Top 50 LGBT Startup Investors in January 2025

Investor	LGBT investments
Gaingels	3
Amanda Bradford	2
U-Start	2
Nisha Dua	2
Bessemer Venture Partners	2
Harry Briggs	2
Andy Dunn	2
Alpaca VC	2
Define Ventures	2
XFactor Ventures	2
Chiratae Ventures	1
Wefunder	1
Baroda Ventures	1
OnLine Partners	1
Patrick Spaulding Ryan Ph.D	1
Slow Ventures	1
Angelia Muller	1
Sean Rad	1
Flatiron Partners	1
Oksana Stowe	1
Chelsea Clinton	1
Calm/Storm Ventures	1
Mana Ventures	1
Octopus Ventures	1
David Chang	1
Red Swan Ventures	1
Craft Ventures	1
Moai Capital	1
Albert Lee	1
SeedInvest	1
Debut Capital	1
Town Hall Ventures	1
Backstage Capital	1
10X Capital	1
Sam Altman	1
Peter Boyce II	1
Crystal Stream Capital	1
Zhonglu Capital	1
Mark Suster	1
Graph Ventures	1
Great Oaks Venture Capital	1
Philippe von Borries	1
Chase Capital Partners	1
Ventech	1
VTF Capital	1
TiE Angels	1
Female Founders Fund	1
George Godula	1
Hopelab	1
Lorenzo Thione	1

Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of diversity, inclusive of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OneRail — OneRail is a final mile delivery orchestration platform providing real-time visibility, actionable data, and data-driven optimization capabilities for its enterprise clients. OneRail’s cloud-based “delivery switch” simplifies same-day and on-demand delivery execution by connecting the demand signal (POS, eCommerce, ERP) with the ecosystem ofdelivery networks and internal fleets in real-time. The result of OneRail’s centralized view of disparate final mile data enables data-driven optimization, positively impacting the dependability, speed, and cost of final mile fulfillment.
Holly — Holly operates as an AI company that modernizing government hiring.
Qnovia — Respira Technologies is a platform device and biotechnology company focusing on aerosol science. The company is creating breakthrough aerosol devices and formulations that safely deliver a broad range of pharmaceuticals and nicotine.Respira Technologies' mission is to create novel medical devices of unparalleled efficiency and to advance theprotection of public health with consumer devices through novel innovation, responsible sourcing, draft legislative proposals, transparent product information, and common sense oversight.

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.

Investment focus

LGBT, Dating, Social
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

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.

U-Start is a professional advisory firm structuring deals with private investors, investing in tech companies across Europe, Israel and US.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Travel, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dott — We believe in a future where cities are pollution-free and designed for people, not cars.
Keatz — Keatz is a network of restaurants that provide contemporary dishes for delivery. Keatz delivers food with a fusion of indulgence and comfort without compromise. The company creates ideal recipes, process, and packaging for the possible quality and the meals will arrive at peoples doors with the same quality that leaves the kitchen. Its culinaryteam is always on the lookout for upcoming culinary trends and techniques to bring to neighbourhoods.Keatz was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

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.
Millie — Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there.

We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

ANYbotics — ANYbotics provides autonomous legged robots for industrial applications to provide high availability and reliability in automated routine inspections.
Torch Dental — Torch Dental develops an all-in-one technology designed to meet dental practices' supply ordering and inventory management needs. Torch Dental simplifies and streamlines the ordering process, allowing dentists to focus on their patients.
Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible

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.

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Germany

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 — Grow faster with SeedLegals. Unlimited expert support included. Trusted by 50,000+ startups and investors.
LVNDR Health — Get ready for sexual healthcare with you at the centre

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

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
Ours — Modern-day virtual couples therapy and premarital counseling trusted by thousands. Get started with world-class couples therapists today!
Kabata — Full workout comprehension. Data-driven coaching. Gamified progression. Welcome to the next generation in connected fitness.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Real Estate
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

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.
North.cloud — Automate your enterprise-grade cloud finance with zero effort. Our AI reduces your cloud bill by 50% without any risk, contracts, or technical work.
Intramotev — Intramotev Autonomous Rail manufactures autonomous zero-emissions rail vehicles to advance the future of freight movement. Intramotev's vehicles provide efficient and cost-effective movement of materials across specialized private railroads for mines, manufacturing facilities, ports, and more that is autonomous and fully battery-electric,enabling rail and mining industries to get lower emissions than diesel-electric locomotives and diesel trucks, shorter stopping distance, and steeper grade capability than existing trains.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Wellness
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

9amHealth — 9am.health redesigns all care elements into one digital service individualized around today’s reality of people’s life - always available and convenient, at prices anyone can afford even without insurance. 9am.health focuses on chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia for customers in the United States.
Soda Health — We are a healthcare technology company dedicated to eliminating health inequities through social determinants of health. Our services include supplemental benefit administration, highly customizable member benefit programs with restricted spending and multi-balance capabilities, and robust member data analytics with benefit design recommendations.
Blackbird Health — Blackbird Health helps kids and young adults struggling with social, developmental, and school-related challenges with expert mental health care covered by insurance.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
Morf Health — Morf Health is making it 10x faster for healthcare providers to setup and maintain integrations across their tech stack, e.g. easily structure data from patient intake and send to an EHR. We pull data out of the tools they use to deliver care and run the business, unify and normalize the data, and then send it to the tools that need it.
Vidoc Security Lab — Ethical Hacking Automation platform for security teams

Chiratae Ventures is a global network of venture capital funds with approximately $3.6 billion under management and a portfolio of over 220 companies built over the last 15 years. The Chiratae Ventures network is comprised of five independent partnerships managing funds in North America and Asia. Each partnership makes investments on behalf of itslimited partners, including International Data Group (IDG), the world's largest IT media company. By combining the IDG platform – an unparalleled combination of global publishing, market research (IDC), and conferences and exhibition resources – with years of hands-on experience in early-stage company building, each Chiratae Ventures fund helps companies understand their markets better and penetrate them faster than their competition.With partnerships in the USA, Korea and multiple locations throughout China, India and Vietnam, the IDG Ventures network offers the international perspective and the local market expertise to help companies grow from start-ups to global success stories.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Blitzscale Technologies — WMall hai khaas ladies ke liye ek online mall. WMall pe aap Kapde, Jewelery, Cosmetics, Ghar ka samaan, kitchen ka samaan, baccho ke liye kapde, toys etc ki shopping MRP se 30-70% discount pe kar sakte hai. Blockbuster Deals: WMall har din kuch products pe deta hai extra discount.
ShopDeck — ShopDeck helps sellers to create their ecommerce store/website, manage logistics, payment and everything for a business to sell stuffs online.
Dezy — Smiles.ai is India's leading dental clinic with 100+ expert dentists and has 300+ dental care centers in major cities like Bangalore, Bhopal, Chennai, Delhi, Indore, Lucknow, and Kolkata. Find the best dentist nearby.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United States, Israel, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Sensate — Wearable technology using science to help you relax, reduce stress and anxiety and improve your mental health. Learn more about Sensate and our mission.
Terraseed — Terraseed is the most sustainable and complete vegan vitamin, featuring 9 ethically-sourced nutrients in a fully compostable bottle.
Savvos Health — Savvos Health is a marketplace of affordable cash prices for shoppable medical care, including imaging, outpatient surgery, labs, and more.

Top Los Angeles Venture Capital Firm - Baroda Ventures

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.
Fluence — Training in psychedelic integration and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. International workshops, conferences, and consultation related to and mental health, MDMA, Psilocybin, ketamine, Ayahuasca, and other compounds.
Hedgehog — Trade anywhere, Track anything, and Learn everything about crypto with Hedgehog, a portfolio manager and research tool for crypto currencies.

OnLine Partners is a data-driven online marketing agency focusing on 360-degree search engine optimization. The company focuses on creating digital growth through SEO, PPC, and conversion optimization. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Kolding, Syddanmark.

Investment focus

LGBT, News, Dating
Series A
United States

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.

Patrick Spaulding Ryan PhD (X-Google, X-Bytedance) is an investor and advisor in early-stage businesses. Patrick invests through PSR Crypto, PRMM USA and is on the Investment Committee at Leawood Venture Capital. Patrick is fractional general counsel and investor in Turion Space, and legal advisor and investor at Bttn. Patrick previously workedat Google for 9 years as a Trust, Engineering & Strategy Principal, and for 2 years at Bytedance as lead TPM in security engineering R&D and as co-director of the web3 research program. Patrick received a PhD in law & economics from KU Leuven (Belgium) and is a graduate of University of St.Gallen (Switzerland), the University of Texas School of Law, and the MIddlebury Institute of International Studies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

CurveCatch — CurveCatch brengt de voordelen van een kleine lingerie speciaalzaak en online shoppen samen. Enerzijds nemen we je bij de hand en nemen we alle complexiteit rond maten en pasvormen weg door deze voor jou uit te kiezen o.b.v. 15 jaar ervaring. Anderzijds ben je op 5min klaar met bestellen en kan je thuis lingerie passen alvorens deze te betalen. Je betaalt achteraf alleen wat je houdt. Bestel nu jouw box en ervaar deze nieuwe manier van shoppen!
Arrenda — Arrenda is a fintech startup that provides market-specific insurance and financial products to the real estate markets of Latin America. It also offers advance payments to landlords upfront to lower barriers to renting in the country. Arrenda was founded in 2021 and is based in Mexico City.
My Little Mascara Club — Meet the little mascara everyone is subscribing to, exclusively at My Little Mascara Club. Seriously smudge proof, packed with clean ingredients, and just the right size for you to always have a fresh, clump-free mascara. Delivered!

Slow Ventures is a community built on the collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

dub — The first Copy-Trading platform for stocks. Copy anyone's investments. For free. Regulated Broker-Dealer member FINRA and SIPC & FDIC insured.
DIMO — DIMO helps drivers get more from their cars. Gain insights into vehicle health and performance and get rewarded for helping to build the future of mobility.
Digital Infrastructure Services — DIMO helps drivers get more from their cars. Gain insights into vehicle health and performance and get rewarded for helping to build the future of mobility.

Angie is the CEO and co-founder of Attunement AI. Prior to founding Attunement AI, Angie was a partnership lead at Stripe and NVIDIA

Investment focus

B2B, Health Care, Advanced Materials
Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Magic — Get whatever you want on demand with no hassle, through SMS. Send us a text message, and we'll get you anything you want, tip included. We'll order what you need from the appropriate service (e.g. DoorDash, Instacart, Postmates, etc.), and deal with them so you just automatically get what you want, like magic...
LOOMIA — Loomia makes soft circuit circuit systems ( e-textile systems) that be used in a wide range of soft goods. We serve customers in medical wearable, automotive interiors and outdoor apparel and accessories
LVNDR Health — Get ready for sexual healthcare with you at the centre

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Consumer
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Scener — Watch shows and movies synced together and hang out over video chat
SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.

In 1996, Fred Wilson co-founded Flatiron Partners with his partner Jerry Colonna. Flatiron, named after the Flatiron District, became a successful, primarily follow-on investment fund in the New York City area, with investments in notable Dot-com bubble successes and failures including Alacra, comScore Networks, Yoyodyne, Geocities, Kozmo.com, NewYork Times Digital, PlanetOut, Return Path, Scout electromedia, Standard Media International, Starmedia, and VitaminShoppe.com. The firm's 1996 fund capitalized at $150 million with two investors: SOFTBANK Technology Ventures and Chase Capital Partners, the private-equity arm of Chase Manhattan Corp. The firm later raised another fund capitalized at $500 million with Chase Capital Partners as the sole active LP. In 2001, Wilson and Colonna essentially shut down Flatiron (although they still manage what remains of its portfolio). Wilson offered a blunt assessment in July 2005 in Business 2.0, "Yeah, boy, we really screwed up a bunch of things."

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Marketing
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

PathogenDx — PathogenDx has developed a microarray based test specifically designed for the cannabis, botanical, food and agricultural testing markets. Our technology allows test labs to conduct between 12- 48 tests in parallel, testing up to 20 pathogens per test in less than a days’ shift. This is done at a fraction of the cost of plate counts or RealtimePCR. Our Raw Sample technology allows laboratories to bypass almost 20 steps that Real-time PCR must perform for DNA extraction and purification. PathogenDx technology bypasses the need for purification, quantitation, and normalization increasing the speed and affordability of pathogen screening. This helps our customers reduce testing time by 12 hours on the front end, and avoid spending money on sample prep kits and additional instrumentation.
Willow Industries — Mitigate mold and bacteria in cannabis with Willow Industries Ozone Systems. WillowPure provides clean and effective solutions to cannabis contamination.
Green Check Verified — Green Check Verified is the leading provider of cannabis banking solutions and expert advisory services for financial institutions.

Before Redrice, Oksana lead True Seed Fund and has invested in a number of successful early-stage companies.

Investment focus

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

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

Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, works to drive the vision and programmatic work of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation. Over the past 14 years, The Clinton Foundation has convened businesses, governments, NGOs, and individuals to improve global health and wellness, increase opportunity for girls and women,reduce childhood obesity, create economic opportunity and growth, and help communities address the effects of climate change. As only a few examples, because of the Clinton Foundation’s work, more than 29,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; more than 85,000 farmers in Malawi, Rwanda, and Tanzania are benefiting from climate-smart agronomic training, higher yields, and increased market access; over 350,000 people have been impacted through market opportunities created by social enterprises in Latin America, the Caribbean, and South Asia; 75 million people are benefiting from disease prevention efforts and investments in the U.S.; and through the affiliated Clinton Health Access Initiative, 9.9 million people in more than 70 countries have access to CHAI-negotiated prices for HIV/AIDS medications.As Vice Chair of the Foundation, Chelsea is a tireless advocate for the work of the Foundation. She works alongside Foundation leadership toward a shared goal of making the Clinton Foundation one of the most effective and efficient global NGOs in the world. She works in-depth across a number of the Foundation’s programmatic areas including: No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project working to advance the full participation of women and girls; the Clinton Global Initiative University, a program focused on empowering the next generation of change-makers; the Clinton Foundation’s Day of Action program which she founded; the Foundation’s various health programs and the conservation of Africa’s Elephants through the Clinton Global Initiative.Chelsea currently teaches at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and previously worked at McKinsey & Company and Avenue Capital. Chelsea also serves on the boards of the Clinton Foundation’s affiliated Clinton Health Access Initiative, the School of American Ballet, the Africa Center and the Weill Cornell Medical College. She is the Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Of Many Institute at NYU. Chelsea holds a B.A. from Stanford, an MPH from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and both an MPhil and a Doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University. Chelsea is the author of It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going, a book for young readers ages 10-14 which explores some of the biggest challenges facing our world today, particularly impacting kids and shares inspiring stories of young people who are already making a difference in their own communities and around the globe.She lives with her husband Marc and their daughter Charlotte in New York City.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Women's
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Euphoria.LGBT — A better gender transition starts today. We're here to help make this process easier than ever. A complete transition in two years or less.
Elemy — Elemy is the nationwide provider of childhood behavioral and mental healthcare. Every child is different. At Elemy, we believe care should never be one-size-fits-all. Chat with us about in-home, personalized care for your child.
Summer Health — Get answers from an expert, board-certified pediatricians in 15 minutes. From child health to development, Summer Health gets you answers any time, day or night.

Calm/Storm is an exclusive founder network and venture capital firm. We invest in purpose driven founders changing our life & health for the better. Headquartered in Vienna, Austria we invest in early-stage companies all over Europe and the US. We focus on the pre-seed and seed stages but also invest up to Series A.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Halm — Halm is building a modern outdoor homecare brand for consumers.
Bambus.io — Fintech, Credit
Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.

Mana Ventures is a San Francisco based VC firm that invests in early stage technology companies and consumer brands.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

OneRail — OneRail is a final mile delivery orchestration platform providing real-time visibility, actionable data, and data-driven optimization capabilities for its enterprise clients. OneRail’s cloud-based “delivery switch” simplifies same-day and on-demand delivery execution by connecting the demand signal (POS, eCommerce, ERP) with the ecosystem ofdelivery networks and internal fleets in real-time. The result of OneRail’s centralized view of disparate final mile data enables data-driven optimization, positively impacting the dependability, speed, and cost of final mile fulfillment.
Anello Photonics — Anello Photonics is founded by pioneers in silicon photonics and inertial navigation. The patented Anello SiPhOG gyroscope offers an affordable mass-market sensor with true Optical Gyroscope performance. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley and funded by leading venture capital firms.
XDLINX Space Labs — XDLINX Labs is a ready-to-launch small satellite mission-as-a-service provider for complete mission requirements.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.
Forefront RF — Forefront RF tunable duplexer aims to expand the accessibility and global market reach of all mobile devices by simplifying RFFE design.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Invalidate — IPR-tested prior art search. The ultimate patent invalidation tool.
LLM Shield — The most powerful AI engine for intellectual property.
Patented.ai — The most powerful AI engine for intellectual property.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

LeaseUp — LeaseUp is a real estate software company.
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.
Nuon — Deploy your app into customer cloud accounts and make it feel like SaaS. Unlock sensitive customers and integrate with customer data, networks and LLMs in minutes.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bandana — Find better hourly jobs in New York City with Bandana. Look up company pay and salaries, filter for healthcare and full-time benefits, and improve your overall livelihood.
Airmart — Start selling online with Airmart, the best e-commerce platform for food vendors. Offer pickup, delivery, and shipping from your restaurant, bakery, or farm.
EchoMark — EchoMark protects your private information by embedding invisible forensic watermarks in documents and messages that are personalized for each recipient.

Moai Capital is seed & venture capital investor run by Brian Jacobs investing in consumer, cloud & autism startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Robotics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

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.

Albert Lee is co-founders of MyFitnessPal, the leading free resource helping people improve their health. Over the course of his career, Albert has focused on creating both consumer and business related products within some of the industry's most successful companies including eBay, Paypal and Yahoo. He also has deep experience in bothaffiliate marketing and online commerce from his time as Vice President of Marketing for Webjuice, an advertising technology startup focused on performance-based internet marketing. Albert has a B.A. in Economics and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Apps, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Sock Finance — Sock is a mobile finance app that is the easiest way in the world to earn interest (yield) on your crypto. With Sock, you can send crypto, invest, and earn with crypto anywhere in the world while maintaining self-custody.
Revery — The team at Revery is on a mission to make access to wellness affordable and accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, through the medium of gaming.
SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis

SeedInvest is a leading equity crowdfunding platform for growth-obsessed startups. Because everyone should be able to invest in the next big thing.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
United States, Israel, France

Portfolio highlights

Qairn — Qairn provides review and validation of promotional materials. They also provide ANSM submission, constitution, validation of promotional documents, and other regulated content services.
His Lovers — His Lovers is an online dating platform. It offers the chance to meet new people and form romantic relationships.
Asian Hustle Network — Asian Hustle Network (AHN) is an online community of 150,000+ members that uniquely connects Asian entrepreneurs and creatives globally across different industries. The goal of AHN is to centralize community, content, information, resources, e-commerce, and mentorship into one single location.

We are an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Founders.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Construction
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Kaster — Communication between general contractors and trade partners on construction projects is complex and fragmented, yet it’s mostly handled through email, phone and text. Naturally, critical items get lost in the clutter. As a result, everyone suffers the financial impacts of project delays, disputes, claims, and issues. Kaster bridges the gap betweengeneral contractors and trade partners by connecting them through one communication workspace, so items never fall through the cracks and project teams avoid unnecessary risk.Learn more at www.kaster.app
TargetDocs — TargetDocs is a communication workspace that collects and organizes all of your subcontractor's project files in one place so they never fall through the cracks
Us In Technology — Diversifying the tech industry. At Us In Technology we are bridging the gap between hiring companies and qualified underrepresented talent.

Town Hall Ventures is an investment firm aimed at transforming the woefully broken U.S. health care market through technology. It is dedicated to working side-by-side with visionary entrepreneurs who want to transform care delivery and health outcomes for the most underserved and higher need populations across the country.Town Hall seeks toinvest in and support the best entrepreneurs - those bold enough to want to change the system and impact millions of lives.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Hospital
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Panama

Portfolio highlights

Marble Health — Marble Health provides access to personalized therapy to help teens in their mental health journey. Marble Health provides prompt and affordable care for middle and high school students experiencing common mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, and trauma. They ensure that all teens and their families can access treatment using theirexisting insurance coverage, including both commercial and Medicaid plans.
Qualified Health — Discover the Infrastructure for enforceable governance, agent creation, and post-deployment monitoring for Generative AI in healthcare
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.

Backstage Capital is a venture capital fund investing in the best startups led by underrepresented founders in the U.S. The firm was founded in 2015 by Arlan Hamilton and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, United States.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Community — Community is a text messaging service that connects individuals and organizations instantly and directly to their audiences through text messaging at scale.
CloudNine AI — Augmented Intelligence Systems, Augmented Intelligence Companies, Augmented Intelligence applications
Patientory — Patientory empowers our users with actionable insights from health data, incentivizing them to take control of their health outcomes.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
Betr — At betr, It provides tools to support responsible play and give you control over your gambling. It encourage you to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within your personal limits.
Portal — Don't Transfect, Just Deliver!

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
Beacon AI — Beacon AI is building the future of flight safety for commercial and private fleets.
Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible

Peter Boyce II is the Founder of Stellation Capital. Peter is a graduate of Harvard University wherein he earned a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and a Secondary in Computer Science, with a focus on Behavioral Economics and Network Theory.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
United States

Portfolio highlights

Swsh — Swsh is a social app that aims to strengthen true friendships rather than superficial relationships with followers.
Hopscotch — Access money tied up in net terms with the best invoicing software for small businesses. Send invoices and pay bills payments without fees.
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.

Crystal Stream Capital specializes in making early-stage investments in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Robot Era — Robot era is an emerging technology business creates embodied intelligence and generic humanoid robot technologies and products. Xingdong Era is committed to the development of universal humanoid robots that can adapt to a wide range of fields, multiple scenarios, and high intelligence, striving to realize the beautiful vision of intelligent robotsentering thousands of households and integrating into the lights of thousands of homes.
Yupan Technology — Yupan Technology specializes in the core control technology of car intelligent chassis, offering secure chassis execution systems and global stable intelligent control solutions.
Powernice Intelligent Technology — Powernice is a high-tech company that specializes in the development and production of high-precision intelligent actuators and equipment.

Zhonglu Capital is a China-based private investment firm founded in 2015.The firm is specializing in technology, media, and technology, local lifestyle, social network, internet finance, and e-commerce sectors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Social Media, LGBT
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Huodull — Huodull is a logistics platform that helps people improve shipping efficiency.
Invispower — Invispower provides wireless charging solutions and products.
New Cloud Medical — New Cloud Medical is the leading pain specialist medical association in China. It relies on the national key specialists, the Sino-Japanese Hospital Pain Specialist Medical Association, the national telemedicine platform, the top hospital brand and the expert resource library, making full use of the advantages of international pain disciplines.Construction of national, provincial, municipal, and county pain cloud platform grading clinics. Providing pain-specific specialty treatments to city-level and county-level public secondary hospitals, creating city-level and characteristic pain departments, improving the level of pain specialist treatment, and building a professional and comprehensive network of consultation consultations and a long-term scientific operation system.

Mark Suster is the General Partner of Upfront Ventures. He previously worked at salesforce.com as a Vice President. Mark Suster attended the University of Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Poland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Secfense — Secfense is the fast track to passwordless authentication. We help companies implement strong MFA in a no-code way and at large scale.
Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
InfoSum — InfoSum has developed a decentralized platform designed to remove the trust barriers between progress and privacy. Its platform enables advertisers, media owners, data providers, and other advertising technology firms to collaborate across multiple data sources, without requiring the underlying data to be moved or pooled. The company was foundedin 2016 and is headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Graph Ventures is an investment group that specializes in seed and early-stage venture investments. It was founded in 2011. Investments include: * BetterUp * Birdies * BlueApron * Dapper Labs * Earnin * Envoy * Hinge * Houseparty * Ipsy * Loft * Lever * Lingokids * Moon Express * Papaya * PicsArt * Porch * Quinto Andar * RideOS * Saildrone *Very Good Security * VivaReal * Zeplin

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

LAAM — LAAM is an online marketplace that offers clothes, footwear, and accessories.
Elmnts — A tokenized commodity ecosystem, backed by real-world assets.
Perena — Perena is a startup developing the basic infrastructure to address significant difficulties in the stablecoin sector.

Great Oaks Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with a mission to support and invest in the most innovative and disruptive startups. Visit our home page to learn more about our portfolio companies, investment approach, and the experienced team behind our success.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
Amulet — Amulet is shining a light on invisible threats in our food system. Amulet has two core brands: - Allergy Amulet helps consumers determine whether their foods are safe by detecting potentially life-threatening allergenic ingredients. - Amulet Scientific equips businesses and manufacturers with tools to help ensure the safety of their food supplychain. Learn more: www.allergyamulet.com www.amuletscientific.com
Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.

Philippe von Borries is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Red Ventures and the President of Lonely Planet. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder of Refinery2 9.

Investment focus

LGBT, Dating, Social
Seed
United States, United Kingdom

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.
The Garden — The Garden is an online media company.

Commercial Banking serves more than 30,000 clients, including corporations, municipalities, financial institutions and not-for-profit entities. These clients generally have annual revenues ranging from $10 million to $2 billion. Commercial bankers serve clients nationally throughout the retail branch footprint and in offices located in other majormarkets. Chase Capital Partners are the #1 commercial bank in our retail branch footprint.Commercial Banking offers its clients industry knowledge, experience, a dedicated service model, comprehensive solutions and local expertise. The firmâ€™s broad platform positions them to deliver extensive product capabilities â€” including lending, treasury services, investment banking and asset management â€” to meet their clientsâ€™ U.S. and international financial needs.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series B, Private Equity
United States, Brazil, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Deem — Say hello to Etta. The world's most advanced travel management platform designed to make your employees and your budgets happy. Learn more.
Quadstone — Quadstone provides customer analytic software to enterprises in the United States and Europe. The company’s product, Quadstone System, enables enterprises to model and diagnose customer behavior. It caters to marketing, telecommunications, and financial services sector. The company’s clientele includes Barclays, Merrill Lynch, Globe Telecom, BT,Maersk Sealand, Experian CustomerInfo, Shop Direct, and Fidelity Investments.
CyberArk Software — Get the most complete Identity Security and Access Management Solutions that enable secure access across any device, anywhere, at just the right time.

On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
Microoled — Our best technology is vision. Designing the future of microdisplay applications. Our proprietary AMOLED technology elevates near-eye displays to the next level with optimal picture resolution, image brightness, and power con-sumption efficiency.
Resortecs — Resortecs is an award-winning start-up that develops heat-dissolvable stitching threads and thermal disassembly systems that make textile recycling easy.

We Invest In The Future of Commerce

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Ross & Snow — Alexia Fashion Clothing
The/Studio — Manufacture high-quality custom products in small batches with fast turnaround and free shipping online from The/Studio. Browse our custom products, here.
ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.

TiE Angels is one of the most active angel groups in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

Glidance — Glide, a groundbreaking leap in assistive technology, is the first self-guided mobility assistant designed for individuals with sight loss.
Deep Cognition — Deep Cognition's cutting-edge document automation solutions revolutionize customs brokerage data entry. Fast, accurate and secure for streamlining operations.
PredictionStrike — PredictionStrike is a platform on which users can trade virtual shares of athletes as if they were stocks. The platform operates as a real stock market and allows users to buy/sell shares, build portfolios, and operate in a live market using real money. Share prices are determined by a player’s real-world performance, where eachgame/match acts like an earnings report, as well as the fans’ demand for those shares.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

The Lanby — The Lanby is a wellness-forward, hospitality-led primary care membership in NYC. Learn about our comprehensive services and schedule a free consult.
Oula Health — Oula is a modern maternity clinic combining the best of obstetrics and midwifery care to deliver an evidence-based and personalized pregnancy experience
Hearth — A new tool for family management and productivity, made to lighten the load of organization for busy families

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mila Cares — Air breathers, rejoice. Meet Mila, the first air purifier designed with real, air-breathing humans in mind.
Yassir — La superapp Yassir propose des services de transport, de livraison et de paiement pour vous simplifier la vie
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

Hopelab is a social innovation lab and impact investor advancing entrepreneurs, research, digital health, and solutions that support and empower young people, especially those from historically underserved communities. The organization works to remove systemic barriers to youth mental health and emotional well-being through targeted social impact investments, hands-on design and research support for digital innovation, and translational science partnerships.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Personal Health
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States

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.
Vytyl Health Management — Vytyl Health Management delivers quality mental health care to adolescents and transitional-age youth. The organization firmly believes that connection forms the basis for healing. They recognize the significant challenges ahead but remain steadfast in their conviction that through collaborative efforts, barriers can be overcome, meaningful bondscan be formed, and vital assistance can be extended to those in greatest need.
Backpack Healthcare — Backpack Healthcare provides accessible, inclusive and comprehensive pediatric and family mental healthcare.

Lorenzo Thione is the co-founder of Powerset, Inc., an innovative search startup founded in 2005, with the vision of bringing to consumers a more natural and effective type of Internet search than conventional keyword search. Funded by notable Silicon Valley VCs and angel investors, Powerset was acquired by Microsoft Corp. in 2008 to complement andinnovate on its own search technology and offering. Currently, he is a Principal Program Manager in charge of the Powerset division of Bing, Microsoft's innovative "Decision Engine". Lorenzo is an active angel investor, board member and advisor in several startup, including Dolores Labs, an exciting and energetic San Francisco startup building a scalable platform for human-based computing and crowdsourcing, Crowdflower, and several others at various stages, in the US and abroad, like Kidlandia, Etacts, 8Coupons, and iBrii. In addition to his Internet-tech endeavors, Lorenzo is a theater producer currently busy in bringing several new works to the Broadway stage, including the recently emerging Green Day musical, American Idiot of which he's Associate Producer. His current and most ambitious project is a brand new musical bound for the Broadway stage. Jay Kuo's original musical Allegiance, starring George Takei and Lea Salonga, follows the story of a Japanese American family during the years of the WWII Japanese American internment, and is currently aiming for a 2012 Broadway debut.Lorenzo is a founding board member of StartOut (www.startout.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering and developing entrepreneurship within the LGBT community, and during his service on the board of StartOut, the non-profit, founded in 2009, has grown to a membership of over 1000 individuals nationwide and three active chapters in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, with plans for faster growth. He serves on the board of trustees of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and Reason To Party, a SF-based non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of underserved Bay Area residents by raising money for charity groups through events held in collaboration with local businesses. A native of Milan, Italy, Lorenzo moved to Austin, Texas at age 21, to complete his studies at the University of Texas at Austin, from which he holds a M.S. in Computer Engineering, and has co-authored several publications in Software Engineering and Computational Linguistics. He is a named inventor on 10 issued and over 20 pending patents in the US and world-wide.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Travel
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Chai — Chai AI, the leading chat bot app. Create, share, and explore chatbots on the Chai AI platform. Create your dream Chai AI chatbot now.
Ordinary Seafood — We are a consumer facing food-tech company using the power of plant protein and biotechnology to deliver the next generation of sustainable seafood. Our mission is to bring balance back into our food system by offering delicious and healthy seafood alternatives.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.