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Top 50 LGBT Startup Investors in United States in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Lgbt startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Lgbt companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 LGBT Startup Investors in United States in May 2025

Investor	LGBT United States investments
Gaingels	3
Bessemer Venture Partners	2
U-Start	2
Define Ventures	2
XFactor Ventures	2
Nisha Dua	2
Alpaca VC	2
Amanda Bradford	2
Andy Dunn	2
Female Founders Fund	1
Peter Moran	1
Graph Ventures	1
Moai Capital	1
Debut Capital	1
Slauson & Co.	1
Town Hall Ventures	1
Best Nights VC	1
Wefunder	1
Baroda Ventures	1
Project A Ventures	1
SeedInvest	1
Angelsquare	1
Lila Steinbach	1
General Catalyst	1
Slow Ventures	1
Lorenzo Thione	1
Peter Boyce II	1
OnLine Partners	1
Sam Altman	1
Marten Mickos	1
Manuela Rios	1
Macluan Digital Partners	1
Collab Capital	1
Chiratae Ventures	1
Backstage Capital	1
Ventech China	1
MicroVentures	1
Shinji Kimura	1
Great Oaks Venture Capital	1
Flatiron Partners	1
VTF Capital	1
Audrey Gelman	1
Silvia Mah	1
Philippe von Borries	1
Sean Rad	1
Antoine Blondeau	1
Craft Ventures	1
Tusk Venture Partners	1
Albert Lee	1
Chase Capital Partners	1

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Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of diversity, inclusive of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.
Near Space Labs — Near Space Labs is an aerial imagery and earth observation company, Near Space Labs' imagery makes it easy to monitor assets and gain remote access over broad or specific areas. Near Space Labs offers cloud-based delivery of fully processed images through its API. The company provides frictionless, affordable imaging for insurance, utilities,infrastructure, conservation, smart cities, retail, energy, government, and disaster response.
Jericho Security — Train your team to defend against the latest cyber attacks with our complete cybersecurity platform.

We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Miter — Miter's software streamlines HR, finance, and compliance for the construction industry.
TurbineOne — TurbineOne is the frontline perception company. It started with the vision of a world where people could sense every threat, speak any language, and deploy robots to dangerous environments instead of putting people unnecessarily in harm's way.
Optimal Dynamics — Optimal Dynamics' AI solution provides real answers by using dynamic forecasting models to simulate downstream impacts with confidence.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Travel, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dott — We believe in a future where cities are pollution-free and designed for people, not cars.
Keatz — A technodelic for VR
TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Wellness
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Layer Health — Layer Health focuses on resolving the healthcare information problem by utilizing artificial intelligence to execute any clinical, administrative, or research work that involves chart review from unstructured data.
Marit Health — A new path to fair pay in medicine. Anonymous, community-powered salary sharing for physicians and APPs - always free.
Cohere Health — Cohere Health can help your organization improve its utilization management process. We are transforming the way patients, physicians and health plans work together.

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

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

PlantBaby — We are developing a portfolio of clean-label, organic, plant-based foods and beverages to support families on the nutritional journey from infancy to adulthood.
Blind Insight — Blind Insight combines real-time searchable encryption with fine-grained programmable data access controls. Use all your data without exposing any of it.
Vidoc Security Lab — Ethical Hacking Automation platform for security teams

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Diem — 8,346 Followers, 1,333 Following, 1,194 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Diem (@askdiem)
Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
Millie — Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Real Estate
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

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.
Foyer — Saving the American Dream with the "401k" for homeownership
Intramotev — Intramotev Autonomous Rail manufactures autonomous zero-emissions rail vehicles to advance the future of freight movement. Intramotev's vehicles provide efficient and cost-effective movement of materials across specialized private railroads for mines, manufacturing facilities, ports, and more that is autonomous and fully battery-electric,enabling rail and mining industries to get lower emissions than diesel-electric locomotives and diesel trucks, shorter stopping distance, and steeper grade capability than existing trains.

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.

Investment focus

LGBT, Dating, Social
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Sanarai — Sanarai is a mental health online platform for the Latinx community. Online platform that connects the Latinx community to mental health professionals in Latin America to provide culturally sensitive Spanish-language emotional support at accessible prices
Ours — Modern-day virtual couples therapy and premarital counseling trusted by thousands. Get started with world-class couples therapists today!
Kabata — Full workout comprehension. Data-driven coaching. Gamified progression. Welcome to the next generation in connected fitness.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Oula Health — Oula delivers comprehensive maternity care from midwives & OBGYNs, including prenatal care, hospital birth, postpartum care, & gynecology.
Rising Team — Plug and play team sessions that lead to deeper connection, personal growth, and team effectiveness
Suma Wealth — SUMA is a revolutionary financial wellness company with the mission to engage, educate, and empower the Latinx community via a holistic approach of Digital Media, Experiences, and FinTech. By creating culturally relevant content, virtual experiences, and providing financial tools that demystify and reimagine financial wellness throughentertainment, we aim to become the trusted source to help Latinos own their economic power, overcome financial challenges, and better prepare for a more prosperous future.

Peter Moran is a Member of the Board of Directors at Iterative Scopes. He attended Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT - Sloan School of Management, and Stanford University.

Investment focus

Health Care, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, China

Portfolio highlights

GPx — GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Sound Health — Sound Health uses acoustic resonance to provide nasal relief. Its current product is an app that scans the face to map the bone structure and then a headband that plays music at personalized frequencies for 10 minutes. The headband is off the shelf and the sound levels are akin to wearing earpods. It envisions the headband to be over-the-counter(OTC) so it’s easily accessible to patients, whether prescribed by doctors or not.

Graph Ventures is an investment group that specializes in seed and early-stage venture investments. It was founded in 2011. Investments include: * BetterUp * Birdies * BlueApron * Dapper Labs * Earnin * Envoy * Hinge * Houseparty * Ipsy * Loft * Lever * Lingokids * Moon Express * Papaya * PicsArt * Porch * Quinto Andar * RideOS * Saildrone *Very Good Security * VivaReal * Zeplin

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

LAAM — LAAM is an online marketplace that offers clothes, footwear, and accessories.
Elmnts — A tokenized commodity ecosystem, backed by real-world assets.
Perena — Perena is a startup developing the basic infrastructure to address significant difficulties in the stablecoin sector.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Robotics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Construction
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Kaster — Communication between general contractors and trade partners on construction projects is complex and fragmented, yet it’s mostly handled through email, phone and text. Naturally, critical items get lost in the clutter. As a result, everyone suffers the financial impacts of project delays, disputes, claims, and issues. Kaster bridges the gap betweengeneral contractors and trade partners by connecting them through one communication workspace, so items never fall through the cracks and project teams avoid unnecessary risk.Learn more at www.kaster.app
TargetDocs — TargetDocs is a communication workspace that collects and organizes all of your subcontractor's project files in one place so they never fall through the cracks
Us In Technology — Diversifying the tech industry. At Us In Technology we are bridging the gap between hiring companies and qualified underrepresented talent.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nicaragua

Portfolio highlights

Finli — A full digital back office for SMBs that includes professional invoicing + quoting, payment processing, CRM, and inventory management.
Coblr — Coblr powers fashion repair for all - consumers, brands, and repair businesses - with seamless repair ordering and services by vetted local repair artisans.
FCTRY LAb — FCTRY LAb is a Sneaker Laboratory, revolutionizing footwear with cutting-edge design. As a Boots Laboratory, we craft innovation for every step. Explore fctrylab.com!

Town Hall Ventures is an investment firm aimed at transforming the woefully broken U.S. health care market through technology. It is dedicated to working side-by-side with visionary entrepreneurs who want to transform care delivery and health outcomes for the most underserved and higher need populations across the country.Town Hall seeks toinvest in and support the best entrepreneurs - those bold enough to want to change the system and impact millions of lives.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Hospital
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Panama

Portfolio highlights

Marble Health — Started by former teachers and mental health experts, Marble is creating a new system of care to help teens early in their mental health journey, before things escalate. We offer virtual appointments with licensed therapists, in-network and no waitlists.
Qualified Health — Discover the Infrastructure for enforceable governance, agent creation, and post-deployment monitoring for Generative AI in healthcare
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.

Best Nights VC is the Venture Capital Investment Unit of Mast-Jägermeister SE. Teaming up with those who shape the future of nightlife today and tomorrow, BNVC’s mission is to partner with passionate, diverse entrepreneurs that challenge conventional ideas of live entertainment – creating joyful and meaningful interactions in a free and alwayschanging environment.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, Dating
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Plots — A social media app for live experiences.
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.
Hustle Sasa — Hustle Sasa is a mobile-first platform that allows entrepreneurs to start and develop businesses, both online and offline. They enable businesses to build and manage storefronts, integrate with third-party payment providers, and manage orders across various channels.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United States, Israel, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Sensate — Wearable technology using science to help you relax, reduce stress and anxiety and improve your mental health. Learn more about Sensate and our mission.
Terraseed — Terraseed is the most sustainable and complete vegan vitamin, featuring 9 ethically-sourced nutrients in a fully compostable bottle.
Savvos Health — Savvos Health is a marketplace of affordable cash prices for shoppable medical care, including imaging, outpatient surgery, labs, and more.

Top Los Angeles Venture Capital Firm - Baroda Ventures

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.
Fluence — Training in psychedelic integration and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. International workshops, conferences, and consultation related to and mental health, MDMA, Psilocybin, ketamine, Ayahuasca, and other compounds.
Hedgehog — Trade anywhere, Track anything, and Learn everything about crypto with Hedgehog, a portfolio manager and research tool for crypto currencies.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

ENAPI — As an infrastructure layer company, ENAPI focuses on building the most secure, reliable, and scalable platform for stakeholder collaboration in the EV industry. ENAPI exists to commoditize connectivity and, thus, fuel the green mobility revolution.
METYCLE — The B2B marketplace for global scrap metal trading. We give the world access to scrap metal.
Vaeridion — Clean and affordable air mobility before 2030.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
United States, Israel, France

Portfolio highlights

Qairn — Qairn provides review and validation of promotional materials. They also provide ANSM submission, constitution, validation of promotional documents, and other regulated content services.
His Lovers — His Lovers is an online dating platform. It offers the chance to meet new people and form romantic relationships.
Asian Hustle Network — Asian Hustle Network (AHN) is an online community of 150,000+ members that uniquely connects Asian entrepreneurs and creatives globally across different industries. The goal of AHN is to centralize community, content, information, resources, e-commerce, and mentorship into one single location.

Since its launch in 2016, Angelsquare has supported more than 500 startups from all sectors in their Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A & Series B fundraising. From the implementation of the operation to the final negotiations, we have developed unique expertise that we put at the service of entrepreneurs to advise them throughout their fundraisingoperation and help them convince the right investors. : Business Angels, Family Offices, investment funds…

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Pongo — Pongo has created for you the first intelligent marketing assistant that communicates with your customers and increases your Google referencing, without you having to lift a finger
Orosound — Superior headsets for work. Advanced quality signed by Orosound -the French expert in active noise control, audio intelligence, and durability.
Remotebase — Get thoroughly vetted software developers from all over the world with expertise in AI, ML, back-end, front-end and more. Risk-free trial available!

Lila Steinbach is a individual investor.

Investment focus

LGBT, Dating, Social
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Kouper Health — The transitions-of-care platform ensuring patients receive timely access to follow-up care.
Sprinter Health — Sprinter Health is an on-demand mobile health company that sends full-time nurses and phlebotomists (“Sprinters”) into the home.
TaleMonster Games — TaleMonster is a multinational mobile game firm that genuinely wants to provide millions of gamers experiences they won't soon forget. By putting our passion at the center of everything we make, we hope to reinvent what casual in mobile gaming means.

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Starday Foods — Building a next-gen food conglomerate. Welcome to a food-forward future.
Tapestry — Tapestry enables anyone to create and deploy social applications using simple prompts.
Sublime Security — Sublime lets you write, run, and share rules to block phishing attacks, hunt for threats, and more.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Chai — CHAI is the leading AI platform, performing research in conversational generative artificial intelligence
Ordinary Seafood — We are a consumer facing food-tech company using the power of plant protein and biotechnology to deliver the next generation of sustainable seafood. Our mission is to bring balance back into our food system by offering delicious and healthy seafood alternatives.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.

Peter Boyce II is the Founder of Stellation Capital. Peter is a graduate of Harvard University wherein he earned a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and a Secondary in Computer Science, with a focus on Behavioral Economics and Network Theory.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
United States

Portfolio highlights

Swsh — Swsh is a social app that aims to strengthen true friendships rather than superficial relationships with followers.
Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
PromptLayer — The first dev platform for prompt engineering. Based in NYC.

OnLine Partners is a data-driven online marketing agency focusing on 360-degree search engine optimization. The company focuses on creating digital growth through SEO, PPC, and conversion optimization. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Kolding, Syddanmark.

Investment focus

LGBT, News, Dating
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

gay.com — The Los Angeles LGBT Center is a safe and welcoming place where the LGBTQ+ community finds help, hope, and support when it is needed the most.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible
Retro Biosciences — Our mission is to extend healthy human lifespan by 10 years.

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Finland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

BrandBastion — The #1 choice for ad spenders and top brands. We provide 24/7 support by engaging with customers, removing harmful comments, and alerting you about issues.
Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.

Manuela Rios is a individual investor.

Investment focus

LGBT, Dating, Social
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.

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

Investment focus

LGBT, News, Dating
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

gay.com — The Los Angeles LGBT Center is a safe and welcoming place where the LGBTQ+ community finds help, hope, and support when it is needed the most.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

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

Chiratae Ventures is a global network of venture capital funds with approximately $3.6 billion under management and a portfolio of over 220 companies built over the last 15 years. The Chiratae Ventures network is comprised of five independent partnerships managing funds in North America and Asia. Each partnership makes investments on behalf of itslimited partners, including International Data Group (IDG), the world's largest IT media company. By combining the IDG platform – an unparalleled combination of global publishing, market research (IDC), and conferences and exhibition resources – with years of hands-on experience in early-stage company building, each Chiratae Ventures fund helps companies understand their markets better and penetrate them faster than their competition.With partnerships in the USA, Korea and multiple locations throughout China, India and Vietnam, the IDG Ventures network offers the international perspective and the local market expertise to help companies grow from start-ups to global success stories.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Expertia.AI — AI-powered screening and assessments: find and interview top candidates from 100+ platforms and hire in 24 hours, all at <10% of the cost.
Curefoods — Curefoods democratizes access to food on a sustainable basis. They focus on operations management for cloud kitchens and the online food ordering market.
Dezy — Smiles.ai is India's leading dental clinic with 100+ expert dentists and has 300+ dental care centers in major cities like Bangalore, Bhopal, Chennai, Delhi, Indore, Lucknow, and Kolkata. Find the best dentist nearby.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BoldHue — BoldHue is a beauty tech company that develops a Bluetooth-enabled handheld device to customize beauty needs. Its platform uses AI technology to scan faces, display color, and match the color of the face to dispense pigmentation into the base foundation. BoldHue was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Aurora, Colorado.
EdLight — EdLight helps teachers focus on student work. With remote learning, it's harder than ever to see authentic student work. EdLight allows teachers to give real time feedback on images of student work.
Cloudnine Augmented Intelligence — Discover CloudNine AI, where augmented intelligence transforms enterprises. Explore innovative AI-driven solutions for enterprise knowledge management enhanced capex investments, streamlined operations, and advanced analytics.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Big Data
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, Japan, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Reflaunt — Reflaunt empowers brands with the technology to embrace circular fashion. The allows brand's customers to put back on sale their past purchases without ever leaving the brand ecosystem rewards them with brand shopping credits
Naive Blue — Naive Blue is a photography service provider company.
Huamei Haolian — Huamei Haolian specializes in providing telemedicine and medical tourism services.

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.

Investment focus

Software, 3D Printing, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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

Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
United States, India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

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

Great Oaks Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with a mission to support and invest in the most innovative and disruptive startups. Visit our home page to learn more about our portfolio companies, investment approach, and the experienced team behind our success.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
Nimblemind.ai — Nimblemind.ai enables healthcare providers to organize and enrich multimodal clinical data through labeling and curation.
Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.

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."

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Marketing
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

PathogenDx — PathogenDx has developed a microarray based test specifically designed for the cannabis, botanical, food and agricultural testing markets. Our technology allows test labs to conduct between 12- 48 tests in parallel, testing up to 20 pathogens per test in less than a days’ shift. This is done at a fraction of the cost of plate counts or RealtimePCR. Our Raw Sample technology allows laboratories to bypass almost 20 steps that Real-time PCR must perform for DNA extraction and purification. PathogenDx technology bypasses the need for purification, quantitation, and normalization increasing the speed and affordability of pathogen screening. This helps our customers reduce testing time by 12 hours on the front end, and avoid spending money on sample prep kits and additional instrumentation.
Willow Industries — Mitigate mold and bacteria in cannabis with Willow Industries Ozone Systems. WillowPure provides clean and effective solutions to cannabis contamination.
Green Check Verified — Green Check Verified is the leading provider of cannabis banking solutions and expert advisory services for financial institutions.

We Invest In The Future of Commerce

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Ross & Snow — Ross & Snow is the brainchild of four good friends (the “shoe dogs,” each a longtime veteran of the footwear industry) coming together one evening for wine, laughter and a discussion about the current state of footwear quality. We wanted to see mountain-inspired footwear that was also perfect for the city, footwear that is both functional andcraveworthy, footwear that’s made in a family-owned Italian workshop but designed with American edge. We wanted to produce the kind of shoe or boot we would want to wear all day, the kind that takes us seamlessly from a chilly morning’s breakfast meeting all the way through to drinks in our favorite bar.
The/Studio — Manufacture high-quality custom products in small batches with fast turnaround and free shipping online from The/Studio. Browse our custom products, here.
ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.

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.

Investment focus

Apps, Social, Brand Marketing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

Silvia Mah

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Baby
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

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

Philippe von Borries is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Red Ventures and the President of Lonely Planet. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder of Refinery2 9.

Investment focus

LGBT, Dating, Social
Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
The Garden — The Garden is an online media company.

Sean Rad is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. Rad served as Tinder's CEO and Chairman at various times from the company's inception until 2017. Rad also foundedCardify in 2012, Adly in 2009, and Orgoo in 2004.In 2020, Forbes included Rad on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. In May 2016, he was awarded an honoree diploma from the University of Southern California while delivering their undergraduate commencement.

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Consumer
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Scener — Watch shows and movies synced together and hang out over video chat
SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Cyber Security
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, France, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

GoShare — Moving, hauling, and delivery help is just a tap away with GoShare's easy app. Get a truck or cargo van in less than an hour.
LogicInk — LogicInk is developing bio-chemical signals that can be worn daily, to support your wellbeing with increased knowledge about your health and daily peace of mind.
Pathship — Pathship is an education platform that leverages AI and ML. An alternative to today’s higher education, connecting people with jobs they’re passionate about.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Unframe — Unframe solves all your AI use cases with secure, scalable solutions on one unified platform. Say goodbye to generic software and complex implementations. Get tailored AI solutions in days, not months.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful new way to animate characters for videos, games, 3D, movies, ads or social media.
Allen Control Systems — Allen Control Systems is a robotics defense company purpose-built to deliver advanced robotic capabilities to fill modernization demands across the defense industry and national security communities.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

dub — The first Copy-Trading platform for stocks. Copy anyone's investments. For free. Regulated Broker-Dealer member FINRA and SIPC & FDIC insured.
Maza — Maza is a mobile app that offers financial products and digital banking services.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Apps, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

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

Commercial Banking serves more than 30,000 clients, including corporations, municipalities, financial institutions and not-for-profit entities. These clients generally have annual revenues ranging from $10 million to $2 billion. Commercial bankers serve clients nationally throughout the retail branch footprint and in offices located in other majormarkets. Chase Capital Partners are the #1 commercial bank in our retail branch footprint.Commercial Banking offers its clients industry knowledge, experience, a dedicated service model, comprehensive solutions and local expertise. The firmâ€™s broad platform positions them to deliver extensive product capabilities â€” including lending, treasury services, investment banking and asset management â€” to meet their clientsâ€™ U.S. and international financial needs.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series B, Private Equity
United States, Brazil, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Deem — Say hello to Etta. The world's most advanced travel management platform designed to make your employees and your budgets happy. Learn more.
Quadstone — Quadstone provides customer analytic software to enterprises in the United States and Europe. The company’s product, Quadstone System, enables enterprises to model and diagnose customer behavior. It caters to marketing, telecommunications, and financial services sector. The company’s clientele includes Barclays, Merrill Lynch, Globe Telecom, BT,Maersk Sealand, Experian CustomerInfo, Shop Direct, and Fidelity Investments.
CyberArk — Get the most complete Identity Security and Access Management Solutions that enable secure access across any device, anywhere, at just the right time.

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