# Top 50 Music Startup Investors in United States in June 2026

## Betaworks
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

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

## Warner Music Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Music, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment

Warner Music Group is a major music company with interests in recorded music, music publishing and artist services

## Uncork Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics

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 

## Universal Music Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Music, Media and Entertainment, Video

Universal Music Group offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide. It discovers and develops songwriters, and owns and administers copyrights to musical compositions for use in recordings, public performances, and related uses such as films and advertisements; and sells artist and music branded products through multiplesales points including online, fashion retail, and live performances worldwide.

## SV Aangel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

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.

## Third Prime
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Third Prime is an early-stage venture firm focused primarily on Financial and Industrial Technology.

## Wisconsin Investment Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madison, Wisconsin, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Wisconsin Investment Partners is an Angel Investment Group in Madison, Wisconsin founded in 2000 with 20 members. Membership has grown to 50+ members in recent years, bringing significant knowledge and experience.

## Slow Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

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.

## Third Wave Digital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Digital Media, Video

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

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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## Precursor Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

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.

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## WndrCo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

Founded in 2016 by Sujay Jaswa and Jeffrey Katzenberg, WndrCo is a holding company and multi-stage technology investment firm re-envisioning how people live and work. WndrCo invests in the future of work, consumer technology, cybersecurity, and developer infrastructure.

## Lowercase Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

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.

## Frontier Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Health Care

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

## Seven Seven Six
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, FinTech

Seven Seven Six is an early stage venture capital firm that is built at the intersection of product and people with nearly $1B AUM and a self-built operating system called Cerebro to scale their team, portfolio monitoring & support, and LP relations.

## General Catalyst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

## Tamiami Angel Funds
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Naples, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Tamiami Angel Funds is a family of Florida Angel Funds that are a Member-owned and Member-managed for-profit investment partnership. We seeks to provide our Members an opportunity for active involvement in a diversified capital investment process and a portfolio of high quality, high growth companies with a preference toward those companieslocated in the State of Florida.

## Exponential Creativity Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Music, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence

Technology to maximize humanity's creative and expressive potential

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

## True Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Atlas Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Atlas Venture is an early-stage venture capital firm that creates and invests in biotech startup companies led by promising entrepreneurs focusing on life sciences innovation. Its seed-led venture creation strategy rigorously selects and focuses investment on compelling opportunities to build scalable businesses and realize value.

## Foundry Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Foundry is a venture capital firm focused on providing early-stage technology investments. The firm was established in 2007 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

## Advancit Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Norwood, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment

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.

## Spark Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence

Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.

## TheVentureCity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow.

## Evolution VC Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, SaaS

Evolution VC Partners invest and partner with disruptive companies with a strong team, product, and market opportunity.  They help entrepreneurs build great companies and consider themselves to be investment accelerators and will seek to be active creators of value for their portfolio companies.

## Index Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

## Baseline Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jackson, Wyoming, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

Baseline addresses the gap between individual investors and institutional venture capitalists.Since its inception, Baseline has invested in more than 100 companies and helped more than 50 companies exit profitably for founders and investors alike. We are proud to be a seed investor in the following companies (which were acquired by theseenterprises):PagerDuty (IPO)
SFIX (IPO)
Twitter (IPO)
Instagram (Facebook)
Freckle (Renaissance)
Spacious (WeWork)
Bloc.io (Thinkful)
PacketZoom (Roblox)
Apiary (Oracle)
Datalot (Lightyear Capital)
Pocket (Mozilla)
TaskRabbit (IKEA)
Gild (Citadel)
Launchkit (Google)
Pronoun (Macmillan)
Librato (SolarWinds)
Reverb (Wordnick) (News Distribution Network)
TrialPay (Visa)
TastemakerX (Rdio)
ExactTarget (SalesForce)
StackMob (Paypal)
GoInstance (SalesForce)
CoTweet (ExactTarget)
Heroku (SalesForce)
IndexTank (LinkedIn)
Versly (Cisco)
BookFresh (Sugar Media)
DocVerse (Google)
Stax (CloudBees)
Town.me (fka MixerLabs (GeoAPI)) (Twitter)
Parakey (Parakey)
Shape Security Inc (F5 Networks)
Machine Zone (AppLovin)
n'Way (Animoca Brands)
PopSugar (Group Nine)
Weebly (Square)
MangoHealth (TrialCard)
Thinkful (Chegg)
mLab (MongoDB)
Smyte (Twitter)
Appuri (Docusign)
Iron.io (Xenon Ventures)
Soma (Full Circle)
Careport (Allscripts)
Kanjoya (Ultimate Software)
Piqora (Olapic)
Blekko (IBM)
Path (Daum Kakao)
TellApart (Twitter)
Citrus Lane Inc. (Care.com)
Crashlytics (Twitter)
Metaresolver (Millenial Media)
Xobni (Yahoo)
OMBPop (Zynga)
Flowtown (Demandforce)
Hunch (eBay)
Instructables (Autodesk)
Aardvark (Google)
Cake Financial (E*Trade)
ScanScout (Tremor Media)
Yardbarker (Fox Sports)
Sendori (IAC)
Rupture (Electronic Arts)
Parakey (Parakey)

## Ronald Conway
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet

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.

## Scooter Braun
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Wellness, Internet

Scooter Braun is one of the entertainment industry’s biggest entrepreneurs and innovators and the founder of SB Projects, a diversified entertainment and media company with ventures at the intersection of music, film, television, technology, brands, culture, and social good. Braun has a roster of the top pop culture icons under his management,record label, and publishing companies that include Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Zac Brown Band, and Karlie Kloss.Braun has broken more new artists than any other music executive in the last decade and has expanded his reach by establishing a fund, which invests in some of the largest management, media, and rights companies in the industry. SB Projects houses a film and television production division and also continues to impact new verticals under its tech incubator, Silent Labs, which holds investments in Uber, Spotify, Songza, Casper, Waze, and Pinterest.Braun also leads Ithaca Holdings LLC., a fully integrated holding company with interests across multiple verticals. The company has built an elite portfolio of acquisitions and partnerships including the acquisition of Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Label Group, Mythos Studios with Marvel Founding Chairman David Maisel, the acquisition of Atlas Publishing, and partnerships with management companies.Braun remains committed to SB Projects’ founding philosophy of giving back by serving on the boards of Pencils of Promise and Fuck Cancer, and he, his clients, and his companies have – together – granted more wishes for Make-A-Wish than any other organization in the history of the foundation.

## Sony Music Entertainment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Music, Software, Digital Media

Sony Music is a United States music corporation owned and operated by Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony Corporation. It is a global music company with a roster of current artists that includes both local and international superstars, as well as a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordingsin history.

## Ruttenberg Gordon Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Music, Software

Ruttenberg Gordon Investments (RGI) is a private company specializing in equity investments in real estate, venture capital and private equity as well as loans secured by hard assets such as real estate. RGI's two founding partners, David L. Ruttenberg and Jonathan D. Gordon, have deep experience ac

## Moment Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Moment Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of work. The firm invests in early-stage institutional rounds of companies in the future of work and prefers to invest in the logistics, food, oil and gas, education, transportation, and construction sectors.Moment Ventures was founded in 2013 and is headquartered inPalo Alto, California.

## Larry Marcus
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Music, Fashion

Actively making new investments in consumer and culture with Marcy Venture Partners, a VC firm co-founded with JAY-Z and Jay Brown. 
Managing Director at Walden Venture CapitalInvestments include: Savage X Fenty, Pela, Hungry, Wheels, Hipcamp, Partake Foods, Pandora (founding investor - IPO, exit to Sirius XM) , SoundHound, Aarki, goTenna, HatchBaby, TouchBistro (exit), Robust Wealth (acquired by Principal Financial Group), Terayon (acquired by Motorola).  Angel investments: include Netflix (IPO), BandPage (acquired by Google), Maestro, Jukely, LyricFind. Prior to Walden, Larry was a digital media sell-side Equity Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown. Led IPOs of Terayon, CBS MarketWatch, Netflix (initial S-1 IPO filing), Maxis (acquired by Electronic Arts), Edmark (acquired by IBM) and among other equity and debt financings (Broderbund, Sierra On-line, Excite@Home, Spectrum Holobyte, CBS Sportsline). Prior experience includes Robertson Stephens & Company, Education: Larry received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.
See the music he loves at www.pandora.com/people/larry.  He was named to the Billboard Power 100 in music and the Twitter 140 to follow.

## Initialized Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the seed. Initialized has 6 investing partners and over $3.2B under management over five core funds since its founding in 2012. The firm's startups have created in aggregate over $200B in market value so far.

## Headline
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

## Khosla Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

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.

## Kickstart
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Seed investing in the Mountain West since 2008

## Demarest Media
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Music, Sports, Media and Entertainment

Demarest is a digital media and entertainment company that invests in films from around the world.
The company was founded in 2007, by William Johnson and Michael Lambert, and it is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

## First Round Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.

## Steven Cox
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Local, Music, Video

Steven Cox is the Founder and CEO at TakeLessons.

## Mark Gillespie
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Music, Internet, Video

Recently named as one of Billboard’s 2021 Change Agents, as well as one of the World's Greatest Managers by Music Business Worldwide, Mark Gillespie is a world-class British CEO, manager, and producer whose vision and drive have led him to build Three Six Zero into the global entertainment powerhouse that it is today. Widely recognized as oneof the industry's preeminent executives, Gillespie has been instrumental in guiding the careers of Frank Ocean and Calvin Harris, most recently closing a deal in excess of $100MM for his publishing catalogue. With offices in Los Angeles, Miami, and London, Gillespie provides the leadership necessary to ensure that Three Six Zero and its clients remain at the forefront of the music, film, television, and digital content landscapeFueled by a lifelong passion for music, Gillespie launched his career in his hometown of Birmingham, UK, where he proved to be an invaluable asset for superclub Godskitchen. Since then, he has established himself as a visionary in the entertainment industry, having worked in partnerships with Sony Music Entertainment, Jay-Z and Roc Nation, and most recently Westbrook Entertainment, whose talent roster includes Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, and the entire Smith Family.A relentless pioneer and entrepreneur, Gillespie has joined forces with Pete Tong MBE to run Three Six Zero Recordings, his own in-house record label, while continuing to expand an already successful presence in film and television. Along with several other projects in the pipeline, the company's first feature film – prestige drama, VOX LUX – starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law, including an original soundtrack by Sia, was released in 2018.With a passion for innovation at the intersection of media, technology, and apparel, Gillespie has invested in companies such as Outdoor Voices, Stance, Ember Technologies, Stem Disintermedia, and Saavn. Committed to giving back and continuously fostering artistic talent, Gillespie has also remained a longtime philanthropist and advocate, sitting on both the Music Committee of Children in Conflict and the core screening panel of the Recording Academy. In his downtime, Gillespie enjoys following Manchester United and is an avid collector of modern art.

## Fuel Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Fuel Venture Capital is a firm located in the heart of Miami's iconic Coconut Grove where it works to fund the world's most promising startups and integrate lifelong investors into the creative economy. Fuel Venture Capital applies a tested methodology to mitigate the risk of early-stage investing. Founded in 2016, Fuel Venture Capital isindustry agnostic in its venture sourcing, targeting instead exceptional entrepreneurs with experience and vision. The firm’s “founder-focused, investor-driven” approach is led by a core team with decades years of combined experience in investment banking, wealth management, and executive leadership.

## Cultivation Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Cultivation Capital invests in young companies whose ideas have potential to transform the way we live and work.

## Union Square Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

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

## Sangha Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Genève, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS

Sangha Capital is an investment firm.

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Sterling Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Education

Sterling Partners is a private equity firm with a history of generating extraordinary returns for their investors. With nearly $4 billion of capital under management, their investment strategy is to invest from $5 million to more than $150 million of equity in each company with which they partner. They invest in industries with positive, long-termtrends and bring their experience, expertise, and network in driving value to their portfolio companies. Their continued success is driven by Sterling's investment in an operationally-focused strategy, and by their unique team of industry veterans, operators, investors, strategy experts and human capital professionals.

## Geoff Ralston
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Education, Social Media

Geoff Ralston is the President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Imagine K12 as a Founder. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.

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