Top 50 LGBT Startup Investors (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Gaingels
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$100M |
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Female Founders Fund
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $500k–$15M |
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Citi Impact Fund
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Israel | Series A, Series B, Series C | Health Care, FinTech, Software | $11M–$125M |
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Alpaca VC
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Real Estate | $1.5M–$25M |
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Bossa Invest
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Brazil, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $50k–$36M |
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Clocktower Technology Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Brazil, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $2M–$100M |
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Anthemis
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $1.3M–$60M |
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Andy Dunn
Angel
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2 | United States, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Health Care, Consumer Goods | $1.1M–$25M |
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Socially Financed
VC Fund
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2 | United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate | $1M–$20M |
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XFactor Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Wellness, Health Care | $500k–$17M |
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Australia, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $250k–$20M |
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Shinji Kimura
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Japan | Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $150k–$220M |
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Amanda Bradford
Angel
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2 | United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | LGBT, Dating, Social | $1.5M–$1.5M |
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Red Swan Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Israel, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, E-Commerce | $1.2M–$75M |
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General Catalyst
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $1.8M–$125M |
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Ross Veitch
Angel
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2 | Singapore, Thailand, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, Real Estate, Rental | $500k–$20M |
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Globivest
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Health Care | $1M–$16M |
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Kapor Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Kenya, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Education, Health Care | $1M–$50M |
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10X Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $800k–$36M |
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Bessemer Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Israel | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $5.2M–$100M |
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Elevate Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, SaaS | $250k–$15M |
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U-Start
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Travel, Fashion | $406k–$23M |
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Polaris Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Ireland, Singapore | Series B, Series A, Series C | Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical | $4.6M–$107M |
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Nisha Dua
Angel
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2 | United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Beauty, Medical | $2M–$24M |
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Harry Briggs
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace | $685k–$29M |
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Define Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Health Care, Medical, Wellness | $3.2M–$140M |
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Ventech
VC Fund
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2 | France, Germany, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $1.3M–$67M |
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Precursor Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $120k–$20M |
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Oksana Stowe
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $255k–$18M |
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Craft Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.9M–$120M |
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Michelle Kennedy
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Women's, Fashion, Software | $1M–$5.7M |
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Project A Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.5M–$75M |
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Joel Simkhai
Angel
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1 | United States | Seed | LGBT, Rental, Travel | |
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Chris Sinton
Angel
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1 | United States | Seed | LGBT, Rental, Travel | |
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David Chang
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Hong Kong | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $250k–$85M |
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Baroda Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Advertising, Financial Services | $750k–$40M |
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Mana Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Collab Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Internet | |
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Manuela Rios
Angel
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1 | United States | Seed | LGBT, Dating, Social | |
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Sam Altman
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Ghana | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | |
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Melanie Steinbach
Angel
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1 | United States | Seed | LGBT, Dating, Social | |
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Sean Rad
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Apps, Consumer | |
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Moai Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Information Technology, Software, Robotics | |
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Macluan Digital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States | Series A | LGBT, News, Dating | |
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Lila Steinbach
Angel
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1 | United States | Seed | LGBT, Dating, Social | |
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TiE Angels
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS | $395k–$10M |
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Antoine Blondeau
Angel
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1 | United States, France, Austria | Seed, Series A, Angel | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $1.2M–$80M |
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Wefunder
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $51k–$2.7M |
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Tusk Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Financial Services, FinTech | $3M–$100M |
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George Godula
Angel
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1 | United States, China, Algeria | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile | $970k–$150M |
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Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1335
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.2M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $16M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $140k in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Epirus — Epirus is a high-growth technology company that develops cutting-edge directed energy systems and power management solutions to transform multiple industries.
- BQP — At BQP, we’re developing a quantum-accelerated digital twin platform for mission-critical applications. The platform, BQPhy, is a back-end engine that integrates seamlessly into existing engineering workflows and operates on today’s infrastructure without requiring quantum hardware. BQPhy helps teams solve large-scale, complex challenges inengineering optimization, data-driven modeling (ML), and physics-based (CFD) simulations. We are bridging the gap between current high-performance computers and future quantum systems with probabilistic algorithms from quantum information science, unlocking simulation capabilities that were previously impractical or impossible. BQPhy reduces time, accuracy, and throughput inefficiencies, thereby accelerating development cycles, unlocking previously unexplored design spaces, lowering costs, and enhancing product outcomes.
- Sharper Sense — Neuromodulation for Clear Senses
Female Founders Fund is a seed stage venture fund that invests exclusively in female-founded companies. We believe strongly in the exponential power of exceptional female talent. We invest in e-commerce, media, platforms, advertising and web-enabled services businesses.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.7M; Series A $3.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $29M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Taya — TAYA, the private voice accessory that lets you live in the moment instead of managing it.
- Fields Good — Fields Good is a modern cookie brand baking up functional cookies that taste as good as they feel.
- The Six Bells — A country store of homewares from a world far away.
Citi, the leading global bank, serves more than 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Learn more today.
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- Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Series A $11M–$35M; Series B $15M–$111M; Series C $35M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Prosperity Now — We help communities and organizations strengthen financial security through practical tools, research, and partnerships.
- Biocon — Biocon is an innovation led fully integrated biopharmaceutical company that develop affordable biosimilars, generic formulations & complex APIs
- Hopscotch Primary Care — We provide primary care services to seniors on Medicare, offering more time with your doctor, and a full care team to support all of your healthcare needs.
Alpaca VC | Reshaping the Real World Alpaca VC is a New York based firm the leads early-stage investments in companies reshaping the physical and digital world.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Real Estate
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 141
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.7M; Series A $4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $78M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Amplio — De-risk your supply chain with the purchasing power of a contract manufacturer. Amplio is the first AI powered platform to predict, identify and mitigate electronic component shortages for hardware manufacturers.
- Applied Atomics, Inc. — Powering the next 1,000 years of advanced industry with co-located nuclear power plants.
- Brilliant Harvest — Brilliant Harvest is the Most Powerful AI Helpdesk For Equipment Dealers.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2047
- Round size: Seed $178k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $632k–$36M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- FFID — FFID develops AI chatbot platform automating customer communication, lead generation, and marketing workflows.
- Sandwiche — Sandwiche creates customizable link in bio pages enabling social media monetization and affiliate marketing management.
- Ambar Technologies — Ambar is a construction tech company that is focused on addressing the Affordable Housing Challenge. Ambar is a leading construction technology company in Latin America. Tech Company focused on addressing the Affordable Housing Challenge. Ambar integrates the Housing Journey into 4 steps, Design, Supply, Assembly, and Living.
Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica-based venture capital business focused exclusively on financial technology.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 260
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.6M; Series A $8M–$26M; Series B $20M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $4.4M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Helcim — Helcim is the easy and affordable solution for small and medium businesses accepting payments in-person or online.
- Sharpi — Sharpi offers an AI solution that automates B2B order entry by converting customer messages into structured ERP orders.
- Feathery — Enabling product teams to build powerful forms.
digitally native finance
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 312
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $10M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $56M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Humanos — The Risk Network for AI https://t.co/RzfFeAgNCj
- PayPerks — PayPerks operates education and rewards solutions with our partners to improve the financial capability, financial health, and overall lives of millions of Americans.
- Monax — Monax offers a platform that leverages blockchain technology and offers a contract lifecycle management tool that permits consumers to easily procure lawyer-tested agreements and stay in full control of their business contracts as well as provides permission ledgers and smart contracts, enabling the finance, insurance, and construction sectors todevelop, customize, sell and reproduce legal products.
Andy Dunn is co-founder and CEO of Bonobos, an apparel brand renowned for exceptional fit, high energy and great customer experience. Launched in 2007, Bonobos is now the largest apparel brand in the United States ever launched over the web. Previously, Dunn worked as a private equity analyst at Wind Point Partners and as a consultant at Bain& Company. He is a founding board member of education social enterprise Blue Engine and the founder of Red Swan Ventures, an angel investment firm.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$2M; Series A $3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OffDeal — OffDeal is building an AI-native investment bank for buying and selling small businesses. We use custom AI agents and big data to screen thousands of SMBs each day, matching buyers with the perfect acquisition target in days instead of months. Unlike legacy M&A advisors, we can search for targets for hundreds of buyers concurrently, 24/7.
- Sanarai — Sanarai is a mental health online platform for the Latinx community. Online platform that connects the Latinx community to mental health professionals in Latin America to provide culturally sensitive Spanish-language emotional support at accessible prices
- Akin Mental Health — Doro Mind is for families supporting a loved one with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, severe depression and related illnesses.
We're a group of SoFi employees, alumni, partners, and friends with hard-won experience building financial services and technology businesses. We leverage our network and expertise to identify and, most importantly, support early stage entrepreneurs that are transforming financial services.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $10M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Ownify — Ownify is rebuilding the path to homeownership to make it achievable for the next generation of homebuyers. Our fractional ownership platform allows first-time buyers to buy their home "brick by brick". Zero debt & no surprises. At the same time, we offer real estate investors fractional ownership in single-family homes, combiningrental income, home price appreciation, and social impact investing.
- StellarFi — We Pay Your Bills, So YouCan Build Credit. With Stellar your bills are paid on time and on your terms.
- Meanwhile — The world's first regulated Bitcoin life insurance. Tax-efficient wealth planning for long-term Bitcoin holders.
XFactor Ventures is focused on making pre-seed and seed stage investments in companies with billion dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder.
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- Industry: Software, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.2M; Series A $7.2M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $8.6M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Replit — Replit is a simple yet powerful online IDE, Editor, Compiler, Interpreter, and REPL. Code, compile, run, and host in 50+ programming languages.
- BoobyBiome — BoobyBiome harnesses breast milk microbiome science to develop products to improve infant health
- ShareWell — Discover a supportive mental health community with peer-led sessions, expert insights, and helpful resources to guide your healing journey.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1303
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $4.4M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- Keebler Health — AI-Enabled Coding for Medical Billing Teams
- Neurometric AI — Making Intelligence Free | https://t.co/ZxWxeMBJt2 | https://t.co/W8nlLqYwQi
Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $150k–$107M; Series B $4M–$220M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skydrop — Flirtey provides drone delivery service of retail and e-commerce items to consumer homes. It is driven by a mission to improve lifestyles by making delivery instant for everyone.The company was the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery in the U.S., the first to perform a fully autonomous drone delivery to a home and the first to launcha commercial drone delivery service.Flirtey was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.
- misterb&b — Find & book the best gay bnbs worldwide with trusted hosts . Gay Hotels, resorts & more in 220 countries. Loved by 1M+ travelers. Safe travels with the LGBTQ travel community!
- Drifting in Space — Bring your own code, and run CPU, GPU, and data-intensive compute at scale. The serverless platform for AI and data teams.
Amanda Bradford is the founder of The League, an exclusive dating app that matches smart, busy, and ambitious people together. The goal was to create power couples by matching up highly motivated single professionals. She raised $2.1 million in seed funding in January 2015. Amanda studied at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, and worked for SequoiaCapital, Salesforce, and Google before launching The League.After graduating from Carnegie Mellon with a degree in Information Systems, Amanda joined Salesforce as a Sales Engineer. In 2010 she joined Google, where she worked as a product specialist on the DoubleClick team and then moved into New Business Development where she led partnership efforts around the commercialization of Google's BIg Data Infrastructure-as-a-service offerings. Amanda graduated with an MBA frp, Stanford Graduate School of Business and is interested in enterprise saas companies, big-data applications, and e-commerce.In 2014 she founded The League, a new dating app.
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- Industry: LGBT, Dating, Social
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
- Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.
Red Swan is a seed stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs who delight customers, create culture, and disrupt industries.If Black Swans are unforeseen calamitous events, Red Swans are great companies most of us never saw coming. They are built by entrepreneurs who create joy for their customers, provide meaning to their employees,and who scare their shareholders by passing on acquisition offers. They tend to be movements as much as businesses.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 120
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.8M; Series A $3.5M–$18M; Series B $14M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.5M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- KLIPY — KLIPY is the expression platform for GIFs, memes, stickers, clips and mini games. Discover, create and share content across apps and communities.
- Expo — Expo is the fastest way to build native apps for iOS, Android, and the web with React.
- Bread Financial — We provide simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions.
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2219
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$18M; Series A $6.7M–$75M; Series B $14M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Datalogix — Datalogix® is the industry-recognized leader at connecting digital media and offline purchasing data. We help more than half of the top 100 consumer marketers increase the effectiveness and measurability of their advertising. DLX Platform®, encompasses over $1 trillion in consumer spending and powers campaigns for more than 75% of online mediacompanies. DLX ROI® is rapidly becoming the industry standard for measuring offline sales lift for digital media. Datalogix also offers predictive analytics for Direct Mail, and integrated media solutions via the DLX Net. Our expertise spans the major consumer segments, including Retail, CPG, Automotive, Telecom, Travel and Financial Services. We are based in Colorado, with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, and London.
- Legora — By streamlining and simplifying legal workflows, we empower elite law firms and legal professionals to work more efficiently and effectively. Enabling them to focus on higher-value tasks and deliver exceptional results for their clients.
- Empathy — Coping with the loss of a loved one is not easy. Download the Empathy App for guidance on what to expect following a loss and the tools to get you through each step.
Ross Veitch is based out of Dubai, Dubai and is the Chief Executive & Co-Founder of Wego. Ross previously worked at H2 as a global chapter chair.
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- Industry: Internet, Real Estate, Rental
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Singapore, Thailand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $500k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
- Light — Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.
Globivest is a private investment firm with a diversified portfolio of assets. Our primary focus is on innovative and scalable early stage start-ups. We seek to establish long-term relationships with visionary entrepreneurs while adding clear value in strategy and execution.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $2M–$3M; Series A $1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
- Goodvest — Goodvest is an investment app (life insurance) that builds a better world, in line with your values and promoting performance.
- BioSapien — BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.
Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups. They are an Oakland-based fund that understands that startup companies have the ability to transform entire industries and to address urgent social needs as they do so. It was founded in 1999 and headquartered in Oakland, California.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 276
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.3M; Series A $3.3M–$23M; Series B $10M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $126M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Parento — Parento is a pioneering national insurance-based solution for paid parental empowering companies to support working parents with proactive, tangible paid leave coverage and employee resources.
- Reportwell — An easy-to-use compliance & reporting platform saving your team hundreds of hours and headaches. From smart report templates to streamlined performance framework dashboards, simple has arrived for compliance & reporting to governmental agencies.
- Hamlet — Hamlet transforms local information into accessible insights you can use and shares it via newsletter.
10X invests across the capital structure, alongside the world's top technology investors. They align Wall Street and Silicon Valley by bringing institutional capital to high growth ventures in private and public markets, helping founders and investors achieve scale and liquidity while retaining upside and control.10X was founded in 2004 andis based in New York.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 263
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $800k–$5M; Series A $4M–$36M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Betr — Betr is a direct-to-consumer micro-betting that introduces instant gratification to sports betting. It provides tools to support responsible play and give control over their gambling. It encourages them to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within their personal limits. Betr was founded in 2022 and is based in Miami, Florida.
- Portal — Build next-generation cell engineering and drug discovery workflows with Portal mechanoporation for broad intracellular delivery across cells and cargoes.
- CEA Industries — CEA Industries (NASDAQ: BNC) is a publicly traded company pursuing a BNB-focused digital asset treasury strategy.
Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage and growth-stage companies across technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors. It provides capital to startups and emerging businesses while supporting founders with strategic guidance, operational insight, and network access. The firm participates in multiple fundingstages, from seed investments to later growth rounds, and works closely with portfolio companies on product development, market expansion, and organizational scaling. Its investment activities span software, cloud infrastructure, fintech, biotech, and internet-enabled businesses, aligning capital deployment with long-term company building.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1587
- Round size: Series A $5.2M–$45M; Series B $10M–$63M; Series C $12M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1B in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- TRM Labs — Next Generation Blockchain Intelligence | Monitor, Investigate, and Mitigate Crypto Fraud and Financial Crime
- Simply Measured — Reimagine how social media can grow your business with Sprout Social. See our social media management tools in action. Start your own free trial today.
- Affirmed Networks — Affirmed's fully virtualized, cloud-native solutions allow operators to transform the economics of deploying and scaling 3G, 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi mobile services.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $250k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $365k–$1.2M; Series A $2.3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $26M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- MedZERO — MedZERO is the world's first mobile lending platform dedicated to serving the healthcare industry. Designed to meet a growing problem, medZERO helps people pay for ever-increasing portions of their healthcare costs. An employer benefit, medZERO enables employees to pay out-of-pocket medical bills without incurring high credit card interest or401k loan fees.MedZERO is a mobile application that provides employees of participating businesses immediate access to funds to pay medical costs with zero interest and zero fees. Payments are made with a pre-paid virtual MasterCard and repayment is completed over 12 months directly from payroll deductions.MedZERO was developed through a joint venture between Portland, Oregon-based Sortis Holdings (SOHI) and Kansas City, Missouri-based Mobile Capital Group. Sortis Holdings’ wholly owned subsidiary Sortis Financial provides a national loan servicing platform and Mobile Capital Group brings a payments technology that supports millions of lending transactions used by some of the nation’s largest payroll providers.
- PortalSphere — PortalSphere is a B2B eCommerce platform built for Shopify stores, transforming them into wholesale portals with personalized pricing and intelligent upsells. Developed by B2B Plus, Inc. in Portland, OR, and serves brands in beauty, health, apparel, food, and home goods categories.
- Phosio Corporation — Phosio Corporation develops a photoresist material for the fabrication of high aspect ratio nanostructures. The company was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from Oregon State University's Department of Chemistry and the NSF-funded Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry.
U-Start is a professional advisory firm structuring deals with private investors, investing in tech companies across Europe, Israel and US.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Travel, Fashion
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $406k–$3.5M; Series A $3M–$23M; Series B $3.4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Dott — We believe in a future where cities are pollution-free and designed for people, not cars.
- Keatz — A technodelic for VR
- TransferGo — Move and manage money between borders quickly and affordably with TransferGo.
Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and biotechnology companies. Their healthcare portfolio companies' care delivery models include digital health, consumer-centric businesses, patient-provider solutions, data science, and analytics. Their life sciences and biotechnology portfolio companies focus on molecules and platforms, therapeutics,and genomics.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Ireland, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 533
- Round size: Series A $4.6M–$92M; Series B $7M–$100M; Series C $10M–$107M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $439M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Aepona — Aepona Ltd. provides application-led products and services to telecommunications operators worldwide. Its Universal Service Platform allows service creation and implementation to be carried out within the service network from underlying network resources. Aepona, Ltd. serves customers in Europe, North America, and South East Asia. The companywas founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Belfast, United Kingdom. Aepona Ltd. is a former subsidiary of ApiON Ltd.
- Phreesia — Phreesia's patient intake software helps 4,700+ healthcare organizations increase revenue, reduce no-shows and end front-desk chaos. Get a demo today.
- RetireOne — The outsourced insurance desk of choice for RIAs features low-cost, zero commission annuities for fee-only fiduciaries that are simple + transparent.
Nisha Dua is Co-founder & Managing Partner at BBG Ventures, which she co-founded with Susan Lyne in 2014. BBGV is an NYC-based, early-stage fund leading investments in companies built by underestimated founders that are transforming our collective and lived experiences. BBGV invests across Sustainable and Transparent Commerce, Underestimated& Emerging Consumers, Health & Wellbeing, The Evolving Workforce, and Next Gen Communities. At BBGV Nisha has invested in over 70 start-ups including The Wing, Zola, Pymetrics, KiwiCo, Spring Health, Future Family and Winky Lux. Most recently, BBGV launched Fund III and led investments in Planet FWD, RadSwan, Thousand Fell, Oova, and Starface.Nisha has spent the last decade working in media, tech, strategy and law. She was the General Manager of AOL’s millennial site, Cambio, which she re-launched as a site “for girls, #BUILTBYGIRLS” in partnership with Girls Who Code. She then founded BUILT BY GIRLS, a software platform which connects girls and non-binary talent with professionals to prepare the next generation of leaders to step into careers powered by technology. Nisha was previously Chief of Staff for the AOL Brand Group, working on strategy, operations and special projects. She cut her teeth as a management consultant for Bain & Company and an M&A lawyer at Australian law firm Blake Dawson. Nisha acts as an advisor to numerous start-ups outside her role as an investor.
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- Industry: Health Care, Beauty, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $2M–$4.2M; Series A $6M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Diem — 8,346 Followers, 1,333 Following, 1,194 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Diem (@askdiem)
- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
- SuperCircle — SuperCircle develops a tech platform and reverse logistics system that powers circularity for retail brands. It links retail with the waste management industry to close the loop and eliminate post-consumer clothing waste.
Harry is a partner at OMERS Ventures, previously at Balderton Capital & BGF Ventures- and the youngest investor in the inaugural Forbes "Midas List Europe", thanks to investments such as The Hut Group, GoCardless, Touch Surgery and Revolut. Prior to Balderton, Harry co-founded Firefly Tonics, a healthy energy drink brand that sells inover 30 countries, sold to Private Equity in 2012. Harry started his career at McKinsey & Co., the strategy consultancy, in London and New York.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $685k–$7.5M; Series A $3.2M–$16M; Series B $12M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- SeedLegals — The all-in-one AI-enabled platform to get investment ready, get SEIS/EIS, raise investment, issue share options. Trusted by 60,000+ startups.
- LVNDR Health — Get ready for sexual healthcare with you at the centre
Welcome to Define Ventures, where we invest in visionary entrepreneurs who are transforming healthcare. Discover how we partner with innovators to build the future of healthcare.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Wellness
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $3.2M–$8M; Series A $9.5M–$30M; Series B $15M–$140M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Arintra — Arintra is an AI-powered autonomous coding technology that delivers significant efficiency and accelerates your revenue cycle business performance.
- Blank Bio — RNA intelligence for precision medicine. YCS25
- 9amHealth — 9amHealth is a virtual healthcare company focused on managing chronic cardiometabolic conditions such as diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. The platform connects patients with licensed healthcare providers, pharmacists, nutritionists, prescription delivery services, and at-home laboratory testing through a digital caremodel. Its services include personalized treatment plans, medication management, ongoing monitoring, and remote consultations designed to support long-term condition management. The company also works with employers, health plans, and pharmacy benefit managers to provide healthcare support programs for individuals living with chronic illnesses. 9am.health’s care approach combines medical treatment, behavioral support, and digital tools to help patients access healthcare services remotely and manage their conditions more consistently.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: France, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.6M; Series A $3.9M–$15M; Series B $5.6M–$67M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $207M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Lissi — We provide software for organisations to interact with EUDI-Wallets #eIDAS 2.0
- amber — info@amberoad.aiambeRoad is developing an intelligent enterprise search engine to help employees to find all relevant documents easily and quickly by integrating all company internal data sources into one search engine. Our solution allows access to all company-wide files from anywhere. Even if you don't exactly know what you are lookingfor, our cutting-edge AI will know because of a range of features implemented in our software.No need to tag documents manually, all in milliseconds - only one search request away.
- ENGO Eyewear — engo3 is a next generation heads up display built for endurance athletes. Instant, frictionless, hands free access to performance metrics with long battery life and an ultra lightweight form factor. Unlock your data, and experience an entirely new way to train and compete
Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in North America. The firm focuses on investments in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware. Precursor Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 530
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $66M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Scorbit — Scorbit develops a platform for pinball players and pinball machine owners and operators.
- PodcastAI — Upload one episode. PodcastAI generates transcripts, clips, social posts, a website, and distribution automatically.
- Xella Health — Women's health testing that goes beyond biomarkers. Xella's multi-omic analysis connects your hormones, metabolism, and more, with concierge clinical care.
Before Redrice, Oksana lead True Seed Fund and has invested in a number of successful early-stage companies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $255k–$4M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$3.5M; Series A $2.6M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unmind — Unmind is a workplace mental health platform. We empower employees to measure, understand, and improve their mental wellbeing.
- LANDBAY — Your dedicated Landbay intermediary page for specialist buy-to-let mortgages. Partner with a lender who gives you direct decisions with a flexible approach and a full online application process.
- LVNDR Health — Get ready for sexual healthcare with you at the centre
Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to the craft of building great companies. Craft has brought together a rare combination of entrepreneurial experience and investor acumen. Over the past twenty years, David, Bill, Jeff and Sky have built and invested in some of the most iconic companies of this generation.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 552
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$9M; Series A $9M–$35M; Series B $20M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $608M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- ParadeDB — One Postgres for your application data, full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregations. Home of the pg_search extension.
- Horizon3.ai — Horizon3.ai's mission is to help you find and fix your attack vectors before criminals exploit them. NodeZero, our automated penetration testing solution, enables organizations to continuously assess the security posture of their enterprise, including external, identity, on-prem, IoT, and cloud attack surfaces. Like APTs, ransomware, andother threat actors, our algorithms discover and fingerprint your attack surface, identifying the ways exploitable vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, harvested credentials, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together to facilitate a compromise. NodeZero is a true self-service SaaS offering that is safe to run in production and requires no persistent or credentialed agents. You will see your enterprise through the eyes of the attacker, identify your ineffective security controls, and ensure your limited resources are spent fixing problems that can actually be exploited. Founded in 2019 by industry, US Special Operations, and US National Security veterans, Horizon3.ai is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and made in the USA.
- OpenEvidence — OpenEvidence uses artificial intelligence to aggregate, synthesize, and visualize clinical evidence in understandable, clinically-useful formats that can be used to make more evidenced-based decisions and improve patient outcomes.
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Browse database — It's Free!Michelle joined Badoo originally as lead counsel over 4 years ago. Prior to joining Badoo she was a successful corporate lawyer at leading international law firm, Mishcon de Reya, before being poached by the firm's successful biotech client, Quotient Bioscience to head up their legal team. During her time at Badoo, she built the legal,compliance, HR and talent teams before moving into a more operationally focused role, including a position on the board. Today, Michelle is responsible for most key areas of the business, and works closely with founder and CEO Andrey Andreev, on the existing product, and exciting 'special projects' coming soon....
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- Industry: Women's, Fashion, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ruuby — Book vetted beauty and wellness experts to your home or hotel. 2,500+ professionals, same-day availability, 365 days a year. 150,000+ five-star reviews.
- Luna Daily — Microbiome balancing body care for all skin, even your most intimate. Head, vulva, knees and toes. Vegan, dermatologist-approved, and eco-friendly skincare for all skin types. On a mission to connect women of all ages and stages to each other and their entire bodies.
- OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $1bn in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering,business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 222
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.9M; Series A $3.3M–$27M; Series B $11M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $377M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Nexcade — Nexcade AI agents run freight quoting, tenders, rates, bookings, and reporting with your team, visible and controlled at every step.
- Project Q — European defence integration. Deployed with Bundeswehr, validated at NATO. Open-core, ITAR-free, no vendor lock-in. Connect sensors to C2 in seconds.
- STARK — EUROPEAN DEFENCE SOVEREIGNTY
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- Industry: LGBT, Rental, Travel
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- misterb&b — Find & book the best gay bnbs worldwide with trusted hosts . Gay Hotels, resorts & more in 220 countries. Loved by 1M+ travelers. Safe travels with the LGBTQ travel community!
In 1994, at Cisco Systems, he pioneered the B2B Internet with cisco.com identifying, articulating and helping create a new business paradigm, the Global Networked Business. In 2000, as an early driver of digital philanthropy, he saw that as the Internet changed the way business was done, it had could change the way people helped each other. Usingthe power of the Internet for good, Chris Co-Founded NetAid innovating with online volunteering and the first mobile app for donations on the Palm VII. Chris was a founding board member of the ePhilanthropy Foundation, founded Cisco’s ePhilanthropy office, and was Co-Founder and Founding President & CEO of Network for Good raising $1B for nonprofits. He’s served on boards with local nonprofits, Internet startups, and produced a documentary. He currently serves on StartOut's Board of Directors. StartOut fosters LGBT entrepreneurs. While Board Chair at StartOut he helped professionalize and scale the organization to 12,000 members, opening chapters in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
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- Industry: LGBT, Rental, Travel
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- misterb&b — Find & book the best gay bnbs worldwide with trusted hosts . Gay Hotels, resorts & more in 220 countries. Loved by 1M+ travelers. Safe travels with the LGBTQ travel community!
David is GM, Expert Network at Hunt Club and a Founding Member at TBD Angels. As an entrepreneur and angel investor, he has held operating roles at 6 startups and invested in 90 companies. He was recently the CEO of Gradifi, which was acquired by E*TRADE. Previously, he was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School and Director of theBabson Summer Venture Program.David has held product and marketing roles at 6 Boston-based startups that were acquired. He previously led the PayPal Boston office and co-founded the Start Tank innovation space. Earlier in his career, he held roles at TripAdvisor (IAC), m-Qube (Verisign), edocs (Siebel), SnapMyLife (Exclaim Mobility), and Goldman Sachs.As a leader in the entrepreneurship community, he holds several advisor/board memberships and has made 90 angel investments in early-stage startups. Awards include Boston Business Journal's Power 50: Most Influential Bostonians, BostInno’s 50 on Fire: Education Winner / Investment Winner / Tech Finalist, and Finalist for NEVY Angel of the Year.David holds a BS with Distinction in Computer Science from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $250k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $4M–$4.5M; Series A $3.2M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Infringements — Monitor your patents and get instant alerts on potential infringements.
- Hermetica — Hermetica is a crypto-native team with extensive financial technology experience, having worked with big organizations such as Kraken and State Street. Hermetica is dedicated to developing innovative financial products that capitalize on Bitcoin's security and transparency.
- Patented.ai — The most powerful AI engine for intellectual property.
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- Industry: Software, Advertising, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $750k–$4.5M; Series A $3.8M–$10M; Series B $3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ID90T — "ID90T is revolutionizing airline employee travel by providing online shopping, reservation and ticketing tools, employee-only deals and discounts, and easy-to-implement technology that results in significant cost savings for our airline clients and increased employee satisfaction."
- Amplify.LA — Amplify is a pre-seed fund in Venice, CA dedicated to backing strong teams at the earliest stages and supporting from first check to exit. The firm was founded in 2011, and has backed dozens of companies, which together have raised over half a billion dollars in funding, with exits to Apple, Google, FanDuel and others.
- Policygenius — Policygenius is an insurance tech-startup that specializes in providing financial protection. The company focuses on providing solutions in the fields of finance, insurance, and insure-tech. Policygenius was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Mana Ventures is a San Francisco based VC firm that invests in early stage technology companies and consumer brands.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Synfini — Synfini, Inc., a privately held Menlo Park, California-based company, is a pioneer in agile chemistry. Its advanced, automated molecular discovery platform is transforming drug discovery through integrated neuro-symbolic AI, discovery-focused robotic automation, and world-class chemistry data. The patented Synfini platform includes automatedchemical synthesis technologies from SRI International. As a commercial enterprise Synfini will provide accelerated molecular discovery to drug hunters and pharmaceutical companies worldwide.
- xRobotics — Smallest and powerful pizza-making robot in the world. Top 3 ingredients: sauce, cheese and pepperoni. Adjustable volume 100-300 pizzas per hour.
- Bedrock Ocean Exploration — Bedrock is building smarter, more efficient ways to collect and manage seafloor data.
Collab Capital - Transforming genius into generational wealth. A New Institution for Black Entrepreneurs
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- BoxedUp — Hundreds of products, delivered to your door in 2 days or less.
- Culina Health — Connect with one of Culina Health's virtual dietitians for inclusive, science-backed nutrition plans that are covered by insurance.
- Backpack Healthcare — Backpack Healthcare provides accessible, inclusive and comprehensive pediatric and family mental healthcare.
Manuela Rios is a individual investor.
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- Industry: LGBT, Dating, Social
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator from 2016 through 2019. Sam Altman attended Stanford University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Exowatt — Modular full-stack renewable energy solutions for commercial and industrial customers.
- Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
- Campus — Live courses with top professors.
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- Industry: LGBT, Dating, Social
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
Sean Rad is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. Rad served as Tinder's CEO and Chairman at various times from the company's inception until 2017. Rad also foundedCardify in 2012, Adly in 2009, and Orgoo in 2004.In 2020, Forbes included Rad on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. In May 2016, he was awarded an honoree diploma from the University of Southern California while delivering their undergraduate commencement.
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- Industry: Health Care, Apps, Consumer
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Scener — Watch shows and movies synced together and hang out over video chat
- SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
- Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Moai Capital is seed & venture capital investor run by Brian Jacobs investing in consumer, cloud & autism startups.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Robotics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sound Health — Sound Health uses acoustic resonance to provide nasal relief. Its current product is an app that scans the face to map the bone structure and then a headband that plays music at personalized frequencies for 10 minutes. The headband is off the shelf and the sound levels are akin to wearing earpods. It envisions the headband to be over-the-counter(OTC) so it’s easily accessible to patients, whether prescribed by doctors or not.
- Molten Industries — Decarbonizing the world's chemical and heavy industries
- Reset Financial Technologies — Reset is an earned-wage access platform that offers employees financial wellness and increases employee retention across industries through mission-driven technology.
Macluan Digital Partners offers funding opportunities to small and medium businesses.
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- Industry: LGBT, News, Dating
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- gay.com — The Los Angeles LGBT Center is a safe and welcoming place where the LGBTQ+ community finds help, hope, and support when it is needed the most.
Lila Steinbach is a individual investor.
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- Industry: LGBT, Dating, Social
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
TiE Angels is one of the most active angel groups in Silicon Valley.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $395k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.9M; Series A $1.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Gone — Gone is a goods redistribution platform that offers free pickup of gently used household products.
- Cheerio AI — Enterprise-grade agentic AI to accelerate revenue, optimize operations, and scale customer engagement with minimal manual effort.
- Clean Fanatics — Clean Fanatics offers expert house cleaning, painting, pest control, and civil services in Bangalore. Book today for a spotless, well-maintained home!
Antoine is a technology entrepreneur and an investor in technology companies in California and China. He has 20 years of leadership experience in technology marketing worldwide, as CEO, senior officer and director/advisor in listed companies, start-ups, turnarounds and midsize-to-large companies. Antoine has traded in the currency and stockmarkets for 10 years. Antoine's career highlights include working with the Tokyo representation of the French Prime Minister's DATAR unit to negotiate the setup of Mitsubishi Electric, Canon, Toshiba and Sony's industrial facilities in France, and a 4-year stint at Nortel Networks where he headed the OEM and Asia/Pacific unit of the company's digital wireless terminals business. Antoine was also president & COO of Zi Corporation, a developer of intelligent user interface software listed on the NASDAQ Main Board, and CEO of Dejima, Inc., a developer of distributed artificial intelligence software, which he sold to Sybase, Inc. In addition, Antoine worked at salesforce.com, the leader in on-demand enterprise applications, as vice-president, and at Good Technology, the last independent challenger to RIM Blackberry, as senior vice president. He is an investor, board member and advisor in a number of companies in California, Greater China and Japan. He is the author or co-author of 5 patents. Antoine holds a MBA from the Paris Graduate School of Management (ESCP) and has studied at the faculties of Economics and Commerce of Chuo University in Tokyo.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, France, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$30M; Series A $4.3M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoShare — Moving, hauling, and delivery help is just a tap away with GoShare's easy app. Get a truck or cargo van in less than an hour.
- LogicInk — LogicInk is developing bio-chemical signals that can be worn daily, to support your wellbeing with increased knowledge about your health and daily peace of mind.
- Hornet — With over 100 million users worldwide, Hornet is your go-to app for fun, engaging chat with gay men.
Wefunder is a crowd investing platform that offers capital raising services. The company's online platform offers investment services to startups through its investors' userbase and disruptive companies can receive amount as small as hundred dollars, enabling companies to grow and develop their businesses.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: United States, Kenya, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $200k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $89k–$1.5M; Equity Crowdfunding $51k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25k in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Kombuchery — Establish the leading health and lifestyle brand in the beverage industry. We aim to establish a socially-responsible, healthier, and more affordable alternative to conventional beverages in the market, while disrupting the traditional beverage value chain by leveraging direct-to-consumer subscription and digital marketing channels.
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- Firesale — Firesale is an AI-powered resale marketplace built for people with too much stuff and zero time. Sellers record a 2-second video, and Firesale’s AI instantly generates the title, description, photos, and price. No typing, no pricing games, no endless messages — just tap, record, and sell. Designed to feel like a digital yard sale, Firesale makes iteffortless to turn clutter into cash locally, with Uber-powered pickup and delivery options.
Tusk Venture Partners is the only venture capital firm at the nexus of technology and regulation. TVP is an early-stage venture capital firm based in NYC, focused on investing in technology startups operating in highly-regulated markets.
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- Industry: Health Care, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $3M–$15M; Series A $8M–$60M; Series B $25M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Kodex — Kodex helps your company maintain compliance when law enforcement sends subpoenas, and other legal process. We manage relationships, workflows, and secure file transfer with government agencies who are seeking confidential and restricted information on your company's users.
- Hint — HINT Home Intelligence is an AI‑powered home‑management platform that acts as a centralized “living manual” for homeowners, organizing property details, maintenance schedules, and utility information in one digital interface.
- Doctronic — Doctronic is the first D2C AI doctor working with human doctors in all 50 states in the US (and moving into other countries quickly). Get immediate AI diagnosis and then ask a human doctor to verify / act on that diagnosis if needed.
Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments. Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO)
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, China, Algeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $970k–$13M; Series A $6.3M–$49M; Series B $12M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mila Cares — Mila is the best smart air purifier for home use. Award-winning design, quieter performance, and powerful clean air for every room.
- Yassir — Access on-demand daily services like ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments with Yassir, your super app.
- Truck It In — is a platform tech company focused on simplifying road freight for 3.3M+ businesses in Pakistan to unlock 1 Billion dollars in resource potential
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