# Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in United States in June 2026

## RRE Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Internet

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.

## Betaworks
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

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

## The New York Times
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Publishing, Advertising, Content

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.

## Lerer Hippeau
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

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

## SV Aangel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

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.

## SoftBank Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Advertising

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!.

## Knight Enterprise Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Digital Media, Video

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

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Sequoia Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Joanne Wilson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail

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.

## Red Sea Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce

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

## Lighter Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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.

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

## 1745 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Advertising, Internet

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.

## Social Leverage
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Phoenix, Arizona, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Social Leverage   An early stage seed investment fund.

## First Round Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## MDC Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Advertising, Analytics, Software

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.

## Greycroft
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

Venture capital and technology investments

## Social Starts
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## PROOF
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Reston, Virginia, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

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.

## William Lohse
- Type: Angel
- Location: Reno, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Social Media, Advertising

William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.

## DFJ Mercury
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Early-stage venture fund, parent fund is Draper Fisher Jurvetson

## Index Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## Flyover Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Overland Park, Kansas, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Services

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

## Foundry Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

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.

## Walden Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

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.

## Precursor Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

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.

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## Lowercase Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

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.

## M-Fund Club
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gan Shemu'el, Hefa, Israel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

M-Fund VC is a top-performing Israeli early-stage fund, backing first-time founders in overlooked sectors with discipline and conviction.

## Clearstone Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, E-Commerce

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.

## TCG
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

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.

## Transmedia Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

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

## Tuesday Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet

Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011.

## Spark Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Third Wave Digital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Digital Media, Video

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

## New York Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile

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

## Grape Arbor VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Advertising

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.

## Advancit Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Norwood, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment

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.

## Great Oaks Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

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.

## Mitch Kapor
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Education

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.

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

## Flywheel Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Manufacturing

Flywheel Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on information technology and physical sciences ventures in the Southwest/Rockies region. Flywheel's goal is to be the premier early-stage technology venture capital firm in the Southwest/Rockies region and a catalyst for its emergence as a world-classtechnology center.

## Serra Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Champaign, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Analytics

Serra Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in Seed, Seed Plus and Series A tech companies primarily in the U.S.

## Mercury
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Mercury is an early-stage venture capital platform that seeks out transformative software startups, led by exceptional founders, in communities across America. To date, Mercury has created over $9 billion of value with an operationally-focused venture investment strategy helping startups achieve rapid, sustainable growth. Mercury partners withfirst-time entrepreneurs who require support and guidance, as well as seasoned founders seeking to leverage the assets and talent of our growth partner network.

## Uncork Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around.

## Felicis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

## Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

The premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide

## Khosla Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech,offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies.

## Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, Medical, Food and Beverage

Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurship Center catalyzes best-in-class startups and investors that are shaping the future.

## Village Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Advertising

Village Ventures makes early stage investments in digital media and services and financial services.

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