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Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Publishing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Publishing startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
RRE Ventures
VC Fund
14 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $1.1M–$38M
Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
13 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Convertible Note, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $50k–$1.7M
Accel
VC Fund
12 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.4M–$75M
Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund
11 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $1.3M–$42M
1745 Ventures
VC Fund
11 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising $1M–$30M
Lighter Capital
VC Fund
11 United States, Canada, India Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $77k–$2.4M
The New York Times
VC Fund
11 United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Series A, Seed, Series B Publishing, Advertising, News $500k–$30M
North Base Media
VC Fund
11 United States, India, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Series B Digital Media, Advertising, News $75k–$23M
SV Angel
VC Fund
10 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$100M
SoftBank Group
VC Fund
10 United States, China, India Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Mobile, Advertising $2.5M–$200M
Betaworks
VC Fund
10 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, Mobile
Social Starts
VC Fund
9 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $50k–$14M
Bossa Invest
VC Fund
9 United States, Brazil, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $49k–$36M
SOSV
VC Fund
9 United States, China, Canada Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $50k–$5M
New York Angels
VC Fund
8 United States, Israel, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $50k–$10M
Greycroft
VC Fund
8 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1.5M–$90M
Great Oaks Venture Capital
VC Fund
8 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $850k–$42M
Samuel Kwame Boadu
Angel
7 Ghana, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Publishing, News, Digital Media $1.2k–$42k
Hiventures
VC Fund
7 Hungary, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $18k–$2.9M
Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
7 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant Software, Health Care, Information Technology $26k–$8.3M
Müller Medien
VC Fund
7 Germany, Poland, United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $900k–$6.6M
Google Ventures
VC Fund
7 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $1.1M–$121M
Bpifrance
VC Fund
7 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $752k–$34M
Liquid 2 Ventures
VC Fund
7 United States, Mexico, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $125k–$48M
Knight Enterprise Fund
VC Fund
7 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Digital Media, Video $567k–$9.2M
General Catalyst
VC Fund
7 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $1.6M–$123M
Red Sea Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, Spain, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $1M–$40M
LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund
6 Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $41k–$22M
MDC Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Advertising, Analytics, Software $400k–$5M
Tuesday Capital
VC Fund
6 United States, United Kingdom, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Mobile $1.2M–$37M
Precursor Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $120k–$20M
Singapore Angel Network
VC Fund
6 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A E-Commerce, Health Care, Information Technology $69k–$4M
Kima Ventures
VC Fund
6 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $539k–$16M
Lightspeed Venture Partners
VC Fund
6 United States, India, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2M–$125M
East Ventures
VC Fund
6 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $250k–$30M
SBVA
VC Fund
6 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $750k–$60M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
6 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $411k–$32M
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
6 United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $600k–$65M
Sven Fund
Angel
6 Germany, Italy, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Publishing, Events, Digital Media $250k–$3M
Eleven Ventures
VC Fund
6 Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $28k–$2.3M
SilverCircle
VC Fund
6 United States, Canada, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.2M–$60M
HV Capital
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.5M–$80M
True Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.2M–$50M
Joanne Wilson
Angel
6 United States, Canada, Poland Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail $500k–$8.8M
Antler
VC Fund
6 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
ah! Ventures
VC Fund
6 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Education, Food and Beverage $19k–$3.6M
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
6 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.2M–$100M
Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
5 Turkey Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A iOS, Software, macOS
Greylock
VC Fund
5 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$62M
Thomas Lehrman
Angel
5 United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Education $550k–$157M
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RRE Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 14 investments in Publishing startups

RRE is a boutique venture capital firm with 30 years of experience, backing bold early-stage founders across diverse sectors. We provide deep expertise, AI-driven insights, and committed partnerships to help companies build and persevere for the long term.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 651
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$25M; Series B $7.3M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Helogen — High-value biomaterials manufactured in orbit and returned to Earth. Helogen builds autonomous space factories for regenerative medicine and advanced materials.
  • Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
  • A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya — a vinyl bar in shibuya | we build products that let humans play with music
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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in Publishing startups

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2078
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $50k–$450k; Convertible Note $50k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $55M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
  • Athel AI — Athel AI provides an AI-powered clinical intake platform for physicians and healthcare teams. Its tools conduct patient interviews through voice, chat, and video, capture clinical histories, and generate structured summaries for physicians. The platform also supports AI-assisted reception, dictation, multilingual interviews, and automated clinical workflows. Athel AI provides clinical decision support while keeping diagnosis and treatment decisions under the physician's authority.
  • Vidrovr — Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
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Accel
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 12 investments in Publishing startups

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2505
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $4.3M–$40M; Series B $9.5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $750M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Govini — Air is the leader in Enterprise Readiness. Our mission is to establish readiness as a real-time condition that is continuously achieved.
  • Filigran — Embrace a proactive approach with end-to-end cyber threat management, from anticipation to response.
  • Soma — Soma is the fastest insurance brokerage for complex commercial lines, providing fast and reliable coverage across the USA, including Florida and Texas. Partner with Soma for your insurance needs.
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Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 11 investments in Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 686
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $3M–$16M; Series B $10M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $200M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
  • Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
  • littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
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1745 Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 11 investments in Publishing startups

Part of media company Bertelsmann, BDMI initially invests $100k to $4m in seed and early stage digital media startups in online video, nextgen publishing and pubtech/adtech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 221
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $3.2M–$20M; Series B $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $63M in 2006

Portfolio highlights

  • Mojiva — Mojiva Inc. is the parent company of the Mojiva, the mobile ad network and the Mocean Mobile, the mobile ad serving platform. It is led by a team of advertising and media veterans from Google, DoubleClick, Yahoo, Nokia and AdMob, with more than 100 years of collective experience in mobile marketing and technology.Mojiva, Inc. provides productsand solutions that not only fuel the mobile advertising marketplace by bringing mobile ad buyers together with mobile content sellers, but that also solve unique challenges in the mobile marketing space. Solutions include tools to market your products and services to mobile users, monetize your mobile content, enable your global ad sales team to capitalize on an expanded media mix, control your inventory, or mobilize the brands your agency is working with.
  • Sensity AI — Sensity AI all-in-one, forensic-grade, deepfake detection solution guarantees the best results in the marketplace for analyzing synthetic media.
  • Ocular AI — Encoding Human Expertise into Machines
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Lighter Capital
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 11 investments in Publishing startups

Transform Your Revenue into Growth Capital. Grow your tech company on your terms. Get up to $4M in flexible financing, without selling equity or signing personal guarantees, warrants, or covenants.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 277
  • Round size: Seed $176k–$2.4M; Debt Financing $100k–$500k; Venture - Series Unknown $77k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Fincentify — Access up to $150 interest-free. Build credit history on auto-pilot. Earn rewards when you check or improve your credit score.
  • NPact — NPact provides powerful donor advised fund, grant, and scholarship management software to non-profits.We have decades of experience and deep domain expertise helping our customers harness technology to streamline their workflows and accelerate their impact. The Foundation Cloud, NPact’s combined product suite, empowers organizations of all sizesand areas of impact to increase their engagement and support the broader philanthropic community.
  • Plexus — Boost your productivity, automate your work, centralise your contracts or find a secondee lawyer and completely transform your legal operations with Plexus.
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The New York Times
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 11 investments in Publishing startups

Live news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world. Subscribe for coverage of U.S. and international news, politics, business, technology, science, health, arts, sports and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Advertising, News
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$4.6M; Series A $3.1M–$9.1M; Series B $500k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trint — Trint™ is what happens when technology meets opportunity. Jeff Kofman (veteran journalist) and Mark Boas (seasoned web developer) met at the Mozilla Festival in 2013, and quickly realized that the work Mark and his team were doing on media and transcripts could solve a problem that Jeff had long encountered: painstaking transcription of interviews.
  • OpenWeb — OpenWeb powers communities across the Open Internet, turning real participation into direct audience relationships, actionable insights, and revenue.
  • Automattic — Making the web a better place
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North Base Media
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 11 investments in Publishing startups

NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Digital Media, Advertising, News
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $75k–$5.7M; Series A $1.5M–$7.5M; Series B $2M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $500k in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Zaiko — Zaiko is the market leader in providing ticketing technology for live events and streaming shows. Monetize your show, engage fans, user analytic data, memberships, and more.
  • Spectrm — charles is the Conversational Marketing AI and CRM platform for brands to attract, convert, and retain customers via AI agents and marketing automations.
  • Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!
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SV Angel
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 10 investments in Publishing startups

SV Angel offers founders assistance with key inflection points, including capital raising, strategic networking, business development, talent acquisition, and corporate transactions. Through its relationship network, the organization connects emerging businesses with industry partners, executive advisors, and ecosystem resources. Additionally, the firm provides guidance on corporate governance, operational scaling, and management decisions to support technology enterprises throughout their growth stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1401
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3M–$35M; Series B $8.3M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $430M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Tab — Tab is an text-based AI assistant that acts as an execution agent rather than just an information provider. Developed by Terrasoft, Inc., it allows users to delegate actual workloads directly via their messaging app using text, photos, documents, or video.
  • Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
  • SafeWorld — SafeWorld is a safety testing platform for companies deploying robots around people, helping them assess and improve the safety.
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SoftBank Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 10 investments in Publishing startups

SoftBank Group operates as a technology-focused holding company that manages a portfolio of businesses across communications, internet services, artificial intelligence, and investment activities. The company provides mobile and broadband services through telecommunications operations and supports enterprise customers with network and digital solutions. It invests in technology-driven companies through managed funds and direct equity ownership, covering sectors such as software, e-commerce, robotics, logistics, and financial technology. SoftBank Group also develops and deploys AI-related technologies and platforms through subsidiaries and strategic partnerships. Its business model centers on long-term ownership, capital allocation, and operational support for companies at various stages of growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Advertising
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 244
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $5M–$75M; Series C $10M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Swirl Networks — Buy Swirl.com on DomainEasy. Buy it today!
  • RebelMouse — Build, launch, and grow with AI-powered workflows, technical SEO, and performance-first publishing.
  • Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
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Betaworks
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 10 investments in Publishing startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 193
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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!
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Social Starts
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 9 investments in Publishing startups

Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 445
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$3.6M; Series A $3.1M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $626k–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8.9M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
  • Ruby Bio — Ruby Bio is a biosynthesis platform that can manufacture complex molecules that are biodegradable and non-toxic. Ruby Bio uses naturally occurring yeast as a factory to convert low-cost sugar into high-value products.
  • Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
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Bossa Invest
VC Fund · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 9 investments in Publishing startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Aprenda a Investir em Startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2097
  • Round size: Seed $166k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $49k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $632k–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • FFID — FFID develops AI chatbot platform automating customer communication, lead generation, and marketing workflows.
  • SprayX — Company specialized in interactive process control to evaluate and guarantee the quality of agricultural spraying with excellence. Empowers, leads and monitors applicators in Application Technology tasks.
  • Sandwiche — Sandwiche creates customizable link in bio pages enabling social media monetization and affiliate marketing management.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 9 investments in Publishing startups

SOSV offers pre-seed capital and follow-on financial support to startups focusing on deep technology and scientific innovation. Founders utilize purpose-built laboratory facilities and engineering spaces to accelerate product development and testing. The firm facilitates connections between entrepreneurs and a network of investors through structured matchmaking events and technology summits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3729
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.6M; Convertible Note $50k–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $306M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
  • Simply Good Jars — Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everydayoperations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.
  • Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.
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New York Angels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in Publishing startups

New York Angels is one of the oldest, most prominent angel investment groups in the country. New York Angels has offered early-stage entrepreneurs funding, mentoring, connections and more for over 20 years. Angel investors join New York Angels for their extensive, experienced network, increased de

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 400
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.7M; Series A $1.1M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Linebird — Linebird is revolutionizing electric transmission line maintenance by applying drone technology to a dangerous and labor intensive process.
  • Seekeasy — Unlock revenue growth with local creators and insights
  • Skyfire AI — Drone automation and AI, from America's most trusted public safety UAS experts.
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Greycroft
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in Publishing startups

Venture capital and technology investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 968
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Series A $3.4M–$25M; Series B $7.3M–$90M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $451M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Axiom — Axiom is an AI technology company that builds next-generation AI mathematicians.
  • Sapphire Digital — UFABRO situs judi bola dengan keamanan maksimal, enkripsi SSL, transaksi stabil, lisensi terverifikasi, dan layanan yang transparan. Mudah digunakan dan sangat andal.
  • Arceus Legal — Redefining the future of law for the companies inventing the next decade.
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Great Oaks Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 578
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$5.3M; Series A $3.5M–$15M; Series B $6M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Nix, Inc. — Wearable single-use hydration sensor for athletes, soldiers, and laborers that measures hydration levels and informs when, what, and how much to drink.
  • Allara — Allara is your all-in-one virtual care team for hormonal, metabolic & gynecological conditions such as PCOS and Endometriosis.
  • Snapp — Snapp uses AI agentic systems and LLMs with access to comprehensive sports databases, real-time APIs, and AI-powered content tools to truly engage the passionate fan. Our early adopters are sports bettors and fantasy players looking for detailed insights and personalized recommendations — delivered in an intuitive, easy-to-use experience.
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Samuel Kwame Boadu
Angel · 7 investments in Publishing startups

Founder & CEO; Consultant @ SamBoad Express Editor-In-Chief @ Samuel Kwame Boadu's Journal Editor-In-Chief @ Accra Sports News Creative Director @ SamBoad Media Consult Founding CEO @ SamBoad Business Group Ltd Editor-In-Chief @ SamBoad Publishing Editor-In-Chief & Founder @ Accra Street Journal

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, News, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ghana, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.2k–$42k; Pre-Seed $5k–$15k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Accra Sports News — Get the latest sports news in Ghana and Accra, including football updates, match results, player news, and breaking sports headlines across the country.
  • Accra Street Journal — Accra Street Journal delivers the latest Ghana news, business insights, sports updates, and economic trends, with breaking stories and analysis from Accra and across the country.
  • The High Street Business — The High Street Business provides news and information about business, markets, and finance. It reports updates on trade, commerce, retail, and investment trends that shape the economy. The platform shares articles about enterprise, policy, and insights related to economic activities and developments. It publishes editorials and analyses thatexplain key topics in the business environment. It features reports about technology, finance, and public policy that influence local and regional markets. It also offers guides and discussions about topics such as digital payments, mining, and financial security.
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Hiventures
VC Fund · Budapest, Budapest, Hungary · 7 investments in Publishing startups

As one of the largest and most active venture capital fund partners in Central and Eastern Europe our mission is to create new ways of equity funding for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises with high growth potential as well as more traditional businesses for the purpose of establishing a sustainable and competitive SME and enterpriseecosystem both in Hungary and in the region

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Hungary, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 708
  • Round size: Seed $118k–$935k; Pre-Seed $18k–$138k; Series A $163k–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $493M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • iBar Experience Kft. — iBar provides an AI  inventory app that integrates into restaurant management software. They offer products and services for pizzerias, bars, discos, hotels, and restaurants.
  • SURVIOT Monitoring Kft. — SURVIOT equips bridges, tunnels and buildings with automated sensors and software, giving engineers real-time, reliable data on structural health.
  • Linkio - Ecommerce Integration Portal — Integrate wholesalers into your online store easier then ever
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 7 investments in Publishing startups

Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 894
  • Round size: Seed $394k–$3.2M; Grant $26k–$5.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $560k–$8.3M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
  • Amethyst Care — Amethyst Care is a startup that creates an AI-powered voice assistant for those with mobility difficulties.
  • Full Health Medical — Full Health Medical patient empowerment tools that improve prevention healthcare are part of the healthcare ecosystem. FHM provides reliable digital innovation, designed by healthcare professionals that are keen to help patients live a healthy life, in response to a national scarcity of healthcare providers, the development of chronic disease, anda lack of transparency at the patient level. People provide lifetime access to preventive care healthcare across screening, diagnostics, education, treatment, and a record of their journey driven technology provides lifetime access to preventative healthcare custom designed at every step screening, diagnostics, education, and action plans that motivate individuals to address risks before they develop health problems.
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Müller Medien
VC Fund · Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany · 7 investments in Publishing startups

Müller family media and its partner network are very strong companies from different media sectors. Versatile and individually therefore also the CVs and personalities of their employees who every day with passion and curiosity to work in their teams to achieve common goals.Hans Müller has 65 years the telephone directory publisher Hans Müllerfounded from his living room out - the foundation for the company's family Müller media. His pioneering spirit is still felt today by the fourth generation and with all my colleagues.The company Müller family media is locally connected and networked world. With their five business segments directories, radio, print media, book and new business they are represented with locations in Europe, USA and Asia. More than 2,000 people every day win the confidence of consumers and customers. Changes and challenges of the media world motivate us to pick up trends early in order to help shape this. Their cooperative working lives of mutual esteem and trust.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Poland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$6.6M; Series A $2.6M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VITAS — Our system is based on Deep Learning and offers an intelligent voice assistant for customer service. Use cases can be found in both the SME and enterprise market for all companies with many standardized customer calls. VITAS answers the telephone, checks data in real time, can react flexibly to requests and offers the caller a self-service withoutwaiting time. Areas of application include restaurants, workshops, medical practices, taxi centres, insurance companies, banks and tax consultants. With www.telefonassistent.de, we have developed our own software-as-a-service platform that allows companies of any industry and size to configure their own intelligent assistant with just a few clicks - completely without any prior technical knowledge. The settings vary from greeting phrases and specific questions to the creation of custom scenarios and call reasons. Everything can be adapted independently to the individual needs of the respective company without IT capacities.
  • edrone — Purpose-built e-commerce CRM with Marketing Automation and Voice Commerce. Turn your online store into a sales machine.
  • Mozaik — Auffallend ansprechende Videos, im dynamisch modernen Stil, ohne Vorwissen selbst machen. In nur wenigen Minuten erstellt.
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Google Ventures
VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States · 7 investments in Publishing startups

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1517
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$15M; Series A $6M–$100M; Series B $15M–$121M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • ngmoco — ngmoco ("Next Generation MObile COmpany") is creating and producing games for the iPhone. CEO Neil Young is a former executive from Electronic Arts, where he oversaw the development of several hit titles. Another EA vet and partner at Kleiner Perkins, Bing Gordon, sits on the board. Kleiner is an investor through its iFund.
  • Medallion — Provider credentialing and enrollment reimagined. Accelerate time-to-revenue, stay compliant, and scale provider operations, without adding headcount, through automated credentialing and enrollment.
  • EveryONE Medicines — EveryONE Medicines develops nucleic acid therapeutics for pathogenic genetic mutation of patients.
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Bpifrance
VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 7 investments in Publishing startups

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1722
  • Round size: Seed $752k–$6.1M; Series A $2.6M–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $27M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cofarco — Founded in 2009, Cofarco has established itself as a premier insurance brokerage firm dedicated for complex and specialist risks
  • Proteor — Proteor offers a complete range of high quality products and services to the O&P world, through more than 60 clinics.
  • Advicenne — Specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of pediatric friendly therapeutics for the treatment of orphan renal diseases and neurology.
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Liquid 2 Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in Publishing startups

Liquid 2 Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups, primarily at the pre-seed and seed stages. It provides capital, founder guidance, operational support, and access to a network of entrepreneurs, investors, and industry contacts.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1249
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.7M; Series A $6M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $12M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Albedo — Aerial quality imagery - from space.
  • Hilt — Govern data movement in real time. Kernel-level telemetry and anomaly detection built for environments where traditional security tools fall short.
  • Eden — Eden unifies medical imaging operations with clinical AI: PACS, teleradiology, AI-assisted diagnosis and structured reporting, deployed across 2,600+ imaging departments.
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Knight Enterprise Fund
VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 7 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Digital Media, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $567k–$2.7M; Series A $1.5M–$9.2M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CODE2040 — Code2040 is a nonprofit activating, connecting, and mobilizing the largest racial equity community in tech to dismantle the structural barriers that prevent Black and Latinx technologists from fully participating in the tech industry.
  • NewsGuard — Transparent Tools to Counter Misinformation on Behalf of Readers, Brands, and Democracies.
  • WhereBy.Us — WhereBy.Us builds tools for content creators and media to grow and connect with engaged communities.
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General Catalyst
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 7 investments in Publishing startups

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2301
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$18M; Series A $6.7M–$75M; Series B $14M–$123M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Lemonade — Lemonade operates as a full-stack insurance company powered by AI and behavioral economics and driven by social good. It is a licensed insurance carrier, offering homeowners and renters insurance. Lemonade replaces brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning, delivering zero paperwork and instant everything. The company uses artificialintelligence and behavioral economics to set rates for the homes and renters it insures. Lemonade was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY, United States.
  • Datalogix — Datalogix® is the industry-recognized leader at connecting digital media and offline purchasing data. We help more than half of the top 100 consumer marketers increase the effectiveness and measurability of their advertising. DLX Platform®, encompasses over $1 trillion in consumer spending and powers campaigns for more than 75% of online mediacompanies. DLX ROI® is rapidly becoming the industry standard for measuring offline sales lift for digital media. Datalogix also offers predictive analytics for Direct Mail, and integrated media solutions via the DLX Net. Our expertise spans the major consumer segments, including Retail, CPG, Automotive, Telecom, Travel and Financial Services. We are based in Colorado, with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, and London.
  • Legora — By streamlining and simplifying legal workflows, we empower elite law firms and legal professionals to work more efficiently and effectively. Enabling them to focus on higher-value tasks and deliver exceptional results for their clients.
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Red Sea Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Red Sea Ventures invests in early stage technology-enabled companies that have the potential to transform industries and consumer experiences for the better.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Spain, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $5.2M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $47M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Optiversal — Optiversal helps retailers win AI search by closing the gap between how shoppers search and how catalogs describe products. Get found across Google, ChatGPT, and beyond.
  • Elm Biosciences — Intentional skincare for living well and aging well. Elm Biosciences is a clinically advanced skincare brand built on breakthrough science co-founded by Martha Stewart and board-certified dermatologist Dr Dhaval Bhanusali.
  • Jacob Bar — Clean protein bars made with grass-fed beef tallow and real ingredients. No seed oils or fillers. Just one of the cleanest protein bars.
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LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 6 investments in Publishing startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Seed-stage VC fund for Central and Eastern Europe. 90+ companies backed.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 166
  • Round size: Seed $41k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $216k–$2.8M; Series A $4.4M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • 1club AI — 1club is an AI-native club management software platform built for gyms, fitness studios, and multi-sport facilities. It helps operators automate memberships, bookings, scheduling, billing, and member communication in one unified system. With built-in marketplace distribution, branded member portals, and AI agents that assist both staff and members, 1club enables clubs to streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver a modern digital experience to their communities.
  • Veridion — Veridion is a living digital replica of the business world. Decision-grade data for enterprise scale systems
  • Nanogram — Nanogram is an AI-powered gaming startup that creates an instant prompt-to-game platform, allowing anyone to build and share interactive short-form video games. Frequently described as "TikTok for mobile games," the company delivers an endless, vertical social feed of byte-sized, zero-download games that players swipe through and playinstantly.
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MDC Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

MDC Ventures invests in early stage, marketing technology companies transforming the global marketing landscape. Since 2010 we have been partnering with the innovators, entrepreneurs and startups addressing the needs of the Modern CMO. MDC Ventures is the corporate venture arm of global advertising group, MDC Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, Analytics, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $610k–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$5M; Venture - Series Unknown $400k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RLY — Provider of an online platform intended to convert live photos into reels. The company's platform helps in turning photos into a 3 second high definition clip, enabling its clients to capture live photos and edit with playback filters which can later be shared with others through the single platform.
  • Perksy — Market research for the mobile generation. Perksy powers real-time research with Millennial & Gen-Z audiences through mobile.
  • Gradient.io — Gradient is Amazon seller analytics suite that provide insights and recommendations to help brands and sellers boost their sales and succeed on Amazon.
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Tuesday Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 302
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6M; Series A $4M–$15M; Series B $4.6M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $2.2M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
  • geoSurge — The platform for brands and agencies to measure, understand, and improve how they're represented inside large language models and AI search.
  • GetWhys — Introducing GetWhys: AI trained on firsthand experiences
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Precursor Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in North America. The firm focuses on investments in B2B and B2C software applications, AI, and hardware.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 544
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $66M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • PodcastAI — Turn your recording into show notes, clips, and a published episode. Create Ad Reads, manage campaigns, and distribute your podcast in one place.
  • Snag — Snag operates an AI-powered housing marketplace and rental discovery platform.
  • Bluecore Energy — Bluecore Energy is a maritime nuclear energy startup that builds compact, zero-emission small modular reactors (SMRs) on floating barges to democratize access to clean energy. The company develops portable, water-cooled power systems designed to scale and meet the energy demands of heavy maritime operations, coastal communities, and major ports.
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Singapore Angel Network
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 6 investments in Publishing startups

SGAN is an early stage VC anchored by the multi billion dollar Thakral Group of Companies and has investments across India, Singapore and the USA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$3M; Angel $69k–$650k; Series A $1.4M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MyCaptain — MyCaptain is an online learning and teaching platform offering online courses with placements and certification programs. Upskill industry knowledge in the fields of business, marketing, design, content, and more.
  • Dawaa Dost — Dawaa Dost specializes in the pharmacy retail chain of generic medicines in India. The company focuses on the availability of affordable generic medicines. Dawaa Dost was founded by Amit Choudhary and Yash Harlalka and is based in India.
  • India Inc. Group — India Inc. is a media house that produces content and curates events on investment, trade, and policy matters. The company focuses on India’s increasingly globalized economic and strategic agenda. India Inc. Group's flagship publication is the ‘India Global Business’. It was founded in 2011 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom.
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey. The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors; backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth. Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset. Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 767
  • Round size: Seed $539k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $591k–$3.8M; Series A $1.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hoora — Hoora is a mobile gaming platform that offers an instant, scrollable feed of over 200 casual and arcade mini-games playable without downloads or waiting.
  • Verso — Verso is an AI-powered qualitative market research platform that automates consumer insights at scale. It uses adaptive AI to conduct 1-on-1 video or voice interviews with consumers worldwide, turning open-ended conversations into structured, actionable insights in under a week.
  • Cleavr — Cleavr is the first AI partner that automatically takes your money. which is linked to your ERP, takes care of everything on its own
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2448
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$26M; Series A $7M–$85M; Series B $15M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $600M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Tennr — Tennr is a custom AI assistant that accelerates research, answers complex questions, and generates custom reports.
  • Whizzo — Whizzo specializes in materials science-driven manufacturing of engineered fashion and technical textiles. Our expertise lies in creating and executing innovative textile blends tailored for applications across automotive, agriculture, medical textiles, and engineered fashion.
  • Zenzap — Zenzap is a software company that develops an AI-powered workplace communication and collaboration platform for businesses. Its application combines team messaging, task management, file sharing, voice and video calls, and calendar integration in a centralized workspace. The platform organizes conversations by teams, projects, and departments, helping employees coordinate activities and track responsibilities within their existing workflows. Zenzap also incorporates AI agents and search capabilities that help users retrieve information from conversations, documents, and connected business applications. Its administrative features support employee onboarding, access permissions, data management, and the removal of access when employees leave an organization. The platform includes integrations with human resources information systems and other workplace tools to synchronize employee records and support business processes. Additional features, such as scheduled messages and configurable working hours, help teams manage notifications and maintain boundaries between work and personal time. Zenzap serves businesses across industries, including healthcare, hospitality, construction, logistics, and professional services, seeking to centralize workplace communication and improve team coordination.
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in Publishing startups

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 693
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$5M; Series A $1.9M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $366k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
  • BASE — BASE provides web-based services that develop and build e-commerce platforms. The company provides its services across Japan, such as net shop creation, development of shopping applications, development of online payment, and other services.
  • EveryWill — Every WiLL will hasten the creation of a new logistical infrastructure that addresses social problems, beginning with the "way we receive" our products.
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SBVA
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 6 investments in Publishing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Established in 2000 as an early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, SBVA has a storied history of empowering extraordinary entrepreneurs across the globe. In 2023, we joined forces with The Edgeof, a global startup ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, JP Lee, and Atsushi Taira and began our new chapter as an independent entity with a renewed commitment to fostering innovation and technological advancement.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 300
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$9.5M; Series A $1.5M–$38M; Series B $3.7M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $23M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Nums AI — Meet Causilo. A new foundation for the world's data.
  • Dentlink — A state-of-the-art digital dental lab, made by masters. All-on-X, veneers, implant crowns. One dedicated master technician on every case. First case free.
  • WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, and top-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 678
  • Round size: Seed $797k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.5M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $372M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
  • GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
  • Polaron — Polaron connects process, structure, and performance using AI and image data to accelerate how materials are characterised, designed, and manufactured.
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 6 investments in Publishing startups

We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 133
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2.2M–$10M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HeyBreez AI — Breez AI is a no-code voice orchestration platform built for reliable, scalable real-time voice AI. The system unifies carrier connectivity, media delivery, AI models, and orchestration into one global routing layer, stabilizing phone operations and enabling companies to scale voice automation without engineering or additional headcount.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Anecdote —
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Sven Fund
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Events, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, Italy, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UNFIA — The marketplace of craft wine
  • Ex Ordo — Ex Ordo is a Galway-based software company whose web applications enable research conference organisers to manage successful and career-enhancing events at which researchers can publish papers and collaborate together. Their web applications automate the mundane, time-consuming tasks, saving organisers an average of 15 days, €5 to €15k, overthe life of a conference.
  • SciFlow — SciFlow is a comprehensive publishing platform that allows researchers to focus on what is important – their research. We offer an intuitive text editor that helps to focus on writing – not formatting – the document. All co-authors can write, comment and review the same version of the article. With our premium services, we allow researchers tocheck for plagiarism and spelling errors and to translate their text. With one click, the article is exported to a publisher compliant format. Unlike existing text editors, researchers can perform all tasks related to publishing scientific texts with SciFlow on a single platform. Thus, SciFlow saves time and gives the confidence to submit an article to a publisher.
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Eleven Ventures
VC Fund · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 6 investments in Publishing startups

We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 212
  • Round size: Seed $28k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $55k–$1.1M; Convertible Note $28k–$120k
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $68M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Flataway.ai — Flataway - the home of subscription living. Live & work from anywhere in a trusted proffessionally managed accomodation.
  • nFuse.ai — nFuse automates B2B orders for FMCG wholesalers and distributors. Revenue uplift of up to 30%, live in under a week. No new apps, no change for your accounts.
  • Blue Longevity — Expert care for a healthier, longer life. Opening soon Athens | Istanbul | Sofia
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SilverCircle
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Backing generational founders building the future in AI, Fintech and Health.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.3M; Series A $7M–$16M; Series B $20M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KLIPY — KLIPY is the expression platform for GIFs, memes, stickers, clips and mini games. Discover, create and share content across apps and communities.
  • Honeycake — Honeycake is a cybersecurity company that offers an AI proof file security platform.
  • Cordant — Cordant reconstructs every payment across the systems it crossed, then checks what happened against the policies and agreements that govern it.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 6 investments in Publishing startups

HV Capital operates as a venture capital firm that invests in technology startups across Europe at all stages, from early seed funding to growth investments. The firm partners with founders to support company development over the long term, providing capital, strategic guidance, and access to its network. HV Capital invests across sectors such as software, fintech, healthcare, and consumer technology, and supports companies throughout multiple funding rounds

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 511
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$37M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $783M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
  • Rivercell — Rivercell develops a proprietary, programmable laboratory data platform alongside an artificial intelligence world model of the human cell to map and analyze therapeutic cellular responses. The integrated framework combines automated longitudinal, multimodal, and perturbational wet-lab testing to collect high-resolution datasets measuring how living tissue changes over time under specific treatments. Its value proposition is centered on serving as a cross-disease discovery engine that accelerates and de-risks drug development by accurately forecasting cellular mutations, clinical efficacy, and treatment resistance in silico.
  • Rabot Energy — Rabot Charge offers intelligent charging management solutions for customers to charge their electric cars at home.
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True Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

True Ventures leads pre-seed and seed rounds for founders shaping their product, defining their market, and building their team. First institutional conviction, backed by experience since 2005.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 760
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Series A $2M–$25M; Series B $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $885M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Flint — Flint helps marketers drive breakthroughs in conversion and CAC, by creating one closed loop of learning between ads and pages.
  • Smarterer — Individuals and Fortune 500 companies use Smarterer to help close the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Their dynamic assessment engine leverages the freshest crowdsourced tests around, to rapidly pinpoint skill level with a credible score. In November 2014, Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for serioussoftware developers, IT specialists and creative technologists, acquired Smarterer. As the world's largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,500 courses authored by top experts. Smarterer will continue to power crowdsourced assessments for freelancer marketplaces, e-learning providers and enterprise companies anywhere people need to prove their skills to connect with professional opportunities. The Smarterer community has answered over 56 million during 1.7 million test sessions, across hundreds of tests.
  • Diligent Robotics — We build robots like Moxi that assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.
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Joanne Wilson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Joanne Wilson is based out of New York, New York and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gotham. Joanne Wilson attended Simmons College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $684k–$3.3M; Angel $500k–$2M; Series A $1.5M–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Switchboard — Switchboard's service design, coaching, and software offerings generate real results for higher ed teams and institutions.
  • Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
  • littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2387
  • Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
  • Plouton AI —
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ah! Ventures
VC Fund · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 6 investments in Publishing startups

ah! Ventures is India’s only curated, sector agnostic and the largest fundraising platform for early stage startups raising funds up to 10 MN USD. Very strong network of 3000+ Investors including 2000+ angel investors and 1000+ institutional investors & fund/family houses, Robust deal pipeline of more than 600 business plans/monthand Well-established brand as one of India’s premier aggregators with a cornucopia of offerings to catalyze startup growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 223
  • Round size: Seed $130k–$1.8M; Angel $100k–$400k; Venture - Series Unknown $19k–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $19M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • HomeRoots — HomeRoots is a B2B eCommerce Company that connects buyers and sellers from across the globe. Specialties include furniture, home décor, rugs, lighting, outdoor and more.
  • Snap-E Cabs — Snap-E Cabs is an eco-friendly public electric transport service that allows people to travel safely.
  • Ochre Spirits — Meet Ochre Craft Spirits: distinctive Indian gin, rum, vodka and emerging pours made for good spirits, curious palates and global conversations.
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2522
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$14M; Series A $5.5M–$50M; Series B $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Z.ai — Z.ai develops artificial intelligence models and services built upon large-scale pretrained architectures. The company offers ChatGLM, a dialogue-focused language model series designed for smooth conversation and easy integration. It also provides Ying, a text-to-video model capable of generating short video clips from text or images, and AutoGLM,a voice-driven AI agent that performs smartphone tasks based on complex user instructions. Z.ai supports integration through an API platform and offers migration assistance for developers moving from other AI ecosystems. The company’s technology stems from research at Tsinghua University’s KEG lab and emphasizes general-purpose cognitive intelligence models.
  • ApnaPaisa — ApnaPaisa offers the Best Deals on Home Loans, Personal Loans, Credit Cards and EMI Calculators in India. EST'D 2007.
  • Despegar — Despegar operates as an online business-to-consumer travel agency that focuses on the Portuguese and Spanish speaking markets. It enables people to research travel plans, check flight availability, book airline, and hotel and car rental reservations online, as well as offer travel-related services, including access to airlines, car rentalcompanies, and hotels and vacation packages. The company serves the leisure and corporate travelers. It operates in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Spain, and the United States. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Miami, Florida.
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Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel · 5 investments in Publishing startups

I am the Art and Code Director at Metromedya Digital Ad Agency. In addition to my role as director, I am also a skilled programmer, designer, and musician. I have expertise in iOS and MacOS development and enjoy snowboarding in my free time. As a self-proclaimed geek, I am always seeking to learn and grow in my field. I am passionate about creatinginnovative and visually appealing designs and using my coding skills to bring them to life.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Software, macOS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.
  • Notes.io — A free note-taking app. Online Notes on everywhere.
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Greylock
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 954
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Series A $5.5M–$40M; Series B $11M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1.5B in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • BountyJobs — One platform for ALL your third-party recruiting needs. Supporting contingent and direct-hires, for one job or many, in the US and abroad.
  • Snorkel AI — Snorkel AI builds specialized training data, benchmarks, and evaluation environments that help frontier models and agents perform in high-stakes domains.
  • Lightfield — Lightfield is an AI-native CRM for companies to capture, analyze, and understand everything about their customers.
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Thomas Lehrman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

Thomas D. Lehrman is the Board Director at Gerson Lehrman Group.He is a Co - Founder and former Co - Chief Executive Officer of Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. Thomas Lehrman most recently served as Director of the Office of WMD Terrorism at the U.S. Department of State and previously as a member of the professional staff on the President's WMDCommission. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Financial Analyst at Tiger Management. He is also a Co - Founder & Board Member of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School and the Hillhouse Scholars Program. Thomas Lehrman is a Chartered Financial Analyst and graduated from Duke University and Yale Law School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$6M; Series A $550k–$12M; Series B $10M–$157M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • G2 — Compare the best business software and services based on user ratings and social data. Reviews for CRM, ERP, HR, CAD, PDM and Marketing software.
  • Smarterer — Individuals and Fortune 500 companies use Smarterer to help close the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Their dynamic assessment engine leverages the freshest crowdsourced tests around, to rapidly pinpoint skill level with a credible score. In November 2014, Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for serioussoftware developers, IT specialists and creative technologists, acquired Smarterer. As the world's largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,500 courses authored by top experts. Smarterer will continue to power crowdsourced assessments for freelancer marketplaces, e-learning providers and enterprise companies anywhere people need to prove their skills to connect with professional opportunities. The Smarterer community has answered over 56 million during 1.7 million test sessions, across hundreds of tests.
  • Journeyfront — Journeyfront helps you get hiring right. Hiring accuracy solves costly problems including low job performance and turnover before you even hire.
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