Top 50 Photography Startup Investors

Investor	Photography investments
SVA	9
Lerer Hippeau	8
Greylock	7
Index Ventures	6
Info Edge	6
First Round Capital	6
Great Oaks Venture Capital	5
Scout Ventures	5
Andreessen Horowitz	5
Founder Collective	5
ff Venture Capital	4
Jason Calacanis	4
Floodgate	4
Wellington Partners	4
HOWZAT Partners	4
Inimiti	4
LAUNCHub Ventures	4
Redpoint	4
Steamboat Ventures	4
Baseline Ventures	4
Kickstart	4
Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures	4
Founders' Co-op	4
Peterson Ventures	4
NFX	4
LDV Capital	4
Reid Hoffman	4
Harrison Metal	4
True Ventures	4
Ned Lamont	3
Bradley C. Harrison	3
Friedrich Georg Hoepfner	3
Freestyle Capital	3
Khosla Ventures	3
Saarbruecker 21	3
Vayner/RSE	3
NXTP Ventures	3
Right Side Capital Management	3
Lux Capital	3
Jeremy Yap	3
QueensBridge Venture Partners	3
BDC Venture Capital	3
TMT Investments	3
Michael Jones	3
Moai Capital	3
2048 Ventures	3
Threshold	3
Joachim Bernecker	3
Maven Ventures	3
Angel One Network	3

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Our experience spans from helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe scale. Over the last 30 years of early-stage investing, our core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with our founder-first approachhave driven our strategy. We are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. We support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging our network to help them propel their businesses forward.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.
Amber Bio — Amber Bio is rewriting the rules of medicine.
Nomic AI — Nomic AI engages in improving both the explainability and accessibilty of AI.

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

Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
Teleskope — Teleskope is a modern data protection platform that automates data security, privacy, and compliance at scale.
Advocate — Advocate will help Americans engage with federal agencies through a scalable technology-enabled services platform to provide disabled Americans with a transparent, hassle-free way to receive the government benefits they deserve. We believe that the application process for these benefits should be easy and the financial support accessible to allqualified claimants

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

PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
Upwind Security — Upwind Security creates and develops software and online tools that ensures security of cloud infrastructure. It manages runtime environments of the cloud platform.
Rockset — Build blazing fast search and AI applications in record time.

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

Worldover — Cosmetic compliance made simple
Ideogram — Ideogram: Helping people become more creative.
SafetyCulture — Raise your game with an easy to use mobile app and software inspection solution. iAuditor by SafetyCulture is available on iOS and Android.

Info Edge provides online recruitment, matrimonial and real estate classifieds, and related services. 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 educationclassified site.It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Uttar, Pradesh.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Adda247 — Adda247 is India's largest vernacular learning platform with courses in more than 12 Indian languages. Adda247 is backed by marquee investors like Google, WestBridge Capital, Infoedge etc. Adda247 is on a mission to take quality education to the masses by providing online courses in local languages at a very affordable price.
Happily Unmarried — Happily Unmarried was anti established in 2003 with no vision and no business plan. Actually at somepoint they did make a business plan but according to that they should have retired 5 years ago.They make fun products, they do music festivals, they work with corporates when they want to do interesting work and lately they have been doing a lotof projects involving branding, communication, interiors, marketing all rolled into one (they are trying to think of a name for someone who does all that but no luck yet).
Startup Investments Holding — Startup Investments (holding) inolved in Legal, accounting, book-keeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy; market research and public opinion polling; business and management consultancy.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Ossium Health — Ossium is building the world's first bone marrow bank to treat blood cancers, improve organ transplantation, and repair damage from radiation.The cells of the immune system are the human body’s natural defenders against disease. At Ossium, they are developing better methods of recovering, preserving, deploying these critical cells to keepdisease at bay.
Cymbal — The human readable block explorer. Explore any wallet, NFT or collection to understand their activity, all in real time.
Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.

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

Leverage — Answering the Fundamental Question: "Where
Dashy Dash — Dashy Dash is a free community powered tool that makes it easy to manage invoices, discover new products & compare prices to help you save money.
Pesto — Pesto is a San Francisco-based fintech business that recently released the Pesto Mastercard a next-generation asset-backed secured credit card.

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

Portfolio highlights

BioFlyte — BioFlyte is commercializing a revolutionary new class of fieldable aerosol mass spectrometers and complementary products for protection from biological and low-volatility chemical threats. Our instruments identify microbes including spores, vegetative bacteria, and viruses, bio-toxins, opioids, and other airborne threats to our safety and security.Our products are designed to autonomously sample ambient air, for example, in critical infrastructure, but can also accept liquid or powder samples manually.
ID.me — ID.me is a digital identity network that aims to simplify the user's indication verification experience. The company's platform streamlines authentication, identity proofing, and federation of external identity and attributes providers through a single API, enabling military, students, first responders, teachers, and government employeesto easily prove their identity online via a single login and avail discounts on various networks.
Agnostiq — Agnostiq is a quantum and high performance computing company

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, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ideogram — Ideogram: Helping people become more creative.
Genesis Therapeutics — Their academia-leading research was the initial component of our expanding portfolio of AI technologies. They are combining novel deep neural networks, biophysical simulation, and massively scalable computing infrastructure to achieve industry-leading performance in a molecular generation and property prediction.The company was founded in 2019and based in South San Francisco, California.
Thyme Care — Thyme Care is a dedicated team of nurses and care experts offering value-based cancer care to help you through all phases of the cancer experience.

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

Akooda — AI-powered wizard for understanding and optimizing how you deliver value as a team
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Pollen — Grow your freelancing business with step-by-step playbooks from industry experts who have been in your shoes. Join the waitlist for early access.

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, Canada, Poland

Portfolio highlights

PrivacyHawk — Privacyhawk is a mobile app that empowers everyone to take back control of their privacy.
Dashbot — Actionable Voice & Chatbot Analytics. Optimize Response Effectiveness; Understand User Behaviors; Increase User Satisfaction, Engagement, and Monetization.
Payscore — Payscore is an automated income verification tool that helps property managers and lenders make the best applicant approval decisions.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
CyberFilm — Bring your story to life!
Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

StoryCo — Story DAO platform enlists Hollywood creators to engage, solve, build, create, and co-own IP universes using blockchain.
Harmonic.ai — All in one platform with billions of datapoints on startups, talent, and trends updated daily. Start saving up to 10 hours a week per user with Harmonic today.
Roo — The premier veterinary relief services platform, Roo, pairs freelance veterinarians and technicians with animal hospitals in need of relief.

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

Seamless Therapeutics — Seamless Therapeutics is changing the paradigm of gene editing through a pioneering approach to restore health in patients with severe conditions in a safe and precise manner. Seamless technology platform unlocks the reprogramming of recombinases, a highly versatile class of enzymes.
Nosto — Use Powerful Personalization Made Easy on e-Commerce Platforms. Nosto generates a 10-30% Average Increase in Revenue.
Minervax — MinervaX is pursuing the development of a vaccine against Group B streptococcus (GBS) infections by utilizing a particular fusion protein : click to read more

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

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.
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.
Suitepad — 2012, the idea for SuitePad was born. Merge guests' wallet, phone, remote, room-service menu, spa catalog, and newspapers on a device's vision was that for the first time was financed thanks to favorable expectant Android tablets.Product development was accompanied by renowned private and chain hoteliers from Germany, Austria, andSwitzerland. So the SuitePad was very close to the actual needs of the developed chain and private hotels. After 2013, the first SuitePad installation is completed, the product is found not only in sales so far in 11 European countries, but was also honored with numerous industry-related awards. These include the u. A. CeBit BITKOM Innovation Award 2013, the Gastro Vision Award 2014 of the Travel Industry Club Best Practice Award 2014, and the HSMAI Technology and Innovation Award.

Inimiti makes seed-stage New Media investments. They bring extensive experience in fund and company management from being entrepreneurs, CEOs and investors. Their focus is Software platforms and services in the New Media space (Internet, Mobile and anything in between).Its Name Inimiti, is a derivative of “inimitable” which means “somethingthat is beyond imitation, something surpassingly excellent, unrivaled and exceptional.” We like to feel that way but more important, it keeps us on edge and reminds us every day about the high level of performance we are expected to deliver.The company is at the beginning of a revolution in the way people communicate, consume content, shop, do business and manage their lives. The usage of Internet and mobile today, and their connectivity presents a tremendous opportunity to create successful companies that bring new platforms and services to the space. Combine that with today’s rapid development and deployment technologies and our start-up companies are getting to the market faster with less capital, and grow quickly into profitable businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Craft.io — Plan & manage your products with craft.io. A comprehensive, streamlined, intuitive product management platform built for product managers.

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, Funding Round
Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.
Kubeark — Kubeark powers scalable, rapid, and compliant SaaSification and software lifecycle management.
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.

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 B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Atmosfy — Atmosfy lets you explore dining through video. Easily browse 10-second, engaging videos from customers who recently dined there.
Mindigital Group — Mindigital is a leading global Fintech firm specialzing in providing Banking As A Service to local institutions in each country. We have served clients from different continents in countries including US, Spain, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines and Vietnam. Mindigital has consistently helped our partners to upgrade theirdigital infrastructure, improve profit , control risk and save operation cost.
Cyera — Cyera provides organizations with data reality for cloud data security. Cyera was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in San Mateo, USA.

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.

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

Haus Analytics — Automated incrementality experiments and durable, cookieless attribution to help brands make informed investment decisions.
Patented.ai — Building the world's first infringement detector.
LLM Shield — Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today.

Seed investing in the Mountain West since 2008

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nursa — Find PRN jobs or hire RNs, LPNs, & CNAs in real-time with Nursa. Clinicians & facilities connect on our mobile marketplace.
Alysio — The leading Sales Performance Management platform that enables teams to track and visualize their employee's daily performance metrics.
Spiff — Spiff is the leading sales commission software and commission tracker automating manual commission calculations and motivating sales teams.

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
Impart Security — Real-time API Security spanning discovery, monitoring, and enforcement.
Videra Health — Videra Health often provides vital signs, such as heart rate, blood pressure, etc. The richness of the whole can drive insight into the relationship with the providers, medications, and treatment programs. Videra Health aims to empower patients and healthcare providers through AI-powered care-related analytics and insights to improve patientengagement, develop treatment plans, track symptoms, evaluate progress, monitor medication responses and safety, and achieve positive outcomes.

The Pacific Northwest's Seed-Stage Venture Fund

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Heard Technologies — Heard combines smart software with real humans to handle accounting, payroll and taxes. We act as a trusted financial advisor for your private practice.
Foundation — Foundation is a B2B e-commerce network that links distributors and wholesalers with retailers.
Groundlight AI — Groundlight provides facile English language instructions and a few lines of code that allow developers to interpret photos programmatically. Low-confidence results are immediately forwarded to increasingly sophisticated ML systems and human experts using Groundlight's assisted escalation technology.

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

Lifeforce — Lifeforce operates as a clinically integrated health optimization platform.
Sora — Sora finds your clients better deals on their new or existing home, auto & student loans, and seamlessly moves them into their lowest cost of debt.
Rebuy Engine — Rebuy is an omni-channel personalization engine built to increases online sales and conversions by upselling, cross-selling, recommending products and personalizing the online shopping experience. At its core Rebuy is an automated, data-driven, personalization engine built on its own API. Merchants can use Rebuy to unlock significant gains fromtheir online store by using our prebuilt personalization workflow objects or by building their own workflows using Rebuy’s API.Rebuy is a leader in the personalization space working and integrating with the best apps in e-commerce including ReCharge, Refersion, Klaviyo, ARPU, Nacelle, Okendo, Yotpo, Stamped.io and more helping to power some of the web’s most innovative brands including Pura Vida, Kettle & Fire, Primal Kitchen, Road iD, Vanity Planet, SiO Beauty, Crossnet, and more.Our vision is to create an e-commerce recommendation and retention engine that knows what you want before you do.

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

Praso — Praso is a business-to-business platform that connects large food service producers with small shops such as bars, restaurants, cafés, and bakeries, offering a data-driven approach to demand generation, last-mile logistics, understanding purchase behavior, and a credit solution.
Akooda — AI-powered wizard for understanding and optimizing how you deliver value as a team
Vendict — Streamline your security questionnaires. Respond to security questionnaires faster, with elaborated answers and supporting evidence. At Vendict, we use state-of-the-art AI technology to fully automate the response process.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BurnerPage — BurnerPage is an AI and machine learning platform that automatically optimizes web page conversion performance.
ImVitro — ImVitro is a medical device developer that offers a SaaS platform that applies AI to In vitro fertilization imaging needs. In 2019, Alexandra Boussommier Calleja and Maryame Boulhajat formed the the Paris, Ile-de-France, France-based company.
Memorable — High-accuracy AI to improve branding and performance of every ad.

Reid Hoffman is a Partner at Greylock and a Co-founder and Board Member at Inflection.AI. He was a Chairman and CEO at Linkedin. Reid attended the University of Oxford and Stanford University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.
JusticeText — JusticeText is a software platform that makes it easier for public defenders to process and incorporate crucial audio and video evidence in defense of their clients.

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

Vital Interaction — Vital Interaction uses patient engagement insights & intelligent medical scheduling to improve practice profitability & patient satisfaction
Crowdbotics — It's not low-code, it's full code made easy. Build business-ready software, apps, integrations, and more with the Crowdbotics App Builder. Hire certified PMs and developers to help build your project at any time.
Roboto Games — Founded by Curt Bererton, Mathilde Pignol and Vijay Myneni, Roboto Games is a small scrappy studio made up of plucky game industry vets who, despite common wisdom, cannot stop making games in San Francisco. We ascribe to the time tested Three Musketeers meets Voltron philosophy for making casual and mid-core games.

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
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Lex — Lex is a modern writing tool that helps people think through their ideas and communicate more effectively.
Carbon13 — We are the venture builder for the climate emergency, with a mission to reduce CO2e emissions by 400m tonnes through scalable climate tech ventures.
PayNearMe — PayNearMe is a modern and reliable billing and payments platform that lets your customers pay how, when and where they want.

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.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

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 — LiveNinja is on a mission to help people around the world get the service and assistance they need; anytime, anywhere. The company offers unique communication tools that enable businesses to better serve and understand their customers. LiveNinja Messenger, their latest app, simplifies customer communication by bringing each conversation into onemessage thread.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Miami, Florida.
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.

Friedrich Georg Hoepfner - Managing Director @ Hoepfner Brau

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Video
Seed
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Kamedi GmbH — Kamedi is going to provide users a device for the hyperthermic treatment of irritated skin after insect bites, the heat_it.
HQS Quantum Simulations — HQS Quantum Simulations is developing quantum algorithms to predict molecular properties for performance materials, specialty chemicals and pharmaceutical companies.The development of specialty chemicals, performance materials, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals is an iterative, time-consuming and often very expensive process: Designing productsbased on functional molecules, formulations or solid-state compounds requires many – often hundreds – subsequent synthesis, formulation and testing steps to yield the desired specifications. Simulations are a powerful tool to decrease the time-to-market and decrease cost for R&D and product development cycles, but can’t be used in an efficient way in many cases or is simply not advanced enough to tackle certain problems. Shifting from conventional to quantum computers promises to overcome these hurdles, but is not yet available for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.
GotPhoto / fotograf.de — fotograf.de/GotPhoto provides photographers a SaaS system for selling photos online.

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, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Arrive Recommerce — Arrive offers a premium service powering circular commerce for major brands and retailers. The technology and reverse logistics capabilities of The Arrive Platform enables brands and retailers in any industry to integrate circular commerce - including rental and resale - directly into an existing ecommerce experience. With this unique offering,Arrive makes it possible for any company to seamlessly launch a circular channel - ultimately reaching more consumers, driving more revenue, and promoting a sustainable solution. Arrive, first launched as Arrive Outdoors, is an award-winning company and has been named the 4th Most Innovative Travel Company by Fast Company in 2020 and awarded the 2019 Outdoor Retailer of the Year by the Outdoor Retailer Association.
RecruitBot — RecruitBot Is A Platform That Helps You Find Top Talent Through Machine Learning, AI & Cloud Tools. Contact RecruitBot, The Top Online, AI Recruiting Agency
BurnerPage — BurnerPage is an AI and machine learning platform that automatically optimizes web page conversion performance.

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems. The firm provides venture assistance and strategic advice to entrepreneurs working on breakthrough technologies.With over $15b assets under management, the firm focuses on a range of areas including consumer, enterprise, education,advertising, financial services, semiconductors, health, big data, agriculture, food, sustainable energy, and robotics. Khosla Ventures is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Alias Technologies — Here at Alias Technologies our goal is to help organizations tackle complex IT goals and initiatives in an ever-changing landscape. Leveraging our Partner relationships and extensive experience we are able to help position our customers for the future.
Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
Teamshares — One hundred percent close rate on LOIs. Committed capital with no financing contingency. Teamshares is the buyer of choice for your business listing. Request a buyer profile to learn more about us.

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, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Secjur — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.
Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.

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, Mobile, Software
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.
nameless — Top brands and projects rely on StealthTest to keep their IP and sensitive data private and protected until project launch.
Immutable Systems — Immutable Systems delivers a radically new approach to cloud security.

NXTP Ventures backs early-stage technology companies led by extraordinary entrepreneurs throughout Latin America. As one of the oldest VC firms in Latin America active since 2011, NXTP puts its extensive network of mentors, investors and industry specialists to work for its portfolio companies. We are particularly passionate about SaaS, logistics,and other services primed to create efficiencies in business workflows by introducing new technology. NXTP Ventures was an early investor in business such as AuthO, CargoX, Trocafone, Satellogic, Cobli, Liftit, VU Security and many more.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
ALPHS — THE ALPHS is an Indian-Italian lifestyle brand which operates as a specialty online retailer. It was founded in 2021 in Bengaluru, India. It serves customers worldwide, offers limited premium apparels, and lifestyle products which includes fragrances made in Italy. To ensure authenticity, their genuine products are sold exclusively through theirofficial website as mentioned in their terms of service. It gets online on big events and are available to purchase for a limited duration of 7 days only, thus selling out very quickly. Initially, they burned a great deal of their investor's cash by hiring top-notch verified celebrities on Instagram to promote their products and also did a lot of free giveaways to attract people. As seen on a news website, they were targeting women between the ages of 18 and 35 years from a few top Tier 1 countries which included United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy through paid advertising.As mentioned in an online publication, Ashini started it on Instagram as a fun side project inspired by 'The Originals', a fantasy supernatural American series. Later, it was turned to a professional brand backed by a few mysterious wealthy members, Ashini was one of them. So far, the brand has raised a total of US$345K in funding over 2 seed rounds from 6 investment organizations with Y Combinator as the lead investor, and made a revenue of US $1.35M in their very first year of online presence.
Exactly — Exactly is a decentralized, non-custodial and open-source protocol that provides an autonomous fixed and variable interest rate market enabling users to exchange the time value of their assets and completing the DeFi credit market.

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aiden — Reduce risk, enhance compliance, and simplify IT with modern, intelligent software packaging and deployment using Artificial Intelligence.
Benefitbay — Our ICHRA administration platform includes real-time plan modeling and a best-in-class premium payment solution. All backed by direct, human support.
Qeepsake — The easiest way to capture and preserve memories about your child or pregnancy.

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 our 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, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Siren Biotechnology — Siren Biotechnology blends two revolutionary therapeutic technologies into one for a novel approach to treating cancer.AAV gene therapy and cytokine immunotherapy are two revolutionary treatment approaches that Siren Biotechnology has combined into a single, redesigned modality. This approach overcomes significant obstacles and entirely transformshow tumor cells are eliminated and anti-tumor immunity is stimulated.
Together — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Thematic — Thematic is a cutting-edge platform for creating, deploying, and administering unique investment products on a large scale. Founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, CA.

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests in the Europe, North America, and Israel.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Paebbl — The modular technology from Paebbl may be included in any carbon capture system and is industrially scalable. As a result, Paebbl provides a raw material stream that is carbon-negative, radically altering the economics of preventing carbon from entering our environment.
Snaplet — Snaplet gives developers production-accurate data and preview databases they can code against, so they can focus on shipping. Ditch the seed script forever!
Metatheory — Metatheory Inc. is an interactive technology and entertainment company building Web3 games, interactive content, social experiences, and other community-driven adventures. Metatheory’s mission is to inspire imagination by connecting people worldwide through immersive worlds built on cross-generational IP.

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

Matternet — An end-to-end technology solution integrating the Matternet M2 Drone, the Matternet Station and the Matternet Cloud Platform. We provide our platform as a service to healthcare, e-commerce and logistics organizations.
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.
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.

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, Internet
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

InnerSpace — InnerSpace is the fastest way to transform your business and power the hybrid workplace strategy. Transforming workplace experience with insights into how people use a space and create innovative solutions that drive revenue and improve operations to hybrid offices.
Rhetorik — Rhetorik serves leading marketing and sales professionals with comprehensive intelligence on the deployment of information technology, communications and telecom (ICT) products and services. Founded in 1994, the UK-based company provides global vendors with online tools and research-verified data on enterprise users in the UK and Republic ofIreland. And as a key member of the European Market Intelligence Group (EMIG), Rhetorik tracks more than 1 million business and government contacts across Europe.
Carbon Upcycling — Carbon Upcycling Technologies (“CUT”) was formed to use the pollution of today to build the materials of tomorrow by converting CO2 gas into solid products. CUT sells advanced solid products derived from greenhouse emissions and cheaply available solids. Since 2014, CUT has scaled its ability to convert CO2 emissions into value-add end materials byover a million times. Through its portfolio of CO2-derived solid nanoparticles, CUT has technically validated its solutions for use in plastics, coatings, epoxy, adhesives, concrete, lithium-ion battery, and pharmaceutical industries. CUT recently launched a consumer brand called Expedition Air.CUT commercialized a corrosion-resistant coating, utilizing its nanoparticles, in 2017, becoming the youngest CO2 utilization company to generate commercial revenue (<2.5 years since inception) and has since been confirmed as one of the top CO2 utilization companies in the world as a winner of the X-Factor Award in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. CUT has been named as a Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label recipient, a funding recipient of Fundación Repsol Entrepreneurs Fund, and a winner of the 2019 76West Clean Technology Competition.CUT’s most advanced product is its CO2-embedded concrete additive. In 2018, CUT graduated from the LafargeHolcim Accelerator in France and has continued conversations and testing with the company since then. CUT is also partnered with Burnco and Cemex. CUT’s commercial demonstration at the Alberta Carbon Conversion Technology Centre produces over 20 tonnes of concrete additives in a day. The product reduces the carbon footprint of concrete manufacturing by up to 25% while increasing the compressive strength of concrete by up to 40%.

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

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.
Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
Feel — We make the cleanest, potent supplements in the world. Delivered straight to your door. Designed by nutritionists for energy, sleep, stress and hair, skin & nails.

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, Social Media
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.
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.
Anagram — Anagram's software platform helps eye care practice automate vision insurance eligibility, claims, billing, and automating the supply chain from lab ordering, to instant rebates to help eye care providers differentiate themselves and advance their practices.

Moai Capital is seed & venture capital investor run by Brian Jacobs investing in consumer, cloud & autism startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Robotics, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Upwage — Our mission is to create $1 trillion in new wealth for the 44% of Americans who make less than $16/hr, using the power of big data & AI.
Sensate — Wearable technology using science to help you relax, reduce stress and anxiety and improve your mental health. Learn more about Sensate and our mission.
Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.

We back visionary founders who are building technologies of the future.2048 Ventures is a thesis-driven earliest stage venture capital firm. We are founders, experienced operators, nerds and dreamers obsessed with the future. We've backed over 200 startups and have the experience and conviction to lead your pre-seed.We are systemsthinkers, engineers, and product junkies. We think about the future non-stop and are ready to understand and back you before anyone else. When we decide to invest, we write you a check and then help you close the rest of the round. If you are a mission-driven team, with strong founder market-fit and a vision for what the future should look like, then we would love to meet you. We love serial founders, but we are also very excited about being the first to believe in underdogs, immigrants, and diverse founders who are going on their first founder journey.2048 Ventures is the earliest stage venture capital firm. They are a team of founders, experienced operators, nerds, and dreamers obsessed with the future. They provide capital and hands-on help for founders at the earliest stage.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Peru

Portfolio highlights

H2Ok Innovations — H2Ok Innovations Harnesses Artificial Inteligence and Data Science to Empower Comunities With the Knowledge for Clean Water.
BioLM — BioLM is a bioinformatician, data scientist, laboratory scientist, researcher, and software developer. They offer biological algorithms, AIPs, and modeling. On amino acids and DNA, their platform enables the training and serving of SOTA models for secure tokenization, regression, classification, de novo generation, folding, and other applications.
FemTherapeutics Inc. — FemTherapeutics Inc. is developing the world's first customizable gynaecological prosthetic for the treatment of pelvic health conditions.

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies. Threshold was founded in 2019 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CloudZero — CloudZero is the only cloud cost intelligence platform that puts engineering in control by connecting technical decisions to business results.
ODAIA — Empowering Pharma's Next Generation of Engagement with HCPs
Vital — Intuitive, user friendly, smart hospital software that leverages AI for an optimized patient and clinician experience.

Joachim Bernecker

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

MoBerries — MoBerries is a network that connects companies and professionals. MoBerries mission is to revolutionize the old fashioned recruitment processes, offering networking software with a unique real-time matching algorithm, tailored to both professionals as well as partners.The system enables employers to expand their reach when sourcing high-qualitycandidate leads for their job openings without wasting precious time and resources. The added value for professionals is that MoBerries provides them qualified leads for potentially matching positions.
GotPhoto / fotograf.de — fotograf.de/GotPhoto provides photographers a SaaS system for selling photos online.
Reposito — Reposito is develops smart phone applications for digitization, storage, and on-line management of receipts.

Maven Ventures invests in software startups that millions of consumers use daily to improve their lives. It makes $750K-$1M Seed investments in founders with a "vision worth fighting for” and the potential to build billion-dollar businesses. Its team identifies future consumer trends—it has already seen its investment predictions come to lifein areas like self-driving cars, the proliferation of mobile, and video communication, the future of retail, and digital health. Notable investments include Zoom (IPO “ZM”), Cruise (acquired by GM), and Chariot (acquired by Ford). As they only make 6 new startup investments each year, they focus on each one, rolling up their sleeves to teach founding teams how to achieve product/market fit, hone their consumer messaging, reach millions of customers with viral marketing, and set them up for success.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Daybreak Health — Daybreak partners with youth, families, and schools to create personalized, easily accessible, and affordable mental health programs.
House Numbers — Get cash from your home, track your home equity, never miss a refinance opportunity, and more!
Nest Genomics (YC W22) — Nest Genomics is a lab-agnostic, comprehensive software solution for implementing genomic programs at scale.

Angel One Network Inc. is a member-based, not-for-profit organization.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Angel, Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.
Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.