Top 50 Publishing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in May 2025

Investor	Publishing investments
RRE Ventures	13
The New York Times	11
Accel	10
Betaworks	10
North Base Media	9
SoftBank Capital	9
SV Angel	9
Lerer Hippeau	9
BDMI	8
Knight Enterprise Fund	7
Greycroft	6
LAUNCHub Ventures	6
Right Side Capital Management	6
Sequoia Capital	6
SOSV	6
Red Sea Ventures	6
Lighter Capital	6
Müller Medien	6
Singapore Angel Network	5
TCG	5
MDC Ventures	5
Flow Capital	5
First Round Capital	5
Strong Ventures	5
PROOF	5
HV Capital	5
Alliance of Angels	5
Precursor Ventures	5
Mangrove Capital Partners	5
Kakao Ventures	5
Social Leverage	5
Headline	5
Clearstone Venture Partners	5
New Enterprise Associates	5
Social Starts	5
Enterprise Ireland	5
Peak	4
DFJ Mercury	4
Walden Venture Capital	4
Vayner/RSE	4
Advancit Capital	4
Tuesday Capital	4
RTP Global	4
Entrée Capital	4
Bpifrance	4
Index Ventures	4
Korea Investment Partners	4
Serra Ventures	4
Transmedia Capital	4
M-Fund Club	4

RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that is in it with founders when it matters

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, China

Portfolio highlights

Catio — Cloud architecture platform enabling companies to excel with cloud native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution, with the help of AI.
1up — 1up is a competitive AI for users to observe and understand everything their competitors are doing. 1up accelerates and automates the competitive experience for teams. 1up enables teams to save hours of manual effort in product, sales, and marketing, understand what their competitors are building and saying, and win competitive deals faster andeasier than ever before.
Lovelace — Lovelace, currently in stealth mode, is developing an AI platform and solutions to support missions in national security, disaster relief and other areas where advanced computer science can help keep people safe.

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.

Investment focus

Publishing, Advertising, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

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 — It's time to save online conversations
Automattic — Making the web a better place

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
Axe — Axe is a software firm that develops procurement software for businesses.
Biostate AI — Biostate AI develops generative AI that benefit all human health.

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

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!

NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Advertising, Publishing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!

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!.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Advertising
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Birdie — Transform thousands of user feedback into insights with our Feedback Analytics Platform and take faster product decisions
Energy Vault — Energy Vault creates gravity and kinetic energy-based, long-duration energy storage solutions that are transforming the world's approach to energy storage.
Telexistence — TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Paid — Paid is a business platform for AI agents.
Yutori — Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own.
Operand — AI-Enabled Consulting for Consumer Retail

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

P-1 AI — P-1 AI is a technology company focused on developing an artificial general engineering intelligence (AGEI) designed to help humanity design physical systems with far greater efficiency and complexity than currently possible.
Teal — Free tools and resources to run a faster and better job search so you can focus your time and energy on finding and landing a job you will love.
Urban Sky — Urban Sky is developing the first-ever reusable 'micro-sat' version of a near-space balloon, armed with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market and making daily and weekly aerial imagery collection a cost-effective reality. Leveraging advances in componentminiaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability, and the high vantage point of the stratosphere, the Microballoon drastically reduces the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas, leading to more impactful data over more areas than ever before.With a new wealth of data from the stratosphere - this completely untapped layer of Earth’s atmosphere - we can fundamentally change the collective human understanding of the surface of our planet and urban centers.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
Spikerz — Manage social media security threats in one platform. Real-time protection detects and alerts on threats, letting you focus on growth.
Hark — Video feedback that tells a story. Deliver best-in-class customer experience. Agents receive "the perfect ticket" every time. Customers feel heard.

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

Investment focus

Software, Digital Media, Social Media
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

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.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
Prezent AI — Presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams. Add zen to your presentations!
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
UVIONIX — Uvionix deploys Autonomous Flying Robots (AFRs) to monitor and report live data, ensuring a comprehensive view of operations, workflow efficiency, and near 100% inventory level accuracy. The system creates live digital twins of warehouse spaces, meticulously tracking each material movement. Delivering precise, unbiased data, and being immune to human error, the platform drastically enhances material planning, reduces stock losses, and lowers labor costs.
Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Averi — Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growthoperation in one seamless experience.
Eachlabs — AI marketplace for developers.
Hutsy — Hutsy Financial is a financial services company that provides mobile banking, early payroll access and credit building products. In partnership with Peoples Trust we provide a prepaid debit card that our users can spend with. We also offer cash back on all purchases, spending insights, and categorizations to provide valuable insight on where yourmoney is going. Hutsy was recently on CBC’s Dragons Den where we raised our pre-seed funding round of $500,000 to bring our product to life.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Strava — Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community.Founded in 2009, millions of athletes have joined Strava for the competition and camaraderie found in tracking and sharing their fitness activities. The company’s free mobile apps and website help membersdiscover and plan workouts, record and share activities, and analyze and compare performance. Strava’s ability to connect athletes around the world makes fitness a more social experience, providing extra motivation even when training alone.
Nuvo — Onboard customers through configurable, high-converting branded experiences that accelerate credit approvals, unlock revenue, and reduce fraud.Nuvo replaces manual credit forms with AI-powered application flows, real-time business and principal identity verification, and embedded credit insights—enabling confident decisions that protect and growyour business. Designed for complex trade partnerships, Nuvo is the B2B commerce platform trusted and preferred by 40,000 businesses.
Reflect Orbital — Reflect sells sunlight from space.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Voyceme — Read action-packed and diverse English-originated webcomics, comics, webnovels, manga, and manhwa/manhua for FREE. Download the VoyceMe app now and connect with your favorite creators or monetize your stories while building a dedicated fanbase.
10Beauty — The only 5-step manicure machine in the world.
ByHeart — ByHeart operates as a fully integrated infant nutrition company. It is dedicated to translating leading nutrition science and breastmilk research into evolved foods and formulas to support babies’ health and parents’ peace of mind. Its products strive to be next to nature made from hand-picked ingredients using small-batch blending and sit at theforefront of immune, microbiome, cognitive, and digestive health.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arrivalist — Media Measurement & Travel Analytics Purpose-Built For Destinations
Fincentify — Access up to $150 interest-free. Build credit history on auto-pilot. Earn rewards when you check or improve your credit score.
Nyble — Nyble offers zero-interest cash advances to help you cover an upcoming bill and to avoid an overdraft.

Müller family media and its partner network are very strong companies from different media sectors. Versatile and individually therefore also the CVs and personalities of their employees who every day with passion and curiosity to work in their teams to achieve common goals.Hans Müller has 65 years the telephone directory publisher Hans Müllerfounded from his living room out - the foundation for the company's family Müller media. His pioneering spirit is still felt today by the fourth generation and with all my colleagues.The company Müller family media is locally connected and networked world. With their five business segments directories, radio, print media, book and new business they are represented with locations in Europe, USA and Asia. More than 2,000 people every day win the confidence of consumers and customers. Changes and challenges of the media world motivate us to pick up trends early in order to help shape this. Their cooperative working lives of mutual esteem and trust.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Poland, United States

Portfolio highlights

VITAS — Our system is based on Deep Learning and offers an intelligent voice assistant for customer service. Use cases can be found in both the SME and enterprise market for all companies with many standardized customer calls. VITAS answers the telephone, checks data in real time, can react flexibly to requests and offers the caller a self-service withoutwaiting time. Areas of application include restaurants, workshops, medical practices, taxi centres, insurance companies, banks and tax consultants.
edrone — Purpose-built e-commerce CRM with Marketing Automation and Voice Commerce. Turn your online store into a sales machine.
Fraud0 — Detect and mitigate bots in real time. Optimize your ad campaigns and make smarter data-driven decisions with holistic insights and alerts.

SGAN is an early stage VC anchored by the multi billion dollar Thakral Group of Companies and has investments across India, Singapore and the USA.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MyCaptain — MyCaptain is an online learning and teaching platform offering online courses with placements and certification programs. Upskill industry knowledge in the fields of business, marketing, design, content, and more.
Dawaa Dost — Dawaa Dost specializes in the pharmacy retail chain of generic medicines in India. The company focuses on the availability of affordable generic medicines. Dawaa Dost was founded by Amit Choudhary and Yash Harlalka and is based in India.
The Ayurveda Experience — The Most Trusted and Recognized Ayurveda Platform in North America and Australia, Your One-Stop Shop for All Things Ayurveda! Customized to your Dosha or Body Type, enabling the most personalized Ayurveda Experience. Free Shipping to most parts in the world for orders over 30 USD!

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Judo Bio — Judo Bio is pioneering oligonucleotide medicines delivered to the kidney, opening the way for new treatments for systemic and renal diseases.
audiochuck — audiochuck is a media company that creates and produces content.
Men In Blazers — Men In Blazers is a soccer-focused media company that covers sports events, leagues, and TV shows.

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.

Investment focus

Advertising, Analytics, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

RLY — Provider of an online platform intended to convert live photos into reels. The company's platform helps in turning photos into a 3 second high definition clip, enabling its clients to capture live photos and edit with playback filters which can later be shared with others through the single platform.
Perksy — Market research for the mobile generation. Perksy powers real-time research with Millennial & Gen-Z audiences through mobile.
Gradient.io — Gradient is Amazon seller analytics suite that provide insights and recommendations to help brands and sellers boost their sales and succeed on Amazon.

Flow Capital provides founder-friendly growth capital for high-growth companies operating in high-growth markets in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. As of 2021, we have deployed over $120M in growth capital to 56+ companies. Investment sizes range anywhere from $1-7 million for companies generating at least $4 million in annualrevenues. We work closely with companies to come up with a financing structure that fits their unique company needs, often creating a hybrid between our two financing structures: Revenue-Based Financing and Venture Debt.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Machine Learning
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Echobox — Echobox is the leading content automation platform. Businesses around the world automate the distribution of over 40 million stories each year with Echobox.
PROLIFIQ — Prolifiq is a Salesforce native account planning platform designed to help sellers close large complex accounts.
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First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Crossmint — An all-in-one platform for companies and agents: wallets, payments, tokenization, and more.
Assort Health — Our call center generative AI reduces hold time, decreases dropped calls, and contains costs while driving appointment revenue.
Dyna Robotics — We're making Al-powered robotic automation accessible for businesses of all sizes by building affordable, easy-to-deploy Autonomous Al Robots.

Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Atlo — Ato is designed to be available at any time and place on the web, ready to engage with users.
Roovook — Room + Venue + Booking = Roovook! Provide simple venue finder for customers. Roovook's special features, Instant booking and Simple RFP request solution help customers to proceed their events without hassle to call around hotels.Even though hotel banquet/event segment is big part of MICE industry, still customers are having hard timefinding right venue to hold their events. So Roovook provide simple venue finder for customers. Roovook's special features, Instant booking and Simple RFP request solution help customers to proceed their events without hassle to call around hotels. As a fast growing start-up, we are acknowledged by one of the best accelerator in Korea, called Primer and VC TBT(Naver). Thanks to our trustworthy partner hotels like IHG, Marriott, and Accor, we are no.1 hotel venue reservation platform in Korea and keep expanding our service to global market. We are making Roovook as "Expedia for event spaces" We are looking for our future teammates to make our vision and dream together!
Lunch Lab — Lunch Lab is a startup that provides regular in-house meal services to various companies that have difficulty eating out or having trouble solving lunch issues.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HerculesAI — An enterprise generative AI company offering secure, high-precision AI applications to automate critical business processes.
Pandion — Pandion has developed a technology platform for e-commerce players to manage capacity problems during peak periods. The logistics platform helps all businesses provide one and two-day shipping, and makes on-time delivery possible for more retailers, regardless of size and scale. Pandion’s delivery management software uses machine learning to avoidshipping delays and optimize delivery networks.
TurbineOne — TurbineOne is the frontline perception company. It started with the vision of a world where people could sense every threat, speak any language, and deploy robots to dangerous environments instead of putting people unnecessarily in harm's way.

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Upvest — Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API. Upvest brings together everything that’s required to offer a broad range of investment products on the website and app. They are connected to the world’s leading asset providers and exchanges to provide the bestinvestments, at the best prices and execution speed.
Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.
NEURA Robotics — NEURA Robotics is revolutionizing the world of robotics by using cognitive capabilities to bring robots and humans closer together.

Largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Glidance — Glide, a groundbreaking leap in assistive technology, is the first self-guided mobility assistant designed for individuals with sight loss.
Give InKind — Set up a Give InKind Page to coordinate support from anywhere. Create a Care Calendar, add items to your Wishlist and connect your Crowdfunding - all for free.
SafKan Health — OtoSet® by SafKan Health is the first FDA Cleared automated ear cleaning device for the 35 million Americans affected by impacted earwax - the leading cause of conductive hearing loss.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Voiceops — Your high-volume calls contain the blueprint for business growth, cost reduction, and risk management. Voiceops doesn't just analyze calls - it works alongside your team to automatically implement improvements that most businesses miss.Founded in New York and backed by top-tier investors on both coasts, Voiceops has driven billions ofdollars of revenue and cost-savings for industry leaders in education, financial services, and insurance. Real results: 80% increase in close rates, 98% reduction in compliance violations, 70% reduction in post-call work, 93% reduction in attrition, and 50% reduction in cost per lead.We're a fast-growing AI platform, with customers who have called our AI teammate “stunning” and the most advanced capability they’ve seen “by a landslide” — and we're just getting started.
Nectir — Nectir is an instant chat tool that engages campus communities and reduces burnout.
Dopl Technologies — Dopl is improving access to healthcare through telerobotic ultrasound procedures.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Exoticca — Exoticca develops an online platform intended to facilitate travel booking. The company's platform offers holiday packages which includes flights, accommodation, meals, guides and private transports, for exotic locations all around the world, enabling travelers to book travel packages online at competitive prices.
Frak Labs — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

OQT — Our OQT research is at the interface of atomic qubits and coherent imaging for quantum information processing. Our research aims high to push the frontiers of today's computing, sensing, and imaging. Our research is funded by KAIST, NRF, IITP, and POSCO. We are in the Department of Physics and
Taming Lab — Taming Lab is the operator of the used luxury watchs.
Contoro Robotics — Autonomous Trailer & Container Unloading - Contoro: Reliable Unloading of Non-Palletized Boxes from Trucks with No Upfront Capital Expense

Social Leverage An early stage seed investment fund.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ribbon — Transform your hiring process with our Voice AI Recruiter. Automate candidate screening, conduct AI interviews, and easily find top talent for high volume hiring - with human-sounding AI that delivers instant insights and flexible scheduling. See our recruitment case studies.
SlashExperts — Convert website visitors, accelerate slow pipeline, and add a valuable new intent data source by giving buyers access to customers and experts.
Archive Intel — Data archiving software for financial firms. Archive text messages, iMessages, emails, and social media posts in a easy to use immutable data archive.

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Blips — Blips is a platform in Brazil that aims to bridge the gap between investors and entrepreneurs. The company connects and drives investors and entrepreneurs with tangible assets that enable productive business activities, allowing customers to buy and finance supplies and inputs, as well as an educational platform to support the entrepreneurs'journey, teaching management techniques, growth, and technical knowledge for equipment use.
trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
Owner — Owner gives you the same tools that major national brands use to drive sales. Online ordering proven to grow sales. Mobile app with rewards. And more.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, India, Afghanistan

Portfolio highlights

Vyng — Vyng has built a next-generation Caller ID platform that visualizes every call. Vyng is helping start better conversations between friends, family, and businesses for the next half billion smartphone users in India and beyond.Vyng boasts 4 billion videos played across 170 countries since its launch in 2018. The company has raised $7MM and isbacked by March Capital, Omidyar Network, a Sequoia Capital partner, and the founders of Giphy and GroupMe.
Tesloop — TESLOOP OVERVIEW: Tesloop’s manages and operates an expanding fleet of electric Tesla vehicles offering city-to-city shared-car transportation. Tesloop’s service, launched in July 2015, offers daily scheduled routes from LA and Orange County to Las Vegas. The Tesloop service model disrupts city-to-city travel by leveraging the low cost ofelectricity and a business model that immediately leverages new autonomous driving technology. The autonomous, computerized, electric platform creates unprecedented economic efficiencies and delivers a new level of consumer value vs. all other transportation alternatives. The service has received rave reviews from it’s growing customer base and is rapidly expanding with routes to Palms Springs and San Diego planned for this spring.Tesloop’s mission is to rapidly increase access to an amazing & sustainable travel experience. Tesloop's goal is to employ autonomous/electric vehicle technology towards its highest utilization thus creating the maximum environmental and health benefits of every vehicle.
Billdesk — BillDesk develops an integrated technology platform and unified APIs to make digital payments easy and accessible. BillDesk was created to help consumers leverage on the potential of electronic medium to better organize and manage their payments, while escaping some of the pitfalls of traditional bill payment services.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arkestro — Bid Ops is the only predictive procurement software built to keep your team continuously exceeding targets. Using Bid Ops, you can orchestrate your activities across systems using instant forecasts and real-time collaboration. Predict and win 2-5x faster savings and never get stuck waiting for a KPI report again. Learn more athttps://www.bidops.com
Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
Samaya AI — The company specializes in developing AI research agents that streamline knowledge workflows.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hey Jane — Get safe, effective and affordable abortion pills delivered fast to your home. Hey Jane is the first digital abortion clinic, connecting you to licensed providers in your state through telemedicine.
Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.

Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Axe — Axe is a software firm that develops procurement software for businesses.
Assiduous — The AI-enabled platform to do the heavy-lifting for business owners seeking finance for their aspiring growth company.
Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical develops and manufactures medical devices.

European early-stage venture capital fund backed 100% by founders. Helping Pre-Seed and Seed SaaS, Marketplaces & Platforms with their Go-To-Market.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Vetnio — Vetnio is a tool that records conversations between veterinary professionals and pet owners, automatically generating clinical notes for the meetings. It saves veterinary professionals time, allowing them to focus more on their patients.
Outcome — Our mission: Give companies the power to continuously evolve
Workwize — Provide and maintain any kind of remote equipment for your workforce, no matter where they are

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

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Debt Financing
United States

Portfolio highlights

GameSalad — GameSalad is a development platform that enables anyone to create their own games with a visual programming interface. It’s also a way of introducing programming concepts, game design, and digital media creation to students.Launched in 2010, GameSalad has been used by over one million aspiring game developers and has powered over 75 games thatreached the top 100 in the App Store.
Ambiq Micro — Ambiq has developed breakthrough technology innovating battery-powered endpoint devices by reducing the total power consumed. Learn more.
Sinopsys Surgical — Sinopsys Surgical develops medical devices for surgical procedures for the lacrimal glands. The company was formerly known as DCS Surgical, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, Sweden

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.

Founded in 2014, Vayner/RSE is a marriage of builders: Gary Vaynerchuk, VaynerMedia and RSE Ventures. VRSE invests in teams building tomorrow's companies through unique consumer insight and relentless drive.Our sweet spot is in the first round of institutional financing, funding either as lead investors or as part of a syndicate.Beyond capital, we support our community with access and insights derived across both our investment portfolio and the operating companies we oversee on a daily basis.Our team has a diverse background of starting, growing and operating companies across a variety of industries and life stages and we leverage this mental elasticity to help our entrepreneurs through the gamut of challenges that accompany building companies.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Danvas — Danvas is advancing screens that will possess a fully dimensional interactive design that brings NFT art to life and will reinforce the authentic ownership of the artwork. Its premium, luxury digital art canvas aims to accelerate the world’s appreciation of digital artists and their artwork, and introduce art collectors to the value, andpossibilities of the next wave of digital art.
Lockchain.ai — AI-powered risk management for digital assets.
nameless — Nameless is a non-fungible token (NFT) platform as a service software company that empowers businesses, individuals, and digital creators to create, mint, and capitalize on their own custom NFT projects through easy-to-use scalable API solutions.

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.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Software, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BetHog — BetHog is a new crypto sports book that brings home the bacon.
Beamable — One line of code is all you need to build your own custom server logic via microservices along with a world of LiveOps tools and live services.
Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.

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

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Grazzy — Grazzy improves retention and recruiting for hotels, bars, restaurants and salons by powering cashless tipping and instant payouts. Safe, secure, and simple to get started.
Kollegio — Kollegio is an AI-driven platform for college applications.
Foundation Health — Foundation Health is a telehealth and nationwide pharmacies and diagnostic distribution centre

A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Warmly — Instant information & unique details about everyone you meet with. Build rapport directly in Zoom. Absolutely free.
Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.

We're a team of former serial founders managing over $1.25B across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cynomi — Cynomi addresses a critical gap in mid-market cyber protection - creating and executing a cyber and compliance strategy .
Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
Blue Onion Labs — Accounting at the Speed of Ecommerce. Blue Onion provides the financial data foundation so you can do your most meaningful work.

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Lprint — Lprint revolutionise the way PCBs are designed and manufactured, empowering hardware engineers and product development teams. Lprint is a 3D electronic printing system for PCBs, designed to manufacture complex, free-form printed circuit boards (PCBs) in a single step, simplifying the prototyping, testing, and manufacturing process of electronics.
Veesion — Veesion: AI-driven smart video surveillance. Detect theft in real time. Protect your business now.
PyxiScience — PyxiScience operates as an adaptive Math Learning Platform designed by educators and powered by AI.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Taktile — Taktile's no-code platform enables you to easily build automated decision flows and iterate on them in a data-driven way leveraging backtests and A/B testing.
Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
Dorsia — Dorsia is a members-only platform that offers reservations at in-demand restaurants in major cities. The platform utilizes technology to enhance experiences for both operators and members, ensuring smooth booking without stress. Dorsia operates in various cities, including Miami, Los Angeles, Dubai, and San Francisco, making it a versatile choicefor food enthusiasts.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
South Korea, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Raywatt — Raywatt is a startup that develops medical devices for cardiovascular interventions.
At Home — AtHome is a home lifestyle solution company which solves the hidden problems for the customers.
Titan Content — Titan Content is a metaverse music service provider that seeks to fuse Web3, metaverse, and artificial intelligence innovations with conventional Korean pop music business models and content.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

EIWA — We are an AgTech focused on Digital Transformation required by the Farm Input Ecosystem. We combine technology, images and data, enabling field information and data knowledge management in a simple and reliable framework focused on faster product development cycles and accelerated market deployment of Farm Inputs.
Vytelle — Vytelle is a company with a deeper purpose and revolutionary technology that helps to advance bovine, deer and buffalo genetics faster by redefining reproduction.
Bonsai Robotics — Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines. The company also offers analytics and telematics to help growers improve their performance, efficiency, and safety. The company is based in San Jose, California.

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

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
Greywing — Make better decisions and give time back to your team with Generative AI.
Armstrong Robotics — Discover how Armstrong Robotics is transforming commercial kitchen operations with AI-powered dishwashing robots. Reduce labor costs, boost efficiency, and tackle back-of-house challenges with innovative, scalable automation.

M-Fund Club is a boutique private investors club, reinventing the VC model, and applying unconventional scouring methodology.

Investment focus

Information Technology, B2B, Audiobooks
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Israel, United States, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

qbiq — qbiq develops cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence, Generative Design, and Optimization Technologies to real-estate planning.With a click of a button, hundreds of cloud processors, loaded with thousands of years of architectural experience, process your planning request, analyze different layout alternatives, and optimize the results. In justseconds, we provide you with the best construction alternatives considering utilization, costs, build time, efficiency, and more.
eSelf AI — Design lifelike AI avatars and video chatbots that speak 30+ languages. eSelf AI helps you scale your business and boost engagement with innovative video tools.
Spines — Experience the next generation of publishing with Spines. Bring your book to life in any format, sell globally, and manage everything from one user-friendly platform.