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Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors (June 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 $1.1M–$32M
The New York Times
VC Fund
11 United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Series A, Seed, Series B Publishing, Advertising, Content $500k–$30M
Accel
VC Fund
10 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.5M–$74M
Betaworks
VC Fund
10 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, Mobile
North Base Media
VC Fund
10 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Digital Media, Publishing, Advertising $75k–$8M
Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund
9 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $1.2M–$40M
SoftBank Group
VC Fund
9 United States, China, India Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Advertising $2M–$75M
SV Aangel
VC Fund
9 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $1M–$107M
1745 Ventures
VC Fund
8 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Advertising, Internet $1.5M–$30M
Knight Enterprise Fund
VC Fund
7 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Digital Media, Video $610k–$8M
Red Sea Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, Spain, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Software, E-Commerce $1M–$25M
LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund
6 Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Internet $44k–$58M
Müller Medien
VC Fund
6 Germany, Poland, United States Seed, Series A SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence $900k–$5.5M
Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
6 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, SaaS, Health Care $18k–$2M
Greycroft
VC Fund
6 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1.5M–$79M
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
6 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $5.5M–$190M
Lighter Capital
VC Fund
6 United States, Canada, Australia Debt Financing, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $100k–$500k
Sven Fund
Angel
6 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Publishing, Digital Media, Information Technology $250k–$1.1M
SOSV
VC Fund
6 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Joanne Wilson
Angel
6 United States, Canada, Poland Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail $500k–$8.8M
Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
5 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $494k–$12M
Social Starts
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $100k–$15M
Social Leverage
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $925k–$50M
Ali Omar
Angel
5 Finland, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $53k–$2.1M
Mangrove Capital Partners
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $675k–$25M
New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund
5 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $5.3M–$103M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $297k–$27M
Flow Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning $300k–$5M
First Round Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$60M
Miles Morland
Angel
5 Mozambique Pre-Seed Internet, Education, Publishing $7k–$12k
Precursor Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $475k–$29M
Headline
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, Brazil Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.2M–$88M
TCG
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Australia Seed, Series A Software, Media and Entertainment, Internet $700k–$34M
PROOF
VC Fund
5 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $1.5M–$42M
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $18k–$30M
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
Clearstone Venture Partners
VC Fund
5 United States, India, Afghanistan Series A, Series B Software, Enterprise Software, E-Commerce $4M–$23M
HV Capital
VC Fund
5 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.5M–$80M
Bpifrance
VC Fund
5 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $694k–$35M
Flyover Capital
VC Fund
4 United States Series A, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Services
Spark Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series B, Series A, Series C Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $4M–$176M
Elaia
VC Fund
4 France, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.1M–$50M
Foundry Group
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Internet
Act Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Alliance of Angels
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Mobile
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
4 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
Index Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Third Wave Digital
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Media and Entertainment, Digital Media, Video
William Lohse
Angel
4 United States, Japan, Canada Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Social Media, Advertising
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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: 512
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Series A $2.3M–$27M; Series B $7.3M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Poncho — Fun daily weather forecasts, delivered by a cat. Available on Facebook Messenger, iPhone, and Android.
  • 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.
  • Fi — Fetch the most advanced GPS, behavior, and activity tracking technology for your pet.
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The New York Times
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 11 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Advertising, Content
  • 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.
  • Indeed — Indeed is an employment-related metasearch engine for job listings, available in more than 50 countries and 28 languages, and covering 94% of global GDP. With more than 140 million monthly unique visitors, Indeed has double the traffic of the next leading job site. According to a recent study, Indeed is the #1 source of external hire for employers(SilkRoad, 2013). Since 2004, Indeed has given job seekers free access to millions of jobs from thousands of company websites and job boards. As the leading pay for performance recruitment advertising network, Indeed drives millions of targeted applicants to jobs in every field and is the most cost-effective source of candidates for thousands of companies.Founded by Paul Forster and Rony Kahan, Indeed has over 800 employees with offices in Austin, Dublin, London, San Mateo, New York and Stamford.
  • OpenWeb — It's time to save online conversations
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Accel
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 10 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: 1877
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $4.5M–$40M; Series B $10M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Rally — Invest in collectibles for as little as $50 per share, on Rally
  • XFactor — XFactor.io is a platform with constant sales performance monitoring, real-time recommendations, and live analytics.
  • 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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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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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, Publishing, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $75k–$3.6M; Series A $2M–$8M; Series B $2M–$6.5M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $19M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Majarra — Majarra is an Arabic online content provider in the region.
  • PENTA Football — PENTA Football distributes football highlights.
  • Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!
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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: 486
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $2.5M–$15M; Series B $8.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Halp — Get more acceptances and scholarships with 1-on-1 online admissions coaching, hands-on mentorship, and university support
  • Conflixis — Conflixis develops conflict monitoring platform intended to manage conflicts inside organizations.
  • Bookkeep — Whether you run multiple locations, franchise stores, or sell across channels, Bookkeep automates your revenue recognition, deposit reconciliation and sales tax compliance with 100% accuracy.
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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: 226
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$21M; Series B $5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3B in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • OneWeb — OneWeb is building a space-based global communications network that delivers high-speed, low latency internet access.By building a communications network with a constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, OneWeb will provide connectivity to people around the world. The company's global service will deliver new solutions for broadband,government, and cellular backhaul. Its high-speed, low-latency, network will offer mobility solutions to industries that rely on global connectivity, such as aviation, maritime, automotive, trains, and more.OneWeb commenced launches of the OneWeb satellite constellation, a network of more than 650 low Earth orbit satellites, in February 2019, and by March 2020, had launched 74 of the planned 648 satellites in the initial constellation.The London, England-headquartered company was established in 2012 by Greg Wyler.
  • Yieldify — Supercharged growth just got easier. Epsilon Accelerate gives growing brands a fast, flexible, out-of-the-box solution for one, clear view of customers, channels and performance in 30 days.
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SV Aangel
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: 951
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $2.5M–$35M; Series B $8M–$107M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $29M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
  • Vulcan — Vulcan builds AI tools that map U.S. laws and regulations, helping users draft, review, and stay compliant with legal documents.
  • Adentro — Zenreach created Walk-Through Marketing to help businesses with physical locations dramatically improve customer acquisition and lifetime value by connecting digital marketing with in-store results. Zenreach Engage automatically tracks customer visits, effortlessly builds rich customer profiles and keeps them up to date. Zenreach Attract improvesad performance 4x by targeting audiences based on your best customers. Results are measured with our Walk-Through Rate™, a proprietary metric that shows when someone exposed to an ad visits a location. Founded in 2012, Zenreach serves thousands of independent merchants and leading brands like Peet’s Coffee, Ruth’s Chris and BCBG Max Azria.
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1745 Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 8 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, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 186
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M; Series A $3M–$16M; Series B $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% 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
  • Exit Games — Exit Games develops the realtime, multiplayer, cross-platform product PHOTON.Photon is used by more than 330,000 game developers - including companies like Square Enix, Ubisoft, Disney, Warner Bro, SEGA, Miniclip, Codemasters, Glu, Rilisoft or World Golf Tour.The high performance Photon Server and Photon Cloud allow cross-platform gamingbetween Mobile, PC, Console, Web, VR/AR and other popular devices.
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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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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: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Spain, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M; Series A $5.5M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Optiversal — Optiversal helps the world's top e-commerce companies harness generative AI at scale to drive more traffic and revenue.
  • Elm Biosciences — Elm Biosciences is a skincare product manufacturing company that supplies cosmetics and dietary supplements.
  • 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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Seed $44k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $183k–$2.3M; Series A $2.8M–$58M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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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: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Poland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$4M; Series A $2.5M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% 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.
  • Booksy — Booksy - book appointments online. Find & book beauty services like hairdressing, manicure, spa or massage. Check prices & reviews!
  • edrone — Purpose-built e-commerce CRM with Marketing Automation and Voice Commerce. Turn your online store into a sales machine.
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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 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: 720
  • Round size: Seed $18k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$450k; Convertible Note $50k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Etho — Etho is an all in one augmented reality voice command assistant for motorcycle riders. Etho's first product, is a platform for existing helmet manufacturers to build smart helmets with a voice assistant for motorcycle riders, that exist within an augmented reality heads up display.Etho's mission is to improve the relationship betweenrider and machine by giving them an entire solution. By partnering with the best motorcycle helmet manufactures in the industry, they are able to focus their efforts on building the best technology for riders. They enable the riders to win by offering them the safest helmets, powered by a technology that delivers a distraction-free riding experience.
  • Hutsy — Hutsy Financial is a financial services company that provides mobile banking, early payroll access and credit building products. In partnership with Peoples Trust we provide a prepaid debit card that our users can spend with. We also offer cash back on all purchases, spending insights, and categorizations to provide valuable insight on where yourmoney is going. Hutsy was recently on CBC’s Dragons Den where we raised our pre-seed funding round of $500,000 to bring our product to life.
  • Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.
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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: 701
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $3.1M–$23M; Series B $6.2M–$79M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $378M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Allset — Allset is a marketplace connecting restaurants and local diners. It provides restaurants with online ordering and contactless dining solutions to serve their customers commission-free.Customers use Allset to order ahead at nearby restaurants and coffee shops, to ensure everyday dining that is fast, easy, and healthy. Local diners supportrestaurants with commission-free orders for pickup, curbside, and dine-in.Allset is focused on connecting restaurants and diners in busy areas to drive network effect on a hyperlocal level.Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Allset was co-founded by Stas Matviyenko and Anna Polishchuk in 2015.
  • BetterCloud — Streamline SaaS operations with end-to-end SaaS management platform, BetterCloud: Cut SaaS spend, automate user lifecycle, secure SaaS files, and more.
  • Optimus Ride — Optimus Ride is a self-driving vehicle company based in Boston, MA. It designs technologies to enable efficient, sustainable, and equitable mobility systems and solutions.As an MIT spinoff company, it combines over 30 years of interdisciplinary university research in self‑driving technologies (DARPA Urban Challenge), electric vehicles (CityCar),and Mobility-on-Demand Systems. The team includes decades of industrial and entrepreneurial experience that combines manufacturing robots, urban design, and shared vehicle fleet management.
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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: 1680
  • Round size: Series A $5.5M–$45M; Series B $10M–$100M; Series C $12M–$190M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Tacto — Tacto develops an intuitive, data-driven, and automated solution for procurement in medium-sized industrial enterprises. The AI-based software gives customers a transparent overview of their procurement activities, algorithmically highlights risk & savings potential, and automates all transactional workflows in sourcing and supplier managementto focus on what matters. With Tacto customers can focus on strategic work, leverage savings potential, and reduce complexity - without the need for costly IT resources.
  • Sierra — Sierra helps businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI.
  • Found — Smarter business banking designed for small business owners. Manage your bookkeeping, taxes, and invoicing all from your business checking account.
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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.
  • Plexus — Boost your productivity, automate your work, centralise your contracts or find a secondee lawyer and completely transform your legal operations with Plexus.
  • Prometheus Research — They at Prometheus Research have employed their innovative software tools to build, maintain, and manage customized systems for multidisciplinary research projects. They enable clients to acquire, centralize, utilize, share, and preserve their research data in a manner that lowers costs, increases efficiency and ensures data integrity.
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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, Digital Media, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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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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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.
  • Switchboard — Switchboard's service design, coaching, and software offerings generate real results for higher ed teams and institutions.
  • 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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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: 506
  • Round size: Seed $494k–$3.3M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Tirlan — Tirlan is an agricultural company that supplies agri-food and farm input materials to the framing sector.
  • Pulsate — Pulsate enables direct communication with customers based on their location, context, interests and behaviours. Pulsate allows you to design and push rich media content directly to customers devices. Deepen the relationship by establishing a customer dialogue. Allow users to reply to your campaigns, provide feedback and keep complaints outside ofsocial media. Maximize foot traffic by targeting street level or competitor locations. Combine with segmentation for optimal results. iBeacons:tm: enable you to understand indoor customer location and context with incredible accuracy. Easily manage deployment and configuration of iBeacons:tm: with the Pulsate cloud platform. Gain a deeper understanding of your mobile customers and a comprehensive view of each mobile campaign.
  • Lakeland Dairies — Lakeland Dairies, a major dairy processing co-operative, operates within a fifteen county catchment area across the northern half of the island of Ireland. The Group processes about one billion litres of quality milk annually into a range of value added dairy foodservice products and functional dairy food ingredients.
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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, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 289
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $3.2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fulcrum — Designed with technology in mind, be free of paper with Fulcrum, the manufacturing ERP of the future. Ai scheduling, visual BOM, live tracking
  • 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
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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: 149
  • Round size: Seed $925k–$3.6M; 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

  • Rally — Invest in collectibles for as little as $50 per share, on Rally
  • Covey — Post your portfolio. Trade stocks in Russell 3000, large ETFs, and cryptocurrencies. Track your performance. Access to hedge fund level metrics.
  • Seeds — Seeds Investor is a B2B platform that empowers advisors to create customized portfolios that align investor EPI values with financial goals.
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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, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Finland, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $263k–$2.1M; Angel $53k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $163k–$724k
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MÖ Foods — MÖ Kaurajogu is domestic, completely herbal and above all delicious. All our products are manufactured in Central Ostrobothnia, Lohtaja.
  • React & Share — High volume, high quality feedback directly from your customers. React & Share helps digital comms teams improve their websites and satisfy their customers.
  • Plain Complex — VUOROX IS AN AI-POWERED ROSTER SCHEDULING APP FOR HEALTHCARE
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Mangrove Capital Partners
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Seed $675k–$9.5M; Series A $2.5M–$12M; Series B $8M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $234M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • WalkMe — Using technology should be the way we overcome challenges, not the challenge itself.
  • Sifflet — You make important business decision based on your data. Sifflet ensures the data is reliable, traceable and easy to navigate.
  • Lightico — AI Intelligent Document Processing, IDP, ID Verification, KYC and Compliant Customer Journeys for Banks, Auto Finance, Telecoms.
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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: 1539
  • Round size: Series A $5.3M–$60M; Series B $10M–$80M; Series C $13M–$103M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.8B in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
  • Allay Therapeutics — SUPPORTING PATIENTS THROUGH EVERY PHASE OF RECUPERATION The first technology designed to deliver weeks of localized pain management
  • Regulus Therapeutics — Regulus Therapeutics Is a biopharmaceutical company leading the discovery of a new class of high-impact medicines based on microRNAs. The discovery of MicroRNA in humans is one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs in the last decade. MicroRNAs are small RNA molecules, typically 20 to 25 nucleotides in length, that do not encode proteinsbut instead regulate gene expression. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
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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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 304
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$4.6M; Series A $817k–$14M; Series B $3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $9.6M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Swit — An Employee Productivity Hub for Collaboration Essentials
  • Restream — Restream is a super simple live video platform that empowers you to create beautiful videos and multistream them to your favorite channels.
  • Bunker Kids — Bunker Kids is a startup that provides solutions optimized for achieving personal health goals using data and algorithms.
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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: 54
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $650k–$1.7M; Debt Financing $300k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% 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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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: 801
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.4M; Series A $2.1M–$25M; Series B $7M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PullString — PullString, Inc. is leading the field of computer conversation in both text and voice through a combination of design and technology. PullString (formerly ToyTalk) is an entertainment and technology company combining art and science to enable computer conversation with characters.The company's primary product, the PullString Platform, offersa professional authoring environment, hosted AI and machine learning runtime, and integrated conversation analytics to enterprises, agencies, and startups across verticals as diverse as entertainment, customer service, gaming and VR, travel, automotive, health and fitness, finance, human resources, and IoT.With direct support for all major conversational platforms like Facebook Messenger, Amazon Alexa, Skype, Slack, Kik, mobile, and web, the PullString Platform has been used to create award winning experiences like Call of Duty’s Lt Reyes on Messenger, Hello Barbie, and The Winston Show.PullString, founded as ToyTalk in 2011, has raised more than $44 million in funding from Greylock Partners; Charles River Ventures; Khosla Ventures; True Ventures; and First Round Capital.
  • &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
  • Merlin Labs — Merlin is the aviation technology company propelling the future of fully autonomous flight.
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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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Precursor Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 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: 304
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6M; Pre-Seed $475k–$2.5M; Series A $5.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grw AI — Grw AI offers scalable 1:1 coaching solutions that leverage AI to assist B2B sales teams complete deals.
  • Flex — Flex is a financial services company that provides analysis, integration, and management solutions for HSA/FSA payments.
  • Dopl Technologies — Dopl is improving access to healthcare through telerobotic ultrasound procedures.
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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: 455
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $7.7M–$88M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Homa Games — Leave your mark in the gaming industry. We are building a team of extraordinary individuals working together to build apps that entertain the world. We are experts in every step of the publishing process.
  • Acorns — Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps individuals and families save, invest, and grow money automatically through simple, everyday habits.
  • Honeycomb — Honeycomb is a software debugging tool that can help you solve problems faster within your distributed services. Try Honeycomb for free today!
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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: Software, Media and Entertainment, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$10M; Series A $5M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Ro — Ro is a healthcare company designed to help you meet your health goals. We connect patients with US-licensed healthcare professionals all online. Get started today.
  • Exploding Kittens — Looking for a great new game for game night? Look no further, here you'll find such magnificent party games as Exploding Kittens, Throw Throw Burrito, Bears vs Babies, You've Got Crabs, and many more!
  • Entangled Publishing — Entangled Publishing publishes books for both adult and young adult audiences. Their books are available in both print and digital at major retailers around the world.
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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, Mobile
  • 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 — Hyperdrive delivers investment growth strategies utilizing a portfolio-centered approach.
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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: 270
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$2.2M; Series A $743k–$8M; Series B $18k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • UModeler — UModeler is a Unity3D editor extension to empower you to designer your level and mesh without leaving Unity.
  • Daily Protein — Daily Protein specializes in the sales of protein bars and diet snacks.
  • Spotlite — Spotlite operates a professional model recruitment platform for commercial photography.
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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

  • This — This. is where you find and share the best entertainment, art and journalism on the web. Follow the people you trust, give thanks for their links and share the links you love. Each user can share just 1 link a day.
  • Polymorph — Native ads are ads that seamlessly integrate into your feed, homepage, search results, and more.
  • Veritonic — Veritonic is a marketing analytics platform that offers online testing and optimization services for firms in the music industry.Veritonic’s product portfolio consist of testing, analytics, and workflow. Testing assists its users in making data-driven decisions, measuring emotional response, and obtaining qualitative and quantitative responses.Analytics assists its users in benchmarking their brand progress. Workflow enables its users to manage, save, and share tracks with others.Veritonic was founded in 2015 by Andrew Eisner and Scott Simonelli.
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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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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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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 5 investments in Publishing startups

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

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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: 436
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$34M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Floy — Floy develops AI-driven software that supports radiologists in detecting complex and hard-to-identify diseases. The collaboration of Floy-AI and radiologists ensures optimal patient outcomes by enabling the early detection and thus early treatment of diseases.One of Floy’s distinguishing features is our innovative incentive structure. We partnerwith radiology offices to jointly offer patients our AI as a “second opinion”. This unique approach motivates radiologists to embrace Floy-AI and encourages widespread adoption.Since its establishment in 2021, Floy secured €8.8 million in funding and rapidly expanded its presence with over 150 radiology locations to date. Floy’s overarching mission is to pioneer proactive medicine by providing exceptional AI-powered diagnostic experiences for health-conscious patients.
  • Exein — The firmware security software and middleware can be injected like a vaccine in the hardware and aims to defend it from inside, working directly into the firmware at a lower level.
  • Acurast — Acurast Decentralized Serverless Cloud, leveraging the multipliers of mobile phones for compute.
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Bpifrance
VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 5 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: 1069
  • Round size: Seed $694k–$6.9M; Series A $2.6M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Verkor — Verkor is a battery cell manufacturer whose goal is to increase the production of low-carbon batteries to fulfill the growing demand for electric vehicles. The company focuses on the development of low-carbon batteries with a carbon footprint that is many times smaller than standard batteries. This reduces the logistics footprint, includingemissions, and provides businesses with batteries that are very inexpensive and use carbon-free electricity.
  • WAAT — WAAT operates fast charging stations for electric and rechargeable hybrid vehicles. Its services are aimed at all private sector market segments, including condominiums, lessees, tertiary, and real estate development. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Paris with sales offices in Malakoff and Bagneux (92).
  • BiPER Therapeutics — BiPER Therapeutics is a biotech company to develop and commercializes novel therapeutics.
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Flyover Capital
VC Fund · Overland Park, Kansas, United States · 4 investments in Publishing startups

Our purpose is to create the next generation of technology success stories in the Flyover region.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Invary — Invary provides threat detection and observability utilizing Runtime Integrity
  • PRECZN — Preczn is an AI-driven, operator-first platform that brings together all your Fintech customers, providers, services, and data. Lending, payments, and treasury in one low-code solution.
  • Layr — We use AI and machine learning to match companies with the right commercial insurance, at the right price, through top-rated carriers. The application is 100% online with our team of expert brokers available to help with any questions along the way. We focus on cash-flow-friendly payment options (pay monthly instead of annually and use your creditcard) and easy in-app policy updates. With Layr, check “Buy Business Insurance” off your list and get back to what you do best.
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Spark Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Publishing startups

Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 568
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$37M; Series B $7M–$80M; Series C $20M–$176M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Alfred — Alfred is an end-to-end resident experience and building management platform that is changing the way people live and transforming the real estate industry. Operating at the intersection of real estate and technology, Alfred builds intuitive, personal support into one of the most important spaces of our lives: our homes. Named one of the Top 50Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast Company in the urban development space, Alfred has been recognized in The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, as a pioneer in the on-demand economy, following their decision to hire Alfred Home Managers as W-2 employees (complete with benefits, training, and the ability to move up in the organization) and its support of local ecosystems and neighborhood businesses.Hello Alfred was founded in 2014 by Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck, and is headquartered in New York, New York, United States.
  • Handshake — The largest expert network for learning, earning, and growing careers in the AI economy, giving everyone an accessible first step into an AI-powered career.
  • Freight Farms — Freight Farms create access to food in areas of the world where the climate cannot support traditional farming methods. The Freight Farms' system brings a high volume of fresh, quality, and affordable food within reach of everyone along the food supply chain. By enabling high-yield crop production in any climate, Freight Farms offer animmediate foundation to grow a local food economy and sustainable food system.It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Elaia
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 214
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9.9M; Series A $2.2M–$26M; Series B $4.2M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Elevo — Elevo is a Paris-based performance management platform.
  • Vibe — Advertise your brand on CTV & OTT content with Vibe's self-serve ad platform to target hundreds of channels & networks and reach millions of households.
  • Traefik Labs — Cloud-native, GitOps-driven API runtime solutions for demanding DevOps and Platform Engineers with diverse use-cases, environments, and deployment models.
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Foundry Group
VC Fund · Boulder, Colorado, United States · 4 investments in Publishing startups

Foundry is a venture capital firm focused on providing early-stage technology investments. The firm was established in 2007 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 279
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Canvas — Canvas scans the areas using an iPad or iPhone and then turns them into 3D designs. It enables remodelers, architects, interior designers, and contractors to create editable, layered as-built models.
  • Ferrum Health — Ferrum Health is a developer of an enterprise IT and AI patient safety platform for health systems. Ferrum Health provides an artificial intelligence (AI) technology platform for health system executives to prevent medical errors across their patient population, serving as a safety net that uses AI algorithms to assist quality teams in the peerreview of radiology studies.
  • SingleFile Technologies — SingleFile Technologies automates secretary of state filings with our cloud based, filing platform using AI technology. From business formations to foreign qualifications, and many other filing documents, the SingleFile platform saves time, eliminates confusion, and reduces cost.
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Act Venture Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 4 investments in Publishing startups

Technology-focused, investing capital and expertise to fuel growth in the most promising ideas and companies. Raised c.€600m across multiple funds and invest from seed to growth.We look for companies with potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure, communications, Internetand mobile. We help founders create and scale businesses globally. We work as a small team with diverse strengths accessing a community of over 200 founders. The teams and companies we back scale their investor base as they scale their business execution and ambition. We work closely with them in this process. Over the past 25 years have built a broad network of US and European investors and founders that share our vision and approach.Act is based in Dublin, Ireland.Our most recent funds are supported by the European Investment Fund.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
  • Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
  • Mavarick AI — Mavarick enables manufacturers to become more sustainable and productive.Our technology gives manufacturers precise and accurate information about their operations so they can reduce carbon emissions, increase productivity, and make better decisions across their business.Born on the shop floor and developed by data scientists, manufacturers,and sustainability experts, our easy-to-use tools make powerful AI solutions accessible to all the team.
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Alliance of Angels
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 4 investments in Publishing startups

Largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Glidance — Glide, a groundbreaking leap in assistive technology, is the first self-guided mobility assistant designed for individuals with sight loss.
  • Give InKind — Set up a Give InKind Page to coordinate support from anywhere. Create a Care Calendar, add items to your Wishlist and connect your Crowdfunding - all for free.
  • SafKan Health — OtoSet® by SafKan Health is the first FDA Cleared automated ear cleaning device for the 35 million Americans affected by impacted earwax - the leading cause of conductive hearing loss.
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 4 investments in Publishing startups, 22 in the past 12 months

Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 356
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ENERZAi — As your AI catalyst, we are dedicated to spearheading an AI breakthrough with our cutting-edge AI optimization technology.
  • Titan Content — Titan Content is a metaverse music service provider that seeks to fuse Web3, metaverse, and artificial intelligence innovations with conventional Korean pop music business models and content.
  • Minxin Technology — Minxin Technology focuses on the research, development, manufacture, and sales of photo- and thermal-curing functional materials and electronic-grade wet chemicals.
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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Publishing startups

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1013
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • BIT ODD — Gaming company building games filled with wonder, weirdness and delight
  • Dream Games — Join Dream Games and explore a vibrant universe of characters and puzzles. Discover why millions of players worldwide love our mobile games. Visit us to learn more about our games, company culture, and career opportunities.
  • Acutus Medical — Acutus Medical develops medical technologies to treat complex cardiac arrhythmia. The company's platform displays the heart’s true activation pattern, turning the chaos of a complex arrhythmia into a clear vision for electrophysiologists.Acutus Medical is a privately funded company founded in 2011 and based in Carlsbad, California. Itsproducts are co-developed in the U.S. and Europe with an exceptional team of medical scientists, biomedical engineers, and other professionals.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
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Third Wave Digital
VC Fund · Beverly Hills, California, United States · 4 investments in Publishing startups

Third Wave is an early stage venture capital firm focused on the Digital Media sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Digital Media, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Girlboss — Navigating the future of work and helping you find success on your terms.
  • Drone Racing League — Drone Racing League is a drone racing circuit for professional pilots. The company designs and builds a custom in-house racing drone, the Racer3, which speeds more than 85 MPH around the most complex 3D race courses ever imagined outside a video game. It combines media and technology to create thrilling 3D drone racing content with mass appeal.Drone Racing League was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
  • Skybound Entertainment — Skybound Entertainment is an imprint of image comics that provides comic book creators the opportunity to publish their work. It offers Robert Kirkman’s Eisner award-winning comic book series, The Walking Dead, long-running Invincible, all-ages Super Dinosaur, Thief of Thieves and Clone as well as Witch Doctor, Guarding the Globe, and TheAstounding Wolf-Man.Since its inception, Skybound Entertainment has created television shows, merchandise, and a wide spectrum of platforms, games, and entertainment events. It was launched by Robert Kirkman in 2010.Skybound Entertainment is operated from Culver City, California.
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William Lohse
Angel · Reno, Nevada, United States · 4 investments in Publishing startups

William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Social Media, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Beatrust — Tags connect and drive collaboration, expanding your team's potential
  • SmartNews — Trusted by over 40+ million worldwide readers, SmartNews provides the best news, stories and events across 200+ local news sites.
  • Greenhouse Software — Greenhouse is a talent acquisition software company that offers its suite of tools and services to help businesses with the hiring process.The platform aims to assist companies with sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding the right talent. It assists employers to establish who they are looking to hire and plan a consistent interviewprocess, enabling recruiters to collect feedback and track employees after they have been hired.Daniel Chait and Jon Stross co-founded the company in 2012 and headquartered it in New York, New York.
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