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Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in United States (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in United States Media (entertainment) startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in United States Media (entertainment) startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
SV Angel
VC Fund
138 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $1M–$130M
Alumni Ventures
VC Fund
86 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.5M–$79M
Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
78 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, SaaS, Health Care $20k–$2M
Greycroft
VC Fund
72 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1.5M–$79M
Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund
72 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $1.2M–$40M
Betaworks
VC Fund
72 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, Mobile
Lightspeed Venture Partners
VC Fund
67 United States, India, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.5M–$125M
Advancit Capital
VC Fund
66 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment $1.5M–$32M
First Round Capital
VC Fund
65 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$63M
General Catalyst
VC Fund
63 United States, United Kingdom, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $1.8M–$130M
Andreessen Horowitz
VC Fund
59 United States, United Kingdom, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.6M–$112M
Gaingels
VC Fund
56 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$100M
Uncork Capital
VC Fund
55 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Analytics $1.2M–$50M
Lowercase Capital
VC Fund
54 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Internet $1M–$45M
Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund
53 United States, China, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Health Care $5M–$110M
Google Ventures
VC Fund
52 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $1.1M–$121M
Robert DeMaio
Angel
51 United States Convertible Note FinTech, Software, Health Care $50k–$100k
New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund
50 United States, India, China Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Accel
VC Fund
50 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.6M–$74M
BoxGroup
VC Fund
49 United States, Mexico, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $1.6M–$90M
1745 Ventures
VC Fund
49 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Advertising $1.3M–$30M
Knight Enterprise Fund
VC Fund
49 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Digital Media, Social Media
Great Oaks Venture Capital
VC Fund
47 United States, United Kingdom, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $750k–$42M
True Ventures
VC Fund
46 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$50M
Social Starts
VC Fund
45 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, SaaS
Greylock
VC Fund
44 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Index Ventures
VC Fund
44 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1.4M–$100M
BDMI
VC Fund
43 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Advertising, Internet
Jason Calacanis
Angel
42 United States, Australia, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce
RRE Ventures
VC Fund
42 United States, Canada, China Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Financial Services, Internet
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
42 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $6M–$200M
Slow Ventures
VC Fund
42 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Health Care $1.2M–$75M
Founder Collective
VC Fund
41 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $1.1M–$20M
Founders Fund
VC Fund
40 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology
ff Venture Capital
VC Fund
38 United States, Poland, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $974k–$12M
Third Wave Digital
VC Fund
38 United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Media and Entertainment, Digital Media, Video
Ronald Conway
Angel
37 United States, Canada, Denmark Series A, Seed, Angel Software, Social Media, Advertising
Ron Conway
Angel
37 United States, Canada, Denmark Series A, Seed, Angel Software, Social Media, Internet $350k–$11M
Precursor Ventures
VC Fund
36 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $315k–$29M
Redpoint
VC Fund
36 United States, China, Brazil Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology $5.3M–$192M
Upfront Ventures
VC Fund
35 United States, France, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Floodgate
VC Fund
35 United States, Canada, Taiwan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet $1M–$37M
Foundation Capital
VC Fund
33 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.7M–$55M
Techstars Ventures
VC Fund
32 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Khosla Ventures
VC Fund
32 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2M–$100M
Felicis
VC Fund
31 United States, Canada, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.5M–$76M
Cyan Banister
Angel
31 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Internet, Social Media
Lightbank
VC Fund
31 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Mobile $750k–$19M
Freestyle Capital
VC Fund
31 United States, Canada, Italy Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet
CRV
VC Fund
31 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
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SV Angel
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 138 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 996
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $2.5M–$40M; Series B $8M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $29M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • MyVR — Guesty is a property management platform. It is used by property managers to manage Short-Term Rentals and Vacation Rentals listed on multiple platforms such as Airbnb, HomeAway, and Booking.com
  • Espa — Espa provides an AI assistant platform that helps individuals and organizations manage email, scheduling, and personal or work tasks. The service connects to users’ inboxes and calendars to flag priority messages, draft context-aware responses, and coordinate meeting times. Users can interact with Espa via messaging channels such as text, WhatsApp,and other chat tools to book appointments, set reminders, and follow up on tasks. The platform offers plans for personal use, professional assistants, and larger enterprises, with options for multiple inboxes, synced calendars, and integrations with tools like email, calendar, storage, and collaboration systems. Espa emphasizes privacy controls, encryption, and user management features for larger teams.
  • NavigateAI — NavigateAI is an AI copilot for the physical world specifically designed for construction and field service teams to help them complete projects faster, with higher quality, and at lower costs.
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Alumni Ventures
VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 86 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Access curated startup investment opportunities and diversified venture capital exposure designed for accredited investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1791
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $5.5M–$37M; Series B $11M–$79M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • NextDroid — NextDroid - We're Doing Something Different
  • Enact — Enact is a leading solar energy and solar software company serving homeowners, businesses, and installers. Get a free quote or request a demo today!
  • ARRIS — Using next-gen advanced manufacturing technologies, ARRIS Composites produces smarter, lighter, stronger, and more sustainable products at scale.
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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 78 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1143
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$448k; Convertible Note $50k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cohley — Cohley is a content marketing platform focusing on user generated content, visual asset creation, and text review generation. Streamline your content generation today!
  • Vidrovr — Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
  • Vector ML Analytics — Vector ML is a financial analytics tool used by executives and analysts at banks and lending institutions to increase return, lower risk, and manage liquidity. It combines treasury, credit risk, FP&A, and capital market features in a single application using AI and automation, allowing for a 360-degree view of the balance sheet. Visit us atwww.vectormla.com
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Greycroft
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 72 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Venture capital and technology investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 720
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $3.2M–$25M; Series B $6.2M–$79M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $378M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Danvas — Danvas is advancing screens that will possess a fully dimensional interactive design that brings NFT art to life and will reinforce the authentic ownership of the artwork. Its premium, luxury digital art canvas aims to accelerate the world’s appreciation of digital artists and their artwork, and introduce art collectors to the value, andpossibilities of the next wave of digital art.
  • Instantly — Buy Instagram followers from Techcrunch50 for as little as $1. Fast delivery, real active followers and friendly 24/7 customer support. Try us today.
  • Bamboo — Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones.
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Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 72 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 500
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M; Series A $2.5M–$15M; Series B $10M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • BuzzFeed — BuzzFeed is a news and entertainment company that is redefining online advertising with its social, content-driven publishing technology. BuzzFeed provides the most shareable breaking news, original reporting, entertainment, and video across the social web to its global audience of more than 200M. It covers breaking news, produces original videos,and creates content that people want to share on the web.BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John Johnson. It is headquartered in New York, New York.
  • 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.
  • Crossing Minds — Personalize your customer experience by showing relevant product recommendations. Boost your revenue & conversions with the smartest recommender systems and platforms. No cookies, ever.
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Betaworks
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 72 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Betaworks is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund.

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Investment focus

  • 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!
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 67 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1714
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$30M; Series A $7M–$90M; Series B $13M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Brale — Combining the best of CeFi & DeFi.
  • Razorpay — Online Payments India: Start Accepting Payments Instantly with Razorpay's Payment Suite, which Supports Netbanking, Credit Card & Debit Cards, UPI etc.
  • Matillion — Enterprise level data integration tools built for the cloud. Harness your data into transformative business insights. Your data is your competitive edge.
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Advancit Capital
VC Fund · Norwood, Massachusetts, United States · 66 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • 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

  • BetHog — BetHog is a new crypto sports book that brings home the bacon.
  • worm.wtf — worm.wtf is the prediction marketplace for the Solana ecosystem.
  • Kairos Labs — Kairos Labs is an Ethereum ecosystem interest rate swap protocol
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First Round Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 65 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 824
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Series A $2.3M–$26M; Series B $7M–$63M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stensul — The Stensul Marketing Creation Platform lets marketers create no code emails and landing pages up to 90% faster.
  • 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.
  • LiveIntent — Learn how we equip brands with advertising technology designed to help advertisers & publishers harness email by resolving identity, driving sales, & increasing revenue.
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General Catalyst
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 63 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1852
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$20M; Series A $6.5M–$75M; Series B $12M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • CRED — Join 9M+ CRED members to earn rewards on your credit card bill payments.
  • Anaconda — Anaconda is the birthplace of Python data science. We are a movement of data scientists, data-driven enterprises, and open source communities.
  • Resilience — Resilience is a cyber insurance provider that offers organizations the tools, guidance, and solutions to insure and secure their data. It offers cyber insurance policies with a high level of personal service, market-leading coverage, and bespoke security solutions; available exclusively through its limited distribution network. Backed by thefinancial strength of its A+ rated capacity partner, Resilience is proud to combine comprehensive in-house claims expertise with its proven security leadership throughout the lifecycle of a policy.Founded in 2016, Resilience is privately funded and headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices in Chicago, Baltimore, and New York.
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Andreessen Horowitz
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 59 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1771
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$20M; Series A $9M–$55M; Series B $16M–$112M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cazena — Cloudera delivers a hybrid data platform with secure data management and portable cloud-native data analytics.
  • 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.
  • Co:Create — The Co:Create protocol provides the foundational infrastructure for decentralized brands of the future. It enables projects to mint NFTs, as well as launch their own DAOs and fungible tokens associated with their collections.
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Gaingels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 56 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1006
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.1M; Series A $5M–$40M; Series B $16M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • BQP — BosonQ Psi Pvt. Ltd. (BQP) is a state-of-the-art SaaS-based enterprise software venture leveraging the power of Quantum computing to speed up virtual simulations of Multiphysics and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) nature. BosonQ Psi is at the forefront of this quantum revolution. Our vision is to become the premier multiphysics simulation softwareusing quantum computing. Our world-class software suite will include computational science fields of fluid dynamics, structural dynamics, thermal, chemical, and aeroacoustics. With such an innovative product, we will revolutionize the computational world by enabling high-fidelity simulations that are impossible to solve with current computing technology. Further, this product will aid aerospace, automotive, energy, manufacturing, biotechnology, civil engineering, and astrophysics industries in saving millions of dollars by reducing long turnaround times of simulations used in the design process and give higher accuracy to make significant design changes for giving rise to the next generation of an electric car, eVTOL, skyscraper, or even Mars Rover.The possibility to harness the power of quantum computers is endless, and we at BQP thrive on pushing the boundaries of quantum computing technologies to serve our clients. We have made it our mission to bring these possibilities into the hands of every person - from a researcher to a scientist, from a professor to a student. Our name, BosonQ Psi, pays tribute to the great Indian physicist Dr. Satyendra Nath Bose, after whose name the elementary particle in quantum mechanics, Boson, was named and further incorporates the fundamental quantity that describes the state of the quantum particle - Psi, thus symbolizing the company's fundamental goal to contribute in India's goal to be the leader in the Quantum realm and also become a global leader in Quantum paradigm shift in coming years.
  • Willow Wealth — Willow Wealth is an alternative investment platform focused on generating income streams for investors. Get exclusive access to private market investments.
  • Hubble Network — Connect a Bluetooth device to a global satellite network, delivering affordable, low-power tracking and monitoring for diverse industrial and commercial applications.
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Uncork Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 55 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 409
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6M; Series A $1.8M–$17M; Series B $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Phil — Phil is an affordable, next-generation market access platform delivering unprecedented outcomes for patients, prescribers, manufacturers and all other stakeholders.
  • Wrapbook — Meet the unified platform for film, TV, and commercial production payroll, accounting, and cost-tracking. Wrapbook offers automated timecards, compliance, budget management, and much more.
  • Datapeople — Recruiting analytics helps hiring teams write inclusive job descriptions and measure the effectiveness of their talent funnel.
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Lowercase Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 54 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 53 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1161
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$50M; Series B $10M–$74M; Series C $12M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Airware — Airware is an enterprise drone analytics company enabling enterprises to harness aerial data and turn it into valuable business insights that can be shared and acted on across sites, teams, and geographies. Their solutions enable enterprises to reinvent their organizations for the digital era by translating aerial data into business impact. Dronesare enabling companies to more efficiently and effectively capture data, and Airware allows enterprises to integrate this data with existing information and workflows to improve efficiency, productivity, and safety. Airware provides aerial insights drone solutions for insurance, mining, construction, and aggregates.
  • Telogis — Telogis provides a comprehensive cloud-based Mobile Enterprise Management (MEM) software platform for companies that require dynamic routing, real-time work order management, navigation, telematics and mobile integration services for their mobile workforces. Telogis’ consistent innovation drives its ability to provide near-instant return oninvestment while improving driver safety and efficiency and reducing the environmental impact of commercial vehicles. Founded in 2001, Telogis is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif. and has development and support centers in Australia and New Zealand, Latin America, Europe and throughout North America. Its products and services are used and distributed in more than 100 countries worldwide.
  • Nextdoor — Nextdoor is the neighborhood hub for trusted connections and the exchange of helpful information, goods, and services.
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Google Ventures
VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States · 52 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1113
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$16M; Series A $6M–$100M; Series B $15M–$121M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Cord Project — Cord is incredibly simple, incredibly fast voice messaging that lets you chat with one friend or shout to a whole group of friends. Start chatting for free on iPhone or Android now.
  • Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
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Robert DeMaio
Angel · Incline Village, Nevada, United States · 51 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 51 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • 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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New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 50 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 39 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1391
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Agree.com — Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments.
  • Sakana AI — We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.
  • 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.
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Accel
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 50 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1948
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$11M; Series A $4.5M–$41M; Series B $9.5M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • MetraTech — MetraTech Corp. simplifies and enables global commerce innovation, while helping businesses respond to an ever changing customer and partner relationship landscape. They empower businesses to embrace change through a unique agreements-based billing, commerce and compensation solution that models and supports fluid, personalized, multi-partyagreements for customers, partners and suppliers. They automate business processes and business models to address rapidly changing or complex business strategies. Their products are deployed globally, and their customers use MetraTech to innovatively create and securely collect revenue, provide settlement to partners and manage their customer lifecycle in 12 languages, 28 currencies and 90 countries. Customers include Arkadin, Bell, Concur, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), CETIP, The City of Chicago, GRU Sao Paulo International Airport, GXS, Intercall, LifeLock, Microsoft, PGi, Telia Sonera, Telus, and Telmore. The company is headquartered in Boston, with offices in London, Paris and Rio de Janeiro. MetraTech is a venture-backed, privately held company whose investors include Accel Partners, Meritech Capital and Vesbridge Partners.
  • Simplivity — Simplify and accelerate your IT with the AI-driven intelligence and exceptional data efficiency of HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure.
  • 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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BoxGroup
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 49 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

BoxGroup is an early stage investment fund focused on technology companies. Contact Us: hello@boxgroup.com

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 591
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$9.5M; Series A $5.5M–$35M; Series B $19M–$90M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gigs — Gigs is building Stripe for SIM cards. Providing platforms custom phone & data plans through an easy to use API in 180+ countries.
  • Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
  • Bread Financial — Bread Financial offers personalized payment, lending, and savings solutions. They provide customers and partners with a wide range of digitally enabled options that are easy, empowered, and flexible financially. Their service includes credit card facility, loan options, and flexible payment options.
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1745 Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 49 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 201
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.3M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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
  • Fractional AI — Fractional AI builds bespoke gen AI software to transform businesses.
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Knight Enterprise Fund
VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 49 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • 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

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.
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Great Oaks Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 47 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 367
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$5.4M; Series A $3M–$16M; Series B $6M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • LuminosAI — Luminos AI provides software for legal and governance teams to assess and manage AI risk. The platform supports compliance testing, evaluation workflows, and automated reporting across classical, generative, and agentic AI systems.
  • Snapp — Snapp uses AI agentic systems and LLMs with access to comprehensive sports databases, real-time APIs, and AI-powered content tools to truly engage the passionate fan. Our early adopters are sports bettors and fantasy players looking for detailed insights and personalized recommendations — delivered in an intuitive, easy-to-use experience.
  • SingleStore — SingleStore is a provider of a database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications. It provides global enterprises with an intelligent database that works on any cloud on-premises or as a service runs transactions and analytics at the same time and lets clients promote their business through analytics and combine semi-structured datainto a consolidated big data platform.
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True Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 46 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 617
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.9M; Series A $2M–$30M; Series B $4.3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Valencell — Keep your blood pressure in check with this top-ranked digital health solution from Valencell.
  • Directus — Directus is an Open Data Platform for managing the content of any SQL database. It provides a powerful API layer for developers and an intuitive App for non-technical users. Written in JavaScript, Directus is completely open-source, modular, and extensible, allowing it to be fully tailored to your exact project needs.
  • Spring Health — Eliminating barriers to mental healthcare. Clinically-proven technology with world-class providers to deliver precisely what your employees need.
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Social Starts
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 45 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 232
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Hey Jane — Get safe, effective and affordable abortion pills delivered fast to your home. Hey Jane is the first digital abortion clinic, connecting you to licensed providers in your state through telemedicine.
  • Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
  • Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.
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Greylock
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 44 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 23 in the past 12 months

Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter.

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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 44 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1178
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M; Series A $5M–$38M; 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

  • Humu — Confidently achieve your most ambitious goals. Give everyone the personalized, step-by-step support they need to take the best route towards big, shared finish lines.
  • auxmoney — Auxmoney is an online peer-to-peer loan marketplace created to offer a means of exchange between people. Its lending platform enables private consumers to borrow from private investors for personal loans, thereby providing borrowers a bank free borrowing system and a return on investment for lenders.
  • Molecular Partners — Molecular Partners is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company working to advance modern medicine and significantly improve the management of serious diseases. They are developing a powerful new class of potent, specific and versatile small protein therapies called DARPin® therapeutics.
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BDMI
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 43 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Jason Calacanis
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 42 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 354
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
  • Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
  • Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
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RRE Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 42 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 7 in the past 12 months

RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that is in it with founders when it matters

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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 42 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1825
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$54M; Series B $11M–$100M; Series C $12M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • ApnaPaisa — ApnaPaisa offers the Best Deals on Home Loans, Personal Loans, Credit Cards and EMI Calculators in India. EST'D 2007.
  • Decolar.com — Decolar.com is an online travel agency that offers complete travel services, including tickets, tour packages, accommodation, and car rental. Since 1999, more than 2,000,000 people have bought their air tickets through this platform.Decolar.com is present in 21 countries, including Argentina, the U.S., and Spain. It has a partnership of more than500 airlines and 150,000 hotels worldwide. When purchasing an airline ticket or travel package, Decolar.com’s customers also receive discounts at restaurants and shops in the chosen destination, plus 10% discount on purchases in Duty Free.Decolar.com was launched in 1999 and is based in Guarulhos, Sao Paulo.
  • Remote — Hire international talent in minutes. Remote is the most disruptive global payroll, tax, HR and compliance solution for distributed teams.
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Slow Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 42 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 426
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Series A $6.5M–$25M; Series B $13M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $130M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Arwen — Arwen gives protection while trade on cryptocurrency exchanges. They are a team of seasoned experts in cryptography, network and cloud security. Arwen aims to be the most secure standard of trading as a technology built for centralized cryptocurrency exchanges. Their protocol and system has been developed by a team with over a decade of expertisein cryptographic standards and network security. They are building better crypto trading infrastructure and have the best team in the business.
  • Steven.com — The operating system for the creator economy. Connecting creators to resources, platforms, community and technology where trust shifts to individuals.
  • Chia Network — News and Newsworthy Dive into expert insights, company updates, and industry trends on our blog. One Market, Any Asset Leverage ... Read more
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Founder Collective
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 41 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 365
  • 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

  • Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
  • 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.
  • CultureScience — CultureScience provides easy-to-use tools and data to help companies build a best-in-class culture in a remote and hybrid world.
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Founders Fund
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 40 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 50 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 663
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Hgen — Hgen provides affordable green hydrogen for deep decarbonization.
  • Helius — Solana RPCs, APIs, webhooks and infrastructure to build and ship crypto apps, fast. Get started for free in 1 click.
  • Impulse Space — Economical and nimble last-mile space payload delivery
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ff Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 38 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 6 in the past 12 months

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Poland, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 299
  • Round size: Seed $974k–$4.3M; Series A $1.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $66M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Nomagic — Nomagic provides robotic systems to automate repetitive pick-and-place tasks in warehouses with efficiency, flexibility and reliability.
  • FlyFocus — FlyFocus specializes in the design and production of unmanned aerial vehicles for the civilian, military, and law enforcement markets. It provides product development and custom engineering services. They also offer mechanical CAD design, electronics, software, simulations, and aerodynamics optimization.
  • Waldo — Waldo is an AI-powered strategy engine for agencies & brands. Get audience insights, industry trends, and competitive intelligence in one powerful platform.
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Third Wave Digital
VC Fund · Beverly Hills, California, United States · 38 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Third Wave is an early stage venture capital firm focused on the Digital Media sector.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Ronald Conway
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 37 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Social Media, Advertising
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 178
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
  • Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.
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Ron Conway
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 37 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Ron Conway is based out of San Francisco, California, and was the Founder and Managing Partner of SV Angel. Ron Conway attended San Jose State University. Ron previously worked at Salesforce Foundation as a Board Member. Ron Conway has received the Best Angel at the TechCrunch Crunchies Awards.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Social Media, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 176
  • 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.
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Precursor Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 36 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in North America. The firm focuses on investments in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware. Precursor Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 335
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $315k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scorbit — Scorbit develops a platform for pinball players and pinball machine owners and operators.
  • PodcastAI — Podcast like a pro: easily create transcripts, show notes, viral clips and publish your podcast everywhere all in just a few clicks of a button. Powered by AI, built for podcasters.
  • Xella Health — AI-powered women's health testing for fertility, hormones, endometriosis, PCOS, and cancer screening. Xella Health is Precision medicine with concierge care.
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Redpoint
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 36 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Redpoint partners with visionary entrepreneurs to create new markets & redefine existing ones. We invest in startups across seed, early & growth phases.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 677
  • Round size: Series A $5.3M–$47M; Series B $9M–$100M; Series C $13M–$192M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Inadco — Find your domain name at HugeDomains. Start using this domain right away.
  • Intent — Buy Intent.com on DomainEasy. Buy it today!
  • Expensify — Explore our job and internship openings and learn what makes us a company you'll love to join. Also find our more about history, teams, the latest news, and more!
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Upfront Ventures
VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States · 35 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. We invest in technology businesses across digital media, SaaS, consumer internet and retail innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 303
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • SOOT — SOOT is a new way of mapping information visually. Add hard drives, mood boards, and websites to a self-organizing SOOT space that you control. So that you can see and share everything.
  • Bland AI — Transform your enterprise communication with Bland AI. Automate inbound and outbound phone calls using AI that sounds human. Perfect for sales, customer support, and operations with customizable voices and seamless integrations.
  • Daytona — Daytona is a self-hosted and secure open source development environment manager.
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Floodgate
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 35 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Your first true believers. Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Taiwan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 308
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Series A $2.2M–$23M; Series B $3.9M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Plaicin — Plaicin is a mobile application that uses artificial intelligence to create immersive, interactive storytelling experiences. The company's offering is an AI-powered platform that allows users to imagine, create, and live their own stories. Through this platform, users can craft interactive adventures, shape entire worlds, and explore limitlesspossibilities. The platform supports the creation of diverse narratives, from fantasy romances to sci-fi mysteries, enabling users to make choices that influence the story's outcome.
  • Terra — Terra provides platform to track and remove uncertainties while developing, manufacturing, and shipping products overseas.
  • EFEX — Efex is platform that helps businesses and individuals to make and manage their payments. Efex offers international and domestic payments, invoicing, reconciliation, collection, and risk analysis of its clients. This allows our customers to engage in smarter, simpler, faster payments and trade.
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Foundation Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 33 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

For 30 years we've backed extraordinary founders from day zero.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 606
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$10M; Series A $6M–$30M; Series B $6M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Graphcore — Graphcore has built a new type of processor for machine intelligence to accelerate machine learning and AI applications for a world of intelligent machines
  • Main Street — Planning on starting your own business? Hoist equips you with everything you need to start, grow and run your own home service business in 30 days. Really.
  • Fastback Networks — Fastback Networks was founded with a vision to deliver innovative technology for the mobile infrastructure of the future, enabling network operators to deliver new services, tap new markets and monetize a new generation of mobile applications. With insights derived from the collective team's vast experience building leading edge radio and datanetworking solutions, Fastback Networks looked at the challenges of 4G/LTE deployment with fresh eyes and better ideas, and developed a transformational solution that enables the acceleration of next generation mobile services.
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Techstars Ventures
VC Fund · Boulder, Colorado, United States · 32 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 224
  • 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.
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Khosla Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 32 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech,offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1160
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$25M; Series A $5.5M–$47M; Series B $10M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $557M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Wattpad — Wattpad is a digital entertainment company providing an online social storytelling platform for original stories.The company utilizes the power of community and technology to enable the creation and distribution of content across a variety of formats. Its flagship app, Wattpad, is home to a community of more than 65 million people who spend over20 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories. Tap by Wattpad, the company’s second storytelling product, offers short, chat-based stories in over a dozen languages. Wattpad Studios co-produces stories for film, television, digital, and print, together with industry partners. Wattpad Brand Solutions offers a full suite of advertising products to help brands build deep engagement with Millennial and Gen Z consumers.It was established by Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2006.
  • Breeze — Cargo insurance reinvented.
  • Shoes of Prey — Shoes of Prey creates bespoke, hand-made women's shoes designed by the customer, and delivers them to anywhere in the world.Shoes of Prey has grown rapidly over 5 years and has won a number of awards including Online Retailer of the Year and Store Design of the Year at the World Retail Awards in Paris 2013.Founded in 2009, the company isheadquartered in Santa Monica, California, United States.
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Felicis
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 31 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 574
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $4M–$46M; Series B $10M–$76M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DataGrail — DataGrail is a data privacy startup that helps businesses navigate the growing array of privacy regulations. It constitutes part of a growing roster of platforms that are capitalizing on privacy regulations, such as GDPR in Europe and CCPA in California, by making it easier for companies to manage, automate, and grow their privacy programs.
  • Petasense — Founded with a vision of making industrial machines smarter, Petasense is an Industrial IoT startup based in Silicon Valley. The company offers an end-to-end solution – comprised of a patent-pending wireless vibration sensor, cloud software and machine learning analytics – that helps with asset reliability and predictive maintenance. Customersare able to monitor, assess and predict the health of their critical machines in real-time. This helps them reduce unplanned downtime and lower repair costs. Petasense's clients include industry leaders like JLL, C&W Services, Silicon Valley Power and Stanford University. Petasense is backed by True Ventures, Felicis Ventures and top angel investors. The company is founded by serial entrepreneurs, Abhinav Khushraj and Arun Santhebennur, who have 25 years of combined experience in building enterprise companies, with degrees from MIT and IIT.To learn more about Petasense, visit www.petasense.com.
  • RAPIDFORT — Reduce vulnerability and patch management backlog By 80% in minutes. RAPIDFORT profiles your containerized workloads, auto-remediates your vulnerabilities, and identifies which packages are in use by your workload. All before your workload is deployed in production! You can optionally optimize your workloads and remove known and unknown vulnerabilities by minimizing your software attack surface by 80% thus mitigating Zero-Day exploits and Software Supply Chain attacks.
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Cyan Banister
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 31 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
  • Orson — The brainchild of documentarians and unscripted TV pioneers, Orson has developed the first automated video storytelling platform that helps people open up and share their stories, experiences, and aspirations.
  • Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.
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Lightbank
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 31 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Lightbank VC is a $700M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage vertically focused AI, consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k - $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr(NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social (NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Extend, Attain, Paytient and Expel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 216
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$5.3M; Series A $1.3M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Felux — Coming soon! Felux is the first and only AI-powered operating platform for steel service centers transforming fragmented sales workflows into a unified, revenue-driving engine.
  • Neatleaf — Sustainable agriculture with optimal yields through data-driven understanding and comprehensive automation for everyone.
  • Stride — On-demand, confidential micro-coaching for all your employees.
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Freestyle Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 31 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups

Freestyle is an early-stage venture capital firm with investments in over 130 technology companies including Airtable, Intercom, Patreon, and BetterUp.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 193
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Deduce — Deduce protects businesses and their customers from unauthorized account access, data leakage, and identity fraud. We eliminate fraud in real-time using risk algorithms and behavioral analytics across the most comprehensive network of consumer identity data. This empowers any organization to harness the value of collective identity-based threatintelligence and cybersecurity.
  • Weights — Weights is a social AI Creation Platform. Create audio, images, chat, and more for free, and share with your friends!
  • Arrive Recommerce — Arrive offers a premium service powering circular commerce for major brands and retailers. The technology and reverse logistics capabilities of The Arrive Platform enables brands and retailers in any industry to integrate circular commerce - including rental and resale - directly into an existing ecommerce experience. With this unique offering,Arrive makes it possible for any company to seamlessly launch a circular channel - ultimately reaching more consumers, driving more revenue, and promoting a sustainable solution. Arrive, first launched as Arrive Outdoors, is an award-winning company and has been named the 4th Most Innovative Travel Company by Fast Company in 2020 and awarded the 2019 Outdoor Retailer of the Year by the Outdoor Retailer Association.
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CRV
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 31 investments in United States Media (entertainment) startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 502
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Voyage AI — Voyage AI provides cutting-edge embedding models and rerankers for search and retrieval
  • CodeRabbit — AI-first pull request reviewer with context-aware feedback, line-by-line code suggestions, and real-time chat.
  • Protege — Protege is the platform for AI Training Data. Protege works with data holders and model builders to empower them to share training data for AI model development.
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