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 |
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SVA | 136 |
Betaworks | 75 |
Greycroft | 71 |
Accel | 67 |
First Round Capital | 67 |
Right Side Capital Management | 66 |
Advancit Capital | 65 |
Index Ventures | 60 |
Lerer Hippeau | 60 |
Lowercase Capital | 57 |
Andreessen Horowitz | 57 |
Lightspeed Venture Partners | 56 |
General Catalyst | 55 |
Alumni Ventures | 54 |
Kleiner Perkins | 52 |
New Enterprise Associates | 51 |
Knight Enterprise Fund | 50 |
BDMI | 48 |
Uncork Capital | 48 |
True Ventures | 47 |
Social Starts | 46 |
Great Oaks Venture Capital | 46 |
Sequoia Capital | 45 |
Jason Calacanis | 45 |
Greylock | 44 |
Founder Collective | 43 |
Gaingels | 42 |
RRE Ventures | 42 |
Google Ventures | 41 |
ff Venture Capital | 41 |
Founders Fund | 40 |
Kima Ventures | 40 |
Ronald Conway | 39 |
BoxGroup | 39 |
Slow Ventures | 38 |
Foundation Capital | 37 |
East Ventures | 36 |
Floodgate | 36 |
Precursor Ventures | 35 |
Scott Banister | 35 |
Redpoint | 35 |
Ascension | 34 |
Strong Ventures | 34 |
Upfront Ventures | 34 |
Spark Capital | 34 |
Techstars Ventures | 33 |
Global Founders Capital | 32 |
Animoca Brands | 32 |
Felicis | 32 |
CRV | 31 |
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
- Induced AI — Induced is an AI-native browser RPA platform that lets users combine browsing and web tools, along with smart reasoning and memory, to automate enterprise workflows of all kinds.
- Samara — Discover Samara's Backyard accessory dwelling units. Elevated design, expertly crafted. Fast and easy installation. Solar-powered and future-ready.
- Factory — The machine that builds the machine.
Betaworks Ventures is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund, having invested in more than 150 companies. We invest in new consumer behaviors and trends powered by frontier technologies, and are often amongst the first institutional investors to invest.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Wand App — Wand is a co-creative, AI-driven tool that allows artists the manual control and customization they need to realize their ideas.
- Vera — Vera develops an assessment platform to identify and address risks in artificial intelligence and machine learning models. It engages key stakeholders across teams to create data-driven assessments and use data science tools to investigate AI and ML models, helping organizations navigate through uncertainty and protecting companies and individualsfrom risky artificial intelligence systems.
- Shader — the First No-code AR Creation Tool that instantly customize your look with AI
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- CNaught — CNaught is an online platform that helps companies to purchase a diversified portfolio of carbon offsets.
- Riffusion — Riffusion allows users to make short music clips with AI-generated vocals.
- Vera — Vera develops an assessment platform to identify and address risks in artificial intelligence and machine learning models. It engages key stakeholders across teams to create data-driven assessments and use data science tools to investigate AI and ML models, helping organizations navigate through uncertainty and protecting companies and individualsfrom risky artificial intelligence systems.
First partner to exceptional teams everywhere
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- viso.ai — All-in-one Computer Vision platform to deliver applications without code. Intuitive visual programming interface and pre-built modules.
- Viso — All-in-one Computer Vision platform to deliver applications without code. Intuitive visual programming interface and pre-built modules.
- Fibmold Packaging — Fibmold Packaging manufactures eco-friendly, molded fiber packaging products that mimic the functionality of rigid plastics.
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, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Cymbal — The human readable block explorer. Explore any wallet, NFT or collection to understand their activity, all in real time.
- Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
- Ossium Health — Ossium is building the world's first bone marrow bank to treat blood cancers, improve organ transplantation, and repair damage from radiation.The cells of the immune system are the human body’s natural defenders against disease. At Ossium, they are developing better methods of recovering, preserving, deploying these critical cells to keepdisease at bay.
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
- OFFSITE — OFFSITE provides cloud computing and data center solutions.
- Offsite — Offsite operates a platform that provides retreat planning for remote and hybrid teams. The company helps in the planning, management, and follow-up of team retreats, client-facing events, and other transformational, in-person experiences.
- ZippedScript — ZippedScript is an application programming interface system developer that specializes in automatically verifying educational details. ZippedScript is located in Toronto, Ontario.
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
- Digital Media, Media and Entertainment, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Irreverent Labs — Irreverent Labs creates artificially intelligent hundred-year entertainment experiences on a blockchain. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Sheridan, Wyoming.
- 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
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
- Cloover — Cloover provides a flexible financing solution that allows you to rent renewable technologies and make savings from day 1, completely risk and worry free!
- Siro — Game Film for Field Sales. Siro is your AI-powered sales coach, helping you save time and coach more effectively. World-class performance requires world-class coaching. You have never been able to coach your team like this.
- Tofu — Tofu offers a single platform for generating hyper-personalized, multichannel campaigns at scale that deliver opportunities for B2B marketing teams.
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
- Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
- Advocate — Advocate will help Americans engage with federal agencies through a scalable technology-enabled services platform to provide disabled Americans with a transparent, hassle-free way to receive the government benefits they deserve. We believe that the application process for these benefits should be easy and the financial support accessible to allqualified claimants
- Teleskope — Teleskope is a modern data protection platform that automates data security, privacy, and compliance at scale.
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.
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
- Klu.ai — Klu.ai is a generative AI platform that simplifies the process of designing, deploying, and optimizing AI applications.The company integrates major large language models (LLMs) such as Anthropic Claude, Azure OpenAI, GPT-4, and over 15 other models, enabling rapid prompt/model experimentation, data gathering, and user feedback. The platformoffers features like Klu Actions for content generation, business operations workflows, content analysis, and summarization, as well as optimization techniques for A/B testing and fine-tuning support for models like OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4. Klu.ai is committed to data privacy and security, providing data obfuscation and redaction features to protect sensitive information.Klu.ai is founded by Stephen M. Walker II in 2022 and is located in San Francisco, California.
- Waymark — Waymark is a company dedicated to improving access and quality of care for people receiving Medicaid.
- Gate Bioscience — Gate Bioscience is developing Molecular Gates, a new frontier in protein elimination. Molecular Gates are small molecule drugs that selectively eliminate harmful extracellular proteins at their origin, inside cells, and prevent them from emerging to cause disease.
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
- YouTrip — Pay overseas with no fees - Mobile travel wallet with prepaid Mastercard at 0% overseas transaction fees for 150+ currencies. Download and sign up in 3 minutes to start your fee-free travel experience.
- P0 Security — Control cloud entitlements for your engineers in less than 5 minutes. P0 is the quickest and safest way to implement least privilege in your cloud environment. Run a full IAM audit of your cloud, automate break-glass access (using Slack workflows), remove sensitive permission grants, and much more.
- EarlyBird — EarlyBird simplifies investing for parents and elevates gifting by empowering friends and family to make meaningful investments to the children they love.
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Deasie — Deasie ensures that only relevant, high-quality, and safe data is fed into language models.
- Nova Credit — Nova Credit is a consumer credit bureau that connects consumers and lenders with trusted data and analytics to expand access to credit.
- Samara — Discover Samara's Backyard accessory dwelling units. Elevated design, expertly crafted. Fast and easy installation. Solar-powered and future-ready.
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
- 1up — 1up is a competitive AI for users to observe and understand everything their competitors are doing. 1up accelerates and automates the competitive experience for teams. 1up enables teams to save hours of manual effort in product, sales, and marketing, understand what their competitors are building and saying, and win competitive deals faster andeasier than ever before.
- Cedar — Cedar is the operator of a platform designed to shorten the time between land acquisition and permitting. The web-based explorer of the company simplifies property search, site analysis, zoning, code compliance, and financial modeling, allowing clients to select the best design options for the site.
- EarlyBird — EarlyBird simplifies investing for parents and elevates gifting by empowering friends and family to make meaningful investments to the children they love.
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
- Pair Team — Pair Team is on a mission to build the primary care infrastructure for America’s most vulnerable communities.They are the first tech-enabled care team that empowers safety-net primary care systems and the Medicaid & Medicare patients they serve. They act as an extension of the clinical staff to provide a personalized, high-touch careexperience while addressing patients' barriers to care such as lack of transportation, housing/food insecurity, and mobile phone access. Internally, they are building a unique care delivery platform to ensure clinical best practices, integrate care with community-based organizations, and automate administrative work so that clinicians can focus on time with our patients.
- Nova Credit — Nova Credit is a consumer credit bureau that connects consumers and lenders with trusted data and analytics to expand access to credit.
- Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’slifecycle, from the seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
- Meeno — Meeno is a relationship mentoring app powered by generative AI
- Mojo Vision — Mojo Vision is a developer of augmented reality products and platforms intended to invent the future of computing. The company has developed a smart contact lens with a built-in display that gives timely information without interrupting the focus and delivers immediate, powerful, and relevant information without the intrusions of today'smobile devices, enabling users to connect with others at a glance, anytime, anywhere handsfree.Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.
- Pulumi — Pulumi's open source infrastructure as code SDK enables you to create, deploy, and manage infrastructure on any cloud, using your favorite languages.
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.
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
- Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
- bitewell — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!
- Wand App — Wand is a co-creative, AI-driven tool that allows artists the manual control and customization they need to realize their ideas.
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
- GPTZero — Covered by >100 media outlets, GPTZero is the most advanced AI detector for ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard. Check up to 50000 characters for AI plagiarism in seconds.
- Inscribe — Inscribe helps financial institutions manage risk by empowering teams with fraudulent document detection, intelligent automation, and the ability to better understand customer creditworthiness.
- Accredible — Accredible is the world's leading digital credential platform offering digital badges and digital certificates. Start your credentialing journey today.
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
- Seurat Technologies — Seurat Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2015. Main offices in Wilmington, MA
- RadiantGraph — RadiantGraph is on a mission to make healthcare more accessible and user-friendly for all of us. AI technology assists top healthcare organizations in developing deeper and more meaningful connections with their patients, resulting in tailored engagement and therapeutic outcomes.
- Diligent Robotics — We build robots like Moxi that assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.
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, Artificial Intelligence
- 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.
- Fulcrum — Designed with technology in mind, be free of paper with Fulcrum, the manufacturing ERP of the future. Ai scheduling, visual BOM, live tracking
- Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.
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
- Leverage — Answering the Fundamental Question: "Where
- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
- Dashy Dash — Dashy Dash is a free community powered tool that makes it easy to manage invoices, discover new products & compare prices to help you save money.
We help the daring build legendary companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
- Tabby — With Tabby, you can split your purchases into 4 interest-free payments at your favourite stores. Download the Tabby app to get started.
- Chainguard — We build products and offer services that help protect organizations from software supply chain attacks and vulnerabilities.
- Factory — The machine that builds the machine.
Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, Canada
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
- Censys — Exposure Management, External Attack Surface Management, and Threat Hunting solutions powered by the most comprehensive dataset of internet intelligence.
- Blockaid — Blockaid provides web3 security tools to stop malicious transactions before they happen.
- Responsiv — Discover Responsiv's efficient legal solution. Get reference-backed answers to legal questions, create your next policy, and generate clauses, all in one place.
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
- Akooda — AI-powered wizard for understanding and optimizing how you deliver value as a team
- UserEvidence — UserEvidence is a SaaS platform that arms B2B vendors with verified customer evidence, proof points, and success stories to prove the value of their products. Their clients proactively capture feedback from customers, and then transform the positive feedback into an array of elegant marketing content assets (e.g. testimonials, reviews, casestudies, statistical evidence, charts).
- Zaggle — Zaggle is an award-winning digital payments, cashback and analytics company. The company help corporates and individuals enjoy gifts and experiences across multiple channels everyday; in the form of employee rewards and recognition, channel partner incentives, employee benefits, online shopping cash back and restaurant cash back.
Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
- Pair Team — Pair Team is on a mission to build the primary care infrastructure for America’s most vulnerable communities.They are the first tech-enabled care team that empowers safety-net primary care systems and the Medicaid & Medicare patients they serve. They act as an extension of the clinical staff to provide a personalized, high-touch careexperience while addressing patients' barriers to care such as lack of transportation, housing/food insecurity, and mobile phone access. Internally, they are building a unique care delivery platform to ensure clinical best practices, integrate care with community-based organizations, and automate administrative work so that clinicians can focus on time with our patients.
- Finerio — Finerio is the first automated and free personal finance app in Mexico.
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
- 1up — 1up is a competitive AI for users to observe and understand everything their competitors are doing. 1up accelerates and automates the competitive experience for teams. 1up enables teams to save hours of manual effort in product, sales, and marketing, understand what their competitors are building and saying, and win competitive deals faster andeasier than ever before.
- Kindo — Automate your workflow and secure your data with AI integration tools to focus on what matters the most in your business. Join now for free!
- Boost — Boost enables companies in any industry to offer digital insurance products to their customers through a fully integrated experience embedded in their front-end environment.
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
- Censys — Exposure Management, External Attack Surface Management, and Threat Hunting solutions powered by the most comprehensive dataset of internet intelligence.
- Signos — For your personalized weight loss journey, Signos gives you simple actions to improve your health. See your data from the Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) device in our easy-to-use app!
- Gate Bioscience — Gate Bioscience is developing Molecular Gates, a new frontier in protein elimination. Molecular Gates are small molecule drugs that selectively eliminate harmful extracellular proteins at their origin, inside cells, and prevent them from emerging to cause disease.
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
- kennek — Connected infrastructure for loans & credits
- PrivacyHawk — Privacyhawk is a mobile app that empowers everyone to take back control of their privacy.
- ReadyCode.io — ReadyCode.io is software development company.
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, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Opal — Opal makes it easy to look and sound professional on video calls. We built the Opal C1, the first professional camera and Composer, the best video editing camera software companion.
- Traba — Traba is on a mission to empower workers and local businesses to unlock their full productivity and earning potential.
- Wraithwatch — Wraithwatch is building the next generation of cyber defense for the United States and its allies.
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, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Gaiia — With an all-in-one solution for billing, operations, automation and everything in between. gaiia is the simplest platform to run your ISP.
- Zygon — Automate the control of all the SaaS applications used by your team. From app inventory to upgrading your authentication methods, our automations give you a much needed relief in controlling SaaS sprawl.
- Inicio — Inicio's objective is to expedite the energy transition of territories by lowering the risk of establishing solar projects and encouraging collaborations between landowners and renewable energy project developers.
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 — Query the future. Deliver predictive analytics across your enterprise in days, regardless of ML experience. Powered by cutting edge deep learning techniques.
- 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.
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
- Basis — Basis operates as an AI platform built specifically for accounting firms.
- Factory — The machine that builds the machine.
- Prophetic AI — Prophetic AI is a non-invasive neurotech company that offers neural devices to help people stabilize and induce lucid dreaming.
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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- Software, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
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- KINO — KINO is a film production company that brings fans behind the scenes of their favorite hollywood films.
- Gleen AI — Delight your customers. Get Gleen, the world's most accurate & capable generative AI-based chatbot. Trustworthy answers. Automatic actions. Unify knowledge.
- Metropolis — Metropolis unites technology and operations to make parking remarkable.
Building companies is in our bones.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Mexico
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- Ikigai Labs — From data reconciliation to forecasting and what-if analysis - automate manual, data-intensive operations within clicks.
- Cube Group — Cube is the world's fastest crypto exchange. Built by and for traders, Cube is the most liquid, secure and advanced cryptocurrency exchange.
- Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.
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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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
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- 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.
Your first true believers. Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies.
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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Taiwan
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- Roo — The premier veterinary relief services platform, Roo, pairs freelance veterinarians and technicians with animal hospitals in need of relief.
- StoryCo — Story DAO platform enlists Hollywood creators to engage, solve, build, create, and co-own IP universes using blockchain.
- Harmonic.ai — All in one platform with billions of datapoints on startups, talent, and trends updated daily. Start saving up to 10 hours a week per user with Harmonic today.
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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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Kenya
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- Nomad Homes — Nomad Homes provides concierge real estate hunting services and technology to match the specific needs of buyers in Dubai with their dream home.
- StretchDollar — The simplest, most affordable health benefit option for small businesses. More control over your budget and more choice for your people. Get started today!
- Wicked Saints Studios — We used behavioral technology to create interactive media that is wickedly fun and actively good. Wicked Saints emerged from Niantic’s incubator last fall (CNBC article) with a prototype of the world’s first adventure activism game, World Reborn. At its simplest, World Reborn is an interactive story game with real-life quests facilitated byaugmented reality (AR). It not only defies genres between narrative and AR games but blends the digital and real world. Wicked Saints sees AR as a bridge between fantasy and reality, with untapped potential to offer players immersive experiences that change them and their world for good.
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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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
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- TipTop — Buying stuff is easy, selling it is hard. But maybe there is a world where you don't have to sell things any longer? Curious?
- Together — 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.
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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- Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, Brazil
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- AutoGPT — Auto-GPT The official website for Auto-GPT. Explore the new frontier of autonomous AI and try the fastest growing open source project in the history of GitHub for yourself. Download from GitHub Join us on Discord Auto-GPT The official website for Auto-GPT. Explore the new frontier of
- Modal Labs — Modal develops machine learning software to help run code in the cloud. The software enables users to run or deploy machine learning models, massively parallel compute jobs, task queues, web apps, and more. It also writes the code to launch hundreds of custom containers and runs scripts in the cloud faster than on the local machine.
- MotherDuck — Making analytics ducking awesome with DuckDB. Sign up to stay in touch.
Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders
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- Software, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Italy
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- HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
- ManholeMetrics — We are a multi-award winning sensor and analytics start-up on a mission to stop flooding and bring wastewater into the 21st Century.
- SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.
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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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Poland
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- Pillyze — mobile health care startup
- InHandPlus — We are working to solve the issue of medical nonadherence, where patients don't follow their prescribed medical regimes. This is a common and costly problem, and can even result in serious consequences. Our proprietary smartwatch is able to tell what medicine users take, and when they take it. Our AI-based management platform then collects thedata and provides personalized healthcare services and insights.
- Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Hathora — Seamlessly build, deploy, and scale game servers globally
- 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.
- 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.
Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Credal.ai — Credal.ai is an artificial intelligence that keeps a single Living Document for your team. It pulls data from your source systems, such as Slack, documents, and task trackers. As things change, it interprets and updates the Living Document, informing only those who need to know about the changes.
- Chainguard — We build products and offer services that help protect organizations from software supply chain attacks and vulnerabilities.
- Abridge — For patients, clinicians, and enterprise, our audio-based solutions capture the details and summarize medical conversations, anywhere care happens.
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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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- LunarCrush — LunarCrush is a social media analytics tool that helps you master social influence. Use AI tools to get insights, analyze influencer trends, compare, and grow.
- In-Seam — In-Seam. Luxury, Connected.
- AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- mybacs — mybacs is a DTC, research-driven, Biotechnology company specialized in the human microbiome. Our goal is to revolutionize the market around intestinal healthcare and thus make a decisive contribution to the daily well-being of our customers. Our team of pharmaceutical scientists and physicians is focused on the development of innovative andhighly-dosed synbiotic supplements. These are aligned by our singular formulations from specifically selected probiotic cultures, prebiotics as well as minerals and vitamins tailored to the individual needs of our customers.
- Gradient — A centralized data platform that enables full organizational observability. Find and manage everything that's going on with your team, products, and customers.
- Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.
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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- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom
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- Clozer — Sell experiences & run gamified giveaways to grow your music streams
- move.ai — FREE YOUR MOTION. CAPTURE YOUR IMAGINATION. No more suits, no more restrictions. High fidelity motion capture made easy
- Forge — Forge is where gamers go to earn rewards and recognition from their achievements in gaming.
Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries
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- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- Opsera — Opsera automates any CI/CD toolchain, enables declarative pipelines, and provides unified insights across your entire software delivery process.
- Warmly — Instant information & unique details about everyone you meet with. Build rapport directly in Zoom. Absolutely free.
- Oro Labs — A supplier management tool that can flex and scale with evolving business needs.
CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise and consumer startups. Since 1970, the firm has invested in more than 400 startups at their most crucial stages, including DoorDash, Airtable, Patreon, Drift and Iterable. Founders need more than capital to build a great company. It takes a partner who understands the entrepreneurial journey and knows what it takes to win. From founding to IPO and beyond, CRV is there every step of the way. Founders rely on CRV to be trusted, long-term, committed partners, which has helped make CRV into one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the world. Learn more about CRV and the companies shaping the future at https://www.crv.com.
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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
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- Revcast — A modern approach to sales capacity planning. Drive revenue predictability, improve business agility, and uncover risk earlier.
- Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
- ProjectDiscovery — ProjectDiscovery is a remote-first open-source software company simplifying security operations for hackers and developers.
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