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Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors (August 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
12 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Financial Services, Internet $1.2M–$32M
Accel
VC Fund
11 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.6M–$75M
The New York Times
VC Fund
10 United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Series A, Seed, Series B Publishing, Advertising, News $500k–$30M
North Base Media
VC Fund
10 United States, India, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Series B Digital Media, Advertising, News $75k–$23M
Betaworks
VC Fund
10 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, Mobile
1745 Ventures
VC Fund
10 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Advertising, Artificial Intelligence $1.3M–$30M
SoftBank Group
VC Fund
9 United States, China, India Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Advertising $2M–$75M
SV Angel
VC Fund
9 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $1M–$130M
Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund
9 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $1.3M–$50M
Knight Enterprise Fund
VC Fund
7 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Digital Media, Video $610k–$8M
Samuel Kwame Boadu
Angel
7 Ghana, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Publishing, News, Digital Media $1.2k–$42k
Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
7 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, SaaS, Health Care $20k–$2M
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 $55k–$59M
Joanne Wilson
Angel
6 United States, Canada, Poland Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail $500k–$8.8M
SOSV
VC Fund
6 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
SilverCircle
VC Fund
6 United States, Canada, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.2M–$60M
Precursor Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $125k–$29M
Bpifrance
VC Fund
6 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $757k–$34M
Antler
VC Fund
6 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Lighter Capital
VC Fund
6 United States, Canada, Australia Debt Financing, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $100k–$500k
Müller Medien
VC Fund
6 Germany, Poland, United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $900k–$6.6M
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
6 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $6.4M–$230M
Sven Fund
Angel
6 Germany, Italy, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Publishing, Events, Digital Media $250k–$3M
Greycroft
VC Fund
6 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1.5M–$79M
Great Oaks Venture Capital
VC Fund
6 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $750k–$42M
Headline
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, Brazil Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.1M–$87M
MDC Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada Seed, Series A Advertising, Analytics, Software $700k–$6M
Singapore Angel Network
VC Fund
5 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Angel, Series A E-Commerce, Health Care, Software $100k–$4M
First Round Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$60M
Ali Omar
Angel
5 Finland, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $53k–$2.2M
Advancit Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Media and Entertainment, Software, Digital Media $1.5M–$37M
PROOF
VC Fund
5 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.5M–$42M
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $223k–$26M
Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
5 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $494k–$12M
Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
5 Turkey Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A iOS, Software, macOS
Social Starts
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $100k–$15M
New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund
5 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $5.8M–$110M
Miles Morland
Angel
5 Mozambique Pre-Seed Internet, Education, Publishing $7k–$12k
ah! Ventures
VC Fund
5 India, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel Software, EdTech, Education $100k–$2M
Tuesday Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Mexico, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Mobile, Internet $750k–$17M
Bossa Invest
VC Fund
5 United States, Brazil, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $50k–$50M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $297k–$30M
Billy Olave sibo
Angel
5 United States Seed, Angel, Corporate Round Music, Publishing, Music Label
TCG
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Australia Seed, Series A Internet, Software, Media and Entertainment $2M–$35M
Liquid 2 Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, Mexico, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $125k–$50M
HV Capital
VC Fund
5 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.6M–$75M
Clearstone Venture Partners
VC Fund
5 United States, India, Afghanistan Series A, Series B Software, Enterprise Software, E-Commerce $4M–$23M
Social Leverage
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1M–$50M
Flow Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning $311k–$3.8M
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RRE Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 12 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, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 540
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $2.4M–$25M; Series B $7.3M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Mingyian — Mingyian is a China brand management company for western celebrities and influencers, and is developing the first micro-event platform for celebrities to host online events that engage, grow, and monetize their fan base in the Chinese market. Early investors include RRE Ventures, #DominateFund, Oscar-Nominated Hollywood Director M. NightShyamalan, Foley Ventures, and Eric Yao, a senior executive at one of China's largest energy companies.Our team is made up of industry giants in the China digital and US entertainment spaces, including the Co-founder of E! Entertainment, Former General Manager of the Television Network, Former SVP at William Morris and EVP at Universal Television, Former Director of Business Development at Live Nation, China's First Blogger, Co-Founder of largest site for engineers and designers in China, among many others.
  • 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.
  • Bread Financial — We provide simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions.
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Accel
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 11 investments in Publishing startups

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2095
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Series A $4.5M–$41M; Series B $9.5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Vercel — The autonomous stack for every app and agent.
  • Nimble Storage — Nimble Storage solutions are built on the idea that enterprises should not have to compromise between performance, capacity, ease of management, and price. Nimble's patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture, designed from the ground up to effectively combine flash with high capacity drives, makes high performanceaffordable, simplifies and enhances disaster recovery and backup, and delivers stress-free operations.Nimble Storage is funded by
  • Shift Technology — Shift Technology delivers AI-native decision automation and optimization solutions built specifically for the global insurance industry. Addressing several critical processes across the insurance policy lifecycle, Shift helps insurers achieve faster, more accurate claims and policy resolutions. Shift has analyzed billions of insurance transactionsto date and was presented Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 Global Claims Solutions for Insurance Market Leadership Award.
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The New York Times
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 10 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: 36
  • 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 · 10 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: 63
  • Round size: Seed $75k–$5.7M; Series A $2M–$8M; Series B $2M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $19M in 2019

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.
  • Rappler — Rappler is the Philippines' leading digital media company that's driven by uncompromising journalism, enabled by technology, and enriched by communities of action.
  • Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!
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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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1745 Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 10 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, Advertising, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 212
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$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 thanks to an all-in-one approach can guarantee the best deepfake detection software capabilities currently available in the marketplace
  • Fractional AI — AI transformation. Powered by engineering excellence.
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SoftBank Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Publishing startups

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!.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 234
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$25M; Series B $5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • GroundTruth — Understand your consumer, build your business, increase store visits and sales, and make smarter forecasting decisions with location data that tells the truth.
  • Shake — Shake is a mobile-first application that allows users to create, sign, and send, plain English and legally binding agreements from their phones. Shake was founded in 2012 by an experienced team of entrepreneurs and investors. They have decades of startup and executive leadership experience at companies such as Google, Spotify, AOL, BuzzFeed,and RRE Ventures.
  • RebelMouse — Build, launch, and grow with AI-powered workflows, technical SEO, and performance-first publishing.
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SV Angel
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 9 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1072
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $2.6M–$40M; Series B $8.3M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $29M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Docker — Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications. We handle the tedious setup, so you can focus on the code.
  • NavigateAI — An AI copilot for every person in the field. NavigateAI upskills and coaches your team, runs real-time quality control, manages the project in the background, and provides expert knowledge, instantly.
  • Vulcan — Frontier AI for government, law, and policy | backed by @ycombinator @generalcatalyst @cubitcapital
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Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 9 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, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 528
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.5M; Series A $3M–$17M; Series B $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
  • Betaworks — Betaworks is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund.
  • BLADE — BLADE is a technology-powered, short-distance aviation company committed to reducing travel friction by enabling cost-effective air transportation alternatives. They leverage their technology to enable travelers to utilize and enjoy air travel. BLADE arranges on-demand charter and scheduled flights across a diverse accessible fleet of helicopters,jets, turboprops, and seaplanes.BLADE operates in New York City, Long Island and the Hamptons, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington DC, and many other locations.
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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: 101
  • Round size: Seed $610k–$2.7M; Series A $1.5M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% 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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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 — Accra Sports News, an extension of Accra Street Journal, is your go-to hub for up-to-the-minute sports coverage in Ghana and beyond. From football, boxing, and athletics to breaking sports headlines and exclusive player stories, we deliver trusted, fast, and in-depth sports journalism
  • Accra Street Journal — Accra Street Journal is Ghana’s source for business, finance, technology, and economic news, providing in-depth analysis and insights into the country’s evolving markets. They deliver timely and credible news on key sectors, including banking, entrepreneurship, innovation, and government policies, ensuring our readers stay informed about the forcesshaping Ghana’s economic landscape.Our mission is to bridge the information gap between businesses, policymakers, and the public, empowering entrepreneurs, investors, and decision-makers with accurate and actionable intelligence. With a strong focus on investigative journalism and expert commentary, Accra Street Journal is your trusted guide to understanding Ghana’s financial world.Stay ahead with breaking news, exclusive interviews, and expert opinions from the heart of Accra’s business district and beyond.
  • 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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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in Publishing startups

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1452
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$450k; Convertible Note $50k–$630k
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised 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.
  • Cohley — Cohley is a content marketing platform focusing on user generated content, visual asset creation, and text review generation. Streamline your content generation today!
  • 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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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: 130
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $5.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2019

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 — Jacob Bar is a food manufacturing company that specializes in clean‑ingredient, high‑protein snack bars.
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LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 6 investments in Publishing startups

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: 149
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $183k–$2.8M; Series A $2.9M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • nFuse.ai — nFuse scales your B2B sales with AI. Up to 30% revenue uplift, $1 per order processing cost, live in 30 days. No new apps, no behavior change.
  • OfficeRnD — OfficeRnD helps flex space operators and hybrid teams manage the workplace of the future. Book your demo or start a free 14-day trial.
  • 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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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: 88
  • Round size: Seed $725k–$3.3M; Angel $500k–$2M; Series A $1.5M–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lately — Lately uses AI to create your social media content and manage your social media marketing and social selling programs.
  • Redstamp — We’re full-service. And we don’t just say that: we back it up, from brand conceptualization and design all the way to SEO and print campaigns. Our services are top-shelf, our work is top-quality, and our people are top-notch. We’re based out of Vancouver, helping us get that perfect blend of Canadian nice and urban know-how that’ll serve yourbusiness and build your brand. You tell us what you want, and we’ll nail it. Rest your weary head: we’ve got it.
  • 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.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups, 70 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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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 — Discover KLIPY, the largest library of localized GIFs, Memes, Stickers and Clips! Make your conversations fun and expressive with the best content.
  • Honeycake — Honeycake is a cybersecurity company that offers an AI proof file security platform.
  • Cordant — A single operational picture across every system money moves through. Your team acts on what's happening, not what already happened.
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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 and hardware. Precursor Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 410
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.6M; Series A $6M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scorbit — Scorbit develops a platform for pinball players and pinball machine owners and operators.
  • PodcastAI — Upload one episode. PodcastAI generates transcripts, clips, social posts, a website, and distribution automatically.
  • Xella Health — AI-powered women's health testing for fertility, hormones, endometriosis, PMOS, and cancer screening. Xella Health is Precision medicine with concierge care.
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Bpifrance
VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 6 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, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1458
  • Round size: Seed $757k–$6.3M; Series A $3M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • FinKey — Finkey : la meilleure solution pour vendre sa PME au juste prix. Un accompagnement sur-mesure des chefs d'entreprise.
  • Proteor — Proteor offers a complete range of high quality products and services to the O&P world, through more than 60 clinics.
  • Nepsis — AI-powered software and debt advisory for renewable energy developers. Modern financing solutions for small & medium renewable projects.
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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: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2213
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Praktiki — Praktiki is building the "Decision Layer" for medicine.While medical knowledge doubles every 73 days, frontline clinicians struggle to translate guidelines into practice. Current AI search tools excel at surfacing public data from clinical trials, but fail to capture "how" experts apply that evidence in real-world scenarios.Praktiki fills this gap. We utilise an AI Agentic Creator Engine to capture tacit specialist reasoning and fuse it with public evidence. This feeds a proprietary Expert Knowledge Graph that powers: 1) Microlearning: Case-based modules created 10x faster and which are 170% more effective than traditional education 2) AI Expert Guidance: Real-time decision support synthesising evidence with expert implementation strategies.2025 Traction - our MVP proved that solving the expertise gap drives high engagement: - Registered >10% of UK GPs - 60,000+ modules completed with an 85% completion rate - 51% month-over-month growth - Market-leading NPS of 83We are building a compounding data moat to expand beyond education into clinical intelligence and healthcare data solutions.
  • Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
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Lighter Capital
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 6 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, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Debt Financing $100k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% 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.
  • Nyble — Nyble offers zero-interest cash advances to help you cover an upcoming bill and to avoid an overdraft.
  • 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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Müller Medien
VC Fund · Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany · 6 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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Poland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$6.6M; Series A $2.6M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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.
  • Booksy — Booksy - book appointments online. Find & book beauty services like hairdressing, manicure, spa or massage. Check prices & reviews!
  • Mozaik — Auffallend ansprechende Videos, im dynamisch modernen Stil, ohne Vorwissen selbst machen. In nur wenigen Minuten erstellt.
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2066
  • Round size: Series A $6.4M–$50M; Series B $11M–$100M; Series C $12M–$230M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Island — Meet Island, the Enterprise Browser that gives you control over SaaS governance, visibility and productivity. Secure your critical data and apps with Island.
  • Z.ai — The AI Lab behind GLM models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity. https://t.co/7a5aSCUfnr https://t.co/x14hb3jO7O
  • ApnaPaisa — ApnaPaisa offers the Best Deals on Home Loans, Personal Loans, Credit Cards and EMI Calculators in India. EST'D 2007.
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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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Greycroft
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 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: 797
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $3.2M–$26M; Series B $6.5M–$79M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $378M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Biproxi — Streamline and shorten commercial real estate transaction cycles with access to better data, front-loaded deal information & streamlined communication. Join our verified community.
  • Laminar — H2Ok Innovations Harnesses Artificial Inteligence and Data Science to Empower Comunities With the Knowledge for Clean Water.
  • Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
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Great Oaks Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 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: 405
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$5.5M; Series A $3.2M–$16M; 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

  • LuminosAI — Automate AI legal reviews with law firm-grade evaluations. Built by lawyers & data scientists for high-risk AI systems. Ship faster with defensible governance.
  • Snapp — Your AI-powered sports teammate. Research odds, get picks, analyze matchups, scout players, and manage fantasy across 24+ sports and leagues.
  • SingleStore — SingleStore is a provider of a database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications. It provides global enterprises with an intelligent database that works on any cloud on-premises or as a service runs transactions and analytics at the same time and lets clients promote their business through analytics and combine semi-structured datainto a consolidated big data platform.
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Headline
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 501
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$12M; Series A $4.4M–$30M; Series B $7.7M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Cameo — Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people.Cameo's mission is to create the most personalized and authentic fan experiences in the world. We're a marketplace where users can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people. We currently partner with thousands of talentacross all verticals. Cameo’s offices are in 1871 and we are proud to be part of Chicago’s thriving technology and startup community.
  • Getta — We partnered with danisauto.com, to give you the best car buying experience.
  • Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.
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MDC Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 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
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tidal Labs — Tidal builds technology to power influencer networks and "content communities" powered by prosumer creative individuals online.
  • Polymorph — Native ads are ads that seamlessly integrate into your feed, homepage, search results, and more.
  • Ditto Labs — Ditto Labs was first-to-market with a dashboard tool to help top brand marketers derive insights, prospect audiences, and measure campaigns from what appears in social media photos. Ditto’s patented machine learning and computer vision capability is integrate with a majority of enterprise social listening platforms. Now brands can holisticallyanalyze campaign performance and consumer sentiment by incorporating text with visual signals of affinity.Ditto's "vision-as-a-service” products also help travel and hospitality sites improve click through rates by surfacing the most persuasive user-generated photos. Ditto's APIs also enable housing and car sites to better organize, screen and rate user photos to improve site performance.Independently verified, Ditto’s computer vision has higher accuracy and a broader catalog of relevant classifiers than competitors. Ditto is the only company enabling clients to train bespoke classifiers to recognize what is most important to their business needs.
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Singapore Angel Network
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 5 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, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$3M; Angel $100k–$700k; 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.
  • 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!
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First Round Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 851
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.8M; Series A $2.5M–$26M; Series B $7M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aisera — Aisera's AI Service Management (AISM) solution helps enterprises to automate IT tasks & workflows to deliver exceptional service experience.
  • LiveIntent — Learn how we equip brands with advertising technology designed to help advertisers & publishers harness email by resolving identity, driving sales, & increasing revenue.
  • Troops — Never miss a revenue signal with Troops. Easily update Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, and Jira right from Slack and Microsoft Teams. Get started for free.
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Ali Omar
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Finland, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $263k–$2.2M; Angel $53k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $165k–$724k
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

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.
  • Retailgrid — Agentic AI pricing platform for mid-market retailers. Turn messy retail data into structured, explainable price decisions in days, not months.
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Advancit Capital
VC Fund · Norwood, Massachusetts, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

Advancit Capital is a venture firm investing in media, technology and web3 startups. We partner with best-in-class entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Software, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Series A $4M–$18M; Series B $6.5M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • BetHog — BetHog is a new crypto sports book that brings home the bacon.
  • worm.wtf — worm.wtf is the prediction marketplace for the Solana ecosystem.
  • Kairos Labs — Kairos Labs is an Ethereum ecosystem interest rate swap protocol
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PROOF
VC Fund · Reston, Virginia, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$11M; Series B $5M–$42M; Series C $7M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Ownwell — Ownwell combines technology and local expertise to help real estate owners save money on property taxes.
  • 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 — Next: Lending markets built for RWAs. No oracle, no AMM, no liquidator.
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 347
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$3.2M; Series A $1M–$10M; Series B $2.4M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Winegraph — Winegraph is an SNS-based wine search and recommendation platform.
  • Stan World — Stan World is a Fandom Party World where fans can party & win rewards for their Stars, 24/7.
  • Minimap — The all-in-one game tracker for PC & Console. Sync achievements and trophies, manage your backlog, and analyze playtime stats. Your entire gaming history, unified.
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 5 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, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 663
  • Round size: Seed $494k–$3.3M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • CloudRanger — Enterprise Cloud Backup and data management across edge, on-premises and cloud workloads
  • Learnsignal — Online courses for ACCA, CIMA, CPD, FRM and AAT with test prep material, free resources, mock exams, and study support.
  • Socio Local — Boost your social media management with Socio Local, the leading social media tool specialising in retail and hospitality to deliver personalised social media marketing at a local level for brands in different locations. Manage multiple retail stores, hotels and restaurants in one place. Know your customers needs and patterns to convert them into loyal frequent customers.
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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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Social Starts
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 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
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 301
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $3.2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
  • Original Stitch — PLATINUMTOTO hadir sebagai situs togel macau di Indonesia yang sangat populer di kalangan togelers platinumtoto dengan jackpot 4D setiap hari nya
  • Bark Technologies — Learn how Bark's parental controls can help you protect your kids online and in real life with monitoring, screen time controls, and more.
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New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1679
  • Round size: Series A $5.8M–$60M; Series B $10M–$85M; Series C $15M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.8B in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • NeuroPace — The NeuroPace RNS System is the only FDA-approved epilepsy device that delivers personalized treatment by responding to abnormal brain activity and provides EEG data that can help improve patient care.
  • Packeteer — Packeteer is a global leader in WAN Application Delivery and WAN Optimization. The company offers an integrated family of appliances and software products. Packeteer is a provider of network software products that enhance mission-critical application performance over enterprise WANs and the Internet. These application-adaptive bandwidth managementsolutions give businesses and service providers per-application control of bandwidth at congested WAN access links.
  • Alteon Websystems — Alteon Websystems is a computer network hardware company that provides internet infrastructure solutions enabling e-businesses to meet their increasing demands.  The company’s portfolio of web data center products includes switches, server adapters, and software that are optimized to meet the specific challenges of managing web application trafficand provide high performance network infrastructure solutions.Alteo Websystems was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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Miles Morland
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Education, Publishing
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Mozambique

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $7k–$12k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

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.
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ah! Ventures
VC Fund · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 5 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, EdTech, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 200
  • Round size: Seed $121k–$2M; Angel $100k–$414k
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $16M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • ParkSmart — ParkSmart provides automated smart parking management systems in India. Complete IoT solutions featuring ANPR cameras, RFID boom barriers, FASTag integration, and digital valet apps for offices, malls, and societies.
  • FreightBazaar — https://t.co/muI6059nBU is India's most reliable and cost effective solution for Inter-City Freight Transportation. We cater to business of any size across India
  • Ochre Spirits — Ochre Spirits crafts artisanal vodkas, gins, and rum with ingredients and bold flavors, targeting India’s premium craft spirits market.
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Tuesday Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 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, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 239
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.2M; Pre-Seed $750k–$5M; Series A $3.8M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

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 — Customers don't search. They ask.
  • BrainSpec — BrainSpec is a comprehensive web-based software platform designed to make MRS technology accessible to clinicians and researchers alike. The software combines a linear combinations model based post-processing back-end that represents the most accurate method of measuring brain metabolites with a highly intuitive and user-friendly front-endweb-based user interface. This combination allows for high analytical performance while maintaining ease of use and results in reduced case processing time, leading to higher output and lower costs
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Bossa Invest
VC Fund · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 5 investments in Publishing 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: 1318
  • Round size: Seed $193k–$6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $703k–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $362k in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Sandwiche — Sandwiche creates customizable link in bio pages enabling social media monetization and affiliate marketing management.
  • Sukha — An all-in-one focus app and distraction blocker for Mac, Windows and Chromebook: AI tasks, binaural music, website and phone blocking, Pomodoro timers.
  • Elemeno Health — Elemeno Health is an intuitive, cloud-based app, customized to specific needs of your hospital or unit. Streamline training and communication, drive best practices, and empower your staff with just-in-time access to critical information.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 362
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$4.2M; Series A $966k–$14M; Series B $3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.6M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Veluga — Veluga is a membership service that provides regular delivery of craft beer and pairing night snack twice a month.
  • Socialbean — Socialbean is a baby product company.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
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Billy Olave sibo
Angel · 5 investments in Publishing startups

Projects and Financial Management Director; Operation Manager; CEO; Professional Musician and Music Producer; Public Relations Management Director; Founder @ KG33

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Publishing, Music Label
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Corporate Round
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KG33 — KG33 Records specializes in making, producing, and selling music recorded and unrecorded with music videos.KG33 Records LLC is a Music Record Label founded in 2021 and is currently based and operated in the United States of America. The company also operates under the DBA's names of KG33, KRMP, KG33 Records, and KG33 Records MusicPublishing. It develops and manages artists, professional musicians, and musicians contractors. The company is also available for funders, investors, and partnerships. Same as funding and investing, to all people and companies interested in the Entertainments Industry or private and other for-profits or non-profit entities who wish to a part or invest in this company.
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TCG
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Jia — Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities.
  • Better Place Forests — Better Place Forests protects and maintains memorial forests where families can spread the ashes of loved ones, sustainably honoring their memories. Choose your memorial tree today for a forever legacy.
  • Entangled Publishing — Women-owned publisher of Adult & YA romance. Entangled Amara, August, Teen, Indulgence, Brazen, Bliss, Scandalous, Embrace, Lovestruck, Crush, and Crave!
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Liquid 2 Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 867
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3M; Series A $6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Albedo — Aerial quality imagery - from space.
  • Eden — Developer of non-invasive health technology designed to democratize access to early cancer risk assessment.
  • Attention — Attention is building an AI co-pilot designed to automate repetitive, multi-app desktop tasks.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 5 investments in Publishing startups

HV Capital is one of the leading early-stage and growth investors in Europe. With nine fund generations in 23 years and €2.8 bn in managed assets, HV Capital is one of the continent's most active investors. The investment team has many years of experience in identifying European startups with great potential for success. In addition tointernational success stories like Zalando, Delivery Hero, Sumup, and Depop, innovation leaders such as Enpal, Flixbus, Sennder, and Isar Aerospace are also part of the portfolio. HV Capital has invested in around 225 internet and technology companies, supporting startups with ticket sizes ranging from €0.5 to €60m. It is one of Europe's few venture capital firms that can finance startups through all growth phases. HV Capital has a team of more than 40 investment and operations professionals who provide a variety of perspectives and expertise across the venture capital landscape.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 467
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$35M; Series B $7.7M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M 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.
  • Fleek — Fleek is a B2B Wholesale Marketplace for second-hand fashion. Our buyers are vintage stores and online resellers; our suppliers are used clothing wholesalers, rag-houses, and donation centres.
  • Ore Energy — Ore Energy is creating a new generation, cost effective, long-duration energy storage solution which will enable a decarbonized energy future by utilizing some of the most readily available materials
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Clearstone Venture Partners
VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Afghanistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$10M; Series B $6M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $200M in 2005

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 — Seamless payment solutions for businesses: online, recurring, international, EMI, tokenisation & more. Accelerate growth with BillDesk.
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Social Leverage
VC Fund · Phoenix, Arizona, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

Social Leverage An early stage seed investment fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 158
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $1.7M–$13M; Series B $3.3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Retrofit — Retrofit provides personalized, holistic weight management solutions that transform lives and workplaces. Diabetes prevention & metabolic syndrome programs.
  • Newcase.ai — Connect all facts from records, depositions, and evidence into clear timelines with one intelligence layer. Get case-wide context that uncovers contradictions and highlights key admissions with exact citations.
  • ProducePay — Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque, and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. The AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providingunprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry.
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Flow Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $650k–$2M; Debt Financing $311k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Tattle — Tattle App is the leading customer experience platform for restaurants and hospitality. Get actionable, real-time feedback through our survey app to improve loyalty. Follow up with your guests in a single click. Never let another customer leave your restaurant angry.
  • Miniluxe — Miniluxe operates as a nail and beauty lounge that offers manicures, pedicures, warm oil treatment, waxing, and hands and feet therapies. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Common Wealth — Common Wealth is a digital platform that provides retirement planning services.
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