Malaysia. Get in touch if you want to be part of a high-growth, disruptive team working to make a positive impact!
Umiami — Umiami Technologies is a leader in plant-based meat. Our proprietary technology allows us to create clean-label and incredibly tasty foods.
Cheaf Technologies — Descarga Cheaf y rescata comida en perfecto estado con 50% de descuento. Ahorra y combate el desperdicio de alimentos.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nutrix — Nutrix award-winning Swiss health-tech innovator that combines the power of AI with wearables and human care to provide cost-effective prevention and healthcare programs that work.
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.

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 — Transform payment operations with ConnexPay's integrated platform. Reduce processing costs, accelerate cash flow, eliminate manual reconciliation. Trusted by businesses around the world to make tens of millions in payments each day.
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.

Daren was the Founder and CEO of InboxDollars, an online marketing company that connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits both. He founded the company as a Freshman in college in 2000 and bootstrapped the company to more than $25 million in annual revenues. InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege in 2019. Daren is active in the MNstart-up community as an investor, advisor and mentor.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bonsai — Bonsai is the first-party marketing intelligence platform that automates profitable growth. Trust your marketing data, make confident decisions, drive revenue.
Franzy — Franzy is the "Zillow for franchising"—a smarter, more transparent way to find, compare, and finance franchise opportunities. We match aspiring entrepreneurs with the right franchise brands based on their goals, experience, and budget, making the path to business ownership simpler, faster, and more accessible.
Bonsai Data Solutions — Bonsai is the first-party marketing intelligence platform that automates profitable growth. Trust your marketing data, make confident decisions, drive revenue.

We are the premier, relationship-focused, full-service business bank that offers financial solutions to maximize your operational efficiency.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

CallRail — CallRail is a phone call tracking and analytics platform businesses use to understand which marketing campaigns drive leads and conversions. Its intuitive software helps data-driven marketers optimize the performance of their online and offline advertising campaigns, increase sales effectiveness, and improve customer retention.
ScienceLogic — Empower your IT staff & propel your digital transformation with ScienceLogic's AI-driven observability and IT infrastructure monitoring platform.
ShopKeep — Everything ShopKeep does supports growing and independent businesses. Built by and for small business owners, ShopKeep provides an intuitive, secure, iPad point-of-sale system with POS software that empowers merchants to run smarter businesses by optimizing staffing, managing inventory and accessing real time sales reports and customer informationon one seamless, cloud-based platform. With more than 25,000 customers, ShopKeep’s award-winning customer care team is available to help 24/7 and provides a robust support network for growing business owners. ShopKeep is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Portland (OR), Chicago (IL), and Belfast (NIR).

We partner with innovative entrepreneurial talent. Our mission is to partner with young companies outside of Silicon Valley that transform markets, create jobs and produce extraordinary, sustainable growth.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sturdy — SturdyAI's mission is to empower enterprises to convert every conversation with customers, from any channel, into a revenue opportunity. It develops and provides software technology designed to turn client communications into capital. The company's platform uses machine learning, artificial intelligence and the most modern, secure,containerized, service-based infrastructure allowing users to unify communication channels into one making all of them searchable, alertable and guarded by enterprise-grade security, enabling clients to predict and proact on churn, identify upsell opportunities or improve sales effectiveness.It was founded in 2019 and is based in Boise, Idaho.
Krista Software — Krista is an intelligent automation platform that combines iPaaS and Conversational AI to automate complete business processes across your teams and apps.
Notable Systems — Our mission is to automate data collection from any source. Our clients use our system to provide better service, sell more and collect revenue faster.

Overline is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Atlanta. We lead pre-seed and seed rounds in support of exceptional founders building in the Southeast.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Logistics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

Portfolio highlights

Sevii — Cybersecurity industry's first Autonomous Defense and Remediation (ADR) platform that harnesses advanced agentic AI technology to neutralize adversaries in real-time.
BreachRx — Reduce business risk by proactively streamlining the planning and response processes for privacy and security breaches with our dynamic and automated platform. Take the crisis out of breach response.
Pickleheads — Discover all of the pickleball courts in your area! The Pickleheads court finder has the most comprehensive list of indoor and outdoor pickleball courts. Browse over 13,000 places to play in the US and Canada. Filter by court type, surface, amenities, lighting and more.

Invest Nebraska builds a better future for our state by providing financial and operational assistance to high growth companies, advancing the entrepreneurial economy, and attracting out-of-state capital to Nebraska.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
United States

Portfolio highlights

Cup of Coa — Cup of Coa is a gourmet cocoa brand that focuses on creating natural, natural cocoa from the finest cocoas, free from artificial additives, and blending them for an exclusive flavor profile.
CodeBuddy — Build software without the limits of traditional development. Generate on-demand solutions to help complete coding tasks in record time and ship projects on-time and budget.
Set Your Sites — Set Your Sites connects campers with available campsites, future-proofs campgrounds with mobile payment, real-time availability, and wifi services, ensuring adventure for more campers and allowing campgrounds to set their sites.

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