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Top 50 LGBT Startup Investors

A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Lgbt startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Lgbt companies. This investor list updates every month.

Top 50 LGBT Startup Investors

Investor LGBT investments
Gaingels 3
Alpaca VC 2
Andy Dunn 2
Harry Briggs 2
Amanda Bradford 2
Define Ventures 2
Bessemer Venture Partners 2
U-Start 2
Nisha Dua 2
XFactor Ventures 2
Wefunder 1
Octopus Ventures 1
Sam Altman 1
Audrey Gelman 1
Sean Rad 1
Moai Capital 1
Patrick Spaulding Ryan Ph.D 1
Calm/Storm Ventures 1
Tusk Venture Partners 1
Town Hall Ventures 1
Flatiron Partners 1
Slow Ventures 1
Backstage Capital 1
10X Capital 1
TiE Angels 1
Graph Ventures 1
Crystal Stream Capital 1
Silvia Mah 1
Chelsea Clinton 1
Oksana Stowe 1
Chiratae Ventures 1
Zhonglu Capital 1
Ventech 1
Ross Veitch 1
Hopelab 1
Project A Ventures 1
Cavallo Consulting 1
Peter B. 1
Antoine Blondeau 1
Angelia Muller 1
Lorenzo Thione 1
SeedInvest 1
George Godula 1
Peter Moran 1
Best Nights VC 1
Philippe von Borries 1
Manuela Rios 1
Marten Mickos 1
Mana Ventures 1
Slauson & Co. 1
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Gaingels VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 72 investments in the past 12 months
Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of diversity, inclusive of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.
  • Summer​ — Summer partners with employers help their populations navigate and reduce student loan debt. Summer is a certified B-Corp.
  • Mermaid Chart — Building the next generation of smart diagramming for enterprise teams. Easily create and collaborate on complex diagrams from text.
Alpaca VC VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • E-Commerce, Software, Real Estate
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Acelab — Acelab is a developer of an architecture-based online platform that connects architects and manufacturers. The company's all-in-one powerful platform creates value for both marketing and sales teams by generating inbound leads at the right time. Acelab was founded in 2019 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
  • 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.
  • Arrive Recommerce — Arrive offers a premium service powering circular commerce for major brands and retailers. The technology and reverse logistics capabilities of The Arrive Platform enables brands and retailers in any industry to integrate circular commerce - including rental and resale - directly into an existing ecommerce experience. With this unique offering,Arrive makes it possible for any company to seamlessly launch a circular channel - ultimately reaching more consumers, driving more revenue, and promoting a sustainable solution. Arrive, first launched as Arrive Outdoors, is an award-winning company and has been named the 4th Most Innovative Travel Company by Fast Company in 2020 and awarded the 2019 Outdoor Retailer of the Year by the Outdoor Retailer Association.
Andy Dunn Angel · New York, New York, United States
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
  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sanarai — Sanarai is a mental health online platform for the Latinx community. Online platform that connects the Latinx community to mental health professionals in Latin America to provide culturally sensitive Spanish-language emotional support at accessible prices
  • Ours — Modern-day virtual couples therapy and premarital counseling trusted by thousands. Get started with world-class couples therapists today!
  • Kabata — Full workout comprehension. Data-driven coaching. Gamified progression. Welcome to the next generation in connected fitness.
Harry Briggs Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
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
  • Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
  • SeedLegals — Grow faster with SeedLegals. Unlimited expert support included. Trusted by 50,000+ startups and investors.
  • LVNDR Health — Get ready for sexual healthcare with you at the centre
Amanda Bradford Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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
  • LGBT, Dating, Social
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
Define Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
With unparalleled change, comes unprecedented opportunity. Define Ventures focuses on investing in early stage digital health companies that will redefine healthcare.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Wellness
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 9amHealth — 9am.health redesigns all care elements into one digital service individualized around today’s reality of people’s life - always available and convenient, at prices anyone can afford even without insurance. 9am.health focuses on chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia for customers in the United States.
  • 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.
  • Blackbird Health — Blackbird Health helps kids and young adults struggling with social, developmental, and school-related challenges with expert mental health care covered by insurance.
Bessemer Venture Partners VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 43 investments in the past 12 months
We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Israel, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Aghanim — Aghanim is an integrated commerce, liveops automation, community engagement, and payments platform for mobile games.
  • Abridge — For patients, clinicians, and enterprise, our audio-based solutions capture the details and summarize medical conversations, anywhere care happens.
  • Clarity — Secure your digital media from Deepfakes and defend from AI-based attacks. Any media from phone and video calls to user-generated content. Built by global AI and cyber experts.
U-Start VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
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
  • E-Commerce, Travel, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Dott — Dott offers dock-less, shared electrical scooters, and bikes as alternatives for short-distance travel.The company is a micro-mobility European start-up, gathering the most experienced team in mobility and tech in Europe. We recently raised an initial investment of €20 million, co-led by EQT Ventures and Naspers. Dott is headquartered inAmsterdam and is gathering the most experienced team in mobility and tech in Europe.
  • Keatz — Keatz is a network of restaurants that provide contemporary dishes for delivery. Keatz delivers food with a fusion of indulgence and comfort without compromise. The company creates ideal recipes, process, and packaging for the possible quality and the meals will arrive at peoples doors with the same quality that leaves the kitchen. Its culinaryteam is always on the lookout for upcoming culinary trends and techniques to bring to neighbourhoods.Keatz was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
  • TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.
Nisha Dua Angel · New York, New York, United States
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
  • Health Care, Wellness, Medical
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Diem — 8,346 Followers, 1,333 Following, 1,194 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Diem (@askdiem)
  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
  • Millie — Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there.
XFactor Ventures VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Wellness, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
  • Morf Health — Morf Health is making it 10x faster for healthcare providers to setup and maintain integrations across their tech stack, e.g. easily structure data from patient intake and send to an EHR. We pull data out of the tools they use to deliver care and run the business, unify and normalize the data, and then send it to the tools that need it.
  • Pow.bio — Pow.bio provides fermentation services for synthetic biology.
Wefunder VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
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
  • Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • United States, Israel, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
  • Sensate — Wearable technology using science to help you relax, reduce stress and anxiety and improve your mental health. Learn more about Sensate and our mission.
  • Terraseed — Terraseed is the most sustainable and complete vegan vitamin, featuring 9 ethically-sourced nutrients in a fully compostable bottle.
  • Savvos Health — Savvos Health is a marketplace of affordable cash prices for shoppable medical care, including imaging, outpatient surgery, labs, and more.
Octopus Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 20 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • CellVoyant — We provide services to accelerate development of stem cell therapies. We make therapy development faster and more cost-effective.
  • Bloom Coaching — A professional development platform that merges AI, psychometrics, and human insight to provide daily personalised coaching for all employees.
  • Connected — Connected is a startup that offers affordable connecting humans, unleashing a new wave of IoT-based business models and contributing to bridge the digital gap.
Sam Altman Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Sam Altman is a Partner of Apollo Projects. He previously worked at OpenAI as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sam Altman attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • Lyso — Lyso is a software that fully automates the checkout process within milliseconds on retail websites. It currently supports over 1,000 retail sites, including popular ones such as Best Buy, Newegg, Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Target.
  • Meter — Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses. Its full-stack approach combines hardware, software, and operations so that any company can seamlessly run on a reliable and modern network. Its goal is to make secure enterprise-grade networks more accessible, and to help innovative organizations get and stay online seamlessly. Fullstacksambition is to turn Meter’s infrastructure into a turnkey utility––when a company moves into any commercial space, the internet and WiFi just works.
  • Software Applications Incorporated — Rethinking the personal computing experience
Audrey Gelman Angel · New York, New York, United States
Audrey Gelman is a strategist who has worked in the start-up, corporate and political sectors. Throughout her career, she has specialized in the intersection of brand building and culture, using a keen, multidimensional understanding of the cultural zeitgeist to help place brands, companies and candidates in the center of the conversation. She isthe 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, Fortune Magazine’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
  • Apps, Social, Brand Marketing
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom
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.
Sean Rad Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Sean Rad is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. Rad served as Tinder's CEO and Chairman at various times from the company's inception until 2017. Rad also foundedCardify in 2012, Adly in 2009, and Orgoo in 2004.In 2020, Forbes included Rad on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. In May 2016, he was awarded an honoree diploma from the University of Southern California while delivering their undergraduate commencement.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Apps, Consumer
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Scener — Watch shows and movies synced together and hang out over video chat
  • BreachQuest — Stay ahead of BEC with maximum visibility and control of your Office 365 and Google Workspace environments.
  • Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Moai Capital VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States
Moai Capital is seed & venture capital investor run by Brian Jacobs investing in consumer, cloud & autism startups.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Robotics, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Upwage — Our mission is to create $1 trillion in new wealth for the 44% of Americans who make less than $16/hr, using the power of big data & AI.
  • Sensate — Wearable technology using science to help you relax, reduce stress and anxiety and improve your mental health. Learn more about Sensate and our mission.
  • Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Patrick Spaulding Ryan Ph.D Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Patrick Spaulding Ryan PhD (X-Google, X-Bytedance) is an investor and advisor in early-stage businesses. Patrick invests through PSR Crypto, PRMM USA and is on the Investment Committee at Leawood Venture Capital. Patrick is fractional general counsel and investor in Turion Space, and legal advisor and investor at Bttn. Patrick previously workedat Google for 9 years as a Trust, Engineering & Strategy Principal, and for 2 years at Bytedance as lead TPM in security engineering R&D and as co-director of the web3 research program. Patrick received a PhD in law & economics from KU Leuven (Belgium) and is a graduate of University of St.Gallen (Switzerland), the University of Texas School of Law, and the MIddlebury Institute of International Studies.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, FinTech, Mobile Apps
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • United States, Mexico, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • CurveCatch — CurveCatch brengt de voordelen van een kleine lingerie speciaalzaak en online shoppen samen. Enerzijds nemen we je bij de hand en nemen we alle complexiteit rond maten en pasvormen weg door deze voor jou uit te kiezen o.b.v. 15 jaar ervaring. Anderzijds ben je op 5min klaar met bestellen en kan je thuis lingerie passen alvorens deze te betalen. Je betaalt achteraf alleen wat je houdt. Bestel nu jouw box en ervaar deze nieuwe manier van shoppen!
  • Arrenda — Arrenda is a fintech startup that provides market-specific insurance and financial products to the real estate markets of Latin America. It also offers advance payments to landlords upfront to lower barriers to renting in the country. Arrenda was founded in 2021 and is based in Mexico City.
  • My Little Mascara Club — Meet the little mascara everyone is subscribing to, exclusively at My Little Mascara Club. Seriously smudge proof, packed with clean ingredients, and just the right size for you to always have a fresh, clump-free mascara. Delivered!
Calm/Storm Ventures VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 15 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Health Care, Wellness, Medical
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Halm — Halm is building a modern outdoor homecare brand for consumers.
  • Bambus.io — Fintech, Credit
  • Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.
Tusk Venture Partners VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Health Care, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • dub — The first Copy-Trading platform for stocks. Copy anyone's investments. For free. Regulated Broker-Dealer member FINRA and SIPC & FDIC insured.
  • TBD Health — TBD Health makes at-home STD/STI screening kits that are accurate, easy to use, and built for women.
  • The Contract Network — AI-powered collaborative contracting is an innovative approach to contract negotiation that emphasizes real-time collaboration, communication, and transparency.
Town Hall Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Health Care, Medical, Hospital
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • United States, Panama
Portfolio highlights
  • Brave Health — Brave Health is a mental health provider offering online therapy and medication management. We accept insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare.
  • Torch Dental — Torch Technology develops an all-in-one technology designed to meet dental practices supply ordering and inventory management needs. Torch Technology is based in New York, New York.
  • 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.
Flatiron Partners VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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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Investment focus
  • Internet, E-Commerce, Marketing
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • PathogenDx — PathogenDx has developed a microarray based test specifically designed for the cannabis, botanical, food and agricultural testing markets. Our technology allows test labs to conduct between 12- 48 tests in parallel, testing up to 20 pathogens per test in less than a days’ shift. This is done at a fraction of the cost of plate counts or RealtimePCR. Our Raw Sample technology allows laboratories to bypass almost 20 steps that Real-time PCR must perform for DNA extraction and purification. PathogenDx technology bypasses the need for purification, quantitation, and normalization increasing the speed and affordability of pathogen screening. This helps our customers reduce testing time by 12 hours on the front end, and avoid spending money on sample prep kits and additional instrumentation.
  • Willow Industries — Mitigate mold and bacteria in cannabis with Willow Industries Ozone Systems. WillowPure provides clean and effective solutions to cannabis contamination.
  • Green Check Verified — Green Check Verified is the leading provider of cannabis banking solutions and expert advisory services for financial institutions.
Slow Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 18 investments in the past 12 months
Slow Ventures is a community built on the collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • dub — The first Copy-Trading platform for stocks. Copy anyone's investments. For free. Regulated Broker-Dealer member FINRA and SIPC & FDIC insured.
  • DIMO — DIMO helps drivers get more from their cars. Gain insights into vehicle health and performance and get rewarded for helping to build the future of mobility.
  • Digital Infrastructure Services — DIMO helps drivers get more from their cars. Gain insights into vehicle health and performance and get rewarded for helping to build the future of mobility.
Backstage Capital VC Fund · West Hollywood, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Health Care, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Community — Community is a text messaging service that connects individuals and organizations instantly and directly to their audiences through text messaging at scale.
  • CloudNine AI — Augmented Intelligence Systems, Augmented Intelligence Companies, Augmented Intelligence applications
  • Patientory — Patientory empowers our users with actionable insights from health data, incentivizing them to take control of their health outcomes.
10X Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
10X invests across the capital structure, alongside the world's top technology investors. They align Wall Street and Silicon Valley by bringing institutional capital to high growth ventures in private and public markets, helping founders and investors achieve scale and liquidity while retaining upside and control.10X was founded in 2004 andis based in New York.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
  • Biofire — Sign up by April 13th to be the First to Experience the Future of Firearms.
  • Maximus — Elevate energy, sex drive, and promote hair growth with our doctor-prescibed programs. Featuring enclomiphene testosterone improvement. Find your protocol.
TiE Angels VC Fund · Santa Clara, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
TiE Angels is one of the most active angel groups in Silicon Valley.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Optiwise — Selling On Walmart through the optimized listing and Walmart SEO. Optiwise.ai helps you to list products in the most effective way possible.
  • Deep Cognition — Deep Cognition's cutting-edge document automation solutions revolutionize customs brokerage data entry. Fast, accurate and secure for streamlining operations.
  • PredictionStrike — PredictionStrike is a platform on which users can trade virtual shares of athletes as if they were stocks. The platform operates as a real stock market and allows users to buy/sell shares, build portfolios, and operate in a live market using real money. Share prices are determined by a player’s real-world performance, where eachgame/match acts like an earnings report, as well as the fans’ demand for those shares.
Graph Ventures VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Brazil, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Koltin — Koltin offers preventive, accessible health plans focused on people.
  • Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
Crystal Stream Capital VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Crystal Stream Capital specializes in making early-stage investments in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • China, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Qiutian Manman — Qiutian Manman is a professional brand engaged in developing nutritious food for babies and children, sets a “daily dietary nutrition clock” for babies and children, and assists parents to establish a new concept of nutritious meals for their offspring. The brand offers nutritious products designed for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well asnutritional supplements for the morning and afternoon, in a bid to guarantee babies and children aged 3-12 can have a reasonable intake of nutrition 24 hours a day to ensure their healthy growth every day.
  • Powernice Intelligent Technology — Powernice is a high-tech company that specializes in the development and production of high-precision intelligent actuators and equipment.
  • Physcience Golden Silicon New Material Technology — Physcience Golden Silicon New Material Technology is a technology-driven company that develops and manufactures silicon-based anode materials for lithium batteries.
Silvia Mah Angel · San Diego, California, United States
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Baby
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • United States
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.
Chelsea Clinton Angel · New York, New York, United States
Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, works to drive the vision and programmatic work of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation. Over the past 14 years, The Clinton Foundation has convened businesses, governments, NGOs, and individuals to improve global health and wellness, increase opportunity for girls and women,reduce childhood obesity, create economic opportunity and growth, and help communities address the effects of climate change. As only a few examples, because of the Clinton Foundation’s work, more than 29,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; more than 85,000 farmers in Malawi, Rwanda, and Tanzania are benefiting from climate-smart agronomic training, higher yields, and increased market access; over 350,000 people have been impacted through market opportunities created by social enterprises in Latin America, the Caribbean, and South Asia; 75 million people are benefiting from disease prevention efforts and investments in the U.S.; and through the affiliated Clinton Health Access Initiative, 9.9 million people in more than 70 countries have access to CHAI-negotiated prices for HIV/AIDS medications.As Vice Chair of the Foundation, Chelsea is a tireless advocate for the work of the Foundation. She works alongside Foundation leadership toward a shared goal of making the Clinton Foundation one of the most effective and efficient global NGOs in the world. She works in-depth across a number of the Foundation’s programmatic areas including: No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project working to advance the full participation of women and girls; the Clinton Global Initiative University, a program focused on empowering the next generation of change-makers; the Clinton Foundation’s Day of Action program which she founded; the Foundation’s various health programs and the conservation of Africa’s Elephants through the Clinton Global Initiative.Chelsea currently teaches at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and previously worked at McKinsey & Company and Avenue Capital. Chelsea also serves on the boards of the Clinton Foundation’s affiliated Clinton Health Access Initiative, the School of American Ballet, the Africa Center and the Weill Cornell Medical College. She is the Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Of Many Institute at NYU. Chelsea holds a B.A. from Stanford, an MPH from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and both an MPhil and a Doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University. Chelsea is the author of It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going, a book for young readers ages 10-14 which explores some of the biggest challenges facing our world today, particularly impacting kids and shares inspiring stories of young people who are already making a difference in their own communities and around the globe.She lives with her husband Marc and their daughter Charlotte in New York City.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Women's
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Euphoria.LGBT — A better gender transition starts today. We're here to help make this process easier than ever. A complete transition in two years or less.
  • Elemy — Elemy is the nationwide provider of childhood behavioral and mental healthcare. Every child is different. At Elemy, we believe care should never be one-size-fits-all. Chat with us about in-home, personalized care for your child.
  • Summer Health — Get answers from an expert, board-certified pediatricians in 15 minutes. From child health to development, Summer Health gets you answers any time, day or night.
Oksana Stowe Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Before Redrice, Oksana lead True Seed Fund and has invested in a number of successful early-stage companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Unmind — Unmind is a workplace mental health platform. We empower employees to measure, understand, and improve their mental wellbeing.
  • LANDBAY — Your dedicated Landbay intermediary page for specialist buy-to-let mortgages. Partner with a lender who gives you direct decisions with a flexible approach and a full online application process.
  • LVNDR Health — Get ready for sexual healthcare with you at the centre
Chiratae Ventures VC Fund · Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • India, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • BuyStars — BuyStars is a online gaming platform with a lot of fantasy sports.
  • Pixis — Pixis develops codeless AI infrastructure to help brands scale all aspects of their marketing in a world of complex consumer behavior.
  • Cropin — CropIn is a leading AI and Data-led agri-tech​ organization that provides SaaS solutions to agribusinesses globally. CropIn’s unique suite of products enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to adopt and drive digital strategy across their operations. Using cutting-edge technology like big data analytics, artificial intelligence,machine learning, and remote sensing, CropIn creates an interconnected network of all these stakeholders at different levels of the agriculture ecosystem, enabling clients to analyze and interpret data to derive real-time actionable insights on standing crop. Businesses can thus leverage technology to effectively drive their initiatives around Digitization, Predictability, Compliance, Sustainability and Traceability. With the vision to ‘maximize per acre value’ and the mission to ‘make every farm traceable’, CropIn adds value to agri-businesses by increasing efficiency, scaling productivity, and strengthening sustainability across the board. Thus far, CropIn has digitized over 5.5 million acres of farmland and enriched the lives of nearly 2.1 million farmers, while gathering data on 380+ crops and 3,600+ crop varieties in 46+ countries on 6 continents.
Zhonglu Capital VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Social Media, LGBT
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • China, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • Huodull — Huodull is a logistics platform that helps people improve shipping efficiency.
  • Invispower — Invispower provides wireless charging solutions and products.
  • New Cloud Medical — New Cloud Medical is the leading pain specialist medical association in China. It relies on the national key specialists, the Sino-Japanese Hospital Pain Specialist Medical Association, the national telemedicine platform, the top hospital brand and the expert resource library, making full use of the advantages of international pain disciplines.Construction of national, provincial, municipal, and county pain cloud platform grading clinics. Providing pain-specific specialty treatments to city-level and county-level public secondary hospitals, creating city-level and characteristic pain departments, improving the level of pain specialist treatment, and building a professional and comprehensive network of consultation consultations and a long-term scientific operation system.
Ventech VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 6 investments in the past 12 months
On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
  • Microoled — Our best technology is vision. Designing the future of microdisplay applications. Our proprietary AMOLED technology elevates near-eye displays to the next level with optimal picture resolution, image brightness, and power con-sumption efficiency.
  • Resortecs — Resortecs is an award-winning start-up that develops heat-dissolvable stitching threads and thermal disassembly systems that make textile recycling easy.
Ross Veitch Angel
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
  • Real Estate, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Singapore, Thailand, United States
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.
Hopelab VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Hopelab is a social innovation lab and impact investor advancing entrepreneurs, research, digital health, and solutions that support and empower young people, especially those from historically underserved communities. The organization works to remove systemic barriers to youth mental health and emotional well-being through targeted social impact investments, hands-on design and research support for digital innovation, and translational science partnerships.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Wellness, Fitness
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
  • Caraway — Caraway is a digital healthcare company for women+ in college that provides integrated physical, reproductive and mental healthcare services.
  • Vytyl Health Management — Vytyl Health Management delivers quality mental health care to adolescents and transitional-age youth. The organization firmly believes that connection forms the basis for healing. They recognize the significant challenges ahead but remain steadfast in their conviction that through collaborative efforts, barriers can be overcome, meaningful bondscan be formed, and vital assistance can be extended to those in greatest need.
Project A Ventures VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $600 M 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
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Relay — Relay is a technology-enabled delivery network that enables businesses to expand and improve their e-commerce operations.
  • Mindfuel — Our Data Product Management software solution and value services help increase transparency across the entire value chain, slash costs and boost your data ROI.
  • Labrys Technologies — Visualise & Coordinate Your People. Securely. Anywhere. In Real-Time.
Cavallo Consulting VC Fund · Corona, California, United States
Independent professionals with a deep understanding of the web and strong marketing expertise.
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Investment focus
  • LGBT, Tourism, Communities
  • Seed
  • Italy
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
Peter B. Angel · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Social Media, B2B
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Swsh — Swsh is a social app that aims to strengthen true friendships rather than superficial relationships with followers.
  • Hopscotch — We believe the flow of money between businesses should mirror the seamless flow of money between individuals. As former small business owners ourselves, we're all too familiar with the intricacies of getting paid and making payments to service providers. Hopscotch's stored value accounts and consumer-like business profiles enable us tocreate an unmatched payments experience. But our vision extends beyond a payments platform. We're building a destination for small businesses to connect, transact, and grow together. A simple, easy-to-use interface. A community of businesses thriving. Together. As one.
  • 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.
Antoine Blondeau Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom
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 — Pathship is an education platform that leverages AI and ML. An alternative to today’s higher education, connecting people with jobs they’re passionate about.
Angelia Muller Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Angie is the CEO and co-founder of Attunement AI. Prior to founding Attunement AI, Angie was a partnership lead at Stripe and NVIDIA
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Investment focus
  • B2B, Health Care, Advanced Materials
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Magic — Magic combines the world's best virtual assistants with AI tools and dedicated assistants in sales, customer service, and more.
  • LOOMIA — Loomia makes soft circuit circuit systems ( e-textile systems) that be used in a wide range of soft goods. We serve customers in medical wearable, automotive interiors and outdoor apparel and accessories
  • LVNDR Health — Get ready for sexual healthcare with you at the centre
Lorenzo Thione Angel · Manhattan, New York, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Financial Services, Travel
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Chai — Chai AI, the leading chat bot app. Create, share, and explore chatbots on the Chai AI platform. Create your dream Chai AI chatbot now.
  • Ordinary Seafood — We are a consumer facing food-tech company using the power of plant protein and biotechnology to deliver the next generation of sustainable seafood. Our mission is to bring balance back into our food system by offering delicious and healthy seafood alternatives.
  • Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
SeedInvest VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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
  • Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
  • United States, Israel, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Qairn — Qairn provides review and validation of promotional materials. They also provide ANSM submission, constitution, validation of promotional documents, and other regulated content services.
  • His Lovers — His Lovers is an online dating platform. It offers the chance to meet new people and form romantic relationships.
  • Asian Hustle Network — Asian Hustle Network (AHN) is an online community of 150,000+ members that uniquely connects Asian entrepreneurs and creatives globally across different industries. The goal of AHN is to centralize community, content, information, resources, e-commerce, and mentorship into one single location.
George Godula Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, China, Algeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Mila Cares — Air breathers, rejoice. Meet Mila, the first air purifier designed with real, air-breathing humans in mind.
  • Yassir — La superapp Yassir propose des services de transport, de livraison et de paiement pour vous simplifier la vie
  • Truck It In — is a platform tech company focused on simplifying road freight for 3.3M+ businesses in Pakistan to unlock 1 Billion dollars in resource potential
Peter Moran Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Peter Moran is a Member of the Board of Directors at Iterative Scopes. He attended Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT - Sloan School of Management, and Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Semiconductor, Health Care, Electronics
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Hava Health — The Hale Vaporizer system is intended to help people who are battling nicotine addiction.
  • Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Best Nights VC VC Fund · Wolfenbüttel, Niedersachsen, Germany · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Best Nights VC is the Venture Capital Investment Unit of Mast-Jägermeister SE. Teaming up with those who shape the future of nightlife today and tomorrow, BNVC’s mission is to partner with passionate, diverse entrepreneurs that challenge conventional ideas of live entertainment – creating joyful and meaningful interactions in a free and alwayschanging environment.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Mobile, Dating
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Aplós — Functional, non-alcoholic spirits and cocktails that calm and uplift without the negative effects of alcohol.
  • Togather — Create your event on Togather, the UK's most trusted events booking platform, choose from our roster of over 1,500 of the best and most passionate creators...
  • 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.
Philippe von Borries Angel · New York, New York, United States
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
  • LGBT, Dating, Social
  • Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
  • The Garden — The Garden is an online media company.
Manuela Rios Angel
Manuela Rios is a individual investor.
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Investment focus
  • LGBT, Dating, Social
  • Seed
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
Marten Mickos Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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
  • Software, Internet, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • United States, Finland, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • BrandBastion — The #1 choice for ad spenders and top brands. We provide 24/7 support by engaging with customers, removing harmful comments, and alerting you about issues.
  • 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 helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.
Mana Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 21 investments 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
  • Software, SaaS, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
  • Synctera — Making it easier for community banks and FinTechs to find their perfect match and work together. Welcome to the new FinTech frontier.
  • Mermaid Chart — Building the next generation of smart diagramming for enterprise teams. Easily create and collaborate on complex diagrams from text.
Slauson & Co. VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Early Stage Venture Capital. Investing with Intention. Rooted in Inclusion.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
  • Gigs — Find hourly jobs in your neighborhood.
  • EngineEars — EngineEars operates as a marketplace for audio engineers.
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