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Top 50 LGBT Startup Investors (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in LGBT startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in LGBT startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Gaingels
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$100M
XFactor Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Wellness, Health Care $100k–$17M
Bessemer Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Israel Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, SaaS $5M–$100M
Amanda Bradford
Angel
2 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A LGBT, Dating, Social $1.5M–$1.5M
Alpaca VC
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Real Estate $1.5M–$25M
Andy Dunn
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Wellness, Health Care $1.1M–$25M
Harry Briggs
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Canada, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace $713k–$29M
Define Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Health Care, Medical, Wellness $3.4M–$140M
U-Start
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Travel, Fashion $406k–$21M
Nisha Dua
Angel
2 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical, Wellness $1.5M–$4M
Calm/Storm VC
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Wellness, Software $478k–$18M
Mark Suster
Angel
1 United States, Poland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Advertising, Social Media
OnLine Partners
VC Fund
1 United States Series A LGBT, News, Dating
Debut Capital
VC Fund
1 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Music $900k–$10M
Wefunder
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $51k–$2.7M
Michelle Kennedy
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Women's, Fashion, Software $1M–$5.2M
MicroVentures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, 3D Printing, Mobile Apps $350k–$5M
Project A Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$75M
Audrey Gelman
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Apps, Social, Social Media $1.5M–$4M
SeedInvest
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, France Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $71k–$24M
Tusk Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 United States Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Financial Services, FinTech $3M–$100M
Town Hall Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Panama Series B, Series C, Series A Health Care, Medical, Hospital $5M–$200M
Ventech China
VC Fund
1 China, Singapore, United States Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail $2M–$103M
Joel Simkhai
Angel
1 United States Seed LGBT, Rental, Travel
China Growth Capital
VC Fund
1 China, United States, Hong Kong Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $1M–$55M
Backstage Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Internet $100k–$20M
Craft Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.9M–$120M
David Chang
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $250k–$85M
Lorenzo Thione
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $535k–$30M
Chelsea Clinton
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical, Apps $2M–$130M
Cavallo Consulting
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed LGBT, Tourism, Communities $121k–$683k
Slow Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Health Care $1.2M–$75M
Silvia Mah
Angel
1 United States Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Marketplace, Baby $89k–$2.5M
Ross Veitch
Angel
1 Singapore, Thailand, United States Seed Internet, Real Estate, Rental $500k–$1.1M
Patrick Spaulding Ryan
Angel
1 United States, Mexico, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Information Technology, FinTech, Software $89k–$10M
Philippe von Borries
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed LGBT, Dating, Social
Hopelab
VC Fund
1 United States Seed, Series A, Series C Health Care, Wellness, Personal Health
Oksana Stowe
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Health Care, Machine Learning $190k–$18M
Shinji Kimura
Angel
1 United States, India, Japan Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1M–$107M
Chris Sinton
Angel
1 United States Seed LGBT, Rental, Travel
Globivest
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Health Care $675k–$16M
George Godula
Angel
1 United States, China, Algeria Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile $970k–$150M
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.9M–$46M
Baroda Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Advertising, Financial Services $750k–$40M
Slauson & Co.
VC Fund
1 United States, Nicaragua Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Mana Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Peter Boyce II
Angel
1 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant Software, Social Media, B2B
Collab Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Internet
Marten Mickos
Angel
1 United States, Finland, Sweden Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Sam Altman
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Ghana Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
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Gaingels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 728
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Series A $6M–$40M; Series B $16M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • BQP — BosonQ Psi Pvt. Ltd. (BQP) is a state-of-the-art SaaS-based enterprise software venture leveraging the power of Quantum computing to speed up virtual simulations of Multiphysics and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) nature. BosonQ Psi is at the forefront of this quantum revolution. Our vision is to become the premier multiphysics simulation softwareusing quantum computing. Our world-class software suite will include computational science fields of fluid dynamics, structural dynamics, thermal, chemical, and aeroacoustics. With such an innovative product, we will revolutionize the computational world by enabling high-fidelity simulations that are impossible to solve with current computing technology. Further, this product will aid aerospace, automotive, energy, manufacturing, biotechnology, civil engineering, and astrophysics industries in saving millions of dollars by reducing long turnaround times of simulations used in the design process and give higher accuracy to make significant design changes for giving rise to the next generation of an electric car, eVTOL, skyscraper, or even Mars Rover.The possibility to harness the power of quantum computers is endless, and we at BQP thrive on pushing the boundaries of quantum computing technologies to serve our clients. We have made it our mission to bring these possibilities into the hands of every person - from a researcher to a scientist, from a professor to a student. Our name, BosonQ Psi, pays tribute to the great Indian physicist Dr. Satyendra Nath Bose, after whose name the elementary particle in quantum mechanics, Boson, was named and further incorporates the fundamental quantity that describes the state of the quantum particle - Psi, thus symbolizing the company's fundamental goal to contribute in India's goal to be the leader in the Quantum realm and also become a global leader in Quantum paradigm shift in coming years.
  • BetterBrand — Designing a Better future of food. The Better Bagel features Fewer Carbs and More Protein.
  • Sharper Sense — Neuromodulation for Clear Senses
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XFactor Ventures
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$2M; Series A $7M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $8.6M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • BoobyBiome — BoobyBiome harnesses breast milk microbiome science to develop products to improve infant health
  • Clara Labs — Clara handles your scheduling end-to-end, over email. 10+ years of precision. 1M+ meetings scheduled. Try free for 14 days.
  • Atomos Space — Atomos solves the last-mile problem in space by providing an in-space transportation service that lowers launch costs for satellite operators.
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Bessemer Venture Partners
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1190
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$34M; Series B $9.8M–$55M; Series C $10M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3.9B in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Zopper — Zopper works with insurance providers to create smaller and personalized insurance products that it supplies to distribution partners. Zopper is an insurance infrastructure API platform that democratizes access to insurance distribution.
  • Folx Health — FOLX is a nationwide healthcare provider for the LGBTQIA+ community. We deliver affirming and joyful care that celebrates your identity and honors your choices.
  • Black Sheep Foods — Black Sheep Foods seeks to be the world leader in plant-based lamb and other wild and heritage meats.
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Amanda Bradford
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Alpaca VC
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Real Estate
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $63M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Firstbase — Equip remote and hybrid workers for success across the entire employee journey with the Firstbase platform. Firstbase powers a complete equipment lifecycle, fusing SaaS automation with world-class physical operations. Simplify onboarding, streamline offboarding, centralize and simplify asset management and warehousing, and build IT sustainability. Optimize HR experiences, flex your workplace services, and maximize every asset with Firstbase.
  • Swoops — Swoops develops and creates a basketball simulation game with the help of blockchain technology. It allows users to create, manage, and build teams and their skills, and compete with other teams while earning digitally.
  • Autopoiesis Sciences — Autopoiesis Sciences develops foundational AI for breakthrough scientific discovery. Building the reasoning infrastructure to accelerate solutions for humanity's greatest challenges.
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Andy Dunn
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • 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
  • Ours — Modern-day virtual couples therapy and premarital counseling trusted by thousands. Get started with world-class couples therapists today!
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Harry Briggs
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $713k–$7.9M; Series A $3.2M–$23M; Series B $12M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jump — Launched in late 2018 after 2 years of R&D supported by competitive grant funding from the UK & NL Government, Jump is a people analytics platform that gives everyone a chance to succeed. By understanding what makes people unique and linking this to business outcomes, Jump gives more personalised job recommendations to professionals, inturn attracting much better job applications to businesses. Win:win for both!Jump is backed by outstanding investors whose successes include Revolut, CarWow, GoodLord, Magic Pony and many others. Jump collaborates with Imperial College and other top UK Universities in the development of the data science and algorithms behind Jump.Looking for new career options or just a change of scenery? Sign up and receive personalised job matches - absolutely and always for free - at https://app.jump.work/jobsLooking to transform your talent attraction using people analytics? Drop me a note and we can chat!
  • SeedLegals — Grow faster with SeedLegals. Unlimited expert support included. Trusted by 60,000+ startups and investors.
  • Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.
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Define Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Wellness
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $3.4M–$8M; Series A $9.5M–$35M; Series B $20M–$140M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $460M in 2023

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.
  • Luminai — DigitalBrain helps you get through your support tickets twice as fast.
  • Valius Sciences — Valius Sciences offers maximalist oncology diagnostics for personalized cancer treatment.
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U-Start
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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 $3.1M–$21M; Series B $3.4M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% 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.
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Nisha Dua
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Wellness
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% 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.
  • Millie — Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there.
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Calm/Storm VC
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $478k–$2.7M; Series A $6M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $23M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • doctorly — doctorly is a digital medical infrastructure platform. We have a regulated, cloud powered, fully centralised, practice management platform for doctors, a fully connected health app for patients, and an integration platform for the wider industry to natively connect their tools & workflows directly with our doctors & patients.We are backedby amazing investors and driven by a desire to make positive and meaningful changes to the healthcare industry internationally.
  • Leaders21com — They offer our customers an exciting portfolio of practical training and services. Based on our many years of experience and our specially developed leadership approach. Flexibility and situational action are essential leadership qualities. That is why we also structure our cooperation with our customers in exactly the same way - flexible andadapted to individual requirements. Digital and analog.
  • The Joy Club — The Joy Club offers online activities, events, classes, and experiences for elderly people to remove loneliness.
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Mark Suster
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Mark Suster is the Board member at GumGum. 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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Advertising, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Poland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Secfense — Deploy phishing-resistant authentication to any app in minutes. No code, no changes to your stack. Stay compliant and secure with Secfense UASB.
  • 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.
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OnLine Partners
VC Fund · Kolding, Syddanmark, Denmark · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Debut Capital
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $900k–$1M; Series A $10M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

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.
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Wefunder
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $89k–$1M; 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.
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Michelle Kennedy
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Women's, Fashion, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ruuby — Ruuby is the UK's leading on-demand beauty services marketplace, and since inception Ruuby therapists have delivered over 400,000 treatments through the platform. With a network of over 2,500 expert, vetted beauty and wellness professionals, Ruuby is committed to delivering exceptional services in the comfort of the home, office and hotel.
  • 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
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MicroVentures
VC Fund · Austin, Texas, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

MicroVentures is an online equity crowdfunding platform enabling angel investors to connect with startups to raise capital. It connects accredited investors with startups, businesses, and services looking to raise funds or participate in select secondary market opportunities. The company provides founders access to early-stage capital andaccredited investors opportunities to invest in private equity. It prefers to invest in companies from the software, technology, telecommunications, and media sectors.MicroVentures was established in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, 3D Printing, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$5M; Pre-Seed $700k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AnFin — AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology andstrategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.
  • Polco — Polco is an online community engagement platform that provides the tools local governments need to bring community members and leaders together.
  • Remedium Bio — Welcome to Remedium Bio - we believe that any disease can be cured.
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Project A Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 206
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.7M; Series A $3.8M–$28M; Series B $11M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Valve — Valve - the Global Industry System for Flexible Workspace
  • Quix — A fully managed stream processing platform that helps teams transform data into products.
  • Growblocks — Driving revenue growth is complicated. Teams need to collaborate, work with data and keep everyone on track in order to succeed.Growblocks strives to apply our winning formula to the B2B Scale-Up community helping our customers reach their revenue growth dreams - faster.We believe that when enough brains are applied, every problem is solvableand our team of brains is world class.Founded by a team of business leaders who have helped start, scale and exit some of the most successful SaaS companies in Europe. Funded by leading European VCs and Angel Investors.
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Audrey Gelman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Audrey Gelman is the founder of The Six Bells, a country-inspired homewares brand.She is the co-founder and former CEO of The Wing, a network of women’s spaces that scaled to over a dozen locations in the US + UK under three years and amassed a global following. Audrey has been named Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, FortuneMagazine’s 40 Under 40, and Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30.Before founding The Wing, Gelman worked in politics and public affairs as a Senior Vice President at the political consulting firm SKDKnickerbocker, and as Deputy Communications Director to NYC Comptroller Scott M. Stringer. She began her career as an aide on Hillary Clinton's 2008 Presidential Campaign.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Social, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Co–Star — Co–Star is powered by AI that merges NASA data with the insight of human astrologers.Co–Star facilitates new ways to relate to others. It’s a filter to express what can be hard to say of emotions and reactions, strengths and weaknesses, pasts and futures. It’s a tool to connect meaningfully with friends and lovers or to tread lightly with strangersand enemies.
  • Substack — Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions.
  • Clubhouse — Clubhouse is an audio-based social app that allows users to join group chats. It describes itself as a space for casual, drop-in audio conversations with friends and other interesting people around the world that allows users to go online anytime to chat with the people they follow, or hop in as a listener and hear what others are talking about.
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SeedInvest
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: United States, Israel, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.8M; Series A $71k–$24M; Equity Crowdfunding $495k–$8.7M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

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.
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Tusk Venture Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • 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.
  • Capchase — Capchase is a fintech company that provides financial solutions to startups by allowing access to funds as they grow.
  • dub — The first Copy-Trading platform for stocks. Copy anyone's investments. For free. Regulated Broker-Dealer member FINRA and SIPC & FDIC insured.
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Town Hall Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Hospital
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Panama

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$80M; Series B $15M–$125M; Series C $30M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $350M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Eleanor Health — At Eleanor Health, our mission is to help anyone concerned about their mental health or affected by addiction live amazing lives.
  • Connections — 24/7 mental health care with compassion, respect, and no judgment.
  • Twentyeight Health — Your birth control. Delivered to your door. Get a new or re-up existing prescriptions, free & fast deliveries and follow up messaging with doctors. $0 with insurance and starting at $16/pack without.
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Ventech China
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Ventech Capital was founded in 1998 in France. Ventech is one of the most famous VC funds in Europe and manages four funds. In China, Ventech China manages three funds. Globally, this represents more than USD 1B total asset under management. Ventech China is based in Shanghai. Ventech China 3 is a USD 220 million venture capital fund focused oncommunities, M-commerce, Big Data and Fintech. Its current portfolio companies include Keep, the No.1 fitness training and community app in China, WonderFull, the emerging Japanese product M-commerce platform, Juzi, the leading entertainment news platform, Datawin, the leading big data company in sales leads generation, and Blued, the No.1 gay community app in China. Ventech China is dedicated to growing together with innovative startups and help them to become global leaders in their fields.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: China, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$50M; Series A $3M–$103M; Series B $7.1M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $150M in 2011

Portfolio highlights

  • ACGBOX — ACGBOX is an anime snack food supplier, specialized in producing anime snack foods.
  • Huafa Geometry — Huafa Geometry is a pet smart ecosystem brand that specializes in providing fish tanks and aquarium with smart technology. It is a brand of Beijing Yuanyibai Technology Co., Ltd.
  • Huamei Haolian — Huamei Haolian specializes in providing telemedicine and medical tourism services.
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Joel Simkhai
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Joel Simkhai - Chief Executive Officer @ Blendr

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Investment focus

  • 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!
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China Growth Capital
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in LGBT startups

China Growth Capital (CGC) is a leading early-stage venture capital firm in China with an extended interest in Silicon Valley. The firm funds seed to Series B in enterprise, technology and marketplace. The typical investment size ranges from $1M to 5M with a hard cap ceiling at $15M per company. Since its founding in 2006, China Growth Capitalhas grown to manage 8 Billion RMB (approximately 1.2 Billion USD) in asset under management across its different RMB and USD funds. Notable portfolio includes SMZDM (300785.SZ), Missfresh (NASDAQ:MF), Wish (NASDAQ:WISH), Tongdun, Tiger Brokers (NASDAQ: TIGR), BeyondHost (now part of Meituan 03690.HK), Ezbuy (NASDAQ:LITB), Cai Cloud (now part of ByteDance), PingCAP, DeePhi (now part of NASDAQ: XLNX), Airlango (now part of HKEX:03690), Nreal, Landspace, WeRide, Plus.ai, Sinovation, Singleron, 4B, ABM Therapeutics and InxMed etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: China, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 160
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Series A $1.4M–$40M; Series B $7.1M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pavepal — Paitner is an intelligent construction robot developer focuses on construction robot research and is dedicated to offering Chinese robot solutions for the world's dangerous, dirty, and labor-scarce construction industry.
  • Better Medtech — Better Medtech is a provider of innovative solutions for urinary and pelvic floor health. Its primary business is the research and development, production, sales, and related services of specialized medical devices, with a focus on creating comprehensive and precise revolutionary products in markets such as benign prostatic hyperplasia, urinaryincontinence, stones, and novel tumour therapies.
  • Xinsheng Semiconductor — Xinsheng Semiconductor is a semiconductor and discrete device manufacturing company. They provide research, development, and sales of acoustic filters and RF front-end module products. They provide products such as filters, duplexers, multiplexers, and modules below 6 GHz. They also provide technical services.
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Backstage Capital
VC Fund · West Hollywood, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.7M; Series A $6.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $36M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • BoldHue — BoldHue is a beauty tech company that develops a Bluetooth-enabled handheld device to customize beauty needs. Its platform uses AI technology to scan faces, display color, and match the color of the face to dispense pigmentation into the base foundation. BoldHue was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Aurora, Colorado.
  • EdLight — EdLight helps teachers focus on student work. With remote learning, it's harder than ever to see authentic student work. EdLight allows teachers to give real time feedback on images of student work.
  • AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
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Craft Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 326
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.8M; Series A $10M–$32M; Series B $20M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Supabase — The Open Source Alternative to Firebase.
  • Upwind Security — Upwind Security creates and develops software and online tools that ensures security of cloud infrastructure. It manages runtime environments of the cloud platform.
  • Daylight Security — Daylight Security provides agentic security services that allow organizations to operate and establish traditional Security Operations.
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David Chang
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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

  • Reasoner — Problems solved: - Multi-hop reasoning - Compound system data portability - Sub-second, multi-thousand data point synthesization - Multi-domain, multi-topic, multi-subject simultaneous analysis - Lossless recall - Zero hallucinations - And many, many more...Built. In Production. (Currently the reasoning engine powering Patented.ai to solve thehardest problems in litigation.)
  • Wishroute — Gain, retain and engage customers with conversational text messaging built for wellness apps, products and services. We do the 2-way texting for you and will help you optimize user experiences to increase revenue, engagement, conversion rates, activation rates, retention and more.
  • 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.
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Lorenzo Thione
Angel · Manhattan, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Pre-Seed $535k–$3M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SELECT — SELECT partners with elite restaurants, hotels, nightlife venues, retailers and more to give you access to VIP treatment in your city and across the globe. From unpublished rates at 1,300,000+ hotels, to complimentary cocktails at the hottest dining &...
  • 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!
  • Suma Wealth — SUMA is a revolutionary financial wellness company with the mission to engage, educate, and empower the Latinx community via a holistic approach of Digital Media, Experiences, and FinTech. By creating culturally relevant content, virtual experiences, and providing financial tools that demystify and reimagine financial wellness throughentertainment, we aim to become the trusted source to help Latinos own their economic power, overcome financial challenges, and better prepare for a more prosperous future.
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Chelsea Clinton
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Chelsea Clinton is based out of New York, New York, and was the Board of Director of Clover Health. Chelsea Clinton attended the University of Oxford.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $10M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kindbody — Kindbody offers fertility assessments, fertility testing, egg freezing, IVF, virtual fertility telemedicine and women's wellness.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Cavallo Consulting
VC Fund · Corona, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Independent professionals with a deep understanding of the web and strong marketing expertise.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, Tourism, Communities
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $121k–$683k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Babaiola — Babaiola is a travel community dedicated to LGBT people where the users are able to plan their next gay friendly holidays, and interact with several LGBT travelers from Europe.Selecting the destination, users are able to find gay friendly hotels, flights, a gay city guide and the best LGBT events. Users can also interact with several LGBTtravelers with a real time chat, so they can exchange advices and find travel mates.Our algorithm monitors and collects information every day from over 200 websites dedicated to LGBT people. We are able to know in real time all the trends and all events dedicated to the LGBT community, providing in a single platform all the information that would be spread across over 200 websites.All this amount of data also allows us to create a city profile that will thus allow a match between the wishes of the user and the destination
  • Restworld — Restworld propone solo offerte di lavoro selezionate e permette ai datori di risparmiare il 90% del tempo nella selezione del personale. Scopri come funziona.
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Slow Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Slow Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in companies central to the technology industry as well as those operating at the intersection of science, society, and culture. The firm seeks to support innovative ideas and solutions that shape the future across various sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 402
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.7M; Series A $6.1M–$25M; Series B $13M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $130M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Opendoor Technologies — Opendoor is the new way to sell your home. Skip the hassle of listing, showings and months of stress, and close on your own timeline. Get a free offer today!
  • Sling Money — Morse is a global financial platform for people whose lives cross borders. Remote workers, freelancers, digital nomads, and expats can receive, move, hold, spend, send, and invest across 150+ countries and 40+ currencies from a single app. Get paid in foreign currencies with your own account details, convert at the real exchange rate, invest in US stocks, and spend anywhere with a Visa card.
  • Portal — One integration opens the entire world of Web3 to your users. DeFi, games, NFTs, and more.
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Silvia Mah
Angel · San Diego, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Silvia Mah

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Baby
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $89k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reliabl — Lips is a feminist technology organization at the forefront of the inclusive design movement, building products designed to unlock opportunities for previously underserved and intersectionally marginalized communities. Our first product is a social media platform designed for women and LGBTQ individuals seeking a space to express themselves throughart without the unhealthy aspects of mainstream internet culture such as online harassment, censorship and plagiarism. We are building more inclusive Machine Learning and Contextual AI technologies that can be used across industries to improve the online experience of traditionally marginalized communities.
  • Sēkr — Your complete travel resource to locate campsites, facilities and connect with community.
  • Tot Squad — Tot Squad is a marketplace that connects new parents with health, wellness and safety services both virtually and in person. We're a one-stop shop in the $46B "New Mom Economy" consolidating the highly fragmented providers of services like car seat installation, babyproofing, and lactation consulting. Our car seat installationservices can be found on Amazon and Walmart as an add-on with a car seat purchase.
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Ross Veitch
Angel · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Ross is CEO & Co-Founder at Wego, an online travel marketplace (aka travel metasearch) operating across APAC and MENA backed by top-tier investors including Tiger Global, Crescent Group, Square Peg Capital, MNC Group and MEVP. Ross is a veteran of the Asian internet industry having established Yahoo!s Southeast Asian operations in Singaporeback in 1998 and leading product development efforts across the region for 6+ years. He is also Singapore Co-Chair of H2, the premier global leadership network for the digital industry. Ross has been an active angel investor in the technology sector for a decade and enjoys working with other passionate entrepreneurs. He has worked in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Kuala Lumpur and is now splits his time between Singapore and Dubai. He travels frequently for business but not nearly enough for leisure.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Real Estate, Rental
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, Thailand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.1M
  • 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.
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Patrick Spaulding Ryan
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Patrick Spaulding Ryan is the Co-Founder, Fractional CFO and CLO of Always Blue Games. He previously worked at TikTok as a Lead Technical Program Manager, Security + Web3 R D. Patrick Spaulding Ryan attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$10M; Angel $222k–$300k; Pre-Seed $89k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bitwage — Payroll, invoicing & benefits for digital assets. Bitwage offers services for companies and direct to workers. Workers can sign up and get direct deposit accounts to get paid from any company or client. Workers locally receive unique digital asset benefits. Workers internationally get paid faster & cheaper than traditional wires.
  • IpiNovyx Bio — Orange Grove Bio partners with leading research universities to advance preclinical biotech programs in the oncology space. The company leverages its venture capital and drug development expertise to help patients and build biotech ecosystems.
  • Pigeon — Pigeon Loans is a peer-to-peer lending platform that facilitates loans between family, friends, and loved ones. The platform provides their users the ability to generate legal contracts, make online payments, store loan documentation, enable automatic bank withdrawals, and make international transactions, all in an easy to use interface.PigeonLoans was founded by Brian Bristol and Anna Matilde Tanga in 2020 and is based in San Diego, CA, USA.
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Philippe von Borries
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, Dating, Social
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • 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.
  • The Garden — Own OneGarden.com today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
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Hopelab
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Hopelab is a researcher, investor, and convener that supports equity-centered solutions for the mental health and well-being of Black, Brown, and Queer young people.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Personal Health
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Nest Health — Nest Health is a primary care company that offers whole person, whole family care for families from birth through age five in urban areas. Nest offers primary and pediatric care for families, made affordable and convenient.
  • InStride Health — We provide treatment for kids, teens, and young adults ages 7 to 22 with anxiety and OCD, along with their families.
  • Backpack Healthcare — Backpack Healthcare provides accessible, inclusive and comprehensive pediatric and family mental healthcare.
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Oksana Stowe
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $255k–$3.8M; Angel $190k–$382k; Series A $2.5M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% 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
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Shinji Kimura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$107M; Series B $5M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POKKT — POKKT is an Alternate Mobile Payment Platform that helps owners of Paid Digital Goods and Services to monetise thier users through an advertiser-funded Model. Develpoers and Publishers of Digital content can significantly increase monetization and convert non-paying users into paying users.
  • Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
  • AlpacaJapan — Alpaca is a technology company developing financial system platforms powered by the collaboration of AI and people.
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Chris Sinton
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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!
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Globivest
VC Fund · Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $675k–$4M; Pre-Seed $2M–$3M; Series A $1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Iyris — iyris develops advanced additives for films, coatings, and composites
  • Goodvest — Goodvest is an investment app (life insurance) that builds a better world, in line with your values and promoting performance.
  • Vibrant Planet — Data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change.
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George Godula
Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 361
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$11M; Series A $3M–$21M; Series B $7.5M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $101M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Harbiz — Harbiz es la app para gestionar tu negocio de entrenamiento personal. Harbiz te ayuda a organizarte, comunicarte con clientes y cobrarles en un solo lugar. Customizable. Eficiente. Simple de usar. Prueba Gratis.
  • Mojo — Join 600,000+ men worldwide using AI-powered coaches to build a performance mindset and take back control of their love lives.
  • Phlux Technology — We develop, manufacture and supply innovative communication and vision components
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Baroda Ventures
VC Fund · Beverly Hills, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Top Los Angeles Venture Capital Firm - Baroda Ventures

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Slauson & Co.
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Early Stage Venture Capital. Investing with Intention. Rooted in Inclusion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nicaragua

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Finli — A full digital back office for SMBs that includes professional invoicing + quoting, payment processing, CRM, and inventory management.
  • Coblr — Coblr powers fashion repair for all - consumers, brands, and repair businesses - with seamless repair ordering and services by vetted local repair artisans.
  • FCTRY LAb — LA-based sneaker studio by Omar Bailey, ex-Yeezy. Shop NLE Choppa Duck Boots, Stomper, Knight RNR, MOCC & RUFL boots. Artist collabs, limited drops from FCTRY LAb.
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Mana Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups, 17 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Peter Boyce II
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Social Media, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Swsh — Swsh is a social app that aims to strengthen true friendships rather than superficial relationships with followers.
  • 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.
  • PromptLayer — Advanced prompt management and prompt engineering. Powerful prompt engineering tools for evaluation, deployment, observability, and analytics. Enable team collaboration, get help writing prompts, monitor AI agents, and improve prompt quality.
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Collab Capital
VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Collab Capital - Transforming genius into generational wealth. A New Institution for Black Entrepreneurs

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Marten Mickos
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Marten Mickos is the CEO of HackerOne, Inc. the leading vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform. Previously Marten was the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, acquired by Hewlett-Packard where he served as head of the cloud business. As the CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 to 2008, Marten grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largestopen source company in the world. Marten holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in his native Finland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Finland, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
  • ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is the leading startup news publication covering the Nordics and Baltics delivering the latest insights on the hottest startups in the region
  • Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
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Sam Altman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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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LGBT Investor funding at a glance

Stats across 67 deals from 132 investors.

132
investors
in LGBT startups
67
deals
in LGBT startups
$1.8M
median round
in LGBT startups
27%
lead investors
lead at least one round
24%
Seed
most common funding stage
69/31
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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