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Top 50 Publishing VC Funds & Investors (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Publishing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Publishing startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
RRE Ventures
VC Fund
12 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Financial Services, Internet $1.1M–$35M
The New York Times
VC Fund
11 United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Series A, Seed, Series B Publishing, Advertising, News $500k–$30M
Accel
VC Fund
11 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.4M–$70M
North Base Media
VC Fund
11 United States, India, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Series B Digital Media, Advertising, News $75k–$23M
1745 Ventures
VC Fund
10 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising $1.3M–$30M
Betaworks
VC Fund
10 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, Mobile
Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
10 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, SaaS, Health Care $50k–$2M
SV Angel
VC Fund
9 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $1M–$100M
Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund
9 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $1.3M–$50M
SoftBank Group
VC Fund
9 United States, China, India Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Advertising $2M–$75M
Lighter Capital
VC Fund
8 United States, Canada, India Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Software, SaaS, Information Technology $77k–$1.1M
Hiventures
VC Fund
7 Hungary, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $18k–$2.9M
Liquid 2 Ventures
VC Fund
7 United States, Mexico, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $125k–$45M
Bossa Invest
VC Fund
7 United States, Brazil, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $50k–$36M
Knight Enterprise Fund
VC Fund
7 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A Software, Digital Media, Video $567k–$9.2M
Bpifrance
VC Fund
7 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $757k–$34M
Müller Medien
VC Fund
7 Germany, Poland, United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $900k–$6.6M
MDC Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, Canada Seed, Series A Advertising, Analytics, Software $610k–$6M
Great Oaks Venture Capital
VC Fund
6 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $800k–$45M
SilverCircle
VC Fund
6 United States, Canada, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.2M–$60M
Social Starts
VC Fund
6 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $100k–$14M
SOSV
VC Fund
6 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund
6 Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $55k–$22M
HV Capital
VC Fund
6 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.5M–$80M
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
6 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $6M–$220M
Red Sea Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, Spain, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $1M–$40M
Tuesday Capital
VC Fund
6 United States, United Kingdom, Mexico Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, Mobile $750k–$15M
ah! Ventures
VC Fund
6 India, Singapore, United States Seed, Angel Software, EdTech, Education $100k–$1.8M
Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
6 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $400k–$12M
Greycroft
VC Fund
6 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1.5M–$80M
Antler
VC Fund
6 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Precursor Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $120k–$20M
Lightspeed Venture Partners
VC Fund
5 United States, India, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$125M
Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $280k–$27M
Social Leverage
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1M–$50M
First Round Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$60M
Advancit Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Media and Entertainment, Software, Digital Media $1.5M–$37M
New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund
5 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $6M–$102M
Alliance of Angels
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Mobile $750k–$6.8M
Mangrove Capital Partners
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $675k–$25M
Flow Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning $311k–$3.8M
Clearstone Venture Partners
VC Fund
5 United States, India, Afghanistan Series A, Series B Software, Enterprise Software, E-Commerce $4M–$23M
Strong Ventures
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $211k–$26M
RTP Global
VC Fund
5 United States, India, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2M–$80M
General Catalyst
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2M–$130M
True Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$50M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $411k–$33M
SBVA
VC Fund
5 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $907k–$60M
East Ventures
VC Fund
5 Japan, Indonesia, Singapore Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Internet $263k–$31M
3one4 Capital
VC Fund
5 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Financial Services, FinTech $490k–$30M
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RRE Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 12 investments in Publishing startups

RRE is a boutique venture capital firm with 30 years of experience, backing bold early-stage founders across diverse sectors. We provide deep expertise, AI-driven insights, and committed partnerships to help companies build and persevere for the long term.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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.
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The New York Times
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 11 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Advertising, 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
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Accel
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 11 investments in Publishing startups

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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

  • Vectra AI — Vectra AI, the cybersecurity AI company that protects modern networks from modern attacks.
  • Krux — Use Salesforce's data management platform (DMP) to unify your data and strengthen customer relationships across every touchpoint.
  • Diligent — Diligent, a modern governance company, is the only comprehensive governance software provider featuring tools to improve and simplify modern day governance.
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North Base Media
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 11 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Digital Media, Advertising, News
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $75k–$5.7M; Series A $1.5M–$7.5M; Series B $2M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $500k in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Zaiko — Zaiko is the market leader in providing ticketing technology for live events and streaming shows. Monetize your show, engage fans, user analytic data, memberships, and more.
  • Rappler — Rappler is the Philippines' leading digital media company that's driven by uncompromising journalism, enabled by technology, and enriched by communities of action.
  • Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!
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1745 Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 10 investments in Publishing startups

Part of media company Bertelsmann, BDMI initially invests $100k to $4m in seed and early stage digital media startups in online video, nextgen publishing and pubtech/adtech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, 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.
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Betaworks
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 10 investments in Publishing startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 193
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome
  • Flower Labs — A unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. Federate any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language.
  • Quadratic — Spreadsheet with Python, JavaScript, and SQL built-in. Data Connectors to pull in your data. Take your data and do something powerful with it now!
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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 10 investments in Publishing startups

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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.
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SV Angel
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 9 investments in Publishing startups

SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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.
  • Espa — Espa is an AI-powered productivity assistant that helps you get things done.
  • NavigateAI — An AI copilot for every person in the field. NavigateAI upskills and coaches your team, runs real-time quality control, manages the project in the background, and provides expert knowledge, instantly.
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Lerer Hippeau
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 9 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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

  • Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
  • 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.
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SoftBank Group
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 9 investments in Publishing startups

SoftBank Group provides venture funding and strategic support to exceptional entrepreneurs building disruptive enduring businesses. They are a small team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who take an "active" approach to helping their companies reach their full potential. They manage $600 million across three funds and investacross a company’s lifecycle, from early to growth stages. Through their close ties to a number of Asia’s leading mobile, internet and technology companies – including strategic partners SoftBank Corp, Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group – SoftBank Capital offers unique expertise to businesses seeking to address the Asian market. Since 1995, SoftBank Capital has partnered with internet pioneers such as Criteo, Gilt Groupe, OMGPOP (Zynga), betaworks, BuzzFeed, Buddy Media (Salesforce.com), Huffington Post (AOL), Associated Content (Yahoo!), Danger (Microsoft), Geocities (Yahoo!), E*Trade and Yahoo!.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Advertising
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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
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Lighter Capital
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 8 investments in Publishing startups

Transform Your Revenue into Growth Capital. Grow your tech company on your terms. Get up to $4M in flexible financing, without selling equity or signing personal guarantees, warrants, or covenants.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Debt Financing, 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

  • Nyble — Nyble offers zero-interest cash advances to help you cover an upcoming bill and to avoid an overdraft.
  • 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.
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Hiventures
VC Fund · Budapest, Budapest, Hungary · 7 investments in Publishing startups

As one of the largest and most active venture capital fund partners in Central and Eastern Europe our mission is to create new ways of equity funding for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises with high growth potential as well as more traditional businesses for the purpose of establishing a sustainable and competitive SME and enterpriseecosystem both in Hungary and in the region

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Hungary, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 706
  • Round size: Seed $118k–$925k; Pre-Seed $18k–$138k; Series A $163k–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $493M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • iBar Experience Kft. — iBar provides an AI  inventory app that integrates into restaurant management software. They offer products and services for pizzerias, bars, discos, hotels, and restaurants.
  • SURVIOT Monitoring Kft. — SURVIOT provides smart movement and deformation monitoring solution for civil engineering projects such as bridge, tunnel and dam constructions, quarries, slope stability inspections by monitoring geotechnical and environmental parameters. SURVIOT supports operators and constructors to comply with professional regulations by digitizing labourintensive, manual monitoring processes with automated data collection, processing and analysis. The SURVIOT platform is constantly evolving by adding new sensors and features.
  • Linkio - Ecommerce Integration Portal — Integrate wholesalers into your online store easier then ever
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Liquid 2 Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
  • Vulcan — Frontier AI for government, law, and policy | backed by @ycombinator @generalcatalyst @cubitcapital
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Bossa Invest
VC Fund · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 7 investments in Publishing startups, 33 in the past 12 months

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2047
  • Round size: Seed $178k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $632k–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • FFID — FFID develops AI chatbot platform automating customer communication, lead generation, and marketing workflows.
  • Sandwiche — Sandwiche creates customizable link in bio pages enabling social media monetization and affiliate marketing management.
  • Ambar Technologies — Ambar is a construction tech company that is focused on addressing the Affordable Housing Challenge. Ambar is a leading construction technology company in Latin America. Tech Company focused on addressing the Affordable Housing Challenge. Ambar integrates the Housing Journey into 4 steps, Design, Supply, Assembly, and Living.
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Knight Enterprise Fund
VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 7 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Digital Media, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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.
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Bpifrance
VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 7 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1645
  • Round size: Seed $757k–$6.1M; Series A $2.9M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $27M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Melvan — Melvan develops, finances, builds and operates solar and wind installations, combined, where relevant, with storage facilities.
  • AI-Stroke — Developer of an artificial intelligence-powered mobile application designed to assist in pre-CT/MRI stroke diagnostics. The company offers a platform that guides first responders and patients through relevant exercises for stroke detection, captures and analyzes video data, and leverages the world's largest proprietary stroke patientvideo dataset (20,000 videos and 6 million images), enabling patients with a diagnosis and outcomes by reducing delays in treatment for stroke, increasing the number of treatment procedures, and recuding the rehab costs.
  • MSInsight — Explore how our cutting-edge genomic analysis uncovers actionable insights into microsatellite instability (MSI), driving targeted, personalized cancer treatments.
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Müller Medien
VC Fund · Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany · 7 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Poland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$6.6M; Series A $2.6M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VITAS — Our system is based on Deep Learning and offers an intelligent voice assistant for customer service. Use cases can be found in both the SME and enterprise market for all companies with many standardized customer calls. VITAS answers the telephone, checks data in real time, can react flexibly to requests and offers the caller a self-service withoutwaiting time. Areas of application include restaurants, workshops, medical practices, taxi centres, insurance companies, banks and tax consultants. With www.telefonassistent.de, we have developed our own software-as-a-service platform that allows companies of any industry and size to configure their own intelligent assistant with just a few clicks - completely without any prior technical knowledge. The settings vary from greeting phrases and specific questions to the creation of custom scenarios and call reasons. Everything can be adapted independently to the individual needs of the respective company without IT capacities.
  • Booksy — Booksy - book appointments online. Find & book beauty services like hairdressing, manicure, spa or massage. Check prices & reviews!
  • Mozaik — Auffallend ansprechende Videos, im dynamisch modernen Stil, ohne Vorwissen selbst machen. In nur wenigen Minuten erstellt.
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MDC Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

MDC Ventures invests in early stage, marketing technology companies transforming the global marketing landscape. Since 2010 we have been partnering with the innovators, entrepreneurs and startups addressing the needs of the Modern CMO. MDC Ventures is the corporate venture arm of global advertising group, MDC Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, Analytics, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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.
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Great Oaks Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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SilverCircle
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Backing generational founders building the future in AI, Fintech and Health.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Social Starts
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, 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.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups, 70 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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LAUNCHub Ventures
VC Fund · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Seed-stage VC fund for Central and Eastern Europe. 90+ companies backed.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $219k–$2.8M; Series A $2.9M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • nFuse.ai — nFuse scales your B2B sales with AI. Up to 30% revenue uplift, $1 per order processing cost, live in 30 days. No new apps, no behavior change.
  • Giraffe360 — Giraffe360 is game-changing subscription product for real estate companies to streamline professional quality photography and high accuracy floor plan creation.
  • Nanogram — Nanogram is an AI-powered gaming startup that creates an instant prompt-to-game platform, allowing anyone to build and share interactive short-form video games. Frequently described as "TikTok for mobile games," the company delivers an endless, vertical social feed of byte-sized, zero-download games that players swipe through and playinstantly.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 6 investments in Publishing startups

HV Capital is one of the leading early-stage and growth investors in Europe. With nine fund generations in 23 years and €2.8 bn in managed assets, HV Capital is one of the continent's most active investors. The investment team has many years of experience in identifying European startups with great potential for success. In addition tointernational success stories like Zalando, Delivery Hero, Sumup, and Depop, innovation leaders such as Enpal, Flixbus, Sennder, and Isar Aerospace are also part of the portfolio. HV Capital has invested in around 225 internet and technology companies, supporting startups with ticket sizes ranging from €0.5 to €60m. It is one of Europe's few venture capital firms that can finance startups through all growth phases. HV Capital has a team of more than 40 investment and operations professionals who provide a variety of perspectives and expertise across the venture capital landscape.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 502
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$37M; Series B $7.7M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $783M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
  • Flip — The AI employee experience platform for frontline workers without a company email. Flip unites comms, HR, identity and AI in one app. Book a demo.
  • Ore Energy — Ore Energy is creating a new generation, cost effective, long-duration energy storage solution which will enable a decarbonized energy future by utilizing some of the most readily available materials
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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.
  • ApnaPaisa — ApnaPaisa offers the Best Deals on Home Loans, Personal Loans, Credit Cards and EMI Calculators in India. EST'D 2007.
  • Juicebox — Juicebox is a subscription-based marketplace for businesses to hire independent tech talent. Companies get commission-free access to vetted talent. Independents get the opportunity to work with exciting companies without relying on an agency.
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Red Sea Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: 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.
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Tuesday Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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
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ah! Ventures
VC Fund · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 6 investments in Publishing startups

ah! Ventures is India’s only curated, sector agnostic and the largest fundraising platform for early stage startups raising funds up to 10 MN USD. Very strong network of 3000+ Investors including 2000+ angel investors and 1000+ institutional investors & fund/family houses, Robust deal pipeline of more than 600 business plans/monthand Well-established brand as one of India’s premier aggregators with a cornucopia of offerings to catalyze startup growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, EdTech, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 211
  • Round size: Seed $130k–$1.8M; Angel $100k–$414k
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $19M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • HomeRoots — HomeRoots is a B2B wholesaler in the furniture and home decor industry.
  • Snap-E Cabs — Snap-E Cabs is an eco-friendly public electric transport service that allows people to travel safely.
  • Ochre Spirits — Ochre Spirits crafts artisanal vodkas, gins, and rum with ingredients and bold flavors, targeting India’s premium craft spirits market.
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 6 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 826
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$3.2M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Adaptemy — We help some of the world's leading education companies create intelligent and adaptive learning products. Technology, research, consulting. #adaptivelearning
  • Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
  • Learnsignal — Online courses for ACCA, CIMA, CPD, FRM and AAT with test prep material, free resources, mock exams, and study support.
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Greycroft
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Venture capital and technology investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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.
  • Axiom — The Starting Point for Reasoning
  • WorldWide Biggies — Worldwide Biggies, Inc. operates as a digital entertainment studio. It provides films and T.V, gametoons, games, and Webisodes for kids, families, and young adults through online. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in New York, New York.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2372
  • Round size: Seed $158k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$587k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
  • Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
  • RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.
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Precursor Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in Publishing startups

Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in North America. The firm focuses on investments in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware. Precursor Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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.
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

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Investment focus

  • 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

  • Whizzo — Whizzo specializes in materials science-driven manufacturing of engineered fashion and technical textiles. Our expertise lies in creating and executing innovative textile blends tailored for applications across automotive, agriculture, medical textiles, and engineered fashion.
  • 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.
  • Ricursive Intelligence — We develop frontier AI methods to reinvent chip development, collapsing traditional design timelines, closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, and enabling a Cambrian explosion of custom silicon.
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Kakao Ventures
VC Fund · Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 393
  • Round size: Seed $280k–$4.2M; Series A $988k–$11M; Series B $3.4M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $40B in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • A33 Studio — A-33 Studio team is led by the chief executive officer ‘Kim Dong Sun’ who was in charge of the development, launch and operation of ‘Counter Strike Online’ which is one of the top 3 online FPS games in Korea. The team consists of developers who have worked together for ‘CS Online’ and ‘Combat Arms’ at Nexon, one of the top online game makers in theworld.
  • Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
  • Sume — Sume provides agent-native video generation APIs and tools for creating avatar-based and UGC-style videos. The company offers Sume Avatar 1.0, a multi-model orchestration system that behaves like a single avatar endpoint for generating talking-head and product-focused clips. Developers use the Sume Developer API and CLI to create reusable avatars,submit structured video generation jobs, track status, and retrieve production-ready media. The platform supports workflows where agents or applications coordinate creative inputs such as avatars, scripts, and product images. Sume for Brands provides an AI creative application that turns product URLs, product assets, and creative direction into ad-ready UGC-style videos. Its services are used for advertising, branded content, and other video-based communication scenarios.
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Social Leverage
VC Fund · Phoenix, Arizona, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

Social Leverage An early stage seed investment fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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
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First Round Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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

  • Abra — Abra provides digital asset products and services for professional investors requiring custody, trading, borrowing, and yield strategies.
  • Actively — A seamless booking assistant for your favorite fitness classes & wellness experiences
  • Flatiron Health — Clinicians, researchers and regulators rely on Flatiron technology and evidence to learn faster and power smarter care for every patient.
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Advancit Capital
VC Fund · Norwood, Massachusetts, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • BetHog — BetHog is a new crypto sports book that brings home the bacon.
  • worm.wtf — worm.wtf is the prediction marketplace for the Solana ecosystem.
  • Kairos Labs — Kairos Labs is an Ethereum ecosystem interest rate swap protocol
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New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1926
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$57M; Series B $10M–$90M; Series C $15M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $468M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • newScale — Own Newscale.com today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
  • MediSys EduTech — MediSys is actively collaborating with various partners to enable its content to be available to every medical, dental, nursing and paramedical student – through various channels like e- Libraries, personal laptops, over Wi-Fi campuses and SmartdevicesMediSys at Hyderabad has been doing pioneering work in the area of Healthcare e-Learning bydeveloping the curricular content for medical and dental education in the form of multimedia enhanced E-Content and E-Lectures that can supplement the teaching efforts at various medical colleges.MediSys has developed SmarTeach® UGMed, a digital version of the MBBS theory classes, which is based on the prescribed MCI syllabus for Medical students. While teachers can project the E-Content in class, making their teaching more effective, students can also use the same via an E-Library facility to see and hear virtual lectures delivered by medical teachers selected from all over the country.
  • Radiology Partners — Radiology Partners is the leading radiology practice in the U.S., consisting of a network of of radiology practices serving hospitals and other healthcare facilities across the nation.
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Alliance of Angels
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

Largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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.
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Mangrove Capital Partners
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 149
  • Round size: Seed $675k–$10M; Series A $2.5M–$12M; Series B $8M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $234M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Proggio — Transform your project management with timelines that enhance productivity and clarity. Discover how Proggio AI can help.
  • Sifflet — You make important business decision based on your data. Sifflet ensures the data is reliable, traceable and easy to navigate.
  • Titan Operating System —
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Flow Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $650k–$2M; Debt Financing $311k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Tattle — Tattle App is the leading customer experience platform for restaurants and hospitality. Get actionable, real-time feedback through our survey app to improve loyalty. Follow up with your guests in a single click. Never let another customer leave your restaurant angry.
  • Miniluxe — Miniluxe operates as a nail and beauty lounge that offers manicures, pedicures, warm oil treatment, waxing, and hands and feet therapies. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Common Wealth — Common Wealth is a digital platform that provides retirement planning services.
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Clearstone Venture Partners
VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

Founded by Bill Elkus in 1998, Clearstone Venture Partners is a venture capital firm with offices in Santa Monica and Menlo Park, California. The firm manages over $650 million of committed capital in the technology sector, and has helped finance early-stage rounds in numerous successful companies such as eToys, Overture, PayPal, United Online,MP3.com, Jump and eMusic.Clearstone's limited partners include the investment affiliates of The State of California, JP Morgan, The University of California, The State of Michigan, The State of Pennsylvania, The University of Pittsburgh, Moore Capital and others.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Afghanistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 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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Strong Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 376
  • Round size: Seed $211k–$3M; Series A $1M–$10M; Series B $2.4M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $38M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • WeGlee — WeGlee is a food and beverage startup that operates 'WeGlee,' a fast-casual dining brand centered around pasta bowls.
  • Neardoc — Neardoc operates on a business-to-business subscription model providing an ambient artificial intelligence scribe solution for healthcare facilities. The platform leverages a proprietary medical reasoning engine to automatically generate structured clinical SOAP notes by analyzing doctor-patient conversations in real time. Its core valueproposition centers on eliminating administrative overhead, reducing charting time for medical professionals, and increasing patient throughput.
  • READi Robust Machine — Ready Robust Machine is a company that makes carbon reduction and fuel cost improvement systems.
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RTP Global
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 271
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $6M–$25M; Series B $11M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1B in 2023

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.
  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • Yandex — Yandex is a multinational technology company that provides internet-related services and operates a search engine platform in Russia. It is one of the largest internet companies in Europe, operating Russia’s most popular search engine and its most visited website.According to LiveInternet, for the three months ended September 30, 2015, theygenerated 57.1% of all search traffic in Russia. They also operate in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Turkey.
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General Catalyst
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2051
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $7M–$75M; Series B $14M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Datalogix — Datalogix® is the industry-recognized leader at connecting digital media and offline purchasing data. We help more than half of the top 100 consumer marketers increase the effectiveness and measurability of their advertising. DLX Platform®, encompasses over $1 trillion in consumer spending and powers campaigns for more than 75% of online mediacompanies. DLX ROI® is rapidly becoming the industry standard for measuring offline sales lift for digital media. Datalogix also offers predictive analytics for Direct Mail, and integrated media solutions via the DLX Net. Our expertise spans the major consumer segments, including Retail, CPG, Automotive, Telecom, Travel and Financial Services. We are based in Colorado, with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, and London.
  • Legora — By streamlining and simplifying legal workflows, we empower elite law firms and legal professionals to work more efficiently and effectively. Enabling them to focus on higher-value tasks and deliver exceptional results for their clients.
  • Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
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True Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 5 investments in Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 5 investments in Publishing startups

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 662
  • Round size: Seed $798k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $372M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
  • GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
  • Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
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SBVA
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 5 investments in Publishing startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Established in 2000 as an early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, SBVA has a storied history of empowering extraordinary entrepreneurs across the globe. In 2023, we joined forces with The Edgeof, a global startup ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, JP Lee, and Atsushi Taira and began our new chapter as an independent entity with arenewed commitment to fostering innovation and technological advancement.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 280
  • Round size: Seed $907k–$10M; Series A $1.7M–$38M; Series B $3.7M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $23M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Nums AI — Nums AI is a single foundation model that predicts across commerce, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and defense.
  • Dentlink — A state-of-the-art digital dental lab, made by masters. All-on-X, veneers, implant crowns. One dedicated master technician on every case. First case free.
  • WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
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East Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Publishing startups

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 632
  • Round size: Seed $263k–$7M; Series A $2M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hyper8 — Hyper8 has been expanding Mespo through profits earned by operating social events.
  • Sisuta — Sisuta is a purpose-driven organization committed to addressing fundamental social issues by seamlessly integrating human insight with advanced technology, creating innovative solutions that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and unlock the full potential of both people and digital tools to drive sustainable social impact.
  • BASE — BASE provides web-based services that develop and build e-commerce platforms. The company provides its services across Japan, such as net shop creation, development of shopping applications, development of online payment, and other services.
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3one4 Capital
VC Fund · Bangalore, Karnataka, India · 5 investments in Publishing startups

At 3one4, we are biased towards action and channel the relevant resources to support generational innovation engines out of India. We partner with early-stage companies that are mission-oriented and are setting new standards for inclusive value creation and sustainable growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 235
  • Round size: Seed $490k–$7.6M; Series A $3M–$14M; Series B $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $225M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Wiom — Provides affordable and unlimited Internet to Middle and lower middle income households
  • CÜRAA — CÜRAA sells kitchen appliances and accessories for home cooking. Its product range includes the BlendLabPro blender-mixer-grinder and the Brass Masala Dani. The brand serves home cooks and focuses on equipment and utensils for everyday Indian cooking.
  • Rezolv — Rezolv revolutionizes debt recovery with AI-driven strategies, automation, and human-centric communication. Maximize recovery while preserving customer relationships.
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