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Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors

A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Media (entertainment) startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies. This investor list updates every month.

Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors

Investor Media (entertainment) investments
SV Angel 141
Betaworks 77
Greycroft 76
Accel 69
First Round Capital 68
Advancit Capital 67
Right Side Capital Management 67
Lerer Hippeau 67
Alumni Ventures 64
Index Ventures 61
Andreessen Horowitz 60
Lightspeed Venture Partners 60
General Catalyst 58
New Enterprise Associates 58
Lowercase Capital 57
Kleiner Perkins 56
Sequoia Capital 53
Knight Enterprise Fund 52
True Ventures 51
BDMI 51
Uncork Capital 48
Social Starts 48
Jason Calacanis 46
Great Oaks Venture Capital 46
Greylock 45
Gaingels 45
Kima Ventures 44
Founder Collective 44
Founders Fund 44
RRE Ventures 44
Google Ventures 42
Animoca Brands 42
Slow Ventures 42
BoxGroup 41
ff Venture Capital 41
Ronald Conway 39
Third Wave Digital 38
Precursor Ventures 38
Upfront Ventures 37
Foundation Capital 37
Redpoint 36
East Ventures 36
Floodgate 36
Techstars Ventures 36
Freestyle Capital 35
Spark Capital 35
Strong Ventures 35
Scott Banister 35
Ascension 34
Felicis 33
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SV Angel VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 34 investments in the past 12 months
SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are 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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, 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.
  • Pika — The idea-to-video platform that sets your creativity in motion.
  • Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications
Betaworks VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Betaworks is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome
  • Flower Labs — A unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. Federate any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language.
  • Quadratic — Spreadsheet with Python, JavaScript, and SQL built-in. Data Connectors to pull in your data. Take your data and do something powerful with it now!
Greycroft VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 24 investments in the past 12 months
Venture capital and technology investments
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Pika — The idea-to-video platform that sets your creativity in motion.
  • Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.
  • Thoughtly — Thoughtfully assists companies in creating and implementing AI speech agents that mimic humans.
Accel VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 62 investments in the past 12 months
First partner to exceptional teams everywhere
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Transcend — Transcend offers data governance solutions that help companies achieve privacy compliance through powerful data mapping and data discovery, automated data subject requests, and simple cookie consent, all with industry leading security.
  • Testsigma — Powerful cloud-based test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up now!
  • Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful text-to-animation platform. Type animate characters for video, game, app, ad, social, AR, or VR projects simply. It builds to help tell stories faster, and more creatively.
First Round Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months
First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Lamini — Lamini is the world's most powerful LLM engine, unlocking the power of generative AI for every company by putting their data to work.
  • Loyal — Loyal is a biotechnology company developing medicines to extend dog lifespan. By developing drugs with the potential to slow the aging process, they aim to delay or prevent age-related diseases like cancer and dementia.
  • Boulder Care — Whole-person online opioid, alcohol, and SUD addiction treatment grounded in unconditional support. Medication (MAT), a dedicated care team, and complete care management. Call us at 503-563-2550 to get started - you've got people now.
Advancit Capital VC Fund · Norwood, Massachusetts, United States
Advancit Capital is a venture firm investing in media, technology and web3 startups. We partner with best-in-class entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading companies.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Digital Media, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Kiki World — KIKI World is at the heart of this evolution, a virtual-led beauty brand at the intersection of gamified commerce.
  • Religion of Sports — Founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, and Gotham Chopra, Religion of Sports creates best-in-class content, and is building a brand focused on human/emotional storytelling in and around the world of sports
  • Goldenset Collective — Investing in the next generation of creators.
Right Side Capital Management VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
  • Precision Compounding — Precision Compounding compounds customized medications to meet the specific needs of patients and their pets. They benefit patients by providing formulations customized for dosage, taste, and ingredients. Their services include proscripts, concierge pick-up options, and professional delivery. They respond to customer inquiries by phone, contactform, and email.
Lerer Hippeau VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
  • Teleskope — Teleskope is a modern data protection platform that automates data security, privacy, and compliance at scale.
Alumni Ventures VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 126 investments in the past 12 months
Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • CaseMark — CaseMark revolutionizes legal processes with its AI-driven Workflow platform, streamlining routine tasks while upholding the highest standards of privacy and security. Powered by advanced models like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 turbo, and hosted on the robust Azure infrastructure, it's the trusted choice for modern legal professionals. With CaseMark, efficiency meets excellence in every legal operation.
  • 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.
  • Frore Systems — Frore Systems is a operator of an engineering company intended to offer micro electromechanical systems.The company is currently operating in a Stealth mode.
Index Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 43 investments in the past 12 months
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • EthonAI — The EthonAI Manufacturing Analytics System is a powerful software suite to achieve operational excellence at scale.
  • Hoop — Hoop helps make sure you don't miss a thing by automatically capturing your todos and action items from meetings and chat.
  • Twelve Labs — Twelve Labs helps developers make programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do by giving them the most powerful video search API
Andreessen Horowitz VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 101 investments in the past 12 months
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
  • ZeroMark — ZeroMark is a defense product company building technology to ensure safety and precision when using kinetic and non lethal weapons.
  • Valar Labs — AI to Make Oncologists Smarter
Lightspeed Venture Partners VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 79 investments in the past 12 months
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Faircado — Stop wasting time and money - faircado helps you find the best pre-owned deals for your wallet and the planet.
  • Pika — The idea-to-video platform that sets your creativity in motion.
  • Patronus AI — The industry-first automated evaluation platform that detects Large Language Model (LLM) mistakes at scale and use generative AI with confidence.
General Catalyst VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 78 investments in the past 12 months
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • EthonAI — The EthonAI Manufacturing Analytics System is a powerful software suite to achieve operational excellence at scale.
  • Faircado — Stop wasting time and money - faircado helps you find the best pre-owned deals for your wallet and the planet.
  • Literati — Based in Austin,Texas Literati is a subscription book club company. Since 2017, Literati has provided a unique try-before-you-buy book club service to kids 12 and under. Most recently the company has expanded its product line, offering book clubs curated by “luminaries,” a collection of authors, intellectuals, and other notable figures.Literati's team is made up of product people, perfectionistic designers, philosophical hackers, and straight-up hustlers on a mission to build revolutionary excitement in literature. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.
New Enterprise Associates VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 41 investments in the past 12 months
Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Faircado — Stop wasting time and money - faircado helps you find the best pre-owned deals for your wallet and the planet.
  • Twelve Labs — Twelve Labs helps developers make programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do by giving them the most powerful video search API
  • Amber Therapeutics — Developing intelligent bioelectrical therapies that can adapt, respond and learn from each person's individual physiology
Lowercase Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Lowercase Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed/startups, mature, and acquisition of later-stage companies. The firm typically invests in wireless, media, commerce, infrastructure, energy, and transportation sectors. It also advises businesses and funds. Lowercase Capital was founded in 2010and is based in New York, New York.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Tala — A money app for the majority. Tala bridges digital and cash ecosystems to help customers seamlessly manage their financial lives, all in one app.
  • Kolors — Kolors is a technological platform that focuses on providing intelligent intercity mobility of bus transportation in the region.
  • Tala — A money app for the majority. Tala bridges digital and cash ecosystems to help customers seamlessly manage their financial lives, all in one app.
Kleiner Perkins VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 28 investments in the past 12 months
Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, China, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Alkira — The Alkira Cloud Network as-a-Service delivers enterprise networks in the cloud. No hardware to invest in, no software to configure and no cloud architecture to learn.
  • 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.
  • Browserbase — Browserbase is a comprehensive platform for developers to host, administer, and monitor headless browsers in the cloud.
Sequoia Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 79 investments in the past 12 months
We help the daring build legendary companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
  • xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
  • Quantum Circuits — Quantum Circuits, Inc. (QCI) is a private venture founded in late 2015. QCI’s long-term goal is to develop, manufacture, and sell the first practical and useful quantum computers based on superconducting devices. Along the way to building a quantum computer, QCI will commercialize the components, devices, and software that will accelerate basicresearch and enable the scaling of quantum computing.“Quantum circuits” has a double meaning. First, the name indicates that QCI is focusing on the quantum circuit model for quantum computation, which enables universal and fault-tolerant operations using error correction. Second, our technology relies on quantum circuits – electrical devices using superconducting Josephson junctions that can act as solid-state quantum bits, or qubits.QCI was founded by three scientists from the Department of Applied Physics at Yale University: Michel Devoret, Luigi Frunzio, and Robert Schoelkopf. They are world-leading experts in quantum devices and quantum information processing with solid-state devices, with a decades-long record of innovation in new devices, techniques, and fundamental concepts. Their group has produced many scientific firsts, including the development of a “quantum bus” for entangling qubits with wires, the first implementation of a quantum algorithm with a solid-state device, and the demonstration of solid-state qubits with scalable levels of coherence.
  • Neros Technologies — Neros is vertically integrating production of unmanned defense systems in the United States, securing the autonomous supply chain. Are you with us?
Knight Enterprise Fund VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States
Knight Enterprise Fund is a venture capital firm based in Florida that finances early stage investments of media and technology companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Digital Media, Social Media
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • CODE2040 — Code2040 is a nonprofit activating, connecting, and mobilizing the largest racial equity community in tech to dismantle the structural barriers that prevent Black and Latinx technologists from fully participating in the tech industry.
  • NewsGuard — Transparent Tools to Counter Misinformation on Behalf of Readers, Brands, and Democracies.
  • WhereBy.Us — WhereBy.Us builds tools for content creators and media to grow and connect with engaged communities.
True Ventures VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 16 investments in the past 12 months
A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • MODE — MODE offers customized solutions to unleash the power of real-world data for your business.
  • StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
  • AccessPay — AccessPay develops and offers cloud-based payment and cash management solutions. The company’s cloud-based service provides ease of integration with any ERP, TMS, or other back-end systems. It also enables the straight-through processing of domestic and international payments via BACS, FPS, CHAPS, and SWIFT. By connecting an organization’s backoffice systems with its banks and providing a consolidated view of all banking relationships, AccessPay gives corporate enterprises real-time visibility of all cash balances and offers a detailed analysis, which helps financial professionals maximize the use of working capital. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
BDMI VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Part of media company Bertelsmann, BDMI initially invests $100k to $4m in seed and early stage digital media startups in online video, nextgen publishing and pubtech/adtech.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Advertising, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Certa — Get the best TPRM software platform available. Certa is an all-in-one toolkit for third party lifecycle management. Onboard 3x faster.
  • Letterhead — Leverage the power of automated email monetization and newsletter engagement with Letterhead. Create newsletters that do all the work for you, engage your readers, and increase revenue. Get started today!
  • tvScientific — tvScientific is the first performance platform for CTV. It combines the power of television with the precision of digital marketing.
Uncork Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Pienso — Use Machine Learning to explore language data without a single line of code. Experiment, train and deploy effortlessly, with an interactive and responsive learning interface that imprints your expertise at AI scale.
  • Stensul — The Stensul Marketing Creation Platform lets marketers create emails and landing pages up to 90% faster.
  • Overflow — Overflow makes generosity frictionless by helping nonprofits, churches, and corporations accept stock and crypto donations on Overflow donation platform.
Social Starts VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Hey Jane — Get safe, effective and affordable abortion pills delivered fast to your home. Hey Jane is the first digital abortion clinic, connecting you to licensed providers in your state through telemedicine.
  • Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
  • Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.
Jason Calacanis Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
  • CyberFilm AI — Bring your story to life!
Great Oaks Venture Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Nim — Generate and edit videos with state-of-the-art AI models, advanced controls, and reusable assets
  • Oula Health — Oula is a modern maternity clinic combining the best of obstetrics and midwifery care to deliver an evidence-based and personalized pregnancy experience
  • Proxima — Proxima is a predictive data intelligence platform built to help consumer brands find new customers, maximize marketing performance, and scale profitably.
Greylock VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 19 investments in the past 12 months
Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Wiz — Organizations of all sizes and industries use Wiz to rapidly identify and remove the most critical risks in AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes so they can build faster and more securely.
  • Pepper — Built for the food industry. The only platform built for catalogs with 100K+ items and customer specific pricing. Use built-in promotional tools to grow your
  • Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
Gaingels VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 63 investments in the past 12 months
Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of diversity, inclusive of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Psylo — Psylo is an Australia-based psychedelic biotech business focusing on Psychedelic-inspired medicine to treat mental illness.
  • Colors AI — Colors helps companies see the full spectrum of clients.
  • Novel Capital — Novel Capital provides non dilutive funding and operational sales expertise to early-stage B2B software companies.
Kima Ventures VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 37 investments in the past 12 months
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cube AI — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
  • Entroview — Entroview is a deep-tech startup specializing in battery software diagnostics.
  • Nova Carbon — Carbon fiber recycling
Founder Collective VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Suno — Suno is a music start-up that enables anyone to make the songs they want. The company aims to help people rediscover the joy of play and exploration.
  • Baselayer — Baselayer automates business risk assessment and eliminates B2B fraud in the financial sector. It offers services such as business verification (KYB), fraud detection, business onboarding optimization, risk profiling, portfolio monitoring & alerting, and workflow automation. Baselayer empowers 100s of financial institutions, governmentagencies, lenders, and fintech to unlock instant trust with any business in America.
  • Draftboard — Refer your friends, community and following with our hiring platform, and get paid when they get hired! Start referring (or hiring!) now!
Founders Fund VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 46 investments in the past 12 months
Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Literati — Based in Austin,Texas Literati is a subscription book club company. Since 2017, Literati has provided a unique try-before-you-buy book club service to kids 12 and under. Most recently the company has expanded its product line, offering book clubs curated by “luminaries,” a collection of authors, intellectuals, and other notable figures.Literati's team is made up of product people, perfectionistic designers, philosophical hackers, and straight-up hustlers on a mission to build revolutionary excitement in literature. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.
  • inspeq ai — Inspeq AI uses metric-based evaluation and improves model performance, helps detect responses with low factual accuracy, and prevents them before serving to the end-users.
  • Polymarket — Bet on your beliefs
RRE Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that is in it with founders when it matters
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Catio — Cloud architecture platform enabling companies to excel with cloud native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution, with the help of AI.
  • HYPOTHETIC — Hypothetic builds technology and tools to benefit 3D creators. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
  • HyperSpectral — HyperSpectral - Leading the evolution of spectral data and AI/ML
Google Ventures VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States · 47 investments in the past 12 months
GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Vercel — Vercel's Frontend Cloud gives developers the frameworks, workflows, and infrastructure to build a faster, more personalized web.
  • Verse — Define & achieve your financial and emissions reduction goals with Aria, a software platform that helps companies buy and manage clean power.
  • WitnessAI — WitnessAI - Enable safe, effective AI
Animoca Brands VC Fund · Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 42 investments in the past 12 months
Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • TRALA — TRALA is a Web 3 platform that provides a variety of games.
  • E Money Network — E Money Network is a modular Real-World Asset (RWA) blockchain technology designed with compliance at its core.
  • GoPlus Security — GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.
Slow Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in the past 12 months
Slow Ventures is a community built on the collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Israel, United Kingdom
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.
  • Rails — Rails operates as a crypto derivatives trading company.
  • Authentic Insurance — Authentic is a community based insurance platform that offers captive insurance services for small businesses.
BoxGroup VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 36 investments in the past 12 months
BoxGroup is an early stage investment fund focused on technology companies. Contact Us: hello@boxgroup.com
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, France, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Ansa — The closed loop platform built for your customers.
  • Footprint — The last identity verification you'll ever need
  • Summer Health — Get answers from an expert, board-certified pediatricians in 15 minutes. From child health to development, Summer Health gets you answers any time, day or night.
ff Venture Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • Paraspot AI — Paraspot enables companies in the field of real estate to conduct automatic inspections free of human error, by using computer vision. Moving the physical visits, online.
  • ForActive — ForActive The Best App for Sport & Wellness Service Providers
  • Tilta — Provide a financial service, drive your GMV, and add a new revenue stream without the hassle of being a financial servicer provider.
Ronald Conway Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Social Media, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • United States, Canada, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
  • Synapticure — The era of personalized care is finally coming to ALS. Synapticure will give all ALS patients access to the best care while fueling the advancement of personalized treatments for every type of ALS.
  • Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.
Third Wave Digital VC Fund · Beverly Hills, California, United States
Third Wave is an early stage venture capital firm focused on the Digital Media sector.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Digital Media, Video
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Girlboss — Navigating the future of work and helping you find success on your terms.
  • Drone Racing League — Drone Racing League is a drone racing circuit for professional pilots. The company designs and builds a custom in-house racing drone, the Racer3, which speeds more than 85 MPH around the most complex 3D race courses ever imagined outside a video game. It combines media and technology to create thrilling 3D drone racing content with mass appeal.Drone Racing League was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
  • Skybound Entertainment — Skybound Entertainment is an imprint of image comics that provides comic book creators the opportunity to publish their work. It offers Robert Kirkman’s Eisner award-winning comic book series, The Walking Dead, long-running Invincible, all-ages Super Dinosaur, Thief of Thieves and Clone as well as Witch Doctor, Guarding the Globe, and TheAstounding Wolf-Man.Since its inception, Skybound Entertainment has created television shows, merchandise, and a wide spectrum of platforms, games, and entertainment events. It was launched by Robert Kirkman in 2010.Skybound Entertainment is operated from Culver City, California.
Precursor Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in North America. The firm focuses on investments in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware. Precursor Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Alinia AI — Alignment Platform for Generative AI. Alinia makes it easy for enterprises to control and guide Gen AI applications based on their policies and preferences.
  • Kudos — Kudos is a smart assistant in the browser that tells the customer the best card to use when they check out when shopping online. Their first offering is a browser plugin that helps users maximize the benefits of their cards when they shop online by calculating rewards and perks for them and streamlining the checkout process with seamless autofill.Over a million merchant sites can use Kudos, which supports about 3000 different cards.It was founded in 2021 and is based in Woodland Hills, California.
  • The New Club — The leading private network for women in engineering. Find your community of women engineering peers, accelerate your career through executive coaching and courses, and unlock professional and personal growth through our in-person retreats.
Upfront Ventures VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Clair — Clair is a New York-based fintech startup that provides Instant Pay Access as a service for human capital management platforms and the gig economy. With Clair, employees, and contractors get access to a digital bank account that allows them to get a portion of their earned wages as soon as they finish work. It aims to make every worker financiallyfree.
  • OurSky — OurSky is a modern developer platform for space applications. We provide real-time observational data and analysis of objects and activities in space. Built as an open, community-driven resource for the new space age engineer.
  • Renew — Renew is a scalable, centralized solution that automates and optimizes the lease renewal and renter retention process to drive NOI and improve the bottom line for multifamily property managers.
Foundation Capital VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 21 investments in the past 12 months
Building companies is in our bones.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • AirMDR — AirMDR uses an AI-powered virtual security analyst for investigating threats, triaging incidents, and executing responses. This innovation significantly enhances the speed and precision of incident investigation and response, while simultaneously reducing costs and alleviating the workload of human security analysts. With a primary focus on an AIvirtual analyst, customers elevate their threat detection and intelligence capabilities, ensuring uninterrupted 24/7 incident response.
  • Stacklet — Stacklet is a cloud governance company that provides operational efficiencies and increased manageability for organizations that want to embrace policy as code at scale.
  • Anvilogic — The Anvilogic detection automation platform helps unify and automate security operations across people, processes, and technology enabling security teams to reduce time, manual effort, complexity, and expertise needed for building detections and managing your overall SOC
Redpoint VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Redpoint partners with visionary entrepreneurs to create new markets & redefine existing ones. We invest in startups across seed, early & growth phases.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, China, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Ideogram — Helping people become more creative.
  • Abridge — For patients, clinicians, and enterprise, our audio-based solutions capture the details and summarize medical conversations, anywhere care happens.
  • Foundry — Elastic cloud infrastructure built for machine learning.
East Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 53 investments in the past 12 months
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
  • Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
  • Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.
Floodgate VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Your first true believers. Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • Arch — Arch is a vertical SaaS company that leverages AI to optimize and finance sustainable HVAC systems.
  • SmarterDx — SmarterDx develops an automated pre-bill review platform to help hospitals realize revenue integrity. Its platform enables doctors in reviewing every diagnosis chart for making judgment calls, learning about a new diagnosis, and educating other physicians.
  • Legends — A confidence-training program for elementary schoolers, building legendary kids in 5 minutes a day.
Techstars Ventures VC Fund · Boulder, Colorado, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Techstars Ventures (formerly Bullet Time Ventures) is the venture capital arm of Techstars. Bullet Time Ventures is a $150 million fund based in Boulder, Colorado.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Chargerzilla — Search and Book EV Charging stations near you. List your charger with us and start earning $$.
  • ReviewTailor — Our purpose is promoting equitable outcomes and we provide HR Performance Management solutions that are efficient, insightful, and truly empowering for all.
  • Machinery Partner — Machinery Partner is a marketplace buying heavy machinery and equipment directly from manufacturers. Browse our range of construction and mining equipment.
Freestyle Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Freestyle is an early-stage venture capital firm with investments in over 130 technology companies including Airtable, Intercom, Patreon, and BetterUp.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Deduce — Deduce protects businesses and their customers from unauthorized account access, data leakage, and identity fraud. We eliminate fraud in real-time using risk algorithms and behavioral analytics across the most comprehensive network of consumer identity data. This empowers any organization to harness the value of collective identity-based threatintelligence and cybersecurity.
  • RecruitBot — RecruitBot Is A Platform That Helps You Find Top Talent Through Machine Learning, AI & Cloud Tools. Contact RecruitBot, The Top Online, AI Recruiting Agency
  • Arrive Recommerce — Arrive offers a premium service powering circular commerce for major brands and retailers. The technology and reverse logistics capabilities of The Arrive Platform enables brands and retailers in any industry to integrate circular commerce - including rental and resale - directly into an existing ecommerce experience. With this unique offering,Arrive makes it possible for any company to seamlessly launch a circular channel - ultimately reaching more consumers, driving more revenue, and promoting a sustainable solution. Arrive, first launched as Arrive Outdoors, is an award-winning company and has been named the 4th Most Innovative Travel Company by Fast Company in 2020 and awarded the 2019 Outdoor Retailer of the Year by the Outdoor Retailer Association.
Spark Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 29 investments in the past 12 months
Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Pika — The idea-to-video platform that sets your creativity in motion.
  • Sigma Computing — Sigma is the only BI analytics tool purpose-built for your cloud data warehouse. Uniquely scalable, with an experience you already know: the spreadsheet.
Strong Ventures VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 13 investments in the past 12 months
Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Korea, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • K Visa — K Visa is an immigration service agency that offers visas, permanent residency, and employment services.
  • Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
  • Spotlite — Spotlite operates a professional model recruitment platform for commercial photography.
Scott Banister Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Stell — Stell is a platform that digitizes the relationship between aerospace companies and their suppliers with a living specification workflow
  • Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
  • Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.
Ascension VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders.Run by an experienced and diverse team of successful entrepreneurs, we have been relentlessly dedicated to finding the UK’s best Seed-stage startups since 2014.Ascension benefits from the active industry connections essential forthe sourcing and development of deal-flow and due diligence. The team has co-invested with the UK’s leading angels and VCs, key to securing follow-on funding as the portfolio businesses move to their next stage of growth.We believe in building an inclusive, community driven brand that can benefit the wider UK tech ecosystem and strive to work with conviction, integrity, humour, and humility.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Happl — Connect your remote and in-person employees with Tahora.
  • HealthKey — HealthKey is a platform that connects employers and insurers with health providers.
  • Nebu~Flow — Nebu~Flow develops the next generation of nebulisers to enable the delivery of life changing treatments.
Felicis VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 32 investments in the past 12 months
Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Health Care
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Literati — Based in Austin,Texas Literati is a subscription book club company. Since 2017, Literati has provided a unique try-before-you-buy book club service to kids 12 and under. Most recently the company has expanded its product line, offering book clubs curated by “luminaries,” a collection of authors, intellectuals, and other notable figures.Literati's team is made up of product people, perfectionistic designers, philosophical hackers, and straight-up hustlers on a mission to build revolutionary excitement in literature. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.
  • Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.
  • DatologyAI — DatologyAI optimize training efficiency, maximize performance and reduce compute costs with expert curation.
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