Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in United States (July 2026)
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RRE Ventures
VC Fund
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12 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Financial Services, Internet | $1.1M–$32M |
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Betaworks
VC Fund
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10 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, Mobile | |
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The New York Times
VC Fund
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10 | United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands | Series A, Seed, Series B | Publishing, Advertising, Content | $500k–$30M |
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Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund
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9 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | $1.2M–$40M |
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SoftBank Group
VC Fund
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8 | United States, China, India | Series B, Series A | Software, Mobile, Advertising | $2M–$75M |
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SV Angel
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $1M–$130M |
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Knight Enterprise Fund
VC Fund
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7 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Digital Media, Video | $610k–$8M |
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Accel
VC Fund
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7 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.6M–$70M |
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Red Sea Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Spain, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, E-Commerce | $1M–$25M |
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Lighter Capital
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Canada, Australia | Debt Financing, Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $100k–$500k |
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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $20k–$2M |
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1745 Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Advertising | $1.3M–$30M |
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Joanne Wilson
Angel
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6 | United States, Canada, Poland | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail | $500k–$8.8M |
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
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6 | United States, China, India | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $6M–$200M |
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MDC Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A | Advertising, Analytics, Software | $700k–$6M |
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Precursor Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $315k–$29M |
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Social Starts
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$15M |
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First Round Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.2M–$63M |
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Social Leverage
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1M–$50M |
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Greycroft
VC Fund
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1.5M–$79M |
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PROOF
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | $1.5M–$42M |
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Great Oaks Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Spain | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $750k–$42M |
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Clearstone Venture Partners
VC Fund
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4 | United States, India, Afghanistan | Series A, Series B | Software, Enterprise Software, E-Commerce | $4M–$23M |
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Spark Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $4M–$176M |
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Third Wave Digital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Media and Entertainment, Digital Media, Video | $625k–$75M |
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Mitch Kapor
Angel
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4 | United States, Japan, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Mobile, Education | $300k–$27M |
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Index Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $1.4M–$100M |
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M-Fund Club
VC Fund
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4 | Israel, United States, Cyprus | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $435k–$35M |
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TCG
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Australia | Seed, Series A | Software, Media and Entertainment, Internet | $2M–$35M |
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Tuesday Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Mexico, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Mobile, Internet | $750k–$17M |
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Walden Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Israel, Sweden | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Mobile, Internet | $2M–$25M |
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DFJ Mercury
VC Fund
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4 | United States | Series A, Series B, Debt Financing | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $75k–$20M |
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Lowercase Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Internet | $1M–$45M |
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Transmedia Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Mobile, Internet | $1M–$14M |
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Grape Arbor VC
VC Fund
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4 | United States, France | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Advertising | $500k–$14M |
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William Lohse
Angel
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4 | United States, Japan, Canada | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Social Media, Advertising | $25k–$113M |
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Flyover Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States | Series A, Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Services | |
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Foundry Group
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Internet | |
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New York Angels
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Mobile | $517k–$19M |
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Advancit Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment | $1.5M–$32M |
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
VC Fund
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4 | United States, India, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2.5M–$125M |
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LionTree
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Series B, Seed | Media and Entertainment, E-Commerce, Sports | |
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Zelkova Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Internet | |
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Indicator Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | |
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Angel
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3 | United States, Australia, Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Mobile, Internet | |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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3 | United States, India, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps | |
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Vela Partners
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Germany, Japan | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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KB Partners
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Sports, Software, Information Technology | |
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Ludlow Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | |
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Cowles Company
VC Fund
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3 | United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Software, Water | |
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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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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 523
- 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.
- Bread Financial — Bread Financial offers personalized payment, lending, and savings solutions. They provide customers and partners with a wide range of digitally enabled options that are easy, empowered, and flexible financially. Their service includes credit card facility, loan options, and flexible payment options.
- Clearpath Robotics — Clearpath provides self-driving vehicle technology and services to over 500 of the world’s most innova-tive brands. Proprietary hardware, software, and services are delivered through the company’s industrial and research divisions: Clearpath Robotics and OTTO Motors. Visit www.clearpath.ai for more information.
Betaworks is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund.
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- 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!
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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- 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
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 500
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M; Series A $2.5M–$15M; Series B $10M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- BuzzFeed — BuzzFeed is a news and entertainment company that is redefining online advertising with its social, content-driven publishing technology. BuzzFeed provides the most shareable breaking news, original reporting, entertainment, and video across the social web to its global audience of more than 200M. It covers breaking news, produces original videos,and creates content that people want to share on the web.BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John Johnson. It is headquartered in New York, New York.
- 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.
- Crossing Minds — Personalize your customer experience by showing relevant product recommendations. Boost your revenue & conversions with the smartest recommender systems and platforms. No cookies, ever.
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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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Advertising
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 228
- 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.
- OpenAI — Introducing Sora: Creating video from text
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 992
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $2.5M–$40M; Series B $8M–$130M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $29M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Espa — Espa provides an AI assistant platform that helps individuals and organizations manage email, scheduling, and personal or work tasks. The service connects to users’ inboxes and calendars to flag priority messages, draft context-aware responses, and coordinate meeting times. Users can interact with Espa via messaging channels such as text, WhatsApp,and other chat tools to book appointments, set reminders, and follow up on tasks. The platform offers plans for personal use, professional assistants, and larger enterprises, with options for multiple inboxes, synced calendars, and integrations with tools like email, calendar, storage, and collaboration systems. Espa emphasizes privacy controls, encryption, and user management features for larger teams.
- NavigateAI — NavigateAI is an AI copilot for the physical world specifically designed for construction and field service teams to help them complete projects faster, with higher quality, and at lower costs.
- 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.
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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- 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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1940
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Series A $4.5M–$41M; Series B $9.5M–$70M
- 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
- Rocket Money — Rocket Money (formerly Truebill) is a leading personal finance app with the mission to empower people to live their best financial lives. The company offers its members a unique understanding of their finances and a suite of valuable services that save them time and money – ultimately giving their members a leg up on their financial journey.Members can manage subscriptions, lower their bills, build budgets and automatically set aside money to reach their savings goals.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Spain, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; 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.
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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- 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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1143
- Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$448k; Convertible Note $50k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Vector ML Analytics — Vector ML is a financial analytics tool used by executives and analysts at banks and lending institutions to increase return, lower risk, and manage liquidity. It combines treasury, credit risk, FP&A, and capital market features in a single application using AI and automation, allowing for a 360-degree view of the balance sheet. Visit us atwww.vectormla.com
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 201
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.3M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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 — Fractional AI builds bespoke gen AI software to transform businesses.
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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- 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.
We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1820
- Round size: Series A $6M–$54M; Series B $11M–$100M; Series C $12M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Semgrep — An extensible developer-friendly application security platform that scans source code to surface true and actionable security issues with AI-assisted SAST, SCA, and Secrets Detection solutions.
- Pony.ai — Pony.ai is a startup that builds full-stack autonomous driving solutions. It is a pioneer in autonomous mobility technologies and services across the US and China, spearheading public-facing Robotaxi pilots in both markets. Pony.ai is committed to creating a safe and sustainable mobility future by delivering autonomous mobility everywhere.Thecompany was founded by James Peng and Tiancheng Lou in 2016 and is headquartered in Fremont, California, United States.
- Observable — Observable provides a data visualization platform for developers, data scientists, journalists, and educators to explore, analyze, and visualize data on the web together. It enables users to create complex graphs, charts, and other visual representations of data. The platform empowers creators to further their learning through data visualizationand gain deep insights. The company is helping organizations make decisions with data, including teams at Stitch Fix and classes at MIT that are working in Observable every day.
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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- 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
- Gradient.io — Gradient is Amazon seller analytics suite that provide insights and recommendations to help brands and sellers boost their sales and succeed on Amazon.
- 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.
- Catch+Release — Unlock the power of UGC with our comprehensive licensing platform. Use tools for video marketing, content curation, and collaboration to elevate your creative campaigns.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 335
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $315k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scorbit — Scorbit develops a platform for pinball players and pinball machine owners and operators.
- PodcastAI — Podcast like a pro: easily create transcripts, show notes, viral clips and publish your podcast everywhere all in just a few clicks of a button. Powered by AI, built for podcasters.
- Xella Health — AI-powered women's health testing for fertility, hormones, endometriosis, PCOS, and cancer screening. Xella Health is Precision medicine with concierge care.
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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- 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
- 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.
First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 821
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.6M; Series A $2.3M–$26M; Series B $7M–$63M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- treet — Treet helps brands launch fully-branded recommerce sites where customers can buy & sell items from each other.
- Aisera — Aisera's AI Service Management (AISM) solution helps enterprises to automate IT tasks & workflows to deliver exceptional service experience.
- 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.
Social Leverage An early stage seed investment fund.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 154
- 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 is the weight loss company that bridges the gap between what you know and what you do.With a science based, tech-enabled, proven approach, delivered with the human touch of multi-disciplinary certified wellness experts, Retrofit makes you aware and conscious of your relationship with food, so you can overcome barriers to healthyeating, and improve your attitudes towards physical activity.We know that you are highly informed about eating nutritious foods and very knowledgeable about how to maximize physical activity, but let’s face it, we all have lots of reasons for not doing either.We are honored to have some of the nation's leading experts in weight management build the Retrofit program from sound medical research and clinical data to serve the needs of real people.
- TrueFacet — Shop and sell top designer brands up to 70% off. Use this link to get $70 off on your first order of $200+
- 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.
Venture capital and technology investments
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 720
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $3.2M–$25M; Series B $6.2M–$79M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $378M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Billie — Billie is a wellness company that offers shaving supplies and body products. Billie is committed to designing products that are uniquely built to provide women everyday TLC from top to toe. Billie believes that women shouldn't be an afterthought in the shaving category and that they deserve to have a great shave without having to pay more forit.Billie was founded in 2017 and is based in New York.
- Leena AI — Leena AI is an autonomous conversational AI-backed platform that helps enterprises better employee experience. The platform is powerful, flexible, and made to meets the needs of any enterprise. With Leena AI, companies can eliminate the need for HR staff to work on tasks such as answering policy-related questions, knowledge management,generating employee documents on demand, and managing employee tickets so they can focus on high-value activities.Leena AI plays well with 20 plus platforms, including SAP SuccessFactors, ADP, Oracle, Workday, and Microsoft Office 365. It is trusted by 1M employees across companies like Nestle, Puma, AirAsia, Coca-cola, Lafarge Holcim, and Abbott.The platform is capable of handling every aspect of employee experience across the employee lifecycle. From FAQ automation and employee engagement right up to employee onboarding, the platform aims to help organizations streamline all HR workflows.
- WorldWide Biggies — Worldwide Biggies, Inc. operates as a digital entertainment studio. It provides films and T.V, gametoons, games, and Webisodes for kids, families, and young adults through online. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in New York, New York.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 367
- Round size: Seed $750k–$5.4M; Series A $3M–$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 — Luminos AI provides software for legal and governance teams to assess and manage AI risk. The platform supports compliance testing, evaluation workflows, and automated reporting across classical, generative, and agentic AI systems.
- Snapp — Snapp uses AI agentic systems and LLMs with access to comprehensive sports databases, real-time APIs, and AI-powered content tools to truly engage the passionate fan. Our early adopters are sports bettors and fantasy players looking for detailed insights and personalized recommendations — delivered in an intuitive, easy-to-use experience.
- 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.
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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- 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.
Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 581
- Round size: Series A $4M–$37M; Series B $7M–$100M; Series C $20M–$176M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Chronosphere, Inc. A Palo Alto Networks Company — Chronosphere is an observability platform that empowers cloud native engineering organizations to control for data volumes, rampant costs and organizational friction that comes from rapid scale and technical complexity.Chronosphere is a Series C startup with more than $255M in funding and backed by VC firms Greylock, Lux Capital General Atlantic,Founder Fund, Spark Capital, and investor Lee Fixel.The team is distributed with major hubs in New York and Vilnius.
- 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.
- Next New Networks — Next New Networks is a new kind of media company. As the leading independent producer of online video networks, we create, brand, market and syndicate some of the Web's most popular programming. We bring together the best elements of TV programming and Internet philosophy to allow viewers to contribute, share and distribute content. Since its inception in March 2007, Next New Networks has launched over twenty networks, and our programming has been viewed nearly 2 billion times! We currently work with some of the best creators on the web in categories such as: animation, food, entertainment, comedy, video gaming, movies, fitness, pets, and sports. You can see some of our Next New Creators' channels listed to the right. And a list of our current networks below. Now, lets talk about you! Is there a community you're a part of that lacks or wants programming? Let us know. If you're a writer, producer, or creator who's passionate about your community, then maybe you should be a part of our next next network. For more information, visit illuminati http://www.nextnewnetworks.com/page/next-new-creators
Third Wave is an early stage venture capital firm focused on the Digital Media sector.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Digital Media, Video
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $625k–$2.5M; Series A $3M–$75M; Series B $2.9M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2014
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.
Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4M; Angel $300k–$1.3M; Series A $2M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
- Redcar — Scale your B2B sales with the most flexible AI Agent. Customize your GTM and outreach on Redcar, which qualifies, researches, personalizes, and follows up like your best reps.
- Spreadsheet.com — The spreadsheet you know with the power of a database and project management system. Gantt, Kanban, Forms, and Automations. Get started free.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1170
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $10M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $117M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Codat — Codat turns on-demand client data into personalized insights that help commercial banking teams deepen relationships and grow revenue.
- StorSimple — Learn how to migrate a StorSimple 8100 or 8600 appliance to Azure File Sync.
- Trustpilot — Trustpilot is a powerful review platform - free and open to all. With more than 58 million reviews of over 270,000 domains, Trustpilot gives people a place to share and discover reviews of businesses, and we give every company the tools to turn consumer feedback into business results. Our mission is to bring people and businesses closer together tocreate ever-improving experiences for everyone. Trustpilot reviews are seen more than 3 billion times each month by consumers worldwide. With offices in Copenhagen, London, New York, Denver, Berlin, Melbourne and Vilnius, Trustpilot's 700 employees represent more than 40 different nationalities.
M-Fund VC is a top-performing Israeli early-stage fund, backing first-time founders in overlooked sectors with discipline and conviction.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States, Cyprus
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $435k–$10M; Pre-Seed $600k–$1.1M; Series A $15M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fetcherr — We offer an AI technology based on algo-trading methodologies that empowers our airline partners to redefine the way they price flights to maximize profit and optimize workflow.
- Zesty.co — Continuously optimize infrastructure performance and cost with vertical rightsizing, horizontal scaling, and commitment coverage in one platform, aligned to real workload demand.
- GrowthSpace — Employee Development at Scale, Driven by Data
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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- Industry: Software, Media and Entertainment, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% 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 — 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.
Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 224
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $750k–$5M; Series A $3.8M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% 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.
- 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
- Crabi — Full stack, digital car insurance
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Browse database — It's Free!Based in San Francisco, Walden Venture Capital targets Sprout Stage:tm: investments. We seek products or services with mass-market potential and powerful underlying technologies taking active supporting roles typically as first institutional investors. Our target sectors are digital media and cloud services for consumers and enterprise. We caredeeply about Founders and Management and work diligently to help manifest their vision. Our portfolio includes leaders in music, mobile, internet media and breakthrough cloud services.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Israel, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Series A $2M–$8M; Series B $5M–$12M; Series C $6.5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $107M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- PathSpot — The PathSpot System protects businesses from common illness by instantly detecting harmful contaminants on hands.
- Hatch — Hatch offers a variety of devices to help you sleep better night after night. Create healthy sleeping habits for the whole family with Hatch.
- Bespoke Post — Goods and guidance for the modern customer, delivered monthly. We aim to upgrade your day-to-day life through our themed boxes full of enviable gear – shaving sets, shoe shine kits, home bar essentials, and lots more – plus a full shop of uniquely cool standalone products. Here's how it works: at the beginning of each month, you'll getan email with a full look inside the box we've selected for you based on what we think you'll enjoy. You're free to tweak colors and sizes, add on extra goods, or skip it at no cost – whatever you want. And there's always free shipping, easy returns, and no hassles, ever.See you on the inside.
Early-stage venture fund, parent fund is Draper Fisher Jurvetson
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Debt Financing
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Series A $725k–$6M; Series B $2.4M–$20M; Debt Financing $75k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Macheen — Macheen Inc. enables connected device makers, retailers and solution providers to deliver products that are “hot-out-of-the-box”—shipped pre-connected to the Internet via mobile networks. Macheen’s cloud-based platform supports new business models for device makers, retailers, cloud service providers and network operators alike. Macheen deliversbreakthrough value by significantly increasing adoption rates and market penetration of connected devices and cloud services. Enrollment Partners include Dell and Lenovo. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Macheen is a global corporation with services active in multiple continents and with wholly owned subsidiaries Macheen GmbH and Macheen Ltd.
- GameSalad — GameSalad is a development platform that enables anyone to create their own games with a visual programming interface. It’s also a way of introducing programming concepts, game design, and digital media creation to students.Launched in 2010, GameSalad has been used by over one million aspiring game developers and has powered over 75 games thatreached the top 100 in the App Store.
- Ambiq Micro — Ambiq has developed breakthrough technology innovating battery-powered endpoint devices by reducing the total power consumed. Learn more.
Lowercase Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed/startups, mature, and acquisition of later-stage companies. The firm typically invests in wireless, media, commerce, infrastructure, energy, and transportation sectors. It also advises businesses and funds. Lowercase Capital was founded in 2010and is based in New York, New York.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 166
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $1.6M–$16M; Series B $8.3M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Smash.gg — Start.gg is the leading destination to create, run, play and watch esports tournaments!
- Boundless Mind — Thrive Global's mission is to end the burnout epidemic with sustainable, science-based solutions that unlock employee performance and enhance well-being through our behavior change technology.
- Happy Returns — Happy Returns by PayPal makes returns beautiful for shoppers, merchants, and the planet with our returns software and reverse logistics.
Transmedia Capital is a top performing technology venture fund providing deep domain expertise, operating experience, and advisory relationships.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.2M; Series A $2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
- Greywing — Make better decisions and give time back to your team with Generative AI.
- Armstrong Robotics — Armstrong is building general-purpose robots for kitchens, starting with dishwashing. Our robots already wash over a million dishes a year, and can install in a new restaurant in hours.
Grape Arbor is an angel investor group comprised of friends who spend their professional lives in the technology and start-up space and pool their personal finances to make angel investments. Since its founding in 2006, Grape Arbor LLC (directly or through affiliates) has made one or more investments into more than two dozen companies.Grape Arbor has made investments in advertising/marketing online, web 2.0/social networking, financial services (tech and non-tech), and software/web-enhanced services. While a number of investments have been into companies with products at the pre-beta stage, Grape Arbor has made one initial investment into a company which, at the time, had roughly $15MM of trailing 12 month revenue. In general, however, Grape Arbor targets early stage companies with a little revenue (several hundred thousand to several million in trailing 12 month revenue). All of the companies considered seriously had a clear strategy for attacking a large and rapidly growing addressable market as well as a strong (even if not complete) management team.Grape Arbor has made investments in which co-investors have been: First Round Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Carlyle, Insight Venture Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Vision Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Venrock, Kodiak Venture Partners and others.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $1.5M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Elucd — Elucd provides cities with a near real-time understanding of how citizens feel about their government.
- TrueData — TrueData helps adtech companies and agencies build identity resolution and audience activation data strategies through curated data products.
- StayTuned — StayTuned is building a suite of tools to help high growth e-commerce brands grow even faster. Our focus is on Shopify, the go-to platform for e-commerce brands. We are backed by top tier institutional VCs and well known angel investors.
William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.
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- Industry: Software, Social Media, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $25k–$2.4M; Angel $500k–$1M; Series A $1.7M–$113M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Beatrust — Tags connect and drive collaboration, expanding your team's potential
- Manifest — Manifest is a product ads platform that helps retailers realize the potential of their catalogs by determining which products to promote across Facebook, Google and others. Customers have used Manifest to optimize over 14 million products in 4 billion ads and have generated over $70 million in ROI-positive revenue. Beyond retargeting,Manifest's Matching Engine helps retailers prospect for new customers as well as activate and re-engage existing customers by exposing them to products they have not yet discovered. Top retailers including Neiman Marcus, Gilt, One Kings Lane and LivingSocial use Manifest, which is backed by investment from First Round Capital, Softtech VC, Cowboy Ventures, and others.
- SmartNews — SmartNews is the award-winning news app loved by millions. We are a machine-learning company deeply committed to helping users find quality news beyond the filter bubble. Our algorithms evaluate tens of millions of articles, behaviors and social interactions to deliver only the most interesting and important stories on a global scale—a fascinatingengineering challenge that has attracted a world-class data science and engineering team. SmartNews won numerous “App of the Year” awards and has been downloaded by more than 35 million people and has over 10million monthly active users. SmartNews has offices in Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York. Join our international culture—smart work, smart people and a global mission to bring quality information to the world. Travel between our amazing offices in the U.S. and Japan, and collaborate with coworkers from around the world.
Our purpose is to create the next generation of technology success stories in the Flyover region.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- ChampionHQ — ChampionHQ operates as a customer marketing platform to activate your customers and fans to create post-sale marketing programs.
- 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.
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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- 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.
New York Angels is one of the oldest, most prominent angel investment groups in the country. New York Angels has offered early-stage entrepreneurs funding, mentoring, connections and more for over 20 years. Angel investors join New York Angels for their extensive, experienced network, increased de
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 273
- Round size: Seed $517k–$5M; Series A $1.2M–$9.2M; Series B $2M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- Enertiv — Enertiv's is a CRE technology company that transforms building data into asset value. Top owners and operators have adopted Enertiv as their primary smart building technology and a key component in their overall PropTech strategy.
- Epicured — Epicured delivers gourmet low-FODMAP, gluten-free meals by chefs for digestive health. Tasty cuisine right to your door.
- Dirty Shirley —
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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- Industry: Software, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
- 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–$32M
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1704
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$30M; Series A $7M–$95M; Series B $13M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Razorpay — Online Payments India: Start Accepting Payments Instantly with Razorpay's Payment Suite, which Supports Netbanking, Credit Card & Debit Cards, UPI etc.
- Matillion — Enterprise level data integration tools built for the cloud. Harness your data into transformative business insights. Your data is your competitive edge.
- Ricursive Intelligence — We develop frontier AI methods to reinvent chip development, collapsing traditional design timelines, closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, and enabling a Cambrian explosion of custom silicon.
LionTree is an independent investment and merchant bank that brings capital together with ideas to accelerate growth and innovation. Learn more.
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, E-Commerce, Sports
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Telly — The biggest thing to happen to TV since color.
- Fanatics — Fanatics offers the broadest assortment of fan merchandise and memorabilia worldwide.
- Spines — Experience the next generation of publishing with Spines. Bring your book to life in any format, sell globally, and manage everything from one user-friendly platform.
Zelkova Ventures is a venture capital firm committed to helping entrepreneurs build companies. The firm primarily looks to invest in early stage companies, many times pre-revenue. In many instances they provide a company's first outside/institutional capital. They look to take an active role and partner with the companies they investin. Along with their capital, Zelkova brings expertise, insight and execution to all of their portfolio companies.Zelkova, although not exclusively, focuses on several key sectors - Software Services, Internet Technologies, Environmental Technologies and Consumer Products.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Vitally — Vitally enables forward-thinking Customer Success teams to increase revenue growth, reduce churn, and provide a proactive, world-class customer experience at scale.
- myPocketCFO — Automated data ingestion, AI-powered bookkeeping, prequalification for working capital financing, and on-demand expert advice. $10/day for complete financial control. Try it free today.
- Respondology — Instantly remove spam, bots, and brand-damaging comments. Learn what your audience is talking about in 30-seconds or less at any scale.
Indicator Ventures is a pre-seed and seed stage venture capital firm, investing in technology companies across the U.S.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Affiniti — Fueling Small Businesses Across America With Industry-Tailored Credit Cards.
- Arda Therapeutics — Arda Therapeutics is a biotechnology company taking aim at chronic diseases and aging by eliminating the pathogenic cells that drive these conditions. Their approach starts by using single-cell data to identify pathogenic cells and specific markers to target them. They then design therapies to eliminate these - and only these - cells.Arda wasfounded in 2021 in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
- Starpath Robotics — Starpath designs and manufactures robotic propellant production factories for the Moon and Mars, reducing the cost of deep space transport, and enabling humans to be a multi planet species.
Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
- Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
- Unrivaled — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.
Hesham has been ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits. Hesham has invested in +100 startups. He has co-founded more than 40 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak,read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish. Hesham is a founder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is an online incubator who has border-less reach. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) and invested as an angel investor in more than 40 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide and more than 400 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 40 incubated startups. During his work at FasterCapital, Hesham has co-founded: - co-founded Edunoor.com: online learning platform with social components. - invested in Dooet.com: a discovery and search engine for mobile applications and other content. - invested in Letuscloud.com: Bridging the gap between enterprises and virualization - invested in abcmob.com: Mobile business application. 18 sectors already covered. - invested in Mobayle.com: an instant AppStore creator and customizer - invested in Meody.com: Cross platform messenger with focus on enterprises and operators. - invested in TVlize.com: a platform for social and engaging TV - He also cofounded and invested in Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com, B2Butterfly.com and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 50 companies. Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc (it would have been the first company in MENA region to be acquired by a public company). ZGroup Mobile is a developer and publisher of mobile content (mobile games, mobile apps, mobile music, mobile videos) and services. He has been ranked 7th in Baccalaureate tests among 200,000th participants. He has completed his engineering degree at HIAST then he has done an MBA at Edinburgh business school and a Master in computer information science at AABFS.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- TVlize — TVlize is a company specialized in improving and socializing TV experience. At TVlize we change the viewing experience from lean backward to lean forward.
- AIR AGRO — MarketPlace para o mercado de Pulverização Áerea por drones, aviões ou helicópteros agrícolas. Auditoria em tempo real. Certificação dos fornecedores. Analise agronômica tempo real. Boas práticas e compliance que o mercado exige. Segurança Alimentar. Moeda Agro Cash Back que o produtor rural escolhe uma entidade da sua comunidade para ajudar oualguma cadastrada no nosso banco de dados. Produzir mais, com menos, de maneira sustentável e contribuindo com sua comunidade.
- Dietfoodi — Dietfoodi is a cloud kitchen idea is essentially a kitchen space meant for production of food for delivery-only purposes. Since this food can be ordered online, hence, the name, Cloud kitchen. In this pandemic time cloud kitchen is a very supportive & positive business idea where we want to mix international cuisine cultural with very vastway.This commissary kitchen are also known as ghost kitchens, shared kitchens, or virtual kitchens with the delivery-only food brands operating within them called virtual restaurants. But moving to a delivery-only model has been made possible recently by advances in technology and changes in consumer habits. It offers certain advantages over offering delivery from a traditional brick-and-mortar restaurant.
Vela Partners is an AI-enabled venture investor based in San Francisco.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Vieu — Learn about us, our team, our backers and the story behind Vieu.
- Cartken — Launch your robot fleet with us. The AI powering our robots makes them the safest and most reliable in the market today.
- Goooods — Goooods provides engagement in the development and operation of B2B commerce.
We invest in passionate innovators at the intersection of sports and technology.
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Symitri — Symitri is the integrated privacy firewall and real-time data cleanroom for the open web.
- NIL FanBox — NIL FanBox is a sports merchandise company that offers curated boxes of autographed collectibles for sports fans.
- The Realest — The first dedicated marketplace and authentication standard for physical memorabilia.
We believe in VC without ego. We wear our hearts on our sleeves, avoiding the puffery and posturing that gives venture capital a bad name. We invest in authentic friendships that go beyond work. Successful companies rely on trust and there is no greater way to foster that than by becoming real friends. We invest with insane conviction, movingquickly and backing teams when others think it's too early. You make our dream jobs possible and we're forever thankful for that.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 149
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Umba — With an Umba account, you have everything you need from your bank. Spend, pay bills, get loans, and cashback all from your phone.
- ZeroMark — ZeroMark is a defense product company building technology to ensure safety and precision when using kinetic and non lethal weapons.
- Postmoda — Fashion that cuts waste, not style.
Cowles Company is a fourth generation family-owned enterprise that operates a portfolio of legacy companies and seeks to invest in high potential growth businesses for the long-term benefit of shareholders, customers, employees and the communities in which it operates.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Water
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Quintar — Quintar builds pioneering tech and tools for content creators who want to build an awe-inspiring multilayered world. To create new content possibilities at the speed of culture.
- Treasury4 — Treasury4 offers data analytics services for the finance and treasury industry. The company is dedicated to delivering high-value solutions that fundamentally improve treasury and finance processes for corporates worldwide.
- Vega Cloud — Vega is a next-generation Cloud management platform. With increased visibility, scalable management, and advanced optimization strategies, Vega can save you up to 35% on your monthly cloud bill.
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