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Top 15 Franchise VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United States in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 15 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 15 Franchise VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United States in January 2026

Investor	Franchise United States investments
Alerion Ventures	2
TechOperators Venture Capital	2
Bowery Capital	2
Chicago Ventures	2
focal	2
IDEA Fund Partners	2
Bolt Ventures	1
Invest Nebraska	1
Chile Ventures	1
Square 1 Bank	1
Highway 12 Ventures	1
Tribeca Venture Partners	1
BIP Capital	1
French Partners	1
Grotech Ventures	1

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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.

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

Paygentic — Purpose-built payments & billing for AI agents and agentic software. Flexible pricing models, real-time billing, no fixed fees. Start monetizing in days, not months.
BlackCloak — BlackCloak provides digital executive protection. Personal cybersecurity and digital privacy protections for individuals and companies.
Jentic — One integration, thousands of APIs and workflows. Connect your AI agents to real APIs with secure execution and credential management.

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.
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.
Rulebase — Rulebase create AI agents to safeguard fintechs and banks from fraud, automating investigations and preventing voice fraud.

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

Curiosity — Why do people sneeze in sunlight? Why is a black hole called a "singularity"? Why aren't fish electrocuted when lightning hits the water? Curiosity answers the questions you never knew to ask, and digs into the things you've always wondered about. The company spun out of Discovery in 2014 and today reaches an audience of 70million a month globally through a website, iOS and Android app, weekly podcast, daily email, Chrome extension, and Amazon Alexa skill. With five new stories on a variety of topics every day (plus thousands more to discover), it helps people have fun learning about everything from the scientific and relatable to the awe-inspiring and downright weird. Count on Curiosity to explain even the densest subjects in a way that's entertaining, witty, and easy to understand.
Dina — Dina provides benefits and care coordination solutions to support health plans and providers as they extend care management into the home.
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.

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, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

On Me — The hobbies gift card you can tap-to-pay.
Pump — Pump uses AI & group buying to automate cloud savings with zero engineering input. #GetPumped
Drafter — Drafter is a faster, cheaper, better way to get the drawings you need

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.

Bolt Ventures is a team of entrepreneurs and investment specialists that offers seed and early stage financing solutions to companies focused on e-commerce, mobile, and subscription-based business models. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sports, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Chile, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Men In Blazers — Listen to Men in Blazers - engaging podcasts and exclusive sports commentary. Discover insightful discussions and premium entertainment content.
Cast Iron Media — Cast Iron Sports provides unique solutions empowering clients to engage targeted audiences during live events, both at home and at the game.
Sportlight Technology — Sportlight Technologies offers hyper-accurate LiDAR and AI technologies deliver unrivalled insights in the areas of load management, performance monitoring, talent development, technical and tactical analysis for teams.

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 — Simplify campground operations with real-time availability, mobile payments, and easy-to-use management software. Trusted by fairgrounds and campgrounds in the US.

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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.

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).

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 — GutCheck specializes in online agile market research that equips and empowers the world’s most innovative brands to unlock bold new possibilities by harnessing the power of agile technology and human empathy. We empower brands with the insights to make decisions throughout the innovation cycle and meet you where you are in the process.

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.

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.

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.

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

Caju AI — Caju AI revolutionizes customer engagement with Generative AI, boosting your workforce's productivity and providing invaluable business insights. Elevate your customer experience with the power of AI.
Yardstik — Human security for gig marketplaces and SaaS platforms. Build modular packages to screen your workforce and verify info critical to your industry.
Base Operations — Base Operations aggregates and visualizes threat data to help companies keep their people and operations safe around the world.

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