Top 50 LGBT Startup Investors in May 2026
Top 50 LGBT Startup Investors in May 2026
| Investor | LGBT investments |
|---|---|
| Gaingels | 3 |
| Define Ventures | 2 |
| XFactor Ventures | 2 |
| Alpaca VC | 2 |
| Andy Dunn | 2 |
| Nisha Dua | 2 |
| Harry Briggs | 2 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 2 |
| U-Start | 2 |
| Amanda Bradford | 2 |
| Zhonglu Capital | 1 |
| TiE Angels | 1 |
| Chiratae Ventures | 1 |
| Flatiron Partners | 1 |
| Graph Ventures | 1 |
| Calm/Storm VC | 1 |
| Debut Capital | 1 |
| Mark Suster | 1 |
| Tusk Venture Partners | 1 |
| Town Hall Ventures | 1 |
| OnLine Partners | 1 |
| Wefunder | 1 |
| Philippe von Borries | 1 |
| Hopelab | 1 |
| Oksana Stowe | 1 |
| Antoine Blondeau | 1 |
| Shinji Kimura | 1 |
| Ventech China | 1 |
| Michelle Kennedy | 1 |
| MicroVentures | 1 |
| Pole Capital | 1 |
| Joel Simkhai | 1 |
| Chris Sinton | 1 |
| China Growth Capital | 1 |
| AngelVest | 1 |
| Globivest | 1 |
| Backstage Capital | 1 |
| George Godula | 1 |
| Project A Ventures | 1 |
| Audrey Gelman | 1 |
| Craft Ventures | 1 |
| Octopus Ventures | 1 |
| General Catalyst | 1 |
| Baroda Ventures | 1 |
| David Chang | 1 |
| Lorenzo Thione | 1 |
| Female Founders Fund | 1 |
| SeedInvest | 1 |
| Slauson & Co. | 1 |
| Mana Ventures | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!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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- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Paxton — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
- SpecCheck — Revolutionizing the way doctors, optical labs, and their technology partners work together and do business.
- Quadient Accounts Receivable by YayPay — YayPay accounts receivable automation software helps businesses collect faster, forecast cash flow accurately, and improve payment process. Automate your AR
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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- Health Care, Medical, Wellness
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Layer Health — Layer Health focuses on resolving the healthcare information problem by utilizing artificial intelligence to execute any clinical, administrative, or research work that involves chart review from unstructured data.
- Marit Health — Marit Health is a platform and community for clinicians to thrive in their careers
- Cohere Health — Cohere Health can help your organization improve its utilization management process. We are transforming the way patients, physicians and health plans work together.
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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- Software, Wellness, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Bountiful — Optimizing the agricultural industry
- Chief — Chief is the only membership network that combines access to exclusive Clubhouses, world-renowned Guides and Executive Coaches, top-level training from the Wharton School of Business, annual summits, and events at the industry conferences that matter.
- Tastemakers Africa — Tastemakers Africa is a NYC-based travel experiences marketplace connecting travelers to creative entrepreneurs in African cities. Currently live in Accra, Cape Town, and Johannesburg, we’ve booked 2,000 experiences for 400+ travelers since launching in November 2018.
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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- E-Commerce, Software, Real Estate
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Bonus Homes — Discover how Bonus Homes innovates home selling by allowing homeowners to cash out equity now and share in future appreciation. No need to stage or show. Close in two weeks.
- Optiversal — Optiversal helps the world's top e-commerce companies harness generative AI at scale to drive more traffic and revenue.
- Brilliant Harvest — Brilliant Harvest is the Most Powerful AI Helpdesk For Equipment Dealers.
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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- E-Commerce, Wellness, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States
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!
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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- Health Care, Medical, Wellness
- 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.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, Canada, Germany
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.
We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Electric — Electric is a new way to manage your SMBs IT and Security, transforming the way you manage cybersecurity, devices, employees and apps with one place for everything, no tech skills required and all synced with your HR system.
- Simply Measured — Reimagine how social media can grow your business with Sprout Social. See our social media management tools in action. Start your own free trial today.
- Visor — Visor is a revolutionary new way to collaborate using data from apps that run your business. Make better decisions together.
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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- E-Commerce, Travel, Fashion
- 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 — A technodelic for VR
- TransferGo — Move and manage money between borders quickly and affordably with TransferGo.
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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- LGBT, Dating, Social
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States
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- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
- 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.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Social Media, LGBT
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- China, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Invispower — Invispower provides wireless charging solutions and products.
- Saiyou Education — Saiyou Education is an international intermediary education service provider.
- 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.
TiE Angels is one of the most active angel groups in Silicon Valley.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Glidance — Glide, a groundbreaking leap in assistive technology, is the first self-guided mobility assistant designed for individuals with sight loss.
- Clean Fanatics — Clean Fanatics offers expert house cleaning, painting, pest control, and civil services in Bangalore. Book today for a spotless, well-maintained home!
- Surgicure Technologies — Surgicure is a biotechnology start-up company that is dedicated to building effective medical instruments to prevent unnecessary harm while promoting safety and efficiency for both its patients and practitioners during surgical procedures and healing processes. Its product secures medical tubes intubated within a patient's mouth while relyingon the patient's oral cavity.Founded in 2018 by Irena Volkov, Surgicure Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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.
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- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- India, United States, China
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- ZILO — ZILO is a premium fashion retail platform, offering a curated selection of clothing and accessories from over 200 top brands, with a focus on quick commerce and a seamless shopping experience. The platform is designed to help users "dress right, from AM to PM," providing outfit recommendations and daily planners to simplify wardrobechoices.
- Expertia.AI — AI-powered screening and assessments: find and interview top candidates from 100+ platforms and hire in 24 hours, all at <10% of the cost.
- Frinks AI — Frinks AI is an AI Software Development firm offering Effective, Efficient and Reliable Quality Control.
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."
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Marketing
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
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- PathogenDx — Accurate and Flexible Pathogen Testing Technology for Cannabis, Life Sciences, and Food
- 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.
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
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Brazil, Canada
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- SchoolAI — SchoolAI gives every student personal AI tutoring while showing teachers exactly what each student needs. Make school awesome with AI built to improve student outcomes.
- Circuit & Chisel — Circuit & Chisel is an agentic AI platform that enables agents to make transactions between autonomous agents.
- Sage Care — Empowering smarter healthcare decisions with AI.
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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- Health Care, Wellness, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
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- CertHub — CertHub offers AI-powered software solutions for Technical Documentation, QMS and Design Control - tailored to the MedTech industry.
- PROPCORN AI — At PROPCORN, our goal is to harness the power of AI to automatically unlock the full real estate building potential of our customers, enabling them to make faster and more accurate decisions in real-time.
- Circle Health — Circle Health is developing an integrated preventive care platform, Circle OS, that combines in-person diagnostics, AI-enabled clinical support, and consumer-facing digital health tools.
We are an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Founders.
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- Software, SaaS, Music
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States
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- 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.
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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- Software, Advertising, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Poland, United Kingdom
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.
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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- Health Care, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States
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- 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.
- Wheel — Wheel provides everything companies and clinicians need to deliver virtual care.
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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- Health Care, Medical, Hospital
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, Panama
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- Thyme Care — Thyme Care is a dedicated team of nurses and care experts offering value-based cancer care to help you through all phases of the cancer experience.
- WelbeHealth — At WelbeHealth, we envision a world in which every human being is able to participate fully in life through their final days. We serve frail seniors through a model of comprehensive medical and social care called PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), helping our participants live better, longer, and more independently.Founded by aseasoned group of physician entrepreneurs, our leadership team hails from leading payer and provider organizations such as GoHealth Urgent Care, BAYADA Home Health, AirStrip Technologies, Evolent Health, and On Lok.With funding from leading venture capital firms, we're looking for team members who are inspired to help us deliver on our mission of unlocking the full potential of the most vulnerable seniors in our communities. Our colleagues are energized by working in diverse groups toward our shared purpose, are eager to drive groundbreaking innovations, and have the courage to care for our participants with empathy and love.
- Eleanor Health — At Eleanor Health, our mission is to help anyone concerned about their mental health or affected by addiction live amazing lives.
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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- LGBT, News, Dating
- Series A
- United States
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- 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.
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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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- United States, Kenya, France
Portfolio highlights
- HelloWoofy.com / SelfTact.com (Smart Selfies for Networking) — HelloWoofy.com is a smart marketing platform for small business owners, or “underdogs”, to use patented generative AI (11,115,356) to create, schedule and post marketing content to multiple mediums or channels at once. Over 10,000 members strong, $1.1M in sales and backed by notable VC funds, Equity Crowdfunding (Reg CF) and angel investors.Achieved a $23: ~$1000 CAC to LTV/Cart/Investment ratio and sales to capital raised ratio of $1:$1.6 . SelfTact.com, incubated an application designed to ease the lead gathering process at events using selfies. With a virtual “rolodex” of contacts, a user can scroll through, email, text and see where they met to close prospects in one click. SelfTact is used as a lead magnet for HelloWoofy.com. iOS and Android Apps.EmojiData.ai, incubated an API for SaaS platforms to embed patented generative AI (11,115,356) technology. The API focuses on generating content with the perfect emojis, hashtags and text based on various forms of input. 80M calls over 4 years of usage. Part of HelloWoofy.com.
- Reflect — Reflect is a networked note-taking tool. Keep track of your notes, books, and meetings.
- 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.
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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- LGBT, Dating, Social
- Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
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- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
- The Garden — Own OneGarden.com today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
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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- Health Care, Wellness, Personal Health
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States
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- 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.
Before Redrice, Oksana lead True Seed Fund and has invested in a number of successful early-stage companies.
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- Software, Health Care, Machine Learning
- 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
Antoine is a technology entrepreneur and an investor in technology companies in California and China. He has 20 years of leadership experience in technology marketing worldwide, as CEO, senior officer and director/advisor in listed companies, start-ups, turnarounds and midsize-to-large companies. Antoine has traded in the currency and stockmarkets for 10 years. Antoine's career highlights include working with the Tokyo representation of the French Prime Minister's DATAR unit to negotiate the setup of Mitsubishi Electric, Canon, Toshiba and Sony's industrial facilities in France, and a 4-year stint at Nortel Networks where he headed the OEM and Asia/Pacific unit of the company's digital wireless terminals business. Antoine was also president & COO of Zi Corporation, a developer of intelligent user interface software listed on the NASDAQ Main Board, and CEO of Dejima, Inc., a developer of distributed artificial intelligence software, which he sold to Sybase, Inc. In addition, Antoine worked at salesforce.com, the leader in on-demand enterprise applications, as vice-president, and at Good Technology, the last independent challenger to RIM Blackberry, as senior vice president. He is an investor, board member and advisor in a number of companies in California, Greater China and Japan. He is the author or co-author of 5 patents. Antoine holds a MBA from the Paris Graduate School of Management (ESCP) and has studied at the faculties of Economics and Commerce of Chuo University in Tokyo.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United States, France, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- GoShare — Moving, hauling, and delivery help is just a tap away with GoShare's easy app. Get a truck or cargo van in less than an hour.
- LogicInk — LogicInk is developing bio-chemical signals that can be worn daily, to support your wellbeing with increased knowledge about your health and daily peace of mind.
- Pathship — Choosing the right domain name can be overwhelming. Our personalized customer service helps you get a great domain.
Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, India, Japan
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.
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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- E-Commerce, Retail, Mobile
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China, Japan, Austria
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.
- E-Health Now LLC — We are the first HIPAA compliant platform that focuses on optimizing cancer treatment plans for patients in China locally. By connecting Chinese cancer patients to U.S. and Chinese oncologist and leveraging the existing medical facilities in China, we bring U.S. quality of care to Chinese cancer patients at less than 1/3 of the cost comparedto medical travels to the U.S. Our pricing point is affordable by the top 40% of the income class in China.
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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- Women's, Fashion, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- 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
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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- Software, 3D Printing, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Canada
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- 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.
Pole Capital est une société d’investissement spécialisée dans la prise de participations à long-terme dans des startups non-cotées.Nous accompagnons des dirigeants désireux d’accélérer leur développement, en intervenant à la fois comme partenaire financier et comme consultant opérationnel.Notre objectif est de générer durablement de lacroissance pour nos investisseurs, les entreprises et les dirigeants que nous conseillons.
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- Payments, Artificial Intelligence, LGBT
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States
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- Pledg — Pledg provides instant financing solutions on e-commerce and in-store sites. Thanks to Pledg, merchants increase their conversion rates, average basket and brand loyalty. Private and professional buyers buy straight away and pay later or in instalments; the merchant, meanwhile, is paid upon ordering.Pledg's solutions are omnichannel, veryeasy to integrate and have an exceptional acceptance rate thanks to a unique scoring algorithm: - Shared payment: buy as a group - Instalment payment: obtain a payment facility in 2x to 12x instalments without any risk to the merchant - Deferred payment: customers try their items at home without advancing any money and pay 15, 30 or 45 days later for the items they keepPledg has already conquered >100 large accounts, many of which have +€1 billion turnover.
- 1Check — 1Check solution digitizes business processes related to the hotel industry to optimize the quality of service for its customers.
- SESAMm — SESAMm is the leading provider of natural language processing and machine learning solutions and analytics for Investment firms and corporations.
Joel Simkhai - Chief Executive Officer @ Blendr
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- LGBT, Rental, Travel
- Seed
- United States
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- misterb&b — Find & book the best gay bnbs worldwide with trusted hosts . Gay Hotels, resorts & more in 220 countries. Loved by 1M+ travelers. Safe travels with the LGBTQ travel community!
In 1994, at Cisco Systems, he pioneered the B2B Internet with cisco.com identifying, articulating and helping create a new business paradigm, the Global Networked Business. In 2000, as an early driver of digital philanthropy, he saw that as the Internet changed the way business was done, it had could change the way people helped each other. Usingthe power of the Internet for good, Chris Co-Founded NetAid innovating with online volunteering and the first mobile app for donations on the Palm VII. Chris was a founding board member of the ePhilanthropy Foundation, founded Cisco’s ePhilanthropy office, and was Co-Founder and Founding President & CEO of Network for Good raising $1B for nonprofits. He’s served on boards with local nonprofits, Internet startups, and produced a documentary. He currently serves on StartOut's Board of Directors. StartOut fosters LGBT entrepreneurs. While Board Chair at StartOut he helped professionalize and scale the organization to 12,000 members, opening chapters in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
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- LGBT, Rental, Travel
- Seed
- United States
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- 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!
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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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China, United States, Hong Kong
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- Mech-Mind Robotics — Mech-Mind is dedicated to giving intelligence to industrial robots. Through core technologies such as machine vision (2D/3D), advanced programming models, fast environment awareness, intelligent decision making, and autonomous path planning, robots will no longer be a clumsy machine that can only repeat actions, but become available toeveryone and available everywhere. Smart helper. The company's core products are high-performance 3D cameras, visual AI algorithms and software, robot motion algorithms and software, and can provide reference designs and field services for a variety of typical applications. Mecamand's complete solution enables robot manufacturers and integrators to quickly upgrade their artificial intelligence capabilities to perform applications such as disordered object capture, visual guided unraveling, mixed palletizing, and precision positioning assembly.
- Butterfli — Butterfly is a manufacturer of prefilled syringes. It focuses on using the next-generation high-performance materials COC&COP to produce prefilled syringes without silicone oil systems, and is committed to breaking the international monopoly and promoting the material revolution in China's pharmaceutical packaging industry.
- Tongxin Medical Equipment — Tongxin makes magnetically-suspended artificial blood pumps which are designed to replace the human heart. They are undergoing clinical trials in China after being fast-tracked through the approval process by the National Medical Products Administration, state-run Xinhua News Agency
Angel Vest Group are are a group of 70+ active Angel investors who invest and provide mentorship for startups. Apply for Funding or Become a Member today.
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- Mobile, Education, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- China, United States, Taiwan
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- The CareVoice — The CareVoice is a Shanghai-based international company established in 2014, backed by top VC, Asian and Chinese healthcare investors. It is a health InsurTech company transforming healthcare experience to be more consumer-centric. They bring unique mobile-based and data-driven solutions that digitalize healthcare and insurance journey withconsumers' interest first.
- The News Lens — The News Lens is an independent media for Chinese readers. The company aims to be a platform where a wide range of Chinese readers can engage in informed debates about important news, social, and political issues. The News Lens was established in August 2013.
- Trainersvault — Trainersvault connects you with Personal Trainers around you. Discover, connect and book private sessions or attend a bootcamp.
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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- FinTech, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Iyris — iyris develops advanced additives for films, coatings, and composites
- Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
- Vibrant Planet — Data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change.
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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- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
- Cloudnine Augmented Intelligence — Cloudnine AI moves beyond traditional AI, this technology operates without the need for energy-intensive model training, offering a more sustainable and transparent way to understand data
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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- Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, China, Algeria
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- 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
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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- Heyflow — Create better customer interactions with conversational flows. More personal. More conversions. Build your flow today! No coding required.
- Quix — A fully managed stream processing platform that helps teams transform data into products.
- Spryker — Spryker is an Enterprise B2B, B2C, and Marketplace solution recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce
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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- Apps, Social, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- Glue — Glue is smarter work chat.
- Ohalo Genetics — Ohalo Genetics is an agriculture and biotechnology company that accelerates the growth of crops.
- Daylight Security — Daylight Security provides agentic security services that allow organizations to operate and establish traditional Security Operations.
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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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Baselime — Use logs, metrics, distributed tracing and wide-events to detect, diagnose and resolve issues before they impact your users.
- OLIX — OLIX designs and manufactures optical processors that use light-based circuits to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads. The company develops Optical Tensor Processing Units that execute matrix and tensor operations for training and running inference on large-scale machine learning models. Its hardware aims to increase performance and reducepower consumption relative to conventional electronic accelerators by processing data in the optical domain. Flux Computing focuses on infrastructure for generative AI and advanced neural networks, targeting data centers and organizations that require intensive model computation. The product stack centers on custom optical chips integrated with supporting electronics, control software, and tools that link into existing AI frameworks. Sales and partnerships primarily address customers building large AI clusters, research environments, and emerging applications that benefit from high-throughput, low-energy computation.
- Connectome Health — Connectome is a cognitive intelligence platform that measures and understands how the brain changes over time using transparent, science-backed data people and organisations can trust.
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Arrcus — Bringing transformative 5G & multi-cloud networking to CSPs to lower 5G infrastructure cost, expedite service delivery and monetize cloud infrastructure faster. Test drive the ACE platform for free.
- Tidelift — Tidelift is a managed open source subscription, offering commercial support and maintenance for the open source dependencies used to build applications, backed by maintainers.
- Standard Kernel — Standard Kernel builds AI technology that makes the core software running on GPUs and other accelerators faster and more efficient.
Top Los Angeles Venture Capital Firm - Baroda Ventures
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- Software, Advertising, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
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- 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.
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Hong Kong
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- 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.
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Female Founders Fund is a seed stage venture fund that invests exclusively in female-founded companies. We believe strongly in the exponential power of exceptional female talent. We invest in e-commerce, media, platforms, advertising and web-enabled services businesses.
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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- Billie — Billie is a wellness company that offers shaving supplies and body products. Billie is committed to designing products that are uniquely built to provide women everyday TLC from top to toe. Billie believes that women shouldn't be an afterthought in the shaving category and that they deserve to have a great shave without having to pay more forit.Billie was founded in 2017 and is based in New York.
- Reachify — Reachify empowers restaurants to connect with their customers easily with Call Deflection to capture otherwise lost revenue.
- Winky Lux — Hi, we're Winky Lux. We make clean makeup and skincare to add a touch of joy to your world. Come on in and see what we're all about!
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- United States, Israel, France
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- 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.
Early Stage Venture Capital. Investing with Intention. Rooted in Inclusion.
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- Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nicaragua
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- 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.
Mana Ventures is a San Francisco based VC firm that invests in early stage technology companies and consumer brands.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Mexico
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- 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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