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Top 50 LGBT Startup Investors in United States (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in United States LGBT startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United States 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
8 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $72k–$35M
Citi Impact Fund
VC Fund
3 United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Series C Health Care, FinTech, Software $11M–$125M
Female Founders Fund
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $500k–$15M
Alpaca VC
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Real Estate $1.5M–$25M
Bossa Invest
VC Fund
3 United States, Brazil, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $49k–$36M
Anthemis
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1.3M–$60M
Ross Veitch
Angel
2 Singapore, Thailand, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, Real Estate, Rental $500k–$20M
Shinji Kimura
Angel
2 United States, India, Japan Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, Financial Services, Software $67k–$220M
Bessemer Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Israel Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $5M–$100M
Nisha Dua
Angel
2 United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Beauty, Medical $2M–$24M
Define Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Health Care, Medical, Wellness $3.2M–$140M
U-Start
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Travel, Fashion $406k–$23M
10X Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Financial Services $800k–$36M
Red Swan Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, E-Commerce $1.2M–$60M
Amanda Bradford
Angel
2 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A LGBT, Dating, Social $1.5M–$1.5M
Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Australia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $250k–$20M
Socially Financed
VC Fund
2 United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate $1M–$20M
XFactor Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Wellness, Health Care $500k–$17M
Andy Dunn
Angel
2 United States, Brazil Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Retail $1.1M–$25M
Elevate Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, SaaS $250k–$15M
General Catalyst
VC Fund
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $1.6M–$123M
Ventech
VC Fund
2 France, Germany, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.3M–$67M
Clocktower Technology Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $2M–$100M
Kapor Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Education, Health Care $800k–$50M
Polaris Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Ireland, Singapore Series B, Series A, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $4.6M–$105M
MicroVentures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, 3D Printing, Mobile Apps $460k–$5M
Wefunder
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $51k–$2.5M
Backstage Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Internet $100k–$20M
Debut Capital
VC Fund
1 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Beauty $900k–$10M
Chris Adelsbach
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $118k–$19M
Albert Lee
Angel
1 United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $800k–$2.8M
Michelle Kennedy
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Women's, Fashion, Software $1M–$5.7M
TiE Angels
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $395k–$10M
Craft Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.9M–$120M
Antoine Blondeau
Angel
1 United States, France, Austria Seed, Series A, Angel Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $1.2M–$80M
Slow Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Information Technology $1.4M–$75M
Ventech China
VC Fund
1 China, Singapore, United States Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology $1.4M–$50M
Chelsea Clinton
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical, Health Diagnostics $2M–$130M
Lorenzo Thione
Angel
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $535k–$30M
AngelVest
VC Fund
1 China, United States, Taiwan Seed, Series A, Series B Education, EdTech, Mobile $365k–$3M
Audrey Gelman
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Apps, Social, Social Media $1.5M–$4M
Pole Capital
VC Fund
1 France, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Travel $712k–$2.3M
Precursor Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $120k–$20M
Project A Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.4M–$75M
Chris Sinton
Angel
1 United States Seed LGBT, Rental, Travel
Town Hall Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Panama Series B, Series C, Seed Health Care, Medical, Hospital $735k–$200M
Silvia Mah
Angel
1 United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps $89k–$2.5M
George Godula
Angel
1 United States, China, France Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile $970k–$150M
Tusk Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 United States Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Financial Services, FinTech $3M–$100M
Flatiron Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Brazil, Mexico Series B, Series A Internet, E-Commerce, Software $6M–$71M
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Gaingels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in United States LGBT startups, 76 in the past 12 months

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 to date.  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, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1354
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.1M; Series A $5M–$35M; Venture - Series Unknown $72k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $140k in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Allara — Allara is your all-in-one virtual care team for hormonal, metabolic & gynecological conditions such as PCOS and Endometriosis.
  • North.cloud — Automate your enterprise-grade cloud finance with zero effort. Our AI reduces your cloud bill by 50% without any risk, contracts, or technical work.
  • Uvi — Uvi provides infrastructure that serves as a context and reasoning layer for enterprise AI agents. The platform resolves internal corporate vocabulary, tracks dependencies, and reconstructs the decision-making intent scattered across disparate systems like Jira, GitHub, and Slack. By unifying data fragments into an integrated knowledge network, it enables AI tools to process query objectives accurately while enforcing existing user access permissions at the retrieval stage.
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Citi Impact Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United States 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: 71
  • Round size: Series A $11M–$35M; Series B $15M–$111M; Series C $35M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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
  • Hopscotch Primary Care — We provide primary care services to seniors on Medicare, offering more time with your doctor, and a full care team to support all of your healthcare needs.
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Female Founders Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United States LGBT startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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: 148
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.7M; Series A $3.5M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $29M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Arey — Arey is anti-aging haircare, clinically proven. Our science-backed hair and scalp treatment slows greys and delivers thicker, fuller, healthier hair.
  • Leela — Leela is a software company that develops a compliance automation platform for regulated businesses, particularly financial services companies. Its platform helps organizations create and maintain compliance programs by interpreting policies, identifying regulatory obligations, monitoring changes, and coordinating the work required to meet compliance requirements. Leela automates workflows such as drafting policy updates, reviewing screening results, updating internal controls and training materials, and preparing supporting documentation. The platform tracks compliance tasks, deadlines, approvals, and exceptions while maintaining records of completed activities. It also coordinates requests and approvals among businesses, financial institutions, customers, and other counterparties involved in compliance processes. Leela integrates with existing business systems to collect relevant information and generate evidence packages for internal reviews, banking partners, and regulators. Its software is designed to reduce manual compliance administration and help regulated organizations manage ongoing regulatory obligations.
  • Fields Good — Fields Good is a modern cookie brand baking up functional cookies that taste as good as they feel.
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Alpaca VC
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in United States LGBT startups, 7 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: 150
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Series A $4M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $78M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • North.cloud — Automate your enterprise-grade cloud finance with zero effort. Our AI reduces your cloud bill by 50% without any risk, contracts, or technical work.
  • Mainstay — System of intelligence for residential real estate.
  • Autopoiesis Sciences — Autonomous scientific discovery. Building the architectures, training methods, and reasoning systems that give AI judgment.
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Bossa Invest
VC Fund · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 3 investments in United States LGBT startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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: 2097
  • Round size: Seed $166k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $49k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $632k–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • FFID — FFID develops AI chatbot platform automating customer communication, lead generation, and marketing workflows.
  • SprayX — Company specialized in interactive process control to evaluate and guarantee the quality of agricultural spraying with excellence. Empowers, leads and monitors applicators in Application Technology tasks.
  • Sandwiche — Sandwiche creates customizable link in bio pages enabling social media monetization and affiliate marketing management.
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Anthemis
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in United States LGBT startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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: 335
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $7.5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $56M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Humanos — Humanos helps companies measure, control and transfer AI risk through continuous Risk Intelligence, unlocking insurance, credit, yield and other financial products.
  • Kaiko — Kaiko provides real-time and historical cryptocurrency trade data, order books, and aggregated prices through a cryptocurrency API, downloadable CSV files, and a livestream WebSocket. We cover 100+ crypto exchanges and 35,000+ trading pairs for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins.
  • CollectiveX — Collective X is a Women's Health Intelligence platform designed to bridge the historical research and data gap in women's health. It provides evidence-backed, female-specific insights built around female physiology to power the smart health ecosystem, ensuring that digital health products and clinical workflows don't rely on biased data.
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Ross Veitch
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in United States LGBT startups

Ross Veitch is based out of Dubai, Dubai and is the Chief Executive & Co-Founder of Wego. Ross previously worked at H2 as a global chapter chair.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Real Estate, Rental
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Singapore, Thailand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
  • Light — Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.
  • PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.
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Shinji Kimura
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in United States LGBT startups

Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$107M; Series B $4M–$220M; Venture - Series Unknown $67k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POKKT — POKKT is an Alternate Mobile Payment Platform that helps owners of Paid Digital Goods and Services to monetise thier users through an advertiser-funded Model. Develpoers and Publishers of Digital content can significantly increase monetization and convert non-paying users into paying users.
  • 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 — Cloud infrastructure for teams that develop, train, and serve AI applications at scale.
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Bessemer Venture Partners
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 2 investments in United States LGBT startups

Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage and growth-stage companies across technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors. It provides capital to startups and emerging businesses while supporting founders with strategic guidance, operational insight, and network access. The firm participates in multiple funding stages, from seed investments to later growth rounds, and works closely with portfolio companies on product development, market expansion, and organizational scaling. Its investment activities span software, cloud infrastructure, fintech, biotech, and internet-enabled businesses, aligning capital deployment with long-term company building.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1725
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$45M; Series B $10M–$62M; Series C $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1B in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • ShopMy — ShopMy is the affiliate marketing and collaboration tool used by the top content creators and brands in the world.
  • Valence — Work better. Together.
  • Pluro Fertility and IVF — Pluro is a leading fertility clinic in India offering IVF, ICSI, IUI, and test tube baby treatments. Book your free fertility consultation today.
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Nisha Dua
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States 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, Beauty, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$4.2M; Series A $6M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% 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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Define Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States LGBT startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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: 63
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$8M; Series A $10M–$35M; Series B $15M–$140M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Arintra — Arintra is an AI-powered autonomous coding technology that delivers significant efficiency and accelerates your revenue cycle business performance.
  • Readily — Readily provides an AI-powered compliance platform for healthcare organizations and health plans. The platform centralizes internal policies, procedures, contracts, and external regulations into a unified, version-controlled knowledge base. It uses artificial intelligence to search, interpret, and connect regulatory requirements with internal documents, helping teams quickly find relevant clauses and answers. Readily tracks new regulations, analyzes their impact across departments and policies, and surfaces gaps and action items. It also assists with preparing responses and supporting documentation for audits, reducing manual review and back-and-forth with regulators. The software is designed for compliance officers, regulatory affairs teams, and business units in highly regulated healthcare environments who need to manage complex, evolving rules efficiently.
  • Nuance Labs — We are building visual conversational AI that feels human.
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U-Start
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in United States LGBT startups

U-Start is the workspace angel groups and syndicate leads use to source, diligence and close co-investments: pipeline, diligence checklists, allocations and investor updates.

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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: 38
  • Round size: Seed $406k–$3.5M; Series A $3M–$23M; Series B $3.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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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10X Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States 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 and is based in New York.

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 264
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $800k–$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

  • Portal — Build next-generation cell engineering and drug discovery workflows with Portal mechanoporation for broad intracellular delivery across cells and cargoes.
  • CEA Industries — A BNB-focused digital asset treasury company. Treasury dashboard, SEC filings, and investor information.
  • Host Digital — Host Digital is a pure-play, vertically integrated digital infrastructure platform that develops, acquires, owns, and operates institutional-quality data centers.
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Red Swan Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States LGBT startups

Red Swan is a seed stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs who delight customers, create culture, and disrupt industries. If Black Swans are unforeseen calamitous events, Red Swans are great companies most of us never saw coming. They are built by entrepreneurs who create joy for their customers, provide meaning to their employees, and who scare their shareholders by passing on acquisition offers. They tend to be movements as much as businesses.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.8M; Series A $5M–$17M; Series B $14M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.5M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • KLIPY — KLIPY is the expression platform for GIFs, memes, stickers, clips and mini games. Discover, create and share content across apps and communities.
  • Expo — Expo is the fastest way to build native apps for iOS, Android, and the web with React.
  • Man Cereal — Man Cereal produces breakfast cereal with added protein and creatine. Its products focus on nutrition with low sugar and selected ingredients, targeting people looking for functional food options.
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Amanda Bradford
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in United States 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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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States 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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1305
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $4.4M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
  • Noise — Noise makes finding UGC creators easy. Work smarter with personalized AI guidance to make your next UGC creator campaign go viral.
  • Netsec — Professional cybersecurity and managed IT services to protect your business 24/7.
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Socially Financed
VC Fund · Chatham, New Jersey, United States · 2 investments in United States 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: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $10M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3M in 2024

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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XFactor Ventures
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in United States 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: 105
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.2M; Series A $7.2M–$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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Andy Dunn
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in United States 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, Consumer Goods, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • 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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Elevate Capital
VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States · 2 investments in United States LGBT startups, 13 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: 75
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $365k–$1.2M; Series A $2.3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $26M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Rapta — Rapta solves the critical shortage of skilled workers and provides continuous training and continuous quality improvement using AI for every manufacturing role in any industry.
  • 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.
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General Catalyst
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in United States LGBT startups

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2301
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$18M; Series A $6.7M–$75M; Series B $14M–$123M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Lemonade — Lemonade operates as a full-stack insurance company powered by AI and behavioral economics and driven by social good. It is a licensed insurance carrier, offering homeowners and renters insurance. Lemonade replaces brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning, delivering zero paperwork and instant everything. The company uses artificialintelligence and behavioral economics to set rates for the homes and renters it insures. Lemonade was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY, United States.
  • 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.
  • Relay — Relay (Relay Financial), is an all-in-one business banking and money management platform helping businesses understand what they're earning, spending & saving.
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Ventech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in United States LGBT startups, 12 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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: France, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 218
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.6M; Series A $3.9M–$14M; Series B $5.6M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $207M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • amber — info@amberoad.aiambeRoad is developing an intelligent enterprise search engine to help employees to find all relevant documents easily and quickly by integrating all company internal data sources into one search engine. Our solution allows access to all company-wide files from anywhere. Even if you don't exactly know what you are lookingfor, our cutting-edge AI will know because of a range of features implemented in our software.No need to tag documents manually, all in milliseconds - only one search request away.
  • Credoxys — Credoxys develops organic electronic materials for OLED displays, OLED lighting, organic photovoltaics, and sensors. Its portfolio includes dopants and transport materials designed to influence charge transport, optical transmission, power consumption, and energy generation in organic electronic devices. The company also develops materials forscale-up and customer-specific applications.
  • ENGO Eyewear — engo3 is a next generation heads up display built for endurance athletes. Instant, frictionless, hands free access to performance metrics with long battery life and an ultra lightweight form factor. Unlock your data, and experience an entirely new way to train and compete
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Clocktower Technology Ventures
VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States · 2 investments in United States LGBT startups, 14 in the past 12 months

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, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 266
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.6M; Series A $8M–$26M; Series B $20M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $4.4M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Soteris — Soteris provides artificial intelligence-based pricing tools to the insurance business. The company is working hard to transform the entire insurance value chain and would like to keep you updated on developments.
  • Settle — The smartest way to sell to the government.
  • Mainstay — System of intelligence for residential real estate.
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Kapor Capital
VC Fund · Oakland, California, United States · 2 investments in United States 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: 318
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$5M; Series A $3.3M–$20M; Series B $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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.
  • Intake AI — Intake AI provides AI agents for clinical researchers, helping automate and streamline clinical research workflows.
  • Hamlet — Hamlet transforms local information into accessible insights you can use and shares it via newsletter.
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Polaris Partners
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in United States LGBT startups

Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and biotechnology companies. Their healthcare portfolio companies' care delivery models include digital health, consumer-centric businesses, patient-provider solutions, data science, and analytics. Their life sciences and biotechnology portfolio companies focus on molecules and platforms, therapeutics, and genomics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 553
  • Round size: Series A $4.6M–$82M; Series B $7.5M–$100M; Series C $10M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $439M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • ice — Ice.com is one of the leading e-commerce website that sells diamonds, engagement rings, watches, earrings and all other types of jewelry. It raised $47 million from Polaris Venture Partners and Ignition Partners. The online retailer opened its doors in 1999 and has grown to annual sales of $83.4 million.
  • RetireOne — The outsourced insurance desk of choice for RIAs features low-cost, zero commission annuities for fee-only fiduciaries that are simple + transparent.
  • Cushcraft Corp. — Cushcraft Corp. designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes antennas and other passive radio frequency (RF) products for broadband wireless, communications, and data connectivity solutions.
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MicroVentures
VC Fund · Austin, Texas, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $460k–$5M; Pre-Seed $700k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Polco — Polco is an online community engagement platform that provides the tools local governments need to bring community members and leaders together.
  • Remedium Bio — Welcome to Remedium Bio - we believe that any disease can be cured.
  • Impossible Metals — BATTERY MINERALS: A GROWING PROBLEM Mining continues to play a vital role in our path to a green, circular economy. A growing population, urbanization, emerging market economies and the transition to green energy all demand more minerals. Responsible seabed mining will drive a truly responsible transition to circularity. Discover Our Solution
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Wefunder
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Wefunder is a platform that enables startups to raise capital from their customers and community, alongside VCs and angels -- through "community rounds". Startups can raise up to $5M per year from unaccredited investors, as well as accredited investors, and can publicly promote their raise. Startups that have successfully used Wefunder to raise $5M from thousands of fans include Substack, Mercury Bank, Replit, Levels, etc. Wefunder community rounds can be stand-alone, or part of a larger (e.g. Series B) round.

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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: 99
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $103k–$1M; Equity Crowdfunding $51k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $7.2M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Kombuchery — Kombuchery is disrupting the beverage industry and becoming the leading DrinkTech player in Europe.
  • Trace — AI orchestration layer for modern teams
  • 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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Backstage Capital
VC Fund · West Hollywood, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 184
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.5M; Series A $4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.1M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • BoldHue — BoldHue is a beauty tech company that develops a Bluetooth-enabled handheld device to customize beauty needs. Its platform uses AI technology to scan faces, display color, and match the color of the face to dispense pigmentation into the base foundation. BoldHue was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Aurora, Colorado.
  • AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
  • CreditRich AI — Official Account for the CreditRich app out now on Google Play!
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Debut Capital
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States 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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Chris Adelsbach
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 322
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $118k–$1.9M; Series A $4.3M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bourn — Bourn's technology is designed to automate cash flow management, offering SMEs fast access to capital.
  • Alfa AI — Alfa AI sources, screens and shortlists candidates so your team only spends time on the people worth meeting.
  • Emblematic — The first AI-driven Agentic Automation platform, designed to fully automate and enhance the accuracy of Finance Operations, including Bookkeeping, IFRS/GAAP Compliance, Reconciliations, and more.
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Albert Lee
Angel · San Carlos, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.8M; Pre-Seed $800k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sock Finance — Sock is a mobile finance app that is the easiest way in the world to earn interest (yield) on your crypto. With Sock, you can send crypto, invest, and earn with crypto anywhere in the world while maintaining self-custody.
  • Revery — The team at Revery is on a mission to make access to wellness affordable and accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, through the medium of gaming.
  • SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis
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Michelle Kennedy
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in United States 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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TiE Angels
VC Fund · Santa Clara, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $395k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.9M; Series A $1.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

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 — Premium home services with vetted professionals, transparent pricing, and quality guaranteed on every booking.
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Craft Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to the craft of building great companies. Craft has brought together a rare combination of entrepreneurial experience and investor acumen. Over the past twenty years, David, Bill, Jeff and Sky have built and invested in some of the most iconic companies of this generation.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 559
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$9.4M; Series A $10M–$35M; Series B $20M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $608M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Noetive — Intelligence of Record for the physical economy. A self-improving AI that learns how a business truly runs and works alongside its team.
  • Horizon3.ai — Horizon3.ai's mission is to help you find and fix your attack vectors before criminals exploit them. NodeZero, our automated penetration testing solution, enables organizations to continuously assess the security posture of their enterprise, including external, identity, on-prem, IoT, and cloud attack surfaces. Like APTs, ransomware, andother threat actors, our algorithms discover and fingerprint your attack surface, identifying the ways exploitable vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, harvested credentials, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together to facilitate a compromise. NodeZero is a true self-service SaaS offering that is safe to run in production and requires no persistent or credentialed agents. You will see your enterprise through the eyes of the attacker, identify your ineffective security controls, and ensure your limited resources are spent fixing problems that can actually be exploited. Founded in 2019 by industry, US Special Operations, and US National Security veterans, Horizon3.ai is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and made in the USA.
  • Arceus Legal — Redefining the future of law for the companies inventing the next decade.
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Antoine Blondeau
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States 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 — Founded in 2011, Hornet is the world’s premier gay social network. With over 30 million diverse users globally, the Hornet mission is to empower gay men to come out and join in the fun and fabulous of the gay community. The Hornet Feed curates content from acclaimed editors, thousands of community leaders, friends, and the guy next door, to sparkmeaningful connections. Powered by leading-edge technology, Hornet has become the number one gay app in markets such as France, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, and Taiwan, and is rapidly expanding its sizable user base in the United States. More information at hornet.com Hornet - Connect To Your Community
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Slow Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Slow Ventures is a generalist early stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco, Boston, and New York. Since 2011 Slow has deployed $800M+ across consumer, fintech, SaaS, crypto, healthcare, and the creator economy. Our portfolio includes companies like Airtable, Brightside, Gusto, Metropolis, OpenPhone, PillPack, Ro, Solana, and Teamshares.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 621
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.7M; Series A $6.5M–$25M; Series B $13M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $64M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Snag — Snag operates an AI-powered housing marketplace and rental discovery platform.
  • Steven.com — The operating system for the creator economy. Connecting creators to resources, platforms, community and technology where trust shifts to individuals.
  • Otter Health — Otter Health is a healthcare firm that focused on AI-powered utilization management and clinical intelligence for payers and providers.
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Ventech China
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$50M; Series A $1.6M–$31M; Series B $7.3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $150M in 2011

Portfolio highlights

  • Outopia — Outopia was established in China by a team of trail running champions and seasoned professionals from international luxury and sports brands. We create products that are engineered for performance and thoughtfully designed. Our goal: to enable meaningful experiences that transcend the gear itself.
  • Huamei Haolian — Huamei Haolian specializes in providing telemedicine and medical tourism services.
  • Phase Change Energy Storage — Phase Change Energy Storage is an innovative utility for energy storage materials and typical chemical fibers.
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Chelsea Clinton
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States 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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Lorenzo Thione
Angel · Manhattan, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States 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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AngelVest
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Angel Vest Group are are a group of 70+ active Angel investors who invest and provide mentorship for startups. Apply for Funding or Become a Member today.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: China, United States, Taiwan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $365k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • The CareVoice — The CareVoice is a Shanghai-based international company established in 2014, backed by top VC, Asian and Chinese healthcare investors. It is a health InsurTech company transforming healthcare experience to be more consumer-centric. They bring unique mobile-based and data-driven solutions that digitalize healthcare and insurance journey withconsumers' interest first.
  • The News Lens — The News Lens is an independent media for Chinese readers. The company aims to be a platform where a wide range of Chinese readers can engage in informed debates about important news, social, and political issues. The News Lens was established in August 2013.
  • Trainersvault — Trainersvault connects you with Personal Trainers around you. Discover, connect and book private sessions or attend a bootcamp.
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Audrey Gelman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States 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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Pole Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in United States 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: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $712k–$2.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% 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.
  • SESAMm — SESAMm is the leading provider of natural language processing and machine learning solutions and analytics for Investment firms and corporations.
  • Cosmo Connected — Cosmo Connected, a French startup founded in 2015, focuses on enhancing safety for individuals using bicycles, scooters, motorcycles, and electric scooters. The company innovates in safety helmets integrated with rear lights for visibility in any weather, coupled with a mobile application that uses geolocation for emergency alerts and medicalinformation sharing in case of accidents. Their technology, which includes multiple lighting modes and a fall detector, is patented in over 150 countries. With a vision to make roads safer and promote soft mobility, Cosmo Connected aims to lead in connected urban mobility safety.
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Precursor Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in North America. The firm focuses on investments in B2B and B2C software applications, AI, and hardware.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 544
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $66M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • PodcastAI — Turn your recording into show notes, clips, and a published episode. Create Ad Reads, manage campaigns, and distribute your podcast in one place.
  • Snag — Snag operates an AI-powered housing marketplace and rental discovery platform.
  • Bluecore Energy — Bluecore Energy is a maritime nuclear energy startup that builds compact, zero-emission small modular reactors (SMRs) on floating barges to democratize access to clean energy. The company develops portable, water-cooled power systems designed to scale and meet the energy demands of heavy maritime operations, coastal communities, and major ports.
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Project A Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups, 9 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: 230
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.9M; Series A $3.8M–$28M; Series B $11M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $377M 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.
  • Nettle — The AI workspace for Loss Control
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Chris Sinton
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in United States 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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Town Hall Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups, 10 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 to invest in and support the best entrepreneurs - those bold enough to want to change the system and impact millions of lives.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $735k–$30M; Series B $15M–$100M; Series C $30M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $440M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Thyme Care — Thyme Care is a dedicated team of nurses and care experts offering value-based cancer care to help you through all phases of the cancer experience.
  • Angle Health — Angle Health provides a technology-enabled health insurance platform to simplify employer-sponsored healthcare benefits. The company's service offers fully configurable group health plans that employers can tailor and deploy quickly through its “Benefit Builder” and “Quote-to-Card” tools, often eliminating the need for individual member-level underwriting. It integrates medical, pharmacy, demographic, claims, and population-health data with AI-enabled analytics to help employers, brokers, and care teams anticipate health needs and design plans accordingly. Angle Health’s plans typically include telemedicine, digital behavioral health, chronic-disease management, and access to a national network of doctors and providers—services that are often bundled into standard coverage.
  • Spark Pediatrics — Discover Spark Pediatrics, offering comprehensive, nurturing medical daycare for children with complex medical needs. Experience our dedicated pediatric care.
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Silvia Mah
Angel · San Diego, California, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

Silvia Mah is the CEO of She Invests!. She attended the University of California, San Diego - Rady School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $89k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, China, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $970k–$11M; Series A $6.3M–$49M; Series B $12M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mila Cares — Mila is the best smart air purifier for home use. Award-winning design, quieter performance, and powerful clean air for every room.
  • Yassir — Access on-demand daily services like ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments with Yassir, your super app.
  • Truck It In — is a platform tech company focused on simplifying road freight for 3.3M+ businesses in Pakistan to unlock 1 Billion dollars in resource potential
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Tusk Venture Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States 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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Flatiron Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in United States LGBT startups

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

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$28M; Series B $6.2M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.9M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • PathogenDx — Accurate and Flexible Pathogen Testing Technology for Cannabis, Life Sciences, and Food
  • Willow Industries — Mitigate mold and bacteria in cannabis with Willow Industries Ozone Systems. WillowPure provides clean and effective solutions to cannabis contamination.
  • Green Check Verified — Green Check Verified is the leading provider of cannabis banking solutions and expert advisory services for financial institutions.
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LGBT Investor funding in United States at a glance

Stats across 87 deals from 180 investors.

180
investors
in United States LGBT startups
87
deals
in United States LGBT startups
$1.1M
median round
in United States LGBT startups
30%
lead investors
lead at least one round
31%
Grant
most common funding stage
72/28
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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You can also enrich the investor list with investor emails, phones, LinkedIns, and other contact data.

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To access all 180 investors investing in United States LGBT startups and 48,091+ more investors, create a Shizune account.

Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.

The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.

You can enrich with email and download the data.

Does Shizune have investor emails and contacts?

Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.

To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.

To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.

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What is Shizune?

Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.

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Who is Shizune for?

Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.

If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.

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Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.

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Who built Shizune?

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