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Top 50 Mobile Advertising Startup Investors in United States in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Mobile advertising startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile advertising companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Mobile Advertising Startup Investors in United States in January 2026

Investor	Mobile Advertising United States investments
ff Venture Capital	6
SV Angel	5
Correlation Ventures	5
U.S. Venture Partners	5
Frontier Venture Capital	4
Union Square Ventures	4
Threshold	4
Revel Partners	4
Double M Partners	3
Google Ventures	3
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners	3
Oriza Holdings	3
MDC Ventures	3
Right Side Capital Management	3
Goodwater Capital	3
LVP	3
Harrison Metal	3
Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures	3
Daher Capital	3
Walden Venture Capital	3
Oakhouse Partners	3
Kortschak Investments L.P.	3
Scout Ventures	3
Betaworks	2
Runa Capital	2
Dragon Capital	2
Scott Petersen	2
Social Starts	2
Jim Swartz	2
Cervin Ventures	2
Auren Hoffman	2
Richard Braddock	2
Vulcan Capital	2
Draper Associates	2
Espresso Capital	2
NXTP Ventures	2
Cobre Capital	2
Signia Venture Partners	2
Novel Capital	2
Joshua Schachter	2
Alpine Meridian	2
Rakuten	2
Ben Barokas	2
Michael Kassan	2
Panorama Capital	2
InterWest Partners	2
DNX Ventures	2
HSBC	2
Trestle Partners	2
Musha Ventures	2

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Poland, Canada

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
Fabrica AI — Fabrica AI offers a revolutionary platform for faster robot development, using custom hardware designs and learned optimal control to increase efficiency while minimizing complexity and cost. With a vision for a future where robot development takes days, not years.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Telepatia — Telepatia is a health tech platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to support medical professionals.
Console — Console helps IT teams get to Inbox Zero. Auto-resolve over 50% of your support requests directly in Slack and Teams, using AI Agents that understand how your company does work.
Sage Care — Empowering smarter healthcare decisions with AI.

Reimagining our industry. So our clients can disrupt theirs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OneAM — OneAM is revolutionizing cash flow management with cutting-edge solutions tailored for Business Owners and Capital Providers. Transform an account receivable into cash in just a few days.
Blok — Prioritize the right experiments and simulate potential product decisions. Discover the future of product development driven by AI.
AeroRx Therapeutics — AeroRx Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that developing proprietary, combination products.

U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) is a venture capital partnership, helping entrepreneurs transform their ideas and efforts into world-changing companies. The firm focuses on early-stage ventures in information technology and health care, where innovation is unbridled and has led to the creation of economic wealth and millions of jobs over the pastthirty-plus years of the firm's existence. Areas of particular interest to our investment professionals include enterprise software, IT security, consumer internet, mobile, and e-commerce, healthcare, and IT-enabled healthcare services. The USVP team consists of former entrepreneurs, technologists, corporate executives, financial professionals, and industry domain experts.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Quantifind — Risk screening & investigations, supercharged by science.
Stream Security — Empowering organizations to code and deploy configurations faster and safer, from plan to production.
Okami Medical — Okami Medical develops and commercializes new devices for the treatment of heart disease. It was formed to address the evolving needs of patients and physicians through the development of innovative, versatile, and intuitive medical devices for the occlusion of peripheral vessels. Okami believes that vessel occlusion should be rapid and reliableregardless of tortuosity and flow conditions. The LOBO Vascular Occlusion System was developed for this reason.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California.

With offices in Boulder, Los Angeles, and New York, Frontier invests in early stage technology companies in the United States.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, El Salvador

Portfolio highlights

PostSig — PostSig automates the post-signature contract management process, ensuring obligations are met, deadlines tracked, and performance optimized. Stay compliant, mitigate risks, and maximize contract value effortlessly — turning your contracts from static documents to strategic assets.
Canvas — Canvas scans the areas using an iPad or iPhone and then turns them into 3D designs. It enables remodelers, architects, interior designers, and contractors to create editable, layered as-built models.
NoScrubs Laundry Delivery — NoScrubs is the fastest, most afffordable, high quality laundry delivery service. Schedule your pickup online or using our app. Your laundry will be picked up, washed, dried and perfectly folded and back to your door within 2-3 hours. Download our mobile apps or visit noscrubs.com to get started and live laundry free

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
Gumball — Gumball connects advertisers with podcast hosts to make it happen in a few clicks.
Slutty Vegan — Support your local Slutty Vegan. We are a Black-owned restaurant serving the best vegan food in Atlanta, period. Order your meatless masterpieces today.

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs to build innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Numa — Turns BDCs and Advisors into world-class communicators, using visibility + accountability + a healthy dose of AI superpowers
Numa — Leverage modern Generative-AI to autonomously capture every RO, schedule service appointments, and deliver service updates in real time.
VideaHealth — Transforming Dentistry Through AI. By applying AI to X-ray analysis, we unlock insights, experiences, and efficiencies that drive breakthroughs in clinical outcomes and economics for dentists and insurers.

We back exceptional founders, building enduring companies. Revel Partners is a team of serial founders who put entrepreneurs first, funding B2B software.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Nexosis — Blog About Machine Learning
Tealium — Tealium is a customer data platform (CDP) that connects your data so you can connect with your customers!
Receptiv — Download and use Free Background Photos. Browse the selection of free beautiful background photos submitted by our community of talented contributors and completely free to download and use.

Double M Partners Venture Capital Fund

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Fama — Fama is an AI-based solution that identifies and offers an opportunity to address problematic behavior among potential hires and current employees by analyzing publicly available online information. This type of content can ultimately lead to brand risk and toxic culture, and is often missed in the hiring and management process.
HONK — Drive customer loyalty with the highest rated customer satisfaction scores in the industry. Lots of companies make promises. We've built the technology to follow-through on ours.
Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Instawork — Instawork connects local businesses with proven hourly workers for temp, temp-to-hire shift work.
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.
Resistant AI — Resistant AI provides fraud detection and prevention in automated document processing workflows, transaction monitoring, and identities analysis.

From first institutional capital through the long haul, we help forward thinkers realize their visions.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

HubPages — HubPages is a unique publishing platform and community of writers and readers. Find your niche, build an audience, and start writing today.
ScreenMeet — Seamless, In-Platform Collaboration for Sales, Service and Support. Resolve tickets faster, maximize ROI, and keep employees and customers happy.
StepFunction.ai — StepFunction.ai provides a growth solution for SaaS AI platforms that provide rich customer intent signals to SaaS providers.

Oriza Holdings is a Chinese management fund that covers equity, debt financing, and investment since 2007.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Magic Atom — Magic Atom is a robotics company that specializes in the development and application of robots and embodied intelligent technologies.
Scanner Optics Co.,Ltd — Scanner Optics is professional in galvanometer scanners, controllers, software, optics, encoders and customized galvanometer systems. Our galvo scanner products have been applied in many industries: laser marking, laser cutting, laser welding, laser scanning, 3D printing and so on. Contact Scanner Optics now!
AECC Commercial Aircraft Engine — AECC offers design, development, production, assembly, testing, and technical consulting of commercial aircraft power services.

MDC Ventures invests in early stage, marketing technology companies transforming the global marketing landscape. Since 2010 we have been partnering with the innovators, entrepreneurs and startups addressing the needs of the Modern CMO. MDC Ventures is the corporate venture arm of global advertising group, MDC Partners.

Investment focus

Advertising, Analytics, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Polymorph — Native ads are ads that seamlessly integrate into your feed, homepage, search results, and more.
Veritonic — Veritonic is a marketing analytics platform that offers online testing and optimization services for firms in the music industry.Veritonic’s product portfolio consist of testing, analytics, and workflow. Testing assists its users in making data-driven decisions, measuring emotional response, and obtaining qualitative and quantitative responses.Analytics assists its users in benchmarking their brand progress. Workflow enables its users to manage, save, and share tracks with others.Veritonic was founded in 2015 by Andrew Eisner and Scott Simonelli.
Catch+Release — Unlock the power of UGC with our comprehensive licensing platform. Use tools for video marketing, content curation, and collaboration to elevate your creative campaigns.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Lab Symplified — Lab Symplified provides software for lab inventory, quality management, maintenance logs, and communication automation.
Naviday Health — Naviday Health is building personalized, AI-guided care pathways—starting with menopause—to help individuals confidently navigate complex health transitions. Our platform empowers daily decision-making through tailored insights, symptom tracking, and holistic support, bridging the gap between traditional care and real-world needs. We’re redefiningwhat it means to stay well every day.

Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

IRL — Groups, Chats, Events - Tap to see details
Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
Empowerly — We triple students' chances of getting into their top-choice colleges and universities. Get college counseling, essay editing, track university deadlines, and more. Learn more.

LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Boby.ai — Boby.ai develops artificial intelligence-supported mobile applications for end users
Rule — Rule is a fintech startup building a ‘save-to-win’ mobile game to combat the ‘ADHD tax’.
Look North World — Publisher and Developer of interactive entertainment for Creator platforms like Fortnite (UEFN) and Curseforge. Enclave: Survival Skyward available now in ARK: Survival Ascended.

Harrison Metal invests in early stage technology companies led by exceptional founders.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Hone — Hone helps L&D leaders scale unforgettable learning that upskills the entire team through live online training, driving measurable results and high engagement
Quilter — Physics-based automated circuit board design tools for professionals and the masses.
Vital Interaction — Vital Interaction is a software provider specialized in automating complex communication workflows. Their premier product, the Automated Patient Interaction System, enables healthcare organizations to communicate more effectively with patients using text messaging, automated voice, and email.This automated system helps both patients and healthcare providers connect quickly through technology to remind patients of appointments, fill open slots and request patient feedback.

O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) is in the business of funding disruptors, innovators, and hackers of the status quo. From open source to the early days of the web and its recent resurgence, O'Reilly Media has played a key role as trend spotter and advocate for putting world-changing technologies on the map. OATV effort is to bring thelegacy, resources, and relationships of O'Reilly to each investment they make.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pachama — Harnessing AI to drive carbon capture and protect global forests
Paintbrush — Paintbrush provides access to funding for idea-stage founders who are too early for other options.
Impart Security — Real-time API Security spanning discovery, monitoring, and enforcement.

Daher Investments is a diversified investment firm with a proprietary global portfolio of investments.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Advertising
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Telgorithm — Telgorithm is a messaging platform that allows businesses (particularly SaaS providers) to build messaging services into their applications while ensuring compliance and message deliverability. We are also a hosted messaging provider, meaning that businesses who have numbers that share both voice & messaging services have the ability to(quickly & seamlessly) migrate the messaging services on those numbers to Telgorithm while retaining the voice services (on those very same numbers) with their current legacy provider (this lowers the cost to switchover).
Reactiv — Reactiv is an AI-powered mobile app platform to help you sell more and increase retention, without the headache of managing another channel
Optimize Health — Running a remote patient monitoring program couldn't be easier. Launch and scale remote patient monitoring, with a simple and reliable RPM Solution.

Based in San Francisco, Walden Venture Capital targets Sprout Stage:tm: investments. We seek products or services with mass-market potential and powerful underlying technologies taking active supporting roles typically as first institutional investors. Our target sectors are digital media and cloud services for consumers and enterprise. We caredeeply about Founders and Management and work diligently to help manifest their vision. Our portfolio includes leaders in music, mobile, internet media and breakthrough cloud services.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

PathSpot — The PathSpot System protects businesses from common illness by instantly detecting harmful contaminants on hands.
Hatch — Hatch offers a variety of devices to help you sleep better night after night. Create healthy sleeping habits for the whole family with Hatch.
Bespoke Post — Goods and guidance for the modern customer, delivered monthly. We aim to upgrade your day-to-day life through our themed boxes full of enviable gear – shaving sets, shoe shine kits, home bar essentials, and lots more – plus a full shop of uniquely cool standalone products. Here's how it works: at the beginning of each month, you'll getan email with a full look inside the box we've selected for you based on what we think you'll enjoy. You're free to tweak colors and sizes, add on extra goods, or skip it at no cost – whatever you want. And there's always free shipping, easy returns, and no hassles, ever.See you on the inside.

Oakhouse Partners invests in companies that use breakthrough technologies to radically improve millions of lives. We believe mission-driven companies who better humanity on a global scale produce the best VC returns. Oakhouse Partners is no longer actively investing.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

ICON — ICON develops advanced construction technologies that advance humanity by using 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials.
RevenueCat — RevenueCat handles the pain points of in-app subscriptions, so you can get back to building your app.
Elevate Labs — Elevate is an award-winning brain training tool designed to build communication and analytical skills.

Walter Kortschak Investments

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Rezi — Rezi is an AI-powered resume builder that lets you quickly create optimized, ATS-friendly resumes and cover letters tailored to specific job descriptions.
Alix — Alix streamlines estate settlements with our AI-powered platform. Simplify document management, asset distribution, and legal processes for a smoother, more efficient experience. Explore our innovative solution today.
Keeper — Find the right person. Build something meaningful together.

Scout Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that is making the world a better, safer place by cultivating standout frontier technologies built by hard-to-access founders.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Usul — Rosetta: Query government policy and spending data as it relates to your workflow.
HavocAI — HavocAI is an artificial intelligence company that offers maritime autonomy solutions to the defense and commercial markets.
PiLogic — PiLogic AI platform offers rapid analysis of radar data for real-time applications.

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome
Flower Labs — A unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. Federate any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language.
Quadratic — Spreadsheet with Python, JavaScript, and SQL built-in. Data Connectors to pull in your data. Take your data and do something powerful with it now!

Runa Capital is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software startups around the world...

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Ubitium — Ubiquitous computing, universal RISC-V microprocessor
Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
Twenty — An open source CRM designed for modern teams. Twenty combines extensibility, easy data integration, and a user-friendly interface for an innovative CRM experience.

Venture Capital firm investing in early stage startups founded by passionate entrepreneurs building emerging technology solutions to digitize, disrupt and optimize traditional business models across various non-digital industry verticals.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

Boostly — Boost your restaurant's outreach with Boostly SMS marketing tool. Drive engagement and increase sales! Click to learn more.
Simnovus — Optimize network performance with Simnovus' 5G, LTE, and IoT telecom testing solutions.
Vecindario — A platform to help during the whole process of buying new housing which seeks to eliminate the issues that may arise in the process.

Scott Petersen is the Chief Academic Officer at RevRoad. He attended Ottawa University.

Investment focus

Marketing, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Ocavu (formerly Seek) — SeekView brings AR directly to websites--no app required. Seek has worked with Fortune 500 companies all over the world to deliver best-in-class AR content and services, but now focuses primarily on web-based AR solutions for e-commerce.
Cardagraph — Allocate resources based on data to execute better and faster.

Jim Swartz is the Founding Partner of Accel and the Founder and Co-Chair of Christian Center of Park City. He attended Carnegie Mellon University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Nimble Robotics — Nimble builds AI-powered robots that pick and pack anything to enable the fastest, most affordable, and most sustainable on-demand order fulfillment.
World 1 League — World 1 League is on a mission to inspire, celebrate and reward the best athletes on the planet. Through Olympic-style sports challenges on social media, and first-of-its-kind live stadium events, W1 is transforming the way athletes, fans and brands engage.Founded by nine Olympians and backed by Mark Cuban and Jim Swartz, W1 is the firstprofessional sports league built specifically for social media. Our W1 Rankings system will finally answer the question of who’s the fastest, strongest and greatest in the world -- today rather than yesterday. Built by athletes for athletes, W1 aims to drive economic parity and celebrate open freedoms of expression. It’s time to reinvent the world of sport for a New Generation.
CorVent Medical — CorVent Medical is committed to providing simple, safe and smart solutions for healthcare professionals.

Cervin Ventures is an early stage fund investing in entrepreneurs who are disrupting the enterprise application, infrastructure, and tools spaces.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Anvilogic — The Anvilogic detection automation platform helps unify and automate security operations across people, processes, and technology enabling security teams to reduce time, manual effort, complexity, and expertise needed for building detections and managing your overall SOC
Privacera — Automate data security, access and governance at scale. The only way to apply data policies, rapidly and consistently across all your data and analytics.
Airgap Networks — Ransomware threat is growing rapidly. While there are a whole bunch of security companies that are trying to prevent ransomware from getting into your network, Airgap's "Zero Trust Isolation Platform" protects your organization even if your perimeter is breached or if you have unpatched vulnerable servers inside your data center.Additionally, Airgap's "Ransomware Kill Switch" is the most potent ransomware response for the IT organization. Airgap can be deployed in minutes without any agents, forklift upgrades, or design changes. The company is founded by highly experienced cybersecurity experts and the solution is trusted by large enterprises and service providers. For more details, check out https://airgap.io

CEO, NQB8, Chm, SafeGraph. GP, Flex Capital. Fmr CEO of LiveRamp. Follow @auren

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Enki — Enki is the most effective way to learn Looker, Tableau, SQL, Excel, and other data skills. Training fully customized by role and team. Use data in the highest impact way for your role.
CalypsoAI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.

Rick began his business career in 1965 spending a number of years in product management at General Foods. He joined Citicorp in 1973, was elected to the board of directors in 1985 and was elected president and COO of Citicorp in 1990.Rick resigned from Citicorp in 1992, and subsequently served as CEO of Medco Containment Services, Inc. untilits acquisition by Merck & Co., Inc., and then spent a year as a principal at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc.Rick served as Chairman (non-executive) of True North Communications Inc. from December, 1997 to January, 1999; Chairman and CEO of priceline.com from August, 1998 to April, 2004; and Chairman of MidOcean Partners from April, 2003 until December, 2007.Rick was appointed Chairman of FreshDirect in 2005 and became Chairman and CEO in March, 2008.Rick serves on the board of directors of Eastman Kodak Company (lead director), Fresh Direct Holdings, Inc., Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Cristo Rey Network, and several private companies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Investment focus

Analytics, Cloud Data Services, Big Data
Series C, Series A, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Gravy Analytics — Gravy Analytics provides the industry's most accurate location intelligence and foot traffic data. Make better decisions with real-world location insights.
Mercato — The finest quality food from the best local shops, delivered to your door
Data.world — data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the “data people”—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use.data.world is also home to theworld’s largest collaborative data community. It’s where people team up on everything from social bot detection to award-winning data journalism. We use what we learn from this community to improve the enterprise product and vice versa. Our team co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, the most effective, ethical, and modern approach to data teamwork. More people signed the Manifesto for Data Practices in its first year than signed the Agile Manifesto in its first two years combined. In 2019 DataPractices.org became a Linux Foundation Project. The vendor-neutral community features new, open courseware to help people and organizations improve data practices through inclusion, experimentation, accountability, and impact.We are a Public Benefit Corporation. Most corporations are required to prioritize shareholder returns above all else. Not us. We are legally structured as a Public Benefit Corporation so we can pursue our mission and shareholder value with equal vigor. This ability is rare, powerful, and sustaining.

Vulcan Capital invests across all stages of corporate development through leveraged buyouts, growth capital, distressed/turnaround, and early-stage venture capital as well as public equity value investing.The firm's portfolio spans a range of industry sectors, including media and communications, energy and natural resources, financialand information services, technology, and life sciences.Vulcan Capital is the private investment group of Vulcan Inc., the organization founded by Laura G. Aguirre,the Founder & Principal Owner of Microsoft.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Singapore, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Genemod — Genemod is a unified platform for life scientists to collaborate and streamline day-to-day operations in the research lab. The company's proprietary technology brings together both scientific and management tools onto a single, shared platform for the multitude of tools required by scientists. They host scientific tools on a user-friendlyadmin dashboard and utilize data processing algorithms to streamline workflow alongside project management. It is intuitive, scalable, user-centered, modern, and secure.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Vantient — The personalization platform for luxury hospitality and wellness brands. Boost return visits by using AI to turn unstructured data into actionable insights and personalize follow-ups, in minutes. Join our waitlist for early access.
Biz AI Last — Are you ready to elevate your business efficiency and productivity? Say hello to Biz AI, your intelligent business assistant designed to streamline operations, boost productivity, and give you more time to focus on what matters most – growing your business.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
Maestro — Advanced UTxO-indexing data layer to supercharge Defi on Bitcoin, Cardano & Dogecoin.
The Open Network Foundation — A decentralized and open internet designed to onboard 500M people on-chain, built by the community using technology developed by Telegram.

Espresso Capital empowers companies in technology, healthcare, and other high-growth verticals with innovative venture debt and growth financing solutions.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Thentia Cloud — Thentia Cloud is a highly configurable, low-code government technology platform built for regulators, by regulators.
Teampay — Empower employees with software that requests, approves, and tracks company spending in real-time. Integrations with QBO, Intacct, Netsuite, Xero & Slack.
App Orchid — Get instant answers from all your data, get AI-generated insights, and simplify business decisions with Decision Intelligence powered by Easy Answers.

Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Argentina, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Arcus Financial Intelligence — Arcus is a PaaS platform that provides payment solutions to help businesses make payments accessible for every consumer. Arcus offers a multi-rail payment platfrom that includes real-time account-to-account payments, cash, and others.
Luzid — Luzid is a Software Development firm offering AI based developer's automation tools for enterprise implementation processes.
Openlayer — Our platform automates model inventory, risk classification, and compliance workflows, while applying 100+ behavioral tests to detect issues like hallucinations, bias, PII leakage, and toxicity.

Cobre Capital is an early-stage investor, making pre-seed, seed, and post-seed investments in software and technology companies. They couple their targeted network with tools, systems, and experience that have been deliberately built to reduce risk. They leverage these assets to assist in the heaving lifting required to get the companies they workwith moving faster. Cobre Capital love B2B technology companies with a working product, market validation, and a big vision. The firm prefers to invest in the software, healthcare, information technology, and mobile sectors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Allbound — Streamline partner acquisition, ensure engagement, and enable ecosystem growth with automated PRM from Allbound
Attribytes — Syndigo powers the continual flow of data and content throughout the entire commerce ecosystem. Because products move when content flows.
Blue Matador — Blue Matador is the fastest, easiest way to set up AWS infrastructure monitoring, allowing small teams to fully monitor their cloud with no manual setup.

When we started Signia, we wanted to build a firm that reflected the type of investors we would have wanted to work with in our entrepreneurial careers.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tatem — We believe that entrepreneurs can do more, faster, without getting stuck in the weeds of daily operational tasks. We know, because we’ve been there. Our platform helps founders focus on their business, while we take care of their paperwork.
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.
Fortem Technologies — Airspace Awareness Safety & Security

Novel Capital provides non dilutive funding and operational sales expertise to early-stage B2B software companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

letus (previously RentMoola) — RentMoola, one of North America's leading fintech companies is changing the landscape of paying rent all over the world. Solving the age-old problem that paying and collecting rent is a major hassle, RentMoola is an online global payment network that allows tenants and owners to pay rent and other payments by credit card, debit card, RM DirectDebit™ or RM Cash™ while earning rewards. Members have access to our MoolaPerks™ program that provides exclusive deals to travel, lifestyle, home services and other rewards redeemable across North America, UK and Europe.PAYING RENT IS REWARDING™
Reconciled — Reconciled provides industry-leading virtual bookkeeping and accounting services for busy business owners and entrepreneurs across the US. As a full-service firm, we provide consistent, accurate online bookkeeping & accounting services, as well as CFO services, and tax & advisory services.
SWYE360 Learning — SWYE360 is a data analytics company that leverages the collection, tracking, and monitoring of software usage data to aggregate and predict the return on investment and return on academics on all instructional software being used in a school district by both teachers and students. It helps school districts identify student learning outcome gaps,teacher professional development opportunities, federal compliance risks, negative return on investment on high usage software, and live monitoring to help with proctoring assessments, tests, and exams.

Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arrows — Arrows is a customer onboarding checklist. Send every customer a personalized onboarding plan, with automated email reminders, due dates, assigned tasks, and a lot more.One of the hardest things about onboarding is getting everybody on the same page. Using Arrows, you can get "mutual buy-in" from your customers to build trust throughoutthe onboarding process. Plus, with due dates and automated email reminders, they'll always know what should be done next. Arrows is the place for you to collaborate, strategize, and coordinate together.Every customer is different... so why are you giving them the same onboarding plan? With Arrows, personalizing onboarding for your customers is a cinch. Start with a template, so your team never misses important steps. Then customize your plan for each customer, so you can get mutual buy-in on a plan perfectly structured for their goals and timeline.
Urban Machine — Urban Machine pioneers sustainable wood reclamation. The Machine leverages robotics and AI technology to transform the construction industry by reducing wood waste and promoting circular practices.
Hidden Door — An immersive adventure game set in the worlds of your favorite books, movies, and shows.

Alpine Meridian is an advisory and investment firm with extensive experience in Internet, digital media, healthcare and e-commerce

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Micruity — Micruity powers lifetime income products in retirement plans by enabling all stakeholders to share data through a single secure connection
Virtualitics — Our patented technology is based on over 11 years of research at the California Institute of Technology and NASA/JPL and supported by a talented team of data scientists, designers and engineers with several hundred publications in the field of artificial intelligence and data visualization. Powered by a suite of AI-enabled products,Virtualitics provides a rapidly deployable end-to-end solution that quickly preprocesses and fuses data sources, builds predictive AI models, and leverages our best-in-class data analytics and visualization platform for exploration and collaboration in either desktop or virtual reality.
Culina Health — Connect with one of Culina Health's virtual dietitians for inclusive, science-backed nutrition plans that are covered by insurance.

Rakuten Group, Inc. is a leading global company that contributes to society by creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship. Browse corporate information, including company overview, investor relations, sustainability and careers.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

KINS — KINS is a health supplement company.
Amondz — Amondz is a jewellery ecommerce platform that provides buyers and sellers with quick access to a production list, price quotations for consumers, and customer support.
Rakuten Medical — Rakuten Medical is a privately funded clinical-stage biotechnology company with offices in the USA, Japan, and Germany. Rakuten Medical has been developing new anticancer therapies based on the Photoimmunotherapy platform. Rakuten Medical plans to become a fully integrated biopharma with research, development, and worldwide commercialization oftherapies based on the Photoimmunotherapy platform.Rakuten Medical is committed to conquering cancer and aims to realize a society where cancer patients can lead fulfilling lives.Rakuten Medical was established in 2010 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Ben Barokas is the Founder and CEO of Sourcepoint Technologies, Inc. Ben attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Virginia Tech.

Investment focus

Advertising, Software, Brand Marketing
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
Fuisz Video, Inc. — Fuisz turns any video into an interactive experience, allowing the viewer to touch, hover or click on any object to discover new content. This can include product information, innovative branded experiences, direct links to company websites and the ability to buy the item. Fuisz works with the world’s top advertising agencies and global brands suchas Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Victoria’s Secret, Gillette and Target to unlock the video experience, delivering significant increases in engagement that maximize return on digital advertising spend. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica.
Traverse Data — Digital Media Solutions, Inc. (DMS) drives better business results through our innovative digital performance advertising solutions.

Michael E. Kassan helps bridge the gaps between media, marketers, and technologists.Kassan founded MediaLink in 2003 to be a transformational partner to the world’s leading media, marketing, and technology companies. Bringing these groups together while balancing strategic insight with pragmatic execution, MediaLink guides its clients throughan increasingly fragmented media landscape. As Chairman and CEO, Kassan has led the firm’s expansion from strategic advisory into multiple business lines including executive search, financial due diligence, agency benchmarking/reviews, and trade marketing. With a culture focused on both confidentiality and transparency, MediaLink now sits at the epicenter of major cross-industry initiatives and legislation helping to build consensus between government, marketers, and publishers.Kassan maintains a deep commitment to advising the media industry’s leadership. He acts as Special Advisor to numerous CEO’s helping them “break through the noise” in today’s marketplace and advising on issues ranging from corporate strategy and partnerships to M&A.Drawing on a combination of experience, relationships, and insights, Kassan writes extensively as a noted blogger and serves frequently as a moderator and keynote speaker at global industry conferences. He has built instrumental partnerships with the Consumer Electronics Show and the Cannes Lions. He also produces and hosts a radio show on WOR 710 AM and Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio, “Medialinked — Inside Advertising and Media with Michael Kassan.”Prior to MediaLink, Kassan led Initiative Media Worldwide as COO and Vice-Chairman from 1994 to 2001. Kassan helped grow the company’s initial $1.5 billion in billings nearly ten-fold. Prior to Initiative, he was President and COO of International Video Entertainment (Artisan Entertainment). In his first career, Kassan spent ten years as a tax lawyer specializing in the entertainment industry.Kassan currently serves as Chair of the UJA-New York Marketing Communications Committee as well as on the Boards of the American Advertising Federation, the Ad Council, and the Hollywood Radio and Television Society. He served as Chairman of the California State Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry.

Investment focus

Advertising, Digital Media, Video
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Telly — The biggest thing to happen to TV since color.
Qonsent — Qonsent is a consumer-first platform for dynamic consent. For the first time, consumers will have direct access and control of their personal data that brands collect and store about them.
Home From College — H\FC is the professional development platform built specifically for career starters and young professionals. Created to help students build their first professional brand, manage their resume and unlock experiences to help them grow. Our Mission is the even the professional playing-field and give career starters a platform to help them start.

Panorama Capital invests in passionate entrepreneurs building leading companies in life sciences and technology. Founded in 2005 as the successor to the venture capital program of JPMorgan Partners, they take a hands on, highly collaborative approach to investing, bringing to bear the team's extensive operating and investing experience to eachportfolio company. The firm is managed by a seasoned group of life sciences and technology investors who collectively possess over 140 years of investment and industry experience. In addition to their extensive investing experience, they possesses broad experience as executives, entrepreneurs, engineers, and physicians. This collective experience gives Panorama Capital a powerful combination of technical, entrepreneurial, operational, and transactional expertise to help foster the development of their portfolio companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AkroStar — AkroStar is a semiconductor firm.
Propi — Propi is a platform that accelerates the rental of residential real estate for landlords and tenants. Propi is revolutionizing the real estate sector in Latam with top-notch proprietary software transforming a painful process with high information asymmetry into a seamless end-to-end experience, for tenants, landlords, and buyers.
Jinyuansheng — Jinyuansheng is mainly engaged in the development, smelting and deep processing of new energy key metal mineral resources.

InterWest invests an average of about $7 - 15 million over the span of their involvement with each company in their portfolio. They invest in companies through the full range of venture investment stages, and investments may be staged over several rounds of financing. Although they generally begin their involvement in the early stages of acompany's development, they pursue attractive opportunities based on their individual merits rather than their investment stage.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GoCheck — GoCheck Kids helps primary care networks implement cost-effective and bidirectionally integrated pediatric vision screening.
Welcome — Welcome brings teams together on a single platform to share plans, collaborate on assets and flawlessly execute campaigns.
PMV Pharmaceuticals — PMV Pharma is developing first-in-class p53 and p53 pathway modulators for the treatment of cancer. Bringing together leaders in the field to utilize over three decades of p53 biology, PMV Pharma combines unique biological understanding with pharmaceutical development focus.

DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

enpay — enpay is a SaaS platform that offers cashless collection services.
YESOD — YESOD is a cloud-type service for management departments
Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.

HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, serves millions of customers through its three Global Businesses.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
United Kingdom, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Dataminr — Dataminr is an AI platform that detects the earliest signs of high-impact events and emerging risks from publicly available information. It discovers, distills, and delivers alerts from the increasingly diverse and complex landscape of publicly available information including social media, blogs, information sensors, and the dark web, ensuring thatbusinesses have the knowledge they need to act with confidence.
Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
Warehouse Reit — Warehouse Reit functions as a closed-ended investing firm. The company aims to hold a diverse portfolio of freehold and long-leasehold warehouse properties, including those in the trade counter, industrial or manufacturing, storage and distribution, and retail warehouse sub-sectors. Investment and provision of local urban warehouses are thecompany's sole operating segment. Rent and other sources of income are its main sources of income.

We believe the SaaS business model is the most efficient in history. Our team has experience successfully founding, growing and exiting SaaS businesses.

Investment focus

SaaS, Retail, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Boostly — Boost your restaurant's outreach with Boostly SMS marketing tool. Drive engagement and increase sales! Click to learn more.
Cargobase — Cargobase TMS is a transportation and freight management system that increases control and visibility & maintains compliance to industry standards. Learn more.
Lasso MD — Elevate your dental practice with Lasso MD's all-in-one marketing and software solutions. From lead generation to patient scheduling, we've got you covered.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud

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