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Top 50 Manufacturing VC Funds in United States

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Manufacturing startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Manufacturing VC Funds in United States

Investor	Manufacturing United States investments
SOSV	60
Lux Capital	29
Innova Memphis	28
Alumni Ventures	28
Khosla Ventures	23
New Enterprise Associates	23
Founders Fund	22
Houston Angel Network	22
Toyota Ventures	21
Fifty Years	21
Clean Energy Ventures	21
Intel Capital	20
Prelude Ventures	19
Flybridge	19
Breakthrough Energy Ventures	19
Eclipse Ventures	19
Maine Angels	18
Asymmetry Ventures	18
Advantage Capital	18
Congruent Ventures	16
Right Side Capital Management	16
The Engine	16
Root Ventures	16
MB Venture Partners	16
Climate Capital	15
Threshold	15
Kleiner Perkins	15
Creative Ventures	15
Clean Energy Venture Group	15
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania	14
Sequoia Capital	14
Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund	14
Draper Associates	14
DCVC	14
Social Capital	14
Good Growth Capital	14
Schematic Ventures	13
Bolt	13
Alliance of Angels	13
Lerer Hippeau	13
180 Degree Capital	12
Collaborative Fund	12
Austin Ventures	12
Applied Ventures	12
EnerTech Capital	12
Gaingels	12
Texas HALO Fund	12
Safar Partners	12
Launch NY	12
Liquid 2 Ventures	12

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SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
NovoNutrients — NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and additives for food and feed by developing proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems.
Sodex Innovations — Sodex Innovations is a company which is specialized in developing assistance-systems and automating-kits for excavators

Lux Capital manages over $5 billion in assets focused on founding, seed, early-stage, and growth investments at the intersection of technology and the sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high-growth sectors. Its investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux's investmentstrategy ensures portfolio companies are better connected, have a deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lekko — Dynamically configure your software without redeployments. With Lekko, engineers can focus on executing and safely hand off daily reconfigurations.
Perchwell — Real estate data visualization, analytics, market insights. Search Manhattan, Brooklyn, NYC, apartments, condos, co-ops, townhouses, homes for sale.
Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.

Founded in 2007 by the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, Innova is a pre-seed, seed and early-stage investor focused on starting and funding high-growth companies in the Biosciences, Technology and AgBio fields across the state of Tennessee. Innova links capital with great ideas to create groundbreaking products and services.At Innova we invest instart-up companies, help them grow, and then assist them in linking with established corporations for licensing, buy-outs or further investments. We provide the synergy of experienced management, market expertise and venture capital to accelerate the development of new products and services into viable business units that can stand on their own and then take their place with a mature market leader, if desired.Whether an innovation is still on the drawing board or stalled in the market place the Innova staff has the expertise, skills, and experience to envision and create a functioning business unit that is prepared to thrive in the market place. Technical know-how, market-proven staffing, and "just-right" funding assure the greatest chance possible for success.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Argentina, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rantizo — Fly more acres, deliver better service. The equipment, tools, and expertise you need to be the grower's first call for drone spray services.
iYOTAH Solutions — iYOTAH Solutions is a transformational SaaS technology company that connects data to help the animal protein industry thrive.
Glanris — Glanris developed a completely green, non-toxic, filtration media for water purification from an agriculture by-product. This agricultural product is grown around the world, is plentiful, and can be used locally to ensure clean drinking water in developing countries. It also gives local farmers a significant additional income source for a productthat today they are throwing away.This media has been independently tested over the last two years of development and is ready for production.

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Kudos — Kudos is a retail company that offers natural disposable baby diapers with cotton liners. The company's chemical-free diapers are made of plant-based renewable materials, providing parents with natural diapers that suit babies' sensitive skin. It was founded by Amrita Saigal in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
Savvy Wealth — Savvy is the next-generation wealth management firm that pairs world-class advisors with modern software to help clients achieve their financial goals.

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Eden — Developer of non-invasive health technology designed to democratize access to early cancer risk assessment.
Aven — Inventing new ways to save people money
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful text-to-animation platform. Animate characters for your video, game, movie, ad, Social or VR project simply by typing.

Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

MBX Biosciences — Homepage - MBX Biosciences
Brenig Therapeutics — Brenig Therapeutics develops therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.
Cardurion Pharmaceuticals — A Boston-based cardiovascular biotechnology company developing next-generation therapeutics for the treatment of heart failure and cardiovascular diseases.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Igloo — Our mission is to create the largest onchain community, driving the consumer crypto revolution.
Caldera — Deploy production-grade rollups on Caldera with Arbitrum Orbit or OP Stack. Caldera blockchains are live and production-ready. It takes under half an hour to deploy your Ethereum-compatible application to a Caldera Chain.
Aven — Inventing new ways to save people money

The Houston Angel Network (HAN) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing the innovation ecosystem in Houston, Texas by supporting founders and startups with financial resources and mentorship.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Prana Thoracic — A minimally invasive, lung-sparing device that will provide physicians and patients with the certainty they need to move forward with treatment.
Materna Medical — Materna Medical empowers women to protect and restore their pelvic health.
Amplified Sciences — Providing innovative diagnostic tests that enable earlier detection, risk stratification and monitoring of challenging diseases.

Toyota Ventures is a San Francisco Bay Area-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups from around the world. Founded in July 2017, its mission is to discover what’s next for Toyota by helping startups bring disruptive technologies and business models to market quickly. With more than $500 million in assets under management,the firm’s funds include the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund focused on artificial intelligence, cloud computing, autonomy, mobility, robotics, smart cities, digital health, financial technologies, materials, and energy; and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund focused on innovative solutions for carbon neutrality.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

e-Zinc — Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future.
Relectrify — Unlocking extra lifetime and performance of batteries via advanced battery management (BMS) technology.
Artificial.Agency — Artificial Agency is an AI firm that is pioneering generative behavior in gaming. Artificial Agency pioneering AI-powered behavior engine, designed for game creators and studios of all sizes, incorporates runtime decision-making into game dynamics, resulting in an experience that feels fully alive.

WE BACK HEROES using technology to solve the world's biggest problems

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
Waypoint Bio — Waypoint's proprietary spatial multi-omics platform enables us to solve critical issues around understanding how cell therapies navigate the three-dimensional tumor microenvironment and allow the measurement of cell-to-cell interactions.
Molten Industries — Decarbonizing the world's chemical and heavy industries

Clean Energy Ventures invests in scalable early-stage climate tech startups and clean energy technologies addressing global climate change.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

UpSmith — UpSmith is significantly enhancing lives by giving people access to training in practical skills and long-lasting careers.
Evari — Evari is pioneering a path to sustainable energy with radically new heat pump compressors.
Ndustrial — Ndustrial delivers a real-time industrial intelligence platform that enables companies to gain new levels of insight into their business processes and energy intensity and then optimize and transform them for sustained competitive advantage.

Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, edge, 5G, autonomy, cybersecurity, client & gaming, enterprise applications, silicon design and manufacturing, and a wide range of other disruptive technologies. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested US$12.9 billion in more than 1,582 companies worldwide.Intel Capital has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

RunPod — Develop, train, and scale AI models in one cloud. Spin up on-demand GPUs with GPU Cloud, scale ML inference with Serverless.
Scale AI — Trusted by world class companies, Scale delivers high quality training data for AI applications such as self-driving cars, mapping, AR/VR, robotics, and more.
Sanshiji — Sanshiji develops new functional materials, focused on the development of polysiloxane microspheres and their derived silica, and its uses in semiconductor packaging.

Prelude Ventures invests in and supports early-stage startups with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change. For us, climate is everything.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Graphyte — Permanent, affordable, and immediately scalable
Xcimer Energy — Xcimer Energy offers a laser-driven fusion to provide cheap, abundant, and carbon-free energy. It is used to transform the energy marketplace that integrates low-cost excimer laser technology with the HYLIFE reaction chamber concept to design an Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) system. This system overcomes long-standing obstacles to viable fusionpower.The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Redwood City,, California.
LevelTen Energy — LevelTen Energy provides transaction infrastructure for buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers in the renewable energy economy.

Flybridge is an early-stage venture capital fund with 20+ years of investing experience and over $1B under management. Flybridge has offices in New York and Boston.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
OnRamp — Move onboarding projects along faster by putting customers at the center of a simple, guided experience. OnRamp is the customer onboarding platform built for customer success and implementation teams.
Sesame Sustainability — Sesame Sustainability is a SAAS company that offers industrial decarbonization platform for modeling, optimization, and analysis.

Focused on developing and deploying the critical climate solutions our world needs to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Graphyte — Permanent, affordable, and immediately scalable
M2X Energy — M2X Energy is a scalable methane conversion technology company that provides automated gas-to-product systems for methane conversion.
Prolific Machines — Prolific Machines harnesses light to produce everyday essentials more efficiently, from food and lifesaving drugs to novel biosolutions.

Palo Alto based Eclipse Ventures partners with entrepreneurs boldly transforming the essential industries that define and propel economies. Learn more.

Investment focus

Software, Robotics, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Mytra — Supercharged Industrial Productivity with Bots, Software, and Cells
Circular.co — Circular makes sustainable sourcing faster and easier, using data-powered digital tools to connect PCR buyers to the right suppliers at the right price.
Bright Machines — Bright Machines is a manufacturing startup that aims to eliminate manual labor from manufacturing electronic devices by combining robots and new software. Its software-defined manufacturing platform helps customers innovate faster to meet the growing demands of a new era of manufacturing.The company was founded by former Autodesk executive, ArmarHanspal, in 2018.

Maine Angels they make investments with entrepreneurs with an emphasis on businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

HighByte — HighByte is an industrial software development company in Portland, Maine building solutions that address the data architecture and security challenges created by Industry 4.0.
TOP the organic project — 100% Organic Cotton Period Care. Organic Tampons, Pads, First Period Kit & Bulk Period Products. Women-owned, eco-friendly, plant-based and sustainable. With every subscription, TOP gives back to women in need.
Pumpspotting — connect over breastfeeding, milk, motherhood, and the best places to nurse and pump. nurse, pump, nourish, connect.

Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TransCrypts — We all have that file box where we throw all our important documents. Our goal at TransCrypts is to make that box digital and have all the documents secured through the blockchain. We currently offer industry leading privacy and security standards on our file storage and sharing platform and have solutions for individuals all the way to enterprises.
SFA Therapeutics — SFA Therapeutics is a development-stage bio-pharmaceutical startup company focused on a new advancement in the treatment of chronic inflammatory disease - the use of microbiome-derived metabolites as drugs.
Rejuvenation Technologies — Rejuvenation Technologies is a biotechnology company that developed nucleoside-modified TERT mRNA to safely and rapidly extend telomeres. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Advantage Capital has invested over $3.8 billion in more than 800 portfolio companies and projects nationwide since 1992. The firm specializes in growth equity, lending, and mezzanine debt capital investments spanning three distinct but complementary themes, driving local economic development and lasting impact in underserved communities.____________________Growing Small Business // 800+ PORTFOLIO COMPANIES // 34 STATES // 66,000+ JOBS SUPPORTED // Small businesses and the entrepreneurs who power them are fundamental to the U.S. economy, driving inclusive economic expansion that allows people and communities to thrive. Advantage Capital offers debt and equity investment opportunities and can provide senior, unitranche and subordinated debt, as well as minority equity financing. The firm invests in companies from a diverse array of industry sectors, including manufacturing, technology and business services, among others. It seeks to make an initial investment between $500K and $10M in companies with $1M+ EBITDA.Financing Affordable Homes // 89 PROJECTS SINCE 2015 // 8,000+ FAMILIES & SENIORS HOUSED // 7 STATES // Creating stronger communities goes beyond business investment and jobs. Financing housing in these same communities creates even more positive and lasting impacts.Expanding Renewable Energy Solutions // $130M IN CAPITAL DEPLOYED // 65 PROJECTS // 20,000+ HOMES POWERED // Increased access to renewable energy supports local green jobs and economic development while building the framework for tomorrow's carbon-free America. ____________________Geographic Focus: Advantage Capital is committed to impact nationwide, with current emphasis in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia____________________Advantage Capital is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana and has offices in the following locations: St. Louis, MO; New York, NY; Austin, TX; Hanover, NH; Washington, D.C.; Napa, CA; Nevada.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Health Care
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cloverleaf.me — Cloverleaf helps build great work teams and improve employee engagement using assessments like Enneagram, DISC and 16-Types to identify team strengths and coach work teams to work better together.
Whitman Controls — Whitman Controls specializes in the manufacture of miniature pressure, vacuum, temperature, and liquid level switches and sensors.
Malones CNC Machining Inc. — Malone's CNC Machining Inc. is a manufacturer of military aircraft parts and assemblies.

Congruent Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in Mobility and Urbanization, Energy Transition, Food and Agriculture, and Sustainable Production & Consumption sectors. We look for technology companies that will positively impact our energy and resource consumption. If we see an opportunity to partner with a like-minded teamfocused on scale across hardware, software, or services, we’re interested.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Robotics
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Muon Space — Earth intelligence for a Safe and Resilient World.
Camus Energy — Our grid management platform provides system-wide visibility and advanced control for the distributed energy future.
Fervo Energy — Fervo Energy delivers 24/7 carbon-free energy through development of next-generation geothermal projects.

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ASETS — ASETS develops software for engineers and created the first cloud-based Integrated Design Suite.
HLRBO — HLRBO is an online hunting network that connects landowners and hunters. List your property on HLRBO. No fees. No commissions. Hunters contact you directly with questions or to lease.
UBILD — A.I powered construction workforce and vendor procurement platform

A home for Tough Tech founders.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Osmoses — Osmoses is a cleantech company that is transforming chemical separations. Its mission is to eliminate energy waste with efficient membrane technology, reducing production costs for customers and CO2 emissions for the environment. Hydrogen, carbon capture, and renewable natural gas are some of the in
Amide Technologies — Amide synthesizes peptides that are difficult to obtain through existing means, bridging the gap between traditional solid phase peptide synthesis and biological expression. By using unnatural amino acids and artificial protein backbones, our team is expanding what is biologically possible. Amide’s Automated Fast Flow Peptide Synthesizer (AFPS)leverages flow to dramatically improve solid phase peptide synthesis. Using the power of flow, we can generate highly reactive intermediates in situ, maintain excellent heat and mass transfer, and achieve much better synthetic outcomes than alternative SPPS methods. With all these advantages, AFPS allows biopharma pioneers to dramatically re-think what’s possible. Let Amide broaden your horizons with better, faster synthesis.
Vaxess Technologies — Vaxess engineers novel technologies that uniquely engage the human immune system, enabling improved efficacy and simplified access for vaccines and therapeutics.

Root Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technical teams working on deep tech. The firm specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital, and investments. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Quilter — Physics-based automated circuit board design tools for professionals and the masses.
AllSpice — Allspice is a collaboration platform for hardware developers, inspired by software principles. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
ApertureData — ApertureDB seamlessly combines vector and graph search behind a unified interface built to manage multimodal data such as images, videos, documents, for enterprise scale AI!

MB Venture Partners in Memphis, TN provides venture capital for life sciences: medical device, biotechnology companies, products for musculoskeletal diseases

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
Seed, Series B, Series C
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Cast21 — The future of orthopedic technology has arrived. Cast21 braces are designed for your active lifestyle.
SweetBio — SweetBio is a Memphis, Tennessee based medical device company specializing in bioengineering honey-incorporated materials for wound care.
Lineus Medical — Lineus Medical is a medical device company focused on reducing IV complications for patients and providers all over the world.

Climate Capital is an investment firm that supports companies that directly or indirectly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

SirenOpt — SirenOpt platforms provide non-destructive, real-time, inline and off-line materials characterization and classification solutions for manufacturers
Swift Solar — Swift Solar is a startup manufacturing lightweight solar panels that are cheaper and more efficient than conventional panels using perovskite materials.
Matereal — Matereal is a biobased polyurethane manufacturer that seeks to replace the toxic polyurethane industry and bring a new environmentally safe plastic to market.

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies. Threshold was founded in 2019 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

Ritten — Ritten delivers a platform that helps clinicians and administrators provide personalized, data-informed care. The company's platform offers customized workflow configurations that help to deliver complex treatment consistently and compliantly, enabling clinicians and administrators to maintain a comprehensive patient record that tracks allaspects of a patient's care, including clinical notes, medications, and treatment plans, and deliver personalized, data-informed care.
Transcarent — The One Place for Health and Care
ChangeEngine — Elevating People leaders to deliver the employee moments that matter most.The challenge people leaders face is that the employee experience design process resides across distributed teams, disparate HR systems, and in many cases, spreadsheets & powerpoints. Once people programs are launched, there’s an initial buzz, then they get swept underthe rug in sixty days and it’s onto the next burning need.Creating & executing best-in-class people programs to treat employees like internal customers is extremely manual and time-consuming—they include many moving parts such as goals, branding, content, communications, timeline, rewards, and ROI. In the hybrid workplace, there’s no effective way to manage this.We’re here to change that—our goal is to elevate the role of people leaders everywhere and help them to sustain their people program utilization over time. We’re empowering them to showcase the impact of the people org to their leadership team & board while helping them to get executive buy-in and unlock more budget internally to experiment & run innovative people programs.

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fizz — Fizz, the student debit card that builds credit. Build your credit while you earn amazing rewards! No hidden fees, no credit check & no security deposit.
CesiumAstro — CesiumAstro builds high-throughput, software-defined phased array communication payloads for airborne and in-orbit platforms.
Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.

Creative Ventures is a deep tech venture firm investing in early-stage companies solving humanity’s most critical crises. Led by a team of world-class experts, our deep tech acumen is informed by rigorous research, unmatched market understanding, and the dedication to lead our companies to success.Today’s problems can’t be solved by yesterday’ssolutions. Let’s get Creative.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Relectrify — Unlocking extra lifetime and performance of batteries via advanced battery management (BMS) technology.
AM Batteries — AM Batteries manufactures Li-ion batteries using solvent-free electrode manufacturing technology. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
Tierra Biosciences — Speed, scale and simplicity with protein synthesis on-demand. Discover your portal to thousands of custom proteins. Get testable material with a single input.

CEVG is an angel investor collective that invest in and mentors early-stage cleantech and climatetech startups across North America.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

VoltServer — VoltServer develops innovative power distribution products based on the company's patented Digital Electricity technology. It is a venture-backed technology leader reinventing how electrical energy is distributed. VoltServer's patented Digital Electricity solutions deliver touch-safe electricity where, when, and how it is needed. DigitalElectricity can be delivered using an off-the-shelf data cable, at a significantly reduced cost, and with greater speed, power, distance, efficiency, intelligence, and flexibility, when compared to competing for electrical installations. VoltServer began shipping in early 2015 and is installed today powering 4G/LTE mobile services in many large sports stadiums, office towers, hotels, condominium, and medical buildings.
Cala Systems — Altus Thermal is rethinking energy use in the home. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Carbon Upcycling — Carbon Upcycling Technologies (“CUT”) was formed to use the pollution of today to build the materials of tomorrow by converting CO2 gas into solid products. CUT sells advanced solid products derived from greenhouse emissions and cheaply available solids. Since 2014, CUT has scaled its ability to convert CO2 emissions into value-add end materials byover a million times. Through its portfolio of CO2-derived solid nanoparticles, CUT has technically validated its solutions for use in plastics, coatings, epoxy, adhesives, concrete, lithium-ion battery, and pharmaceutical industries. CUT recently launched a consumer brand called Expedition Air.CUT commercialized a corrosion-resistant coating, utilizing its nanoparticles, in 2017, becoming the youngest CO2 utilization company to generate commercial revenue (<2.5 years since inception) and has since been confirmed as one of the top CO2 utilization companies in the world as a winner of the X-Factor Award in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. CUT has been named as a Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label recipient, a funding recipient of Fundación Repsol Entrepreneurs Fund, and a winner of the 2019 76West Clean Technology Competition.CUT’s most advanced product is its CO2-embedded concrete additive. In 2018, CUT graduated from the LafargeHolcim Accelerator in France and has continued conversations and testing with the company since then. CUT is also partnered with Burnco and Cemex. CUT’s commercial demonstration at the Alberta Carbon Conversion Technology Centre produces over 20 tonnes of concrete additives in a day. The product reduces the carbon footprint of concrete manufacturing by up to 25% while increasing the compressive strength of concrete by up to 40%.

Ben Franklin helps early-stage technology companies and established manufacturers translate innovation into commercial success and economic prosperity.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Software
Grant, Seed, Debt Financing
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Venseca — Venseca is a global leader in digital trust. Our patent-pending solution generates Digital Trust Scores and comprehensive, independently validated reports to help you understand the cyber risk profile of all of your suppliers.
UnityLab — Welcome to UnityLab, home of the best small business & brand builders dedicated to business technology, operations, finance, & sales tools.
The Pursuit By You — The Pursuit By You is a women-founded company that partners with businesses to help their consumers build healthy habits. Our product, Pursuit, is a mobile health education app that uses habit science and personalized content to deliver experiential learning that is scalable, applicable, and accessible to users from any background. We bring valueto retail grocers through data-driven metrics, connecting consumers to ingredients, education, and enhanced consumer experience.

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

MoeGo — MoeGo is the best all-in-one pet grooming software designed to automate & simplify your pet grooming business.
Vanta — Vanta automates the complex and time-consuming process of SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI, and GDPR compliance certification. Automate your security monitoring in weeks instead of months.
Caldera — Deploy production-grade rollups on Caldera with Arbitrum Orbit or OP Stack. Caldera blockchains are live and production-ready. It takes under half an hour to deploy your Ethereum-compatible application to a Caldera Chain.

Investing catalytic capital in promising seed stage companies located outside of Silicon Valley, NYC & Boston. Backed by a group of iconic entrepreneurs, executives & investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

GovSky — Building cybersecurity technology to secure America’s supply chain.
Cariloop — Cariloop has an employee benefit that helps people navigate the demands of childcare, complex diagnoses, eldercare, mental health, special ed needs, and more.
Strike Graph — Strike Graph ensures a streamlined, reliable, and quick path to achieve your SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA compliance. Connect with our security experts today!

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Alexi — Alexsei provides high quality comprehensive answers to legal questions, at a fraction of the cost and an unprecedented turnaround time - enabled by cutting edge scientific research, artificial intelligence and NLP technologies. Alexsei’s advanced artificial intelligence platform delivers affordable and high-quality answers to legal questions inmemo format.
seer. — AI for Authenticating Human Interactions and Integrity
Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.

We are deep tech venture capital.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
ZwitterCo — ZwitterCo is revolutionizing water & wastewater treatment with cutting-edge membrane technology, along with providing sustainable, high-efficiency solutions.
Odyssey — Hollywood-grade visual AI.

Good Growth Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm known for its expertise in finding, assessing and cultivating complex science and technology.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

VenoStent — VenoStent is a clinical-stage tissue engineering company that’s developed tunable, bioabsorbable smart polymer wraps in order to fundamentally transform the 5 million vascular surgeries performed each year.
Swift Solar — Swift Solar is a startup manufacturing lightweight solar panels that are cheaper and more efficient than conventional panels using perovskite materials.
Found Energy — Found Energy's aluminum-thermal power systems extract renewable energy from aluminum at double the energy density of diesel and at a competitive cost. Compact, modular, safe, and carbon-free, our technology makes industrial decarbonization practical.

Early-stage venture capital fund focused on investments in technology companies within the supply chain, manufacturing and digital industrial sectors

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Pandion — Pandion has developed a technology platform for e-commerce players to manage capacity problems during peak periods. The logistics platform helps all businesses provide one and two-day shipping, and makes on-time delivery possible for more retailers, regardless of size and scale. Pandion’s delivery management software uses machine learning to avoidshipping delays and optimize delivery networks.
infinitform — Lightning-fast gen-AI design for extreme performance and manufacturability. Apply to get early access today.
Wilya — Reimagine the future of Industrial Work. ; Unlock Talent Pools. Millions of people are not able to work 8 hours a day or 5 days a week. ; Increase Diversity. Gig and Take helps you create and mange a flexible workforce.

Bolt: Investing at the intersection of the digital and physical worlds

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Hardware
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

FYTO — Revolutionary Sustainable Agriculture
Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.
Foundation — Self custody is finally attainable. Secure your Bitcoin with an unprecedented combination of elegance and ease of use.

Largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Vega Cloud — Vega is a next-generation Cloud management platform. With increased visibility, scalable management, and advanced optimization strategies, Vega can save you up to 35% on your monthly cloud bill.
Give InKind — Set up a Give InKind Page to coordinate support from anywhere. Create a Care Calendar, add items to your Wishlist and connect your Crowdfunding - all for free.
SafKan Health — OtoSet® by SafKan Health is the first FDA Cleared automated ear cleaning device for the 35 million Americans affected by impacted earwax - the leading cause of conductive hearing loss.

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Daylight Energy — Anode Labs is leveraging web3 infrastructure to build the world's largest virtual power plant.
Expressable — Expressable is an online speech therapy practice for everyone with a communication disorder. It has pioneered a parent-focused care model that uses technology and education to integrate speech therapy techniques into children's daily lives, improving outcomes and experiences.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Austin,Texas.
Footprint — The last identity verification you'll ever need

180 Degree Capital Corp. aims to capitalize on turn-around opportunities in micro-cap stocks with a constructive activist approach.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ORIG3N — ORIG3N is a biotechnology company developing breakthrough treatments for rare genetically inherited diseases with targets in heart, liver, and neurodegenerative indications. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
NGX Bio — NGX Bio is an online marketplace platform for online DNA sequencing services. They make sequencing simple by connecting their customers to world-class genomic resources helping researchers complete sequencing projects in a single transaction. It streamlines the projects and makes them cost-effective by sourcing the best providers with availablecapacity.NGX Bio offers design and planning, sample preparation, sequencing facilities, and data analysis services. The company also operates an online project management tool that helps in sample tracking by using barcoded tubes and plates. NGX Bio serves customers worldwide.
EchoPixel — EchoPixel, Inc. develops medical imaging devices. The company develops a non-invasive colon cancer screening solution that enables doctors and radiologists to use computed tomography (CT) images of a patient’s abdomen and display a 3D model of a patient’s colon. With this tool, any medical professional can examine the entire colon by using anavigate and detect approach to identify most polyps or other abnormalities, the cause of cancer. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Jose, California.

Collaborative Fund is a leading source of capital for entrepreneurs pushing the world forward.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Verne — Verne is a hydrogen optimized for heavy transport that allows vehicle operators to maintain existing operations and meet zero-emission targets.
Voyage Foods — Voyage Foods has made sustainable and scalable alternatives to foods that have current obstacles –environmental, social, and health alike. Our breakthrough technology provides endless opportunities to make delicious, nearly identical, versions of beloved foods, without compromising individual health or our planet. We replicated the world’s favoritefoods so that we can all enjoy them, forever.
Matereal — Matereal is a biobased polyurethane manufacturer that seeks to replace the toxic polyurethane industry and bring a new environmentally safe plastic to market.

Austin Ventures is a venture capital and private equity company that specializes in partnering with talented executives and entrepreneurs to build companies. It was founded in 1984 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Tasktop — Tasktop offers a software platform that allows companies to better manage the process of building their software. Tasktop plugs into existing tools and overlays the end-to-end value stream to provide the abstractions, automation, visualizations, and forensics needed to practice value stream management on a daily basis.
Ambiq Micro — Ambiq has developed breakthrough technology innovating battery-powered endpoint devices by reducing the total power consumed. Learn more.
Veros Systems — Veros Systems enables industrial customers to maximize production by providing actionable intelligence on their electrically-driven machines.Their web-based Predictive Intelligence Platform uses completely nonintrusive monitors that can be installed in hours. PIP offers real-time predictive reliability and energy efficiency intelligence onelectromechanical systems, and seamlessly integrates with leading Enterprise Asset Management applications. At last, engineers, managers, and executives have a means to see the future: to plan better, reduce costs, and improve a facility’s overall availability.

Applied Ventures, LLC, is the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc., (NASDAQ: AMAT) investing in innovative startups for over a decade.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Electronics
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, France

Portfolio highlights

Ionblox — High energy density lithium ion batteries for ground and aerial electric vehicles
Scintil Photonics — SCINTIL Photonics develops and markets Heterogeneous Silicon Photonic IC with wafer-level lasers integration.
Infinitum Electric — Infinitum Electric is a motor technology company delivering lightweight and IoT-enabled electric motors. It is at the forefront of making electric motors more efficient, more durable, lighter weight, and less expensive. Their disruptive motor and control products utilize their patent-pending Printed Circuit Board (PCB) stator technology and providebroad application across multiple industries. They work with global manufacturers and industrial OEMs to customize their technology for specific applications and market segments.

EnerTech Capital works hand-in-hand with pioneers and innovators daring to change the world. For 25 years EnerTech’s fundamental focus has been investing and partnering with innovative companies driving informational impact across the energy landscape; with a focus on Mobility, Industry 4.0, and Connected Customer. Since its founding in 1996,EnerTech has made 74 investments and has managed over $500 million in capital commitments. EnerTech works with investors and stakeholders from corporates with growing innovation programs to seasoned investors seeking differentiated opportunities for strategic capital deployment or tailored solutions. EnerTech partners with companies across all stages of enterprise value creation from late development and seed through commercialization and growth. While investment activities are predominantly focused in North America, EnerTech partners with teams globally on an opportunistic basis.

Investment focus

Energy, Software, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

SHAED — SHAED offers a mobility platform. It focuses on Shared, Hydrogen, Autonomous, Electric, and Distribution technologies. It speeds up the shift from traditional engines to electric and sustainable vehicles in the commercial sector.
Car IQ — Car IQ is the first payment solution developed for vehicles and fleets that enables vehicles to autonomously initiate and complete payments for services such as tolls, fuels, parking and more.
Aperia Technologies — The Halo automatic tire inflation system for semi-truck tractors and trailers installs in minutes to increase fuel efficiency and tire life.

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, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

AfterHour — Join the best stock trading community with over $200M+ in verified positions from retail traders. Get trade signals, due diligence, and real-time alpha.
TestParty — TestParty is the most effective solution for organizations to achieve digital accessibility compliance in the WCAG for the ADA, EAA, Section 508, and more.
OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback

Early Stage Venture Investments

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
United States, Canada, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

Flourish Collective — FlourishFund is a digital platform that empowers and supports new and expecting families. The platform consists of two parts: a marketplace with evidence-based goods and vetted maternal wellness services and a funding mechanism for friends and families to contribute to a positive birth and parenting journey.
Drusolv Therapeutics — Drusolv Therapeutics is a clinical-stage drug company developing a novel, high-dose statin for early intervention in age-related macular degeneration. Their product ocustatin is aimed at patients who are still in the intermediate stage of the disease and currently have very limited options to prevent progression to late-stage vision loss. Ocustatinwas developed at Harvard University and has been validated in a very successful proof-of-concept clinical trial that showed a 75% reduction in progression to late-stage blindness. John Edwards, the founder and CEO of Drusolv, is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in AMD.
Vartega — Vartega is a technology development company specializing in the carbon fiber-reinforced plastic recycling process. We have developed alternative technology, processes, and equipment to provide low-cost carbon fiber for use in mass market applications.

Safar Partners is a seed- to growth-stage venture fund investing primarily in technology companies out of MIT, Harvard, and the University of Rochester. We invest in platform technologies in the cleantech and advanced materials, AI/IT and robotics, and life science/medical device areas.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Zanskar — Zanskar develops a predictive platform informed by massive data for discovering previously unknown geothermal resources. Its platform includes subsurface characterization technology and massive data sets, enhancing and reducing risk in the exploration of geothermal resources.
Active Surfaces — Active Surfaces is commercializing MIT-developed ultra-thin-film solar technology.
Lucy Therapeutics — Lucy Therapeutics, a Boston-based biotech with a unifying mitochondrial platform, is developing small molecule treatments for neurological diseases.

Launch NY is a nonprofit venture development organization in Upstate New York. We provide pro bono mentoring and access to risk capital for high-growth startups.Are you ready to launch?Check out our NEW Resource Navigator under the "Entrepreneurs" tab for the most up-to-date opportunities for entrepreneurs! Apply Now Invest Now Donate Now Entrepreneurs Launch Your

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage
Convertible Note, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Telesafety — TeleSafety is a mobile app that provides real-time access to workplace safety experts by helping with important questions or professional advice.
Caretech Human — Automated solution for continuous health monitoring and diseases prevention
Diadem Capital — Diadem Capital is a curated marketplace for venture debt and venture capital. Connecting founders with venture capital funds, family offices, & corporate VCs.

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tezi — Tezi is building an Autonomous AI trained by top hiring managers and recruiters to lead the end-to-end hiring process. It proactively sources, screens applications, schedules interviews, collects scorecards, and never drops the ball.
Gumloop — The no-code platform to build and host AI-powered business automations.
District Cover — District Cover takes a data-driven approach to understanding city-based businesses' risk profiles and creates tailored insurance policies for small businesses. We exist to ensure brokers and small businesses can rely on consistent access to insurance solutions that empower continued growth. Our proprietary, non-admitted commercial insuranceproduct provides a new solution as existing options become harder to get, less relevant, and more expensive.

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