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Top 50 LGBT Startup Investors (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in LGBT startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in LGBT startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Gaingels
VC Fund
7 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$100M
Citi Impact Fund
VC Fund
3 United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Series C Health Care, FinTech, Software $11M–$125M
Clocktower Technology Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Brazil, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $2M–$86M
Anthemis
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1.3M–$75M
XFactor Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Wellness, Health Care $100k–$17M
Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Australia, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $500k–$20M
Kapor Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Education, Health Care $1M–$50M
Shinji Kimura
Angel
2 United States, India, Japan Seed, Series B FinTech, Software, Financial Services $150k–$220M
10X Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, FinTech $900k–$36M
Amanda Bradford
Angel
2 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A LGBT, Dating, Social $1.5M–$1.5M
Bessemer Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Israel Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, SaaS $5.2M–$100M
Alpaca VC
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Real Estate $1.5M–$25M
Bossa Invest
VC Fund
2 United States, Brazil, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $50k–$50M
General Catalyst
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2M–$130M
Harry Briggs
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Canada, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace $713k–$29M
Define Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Health Care, Medical, Wellness $3.4M–$140M
Globivest
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Biotechnology $1M–$16M
Elevate Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, SaaS $250k–$15M
Andy Dunn
Angel
2 United States, Brazil Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Health Care, Retail $1.1M–$25M
U-Start
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Travel, Fashion $406k–$21M
Nisha Dua
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Medical, Women's $2M–$24M
Female Founders Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $1M–$19M
Socially Financed
VC Fund
2 United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate $1M–$20M
Jackson Moses
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Aerospace, National Security, Military $450k–$70M
Debut Capital
VC Fund
1 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Beauty $900k–$10M
Michelle Kennedy
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Women's, Fashion, Software $1M–$5.7M
Project A Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.3M–$75M
Audrey Gelman
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Apps, Social, Social Media $1.5M–$4M
Joel Simkhai
Angel
1 United States Seed LGBT, Rental, Travel
Chris Sinton
Angel
1 United States Seed LGBT, Rental, Travel
David Chang
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $250k–$85M
Baroda Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Advertising, Financial Services $750k–$40M
Mana Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Collab Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Internet
Manuela Rios
Angel
1 United States Seed LGBT, Dating, Social
Sam Altman
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Ghana Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Melanie Steinbach
Angel
1 United States Seed LGBT, Dating, Social
Sean Rad
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A Health Care, Apps, Consumer
Moai Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Information Technology, Software, Robotics
Macluan Digital Partners
VC Fund
1 United States Series A LGBT, News, Dating
Lila Steinbach
Angel
1 United States Seed LGBT, Dating, Social
Ventech
VC Fund
1 France, Germany, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1.2M–$68M
Pole Capital
VC Fund
1 France, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Payments, Artificial Intelligence, LGBT $1.1M–$2M
TiE Angels
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS $700k–$10M
Antoine Blondeau
Angel
1 United States, France, Austria Seed, Series A, Angel Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $1.2M–$80M
Patrick Spaulding Ryan
Angel
1 United States, Mexico, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Software, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$10M
Lorenzo Thione
Angel
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $535k–$30M
Chelsea Clinton
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical, Health Diagnostics $2M–$130M
Wefunder
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $51k–$2.7M
Tusk Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 United States Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Financial Services, FinTech $3M–$100M
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Gaingels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 7 investments in LGBT startups

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1258
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.5M; Series A $5.5M–$37M; Series B $16M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • Sharper Sense — Neuromodulation for Clear Senses
  • Willow Wealth — Willow Wealth is an alternative investment platform focused on generating income streams for investors. Get exclusive access to private market investments.
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Citi Impact Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in LGBT startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Citi, the leading global bank, serves more than 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Learn more today.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Series A $11M–$35M; Series B $21M–$111M; Series C $35M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Prosperity Now — We help communities and organizations strengthen financial security through practical tools, research, and partnerships.
  • Biocon — Biocon is an innovation led fully integrated biopharmaceutical company that develop affordable biosimilars, generic formulations & complex APIs
  • Stepful — New York City, 100% Job Guarantee, Online, 4 months, Part-Time, $166 per month
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Clocktower Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica-based venture capital business focused exclusively on financial technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 249
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$9M; Series A $8M–$26M; Series B $20M–$86M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Feathery — Enabling product teams to build powerful forms.
  • Bread Financial — We provide simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions.
  • Matic Insurance — Matic is an independent insurance agency that works with multiple insurance carriers so that we can provide the best recommendation to you. This often results in the best policy and the best price.
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Anthemis
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in LGBT startups

digitally native finance

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 279
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.3M; Series A $4M–$25M; Series B $10M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Tremor — Tremor designs, builds & manages SmartMarkets utilize state-of-art auction technologies & optimization techniques.
  • PayPerks — PayPerks operates education and rewards solutions with our partners to improve the financial capability, financial health, and overall lives of millions of Americans.
  • Monax — Monax is a contract lifecycle management platform which allows consumers to easily procure lawyer-tested agreements and stay in full control of their business contracts. Harnessing a unique combination of active agreements, blockchain technology, and a business process modeling engine, the platform is designed to move business legal obligationsinto the networked world.Monax was founded in 2014 and is based in Edinburgh, UK.
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XFactor Ventures
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

XFactor Ventures is focused on making pre-seed and seed stage investments in companies with billion dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$2.2M; Series A $7M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $8.6M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Replit — Replit is a simple yet powerful online IDE, Editor, Compiler, Interpreter, and REPL. Code, compile, run, and host in 50+ programming languages.
  • BoobyBiome — BoobyBiome harnesses breast milk microbiome science to develop products to improve infant health
  • ShareWell — Discover a supportive mental health community with peer-led sessions, expert insights, and helpful resources to guide your healing journey.
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Everywhere Ventures is a global pre-seed venture capital fund for founders, by founders. Click to read Everywhere VC, by Everywhere Ventures, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1093
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
  • Suma Wealth — Meet Charlie, your AI financial coach inside the SUMA app. Get personalized budgeting, savings, and investing advice in English or Spanish.
  • Journey Live — Journey is shifting the way modern companies prioritize mental health. Our proactive, inclusive tools engage every employee, every day.
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Kapor Capital
VC Fund · Oakland, California, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups. They are an Oakland-based fund that understands that startup companies have the ability to transform entire industries and to address urgent social needs as they do so. It was founded in 1999 and headquartered in Oakland, California.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 227
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.8M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $126M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Parento — Parento is a pioneering national insurance-based solution for paid parental empowering companies to support working parents with proactive, tangible paid leave coverage and employee resources.
  • Reportwell — An easy-to-use compliance & reporting platform saving your team hundreds of hours and headaches. From smart report templates to streamlined performance framework dashboards, simple has arrived for compliance & reporting to governmental agencies.
  • Hamlet — Hamlet transforms local information into accessible insights you can use and shares it via newsletter.
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Shinji Kimura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$107M; Series B $5M–$220M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Skydrop — Flirtey provides drone delivery service of retail and e-commerce items to consumer homes. It is driven by a mission to improve lifestyles by making delivery instant for everyone.The company was the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery in the U.S., the first to perform a fully autonomous drone delivery to a home and the first to launcha commercial drone delivery service.Flirtey was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.
  • misterb&b — Find & book the best gay bnbs worldwide with trusted hosts . Gay Hotels, resorts & more in 220 countries. Loved by 1M+ travelers. Safe travels with the LGBTQ travel community!
  • Drifting in Space — Bring your own code, and run CPU, GPU, and data-intensive compute at scale. The serverless platform for AI and data teams.
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10X Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 230
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6M; Pre-Seed $900k–$5M; Series A $4M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Betr — Betr is a direct-to-consumer micro-betting that introduces instant gratification to sports betting. It provides tools to support responsible play and give control over their gambling. It encourages them to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within their personal limits. Betr was founded in 2022 and is based in Miami, Florida.
  • Portal — Build next-generation cell engineering and drug discovery workflows with Portal mechanoporation for broad intracellular delivery across cells and cargoes.
  • CEA Industries — CEA Industries (NASDAQ: BNC) is a publicly traded company pursuing a BNB-focused digital asset treasury strategy.
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Amanda Bradford
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Amanda Bradford is the founder of The League, an exclusive dating app that matches smart, busy, and ambitious people together. The goal was to create power couples by matching up highly motivated single professionals. She raised $2.1 million in seed funding in January 2015. Amanda studied at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, and worked for SequoiaCapital, Salesforce, and Google before launching The League.After graduating from Carnegie Mellon with a degree in Information Systems, Amanda joined Salesforce as a Sales Engineer. In 2010 she joined Google, where she worked as a product specialist on the DoubleClick team and then moved into New Business Development where she led partnership efforts around the commercialization of Google's BIg Data Infrastructure-as-a-service offerings. Amanda graduated with an MBA frp, Stanford Graduate School of Business and is interested in enterprise saas companies, big-data applications, and e-commerce.In 2014 she founded The League, a new dating app.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, Dating, Social
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
  • Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.
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Bessemer Venture Partners
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1322
  • Round size: Series A $5.2M–$40M; Series B $10M–$60M; Series C $10M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3.9B in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Tilera — High-performance, low-latency networking for AI workloads.
  • Strut Learning — Deliver flexible online experiences your students demand all in your in the ecosystem. Complete degree programs, plug and play, and customizations in a snap.
  • 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.
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Alpaca VC
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups, 6 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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $63M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Amplio — De-risk your supply chain with the purchasing power of a contract manufacturer. Amplio is the first AI powered platform to predict, identify and mitigate electronic component shortages for hardware manufacturers.
  • Applied Atomics, Inc. — Powering the next 1,000 years of advanced industry with co-located nuclear power plants.
  • Brilliant Harvest — Brilliant Harvest is the Most Powerful AI Helpdesk For Equipment Dealers.
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Bossa Invest
VC Fund · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Aprenda a Investir em Startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1318
  • Round size: Seed $193k–$6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $703k–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $362k in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Sandwiche — Sandwiche creates customizable link in bio pages enabling social media monetization and affiliate marketing management.
  • Sukha — An all-in-one focus app and distraction blocker for Mac, Windows and Chromebook: AI tasks, binaural music, website and phone blocking, Pomodoro timers.
  • Elemeno Health — Elemeno Health is an intuitive, cloud-based app, customized to specific needs of your hospital or unit. Streamline training and communication, drive best practices, and empower your staff with just-in-time access to critical information.
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General Catalyst
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2051
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $7M–$75M; Series B $14M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Datalogix — Datalogix® is the industry-recognized leader at connecting digital media and offline purchasing data. We help more than half of the top 100 consumer marketers increase the effectiveness and measurability of their advertising. DLX Platform®, encompasses over $1 trillion in consumer spending and powers campaigns for more than 75% of online mediacompanies. DLX ROI® is rapidly becoming the industry standard for measuring offline sales lift for digital media. Datalogix also offers predictive analytics for Direct Mail, and integrated media solutions via the DLX Net. Our expertise spans the major consumer segments, including Retail, CPG, Automotive, Telecom, Travel and Financial Services. We are based in Colorado, with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, and London.
  • Legora — By streamlining and simplifying legal workflows, we empower elite law firms and legal professionals to work more efficiently and effectively. Enabling them to focus on higher-value tasks and deliver exceptional results for their clients.
  • Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
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Harry Briggs
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Harry is a partner at OMERS Ventures, previously at Balderton Capital & BGF Ventures- and the youngest investor in the inaugural Forbes "Midas List Europe", thanks to investments such as The Hut Group, GoCardless, Touch Surgery and Revolut. Prior to Balderton, Harry co-founded Firefly Tonics, a healthy energy drink brand that sells inover 30 countries, sold to Private Equity in 2012. Harry started his career at McKinsey & Co., the strategy consultancy, in London and New York.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $713k–$7.5M; Series A $3.2M–$23M; Series B $12M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
  • 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!
  • LVNDR Health — Get ready for sexual healthcare with you at the centre
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Define Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Welcome to Define Ventures, where we invest in visionary entrepreneurs who are transforming healthcare. Discover how we partner with innovators to build the future of healthcare.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $3.4M–$8M; Series A $9.5M–$35M; Series B $15M–$140M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $460M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Blank Bio — RNA intelligence for precision medicine. YCS25
  • 9amHealth — 9amHealth is a virtual healthcare company focused on managing chronic cardiometabolic conditions such as diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. The platform connects patients with licensed healthcare providers, pharmacists, nutritionists, prescription delivery services, and at-home laboratory testing through a digital caremodel. Its services include personalized treatment plans, medication management, ongoing monitoring, and remote consultations designed to support long-term condition management. The company also works with employers, health plans, and pharmacy benefit managers to provide healthcare support programs for individuals living with chronic illnesses. 9am.health’s care approach combines medical treatment, behavioral support, and digital tools to help patients access healthcare services remotely and manage their conditions more consistently.
  • Valius Sciences — The maximalist, data-driven approach to personalized medicine.
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Globivest
VC Fund · Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Globivest is a private investment firm with a diversified portfolio of assets. Our primary focus is on innovative and scalable early stage start-ups. We seek to establish long-term relationships with visionary entrepreneurs while adding clear value in strategy and execution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $2M–$3M; Series A $1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
  • Goodvest — Goodvest is an investment app (life insurance) that builds a better world, in line with your values and promoting performance.
  • BioSapien — BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.
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Elevate Capital
VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Elevate Capital is a Portland venture capital firm that supports underserved entrpreneurs by providing seed capital funding and close mentorship.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $365k–$1.1M; Series A $2.3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • MedZERO — MedZERO is the world's first mobile lending platform dedicated to serving the healthcare industry. Designed to meet a growing problem, medZERO helps people pay for ever-increasing portions of their healthcare costs. An employer benefit, medZERO enables employees to pay out-of-pocket medical bills without incurring high credit card interest or401k loan fees.MedZERO is a mobile application that provides employees of participating businesses immediate access to funds to pay medical costs with zero interest and zero fees. Payments are made with a pre-paid virtual MasterCard and repayment is completed over 12 months directly from payroll deductions.MedZERO was developed through a joint venture between Portland, Oregon-based Sortis Holdings (SOHI) and Kansas City, Missouri-based Mobile Capital Group. Sortis Holdings’ wholly owned subsidiary Sortis Financial provides a national loan servicing platform and Mobile Capital Group brings a payments technology that supports millions of lending transactions used by some of the nation’s largest payroll providers.
  • Phosio Corporation — Phosio Corporation develops a photoresist material for the fabrication of high aspect ratio nanostructures. The company was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from Oregon State University's Department of Chemistry and the NSF-funded Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry.
  • StrateSea Technology — Developing intuitive custom and commercial AI/ML solutions for the hydrographic space and beyond.
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Andy Dunn
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Andy Dunn is co-founder and CEO of Bonobos, an apparel brand renowned for exceptional fit, high energy and great customer experience. Launched in 2007, Bonobos is now the largest apparel brand in the United States ever launched over the web. Previously, Dunn worked as a private equity analyst at Wind Point Partners and as a consultant at Bain& Company. He is a founding board member of education social enterprise Blue Engine and the founder of Red Swan Ventures, an angel investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$2M; Series A $3M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OffDeal — OffDeal is building an AI-native investment bank for buying and selling small businesses. We use custom AI agents and big data to screen thousands of SMBs each day, matching buyers with the perfect acquisition target in days instead of months. Unlike legacy M&A advisors, we can search for targets for hundreds of buyers concurrently, 24/7.
  • Sanarai — Sanarai is a mental health online platform for the Latinx community. Online platform that connects the Latinx community to mental health professionals in Latin America to provide culturally sensitive Spanish-language emotional support at accessible prices
  • Akin Mental Health — Doro Mind is for families supporting a loved one with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, severe depression and related illnesses.
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U-Start
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Travel, Fashion
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $406k–$3.5M; Series A $3.1M–$21M; Series B $3.4M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Dott — We believe in a future where cities are pollution-free and designed for people, not cars.
  • Keatz — A technodelic for VR
  • TransferGo — Move and manage money between borders quickly and affordably with TransferGo.
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Nisha Dua
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

Nisha Dua is Co-founder & Managing Partner at BBG Ventures, which she co-founded with Susan Lyne in 2014. BBGV is an NYC-based, early-stage fund leading investments in companies built by underestimated founders that are transforming our collective and lived experiences. BBGV invests across Sustainable and Transparent Commerce, Underestimated& Emerging Consumers, Health & Wellbeing, The Evolving Workforce, and Next Gen Communities. At BBGV Nisha has invested in over 70 start-ups including The Wing, Zola, Pymetrics, KiwiCo, Spring Health, Future Family and Winky Lux. Most recently, BBGV launched Fund III and led investments in Planet FWD, RadSwan, Thousand Fell, Oova, and Starface.Nisha has spent the last decade working in media, tech, strategy and law. She was the General Manager of AOL’s millennial site, Cambio, which she re-launched as a site “for girls, #BUILTBYGIRLS” in partnership with Girls Who Code. She then founded BUILT BY GIRLS, a software platform which connects girls and non-binary talent with professionals to prepare the next generation of leaders to step into careers powered by technology. Nisha was previously Chief of Staff for the AOL Brand Group, working on strategy, operations and special projects. She cut her teeth as a management consultant for Bain & Company and an M&A lawyer at Australian law firm Blake Dawson. Nisha acts as an advisor to numerous start-ups outside her role as an investor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$4.2M; Series A $10M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Diem — 8,346 Followers, 1,333 Following, 1,194 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Diem (@askdiem)
  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
  • SuperCircle — SuperCircle develops a tech platform and reverse logistics system that powers circularity for retail brands. It links retail with the waste management industry to close the loop and eliminate post-consumer clothing waste.
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Female Founders Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.7M; Series A $3.2M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $57M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Reachify — Reachify empowers restaurants to connect with their customers easily with Call Deflection to capture otherwise lost revenue.
  • Taya — TAYA, the private voice accessory that lets you live in the moment instead of managing it.
  • Fields Good — Fields Good is a modern cookie brand baking up functional cookies that taste as good as they feel.
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Socially Financed
VC Fund · Chatham, New Jersey, United States · 2 investments in LGBT startups

We're a group of SoFi employees, alumni, partners, and friends with hard-won experience building financial services and technology businesses. We leverage our network and expertise to identify and, most importantly, support early stage entrepreneurs that are transforming financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $10M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ownify — Ownify is rebuilding the path to homeownership to make it achievable for the next generation of homebuyers. Our fractional ownership platform allows first-time buyers to buy their home "brick by brick". Zero debt & no surprises. At the same time, we offer real estate investors fractional ownership in single-family homes, combiningrental income, home price appreciation, and social impact investing.
  • StellarFi — We Pay Your Bills, So YouCan Build Credit. With Stellar your bills are paid on time and on your terms.
  • Meanwhile — The world's first regulated Bitcoin life insurance. Tax-efficient wealth planning for long-term Bitcoin holders.
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Jackson Moses
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Jackson Moses is the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures. He previously worked at ThinkOrbital as an Advisor. Jackson attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he took a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a focus on Monetary Policy and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a focus on Game Theory.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Aerospace, National Security, Military
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$28M; Pre-Seed $450k–$5.4M; Series A $17M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Amca — Amca is building America's new industrial base.
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
  • Thor Dynamics — Directed Energy Systems for Counter-Drone Defense
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Debut Capital
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $900k–$2.2M; Series A $10M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qualifi — Qualifi is the on-demand phone interview platform that allows recruiters to interview 7x more candidates without scheduling a single call.
  • Totem — Totem was developed and sponsored by Native Americans with the goal of establishing digital banking as a means of financial inclusion for Indigenous people.
  • Us In Technology — Diversifying the tech industry. At Us In Technology we are bridging the gap between hiring companies and qualified underrepresented talent.
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Michelle Kennedy
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Michelle joined Badoo originally as lead counsel over 4 years ago. Prior to joining Badoo she was a successful corporate lawyer at leading international law firm, Mishcon de Reya, before being poached by the firm's successful biotech client, Quotient Bioscience to head up their legal team. During her time at Badoo, she built the legal,compliance, HR and talent teams before moving into a more operationally focused role, including a position on the board. Today, Michelle is responsible for most key areas of the business, and works closely with founder and CEO Andrey Andreev, on the existing product, and exciting 'special projects' coming soon....

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ruuby — Book vetted beauty and wellness experts to your home or hotel. 2,500+ professionals, same-day availability, 365 days a year. 150,000+ five-star reviews.
  • Luna Daily — Microbiome balancing body care for all skin, even your most intimate. Head, vulva, knees and toes. Vegan, dermatologist-approved, and eco-friendly skincare for all skin types. On a mission to connect women of all ages and stages to each other and their entire bodies.
  • OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
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Project A Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in LGBT startups, 12 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 $1bn in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering,business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 215
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9.7M; Series A $3.3M–$28M; Series B $11M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Nexcade — Nexcade AI agents run freight quoting, tenders, rates, bookings, and reporting with your team, visible and controlled at every step.
  • Project Q — European defence integration. Deployed with Bundeswehr, validated at NATO. Open-core, ITAR-free, no vendor lock-in. Connect sensors to C2 in seconds.
  • STARK — EUROPEAN DEFENCE SOVEREIGNTY
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Audrey Gelman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Joel Simkhai - Chief Executive Officer @ Blendr

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, Rental, Travel
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • misterb&b — Find & book the best gay bnbs worldwide with trusted hosts . Gay Hotels, resorts & more in 220 countries. Loved by 1M+ travelers. Safe travels with the LGBTQ travel community!
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Chris Sinton
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

In 1994, at Cisco Systems, he pioneered the B2B Internet with cisco.com identifying, articulating and helping create a new business paradigm, the Global Networked Business. In 2000, as an early driver of digital philanthropy, he saw that as the Internet changed the way business was done, it had could change the way people helped each other. Usingthe power of the Internet for good, Chris Co-Founded NetAid innovating with online volunteering and the first mobile app for donations on the Palm VII. Chris was a founding board member of the ePhilanthropy Foundation, founded Cisco’s ePhilanthropy office, and was Co-Founder and Founding President & CEO of Network for Good raising $1B for nonprofits. He’s served on boards with local nonprofits, Internet startups, and produced a documentary. He currently serves on StartOut's Board of Directors. StartOut fosters LGBT entrepreneurs. While Board Chair at StartOut he helped professionalize and scale the organization to 12,000 members, opening chapters in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, Rental, Travel
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • misterb&b — Find & book the best gay bnbs worldwide with trusted hosts . Gay Hotels, resorts & more in 220 countries. Loved by 1M+ travelers. Safe travels with the LGBTQ travel community!
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David Chang
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

David is GM, Expert Network at Hunt Club and a Founding Member at TBD Angels. As an entrepreneur and angel investor, he has held operating roles at 6 startups and invested in 90 companies. He was recently the CEO of Gradifi, which was acquired by E*TRADE. Previously, he was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School and Director of theBabson Summer Venture Program.David has held product and marketing roles at 6 Boston-based startups that were acquired. He previously led the PayPal Boston office and co-founded the Start Tank innovation space. Earlier in his career, he held roles at TripAdvisor (IAC), m-Qube (Verisign), edocs (Siebel), SnapMyLife (Exclaim Mobility), and Goldman Sachs.As a leader in the entrepreneurship community, he holds several advisor/board memberships and has made 90 angel investments in early-stage startups. Awards include Boston Business Journal's Power 50: Most Influential Bostonians, BostInno’s 50 on Fire: Education Winner / Investment Winner / Tech Finalist, and Finalist for NEVY Angel of the Year.David holds a BS with Distinction in Computer Science from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $4M–$4.5M; Series A $3.2M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Infringements — Monitor your patents and get instant alerts on potential infringements.
  • Hermetica — Hermetica is a crypto-native team with extensive financial technology experience, having worked with big organizations such as Kraken and State Street. Hermetica is dedicated to developing innovative financial products that capitalize on Bitcoin's security and transparency.
  • Patented.ai — The most powerful AI engine for intellectual property.
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Baroda Ventures
VC Fund · Beverly Hills, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Top Los Angeles Venture Capital Firm - Baroda Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Advertising, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$4.5M; Series A $3.8M–$10M; Series B $3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ID90T — "ID90T is revolutionizing airline employee travel by providing online shopping, reservation and ticketing tools, employee-only deals and discounts, and easy-to-implement technology that results in significant cost savings for our airline clients and increased employee satisfaction."
  • Amplify.LA — Amplify is a pre-seed fund in Venice, CA dedicated to backing strong teams at the earliest stages and supporting from first check to exit. The firm was founded in 2011, and has backed dozens of companies, which together have raised over half a billion dollars in funding, with exits to Apple, Google, FanDuel and others.
  • Policygenius — Policygenius is an insurance tech-startup that specializes in providing financial protection. The company focuses on providing solutions in the fields of finance, insurance, and insure-tech. Policygenius was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.
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Mana Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups, 17 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Synfini — Synfini, Inc., a privately held Menlo Park, California-based company, is a pioneer in agile chemistry. Its advanced, automated molecular discovery platform is transforming drug discovery through integrated neuro-symbolic AI, discovery-focused robotic automation, and world-class chemistry data. The patented Synfini platform includes automatedchemical synthesis technologies from SRI International. As a commercial enterprise Synfini will provide accelerated molecular discovery to drug hunters and pharmaceutical companies worldwide.
  • xRobotics — Smallest and powerful pizza-making robot in the world. Top 3 ingredients: sauce, cheese and pepperoni. Adjustable volume 100-300 pizzas per hour.
  • Bedrock Ocean Exploration — Bedrock is building smarter, more efficient ways to collect and manage seafloor data.
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Collab Capital
VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • BoxedUp — Hundreds of products, delivered to your door in 2 days or less.
  • Culina Health — Connect with one of Culina Health's virtual dietitians for inclusive, science-backed nutrition plans that are covered by insurance.
  • Backpack Healthcare — Backpack Healthcare provides accessible, inclusive and comprehensive pediatric and family mental healthcare.
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Manuela Rios
Angel · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Manuela Rios is a individual investor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
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Sam Altman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator from 2016 through 2019. Sam Altman attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Exowatt — Modular full-stack renewable energy solutions for commercial and industrial customers.
  • Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
  • Campus — Live courses with top professors.
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Melanie Steinbach
Angel · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Melanie is a individual investor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
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Sean Rad
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Apps, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Scener — Watch shows and movies synced together and hang out over video chat
  • SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
  • Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
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Moai Capital
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Robotics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sound Health — Sound Health uses acoustic resonance to provide nasal relief. Its current product is an app that scans the face to map the bone structure and then a headband that plays music at personalized frequencies for 10 minutes. The headband is off the shelf and the sound levels are akin to wearing earpods. It envisions the headband to be over-the-counter(OTC) so it’s easily accessible to patients, whether prescribed by doctors or not.
  • Molten Industries — Decarbonizing the world's chemical and heavy industries
  • Reset Financial Technologies — Reset is an earned-wage access platform that offers employees financial wellness and increases employee retention across industries through mission-driven technology.
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Macluan Digital Partners
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Macluan Digital Partners offers funding opportunities to small and medium businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: LGBT, News, Dating
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • gay.com — The Los Angeles LGBT Center is a safe and welcoming place where the LGBTQ+ community finds help, hope, and support when it is needed the most.
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Lila Steinbach
Angel · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Lila Steinbach is a individual investor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
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Ventech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: France, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 203
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.6M; Series A $3.8M–$18M; Series B $5.6M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Botify — Search engines miss about half the content on enterprise websites. Uncover those hidden opportunities with Botify, the leading enterprise SEO platform!
  • Crobox — Crobox's next generation guided selling solution humanizes your product data and discovery experience with product finders and product data enrichment.
  • mediarithmics — A sustainable and privacy-first next-Gen Data Platform to deliver advanced use cases for leading retail, media and broadcast players. We also provide you with the most advanced solutions for a cookieless and compliant future.
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Pole Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Artificial Intelligence, LGBT
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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TiE Angels
VC Fund · Santa Clara, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.9M; Series A $1.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gone — Gone is a goods redistribution platform that offers free pickup of gently used household products.
  • Cheerio AI — Enterprise-grade agentic AI to accelerate revenue, optimize operations, and scale customer engagement with minimal manual effort.
  • Clean Fanatics — Clean Fanatics offers expert house cleaning, painting, pest control, and civil services in Bangalore. Book today for a spotless, well-maintained home!
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Antoine Blondeau
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, France, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$30M; Series A $4.3M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoShare — Moving, hauling, and delivery help is just a tap away with GoShare's easy app. Get a truck or cargo van in less than an hour.
  • LogicInk — LogicInk is developing bio-chemical signals that can be worn daily, to support your wellbeing with increased knowledge about your health and daily peace of mind.
  • Hornet — With over 100 million users worldwide, Hornet is your go-to app for fun, engaging chat with gay men.
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Patrick Spaulding Ryan
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$10M; Angel $222k–$300k; Pre-Seed $125k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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!
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Lorenzo Thione
Angel · Manhattan, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Pre-Seed $535k–$3.3M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CHAI AI — 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 — Zamp is the sales tax technology provider of solution that eliminates the need for you to manage the software.
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Chelsea Clinton
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.8M; Series A $10M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

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

Wefunder is a crowd investing platform that offers capital raising services. The company's online platform offers investment services to startups through its investors' userbase and disruptive companies can receive amount as small as hundred dollars, enabling companies to grow and develop their businesses.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $89k–$1.5M; Equity Crowdfunding $51k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25k in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Kombuchery — Establish the leading health and lifestyle brand in the beverage industry. We aim to establish a socially-responsible, healthier, and more affordable alternative to conventional beverages in the market, while disrupting the traditional beverage value chain by leveraging direct-to-consumer subscription and digital marketing channels.
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  • Firesale — Firesale is an AI-powered resale marketplace built for people with too much stuff and zero time. Sellers record a 2-second video, and Firesale’s AI instantly generates the title, description, photos, and price. No typing, no pricing games, no endless messages — just tap, record, and sell. Designed to feel like a digital yard sale, Firesale makes iteffortless to turn clutter into cash locally, with Uber-powered pickup and delivery options.
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Tusk Venture Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in LGBT startups

Tusk Venture Partners is the only venture capital firm at the nexus of technology and regulation. TVP is an early-stage venture capital firm based in NYC, focused on investing in technology startups operating in highly-regulated markets.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$15M; Series A $8M–$60M; Series B $25M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Kodex — Kodex helps your company maintain compliance when law enforcement sends subpoenas, and other legal process. We manage relationships, workflows, and secure file transfer with government agencies who are seeking confidential and restricted information on your company's users.
  • Hint — HINT Home Intelligence is an AI‑powered home‑management platform that acts as a centralized “living manual” for homeowners, organizing property details, maintenance schedules, and utility information in one digital interface.
  • Doctronic — Doctronic is the first D2C AI doctor working with human doctors in all 50 states in the US (and moving into other countries quickly). Get immediate AI diagnosis and then ask a human doctor to verify / act on that diagnosis if needed.
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LGBT Investor funding at a glance

Stats across 108 deals from 200 investors.

200
investors
in LGBT startups
108
deals
in LGBT startups
$755k
median round
in LGBT startups
32%
lead investors
lead at least one round
34%
Grant
most common funding stage
75/26
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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