# Top 50 Local Startup Investors in United States in June 2026 ## VentureSouth - Type: VC Fund - Location: Greenville, South Carolina, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology VentureSouth is an early-stage venture firm that provides capital and expertise to Southeastern startups through our angel investment network and funds. ## SV Aangel - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward. ## Double M Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet Double M Partners Venture Capital Fund ## Daher Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Daher Investments is a diversified investment firm with a proprietary global portfolio of investments. ## Uncork Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics For more than 20 years, Uncork has focused on one stage: seed. Our partners have invested in over 290 companies, with more than 100 meaningful outcomes and $60B+ in enterprise value created — including Fitbit (NYSE: FIT, Google), Sendgrid (NYSE: SEND, Twilio), Eventbrite (NYSE: EB), Poshmark (NASD: POSH), and Postmates (UBER), as well asfast-growing startups like We invest in companies using AI and emerging technologies to create leverage, unlock scale, and push industries forward. We're typically the first major check on the cap table, often leading seed rounds with an initial investment of $3M-$5M. We keep terms simple and transparent, because a clean term sheet makes a strong partnership.We look for team, TAM, and tailwinds, but conviction in founder–market fit comes above all else. We back founders who bring sharp insight into their markets and the drive to build what others can’t yet see.There’s no single playbook for building a company. Every journey looks different, but our role stays the same: a steady partner who shows up early, knows when to deliver hard truths, and stays engaged long after the round closes.Learn more at ## Greycroft - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce Venture capital and technology investments ## Tuesday Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011. ## Jason Calacanis - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University. ## Rincon Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics Rincon Venture Partners seeks to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs and support them as they build world-class businesses. Rincon is an early-stage venture capital firm that targets investment opportunities in Web-based businesses that are led by 'serial founding teams', have proven recurring revenue models and are pursuingcapital-efficient operating plans. They typically invest in companies where initial product or service development is largely complete, and the company's forward-looking focus is on market engagement and expansion. They take an active role in guiding and supporting portfolio companies by committing resources for such activities as Board representation, providing strategic and tactical guidance, filling key management positions, facilitating subsequent financings and achieving liquidity events. ## Betaworks - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile Betaworks is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund. ## Steven Cox - Type: Angel - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Local, Music, Video Steven Cox is the Founder and CEO at TakeLessons. ## Lightbank - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Lightbank VC is a $700M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage vertically focused AI, consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k - $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr(NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social (NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Extend, Attain, Paytient and Expel. ## General Catalyst - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care Investing in powerful, positive change that endures ## M13 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce M13 provides strategic counsel and operational expertise to help founders grow their companies. Through Fund II, M13 will expand its focus to emerging technologies driving change in consumer behavior over the next decade. Founded in 2016 with offices in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. ## Dave Morin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel. ## Contour Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software Contour Venture Partners, New York City Seed Venture Capital Firm ## Founders Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies. ## Brainchild Holdings - Type: VC Fund - Location: Newtown, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce 120 companies, 250 founders, $4BB in follow-on capital. Introductions, talent, growth, product, financing and strategy. ## George Crowley - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Angel, Series A - Focus: News, Local, Communities George Crowley ## Moneta Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Folsom, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Moneta Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in enterprise technology businesses. Moneta is typically the first institutional check into its portfolio companies and aims to follow on through their Series B rounds and beyond. The partnership knows what it is like to start and scale a business, and the entire Moneta team has arelentless focus on driving significant operational value beyond capital investment. Moneta Ventures was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Folsom, California, with investment team members across the West Coast and Texas. ## Kevin Hartz - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Kevin Hartz is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Sauron. He is also a Co-Founder and General Partner at A*. He previously worked at Eventbrite as Co-Founder and Chairman. Kevin attended Stanford University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts & Science in History and Applied Earth Science, and the University of Oxford, where he completed an MSt inHistory. ## Max Levchin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile Max Levchin is the Founder and CEO of Affirm. He previously worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an Advisory Board Member. Max Levchin attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ## Fortify Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Mobile, Software, Social Media Fortify Ventures is a venture capital ecosystem, investing in early stage founders disrupting the status quo. ## Auren Hoffman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Analytics, Mobile CEO, NQB8, Chm, SafeGraph. GP, Flex Capital. Fmr CEO of LiveRamp. Follow @auren ## RRE Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Internet RRE is a boutique venture capital firm with 30 years of experience, backing bold early-stage founders across diverse sectors. We provide deep expertise, AI-driven insights, and committed partnerships to help companies build and persevere for the long term. ## Joshua Schachter - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool. ## Notion Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud. ## Activate Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology Early Stage Venture Capital for High Growth Technology Companies ## SWaN & Legend Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Leesburg, Virginia, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Software SWaN & Legend Venture Partners is a consumer-focused venture capital firm that invests in customer service-based companies. ## Zelkova Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Zelkova Ventures is a venture capital firm committed to helping entrepreneurs build companies. The firm primarily looks to invest in early stage companies, many times pre-revenue. In many instances they provide a company's first outside/institutional capital. They look to take an active role and partner with the companies they investin. Along with their capital, Zelkova brings expertise, insight and execution to all of their portfolio companies.Zelkova, although not exclusively, focuses on several key sectors - Software Services, Internet Technologies, Environmental Technologies and Consumer Products. ## Upfront Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. We invest in technology businesses across digital media, SaaS, consumer internet and retail innovation. ## Google Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward. ## Ronald Conway - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley. ## Quest Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce Quest Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm located in Palo Alto CA. They invest between $300k-$1.5MM in early stage companies, with typical investments being around $500k. ## Andrew Mitchell - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Fashion Andrew Mitchell is the Founder of Brand Foundry Ventures. He is a former Co-Founder of Aspen Industries. He attended Lafayette College. ## Andreessen Horowitz - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology. ## Middleland Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, Software, Biotechnology Middleland Capital is a private investment firm focused on global early-stage technology opportunities. Leveraging a unique breadth of geographic and industry experience, the firm seeks partnerships with exceptional management teams to commercialize innovative technologies, accelerate growth, and build long-term value around the world. ## Crosslink Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Crosslink, founded in 1989, is a premier early-stage venture capital firm with over $1.3B in assets. Crosslink partners with founders that are market disrupters and category creators, typically at the Seed-Series A stage, across highly dynamic enterprise and consumer technology sectors. Over its history, Crosslink has had the opportunity topartner with defining companies such as Bleacher Report (acquired by TWX), BuildingConnected (acquired by ADSK), Chime, Coupa (COUP), DataStax, Molekule, Omniture (acquired by ADBE), Personal Capital (acquired by Empower Retirement), Postmates (acquired by UBER), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Verodin (acquired by FEYE), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone) and Weave. ## Frontier Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, Health Care With offices in Boulder, Los Angeles, and New York, Frontier invests in early stage technology companies in the United States. ## Georges Harik - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Georges Harik is the Co-Founder and Member of Technical Staff of humans&. He previously worked at Notbad AI as Chief Executive Officer. Georges attended the University of Michigan, where he earned a PhD in Computer Science. ## Keiretsu Forum - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 2,500 accredited investor members throughout 47 chapters on 3 continents. ## Kortschak Investments L.P. - Type: VC Fund - Location: Aspen, Colorado, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Walter Kortschak Investments ## NextGen Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology NextGen Venture Partners invests $1-2M in seed-stage companies with the participation of 1,800+ Venture Partners. The firm specializes in the fields of private equity, business strategy, start-up acceleration, and fundraising. ## Harbright Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: News, Local, Medical Harbright Ventures is a private equity firm that accelerates early-stage and growth opportunities with capital and mentorship. Its investors participate in the sourcing, vetting, and advising of portfolio companies. ## Grace Beauty Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail Grace Beauty Capital is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to the consumer & retail sectors founded on the core belief that deep domain and industry knowledge, operating expertise and extensive networks are essential to support early stage entrepreneurs and generate superior investment returns. Our mission is to become the premierpartner for early stage digital brands, consumer and retail technology startups on the journey from kitchen table to household name. ## Omidyar Network - Type: VC Fund - Location: Redwood City, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Education Omidyar Network is a philanthropy whose mission is to bend the arc of the digital revolution toward shared power, prosperity, and possibility. ## Clark Landry - Type: Angel - Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Clark Landry is the Managing Partner of Clover Leaf Ventures.Most recently, Clark was co-founder and COO at CESPPA, a cybersecurity company. Formerly, Clark was co-founder and COO at Maple Media (raised $30 million from private equity investors), co-founder and executive chairman at SHIFT (acquired by Brand Networks), co-founder and CEO at TopLevel Domain Holdings (now Minds + Machines - publicly-traded on the London Stock Exchange's AIM), co-founder and CMO at TagWorld (acquired by Viacom). Clark was a founding investor of Gradient X, a mobile DSP (acquired by SingTel), Traffic Marketplace, an advertising network (acquired by Vivendi), Adconion Media Group, a provider of digital media advertising solutions (acquired by Amobee), Conversion Logic, an advertising attribution company, and CREXi, a commercial real estate marketplace.Clark holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Yale University. ## Mark Goines - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Based in Menlo Park, Mark is a Partner focused on the areas of financial technology, mobile, consumer and small business Internet services. He has an extensive track record of working with high growth companies as an entrepreneur, executive and angel investor. Exits from his angel investments include Mint, Baby Center, PayCycle and Nolo.com.Prior to joining Morgenthaler, Mark was a successful angel investor. His investments included two Morgenthaler portfolio companies, Pageonce and Practice Fusion. He currently represents Morgenthaler on the Practice Fusion board.Previously, Mark helped build and ran Intuit’s Consumer Tax business (TurboTax). He also served as Senior Vice President of Intuit’s International Division, managing businesses on every continent, creating new products, acquiring companies and building partnerships. He then served as General Manager of Intuit’s Consumer Division and helped generate over $200 million in annual revenues, serving 15 million customers across a broad range of software and e-commerce services by 2000.Prior to Intuit, Mark held executive positions at Wells Fargo and Charles Schwab, where he developed and marketed early-stage banking, software and electronic services that formed the foundation of today’s online trading industry.Mark became an active investor and entrepreneur in 2000. He was an investor and board member at Mint, a consumer online financial management company that was sold to Intuit in 2009. He was also an investor and board member in Nolo.com, a self-help law service that was sold to Internet Brands in 2011. Goines co-founded and became chief marketing officer at PassMark Security, which was sold to RSA in 2006. He also invested in WePay (payments), BillFloat (lending) and Cozi (family organization).Mark holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley. He served as president of the Los Altos Educational Foundation and has been elected as a trustee of the Los Altos School Board. ## Spark Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages. ## Blisce - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series B, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Fashion Helping Bold Founders Build Companies That Matter Select one of the topics Expertise Platform Values Regulatory Disclosure # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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