Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in United States (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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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–$35M |
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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
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10 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $50k–$2M |
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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, News | $500k–$30M |
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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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Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund
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9 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | $1.3M–$50M |
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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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1745 Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising | $1.3M–$30M |
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Lighter Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Canada, India | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $77k–$1.1M |
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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–$100M |
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Liquid 2 Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Mexico, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $125k–$45M |
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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 | $567k–$9.2M |
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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 | $1.4M–$70M |
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Red Sea Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Spain, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $1M–$40M |
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Social Starts
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$14M |
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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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Tuesday Capital
VC Fund
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6 | United States, United Kingdom, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, Mobile | $750k–$15M |
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MDC Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A | Advertising, Analytics, Software | $610k–$6M |
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SilverCircle
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Canada, Israel | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.2M–$60M |
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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–$220M |
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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–$80M |
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Advancit Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Media and Entertainment, Software, Digital Media | $1.5M–$37M |
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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–$60M |
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
VC Fund
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5 | United States, India, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2M–$125M |
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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 | $120k–$20M |
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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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New York Angels
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Mobile | $365k–$15M |
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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, Information Technology | $1.5M–$50M |
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Orbit Venture Partners
VC Fund
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5 | United States | Series A, Seed, Convertible Note | Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Software | $4M–$28M |
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Great Oaks Venture Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $800k–$45M |
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Index Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $1.5M–$102M |
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True Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.2M–$50M |
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Billy Olave sibo
Angel
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5 | United States | Seed, Angel, Corporate Round | Music, Publishing, Music Label | |
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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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Puget Sound Venture Club
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, Turkey | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $100k–$4M |
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Serra Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Analytics | $250k–$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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Alumni Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $880k–$75M |
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TCG
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Australia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment | $2M–$50M |
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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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Mitch Kapor
Angel
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4 | United States, Japan, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Angel | Mobile, Software, Education | $300k–$27M |
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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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William Lohse
Angel
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4 | United States, Japan, Canada | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Social Media, Advertising | $60k–$6.2M |
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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–$250M |
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Uncork Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $1.3M–$50M |
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LionTree
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Sweden | Series B, Seed, Series A | Media and Entertainment, Sports, Software | $1.5M–$100M |
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Thomas Lehrman
Angel
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4 | United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Education | $550k–$157M |
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Bloomberg Beta
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$65M |
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Alliance of Angels
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, Nigeria | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Mobile | $750k–$6.8M |
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NextView Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $1.3M–$65M |
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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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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: 601
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.5M; Series A $2.7M–$25M; Series B $7.3M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Mingyian — Mingyian is a China brand management company for western celebrities and influencers, and is developing the first micro-event platform for celebrities to host online events that engage, grow, and monetize their fan base in the Chinese market. Early investors include RRE Ventures, #DominateFund, Oscar-Nominated Hollywood Director M. NightShyamalan, Foley Ventures, and Eric Yao, a senior executive at one of China's largest energy companies.Our team is made up of industry giants in the China digital and US entertainment spaces, including the Co-founder of E! Entertainment, Former General Manager of the Television Network, Former SVP at William Morris and EVP at Universal Television, Former Director of Business Development at Live Nation, China's First Blogger, Co-Founder of largest site for engineers and designers in China, among many others.
- Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
- Bread Financial — We provide simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions.
Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital
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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: 1881
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$450k; Convertible Note $50k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $55M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
- 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.
- Experio AI — Turn contracts, proposals, and expertise into instant searchable intelligence. Win more, ramp faster, never lose knowledge. Enterprise AI for services.
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, News
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $750k–$4.6M; Series A $3.1M–$9.1M; Series B $500k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trint — Trint™ is what happens when technology meets opportunity. Jeff Kofman (veteran journalist) and Mark Boas (seasoned web developer) met at the Mozilla Festival in 2013, and quickly realized that the work Mark and his team were doing on media and transcripts could solve a problem that Jeff had long encountered: painstaking transcription of interviews.
- OpenWeb — OpenWeb powers communities across the Open Internet, turning real participation into direct audience relationships, actionable insights, and revenue.
- Automattic — Making the web a better place
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!
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: 623
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.5M; Series A $3M–$16M; Series B $11M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $200M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
- Fresh Nation — Fresh Nation is an enterprise-level B2B wholesale marketplace and management platform for the retail grocery industry, operationalizing local and specialty food assortments for the nation’s largest retailers and distributors. Fresh Nation’s proprietary Virtual Supply Chain™ platform simplifies the complexity of working with thousands of smallvendors, saving time and cutting costs. Incorporating a vendor and product rich CRM, interactive supplier portal, order management suite, accounting and invoicing tools, and flexible EDI/API integrations, Fresh Nation is becoming the grocery industry standard for enterprise specialty food management.
- littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
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: 239
- Round size: Series A $2M–$30M; Series B $5M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Swirl Networks — Buy Swirl.com on DomainEasy. Buy it today!
- Rize — Rize is an 3D printing company manufacturing full-color multi-material office-friendly industrial 3D printers. It enables sustainable and inclusive innovation to achieve additive at scale. The company's 3D printers, the world’s first hybrid 3D printers, are a breakthrough combining two discrete technologies, material extrusion and materialjetting. This enables a one-touch experience to produce parts that mimic injection-molded parts and the capability to digitally connect to Industry 4.0 technologies, at the lowest total cost of ownership.
- Legendary Entertainment — LEGENDARY is a global entertainment company with a passion for transportive storytelling across film, television, digital media, virtual reality and comic books. Towering monsters. Inspirational
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, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 216
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Series A $3.2M–$20M; Series B $4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $63M in 2006
Portfolio highlights
- Mojiva — Mojiva Inc. is the parent company of the Mojiva, the mobile ad network and the Mocean Mobile, the mobile ad serving platform. It is led by a team of advertising and media veterans from Google, DoubleClick, Yahoo, Nokia and AdMob, with more than 100 years of collective experience in mobile marketing and technology.Mojiva, Inc. provides productsand solutions that not only fuel the mobile advertising marketplace by bringing mobile ad buyers together with mobile content sellers, but that also solve unique challenges in the mobile marketing space. Solutions include tools to market your products and services to mobile users, monetize your mobile content, enable your global ad sales team to capitalize on an expanded media mix, control your inventory, or mobilize the brands your agency is working with.
- Sensity AI — Sensity AI thanks to an all-in-one approach can guarantee the best deepfake detection software capabilities currently available in the marketplace
- Fractional AI — AI transformation. Powered by engineering excellence.
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 211
- Round size: Debt Financing $92k–$500k; Venture - Series Unknown $77k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Fincentify — Access up to $150 interest-free. Build credit history on auto-pilot. Earn rewards when you check or improve your credit score.
- NPact — NPact provides powerful donor advised fund, grant, and scholarship management software to non-profits.We have decades of experience and deep domain expertise helping our customers harness technology to streamline their workflows and accelerate their impact. The Foundation Cloud, NPact’s combined product suite, empowers organizations of all sizesand areas of impact to increase their engagement and support the broader philanthropic community.
- Plexus — Boost your productivity, automate your work, centralise your contracts or find a secondee lawyer and completely transform your legal operations with Plexus.
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: 1289
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3M–$38M; Series B $8M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $430M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Docker — Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications. We handle the tedious setup, so you can focus on the code.
- Opendoor Technologies — Opendoor is the new way to sell your home. Skip the hassle of listing, showings and months of stress, and close on your own timeline. Get a free offer today!
- Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1212
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.7M; Series A $6M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $12M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Albedo — Aerial quality imagery - from space.
- Eden — Eden unifies medical imaging operations with clinical AI: PACS, teleradiology, AI-assisted diagnosis and structured reporting, deployed across 2,600+ imaging departments.
- Attention — Attention is building an AI co-pilot designed to automate repetitive, multi-app desktop tasks.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: 104
- Round size: Seed $567k–$2.7M; Series A $1.5M–$9.2M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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.
First partner to exceptional teams everywhere
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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: 2354
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $4.4M–$40M; Series B $9.5M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $750M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Yodlee — Yodlee is a provider of financial applications that aims to make online banking more profitable. Yodlee's personal financial management, payments, and customer acquisition solutions unify all personal financial account information to deliver centralized way for users to manage their financial tasks.
- MobStac — Developer of a cloud-based mobile marketing platform designed to connect the digital and physical worlds through the use of innovative technology. The company's platform is based on the principals of proximity marketing and engage customers in a personalized, context-aware way that leverages indoor location and proximity, enabling businessesand brands to leverage BLE beacon technology to deliver context-rich experiences to their end users.
- Diligent — Diligent, a modern governance company, is the only comprehensive governance software provider featuring tools to improve and simplify modern day governance.
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: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Spain, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $5.2M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $47M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Optiversal — Optiversal helps retailers win AI search by closing the gap between how shoppers search and how catalogs describe products. Get found across Google, ChatGPT, and beyond.
- Elm Biosciences — Intentional skincare for living well and aging well. Elm Biosciences is a clinically advanced skincare brand built on breakthrough science co-founded by Martha Stewart and board-certified dermatologist Dr Dhaval Bhanusali.
- Jacob Bar — Jacob Bar is a food manufacturing company that specializes in clean‑ingredient, high‑protein snack bars.
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, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 384
- Round size: Seed $187k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.3M; Series A $3.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8.9M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
- Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
- Bark Technologies — Bark's parental controls help you monitor social media, manage screen time, and track location to keep your family safer online.
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: 91
- Round size: Seed $725k–$3.3M; Angel $500k–$2M; Series A $1.5M–$8.8M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
- littleBits Electronics — LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modulesprovided by littleBits.LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 275
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $750k–$5M; Series A $4M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $2.2M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
- geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
- GetWhys — Introducing GetWhys: AI trained on firsthand experiences
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: 56
- Round size: Seed $610k–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tidal Labs — Tidal builds technology to power influencer networks and "content communities" powered by prosumer creative individuals online.
- Polymorph — Native ads are ads that seamlessly integrate into your feed, homepage, search results, and more.
- Ditto Labs — Ditto Labs was first-to-market with a dashboard tool to help top brand marketers derive insights, prospect audiences, and measure campaigns from what appears in social media photos. Ditto’s patented machine learning and computer vision capability is integrate with a majority of enterprise social listening platforms. Now brands can holisticallyanalyze campaign performance and consumer sentiment by incorporating text with visual signals of affinity.Ditto's "vision-as-a-service” products also help travel and hospitality sites improve click through rates by surfacing the most persuasive user-generated photos. Ditto's APIs also enable housing and car sites to better organize, screen and rate user photos to improve site performance.Independently verified, Ditto’s computer vision has higher accuracy and a broader catalog of relevant classifiers than competitors. Ditto is the only company enabling clients to train bespoke classifiers to recognize what is most important to their business needs.
Backing generational founders building the future in AI, Fintech and Health.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.3M; Series A $7M–$16M; Series B $20M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KLIPY — KLIPY is the expression platform for GIFs, memes, stickers, clips and mini games. Discover, create and share content across apps and communities.
- Honeycake — Honeycake is a cybersecurity company that offers an AI proof file security platform.
- Cordant — A single operational picture across every system money moves through. Your team acts on what's happening, not what already happened.
We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.
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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: 2368
- Round size: Series A $6M–$50M; Series B $11M–$100M; Series C $12M–$220M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Skai — Skai is an AI-powered platform that offers consumer and market insights, strategic planning, omnichannel media activation, testing, and measurement services to brands and retailers. It is the go-to-market engine that enables smarter decisions and better outcomes with actionable intelligence in making customer connections. It includes a suite ofdata-driven products for market intelligence, omnichannel media activation, testing, and measurement, enabling brands and agencies to make predictions, improve strategic planning and drive growth on the most important customer channels.
- Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
- Agent Universe — Agent Universe is an agent research and development company that provides data analysis and operational support services.
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: 923
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9M; Series A $3.2M–$25M; Series B $7.3M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $451M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Custora — Turn messy customer data into business growth, powered-up teams, and happy customers.
- Instantly — Buy Instagram followers from Techcrunch50 for as little as $1. Fast delivery, real active followers and friendly 24/7 customer support. Try us today.
- Bread Financial — We provide simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: Media and Entertainment, Software, Digital Media
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 148
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Series A $4M–$18M; Series B $6.5M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2016
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- 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
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: 912
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.4M; Series A $2.6M–$26M; Series B $7M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $296M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Actively — A seamless booking assistant for your favorite fitness classes & wellness experiences
- ShareThis — Discover how social sharing tools can drive traffic and help you understand consumer intent for better targeting and personalization.
- Arketa — Online and in-person classes, video on-demand, courses and website hosting - all in one platform with arketa.
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: 2329
- Round size: Seed $2M–$27M; Series A $7M–$85M; Series B $15M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $600M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Athos — Athos uses EMG real-time biofeedback to help you go from guessing to knowing if you are performing at your best. #BuildBetterAthletes
- Tennr — Tennr is a custom AI assistant that accelerates research, answers complex questions, and generates custom reports.
- Fresh Nation — Fresh Nation is an enterprise-level B2B wholesale marketplace and management platform for the retail grocery industry, operationalizing local and specialty food assortments for the nation’s largest retailers and distributors. Fresh Nation’s proprietary Virtual Supply Chain™ platform simplifies the complexity of working with thousands of smallvendors, saving time and cutting costs. Incorporating a vendor and product rich CRM, interactive supplier portal, order management suite, accounting and invoicing tools, and flexible EDI/API integrations, Fresh Nation is becoming the grocery industry standard for enterprise specialty food management.
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: 530
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $66M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Scorbit — Scorbit develops a platform for pinball players and pinball machine owners and operators.
- PodcastAI — Upload one episode. PodcastAI generates transcripts, clips, social posts, a website, and distribution automatically.
- Xella Health — Women's health testing that goes beyond biomarkers. Xella's multi-omic analysis connects your hormones, metabolism, and more, with concierge clinical care.
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: 160
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $1.7M–$13M; Series B $4M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $85M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- SyntheticFi — Borrow like a hedge fund, at near Fed Funds rate. Floating line or fixed rate loan, all tax deductible. Check out our Bloomberg coverage https://t.co/wCogxB6uIK
- Punchup.live — Punchup is developing innovative tools to allow live entertainers to own and activate the relationship with their fans
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: 369
- Round size: Seed $365k–$5M; Series A $1.1M–$10M; Series B $2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Solidec — Solidec is the pathway to emission-free compounds, beginning with hydrogen peroxide.
- Epicured — Epicured delivers gourmet low-FODMAP, gluten-free meals by chefs for digestive health. Tasty cuisine right to your door.
- YourCoach Health — Health and Wellness coach practice management solution enabling coaches to holistically lead their clients, connecting mind, body and soul through behavior modification and accountability tools towards outcomes
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, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$11M; Series B $5M–$50M; Series C $7M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $630k in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Ownwell — Ownwell combines technology and local expertise to help real estate owners save money on property taxes.
- Hyperdrive — The liquidity layer for RWAs. Scaling lending by eliminating the need for oracles, AMMs, and external liquidators.
- Flagler Health — Flagler Health is the AI-native operating system for musculoskeletal (MSK) care. Flagler seamlessly coordinates clinical and administrative workflows across the full patient lifecycle inside providers' existing EMRs.
Orbit Venture Partners is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $7M–$10M; Series A $5M–$28M; Convertible Note $4M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.8M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Axiado Corporation Inc — TCU a New Class of Security Processors The trusted control/compute unit (TCU) AI-driven hardware security platform LEARN MORE REQUEST A DEMO TCU a New Class of Security Processors The Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU) AI-driven hardware security platform LEARN MORE REQUEST
- Omneky — Omneky - Omnichannel Creative Orchestration
- Rizzle — Revolutionizing video creation with AI-powered solutions. Syndicate globally and turn your content into revenue.
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, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 481
- Round size: Seed $800k–$5.5M; Series A $3.3M–$15M; Series B $6M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- LuminosAI — Automate AI legal reviews with law firm-grade evaluations. Built by lawyers & data scientists for high-risk AI systems. Ship faster with defensible governance.
- Snapp — Your AI-powered sports teammate. Research odds, get picks, analyze matchups, scout players, and manage fantasy across 24+ sports and leagues.
- SingleStore — SingleStore is a provider of a database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications. It provides global enterprises with an intelligent database that works on any cloud on-premises or as a service runs transactions and analytics at the same time and lets clients promote their business through analytics and combine semi-structured datainto a consolidated big data platform.
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: 1505
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $12M–$102M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $400M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Anrok — Anrok automates sales tax compliance across your financial stack, so you can grow your SaaS business in any market.
- OpenX — OpenX has the largest independent ad exchange network for publishers and demand partners, while maintaining the highest quality marketplace standards. Learn more.
- StorSimple — Learn how to migrate a StorSimple 8100 or 8600 appliance to Azure File Sync.
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Browse database — It's Free!Founded in 2005, True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. With more than $3.8 billion under management, True provides seed and Series A financing to entrepreneurs in some of today's growing markets. With more than 40 team members including special advisors, operationsprofessionals, and founders-turned-investors, True represents one of the largest and most experienced teams dedicated to the ecosystem. The True team believes creativity flourishes when founders are supported fully and empowered to pursue brave ideas. To that end, the True Platform offers programs that inspire professional and personal growth. To date, True has helped more than 350 companies launch and scale their businesses, creating over 85,000 jobs worldwide. True was awarded Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association in 2018. To learn more, visit www.trueventures.com.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 724
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Series A $2M–$26M; Series B $5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $885M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Smarterer — Individuals and Fortune 500 companies use Smarterer to help close the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Their dynamic assessment engine leverages the freshest crowdsourced tests around, to rapidly pinpoint skill level with a credible score. In November 2014, Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for serioussoftware developers, IT specialists and creative technologists, acquired Smarterer. As the world's largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,500 courses authored by top experts. Smarterer will continue to power crowdsourced assessments for freelancer marketplaces, e-learning providers and enterprise companies anywhere people need to prove their skills to connect with professional opportunities. The Smarterer community has answered over 56 million during 1.7 million test sessions, across hundreds of tests.
- Valencell — Keep your blood pressure in check with this top-ranked digital health solution from Valencell.
- Everywear Games — Everywear Games is the world’s leading wearable game studio. The company was founded in 2014 by industry veterans from Remedy, Digital Chocolate and Rovio and it is the pioneer of smartwatch gaming. It’s award-winning Apple Watch launch title, Runeblade, has received worldwide recognition from press, fans and industry heavyweights and it’s gamesare consistently on top of global charts.
Projects and Financial Management Director; Operation Manager; CEO; Professional Musician and Music Producer; Public Relations Management Director; Founder @ KG33
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- Industry: Music, Publishing, Music Label
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Corporate Round
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- KG33 — KG33 Records specializes in making, producing, and selling music recorded and unrecorded with music videos.KG33 Records LLC is a Music Record Label founded in 2021 and is currently based and operated in the United States of America. The company also operates under the DBA's names of KG33, KRMP, KG33 Records, and KG33 Records MusicPublishing. It develops and manages artists, professional musicians, and musicians contractors. The company is also available for funders, investors, and partnerships. Same as funding and investing, to all people and companies interested in the Entertainments Industry or private and other for-profits or non-profit entities who wish to a part or invest in this company.
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
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- 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.
Seattle, Pacific NW Angel Investing Group
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $764k–$4M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$2.9M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Renewal Mill — Renewal Mill upcycles byproducts from food manufacturing into premium and delicious ingredients and products. Starting with superfood organic okara flour, we're building a more sustainable food system.
- Tidal Vision — Chitosan manufacturer and supplier of ready-to-use chitosan flocculants, textile treatments, and agricultural elicitor applications.
- Bamboo Learning — Bamboo Learning provides voice applications for children to learn at home using their voice. The voice applications include Bamboo English, Bamboo Math, Bamboo Books, Bamboo Luminaries, Bamboo Music, and Highlights Storybooks from Bamboo in partnership with Highlights for Children, publisher of High
Serra Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in Seed, Seed Plus and Series A tech companies primarily in the U.S.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 172
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5M; Series A $2M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $600k–$20M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Völur — Ensuring optimal use of every single animal through cutting and processing.
- SWARM — SWARM is a Software-as-a-Service platform that uses a next generation cognitive computing system, structured around a multi-agent approach which can utilize a cur
- Quercus Biosolutions — Bringing the power of genAI to crop protection.
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: 185
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.1M; 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
- MiSalud — MiSalud offers a unique combination of personalized preventative wellness services, along with traditional healthcare via Spanish speaking physicians.
- Stensul — Create governed emails and landing pages with AI. Stensul helps enterprise marketing teams move more approved campaigns to market.
- Kolors — Kolors is a technological platform that focuses on providing intelligent intercity mobility of bus transportation in the region.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2682
- Round size: Seed $880k–$9.9M; Series A $3.5M–$32M; Series B $8M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $90k in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- LOLIWARE — LOLIWARE is rewriting the story of destructive packaging. By harnessing the power of seaweed to replace plastic at scale, LOLIWARE is tapping into its potential to regenerate our ocean and decarbonize our planet.
- Talk Local — Need a service professional? Search the Nation's #1 Service Directory. It's Free and Fast, get connected over the phone instantly with Local Plumbers, Accountants, Computer Repair Pros, Dentists, Heating & Cooling HVAC, and other service professionals!
- HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
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, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 150
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $5M–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $12M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.3B in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Jia — Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities.
- Better Place Forests — Better Place Forests protects and maintains memorial forests where families can spread the ashes of loved ones, sustainably honoring their memories. Choose your memorial tree today for a forever legacy.
- Entangled Publishing — Women-owned publisher of Adult & YA romance. Entangled Amara, August, Teen, Indulgence, Brazen, Bliss, Scandalous, Embrace, Lovestruck, Crush, and Crave!
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 turns complex data into clear, actionable perspectives. Make informed decisions, anticipate trends, and lead effectively with data-driven clarity.
- 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.
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: Mobile, Software, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.4M; 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.
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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: 88
- Round size: Series A $2M–$8M; Series B $5.4M–$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.
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: 31
- Round size: Seed $60k–$2.5M; Angel $500k–$1M; Series A $1.7M–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- SocialThreader — SocialThreader increases effectiveness of digital marketing via social integration of brand and consumer voices across their ads and websiteSocialThreader helps marketers increase brand awareness, social engagement and conversions. It seamlessly aggregates all of brand’s social touch points, analyzes campaign performance linked to these touchpoints and optimizes content based on campaign goals. SocialThreader directly improves the effectiveness of Search and Display campaigns. Businesses stand to gain significant ROI on their campaigns and better measures on relevant KPIs.
- Tokyo Otaku Mode — The ultimate online destination for fans of Japanese pop culture.
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: 661
- Round size: Series A $4M–$38M; Series B $7.3M–$103M; Series C $20M–$250M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $10M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Anrok — Anrok automates sales tax compliance across your financial stack, so you can grow your SaaS business in any market.
- Profluent Bio — Profluent Bio is an AI-first protein design company that designs novel, optimal proteins that bypass existing barriers in industry.
- 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
For more than 20 years, Uncork has focused on one stage: seed. Our partners have invested in over 290 companies, with more than 100 meaningful outcomes and $60B+ in enterprise value created — including Fitbit (NYSE: FIT, Google), Sendgrid (NYSE: SEND, Twilio), Eventbrite (NYSE: EB), Poshmark (NASD: POSH), and Postmates (UBER), as well asfast-growing startups like We invest in companies using AI and emerging technologies to create leverage, unlock scale, and push industries forward. We're typically the first major check on the cap table, often leading seed rounds with an initial investment of $3M-$5M. We keep terms simple and transparent, because a clean term sheet makes a strong partnership.We look for team, TAM, and tailwinds, but conviction in founder–market fit comes above all else. We back founders who bring sharp insight into their markets and the drive to build what others can’t yet see.There’s no single playbook for building a company. Every journey looks different, but our role stays the same: a steady partner who shows up early, knows when to deliver hard truths, and stays engaged long after the round closes.Learn more at
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 487
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Series A $2M–$18M; Series B $11M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $75M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- DubClub — DubClub connects sports bettors with expert handicappers. Fans join exclusive communities and tail winning plays. Cappers scale their business with automated marketing, native distribution, and a built-in audience. Win More Together.
- Bacca.ai — World's First AI Site-Reliability Engineer
- Quadric — quadric.io is a Burlingame, CA-based processor technology company. The q16 Processor is the most comprehensive AI processor that handles any AI and high-performance edge workload.
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, Sports, Software
- Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$20M; Series A $4M–$60M; Series B $12M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Notch — We are the first insurance designed specifically to cater the unique needs of the businesses and assets that make the digital economy. Get an instant quote today!
- PlayReplay — At PlayReplay, we are building a new era in tennis technology. Our team of talented engineers, data scientists, and tennis enthusiasts are developing a cutting-edge line calling system and a comprehensive tennis statistics platform. Our line calling system combines accuracy, reliability, and user-friendliness, ensuring fair play and eliminating any doubts or controversies. Meanwhile, our tennis statistics platform utilizes intelligent algorithms to process vast amounts of data, providing players with valuable insights into their performance, strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. By combining these two innovative solutions, we are transforming the way players analyze, train, and compete in the game of tennis.
- Metropolis — Metropolis unites technology and operations to make parking remarkable.
Thomas D. Lehrman is the Board Director at Gerson Lehrman Group.He is a Co - Founder and former Co - Chief Executive Officer of Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. Thomas Lehrman most recently served as Director of the Office of WMD Terrorism at the U.S. Department of State and previously as a member of the professional staff on the President's WMDCommission. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Financial Analyst at Tiger Management. He is also a Co - Founder & Board Member of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School and the Hillhouse Scholars Program. Thomas Lehrman is a Chartered Financial Analyst and graduated from Duke University and Yale Law School.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $750k–$6M; Series A $550k–$13M; Series B $10M–$157M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- G2 — Compare the best business software and services based on user ratings and social data. Reviews for CRM, ERP, HR, CAD, PDM and Marketing software.
- Smarterer — Individuals and Fortune 500 companies use Smarterer to help close the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Their dynamic assessment engine leverages the freshest crowdsourced tests around, to rapidly pinpoint skill level with a credible score. In November 2014, Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for serioussoftware developers, IT specialists and creative technologists, acquired Smarterer. As the world's largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,500 courses authored by top experts. Smarterer will continue to power crowdsourced assessments for freelancer marketplaces, e-learning providers and enterprise companies anywhere people need to prove their skills to connect with professional opportunities. The Smarterer community has answered over 56 million during 1.7 million test sessions, across hundreds of tests.
- Journeyfront — Journeyfront helps you get hiring right. Hiring accuracy solves costly problems including low job performance and turnover before you even hire.
Bloomberg Beta is an early-stage venture capital firm with $450M under management, capitalized solely by Bloomberg. The fund exists to expand Bloomberg’s horizons by investing in companies built by extraordinary founders that make business work better, with a focus on machine intelligence.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 363
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $6M–$25M; Series B $10M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $750M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- skan.ai — Skan.ai uses cognitive technologies to map, model, and manage business processes by creating digital twins of human/digital interactions. Skan.ai replaces human interviews and observation, which are not accurate, by cognitive tooling that learns based on observation of human/digital work. Skan does this at scale and learns /reconstructs business processes grounds up. This approach is significantly faster, more accurate, and has much greater depth and coverage.
- Vals.ai — Private, domain-specific benchmarks in legal, tax, and finance.
- Smack Technologies — The first Frontier AI lab for national security, delivering Decision Dominance through Intelligent Autonomy.
Largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 151
- Round size: Seed $750k–$3M; Series A $1.1M–$6.8M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.3M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Glidance — Glidance develops a self-driving mobility aid for people with sight loss. It leverages advancements in robotics, AI, and autonomous systems to guide people with sight loss where they want to go. With the aid of its advanced technology, users may navigate through crowds of people and around objects with ease and safety, getting to a door, stairwell,or park seat in the area.
- 3D BioFibR — 3DBioFibR is a biotechnology company that develops and manufactures biopolymer fibers for tissue engineering and advanced biomaterial applications. The company uses a patented dry-spinning technology to produce collagen fibers that replicate the structural, biochemical, and biomechanical properties of natural collagen. Its product portfolioincludes collagen-based materials for 3D bioprinting, hydrogels, cell culture, and tissue engineering research, as well as custom collagen scaffolds for specialized applications. In addition to collagen, the company applies its manufacturing platform to other biopolymers, including spider silk, fibrin, and chitosan, for use in biomedical and advanced material research. The company collaborates with research institutions and industry partners to support the development of biomaterials for regenerative medicine, life sciences, and other engineering applications.
- Hest Outdoors — We're on a mission to maximize days outside through a better night's sleep under the stars. Explore our revolutionary camping mattresses, sleeping pads and pillows. Sleep well. Play more.
NextView helps entrepreneurs build companies of consequence to shape a future of collective prosperity. https://nextview.vc/
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 363
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $3.5M–$25M; Series B $8M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $17M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Skyfall AI — Skyfall AI builds AI-driven Enterprise Super Intelligence, so that businesses can plan, decide, and operate by themselves efficiently.
- Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
- Walden Robotics — Walden Robotics is an industrial robotics company that builds and deploys general-purpose, semi-humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics.
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: 103
- Round size: Series A $4M–$10M; Series B $6M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% 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.
- Billdesk — Seamless payment solutions for businesses: online, recurring, international, EMI, tokenisation & more. Accelerate growth with BillDesk.
- Rubicon Project — The world's top publishers trust Magnite to help them drive more advertising revenue across every channel and format, including CTV.
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