Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in September 2025

Investor	Publishing investments
RRE Ventures	13
The New York Times	11
Betaworks	10
Accel	10
North Base Media	9
SV Angel	9
SoftBank Group	9
Lerer Hippeau	9
1745 Ventures	8
Knight Enterprise Fund	7
Sven Fund	6
Right Side Capital Management	6
Lighter Capital	6
Müller Medien	6
Red Sea Ventures	6
Greycroft	6
Sequoia Capital	6
LAUNCHub Ventures	6
SOSV	6
PROOF	5
Strong Ventures	5
Precursor Ventures	5
Enterprise Ireland	5
TCG	5
HV Capital	5
Clearstone Venture Partners	5
MDC Ventures	5
Kakao Ventures	5
Flow Capital	5
Ali Omar	5
Miles Morland	5
Mangrove Capital Partners	5
RTP Global	5
New Enterprise Associates	5
Headline	5
Singapore Angel Network	5
Joanne Wilson	5
Social Starts	5
First Round Capital	5
Social Leverage	5
Felicis	4
Elaia	4
Lowercase Capital	4
Thomas Glocer	4
New York Angels	4
Transmedia Capital	4
Mitch Kapor	4
VAM Investments	4
Entrée Capital	4
DTCP	4

RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that is in it with founders when it matters

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, China

Portfolio highlights

TrueX — TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets.
Farsight — Farsight develops AI automation tools tailored for financial services and insurance workflows. The company provides document synthesis and autonomous workflow agents that process unstructured data within native tools like Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF viewers. It supports use cases including investment banking analysis, private equity deal screening,hedge fund research, and underwriting automation, integrating AI into existing workstreams. The company pursues open-source contributions and collaborates with major financial institutions through customizable enterprise AI services.
Foundation EGI — The EGI platform from the Foundation is designed to speed up all phases of the product development cycle, from design and research to production and documentation, enabling engineers to create better products more quickly and effectively.

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.

Investment focus

Publishing, Advertising, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

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 — It's time to save online conversations
Automattic — Making the web a better place

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

Investment focus

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

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!

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CityMall — CityMall is a social e-commerce venture, backed by Elevation Capital, aiming to help the 200-300 million new to Internet users realize the power of Internet
FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.
ASTRO — Situs Belanja Kebutuhan Harian Online dengan Harga Terjangkau dan Kualitas Terbaik. Pesan Kebutuhan Harian di ASTRO Pasti Sampai dalam Hitungan Menit

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.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Advertising, Publishing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
TravoAI — Mobile app for annotating PDF worksheets with real-time AI tutoring. Made by Stanford students.
Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.

SoftBank Group provides venture funding and strategic support to exceptional entrepreneurs building disruptive enduring businesses. They are a small team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who take an "active" approach to helping their companies reach their full potential. They manage $600 million across three funds and investacross a company’s lifecycle, from early to growth stages. Through their close ties to a number of Asia’s leading mobile, internet and technology companies – including strategic partners SoftBank Corp, Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group – SoftBank Capital offers unique expertise to businesses seeking to address the Asian market. Since 1995, SoftBank Capital has partnered with internet pioneers such as Criteo, Gilt Groupe, OMGPOP (Zynga), betaworks, BuzzFeed, Buddy Media (Salesforce.com), Huffington Post (AOL), Associated Content (Yahoo!), Danger (Microsoft), Geocities (Yahoo!), E*Trade and Yahoo!.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Advertising
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Skild AI — Building general purpose robotic intelligence
AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
Telexistence — TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lava — Lava is the credit and wallet infrastructure that enables the internet to finance artificial intelligence. We enable businesses to track usage, issue credits, and receive payment for any pricing model, including subscription, prepaid, and usage-based. Without developing unique charging systems, entrepreneurs may monetize in minutes with a single,easy integration.
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.
Small Door — Veterinary care reimagined. Small Door Veterinary's membership model offers best-in-class personalized & convenient pet health care in NYC, Boston and DC

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.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
Spikerz — Manage social media security threats in one platform. Real-time protection detects and alerts on threats, letting you focus on growth.
Hark — Video feedback that tells a story. Deliver best-in-class customer experience. Agents receive "the perfect ticket" every time. Customers feel heard.

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

Investment focus

Software, Digital Media, Social Media
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

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.

Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

Investment focus

Publishing, Information Technology, Digital Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Zapnito — Zapnito is an online community platform that helps organizations connect with their communities. Harness your expertise with our community management software.
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.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Jayla Health — Jayla Health is a virtual clinic for menopause care to test, manage, and treat menopause symptoms from home.
Lab Symplified — Lab Symplified provides software for lab inventory, quality management, maintenance logs, and communication automation.
Naviday Health — Naviday Health is building personalized, AI-guided care pathways—starting with menopause—to help individuals confidently navigate complex health transitions. Our platform empowers daily decision-making through tailored insights, symptom tracking, and holistic support, bridging the gap between traditional care and real-world needs. We’re redefiningwhat it means to stay well every day.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arrivalist — Media Measurement & Travel Analytics Purpose-Built for Destinations
Fincentify — Access up to $150 interest-free. Build credit history on auto-pilot. Earn rewards when you check or improve your credit score.
Nyble — Nyble offers zero-interest cash advances to help you cover an upcoming bill and to avoid an overdraft.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Poland, United States

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.
edrone — Purpose-built e-commerce CRM with Marketing Automation and Voice Commerce. Turn your online store into a sales machine.
Fraud0 — Detect and mitigate bots in real time. Optimize your ad campaigns and make smarter data-driven decisions with holistic insights and alerts.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Reclip — Real life, captured by Reclip.
Elm — skincare brand
Jacob Bar — Jacob Bar is a food manufacturing company that specializes in clean‑ingredient, high‑protein snack bars.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Lead — Lead Bank is a community-minded, independent commercial bank with a national client base recognized for its imaginative approach to community banking.
Penguin Ai — Penguin AI uses AI to analyze health records and support care decisions, improving patient outcomes.
H2Ok Innovations — H2Ok Innovations Harnesses Artificial Inteligence and Data Science to Empower Comunities With the Knowledge for Clean Water.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Medallion — Provider credentialing and enrollment reimagined. Accelerate time-to-revenue, stay compliant, and scale provider operations, without adding headcount, through automated credentialing and enrollment.
STARK — STARK is a technology-driven defence company with the mission to deliver the systems that Europe and NATO need now.
Zed Industries — Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

PROOF invests in breakout high-performing companies in growth rounds across all VC sectors except life sciences. The firm works in partnership with early stage VCs and leverages their pro-rata rights in exchange for sharing part of the upside.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HerculesAI — An enterprise generative AI company offering secure, high-precision AI applications to automate critical business processes.
TurbineOne — TurbineOne is the frontline perception company. It started with the vision of a world where people could sense every threat, speak any language, and deploy robots to dangerous environments instead of putting people unnecessarily in harm's way.
Hyperdrive — Hyperdrive delivers investment growth strategies utilizing a portfolio-centered approach.

Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
Veramore — Veramore is an online store that sells a wide range of beauty and cosmetic products.
SQUARES — SQUARES build commerce sites with no-code and use and manage them with ease.

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 and hardware. Precursor Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Parento — Parento is a pioneering national insurance-based solution for paid parental empowering companies to support working parents with proactive, tangible paid leave coverage and employee resources.
Voiceops — Your high-volume calls contain the blueprint for business growth, cost reduction, and risk management. Voiceops doesn't just analyze calls - it works alongside your team to automatically implement improvements that most businesses miss.Founded in New York and backed by top-tier investors on both coasts, Voiceops has driven billions ofdollars of revenue and cost-savings for industry leaders in education, financial services, and insurance. Real results: 80% increase in close rates, 98% reduction in compliance violations, 70% reduction in post-call work, 93% reduction in attrition, and 50% reduction in cost per lead.We're a fast-growing AI platform, with customers who have called our AI teammate “stunning” and the most advanced capability they’ve seen “by a landslide” — and we're just getting started.
PlayMaker — PlayMaker is building the modern operating system for sponsorships—centralizing inventory, contracts, activations, and reporting in one place so commercial teams can move faster and prove ROI. Designed and built by industry insiders who sat in the seat of rights-holders and brands, PlayMaker combines intuitive workflows with AI to extract contractterms, surface under-utilized assets, streamline approvals, and generate executive-ready reporting.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Axe — Axe provides modern logistics solutions for businesses of all sizes. Streamline your logistics process with our innovative platform.
Assiduous — The AI-enabled platform to do the heavy-lifting for business owners seeking finance for their aspiring growth company.
Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical is your trusted Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) partner for biomaterial based medical devices & implant products.

TCG is an independent media company. Their focus is on majority and minority investments in growing consumer businesses. Our portfolio includes digital media, commerce, marketplaces, sports, gaming, consumer finance, and health and wellness brands and platforms.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Substack — Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions.
audiochuck — audiochuck is a media company that creates and produces content.
Unrivaled Sports — Unrivaled Sports manages a diverse portfolio of youth sports properties in Baseball, Softball, Football, and Action Sports. The company focuses on providing world-class experiences and development opportunities for young athletes.

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Framer — Framer is a tool to design interactive high-fidelity prototypes for iOS, Android, desktop, or the web. It enables users to turn static mockups into interactive prototypes and to experiment quickly with dynamic, native-feeling animations and interactions.Framer integrates with design tools, exports smoothly to mobile devices, and is powered bythe language of the modern web, Javascript. The company was founded by Jorn Dijk and Koen Bok.
PraxiPal — PraxiPal is building an AI-driven healthcare workforce to tackle the increasing shortage of healthcare staff.
feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.

Founded by Bill Elkus in 1998, Clearstone Venture Partners is a venture capital firm with offices in Santa Monica and Menlo Park, California. The firm manages over $650 million of committed capital in the technology sector, and has helped finance early-stage rounds in numerous successful companies such as eToys, Overture, PayPal, United Online,MP3.com, Jump and eMusic.Clearstone's limited partners include the investment affiliates of The State of California, JP Morgan, The University of California, The State of Michigan, The State of Pennsylvania, The University of Pittsburgh, Moore Capital and others.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, India, Afghanistan

Portfolio highlights

Vyng — Vyng has built a next-generation Caller ID platform that visualizes every call. Vyng is helping start better conversations between friends, family, and businesses for the next half billion smartphone users in India and beyond.Vyng boasts 4 billion videos played across 170 countries since its launch in 2018. The company has raised $7MM and isbacked by March Capital, Omidyar Network, a Sequoia Capital partner, and the founders of Giphy and GroupMe.
Tesloop — TESLOOP OVERVIEW: Tesloop’s manages and operates an expanding fleet of electric Tesla vehicles offering city-to-city shared-car transportation. Tesloop’s service, launched in July 2015, offers daily scheduled routes from LA and Orange County to Las Vegas. The Tesloop service model disrupts city-to-city travel by leveraging the low cost ofelectricity and a business model that immediately leverages new autonomous driving technology. The autonomous, computerized, electric platform creates unprecedented economic efficiencies and delivers a new level of consumer value vs. all other transportation alternatives. The service has received rave reviews from it’s growing customer base and is rapidly expanding with routes to Palms Springs and San Diego planned for this spring.Tesloop’s mission is to rapidly increase access to an amazing & sustainable travel experience. Tesloop's goal is to employ autonomous/electric vehicle technology towards its highest utilization thus creating the maximum environmental and health benefits of every vehicle.
Billdesk — BillDesk develops an integrated technology platform and unified APIs to make digital payments easy and accessible. BillDesk was created to help consumers leverage on the potential of electronic medium to better organize and manage their payments, while escaping some of the pitfalls of traditional bill payment services.

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.

Investment focus

Advertising, Analytics, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada

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.

We are an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea. (Limited Partnerships, not strategic.).

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Tzafon — Tzafon's vision is to broaden the lightcone of awareness by pushing the boundaries of machine intelligence, striving to extend the frontier of what intelligent systems can perceive, understand, and contribute.
Flonics — FlowNix develops medical image-based blood flow analysis software products and hemodynamic analysis methods for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases .
Conport Lab — Confort Lab investigates and develops the 'Porta Solution,' an integrated solution for quickly and easily building complicated and demanding industrial field control systems. FOTA solution offers self-developed IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) dedicated middleware and industrial lightweight equipment fitted with it, as well as simpleand convenient business logic via a no-coda-based integrated development environment. assist you in designing Companies that utilise the Porta solution can swiftly implement the system by loading only user logic without requiring the services of a developer, and the system can be readily altered and modified, boosting the speed and convenience of business.

Flow Capital provides founder-friendly growth capital for high-growth companies operating in high-growth markets in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. As of 2021, we have deployed over $120M in growth capital to 56+ companies. Investment sizes range anywhere from $1-7 million for companies generating at least $4 million in annualrevenues. We work closely with companies to come up with a financing structure that fits their unique company needs, often creating a hybrid between our two financing structures: Revenue-Based Financing and Venture Debt.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Machine Learning
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Echobox — Echobox is the leading content automation platform. Businesses around the world automate the distribution of over 40 million stories each year with Echobox.
PROLIFIQ — Prolifiq is a Salesforce native account planning platform designed to help sellers close large complex accounts.
Ask.Vet — Vet24seven, Inc. introduces Ask.Vet, the online community where veterinarians engage and interact with animal owners to provide trusted, expert advice, information, & resources that help them with the care, health, and well-being of their animals. Ask.Vet was designed as the ‘go-to’ destination for the two hundred million households withanimals around the world. Questions are routed to a licensed veterinarian who is trained to educate, direct, and refer the client to a veterinarian, veterinary hospital, or other service providers nearby for diagnosis, treatment, and care. Veterinarians, clinics, and product/service providers will pay a referral free to Ask.Vet for qualified leads.

Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Finland, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Themo — Themo's innovation is an algorithm that optimizes the price of exchange electricity and the consumption of electricity. Themo offers an easy and environmentally friendly way to save on electricity consumed by heating.
GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
Builderhead — Builderhead is an easy-to-use construction management software that helps owners, developers and general contractors complete construction projects on time and within budget.

Miles co-founded DPI in 2007 after having become non-executive Chairman of Blakeney Management (Blakeney) in July 2006 by which time the firm was considered to be one of the largest portfolio investors in many African stock markets. Blakeney was set up by Miles in 1990, first as a consultancy and, since 1994, as an asset management firm, investingin Africa and the Middle East. Blakeney was one of the first investors in many African markets and Miles played an active role in the development of markets in countries such as Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya and Tunisia.Before starting Blakeney, Miles spent 22 years in money management and investment banking in London and on Wall Street.Miles is also on the boards of SABMiller plc, the world’s second largest brewer and SouthWest Energy (BVI) Ltd, an Ethiopian oil exploration company. He was the founder and chairman for five years of the London Business School’s Africa Board. He read Law at the University of Oxford. Miles is a British citizen.

Investment focus

Internet, Education, Publishing
Pre-Seed
Mozambique

Portfolio highlights

Ethale Books App — The Ethale Books App by Ethale Publishing is the first-ever East African multilingual book app featuring local content. It is one of the first in the developing world to be specifically designed for android mobile phones and not e-readers. The trilingual app will make books available in Portuguese, Swahili and English for free, with revenuesustained via a mobile advertising strategy.

Mangrove Capital Partners is a contrarian investment firm helping innovative entrepreneurs start and grow.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Exoticca — Exoticca develops an online platform intended to facilitate travel booking. The company's platform offers holiday packages which includes flights, accommodation, meals, guides and private transports, for exotic locations all around the world, enabling travelers to book travel packages online at competitive prices.
K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.
Brain.space — Brain.space is a brain-mapping data company that is on a mission to provide researchers, medical practitioners and software developers the underlying foundation to interpret, analyze, and build brain activity products and services. The end-to-end technology stack aims to power products, services, and apps that access and interpret brain activitydata.

A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Tola — Tola offers a simple and easy way for businesses to pay and get paid, however and whenever they want. Sign up today!
Conduktor — The all-in-one friendly interface to work with the Apache Kafka ecosystem.
FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.

Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Aurelian — Aurelian is an AI platform designed to automate routes, triage, and resolve non-emergency police calls.
Mojo Vision — Mojo Vision is a developer of augmented reality products and platforms intended to invent the future of computing. The company has developed a smart contact lens with a built-in display that gives timely information without interrupting the focus and delivers immediate, powerful, and relevant information without the intrusions of today'smobile devices, enabling users to connect with others at a glance, anytime, anywhere handsfree.Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.
Strive Health — Strive Health is a built-for-purpose company working with innovative payors and providers to transform kidney care. Strive Health significantly improves patient outcomes and experience with a high-touch, technology-enabled clinical model that cares for chronic kidney disease patients across their entire healthcare journey, from primary care-levelengagement through dialysis. Strive was launched out of Oxeon’s Venture Studio and is backed by New Enterprise Associates, Town Hall Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, and Ascension Ventures.

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vox AI — Voice AI for drive thru
Hyper — Automating phone calls with voice AI for 311, 911, etc.
Plancraft — MISSION We empower our customers to focus on what they love: crafts & construction VISION In times of automation, individual and high-quality work of craftsmen will be as demanded as ever. Plancraft paves the way for profitable projects by bringing powerful calculation to an easy-to-use and accessible level.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

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.
The Ayurveda Experience — The Most Trusted and Recognized Ayurveda Platform in North America and Australia, Your One-Stop Shop for All Things Ayurveda! Customized to your Dosha or Body Type, enabling the most personalized Ayurveda Experience. Free Shipping to most parts in the world for orders over 30 USD!

Joanne Wilson has had many careers. She started out in retail, eventually moving to the wholesale arena. She then transitioned to the media side of the technology world, before once again reinventing herself as an investor. She is currently an active angel investor with a portfolio of over 90 companies such as Food52, Sweeten, Vengo, Nestio, Phinand Phebes, Makers Row, Clutter, and Union Station. She has been involved in numerous real estate transactions from beginning to end and continues to make investments in that world. She is also an investor in a few restaurants in the New York area. In addition to these endeavors, Joanne has been involved in various education projects and served as chairperson at Hot Bread Kitchen, non-profit committed to increasing access to the culinary industry for woman and minority entrepreneurs. She also sits on the board of The Highline. Joanne has maintained her very popular blog, www.gothamgal.com for over 11 years and has recently take her talents to the airwaves on her podcast, ""Positively Gotham Gal"". She loves to bake, cook, throw a good party, travel, read, collect art, do the crossword and stay on top of what's happening around the globe and in NYC.Her most successful venture is being married to her best friend, Fred and raising their three kids- Jessica, Emily and Josh

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Poland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.
Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.
Porter Road Butcher — Pasture-raised beef, pork, lamb, and chicken delivered straight to your door. Free of antibiotics, hormones, and GMOs. All of our beef is dry aged for 14 days! Shop better meat per piece or per month with Butcher's Choice Subscription Boxes at Porter Road.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hey Jane — Get safe, effective and affordable abortion pills delivered fast to your home. Hey Jane is the first digital abortion clinic, connecting you to licensed providers in your state through telemedicine.
Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Flex — Start growing your business today by accepting HSA/FSA payments. Flex offers the most comprehensive solution on the market with a solution for all e-commerce needs.
Central — Central simplifies payroll, hiring, benefits, and compliance for startups, automating back-office tasks to save time and reduce risks.
Parallel — Parallel is a technology company focused on adapting the web for artificial intelligences. It builds retrieval, ranking, and reasoning systems that enable AIs to perform high-value tasks using web data. The company's initial offering is an API designed to facilitate these interactions, enhancing the capabilities of advanced AIs.

Social Leverage An early stage seed investment fund.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

LEA — AI platform for financial advisors
Seeds — Seeds Investor is a B2B platform that empowers advisors to create customized portfolios that align investor EPI values with financial goals.
Punchup.live — Punchup is developing innovative tools to allow live entertainers to own and activate the relationship with their fans

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Archil — Archil is a software company that specializes in instant access for cloud applications to store data.
Knox — Knox Systems is a provider of security solutions, dedicated to enhancing safety and efficiency for businesses and organizations. With a focus on innovative technology, Knox Systems offers a comprehensive range of products and services, including access control systems, surveillance solutions, and integrated security management.
Eventual — Eventual is tackling one of the hardest infrastructure problems in AI: making multimodal data (images, video, audio) as easy to process as SQL tables. While every company races to build AI applications, they're stuck forcing tools designed for bank transactions to handle petabytes of video and images. Our platform eliminates months ofinfrastructure work, letting developers query massive multimodal datasets with simple Python scripts that automatically scale. Built on our open-source Daft engine, we deliver 10x performance improvements and handle all the messy realities of production AI workloads—from out-of-memory errors to flaky API calls. We're already processing petabytes daily at companies like Amazon, Together AI, and CloudKitchens, powering everything from autonomous vehicles to foundation model training

Elaia is French venture capital firm focused on European digital and deep tech startups, from early stage to growth developpement. We back tech disruptors.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

SeqOne Genomics — Healthcare is undergoing a revolution, known as genomic medicine, that uses the patient’s genomic information to optimise treatment. This trend is accelerating thanks to the arrival of New Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques that have reduced the cost of decoding genomic material while increasing the amount useful data obtained. However, NGShas had only limited impact on mainstream healthcare due to the difficulties in analyzing more and richer genomic data. SeqOne’s mission is to provide tools that enable the healthcare industry to analyse NGS genomic data better and more cost-effectively to provide universal access to genomic medicine.
Moments Lab — Newsbridge is a cloud platform for Media & Sports Rights-Holders. Index your content with AI. Build & Monetize your Media Asset Collections.
Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.

Lowercase Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed/startups, mature, and acquisition of later-stage companies. The firm typically invests in wireless, media, commerce, infrastructure, energy, and transportation sectors. It also advises businesses and funds. Lowercase Capital was founded in 2010and is based in New York, New York.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MiSalud — MiSalud offers a unique combination of personalized preventative wellness services, along with traditional healthcare via Spanish speaking physicians.
Stensul — The Stensul Marketing Creation Platform lets marketers create no code emails and landing pages up to 90% faster.
Kolors — Kolors is a technological platform that focuses on providing intelligent intercity mobility of bus transportation in the region.

Tom Glocer joined BlueVoyant as Executive Chairman and Founder in 2017.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Superlegal — Superlegal, the world's #1 contract automation platform, is the fastest, easiest and most cost effective way to negotiate and close deals.
Cradle — Engineer Better Proteins Faster. AI for modern protein engineering teams.
Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Membrion — Remove Problematic Ions to Expand Capacity, Ensure Compliance, and Eliminate Costs with Electro-Ceramic Desalination
Goldilock — Goldilock is a revolutionary cybersecurity solution that enables users to physically connect and disconnect their digital assets, devices, networks, and critical infrastructure from the internet without using the internet itself. The patented remote security technology ensures that sensitive data remains secure and accessible only when needed
Diadem Capital — Diadem Capital is a curated marketplace for venture debt and venture capital. Connecting founders with venture capital funds, family offices, & corporate VCs.

Transmedia Capital is a top performing technology venture fund providing deep domain expertise, operating experience, and advisory relationships.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
Greywing — Make better decisions and give time back to your team with Generative AI.
Armstrong Robotics — A robot in every home

Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Education
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
Redcar — Scale your B2B sales with the most flexible AI Agent. Customize your GTM and outreach on Redcar, which qualifies, researches, personalizes, and follows up like your best reps.
Spreadsheet.com — The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system. Gantt, Kanban, Forms, and Automations. Get started free.

VAM Investments is a private equity company focused on growth and buyout investments.

Investment focus

Fashion, Music, Dental
Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Slam — Sail beyond the horizon with SLAM: high-quality technical sailing apparel, tested by athletes and experienced sailors.
Soundreef — Soundreef ltd is an Independent Management Entity (EU Directive 2014/26/EU) listed in the Intellectual Property Office in the United Kingdom and can operate throughout Europe including Spain. Soundreef was founded to offer a viable alternative to the traditional Collective Management Organisation by combining innovative technology withpersonal customer service. Soundreef manages the rights of over 25,000 authors and publishers worldwide rewarding them with the fair, transparent and quick payment they deserve for the use of their musical works. Business users such as radio and tv broadcasters, digital service providers, live event organisers, theatres and cinemas, business establishments and music labels can obtain a mandatory license for the use of musical works managed by Soundreef.Soundreef ltd is incorporated in U.K. and owned by Soundreef S.p.A. , a company incorporated in Italy. Soundreef S.p.A. is the company that develops the technology and the content management platform used by Soundreef ltd to audit, collect and maximize royalties for Soundreef authors and publishers. The company process billions of transactions with a focus to improve data security and efficiency in the music industry.Soundreef S.p.A. controls also 100% of Soundreef publishing srl and 100% of Soundreef Media Services srl.
Supermoney — Supermoney is an online broker which helps to compare costs of electricity and gas.

We're a team of former serial founders managing over $1.25B across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
Freename — Redefining Web3 Naming System. Web3 Registrar: custom TLDs and Domains
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.

DTCP is an investment management firm focused on growth equity and digital infrastructure. Founded in 2015, the firm has raised more than $1 billion in funds from corporate and institutional investors and invested in over 60 companies. DTCP Growth invests in enterprise application and infrastructure software companies. DTCP Infra invests in mobileaccess, fiber, and data center infrastructure. DTCP is headquartered in Hamburg with offices in Menlo Park, Tel Aviv, and Seoul.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series C, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
Zenity — Zenity empowers enterprises to enable AI Agents securely. Our platform ensures adaptive security and governance from buildtime to runtime.
GreenScale — GreenScale is a healthy hosting system designed to support the sophisticated digital systems of large scales, AI, and cloud clients.