Top 50 Photography Startup Investors in United States in July 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Photography startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Photography companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Photography Startup Investors in United States in July 2025
Investor | Photography United States investments |
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SV Angel | 9 |
Lerer Hippeau | 8 |
Greylock | 7 |
Scout Ventures | 6 |
Founder Collective | 5 |
Great Oaks Venture Capital | 5 |
Kickstart | 4 |
Peterson Ventures | 4 |
Baseline Ventures | 4 |
Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures | 4 |
Jason Calacanis | 4 |
Steamboat Ventures | 4 |
QueensBridge Venture Partners | 4 |
Redpoint | 4 |
Reid Hoffman | 4 |
Index Ventures | 4 |
NextView Ventures | 4 |
Google Ventures | 4 |
TMT Investments | 4 |
Freestyle Capital | 4 |
General Catalyst | 4 |
Floodgate | 4 |
Andreessen Horowitz | 4 |
Founders' Co-op | 4 |
Harrison Metal | 3 |
Square Peg Capital | 3 |
NXTP Ventures | 3 |
Bradley C. Harrison | 3 |
Lux Capital | 3 |
2048 Ventures | 3 |
Ned Lamont | 3 |
Matchstick Ventures | 3 |
Khosla Ventures | 3 |
Wasabi Ventures | 3 |
True Ventures | 3 |
Ronald Conway | 3 |
Betaworks | 3 |
Obvious Ventures | 3 |
Acrobator Ventures | 3 |
Threshold | 3 |
Daniel Curran | 3 |
Moai Capital | 3 |
First Round Capital | 3 |
Maven Ventures | 3 |
Emagen Investment Group Inc. | 3 |
Michael Jones | 3 |
Scott Banister | 3 |
Right Side Capital Management | 3 |
NXTP Ventures | 2 |
Shervin Pishevar | 2 |
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- ai.work — Amplify your team with intelligent AI Workers connected to your systems, knowledge, and policies - built to work the ticket queues, automate the repetitive tasks, and get things done - lightning fast.
- Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
- Operand — AI Systems for Business Strategy
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- 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.
- 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.
- Ayoh Foods — Ayoh is mayo with a POV or as we like to call it, Sando Sauce. Our sauces are the ultimate pairing for burgers, fries, nuggets, veggies, or anything else you want to dip or slather. Check out our lineup here.
Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Mandolin — Streamline your infusion center operations with Mandolin. Our AI workers handle back-office tasks within your EHR, leveraging millions of buy-and-bill datapoints to ensure peak efficiency. Focus on delivering life-changing therapies, not paperwork.
- Cogent Security — Discover how Cogent Security's AI-native platform leverages the latest advances in machine learning to streamline security workflows, free up resources, and accelerate risk reduction.
- Fermat Commerce — The Next Wave of Commerce. Working with brands to 3x their ad spend results through custom, content-native storefronts
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Usul — Rosetta: Query government policy and spending data as it relates to your workflow.
- HavocAI — HavocAI is an artificial intelligence company that offers maritime autonomy solutions to the defense and commercial markets.
- PiLogic — PiLogic AI platform offers rapid analysis of radar data for real-time applications.
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.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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- Weavy — Weavy is a company focused on enhancing team collaboration by providing developers with pre-built, seamlessly integrated collaboration features for web applications. Their platform offers components such as chat, messaging, file sharing, AI tools, and cloud integrations designed to save developers from repetitive coding tasks, enabling them tobuild smarter and faster without reinventing the wheel. Weavy's tools emphasize developer-friendliness, intuitive user experience, and cost-effectiveness, aiming to empower developers across skill levels to embed collaboration and AI-driven capabilities into internal apps efficiently.
- Trek Health — Maximize Practice Revenue with Smart Payment Solutions
- General Medicine — General Medicine provides accessible healthcare services, including virtual visits, lab testing, imaging, referrals, and prescriptions to cater to patient needs. The organization is committed to supporting patients throughout their healthcare journey, whether through local specialists or in-house clinicians for various health concerns.
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.
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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 offers a faster and safer way to structure, label, & manage multimodal health data with automation, audit trails, and APIs.
- Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.
Seed investing in the Mountain West since 2008
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Gierd — Elevate your business with Gierd's robust solutions. Discover how our platform enhances efficiency, provides actionable insights, and drives sustainable growth. Explore now.
- 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!
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.
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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!
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)
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Redpoint partners with visionary entrepreneurs to create new markets & redefine existing ones. We invest in startups across seed, early & growth phases.
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Anam — Anam is the developer of real-time AI personas for brands to increase consumer interaction..
- Levelpath — Levelpath provides a simple and clear way to view and collaborate on all procurement activities.
- Gradient Labs — Our AI agent resolves complex customer service queries end-to-end. Delivering quality, efficiency and compliance at every step.
Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and also board of directors of Sanmai. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Perugia. Reid Hoffman has been awarded Marshall Medal.
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Investment focus
- Software, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Every Media — A daily newsletter on what comes next in tech. 100K+ readers.
- Sanmai — Sanmai is a neurotechnology company developing non-invasive ultrasound neurotherapeutics for mental health and neurological disorders
- Arcade — Arcade is a B2C platform that transforms the jewelry market through its prompt-to-product solution, allowing users to create unique designs using AI. The marketplace supports various user roles, enabling customers, designers, and influencers to engage and collaborate.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Boulevard — Boulevard is the first and only Client Experience Platform. Streamline bookings, optimize your schedule, and drive growth with a complete platform built just for you
- Moment — Engineering the future of fixed income with the world's leading financial institutions.
- Bigger Games — Bigger Games, a dynamic mobile gaming company, is at the forefront of transforming the mobile gaming landscape. We aim for great execution and passionately work on each and every detail in our casual games to build the best experience for our players.
NextView helps entrepreneurs build companies of consequence to shape a future of collective prosperity. https://nextview.vc/
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Australia
GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- PostHog — PostHog is the only all-in-one platform for product analytics, feature flags, session replays, experiments, and surveys that's built for developers.
- OpenEvidence — OpenEvidence uses artificial intelligence to aggregate, synthesize, and visualize clinical evidence in understandable, clinically-useful formats that can be used to make more evidenced-based decisions and improve patient outcomes.
- 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.
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.
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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.
Freestyle is an early-stage venture capital firm with investments in over 130 technology companies including Airtable, Intercom, Patreon, and BetterUp.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Stackpack — Stackpack manages your vendor spend, renewals, and contracts so you don't have to. Starting at $199/month.
- Maneva — Maneva Copilot AI is able to interpret, summarize, and combine the diverse landscape of data that exists throughout your production facility, and deliver the appropriate content to the question provided at all levels of roles, whether it is operational supervisors, quality managers, and management, process engineers, or maintenance leads
- Infinity Constellation — Infinity Constellation is an AI-focused startup holding company and incubator that builds and launches service-based businesses leveraging artificial intelligence. Their mission is to empower visionary founders to create the next generation of impactful, tech-enabled companies, emphasizing long-term growth and sustainable value creation.
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Certify — CertifyOS is an API-first, UI agnostic, end-to-end provider network management platform for credentialing, monitoring, licensing, provider health plan enrollment, and provider sourcing. With integrations into 100’s of primary sources, enabling near real-time verification and credentialing for enrollment, CertifyOS is uniquely positioned to be theone-stop shop for all provider networking needs, including provider sourcing, licensing, credentialing, health plan enrollment, and ongoing monitoring.
- Raphe mPhibr — Raphe mPhibr is an aviation and aerospace component manufacturing that designed and manufacturing comprehensive.
- Bilt Rewards — Bilt is the payments and rewards program for where you live, transforming rent payments into valuable rewards while connecting members with exclusive benefits in their neighborhood.
Your first true believers. Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies.
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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.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- OpenRouter — OpenRouter is a platform that connects AI applications with large language models and cloud hosting providers, allowing users to optimize for costs, speed, and performance. The platform supports over 180 AI models, offers a unified API, and includes functionalities like private chat and exploratory data capabilities. OpenRouter sets the newbenchmark for large-scale AI inference with its global edge infrastructure, privacy-focused design, real-time accounting, and integrated billing.
- Shield USDT — Shield is the first B2B cryptocurrency exchange designed for international businesses. Access a US-based virtual bank account to buy, sell, and transfer crypto.
- Abridge — For patients, clinicians, and enterprise, our audio-based solutions capture the details and summarize medical conversations, anywhere care happens.
The Pacific Northwest's Seed-Stage Venture Fund
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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.
Harrison Metal invests in early stage technology companies led by exceptional founders.
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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 is a software provider specialized in automating complex communication workflows. Their premier product, the Automated Patient Interaction System, enables healthcare organizations to communicate more effectively with patients using text messaging, automated voice, and email.This automated system helps both patients and healthcare providers connect quickly through technology to remind patients of appointments, fill open slots and request patient feedback.
Square Peg is a global investment firm on a mission to empower exceptional founders. With investing teams in Sydney, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Square Peg invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Australia, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Lorikeet — Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.
- Voyantis — Voyantis game-changing technology helps marketing and growth teams optimize their CAC payback by leveraging AI to acquire the most valuable users, across any platform
- AI Hay — AI Hay develops an AI-driven answer engine that allows users to access information through a question-and-answer format. The company combines hyperlocal, culturally nuanced knowledge discovery engines with social loops to enhance community validation and perspectives. It utilizes in-house specialized large-language models, retrieval-augmentedgeneration (RAG), and social features to build a knowledge discovery platform that serves the community.
Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Capim — Capim is a Vertical SaaS for dental clinics with embedded financial solutions, including Payments and Credit in the POS for patients
- Nuvia — Nuvia is an artificial Intelligence automation platform that helps with sales process, lead generation and hyper-personalized conversions
- Openlayer — Test, monitor, and govern AI systems from ML to LLMs. Openlayer's enterprise platform brings unified AI evaluation, observability, and governance to every stage of the AI lifecycle.
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.
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- Software, Mobile, SaaS
- Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- United States
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- 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.
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.
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- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Armada — The Armada Platform is a whole new way to succeed at the Edge with Starlink connectivity, mobile data centers & AI. Schedule a demo today.
- Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
- Hadrian — We are building the planet's most efficient factory to accelerate a democratic, abundant, spacefaring future.
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 or seed round.We getyou and your vision before others.We are systems thinkers, 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. We lead rounds with high conviction, and write $500K - $2M checks.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Kascaid — Kascaid offers innovative biomarker solutions using interstitial fluid to improve disease detection and patient care in autoimmune and inflammatory conditions.
- H2Ok Innovations — H2Ok Innovations Harnesses Artificial Inteligence and Data Science to Empower Comunities With the Knowledge for Clean Water.
- Nimbus Health — Delivering world-class lung disease care to COPD, asthma, sleep apnea, and other pulmonary patients in Columbus, Georgia, and other locations. The future of pulmonary medicine is here.
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.
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- News, Video, Journalism
- Seed, Series A
- United States
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- 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.
Matchstick is an early stage venture fund in the North and Rockies. We invest where innovative ideas, huge markets and, most importantly, diverse founders strike. We are honored to support "underdog" founders who will stop at nothing to succeed. Matchstick exists to act as a catalyst for our founders, our partners, and our startup communities.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, India
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech,offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies.
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- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
- Hertha Metals — Sustainable Steel Manufacturing is the future. At Hertha Metals, we develop eco-friendly steel solutions to drive a greener industry.
- Moonvalley — a research lab focused on pushing the frontiers of creativity through deep learning.
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.
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- Software, Mobile, Education
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States
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- 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.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Usul — Rosetta: Query government policy and spending data as it relates to your workflow.
- Audos — Where everyday entrepreneurs build small AI companies
- The Nuclear Company — The Nuclear Company is a fleet-scale nuclear deployment firm that offers for nuclear sectors.
Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.
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- Software, Social Media, Advertising
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada, Denmark
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- Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
- World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
- Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.
Betaworks is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund.
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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome
- Flower Labs — A unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. Federate any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language.
- Quadratic — Spreadsheet with Python, JavaScript, and SQL built-in. Data Connectors to pull in your data. Take your data and do something powerful with it now!
Obvious Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages. The firm was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.
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- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- Lynx — Lynx: API-connected healthcare payments, banking & e-commerce platform; enables companies to embed customizable health-fintech solutions into their experience | Lynx FinHealth
- Ataraxis — Empowering physicians with advanced multi-modal tools to improve treatment selection and patient outcomes.
- Inductive Bio — Bringing the data, ML, software, and expertise needed to rapidly solve your most challenging ADMET problems.
Pre/seed VC bridging East and West investing in data-heavy B2B(2C) solutions
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- FINVISE — Mortgage reports for financial institutions
- Algorized — Algorized develops advanced technologies for human presence detection using UWB Radar.
- MiLaboratories — Top-notch solutions for adaptive immunity studies
Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs to build innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies.
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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, Canada
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- Parspec — Empower your organization with AI-powered solutions from Parspec. Bid more jobs, increase revenue, and improve profitability in today's dynamic market.
- CloudZero — CloudZero is the only cloud cost intelligence platform that puts engineering in control by connecting technical decisions to business results.
- Salvo Health — Salvo Health is a digital care team for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), GERD, SIBO, and other chronic gut health conditions. Sign up today!
Daniel Curran is the Founder and CEO at CustEx.com.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
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- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
- RentoMojo — RentoMojo is an online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in November 2014.It currently operates in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida.RentoMojo was founded by Geetansh Bamania, an ex-IITM, in November 2014 in India. Like many other young working professionals, he was living in rented apartments,working long hours and found it inconvenient to equip the house with furniture when he moved. RentoMojo was developed to provide an alternative to buying and selling furniture in rental properties.
- GC Plus — Find Your Next Home Service Expert With Ease
Moai Capital is seed & venture capital investor run by Brian Jacobs investing in consumer, cloud & autism startups.
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- Information Technology, Software, Robotics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Sound Health — Sound Health uses acoustic resonance to provide nasal relief. Its current product is an app that scans the face to map the bone structure and then a headband that plays music at personalized frequencies for 10 minutes. The headband is off the shelf and the sound levels are akin to wearing earpods. It envisions the headband to be over-the-counter(OTC) so it’s easily accessible to patients, whether prescribed by doctors or not.
- Molten Industries — Decarbonizing the world's chemical and heavy industries
- Reset Financial Technologies — Reset is an earned-wage access platform that offers employees financial wellness and increases employee retention across industries through mission-driven technology.
First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
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- Andrenam — Andrenam is building an AI-powered, distributed maritime sensing network for persistent autonomous awareness from surface to seabed.
- Solidroad — Increase CSAT without increasing cost with the AI QA & training platform that reviews 100% of your customer conversations. Generate individualized training simulations for human reps and refinement recommendations for AI agents.
- arketa — Online and in-person classes, video on-demand, courses and website hosting - all in one platform with arketa.
Maven is a seed stage venture firm investing in tech companies addressing emerging consumer behavior and trends. The Maven team identifies and backs bold founders with a vision worth fighting for, then helps founders unlock their potential to change the world, building iconic brands like Zoom and Cruise. Maven maintains a concentrated investmentstrategy, making only 6-8 core investments each year. 16% of Maven companies have achieved an exit or valuation at $500M or more, 10x industry average.
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- Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
- Medeloop — Medeloop is an end-to-end AI-driven platform for early stage clinical research and trials.
- Fathom — An audiovisual recording service that integrates with both Zoom and Google Calendar.
Emagen Investment Group is a venture fund focused on seed- and early-stage investments.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Brazil
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- Coinbase — Coinbase is an online platform for digital currency transactions, enabling merchants, consumers, and traders to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies. The company provides Bitcoin wallet services, allowing users to manage digital assets and conduct transactions. Coinbase offers merchant payment processing tools, supporting businesses in integratingcryptocurrency payments. It facilitates secure digital currency exchanges, assisting users in navigating blockchain-based financial transactions.
- Munchery — Munchery is reinventing the weeknight dinner, and making it ridiculously easy to put a delicious, healthy meal on the table. Order wholesome prepared dinners, handmade by top local chefs using only the highest-quality ingredients, for same-day deliver to your home or office each weeknight. With new menus each weekday, you'll discoverfresh options for dinner every night, including options for all kinds of eaters, like vegetarian, kids, low-carb, wheat-free and more. All made fresh from scratch each day by the best chefs in town.
- Modal — At Modal, we build the future of auto commerce for the world’s largest auto brands and retailers. We take the moving parts of an auto purchase transaction and assemble them into a simple, digital transaction flow that seamlessly fits any webpage and transforms any showroom. We are a team of leaders from the world’s top technology companies likeGoogle, Facebook, Tesla, Paypal, Accenture and backed by notable investors like Y Combinator, Peter Thiel, Khosla Ventures, and Ally Financial. With our commerce, design, and technology expertise, we’re not just modernizing auto retail, we’re redefining auto ownership. To quote Peter Thiel, Modal is a “complex coordination” of many different technologies, driving billions of dollars in transaction volume every year.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States
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- 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.
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.
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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
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- Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
- Valid — Validated tests product ideas against real users before you launch. We measure the feasibility of your product idea rank value propositions and test messaging.
Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital
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- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Averi — Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growthoperation in one seamless experience.
- Eachlabs — AI marketplace for developers.
- Hutsy — Hutsy Financial is a financial services company that provides mobile banking, early payroll access and credit building products. In partnership with Peoples Trust we provide a prepaid debit card that our users can spend with. We also offer cash back on all purchases, spending insights, and categorizations to provide valuable insight on where yourmoney is going. Hutsy was recently on CBC’s Dragons Den where we raised our pre-seed funding round of $500,000 to bring our product to life.
Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
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- Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
- 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.
- Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
Shervin Pishevar is the Co-Founder at Virgin Hyperloop.
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- Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada
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- Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
- Limit Break — Limit Break is a blockchain game company.
- NUE Life Health — NUE Life aims to improve mental wellness by enhancing brain function, performance, and longevity through evidence based and scientifically proven mental health treatments and products.
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