Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors (June 2026)
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SV Aangel
VC Fund
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143 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $1M–$107M |
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SV Angel
VC Fund
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142 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Mobile | |
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Alumni Ventures
VC Fund
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85 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.4M–$79M |
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Greycroft
VC Fund
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78 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1.5M–$79M |
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Betaworks
VC Fund
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77 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, Mobile | |
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Andreessen Horowitz
VC Fund
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76 | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$107M |
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Accel
VC Fund
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76 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.5M–$74M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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75 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $104k–$29M |
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Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund
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72 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | $1.2M–$40M |
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General Catalyst
VC Fund
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71 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $1.6M–$135M |
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First Round Capital
VC Fund
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70 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.1M–$60M |
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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
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70 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $18k–$2M |
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Advancit Capital
VC Fund
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69 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment | $1.5M–$32M |
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
VC Fund
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69 | United States, India, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2.2M–$125M |
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SOSV
VC Fund
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66 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | |
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Index Ventures
VC Fund
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65 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $1.3M–$100M |
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New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund
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59 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $5.3M–$103M |
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Lowercase Capital
VC Fund
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57 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Internet | $1M–$45M |
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Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund
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56 | United States, China, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $5M–$110M |
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
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55 | United States, China, India | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $5.5M–$190M |
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1745 Ventures
VC Fund
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54 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Advertising, Internet | $1.5M–$30M |
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True Ventures
VC Fund
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52 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.2M–$50M |
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BDMI
VC Fund
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52 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Advertising, Internet | |
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Knight Enterprise Fund
VC Fund
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52 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Digital Media, Social Media | |
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Google Ventures
VC Fund
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51 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $1M–$107M |
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Uncork Capital
VC Fund
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51 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $1.2M–$50M |
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Gaingels
VC Fund
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49 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $1.4M–$100M |
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Social Starts
VC Fund
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48 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, SaaS | |
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund
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47 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $549k–$16M |
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Greylock
VC Fund
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47 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software | |
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Jason Calacanis
Angel
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46 | United States, Australia, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$14M |
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Great Oaks Venture Capital
VC Fund
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46 | United States, United Kingdom, Spain | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Health Care | |
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Founder Collective
VC Fund
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46 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $1.1M–$20M |
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Founders Fund
VC Fund
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46 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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Slow Ventures
VC Fund
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46 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Health Care | $1.2M–$75M |
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Animoca Brands
VC Fund
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46 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $1.6M–$40M |
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BoxGroup
VC Fund
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45 | United States, Mexico, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $1.6M–$90M |
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RRE Ventures
VC Fund
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44 | United States, Canada, China | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Financial Services, Internet | |
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East Ventures
VC Fund
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44 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $649k–$38M |
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Robert DeMaio
Angel
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43 | United States | Convertible Note | FinTech, Software, Health Care | $50k–$100k |
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ff Venture Capital
VC Fund
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42 | United States, Poland, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$12M |
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Precursor Ventures
VC Fund
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41 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $475k–$29M |
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Ronald Conway
Angel
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39 | United States, Canada, Denmark | Series A, Seed, Angel | Software, Social Media, Internet | $350k–$11M |
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BITKRAFT Ventures
VC Fund
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39 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain | $2M–$38M |
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Redpoint
VC Fund
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38 | United States, China, Brazil | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology | $5.2M–$166M |
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Third Wave Digital
VC Fund
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38 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Media and Entertainment, Digital Media, Video | |
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund
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38 | South Korea, United States, Poland | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Health Care | $18k–$30M |
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Techstars Ventures
VC Fund
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37 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | |
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Foundation Capital
VC Fund
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37 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Ascension
VC Fund
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37 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Internet | $229k–$4.1M |
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SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 951
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $2.5M–$35M; Series B $8M–$107M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $29M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
- Vulcan — Vulcan builds AI tools that map U.S. laws and regulations, helping users draft, review, and stay compliant with legal documents.
- Adentro — Zenreach created Walk-Through Marketing to help businesses with physical locations dramatically improve customer acquisition and lifetime value by connecting digital marketing with in-store results. Zenreach Engage automatically tracks customer visits, effortlessly builds rich customer profiles and keeps them up to date. Zenreach Attract improvesad performance 4x by targeting audiences based on your best customers. Results are measured with our Walk-Through Rate™, a proprietary metric that shows when someone exposed to an ad visits a location. Founded in 2012, Zenreach serves thousands of independent merchants and leading brands like Peet’s Coffee, Ruth’s Chris and BCBG Max Azria.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 827
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
- Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.
- Safe Superintelligence — Safe Superintelligence is an artificial intelligence research lab that solves the technical challenge of building superhuman intelligence. The company operates a dedicated lab to advance capabilities while prioritizing safety through revolutionary engineering.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1427
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5.2M–$37M; Series B $12M–$79M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Jericho Security — Train your team to defend against the latest cyber attacks with our complete cybersecurity platform.
- Vouch — Vouch is a new kind of digital insurer that protects startups from mistakes, litigation and attack.
- Operative Intelligence — Drive impactful changes at every level of the business with eye-opening metrics that the c-suite will care about
Venture capital and technology investments
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 701
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $3.1M–$23M; Series B $6.2M–$79M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $378M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Allset — Allset is a marketplace connecting restaurants and local diners. It provides restaurants with online ordering and contactless dining solutions to serve their customers commission-free.Customers use Allset to order ahead at nearby restaurants and coffee shops, to ensure everyday dining that is fast, easy, and healthy. Local diners supportrestaurants with commission-free orders for pickup, curbside, and dine-in.Allset is focused on connecting restaurants and diners in busy areas to drive network effect on a hyperlocal level.Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Allset was co-founded by Stas Matviyenko and Anna Polishchuk in 2015.
- BetterCloud — Streamline SaaS operations with end-to-end SaaS management platform, BetterCloud: Cut SaaS spend, automate user lifecycle, secure SaaS files, and more.
- Optimus Ride — Optimus Ride is a self-driving vehicle company based in Boston, MA. It designs technologies to enable efficient, sustainable, and equitable mobility systems and solutions.As an MIT spinoff company, it combines over 30 years of interdisciplinary university research in self‑driving technologies (DARPA Urban Challenge), electric vehicles (CityCar),and Mobility-on-Demand Systems. The team includes decades of industrial and entrepreneurial experience that combines manufacturing robots, urban design, and shared vehicle fleet management.
Betaworks is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 193
- Lead/follow: no public data
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!
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1629
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $9M–$53M; Series B $16M–$107M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Bounce — Luggage Storage Near Me 24/7 - Store your baggage in 32,000+ worldwide locations. Bounce is the BEST luggage storage app for finding and booking left luggage & lockers near you!
- Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.
- Shapeways — Shapeways is the #1 online 3D printing service company. Working with over a million customers since 2007 - Get 3D products and parts delivered to over 100 countries.
First partner to exceptional teams everywhere
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1877
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $4.5M–$40M; Series B $10M–$74M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Rally — Invest in collectibles for as little as $50 per share, on Rally
- XFactor — XFactor.io is a platform with constant sales performance monitoring, real-time recommendations, and live analytics.
- Shift Technology — Shift Technology delivers AI-native decision automation and optimization solutions built specifically for the global insurance industry. Addressing several critical processes across the insurance policy lifecycle, Shift helps insurers achieve faster, more accurate claims and policy resolutions. Shift has analyzed billions of insurance transactionsto date and was presented Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 Global Claims Solutions for Insurance Market Leadership Award.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1193
- Round size: Seed $196k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $104k–$1.1M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Carble — We provide carbon insetting technology to tropical commodity buyers and cash incentives to farmers that protect the forest. Our satellite-powered platform monitors carbon emissions, allowing for deforestation-free farming to be rewarded at scale.
- Sapyen — We take the fear out of infertility for men. Test for it at home, without stepping out to the hospital and get personalised health recommendations to improve sperm health and increase your chances of conceiving.
- One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 486
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $2.5M–$15M; Series B $8.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- Halp — Get more acceptances and scholarships with 1-on-1 online admissions coaching, hands-on mentorship, and university support
- Conflixis — Conflixis develops conflict monitoring platform intended to manage conflicts inside organizations.
- Bookkeep — Whether you run multiple locations, franchise stores, or sell across channels, Bookkeep automates your revenue recognition, deposit reconciliation and sales tax compliance with 100% accuracy.
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1589
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$18M; Series A $6M–$70M; Series B $12M–$135M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Pylon — Talk to your customers over Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Discord? Meet Pylon. We'll help you scale your sales, success, and support processes over chat and integrate that data back into your existing systems.
- ClearSky Data — ClearSky Data’s global storage network simplifies the entire data lifecycle and delivers enterprise storage as a fully managed service.Its storage is designed for business agility. ClearSky simplifies enterprise storage by providing an SLA-based managed service across the global network. The company's patent-pending Smart Tiered Cachingcontinually categorizes data and places it in the right cache layer (hot, warm, cold) based on evolving usage requirements and customer policies. Customers simply scale as needed, using the ClearSky dashboard to add unlimited capacity with a few clicks. All data can be moved across the ClearSky network to meet a variety of use cases including data center migration, load balancing, expansion into new regions, or disaster recovery. ClearSky has partnered with major public clouds to place hot and warm cache copies at the cloud edge. The result: customers get low-latency access to cloud instances, providing a new cost-effective option to run their most demanding workloads.The total cost of ownership (TCO) of storing data using the ClearSky service is about 1/3 the cost of managing it in a company’s data center on physical storage arrays.By leveraging the architecture and building redundancy into all cache layers and network paths, ClearSky is able to provide an enterprise-class service with guaranteed high availability. Industry-leading security technologies and best practices ensure that customer data is always protected and isolated from the moment it enters the ClearSky network. Customers simply plug into the ClearSky service to get the storage they need, when and where they need it, with the security, scalability, and resilience that a business depends on.
- Ping Identity — Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations. They help enterprises achieve Zero Trust identity-defined security & more personalized, streamlined user experiences. The Ping Intelligent Identity Platform provides customers, employees, partners, and, increasingly, IoT, with access tothe cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs, while also managing identity and profile data at scale. Ping Identity was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
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Browse database — It's Free!First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 801
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.4M; Series A $2.1M–$25M; Series B $7M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PullString — PullString, Inc. is leading the field of computer conversation in both text and voice through a combination of design and technology. PullString (formerly ToyTalk) is an entertainment and technology company combining art and science to enable computer conversation with characters.The company's primary product, the PullString Platform, offersa professional authoring environment, hosted AI and machine learning runtime, and integrated conversation analytics to enterprises, agencies, and startups across verticals as diverse as entertainment, customer service, gaming and VR, travel, automotive, health and fitness, finance, human resources, and IoT.With direct support for all major conversational platforms like Facebook Messenger, Amazon Alexa, Skype, Slack, Kik, mobile, and web, the PullString Platform has been used to create award winning experiences like Call of Duty’s Lt Reyes on Messenger, Hello Barbie, and The Winston Show.PullString, founded as ToyTalk in 2011, has raised more than $44 million in funding from Greylock Partners; Charles River Ventures; Khosla Ventures; True Ventures; and First Round Capital.
- &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
- Merlin Labs — Merlin is the aviation technology company propelling the future of fully autonomous flight.
Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 720
- Round size: Seed $18k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$450k; Convertible Note $50k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Etho — Etho is an all in one augmented reality voice command assistant for motorcycle riders. Etho's first product, is a platform for existing helmet manufacturers to build smart helmets with a voice assistant for motorcycle riders, that exist within an augmented reality heads up display.Etho's mission is to improve the relationship betweenrider and machine by giving them an entire solution. By partnering with the best motorcycle helmet manufactures in the industry, they are able to focus their efforts on building the best technology for riders. They enable the riders to win by offering them the safest helmets, powered by a technology that delivers a distraction-free riding experience.
- Hutsy — Hutsy Financial is a financial services company that provides mobile banking, early payroll access and credit building products. In partnership with Peoples Trust we provide a prepaid debit card that our users can spend with. We also offer cash back on all purchases, spending insights, and categorizations to provide valuable insight on where yourmoney is going. Hutsy was recently on CBC’s Dragons Den where we raised our pre-seed funding round of $500,000 to bring our product to life.
- Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.
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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- Industry: Software, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 146
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Series A $4M–$18M; Series B $6.5M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- ROAM — Explore courses and classes in outdoor sports, nutrition, fitness, yoga, and more. Learn beginner to pro-level skills from the experts.
- Public — Invest in stocks. Learn from others. Public lets you invest in stocks with any amount of money and see what others invest in.
- BEGiN — BEGiN creates engaging and effective learning products to bring children the highest quality education. Our flagship brand, HOMER, is the proven early learning program for kids 2-8.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1495
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$30M; Series A $6.5M–$90M; Series B $13M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- k-ID — At k-ID, we specialize in integrating safety and privacy by design compliance solutions for digital platforms, focusing on creating a safer, more responsible online environment for children and teenagers.
- Granola — Granola helps you keep momentum on what matters. You stay present, Granola turns your conversations into a rich, searchable memory.
- Triomics — Triomics | We advance oncology research and care operations by helping accelerate trial enrollment, quality improvement projects, streamline healthcare operations, and more.
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1482
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1090
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $10M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $117M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Ozon — leading e-commerce platform in Russia, first russian marketplace
- Personio — Personio is the Intelligent HR platform for companies from 10-5,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
- Culture Amp — Culture Amp was founded as a result of its members' first hand experiences with the challenge that fast growing organizations face when their core business expands faster than its people can adapt. With years of experience in enterprise organizations, CultureAmp's team has taken more than a walk in your shoes–they've been running inthem. They look to seize an opportunity for a new type of technology- technology that amplifies learning and drives culture, instead of hindering it.
Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1539
- Round size: Series A $5.3M–$60M; Series B $10M–$80M; Series C $13M–$103M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.8B in 2022
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- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
- Allay Therapeutics — SUPPORTING PATIENTS THROUGH EVERY PHASE OF RECUPERATION The first technology designed to deliver weeks of localized pain management
- Regulus Therapeutics — Regulus Therapeutics Is a biopharmaceutical company leading the discovery of a new class of high-impact medicines based on microRNAs. The discovery of MicroRNA in humans is one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs in the last decade. MicroRNAs are small RNA molecules, typically 20 to 25 nucleotides in length, that do not encode proteinsbut instead regulate gene expression. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
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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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 166
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $1.6M–$16M; Series B $8.3M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2014
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- Smash.gg — Start.gg is the leading destination to create, run, play and watch esports tournaments!
- Boundless Mind — Thrive Global's mission is to end the burnout epidemic with sustainable, science-based solutions that unlock employee performance and enhance well-being through our behavior change technology.
- Happy Returns — Happy Returns by PayPal makes returns beautiful for shoppers, merchants, and the planet with our returns software and reverse logistics.
Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1134
- Round size: Series A $5M–$46M; Series B $10M–$71M; Series C $12M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Stripe — Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the Internet. Stripe is a platform for commercial finance infrastructure. Stripe is used by millions of businesses, ranging from the biggest corporations in the world to the most ambitious startups, to take payments, increase revenue, and open up new business prospects.
- TradeHero — Founded in 2012 by app developer MyHero, TradeHero's mission is to provide a platform for traders to monetize their investment expertise, by democratizing trading in a social and gamified mobile app. TradeHero is a free stock market simulation app, which draws real-world data from stock exchanges to create an unrivalled global socialinvestment network. Users can compete with friends from their social networks, or on the global leaderboards with users from across the world. The app brings novice and knowledgeable traders together, allowing novice traders to subscribe for stock tips via push notifications, and top traders to earn subscription fees from followers. Followers can subscribe, for a small monthly fee, to follow and receive trade feeds from their chosen Heroes via push notifications on their mobile device. These push notifications detail each Buy and Sell action of the Hero, allowing followers to receive expert trading tips and personal insight into successful investment strategies. TradeHero will share subscription revenue from followers equally with Heroes, thus allowing Heroes to monetize their trading expertise.
- Handshake — The largest expert network for learning, earning, and growing careers in the AI economy, giving everyone an accessible first step into an AI-powered career.
We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1681
- Round size: Series A $5.5M–$45M; Series B $10M–$100M; Series C $12M–$190M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Starcloud — Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs allow Starcloud to take advantage of the abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in space.
- Catch — Catch is a payment method that provides a new way to pay and earn store credit.
- Faire — Faire helps local stores discover and try thousands of unique items risk-free.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Advertising, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 186
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M; Series A $3M–$16M; Series B $4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $63M in 2006
Portfolio highlights
- Mojiva — Mojiva Inc. is the parent company of the Mojiva, the mobile ad network and the Mocean Mobile, the mobile ad serving platform. It is led by a team of advertising and media veterans from Google, DoubleClick, Yahoo, Nokia and AdMob, with more than 100 years of collective experience in mobile marketing and technology.Mojiva, Inc. provides productsand solutions that not only fuel the mobile advertising marketplace by bringing mobile ad buyers together with mobile content sellers, but that also solve unique challenges in the mobile marketing space. Solutions include tools to market your products and services to mobile users, monetize your mobile content, enable your global ad sales team to capitalize on an expanded media mix, control your inventory, or mobilize the brands your agency is working with.
- Sensity AI — Sensity AI thanks to an all-in-one approach can guarantee the best deepfake detection software capabilities currently available in the marketplace
- Exit Games — Exit Games develops the realtime, multiplayer, cross-platform product PHOTON.Photon is used by more than 330,000 game developers - including companies like Square Enix, Ubisoft, Disney, Warner Bro, SEGA, Miniclip, Codemasters, Glu, Rilisoft or World Golf Tour.The high performance Photon Server and Photon Cloud allow cross-platform gamingbetween Mobile, PC, Console, Web, VR/AR and other popular devices.
Founded in 2005, True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. With more than $3.8 billion under management, True provides seed and Series A financing to entrepreneurs in some of today's growing markets. With more than 40 team members including special advisors, operationsprofessionals, and founders-turned-investors, True represents one of the largest and most experienced teams dedicated to the ecosystem. The True team believes creativity flourishes when founders are supported fully and empowered to pursue brave ideas. To that end, the True Platform offers programs that inspire professional and personal growth. To date, True has helped more than 350 companies launch and scale their businesses, creating over 85,000 jobs worldwide. True was awarded Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association in 2018. To learn more, visit www.trueventures.com.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 597
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.6M; Series A $2M–$28M; Series B $4M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Bigscreen — Founded by Darshan Shankar in 2014, Bigscreen is a venture-backed startup creating an immersive virtual reality platform that aims to revolutionize the way people work, play, hangout, and collaborate.Use cases of Bigscreen include both entertainment and productivity. Users love using Bigscreen as a "VR movie theater" to watch movies andTV shows. It's also used to play videogames, browse the web, and hangout with friends. It's can also be used for productivity as a tool for remote teams to collaborate together in virtual offices.Since the beta launch in March 2016, Bigscreen has become one of the most popular and highest rated VR apps on the Oculus Store and has an incredible 93% positive rating on Steam. Power users spend 20-30 hours per week in Bigscreen, making it one of the most widely used "killer apps" in the industry.Bigscreen is now the most popular non-gaming VR application in the world.Bigscreen is a fully distributed remote company with employees based around the world in the US & UK.
- Yousician — Yousician is a fun way to learn the guitar, piano, bass, ukulele or singing. Enjoy thousands of songs with Yousician as your personal music teacher!
- Diligent Robotics — We build robots like Moxi that assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.
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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- Industry: Software, Advertising, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 175
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Digital Media, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1029
- Round size: Seed $1M–$15M; Series A $5.4M–$88M; Series B $15M–$107M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2014
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- Smarterer — Individuals and Fortune 500 companies use Smarterer to help close the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Their dynamic assessment engine leverages the freshest crowdsourced tests around, to rapidly pinpoint skill level with a credible score. In November 2014, Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for serioussoftware developers, IT specialists and creative technologists, acquired Smarterer. As the world's largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,500 courses authored by top experts. Smarterer will continue to power crowdsourced assessments for freelancer marketplaces, e-learning providers and enterprise companies anywhere people need to prove their skills to connect with professional opportunities. The Smarterer community has answered over 56 million during 1.7 million test sessions, across hundreds of tests.
- Zest — Give your shoppers the swiftest gifting experience in ecommerce. With Zest, shoppers on your site can send a gift to anybody, anywhere with just a link.
- EpiBiologics — EpiBiologics develops first-in-class antibody based targeted therapies against membrane and extracellular proteins that drive underlying disease biology.
For more than 20 years, Uncork has focused on one stage: seed. Our partners have invested in over 290 companies, with more than 100 meaningful outcomes and $60B+ in enterprise value created — including Fitbit (NYSE: FIT, Google), Sendgrid (NYSE: SEND, Twilio), Eventbrite (NYSE: EB), Poshmark (NASD: POSH), and Postmates (UBER), as well asfast-growing startups like We invest in companies using AI and emerging technologies to create leverage, unlock scale, and push industries forward. We're typically the first major check on the cap table, often leading seed rounds with an initial investment of $3M-$5M. We keep terms simple and transparent, because a clean term sheet makes a strong partnership.We look for team, TAM, and tailwinds, but conviction in founder–market fit comes above all else. We back founders who bring sharp insight into their markets and the drive to build what others can’t yet see.There’s no single playbook for building a company. Every journey looks different, but our role stays the same: a steady partner who shows up early, knows when to deliver hard truths, and stays engaged long after the round closes.Learn more at
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 400
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6M; Series A $1.8M–$18M; Series B $10M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Metarch — Metarch builds next‑generation frontier AI systems that enable continual learning, long‑horizon planning, and autonomous action across complex, multimodal environments. Their AI models and native infrastructure empower agents to interact with software, APIs, and tools to perform tasks once reserved for humans.
- Adentro — Zenreach created Walk-Through Marketing to help businesses with physical locations dramatically improve customer acquisition and lifetime value by connecting digital marketing with in-store results. Zenreach Engage automatically tracks customer visits, effortlessly builds rich customer profiles and keeps them up to date. Zenreach Attract improvesad performance 4x by targeting audiences based on your best customers. Results are measured with our Walk-Through Rate™, a proprietary metric that shows when someone exposed to an ad visits a location. Founded in 2012, Zenreach serves thousands of independent merchants and leading brands like Peet’s Coffee, Ruth’s Chris and BCBG Max Azria.
- Sunnyside — Sunnyside is the #1 alcohol moderation app helping 600,000+ people drink less through tracking, coaching, and optional naltrexone via telehealth. Start your free 15-day trial.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 754
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8M; Series A $6M–$40M; Series B $16M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
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- Quadient Accounts Receivable by YayPay — YayPay accounts receivable automation software helps businesses collect faster, forecast cash flow accurately, and improve payment process. Automate your AR
- Sharper Sense — Neuromodulation for Clear Senses
- Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 232
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 542
- Round size: Seed $549k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $584k–$4.4M; Series A $1.1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
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- Avocode — Centralize design collaboration, developer hand-off, version control, screen flows, & feedback in one tool. Sign up free today. Work with Sketch, Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Figma designs on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
- Stairling — Stairling is an employment on record platform for gigworkers that empowers them.
- Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 656
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Orb — Drive business model innovation with Orb. We power billing for the world's leading software companies.
- RepRally — RepRally bridges the gap between emerging brands and local retailers.
- Resolve.ai — Resolve AI is a firm dedicated on automating software processes. The company creates AI solutions that can automatically troubleshoot and resolve manufacturing challenges.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 431
- Round size: Seed $875k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.1M; Series A $2.7M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dexla — Build B2B apps quickly with an AI-powered front-end software engineer. Type in what your company does and watch Buck build your app for you.
- Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.
- Contraline — Contraline is a medical device company that has developed a proprietary injectable hydrogel platform for use in reproductive and contraceptive applications. Contraline's first product, Adam, is implanted into the vas deferens through a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure and once implanted, the gel effectively blocks sperm. Adam isnon-hormonal, designed to last years, and easily reversible.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 324
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Atllas — Atllas is a tech-based real estate organization that leverages software tools to offer brokerage services.
- Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
- Amulet — Amulet is shining a light on invisible threats in our food system. Amulet has two core brands: - Allergy Amulet helps consumers determine whether their foods are safe by detecting potentially life-threatening allergenic ingredients. - Amulet Scientific equips businesses and manufacturers with tools to help ensure the safety of their food supplychain. Learn more: www.allergyamulet.com www.amuletscientific.com
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 358
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Pikkit — Join Pikkit's social betting platform to sync your legal sportsbooks, keep up with friends' picks, share your bets, browse events, and track your favorite teams and players - all in one place.
- Ranger — Ranger is an AI product that writes, runs, and maintains QA tests that find real bugs. The company offers a range of solutions that help businesses ensure the quality and reliability of their products and systems. With expertise in various testing methodologies, Ranger works with clients across different industries to identify issues, optimizeperformance, and improve overall product quality. It emphasizes precision and thoroughness in its testing processes, striving to provide reliable insights that help businesses meet regulatory standards and satisfy customer expectations.
- Emporia Research — Emporia connects growth minded market researchers to the exact professionals they need for any B2B market research project. Source qualified candidates, automate recruitment and streamline incentive distribution. All in one place.
Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 658
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
- EnClear Therapies — EnClear Therapies is a Cambridge (USA) based life sciences company developing a device-based therapy to aid in the treatment of neurodegenerative disease and delivery and monitoring of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). EnClear’s proprietary therapeutic platform focuses on removing toxic proteins from the CSF. The company’s first products will targetimproving the lives of patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP).
- Turntable Labs — Turntable Labs: Hang out online with music
Slow Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in companies central to the technology industry as well as those operating at the intersection of science, society, and culture. The firm seeks to support innovative ideas and solutions that shape the future across various sectors.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 410
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.7M; Series A $6.1M–$25M; Series B $13M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $130M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Opendoor Technologies — Opendoor is the new way to sell your home. Skip the hassle of listing, showings and months of stress, and close on your own timeline. Get a free offer today!
- Steven.com — The operating system for the creator economy. Connecting creators to resources, platforms, community and technology where trust shifts to individuals.
- Citizen — Citizen helps you stay safe & informed, by providing instant notifications and live broadcasts of reported crimes and incidents near you.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 399
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Series A $5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 0G — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
- Blockade Games — Blockade Games is a leading blockchain video game development studio. Using industry expertise, we are developing blockchain layer two infrastructure and gaming applications.
- Ignite Tournaments — Ready to take your mobile games to the next level? Join Ignite Tournaments and compete in real money esports tournaments. Download our app now and win big!
BoxGroup is an early stage investment fund focused on technology companies. Contact Us: hello@boxgroup.com
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 537
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$8.5M; Series A $5.5M–$33M; Series B $19M–$90M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zuplo — Zuplo is fully-managed API Management designed for developers. Add rate-limiting, authentication and more as fast as you can commit to git.
- David Energy — David Energy is an electricity provider that designs, builds, and manages onsite energy grids. The company empowers buildings with the tools needed to maximize onsite energy and bring transparency to a traditionally opaque, commoditized industry. It provides hands-on expertise and on the ground support, all delivered through its software platform.Founded in 2017, David Energy is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
- Arcadia — Arcadia unlocks access to global utility data. Our technology powers the next generation of climate solutions, giving anyone the tools to electrify and decarbonize.
RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that is in it with founders when it matters
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 475
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Kindo — Enhance AI productivity with Kindo. The first platform to support any AI model plus 200+ SaaS integrations, all while being centralized, compliant, and secure. Try today!
- TrueX — TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets.
- Nomad Health — Search travel nurse jobs nationwide. Earn more money, haggle-free. Receive expert support without the pushy tactics of a traditional recruiter.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 448
- Round size: Seed $649k–$18M; Series A $2.1M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FR8Labs — FR8Labs offers a practical freight forwarder solution that includes all of the modules required, without the extraneous trappings of overly sophisticated features that may not use but wind up paying for.
- Runchise — Runchise is an integrated restaurant and franchise management system to increase operational efficiency and profit.
- Fresh Factory — Fresh Factory runs a web of hyperlocal cold-chain fulfilment centers in Indonesia.
Robert DeMaio is the founder, CEO, and controlling and majority shareholder of Phinge® Corporation. He is an inventor with over 30 granted patents, including software (Such as App-Less technologies and hardware verification) and patents for modular hardware and devices.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Convertible Note
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Convertible Note $50k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Phinge — About Phinge Corporation. Phinge's patented Netverse App-less technology, user-centric platform and verified Netverse Intelligence™ (NI)™, accesible through its patented, innovative modular mobile hardware and devices is launching to the world in 2026. All users will own, control and monetize their own data. The Netverse platform and NetverseIntelligence™ (NI)™ wiil be a safer, verified and rewarding alternative app-less platform and technology for third party businesses and developers to today's app-based technologies including the App stores, operating systems and ecosystems of Apple and Google. Netverse will not be an App or Super App that resides on the major technology platforms of today. Instead, it will be a standalone, all-in-one, app-less, verified platform and AI, accessible only through Phinge's revolutionary mobile hardware and devices. It will benefit all approved, verified third party businesses, developers and platforms on Netverse in ways not possible with today's technology including total verification of all users, businesses, organizations, entities and their IP. Third-party developers as well as individuals and businesses that would like to be beta testers for Netverse and its hardware may sign up today.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Poland, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 289
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.3M; Series A $1.3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $66M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Moveline — Moveline provides multiple moving quotes from quality moving companies, all from one form. Get up to four quotes now.
- ForActive — ForActive The Best App to Buy & Sell Memberships
- EyeVi Technologies — EyeVi is a provider of road network intelligence with AI-powered on-demand mapping technologies.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 304
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6M; Pre-Seed $475k–$2.5M; Series A $5.5M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grw AI — Grw AI offers scalable 1:1 coaching solutions that leverage AI to assist B2B sales teams complete deals.
- Flex — Flex is a financial services company that provides analysis, integration, and management solutions for HSA/FSA payments.
- Dopl Technologies — Dopl is improving access to healthcare through telerobotic ultrasound procedures.
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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- Industry: Software, Social Media, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Canada, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 175
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.1M; Angel $350k–$1.7M; Series A $1.2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
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.
- World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
- Blip Energy — Blip Energy is building a new category of energy storage that is smart, affordable, and flexible to add millions of homes to the smart grid network. A hybrid hardware/software solution for energy management that works in any home without barriers around permitting and installation. Power outages across the U.S. cost $150B annually. On Avg.500K Americans lose power daily without backup solutions and 84% of Americans are concerned. Existing grid vulnerability is exacerbated by energy transition volatility. The U.S. power grid had the most outages in history in the past two years. Households need power security, and utilities need levers on the smart grid to balance loads and prevent blackouts. Blip envisions a future where every household has access to smart IoT energy storage to provide critical backup power. Blip solves the growing need for reliable energy with the lowest cost energy storage on the global battery market. Simultaneously, this adds millions of otherwise inaccessible customers to the smart grid. Blip's business model reflects current resilience needs, cost savings, and a data-driven future, by wrapping our hardware endpoint with data and grid services.
We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 210
- Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $5M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Laguna Games — DropCatch.com helps you secure expiring domain names.
- Global Worldwide — Global Worldwide have been global leaders in Agriculture, Materials Science, Autonomous Weapon Systems, and Pharmaceutical Testing since our inception in 1945. Each division of the company has led its respective industry through productive, science-based innovation to meet the needs of customers and
- Yield Guild Games — Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.
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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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 649
- Round size: Series A $5.2M–$42M; Series B $9M–$83M; Series C $13M–$166M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Qwilt — Qwilt allows you to build and operate a new delivery layer at the true edge of your network, enabling service providers to create radical content and application delivery solutions ready for whatever your subscribers think of next.
- Sourcegraph — Sourcegraph's code intelligence platform makes it easy for devs to write, fix, and maintain code with context-aware AI
- Transform — Transform is the first centralized ‘metrics store’ that empowers data analysts to deliver accurate, timely, confident, and fast insights. The metrics store we’ve built is a centralized repository that enables metrics definitions in code, supports life-cycle management, and makes data accessible to every other tool in the modern data stack. We notonly make data trustworthy, but we also uncover relevant insights and context so that all teams can stay on the same page and make the best decisions possible.
Third Wave is an early stage venture capital firm focused on the Digital Media sector.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Digital Media, Video
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 270
- Round size: Seed $223k–$2.2M; Series A $743k–$8M; Series B $18k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- UModeler — UModeler is a Unity3D editor extension to empower you to designer your level and mesh without leaving Unity.
- Daily Protein — Daily Protein specializes in the sales of protein bars and diet snacks.
- Spotlite — Spotlite operates a professional model recruitment platform for commercial photography.
Techstars helps entrepreneurs succeed. We provide founders with a mentorship-driven accelerator program, a $120K investment, and access to the network for life.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 223
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- MD Ally — MD Ally allows dispatchers and first responders to connect non-emergent calls to telehealth, in-network resources, social services & more in real-time.
- 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.
Building companies is in our bones.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 514
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Elmnts — A tokenized commodity ecosystem, backed by real-world assets.
- NEX — NEX enables you to construct fine-tuned, continually trained, or built-from-scratch AI models for creative applications that your entire team can use.
- Docket — Docket is an enterprise sales enablement, knowledge management and discovery solution for modern sales teams. Docket's Source of Truth AI acts as a Sales Copilot enabling salespeople to ramp up quicker, be better at discovery and answering prospect questions.
Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 211
- Round size: Seed $229k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $445k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $22M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Heatio — Heatio provides affordable renewable energy to homeowners.
- Mobilus Labs — Mobilus Labs is a tech startup with the mission to provide frictionless voice communications for teams of any size at any range.
- AMA - A Million Ads — The Leader in Dynamic Creative for Audio. Deliver customized, data-driven, dynamic ads on the world's largest audio platforms.
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