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Top 50 Photography Startup Investors in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Photography startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Photography companies. This investor list updates every month.

Top 50 Photography Startup Investors in May 2025

Investor	Photography investments
SV Angel	9
Lerer Hippeau	8
Greylock	7
Info Edge	6
Index Ventures	6
First Round Capital	6
Scout Ventures	6
Great Oaks Venture Capital	5
Andreessen Horowitz	5
Founder Collective	5
Inimiti	4
Reid Hoffman	4
True Ventures	4
Peterson Ventures	4
QueensBridge Venture Partners	4
TMT Investments	4
Kickstart	4
NFX	4
Floodgate	4
HOWZAT Partners	4
General Catalyst	4
Freestyle Capital	4
Jason Calacanis	4
SOSV	4
Harrison Metal	4
Redpoint	4
Steamboat Ventures	4
LAUNCHub Ventures	4
Google Ventures	4
NextView Ventures	4
ff Venture Capital	4
Baseline Ventures	4
Wellington Partners	4
Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures	4
LDV Capital	4
Founders' Co-op	4
Magma Venture Partners	3
Lux Capital	3
Betaworks	3
Scott Banister	3
Michael Jones	3
MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)	3
Bradley C. Harrison	3
BDC Venture Capital	3
Gary Vaynerchuk	3
Wasabi Ventures	3
Ned Lamont	3
Kernel Capital	3
Saarbruecker 21	3
Vayner/RSE	3

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SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Paid — Paid is a business platform for AI agents.
Yutori — Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own.
Operand — AI-Enabled Consulting for Consumer Retail

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

P-1 AI — P-1 AI is a technology company focused on developing an artificial general engineering intelligence (AGEI) designed to help humanity design physical systems with far greater efficiency and complexity than currently possible.
Teal — Free tools and resources to run a faster and better job search so you can focus your time and energy on finding and landing a job you will love.
Urban Sky — Urban Sky is developing the first-ever reusable 'micro-sat' version of a near-space balloon, armed with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market and making daily and weekly aerial imagery collection a cost-effective reality. Leveraging advances in componentminiaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability, and the high vantage point of the stratosphere, the Microballoon drastically reduces the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas, leading to more impactful data over more areas than ever before.With a new wealth of data from the stratosphere - this completely untapped layer of Earth’s atmosphere - we can fundamentally change the collective human understanding of the surface of our planet and urban centers.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

7AI — The Agentic Security Revolution Starts Here. Swarming AI Agents to Eliminate Non-Human Work for Exponentially Better Security Outcomes.
Highstock — The private marketplace for vetted global buyers and coveted brands.
Greenlite — Greenlite aspires to replace outsourced anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-client (KYC) analysts with its AI bots.

Info Edge is an internet company that manages and operates online job portals. The company's mission is to address the middle east job market and have launched a Gulf version of the recruitment site. The company also launched a career counseling and guidance site, a professional networking site, and an education classified site.It wasfounded in 2016 and headquartered in Uttar, Pradesh.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nexstem — We create brain-computer interfaces using EEG to convert brain signals into commands to control technology using your thoughts. Transcending biological limits.
LegitQuest — An online legal research platform with Indian case laws. Research on Indian Cases, Judgments & Acts with AI enabled, User friendly product features.
Clean Electric — Clean Electric builds Lithium-Ion Batteries with Liquid Immersion Cooling. Fast Charge. Long Life. Unparalleled Safety.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Crossmint — An all-in-one platform for companies and agents: wallets, payments, tokenization, and more.
Assort Health — Our call center generative AI reduces hold time, decreases dropped calls, and contains costs while driving appointment revenue.
Dyna Robotics — We're making Al-powered robotic automation accessible for businesses of all sizes by building affordable, easy-to-deploy Autonomous Al Robots.

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.
Beacon AI — Beacon AI is building the future of flight safety for commercial and private fleets.

Great Oaks Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with a mission to support and invest in the most innovative and disruptive startups. Visit our home page to learn more about our portfolio companies, investment approach, and the experienced team behind our success.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
Nimblemind.ai — Nimblemind.ai enables healthcare providers to organize and enrich multimodal clinical data through labeling and curation.
Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
Inductive Bio — Bringing the data, ML, software, and expertise needed to rapidly solve your most challenging ADMET problems.
Sprinter Health — Sprinter Health is an on-demand mobile health company that sends full-time nurses and phlebotomists (“Sprinters”) into the home.

Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Jones — Quit vaping products and app. Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and behavioral support for quitting smoking or vaping.
Trek Health — Maximize Practice Revenue with Smart Payment Solutions
Sourgum Waste — Sourgum Waste provides sustainable waste management with easy online ordering and transparent pricing.

Established Authority WITH Passion

Investment focus

Software, Photography, iOS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.
IGNITE IMPULSE, INC. — As a digital agricultural enhancing service, Ignite impulse offers a variety of services, some of which include the following: agricultural software and equipment rentals, sales, maintenance, and leasing solutions; self-regulated farm shells with pre-installed vertical farming solutions; machined irrigation consulting and installations; artificialintelligence (AI) powered farming solutions; hydroponics farming consultation- partnership and installations; supply chain and logistics partnership; and more.Ignite Impulse also offers hydroponics solutions, as well as controlled farming assistance and consulting, to corporate, government, and educational organizations as part of our cooperation with these entities.
3D VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC — 3D technology consulting and implementation services, specializing in the application of 3D printing and 3D science to all spheres of human interaction. For instance, in the field of aquaculture, 3D farms not only cultivate seaweed and shellfish for the purpose of harvesting, but they also rehabilitate ecosystems that were damaged by commercialfishing in the past. Commercial fishing is destructive in addition to being harvesting.

Reid Hoffman is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder of Manas AI. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Perugia. Reid Hoffman has been awarded Marshall Medal.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Workhelix — Workhelix is a developer of workforce management platform to assist with business management.
Manas AI — Manas AI uses proprietary AI, generative computational chemistry, and best-in-class biology to reduce the time and expense of traditional medicinal development while also revolutionizing cancer and rare illness treatments.
Reflection.Ai — Reflection.Ai is a start-up that develops artificial intelligence solutions, with a focus on computer vision.

A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Usul — Rosetta: Query government policy and spending data as it relates to your workflow.
Pallie AI — Pallie AI develops AI-powered companion that supports health and wellbeing.
The Nuclear Company — The Nuclear Company is a fleet-scale nuclear deployment firm that offers for nuclear sectors.

Peterson Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on SaaS, digital commerce, and healthcare. They provide seed funding to entrepreneurs looking for a partner to help solve the challenges that accompany rapid growth.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Leland — Leland is a marketplace that connects ambitious people with world-class coaches who can help them reach their career and educational goals via 1:1 coaching and small group classes.
Mobly — Mobile lead scanner engagement platform for sales reps. Integrates with your CRM and creates a fully enriched lead for your team within seconds. No badge needed
DiversiFi — DiversiFi helps 3PLs increase shipping profitability by 28% with AI-powered carrier routing and automated markup pricing. Get started today!

QueensBridge Venture Partners invests in technology companies in highly competitive and visible markets.The company's collective experience has shaped our approach to investing by allowing us to quickly recognize and capitalize on key trends. Furthermore, by focusing on co-investment opportunities with leading venture capital funds and angelinvestors in Silicon Valley, we have unique access to very attractive companies.Successful venture capital investing is highly influenced by a network of reputable investors. QBVP aligns itself with firms that have proven their ability to source and invest in the next generation of leading technology companies in Silicon Valley and emerging markets. We bring capital along with our network of industry veterans and corporate relationships to accelerate the development of the companies in which we co-invest. We seek to partner with firms that generate the most value among VCs and back the companies that reach enterprise value of over $1 billion on a regular basis.The general partners of QBVP are industry veterans in consumer products & services, media & entertainment, and financial services. We have (i) advised tech, media, and entertainment companies in raising over $20 billion of capital at bulge bracket Wall Street firms (e.g. Goldman Sachs; Deutsche Bank) (ii) started over twenty businesses, (iii) produced and/or recorded six number 1 albums on the Billboard 200, (iv) sold over 25 million records worldwide, (v) have products in over 3,000 stores.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, China

Portfolio highlights

Edyn — The Edyn smart garden system lets you know what’s happening in your garden at all times. Whether you’re a novice gardener or managing a small-scale organic farm, Edyn is there to take the guesswork out of gardening. Inserted in the soil, the Edyn Garden Sensor gathers and analyzes data about changing weather and soil conditions. The Edyn Appdisplays this data as a real-time snapshot of your garden, and pushes alerts and suggestions to maximize plant health.
Matternet — Matternet is a technology platform for urban aerial delivery. In March 2017, Matternet became the first company in the world to be authorized for urban drone delivery operations in Switzerland. In May 2018, the company was selected to participate in the FAA's Drone Integration Pilot Program for operations in North Carolina and San Diego. InMarch 2019, Matternet and UPS announced a partnership to implement drone delivery services at US hospitals and launched the first ongoing revenue drone delivery operation in US history at Wakemed in North Carolina.Founded in 2011, Matternet is headquartered in Mountain View, California
ALL DAY — All Day is building an editorial media brand and publishing technology for mobile-first Millennial audiences. The company leverages a network of owned and partner Social Media properties for content distribution and audience engagement, driving content sharing and virality. All Day’s network partners, writers, and editors manage posts, trackanalytics, and grow engagement through its CMS and Social distribution dashboard.Today, All Day maintains and engages a growing audience on Social Media channels through owned and operated content brands with over 28 million followers, as well as a distribution network reaching over 200 million followers across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Included among the company’s more popular social accounts are HistoryinPics and EarthPix on Twitter. Through these owned and partner accounts, All Day distributes highly visual and shareable editorial content, which is often featured on its destination site AllDay.com.

TMT Investments PLC invests in high-growth technology companies across a number of core specialist sectors and has a significant number of Silicon Valley investments in its portfolio. Founded in 2010, TMT has invested in over 65 companies to date. The Company’s objective is to generate an attractive rate of return for shareholders,predominantly through capital appreciation. The Company is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.tmtinvestments.com.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Enty — All-in-one subscription for Invoicing, Contracts, Finances, and Pre-accounting of your European company
Global Work — We help freelancers find remote jobs and gigs faster with AI. Unlock the latest job search strategies with our AI-powered platform.
Mobilo Card — Share your contact details with a tap. The best digital business card for teams. This is a real business card, no app. The best and cheapest digital business card.

Seed investing in the Mountain West since 2008

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Gierd — Gierd set out to build an end to end ecommerce marketplace business orchestration layer for Brands that reduces barriers to entry and enables them efficiently launch, scale, measure and manage their ecommerce marketplace sales. Gierd democratizes data, systems, tools and resources to efficiently scale B2C ecommerce business for Brands of all sizes.
Rad AI — Made for Radiologists, by Radiologists. Empowering radiologists with AI to save time, reduce burnout, and improve patient care.
DiversiFi — DiversiFi helps 3PLs increase shipping profitability by 28% with AI-powered carrier routing and automated markup pricing. Get started today!

We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Eudia — Eudia offers an augmented intelligence platform designed to enhance the efficiency of legal teams. The platform integrates artificial intelligence tools that streamline legal processes, enabling teams to transition from traditional bottlenecks to more productive business drivers. Eudia provides features such as document analysis, contract review,and workflow automation, which assist legal professionals in managing their workload effectively. By leveraging AI technology, Eudia supports legal teams in making informed decisions and improving overall operational efficiency.
Plug — Plug is a wholesale auction that facilitates online buying and selling of used EVs.
Replenysh — Replenysh is a set of tools for communities and companies to build circularity in days, not years.

Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.

Investment focus

Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
Handiscover — Handiscover is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website, dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classiﬁcation system which allows users to select accommodation based on their diﬀerent levels of mobility/physical disability. It was founded by SebastienArchambeaud in 2014, a father to a boy with a muscle disease.
Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Kouper Health — The transitions-of-care platform ensuring patients receive timely access to follow-up care.
Sprinter Health — Sprinter Health is an on-demand mobile health company that sends full-time nurses and phlebotomists (“Sprinters”) into the home.
TaleMonster Games — TaleMonster is a multinational mobile game firm that genuinely wants to provide millions of gamers experiences they won't soon forget. By putting our passion at the center of everything we make, we hope to reinvent what casual in mobile gaming means.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Staris — AI powered white box application penetration testing. Identify, exploit and remediate security vulnerabilities.
Dash Bio — A modern, automated platform engineered from the ground up to deliver high-quality and dramatically accelerated clinical bioanalysis.
Keebler Health — Keebler Health is an AI-first risk adjustment platform for providers and payers that are at risk for Medicare & Medicaid lives.

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

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

Quilter — Physics-based automated circuit board design tools for professionals and the masses.
Crowdbotics, Inc. — Crowdbotics helps you build better apps faster and more securely with AI and systematic code reuse.
Vital Interaction — Vital Interaction uses patient engagement insights & intelligent medical scheduling to improve practice profitability & patient satisfaction

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

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

LiveKit — Build, deploy, and scale realtime agents. Open source. Enterprise scale.
Chainguard — We build products and offer services that help protect organizations from software supply chain attacks and vulnerabilities.
Cyberhaven — DLP works for 1% of companies; fortunately there is Cyberhaven for the other 99%. Cyberhaven makes data protection simple, accurate, and comprehensive. With it's Data Detection and Response (DDR) platform, Cyberhaven automatically discovers and classifies data, provides continuous risk detection, delivers accurate blocking and incidentresponse, and improves user behavior.

Steamboat Ventures was founded in 2000, and named after the famous Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie. Theatrically released in New York in 1928, Steamboat Willie was the screen debut of Mickey Mouse. It was also the first animated cartoon to use synchronized sound -- a great innovation at the time.Our mission at Steamboat Ventures is to helpyoung companies successfully face the challenges of becoming leaders in their markets. We invest in early through growth stage companies that are pursuing opportunities at the intersection of technology, media, and consumer sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, China, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Mama+ — MAMA+ aims to help more mothers "become a better mother," for the benefit of family and society as a concept, is committed to "serve for mothers"; the same time, Internet technology and family relations research as a dual-driven, brought together many passionate technical talent. Researchers who can feel empathy with theirmothers are all motivated by their mothers' needs and insist on using their strength to make their feelings come true so as to realize more value for their mothers.
RazorGator — Buy authentic sports tickets, concert tickets, and theater tickets for your favorite live events at Razorgator.
Photobucket — Photobucket is the world's leading dedicated photo and video sharing service. With over 100 million registered members, Photobucket users upload over four million images and videos per day from the Web, Smartphones, and connected digital cameras. Photobucket hosts, preserves and protects photos and videos while bringing members the very bestbrowsing, sharing and editing experiences. In addition to uploading and sharing with friends and family on the Photobucket site, users can also instantly share memories across all of the most popular social networks, instant messenger applications, through email, and from their mobile phones. In order to ensure a safe environment for members and partners, Photobucket actively moderates the content posted on the site. Photobucket, Corp. was previously Ontela, Inc. Ontela acquired Photobucket, Inc from Fox Interactive Media, adopted the Photobucket brand, and changed its name to Photobucket Corp. Photobucket, Corp.'s headquarters are in Denver, Colorado with a regional office in San Francisco, California.

LAUNCHub is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
UVIONIX — Uvionix deploys Autonomous Flying Robots (AFRs) to monitor and report live data, ensuring a comprehensive view of operations, workflow efficiency, and near 100% inventory level accuracy. The system creates live digital twins of warehouse spaces, meticulously tracking each material movement. Delivering precise, unbiased data, and being immune to human error, the platform drastically enhances material planning, reduces stock losses, and lowers labor costs.
Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.

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

Veza — Veza is the identity security company that enables organizations to understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data.
Blacksmith — Blacksmith is a company that helps businesses to conduct their continuous integration (CI) up to twice as quickly and at half the expense. Blacksmith accomplish this by running CI on powerful gaming CPUs.
Glass Imaging — Traditional cameras rely on an imaging lens which typically consists of several lens elements and a light sensitive sensor. Cameras have been built like this since 1816. Glass has been historically used to make high quality optical elements. We are replacing these elements with deep neural networks that give extreme flexibility when designing ourcameras. It allows us to squeeze a huge sensor into an ultra thin module that fits perfectly into a mobile device without the need for protruding bumps. Our cameras bring SLR image quality into your pocket.

NextView helps entrepreneurs build companies of consequence to shape a future of collective prosperity. https://nextview.vc/

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Theo Ai — THEO AI operates as a legal prediction engine to forecast the outcome of legal dispute.
Riley AI — The simplest way to turn customer data into impactful product decisions.
KarmaCheck — Speed up placements with innovative tech, live expert support, and a mobile-first candidate experience. Run every check you need in KarmaCheck.

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

Portfolio highlights

Fincom — OFAC Sanctions Screening and Entity Resolution: Payments screening, ACH transactions screening, Instant Payments, pKYC, Verification of Payee
muffintech — Conversational AI for the insurance industry. Unleash the full potential of your employees and offer your customers an unmatched user experience.
DBR77 Robotics Sp. z o.o. — A B2B Tech Marketplace for Robotization

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)

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

ViaBot — ViaBot Inc. offers robotic sweeping services for parking lots, courtyards, parking garages, and more!
Haus — Automated incrementality experiments and durable, cookieless attribution to help brands make informed investment decisions.
LucidLink — LucidLink empowers fast and secure collaboration for creative teams working with any file size, across any distance.

Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically leadfinancing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hilo — Get stress-free readings round the clock with Hilo's clinically validated blood pressure monitor. Learn more
Aignostics — Aignostics is an AI-powered precision diagnostics focused on pathology to assist with drug development and clinical research. Its “explainable” AI overcomes the “black-box” limitations of conventional AI. Based on their patented technology for reverse-engineering the black box, they render diagnostic results explainable in the form of preciseheatmaps and image overlays. These heatmaps allow pathologists to quickly verify the results of the AI, which is crucial, as the pathologist is ultimately responsible for the diagnosis.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
HepaRegeniX — HepaRegeniX is developing drugs for treating acute and chronic liver diseases that effectively restore the regenerative capacity of hepatocytes. The therapeutic concept is founded on research by Professor Lars Zender’s group at the University Hospital Tübingen, which identified mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase 4 (MKK4) as a keyregulator of liver regeneration. Work by Professor Zender’s team showed that using small RNA molecules to suppress MKK4 gene expression restored the regenerative capacity of hepatocytes, even in severely diseased livers. Founded in 2015, HepaRegeniX is developing small-molecule MKK4 inhibitors to treat liver disorders, potentially including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.

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.

LDV Capital invests in deep technical teams building visual technology businesses that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
Luma AI — Building visual AI to expand human imagination and capabilities
Dannce.ai — dannce.ai uses AI-driven 3D-aligned neural networks to automate behavioral analysis for faster, more accurate drug development and clinical care.

The Pacific Northwest's Seed-Stage Venture Fund

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Paid — Paid is a business platform for AI agents.
Caddi — Caddi is an AI-driven platform that eliminates repetitive work for professional services through “Automation by Demonstration.” By simply recording a task once, our AI learns and automates the entire workflow—no code required. Consulting, accounting, legal, financial, marketing, and other service teams use Caddi to save time, reduce errors, andfocus on high-value client work.Founded by experts in AI and cloud-scale infrastructure, Caddi brings deep knowledge of professional services’ day-to-day challenges. Our mission is to free professionals from tedious, manual tasks so they can devote more energy to delivering superior outcomes and growing their businesses.
Ravenna — Ravenna offers an AI-driven internal help desk platform designed for IT and operations teams. The platform integrates seamlessly with Slack, enabling users to convert any Slack message, including direct messages, into support tickets. Ravenna automates service requests, streamlines workflows, and provides AI-powered knowledge generation to enhanceinternal support processes. It also offers analytics to help teams measure and improve their performance over time.

Magma is Israel's leading venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in communication, semiconductors, internet and media. They seek bright ideas, infuse them with experience and foresight, and facilitate their rise as industry leaders that redefine the global communications sector. They use their experience and sectorspecialization in cooperating with entrepreneurs, industry experts, and other investors to define the future of the communication, semiconductors, internet and media arenas. Their goal is to foster and enable the flow of innovation from an idea's early stages and through a company's emergence as a leader within its dynamic market. They understand the local market and help to influence the global one.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Seed
Israel, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Ubeya — Ubeya is an employee management platform that helps manage shift and hourly employees. Offering an and-to-end solution for Staffing Agencies, Catering and Hospitality industries, Delivery Fleets, and more. Helping Managers, Payroll, HR and Legal departments to digitize operations with an employee app and a client portal. Our modular system allows each business to choose the functions that best serve their business: Schedule, Clock-in, Track, Communicate and Pay your employees with Ubeya.
Intezer — Intezer introduces a Genetic Malware Analysis technology, revolutionizing cyber threat detection and response. By identifying the origins of software, Intezer equips enterprises with an advanced way to detect modern cyber threats, while providing deep context on how to effectively respond to incidents. Intezer offers solutions for incident responseautomation, cloud workload protection, threat intelligence, and more. For more information, visit www.intezer.com.
Allseated — AllSeated is a free collaboration network for planning events that enables you to design floor plans, manage guest lists, and create seating seating charts. We save you time and make planning your event simple.

Lux Capital manages over $5 billion in assets focused on founding, seed, early-stage, and growth investments at the intersection of technology and the sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high-growth sectors. Its investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux's investmentstrategy ensures portfolio companies are better connected, have a deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Shiru — Discover Shiru. We are an Ingredient Company that Identifies and Creates Functional Ingredients for the Plant-Based Industry.
Enveda Biosciences — Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California.
Physical Intelligence — Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Flower Labs — A unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. Federate any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language.
Barnyard Games — Barnyard Games is a gaming production studio that creates strategic games and simulations.
Kosmik — Kosmik is the visual canvas for knowledge management. Kosmik allows you to write, create large media collections, browse the web and share it all with your team! No more folders, bookmarks or infinite message threads.

Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
Stell — Stell is a platform that digitizes the relationship between aerospace companies and their suppliers with a living specification workflow
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.

Mike Jones is an internet executive, investor, and strategic advisor. A long-time entrepreneur, Mike founded his first successful company in college and since then has founded, built, and sold numerous online and mobile businesses.As the co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Science, Inc., Mike brings together the best talent, resources, andfinancing through a centralized platform to build and invest in technology businesses. In 2016 alone, three of Science’s portfolio companies saw big exits -- HelloSociety was acquired by The New York Times, Dollar Shave Club was acquired by Unilever, and FameBit was acquired by Google. His experience and expertise in both large and small companies focuses on strategy, growth, and operational efficiency, resulting in over $2.6B in successful investor outcomes.Prior to Science, Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace. In this role, Mike oversaw global business strategy and operations for Myspace, Myspace Music, and Myspace Mobile, which included board and strategic roles with joint venture partners in Myspace China and Myspace Japan / Softbank. During his tenure, he was responsible for the relaunch of Myspace, one of the most high-profile turn-around challenges in the industry

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Twenty20 — T wenty20 has closed its doors and is no longer accessible. Continue your creative journey with curated photos from Envato Elements.
Anagram — Anagram's software platform automates vision insurance eligibility, claims, billing, lab ordering, and instant rebates to help eye care providers differentiate themselves and advance their practices.
Boom Entertainment — Boom Entertainment creates world-class products for the online gaming era. That includes slot machine games, innovative sportsbook products and free to play sports applications. We work with media companies, pro sports leagues, retail brands, and casinos.

MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

SPACECOOL — Spacecool offers zero-energy cooling materials that radiate heat to space, reducing temperatures and mitigating global warming.
Secai Marche — SECAI MARCHE is Farm-Fresh Platform to link farmers and enthusiasm chefs and consumer in all over the world.
Gaudi Clinical — Gaudi Clinical is a health care firm that engages in regenerative medicine outsourcing and cell processing contract establishments.

Brad is an entrepreneur and seasoned business development executive with a passion for technology, media, entertainment and lifestyle. Brad has a great deal of experience launching new ventures. While attending MIT, he worked as a Partner in a seed stage venture fund, ITU Ventures, and helped launch a joint MIT-Harvard incubator. During thisexperience, Brad worked at the earliest stages with many dynamic companies including Endeca Technologies.While serving as Director of Media Strategy and Development at AOL, Brad co-authored 3 patents in search, geo-tagging, and personalization, with Edmund Fish, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AOL. Following AOL, Brad helped raise $40M in venture funding for a contextual online advertising network. Prior to launching his business career, Brad was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the United States Army for five years, earning both Airborne and Ranger qualifications before retiring as Captain. He resides in Tribeca with his wife, Angie, his son, Elvis and his daughter, Scout.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, SaaS
Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Virtuix — With over 4000 Omnis shipped to date, the patent protected Omni system is the leading and most popular omni-directional treadmill on the market.
Ampsy — The Ampsy (formerly Fliptu) platform offers brands a comprehensive suite of social aggregation tools to aggregate & curate their best brand & fan social content into beautiful, engaging social visualizations. In 60 seconds, a brand can build a campaign and have it live & embedded anywhere with a single line of iframe code. Our socialembeds are proven to increase fan engagement and time-on-site, solving a major leakage problem in the customer acquisition & retention funnel.***2014 SXSW Accelerator Finalisthttp://sxsw.com/interactive/news/2014/2014-sxsw-accelerator-finalists-revealed-startups-rock-austin-march***Named 1 of the 20 Most Interesting Technologies at SXSW by IPG Media Lab of Interpublic Group - IPG (NYSE)http://www.ipglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SXSW2014_IPGMediaLab_Recap.pdf
LiveNinja — Business communication solutions from net2phone streamline workflows, effortlessly collaborate, and build customer relationships that last.

BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

KOHO Financial — Open an everyday spending account online with instant cash back & premium rewards. Join over 1.5M Canadians using KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to spend, save, build and borrow. Sign up in minutes!
Healthkind — Enabling healthcare teams to deliver personalized care at scale.
Planetary Technologies — info@planetarytech.com

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
Unrivaled — Unrivaled operates as a professional women's basketball league.

From publishing to healthcare IT to CRM, Wasabi Ventures has planned, implemented, and maintained solutions for many emerging companies over the last decade. Their professionals have a proven history of producing results in each of the following business areas: • Technology and Development • Sales • Product Marketing • Fundraising• Business Planning Their team includes experts in every functional area that matters to a startup as well as industry experts. Each of their partners specializes in different areas. While each of their partners can call upon the expertise of the entire firm, if you really need help in a specific area they will dedicate additional staff to your company.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Education
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Datanomix — Our Manufacturing Analytics platform combines machine data streams from your shop floor into actionable insights for your top floor.Focused on the global Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) digital transformations, we extend value far beyond traditional data visualization and process productivity tools. We provide an easy-to-useand intuitive analytics framework to better understand the underlying drivers of cost, process variation, product quality, and predictive maintenance.
Defendify — Defendify streamlines cybersecurity for organizations without security teams through an easy-to-use, all-in-one platform designed to continuously strengthen cybersecurity posture across people, process, and technology.Defendify delivers multiple layers of protection by providing cybersecurity expertise, support, and its all-in-one, easy-to-useplatform designed to continuously strengthen cybersecurity across people, process, and technology.
PursueCare — Get online addiction & mental health treatment right on your phone from PursueCare. Register today to work with our licensed clinicians and start your recovery.

Edward Miner "Ned" Lamont, Jr. is founder of Campus Televideo.Ned is a twenty-year veteran of the cable television industry and founder of the Company and assists in the management of over one hundred and thirty cable systems nationwide.A graduate of Harvard College and Yale School of Management, Ned managed the start up ofCablevision of Connecticut's 50,000 subscriber addressable system in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Lamont joined the board of Directors at Conservation Services Group in 2007 with a hiatus in 2010 while he ran for CT governor.Lamont has also been active in public service as former Chairman of the State Advisory Board overseeing the $20 billion pension fund, a teacher in entrepreneurship to high school in Bridgeport, CT, and a policy member at The Brookings Institution.Lamont is also a politician who in 2006 defeated the prominent incumbent Senator, Joe Lieberman, for Connecticut's Senatorial Democratic nomination.

Investment focus

News, Video, Journalism
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Stringr — Stringr combines a powerful cloud-based video software suite with a videographer network for on-demand video sourcing. On the same platform you can leverage Stringr's editing and enhancement tools, asset managent and sharing and streaming features to create video content faster and easier than ever before.
Watchup — Enjoy all of your entertainment, no matter where it lives, plus 50,000+ free titles from us.

Kernel Capital is the independent manager of The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds, one of the largest and most active sources of equity finance on the island of Ireland. Kernel leverage their extensive network to enable their portfolio companies recruit the highest caliber people, to break into new international markets and to generaterevenues of scale. It is the only investment firm with venture capital Funds dedicated to both jurisdictions on the Island. Kernel have raised over €210M from investors which including their strategic partner Bank of Ireland, Invest NI, Enterprise Ireland, Galway University Foundation, The University of Limerick Foundation, The New York State Common Retirement Fund and undisclosed Family Offices. Consistently delivering strong financial returns for their investors Kernel have led more than 20 substantial trade sales to NASDAQ, NYSE, and LSE listed corporations.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
Pilot Photonics — Welcome to Pilot Photonics, a laser product development company in Dublin, Ireland. We provide optical frequency combs and tunable lasers.

They are a group of friends and internet/tech entrepreneurs who first met ten years ago in Saarbruecker Strasse 21 in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. All of them started successful businesses, they are founders and share a passion for building great companies. As active business angels, they also invest in young startups, either individually orcollectively as a group. They provide seed funding for killer-founders and great ideas. But way more important: they help to avoid mistakes that they have already made . They introduce to the right people. They provide with all the experience that they have. Not just talking about it but helping hands-on.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Floy — Floy develops AI-driven software that supports radiologists in detecting complex and hard-to-identify diseases. The collaboration of Floy-AI and radiologists ensures optimal patient outcomes by enabling the early detection and thus early treatment of diseases.One of Floy’s distinguishing features is our innovative incentive structure. We partnerwith radiology offices to jointly offer patients our AI as a “second opinion”. This unique approach motivates radiologists to embrace Floy-AI and encourages widespread adoption.Since its establishment in 2021, Floy secured €8.8 million in funding and rapidly expanded its presence with over 150 radiology locations to date. Floy’s overarching mission is to pioneer proactive medicine by providing exceptional AI-powered diagnostic experiences for health-conscious patients.
a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.

Founded in 2014, Vayner/RSE is a marriage of builders: Gary Vaynerchuk, VaynerMedia and RSE Ventures. VRSE invests in teams building tomorrow's companies through unique consumer insight and relentless drive.Our sweet spot is in the first round of institutional financing, funding either as lead investors or as part of a syndicate.Beyond capital, we support our community with access and insights derived across both our investment portfolio and the operating companies we oversee on a daily basis.Our team has a diverse background of starting, growing and operating companies across a variety of industries and life stages and we leverage this mental elasticity to help our entrepreneurs through the gamut of challenges that accompany building companies.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Danvas — Danvas is advancing screens that will possess a fully dimensional interactive design that brings NFT art to life and will reinforce the authentic ownership of the artwork. Its premium, luxury digital art canvas aims to accelerate the world’s appreciation of digital artists and their artwork, and introduce art collectors to the value, andpossibilities of the next wave of digital art.
Lockchain.ai — AI-powered risk management for digital assets.
nameless — Nameless is a non-fungible token (NFT) platform as a service software company that empowers businesses, individuals, and digital creators to create, mint, and capitalize on their own custom NFT projects through easy-to-use scalable API solutions.

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