# Top 50 Non Profit Startup Investors in June 2026

## Praxis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 37
- Stages: Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
- Focus: Non Profit, Social Assistance, Education

We are a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship, supporting founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to love their neighbors and renew culture.

## New Media Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Non Profit, Software, Government

Investing in media, creators, and Responsible AI to solve the world's biggest challenges.

## Knight Enterprise Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Digital Media, Video

Knight Enterprise Fund is a venture capital firm based in Florida that finances early stage investments of media and technology companies.

## Cayuga Venture Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ithaca, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Telecommunications

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## Allos Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carmel, Indiana, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS

Allos Ventures invests in early-stage B2B software and business services companies in the Midwest. The firm invests in businesses and partners with entrepreneurs to help these companies accelerate growth and build value.

Allos Ventures was formed in early 2010 and is based in Carmel, Indiana, United States.

## Sarona Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Sarona Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The firm is a "people-first" investor, seeking founding teams with strong execution capabilities. The firm's investment scope focuses on enterprise software, and most of their deals concentrate on building the future of business with AI, helping companies operatemore efficiently, save money, and drive revenue.

## 1776 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Education, EdTech, Software

1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare. 

## Bob Bickel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Non Profit

Bob Bickel is the Founder and CEO at RunSignUp.

## Nihal Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania.

## Acumen
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

## Higher Ground Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Politics, Government

Higher Ground Labs is a venture fund and ecosystem builder investing in technology for political progress.

## Shorooq Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce

Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

## New York Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

New York Ventures is dedicated to encouraging innovation and fueling economic growth in communities across the State. This venture capital investment arm of Empire State Development is one of New York State's business resources and innovation investments, including the Governor's START-UP NY program, Innovation Hot Spots, the RegionalEconomic Development Councils, the Centers of Advanced Technology and Centers of Excellence networks, and the SUNY 2020 Initiative.

## GGV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

We believe the talent to build great companies comes from anywhere. A global venture capital firm that invests in local founders. As a multi-stage, sector-focused firm, GGV focuses on seed- to growth-stage investments across Social/Internet, Enterprise Tech, and Smart Tech sectors.

## SOSV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

## Kortschak Investments L.P.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Aspen, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Walter Kortschak Investments

## Excell Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rochester, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing

Excell is a New York State-supported seed fund. Although it is a not-for-profit organization, Excell maintains a for-profit discipline by structuring each investment with convertible debt and equity returns so that, over time, the fund becomes self-sustaining or evergreen.

## Koinvesticinis Fondas
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Machine Learning, Information Technology

The co-investment fund invests in start-ups and business start-ups with business angel groups or private venture capital funds.

## Waverley Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Software, Audio

Waverley Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage startup investments. Moreover, the firm targets to invest in the media and entertainment sectors.
Founded in 2018 by Edgar Bronfman Jr. and Daniel Leff, Waverley Capital is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

## ff Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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.

## MK Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Northbrook, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Video, Enterprise Software

MK Capital offers multi-stage growth equity and venture capital to companies. MK Capital portfolio, companies get access to an experienced partner with deep operating experience. We leverage insights from a strong understanding of our sectors to help our portfolios companies grow. They collaborate on strategy, operations, and technology as activemembers on the boards of our portfolio companies.

## Federico Pirzio-Biroli
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Non Profit, Venture Capital

Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.

## Inherent Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Non Profit, Manufacturing, SaaS

We believe that businesses that incorporate material sustainability factors into their strategy, operations, and culture will outperform over the long-term.

## Gaingels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Google.org
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Non Profit, Education, Information Technology

Google.org is a platform that pulls together Google's philanthropic efforts. Google.org funds teams with big ideas that have a long-term global impact.

## Redpoint eventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Redpoint eventures's approach is to help entrepreneurs by offering the benefits of both local and international VCs including insight, company building, financing, and exit.

## Houston Angel Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical

The Houston Angel Network (HAN) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing the innovation ecosystem in Houston, Texas by supporting founders and startups with financial resources and mentorship.

## Floodgate
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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

## Eric Ries
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Eric Ries is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Long-Term Stock Exchange. He previously worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a Venture Advisor. Eric Ries attended Yale University.

## Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Non Profit, Communities, Charity

The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation is an independent grant-making foundations in the UK.

## Rand Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Buffalo, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing

Rand Capital Corporation is a registered, closed-end management investment corporation investing in the securities of businesses that offer unique opportunities for growth. Rand Capital provides venture capital and management experience to support the growth and development of businesses in varied industries, primarily in the Western New York andUpstate New York region.

## The Garage
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Banking, Billing

We invest in early stage fintech & enterprise-tech startups.  As strategic insiders, intimately connected to top tier institutions and influential figures in the global financial industry, we offer our startups a transformative springboard, from controlled beta-sites all the way to a successful global company.
Enhanced with world-renowned AI, ML, and data expertise, we provide unprecedented access to the mind and heart of leading economies.

## Novak Biddle Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bethesda, Maryland, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Education

Novak Biddle Venture Partners provides equity financing and assistance to the management of young, information technology companies. They seek investment opportunities where the combination of ideas, dollars, experience, and relationships can create long-term, sustainable value.

## NXT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Analytics

NXT Ventures Fund is a Boston Angel Investment Fund established for the purpose of discovering and enabling the next truly disruptive start-up companies.

## Habib Haddad
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Non Profit, Agriculture

Habib is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor, recently turned VC. He is currently the CEO of Wamda.com and the managing partner of Wamda Capital. He founded Yamli.com the Arabic search and transliteration startup that licensed its technology to Yahoo. He also started a number of non-profits including YallaStartup, INLET and ReliefLebanon.In2009, the World Economic Forum recognized Habib as a Young Global Leader and the ArabianBusiness named him one of the top 30 influential Arabs under 30 as well as of the most 500 powerful Arabs. He currently serves on the Global Agenda Council on innovation. He is an advisor to several US and Middle Eastern startups and non-profits. Habib is behind the original idea behind Yamli, and today drives Yamli's vision of empowering the Arabic language and users on the web. His responsibilities span from product strategy and design to business development. The World Economic Forum recently recognized Habib as a Young Global Leader for 2009.Prior to Yamli, he worked as a senior engineer at ATI (later acquired by AMD); and before that he was part of the early engineering team at Mok3 (now Everyscape), a startup out of the MIT CSAIL lab.Habib co-founded INLET (International Network of Lebanese Entrepreneurs and Technologists), an organization geared towards promoting entrepreneurship and leadership for the Arab world in general and Lebanon in particular. He also founded Relief Lebanon, a grass roots effort aimed at supporting the relief operations in Lebanon during the July 2006 war. Relief Lebanon was featured by the "101 Stories to Tell" initiative by the UNDP in February 2009.Habib often speaks about early stage development and entrepreneurship, and has spoken at venues such as the Harvard Business School, Boston College and the American University of Beirut. He currently sits on the advisory board of Meedan, a non-profit startup that aims to enable cross-cultural dialogs online.Habib holds a Bachelor of Computer and Communication Engineering from the American University in Beirut and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

## Techstars Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Techstars helps founders succeed. Through our global accelerators, we invest in early-stage startups led by founders building a better future for everyone.

## Harvard Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech

Harvard Angels

## VERVE CAPITAL
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, EdTech

Verve Capital is an early stage venture capital firm that partners with founders to fund ideas and accelerate growth. We believe in people with big dreams and the grit to bring them to life. We invest in ideas that challenge the status quo and build a better world through innovation. We partner with companies providing early stage investment,support and advice that help founders reach their vision.

## The FSE Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Finance East Limited delivers funding for businesses based in the East of England region.

## Silicon Valley Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Silicon Valley Bank is the financial partner of the innovation economy; helping individuals and investors in the innovation ecosystem achieve extraordinary outcomes. 

## Cascade Seed Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bend, Oregon, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Creating opportunities for entrepreneurs in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.

## Florida Opportunity Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Winter Park, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Manufacturing

Investing in early-stage companies to boost Florida's economy. Learn more! FL.

## Relay Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps

We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.

## Flywheel Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bloomington, Indiana, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics

Flywheel Fund is a member-managed capital fund based in Bloomington, Indiana. From life sciences and medical devices with an emphasis on software and technology, we invest in early stage and high-potential startups.

## Payroc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tinley Park, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Non Profit, Software, SaaS

Grow business with Payroc's payment platform solutions for online, in-person, and mobile transactions. Benefits partner, sales agent, business

## Ramesh Chandra Majithia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Innovation Management, Non Profit, Mobile

Ramesh Chandra Majithia

## Holnest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics

Holnest is a venture capital firm.

## Contrary
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

We combine technology and research to identify and invest in a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build.

## Zachary Smith
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Innovation Management

Zac is a passionate business builder with a focus on infrastructure services, including cloud platforms, hosting services, automation software and financial transaction clearing. Prior to Packet, Zachary was an early employee and key member of the management team at Voxel, a NY-based cloud hosting company with a focus on infrastructure automationthat sold to Internap (NASDAQ: INAP) in 2011 for 35MM. Zac is a closet musician, having attended Juilliard as a double bass major and promptly switching to software-driven infrastructure after graduation. He lives is NYC with his wife and two young boys.

## NGEN Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy

NGEN Partners is an active venture investor committed to backing world class entrepreneurs seeking to change industries through innovation, creativity and the promotion of environmentally sustainable products and services.Founded in 2001, NGEN Partners invests in companies that positively improve the environment and human wellness. We seekentrepreneurs with unique business models and differentiated products and services, capable of rapid growth and sustained profitability. We invest in and alongside these entrepreneurs, helping them grow and sustain category leaders. We invest throughout North America, and have offices in California and New York.

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