Top 50 Publishing VC Funds in United States

Investor	Publishing United States investments
RRE Ventures	13
The New York Times	10
Betaworks	10
Lerer Hippeau	9
SVA	8
SoftBank Capital	8
Knight Enterprise Fund	8
Accel	7
Right Side Capital Management	6
BDMI	6
Lighter Capital	6
Sequoia Capital	6
Social Leverage	5
Greycroft	5
Red Sea Ventures	5
First Round Capital	5
PROOF	5
Social Starts	5
MDC Ventures	5
Tuesday Capital	4
Lowercase Capital	4
Clearstone Venture Partners	4
Grape Arbor VC	4
Precursor Ventures	4
Third Wave Digital	4
Index Ventures	4
Walden Venture Capital	4
Spark Capital	4
Flyover Capital	4
Advancit Capital	4
DFJ Mercury	4
Alliance of Angels	4
New York Angels	4
Foundry Group	4
Great Oaks Venture Capital	4
Transmedia Capital	4
Horizons Ventures	3
Indicator Ventures	3
Ludlow Ventures	3
Dundee Venture Capital	3
Uncork Capital	3
Serra Ventures	3
Cowles Company	3
MassVentures	3
New Enterprise Associates	3
NextView Ventures	3
Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund	3
Incubate Fund	3
ICG Ventures	3
Village Ventures	3

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

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.
Kindo — Enhance AI productivity with Kindo. The first platform to support any AI model plus 200+ SaaS integrations, all while being centralized, compliant, and secure. Try today!
Boost — Boost enables companies in any industry to offer digital insurance products to their customers through a fully integrated experience embedded in their front-end environment.

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, Content
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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Flower Labs — A unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. Federate any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language.
Barnyard Games — Barnyard Games is a gaming production studio that creates strategic games and simulations.
Kosmik — Kosmik is the visual canvas for knowledge management. Kosmik allows you to write, create large media collections, browse the web and share it all with your team! No more folders, bookmarks or infinite message threads.

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

TollBit — TollBit is a content monetization platform that allows AI bots and data scrapers to pay websites directly to license their content and protects the health of the entire content ecosystem.
10Beauty — The only 5-step manicure machine in the world.
Haven Energy — Haven Energy is a climate technology company that is accelerating home energy storage adoption. Haven walks homeowners through the process of selecting, quoting, and financing a home battery system, and then connects them with vetted, qualified electricians to complete the installation. Haven works with homeowners after installation to integratetheir batteries into an aggregated virtual power plant, allowing customers to monetize grid participation and significantly reduce their electricity costs.

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are 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, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SESO — Seso is a labor solution for agriculture. We provide support with the entire H-2A process, including the H-2A Visa, recruiting farmworkers, H-2A compliance, and digital worker onboarding.
nsave — nsave provides offshore saving accounts for the middle-class in distressed economies. Think countries with high inflation, banks that cap withdrawals, no trust in banks, or no financial services like insurance and investments. By leveraging emerging technologies, Swiss financial infrastructure, and its recent regulatory changes, Masref provides themiddle class in these countries with what they never had – a safe place to store their savings. Masref will first provide simple saving accounts, before offering other financial services.
Aligned Marketplace — Aligned Marketplace operates as a personalized primary care for workforce.

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.

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.

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

Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
Coast — Coast is the simple, all-in-one fleet and fuel card that helps businesses easily pay for and track vehicle expenses. It's quick to set up, easy-to-use, and full of rewards.
Imperia — We provide to our clients tools for managing and optimizing their processes in the area of operations through an innovative, advanced and user-friendly software solution. Analytics Demand Planning (ADP) is a complete solution to support the demand forecasting process, based on two key pillars: 1. Easy-to-use: the solution is fully integrated inExcel, providing great ease of use and minimum implementation times. “If you know how to use Excel, you know how to use ADP”. 2. Collaborative planning: the tool is developed under a collaborative environment in which all members of the organization can be involved in the process, improving the decision-making process.Furthermore, it has great computing power based on statistical models and a wide range of advanced functionalities that add extra value to the product. Such as reference segmentation, intelligent cleaning of historical data series and integrated dashboards for sales and forecast analytics.

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ASETS — ASETS develops software for engineers and created the first cloud-based Integrated Design Suite.
HLRBO — HLRBO is an online hunting network that connects landowners and hunters. List your property on HLRBO. No fees. No commissions. Hunters contact you directly with questions or to lease.
Precision Compounding — Precision Compounding compounds customized medications to meet the specific needs of patients and their pets. They benefit patients by providing formulations customized for dosage, taste, and ingredients. Their services include proscripts, concierge pick-up options, and professional delivery. They respond to customer inquiries by phone, contactform, and email.

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, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Wand App — Wand is a co-creative, AI-driven tool that allows artists the manual control and customization they need to realize their ideas.
Letterhead — Leverage the power of automated email monetization and newsletter engagement with Letterhead. Create newsletters that do all the work for you, engage your readers, and increase revenue. Get started today!
tvScientific — tvScientific is the first performance platform for CTV. It combines the power of television with the precision of digital marketing.

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 — Arrivalist is the leading location analytics company, leveraging the changing locations of mobile devices to measure the way media influences people to visit places. The company’s patent-pending location analytics platform provides new insights in to the way owned, paid and earned media exposures impact visitation from users who’ve been exposed toits clients’ media. Arrivalist works with 70+ Location Marketers including 23 States, 40 Cities/ Regions and 4 National Tourist Offices. Arrivalist is funded by happy customers and is based in New York City with an office in San Francisco.
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.

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zafran Security — Zafran offers Risk Mitigation which leverages current security policies to protect enterprises during crucial exploitation periods.
Grow Therapy — Find a psychiatrist or therapist near you who takes your insurance. Finding the right therapist and scheduling your session is easy, safe, and secure. Book today!
Smiths International Group — a diverse conglomerate holding company founded and operated by me. It aims to acquire and manage a wide range of businesses with a focus on long-term growth and profitability. The company’s business model prioritizes sustainable value creation over short-term gains, and it seeks to invest in businesses with strong management teams, competitiveadvantages, and potent

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

beehiiv — Access the best tools available in email, helping your newsletter scale and monetize like never before.
Equabli — More than a software, Equabli is a single hub to orchestrate, execute, and optimize debt collection end-to-end for all stakeholders including banks, lenders, Fintechs, and agencies
Birdwatch — Birdwatch helps busy homeowners save time, money and energy by taking care of the issues that arise in and around your home. From repairs and installations, to preventative maintenance and renovation advising, we bring the convenience of renting to owning. Our team of mission-driven entrepreneurs are passionate about helping you feel safe, cozyand cared for. Birdwatch is a public benefit corporation that promotes equal access to safe, dignified homeownership and the benefits of building intergenerational wealth.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Addi — Addi is a technology company that provides credit and banking solutions. Addi is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.
Ocient — Modernize your Data and Analytics Stack with an End-to-End Solution
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.

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

10Beauty — The only 5-step manicure machine in the world.
Medbill AI — Your AI assistant for medical billing and health insurance issues
Range — Experience all-in-one wealth management from Range. Access wealth management services from our team of Certified Financial Planners and unified financial management through one thoughtfully designed platform. Learn more about becoming a member.

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

treet — Treet helps brands launch fully-branded recommerce sites where customers can buy & sell items from each other.
Cache — Holding on to individual stocks that make up a large percentage of your portfolio? Cache gives you access to the same advanced investing products used by the ultra-wealthy to manage concentrated wealth.
Loyal — Loyal is a biotechnology company developing medicines to extend dog lifespan. By developing drugs with the potential to slow the aging process, they aim to delay or prevent age-related diseases like cancer and dementia.

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 A, Series B, Series C
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
RepeatMD — RepeatMD is a SaaS company that uses an Inbound Revenue platform for aesthetic and wellness practices. Its features include robust e-commerce solutions, mobile rewards, memberships, customized marketing campaigns, and a comprehensive digital treatment catalog. With RepeatMD, practice owners can stop manually chasing outbound revenue opportunitiesand grow their businesses through Inbound Revenue.
Mythical Games — We are Mythical Games, a Venture-backed next-generation game technology company at the intersection of video games and economics led by industry veterans.

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, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, 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.
Fulcrum — Designed with technology in mind, be free of paper with Fulcrum, the manufacturing ERP of the future. Ai scheduling, visual BOM, live tracking
Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.

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.

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, Series B
United States, Mexico, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Featureform — A virtual feature store that integrates smoothly with your current infrastructure. Defining, sharing, training, and serving features has never been simpler.
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
Foundation Health — Foundation Health is a telehealth and nationwide pharmacies and diagnostic distribution centre

Lowercase Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed/startups, mature, and acquisition of later-stage companies. The firm typically invests in wireless, media, commerce, infrastructure, energy, and transportation sectors. It also advises businesses and funds. Lowercase Capital was founded in 2010and is based in New York, New York.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tala — A money app for the majority. Tala bridges digital and cash ecosystems to help customers seamlessly manage their financial lives, all in one app.
Kolors — Kolors is a technological platform that focuses on providing intelligent intercity mobility of bus transportation in the region.
Tala — A money app for the majority. Tala bridges digital and cash ecosystems to help customers seamlessly manage their financial lives, all in one app.

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.

Grape Arbor is an angel investor group that invests in technology and startup spaces.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Advertising
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Elucd — Elucd provides cities with a near real-time understanding of how citizens feel about their government.
TrueData — TrueData helps adtech companies and agencies build identity resolution and audience activation data strategies through curated data products.
StayTuned — through results-driven software, merchant-focused support, and an experienced team.

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, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

AddGlow — AddGlow foster on-site community to increase retention.
Grupago — Grupago is pioneering digital microcredit for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in Latin America, leveraging artificial intelligence, group collateral and community distribution to extend credit to micro-SMBs across the region who have been shut out of traditional SMB lending avenues.
The New Club — The leading private network for women in engineering. Find your community of women engineering peers, accelerate your career through executive coaching and courses, and unlock professional and personal growth through our in-person retreats.

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

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Digital Media, Video
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Girlboss — Navigating the future of work and helping you find success on your terms.
Drone Racing League — Drone Racing League is a drone racing circuit for professional pilots. The company designs and builds a custom in-house racing drone, the Racer3, which speeds more than 85 MPH around the most complex 3D race courses ever imagined outside a video game. It combines media and technology to create thrilling 3D drone racing content with mass appeal.Drone Racing League was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Skybound Entertainment — Skybound Entertainment is an imprint of image comics that provides comic book creators the opportunity to publish their work. It offers Robert Kirkman’s Eisner award-winning comic book series, The Walking Dead, long-running Invincible, all-ages Super Dinosaur, Thief of Thieves and Clone as well as Witch Doctor, Guarding the Globe, and TheAstounding Wolf-Man.Since its inception, Skybound Entertainment has created television shows, merchandise, and a wide spectrum of platforms, games, and entertainment events. It was launched by Robert Kirkman in 2010.Skybound Entertainment is operated from Culver City, California.

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

SESO — Seso is a labor solution for agriculture. We provide support with the entire H-2A process, including the H-2A Visa, recruiting farmworkers, H-2A compliance, and digital worker onboarding.
Vizcom — Vizcom is an Ai-powered creative tool designed for design and creative professionals. It offers a transformative approach to concept drawing, enabling users to turn their sketches into impressive realistic renderings quickly and efficiently.
Nourish — Achieve your desired health and wellness through personalized nutrition counseling. Nourish is the easiest way to find a registered dietitian and get it covered by your insurance. Find a dietitian today and start your telehealth appointments.

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 — At Hatch, we're dreaming up ways to help people sleep better. Our sleep products and services have helped over a million people get a good night's rest. We're on a mission to make sleep easier for everyone with innovative, all-in-one solutions for newborns through adults.
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Baseten — Baseten is the ML Application Builder for data science teams. Ship full-stack apps in minutes. No frontend, backend, or infrastructure knowledge required.
Higharc — Higharc is the all-in-one web platform that simplifies, connects and improves each step of design, construction and sales for home building.
Abridge — For patients, clinicians, and enterprise, our audio-based solutions capture the details and summarize medical conversations, anywhere care happens.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Services
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Invary — Invary provides threat detection and observability utilizing Runtime Integrity
PRECZN — Preczn is an operator-first platform that brings together all your Fintech customers, providers, services, and data. Lending, payments, and treasury in one low-code solution.
Layr — We use AI and machine learning to match companies with the right commercial insurance, at the right price, through top-rated carriers. The application is 100% online with our team of expert brokers available to help with any questions along the way. We focus on cash-flow-friendly payment options (pay monthly instead of annually and use your creditcard) and easy in-app policy updates. With Layr, check “Buy Business Insurance” off your list and get back to what you do best.

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

Portfolio highlights

Irreverent Labs — Irreverent Labs creates artificially intelligent hundred-year entertainment experiences on a blockchain. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Sheridan, Wyoming.
Religion of Sports — Founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, and Gotham Chopra, Religion of Sports creates best-in-class content, and is building a brand focused on human/emotional storytelling in and around the world of sports
Goldenset Collective — Investing in the next generation of creators.

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.

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

Vega Cloud — Vega is a next-generation Cloud management platform. With increased visibility, scalable management, and advanced optimization strategies, Vega can save you up to 35% on your monthly cloud bill.
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.

New York Angels is one of the largest and most active angel investment organizations.Founded in 2004 as the successor organization to the NYNMA (New York New Media Association) Angel Investor Program, New York Angels is a membership organization of over 110 active angel investors and early stage venture capital funds. The group meets monthly toscreen and present early stage technology companies, and its members have invested over $100 million since 2002 into over 90 ventures. In April of 2017, PItchbook identified New York Angels as #3 in their list of the 8 top VCs funding seed rounds of New York-based companies.Among the NYA membership are nationally known angel investors including Esther Dyson and David S. Rose. The group has one full-time staff, reporting to an 11 person Board of Directors chaired by Brian S. Cohen. Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey is currently Program Director of New York Angels. Since 2012, the membership has increased by 66% and investment activity has grown by over 215%. New York Angels concentrates on early stage investments in the range of $100,000 - $1,000,000, although it has led deals as large as $2 million. It receives over 2,200 financing applications annually, from which it selects 12-16 companies each month for an in-person screening, where all members of New York Angels are invited to attend. The group meets again for an Investment Breakfast at the end of the month, where 2-4 opportunities present to the membership with a goal to close their current investment round within two months.The group is considered a leader in the growing field of organized angel investing. It was the first member of the national Angel Capital Association, hosted the ACA Summit conference in 2006, and was the initial test group for the now-standard gust (Angelsoft) funding platform.Membership as an investor in New York Angels is by invitation only, and members are required to commit to investing at least $50,000 annually in early stage technology deals, in addition to the group's $3,500 annual membership dues.Requests for funding for entrepreneurial ventures may be self-submitted through the group's website. New York Angels charges no fees to entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Membrion — Remove Problematic Ions to Expand Capacity, Ensure Compliance, and Eliminate Costs with Electro-Ceramic Desalination
CorralData — Experience the power of AI-generated metrics and insights with CorralData. Get one month free and seamlessly integrate with 200+ data sources with no upfront costs.
Diadem Capital — Diadem Capital is a curated marketplace for venture debt and venture capital. Connecting founders with venture capital funds, family offices, & corporate VCs.

Foundry is a venture capital firm focused on providing early-stage technology investments. The firm was established in 2007 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vendasta — Grow your agency with Vendasta's platform, designed for selling online services. Join 80k+ agencies, expand offerings & scale with SaaS revenue.
Optimize.health — Running a remote patient monitoring program couldn't be easier. Launch and scale remote patient monitoring, with a simple and reliable RPM Solution.
SingleFile Technologies — SingleFile Technologies automates secretary of state filings with our cloud based, filing platform using AI technology. From business formations to foreign qualifications, and many other filing documents, the SingleFile platform saves time, eliminates confusion, and reduces cost.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nim — Generate and edit videos with state-of-the-art AI models, advanced controls, and reusable assets
Dispatch — OneAdvisory helps independent financial advisors to build ideal firms through strategic investments and advanced technology. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
Oula Health — Oula is a modern maternity clinic combining the best of obstetrics and midwifery care to deliver an evidence-based and personalized pregnancy experience

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 — A robot in every home

Investing in the deep science and technology that can propel humanity towards a radically better future.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Xampla — Xampla: Drop-in replacements for single-use plastic, eliminating plastic pollution. Biodegrade quickly & safely. Named world's most promising cleantech co.
MioTech — MioTech is an artificial intelligence platform that empowers investment managers to better serve their clients in a world of complex data. By integrating and analyzing data from all types of sources, MioTech streamlines the entire investment process, creating an ultimate data-driven investing experience. MioTech has offices in Shanghai and HongKong.MioTech is backed by Horizons Ventures, ZhenFund, and prestigious individual investors around the world.
Cauldron Ferm — Cauldron is sustainably delivering the precision fermented prototypes of today to the supermarket shelves of tomorrow.

Indicator Ventures is a pre-seed and seed stage venture capital firm, investing in technology companies across the U.S.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

RepRally — RepRally bridges the gap between emerging brands and local retailers.
Retrocausal — Retrocausal is the industry leader in intelligence augmentation systems that help manufacturing workers avoid assembly mistakes, train better, and improve the processes they drive. Our RetroActivity "Virtual Supervisor" platform uses an AI-enabled camera to analyze the tasks performed on your assembly line in real-time, offering audibleand visual alerts when mistakes happen to ensure the operator completes the build correctly before the next step in the process. Our platform also continuously performs time studies on assembly processes to help your business accelerate Kaizen events.
Simply Bail — Simply Bail is an online platform that offers a secure, hassle-free, and fastest way for people to get out of jail with bail. Their system allows them to locate their friend or loved one with just a little information from you. Simply Bail was founded in 2020 by Peter Morris in Santa Monica, CA.

Ludlow operates differently because we’re a different kind of VC. We believe in VC without ego. We wear our hearts on our sleeves, avoiding the puffery and posturing that has given venture capital a bad name. We fund the dreams of entrepreneurs and startups, becoming close friends with all of the teams we invest in.Truly great companies arebuilt on trust and friendship (and rainbows and luck). VC is a customer service business. Whether it’s testing product, leveraging our network, or forcing people to download your app, we’re here to help. You make our dream jobs possible and we’re forever thankful for that. Check out some of our other projects - www.carpool.vc and www.computer.show

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PackageX — PackageX is revolutionizing the logistics industry with the world's first Headless Logistics Cloud. PackageX empowers retail and commercial enterprises to achieve unprecedented success by delivering unparalleled developer experiences, workflow improvements, customer loyalty, and profitability.
Mona Lee Solar — Our mission is to provide the lowest priced solar for homeowners in the nation. Our business model allows us to cut out the salespeople so the price for solar is reduced by 50%.
Workshop — Workshop is the most effective way to create, send, & measure branded internal communications across distributed teams. It replaces any internal email tool you have & makes it easy to create content that is always relevant, engaging, useful, and on-brand.

Dundee Venture Capital invests $250,000-$1M in high-growth, early-stage technology companies. DVC invests across industries in founding teams they believe in. Most of DVC's investments are in e-commerce, B2B SaaS, or consumer networks.Dundee VC formally began in 2010. The root of the idea started much earlier when Mark Hasebroock, DundeeVC’s founding, and managing partner, was raising money for his two e-commerce companies, giftcertificates.com and Hayneedle.com, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, respectively.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Blanka — Create your own branded cosmetics line with Blanka in under 5 minutes. 100s of high quality vegan cruelty-free cosmetic, skincare and beauty products.
Autobound — Autobound generates highly personalized sales emails and email openers in a single click, based on news events, job changes, shared experiences, and more. We've trained our machine learning model on millions of high quality sales emails to pinpoint what works best. Sign up for free and see for yourself!
Echo Labs — Echo Labs is developing the first artificial intelligence capable of human-level transcribing.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GPTZero — Covered by >100 media outlets, GPTZero is the most advanced AI detector for ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard. Check up to 50000 characters for AI plagiarism in seconds.
Inscribe — Inscribe helps financial institutions manage risk by empowering teams with fraudulent document detection, intelligent automation, and the ability to better understand customer creditworthiness.
Accredible — Accredible is the world's leading digital credential platform offering digital badges and digital certificates. Start your credentialing journey today.

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

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.
DigiFarmz Smart Agriculture — Growers currently lose 75% of crop yield potential due to decision errors in plant health and nutrition management. DigiFarmz uses algorithms that combine biotic (genetics, pathogen, etc.) and abiotic (climate, sowing dates, location, etc.) parameters and a big data with more than sixteen years of field and greenhouse researches, to providereal-time dynamic recommendations for the very reality of each farm and field plot, optimizing the use of agrochemicals, increasing the yield and profitability of crops.
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.

Cowles Company is a fourth generation family-owned enterprise that operates a portfolio of legacy companies and seeks to invest in high potential growth businesses for the long-term benefit of shareholders, customers, employees and the communities in which it operates.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Water
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Quintar — Quintar builds pioneering tech and tools for content creators who want to build an awe-inspiring multilayered world. To create new content possibilities at the speed of culture.
Treasury4 — Treasury4 is an enterprise fintech creating advanced data analytics tools and solutions for corporate finance and treasury professionals. Our solutions are intuitive, easy to use, simple to navigate and built to provide easy access to the data you need when you need it.
Vega Cloud — Vega is a next-generation Cloud management platform. With increased visibility, scalable management, and advanced optimization strategies, Vega can save you up to 35% on your monthly cloud bill.

MassVentures is a venture capital firm focused on fueling the Massachusetts innovation economy by funding early-stage, high-growth Massachusetts startups as they move from concept to commercialization.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
Grant, Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aclarity — Aclarity commercializes electrochemical water treatment systems for the complete destruction of contaminants in water. We offer a risk-free pilot of our technology.
florrent — florrent is a bio-based materials and energy storage company that develops solutions to critical bottlenecks in global decarbonization and electrification of transportation, and buildings.
PathMaker Neurosystems — PathMaker Neurosystems is a neurotechnology company that develops treatment for neuromotor disorders.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
Foundry — Elastic cloud infrastructure built for machine learning.
Avenzo Therapeutics — Developing the next generation of oncology therapies for patients.

The Future is Coming

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FirstMate — FirstMate is a software company that designs and develops software tools for NFT creators.
Forum — Forum is a marketplace for peer support groups that connects mission-driven facilitators with people seeking support for life's biggest challenges–including life transitions, career, health, relationships, and more. Peer support is a proven model for personal change, healing, and growth – and our vision is a world where everyone has easyaccess to it.
Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.

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

Investment focus

Education, Medical, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Spain, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

AVEC — Premium, low sugar mixers made with real juice, real fruit, and all natural ingredients. Low in calorie, high in flavor. Don't compromise what you mix with your spirit.
JOCO — JOCO Powers Delivery in Urban Environments. Our premium light electric vehicles (LEVs) are built to last and our platform removes all the hassle of owning, storing, charging and maintaining a LEV; just focus on doing the deliveries! With carbon emissions at an all time high, we’re on a pursuit to bring cleaner air to the world.
mint&rose — mint&rose is a fashion lifestyle brand that offers shoes, bags, and accessories collections made in Spain. The brand designs, manufactures, and retails Made-In-Spain, high quality, contemporary collections focusing in shoes bags and other accessories. They leveraging and preserving techniques that have been used for centuries, usinghigh-quality materials. mint&rose was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Valladolid, Spain.

Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Fager — Fager is an agriculture firm specializing in promoting decarbonization projects, agricultural carbon production, and sales.
Retrocausal — Retrocausal is the industry leader in intelligence augmentation systems that help manufacturing workers avoid assembly mistakes, train better, and improve the processes they drive. Our RetroActivity "Virtual Supervisor" platform uses an AI-enabled camera to analyze the tasks performed on your assembly line in real-time, offering audibleand visual alerts when mistakes happen to ensure the operator completes the build correctly before the next step in the process. Our platform also continuously performs time studies on assembly processes to help your business accelerate Kaizen events.
Iwaya Giken — Iwaya Giken manufactures and sells gas balloons, airtight cabins, and other space-travel equipment.

ICG Ventures is an Ingram Content Group company. Ingram Content Group Inc. is a subsidiary of Nashville-based Ingram Industries Inc. The company provides books, music and media content to over 39,000 retailers, libraries, schools and distribution partners in 195 countries. More than 26,000 publishers use Ingram’s fully integrated physical anddigital distribution, logistics, and manufacturing solutions to access global consumer demand, and realize the full business potential of book content. Ingram’s operating units are Ingram Book Company, Lightning Source Inc., Vital Source Technologies, Inc., Ingram Periodicals Inc., Ingram International Inc., Ingram Library Services Inc., Spring Arbor Distributors Inc., Ingram Publisher Services Inc., Tennessee Book Company LLC, Coutts Information Services, and ICG Ventures Inc. For more information, visit www.ingramcontent.com.

Investment focus

Publishing, Content, Ad Targeting
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Byliner — Byliner helps you live life to the fullest, discover great reads and access current information on books, TV shows with the aims to satisfying all your curiosities
Synapsify — Synapsify is the developer of CORE, a content analytical tool powered by machine intelligence and natural language processing, that helps marketers, researchers and insight professionals get to the heart of their customers' stories faster and more accurately by identifying and recommending the content that matters. Named by Forbes as one ofthe Top 10 Data Startups to Watch and awarded the GigaOm Structure Readers Choice Award for Text Analytics.
PlastFormance — PlastFormance team is engaging in intensive research work to develop new chemical procedures for improvement of high-performance compounds. In 2014 we were able to produce injection moldable thermoplastics with significantly higher degree of fill-rate (e.g. highly thermal conductive compounds) for the first time.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Advertising
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States

Portfolio highlights

Dwolla — Transform your payments with Dwolla's unified solution. Streamline operations, save costs, and enhance security. Powering industries like insurance, lending, real estate, healthcare, and manufacturing. Schedule a consultation now.
Metamarkets — Metamarkets offers an interactive analytics platform for buyers and sellers of programmatic advertising. It gives its users the ability to see what’s happening in the media marketplaces where they operate and provides the high-speed processing power needed to gain a competitive edge. Customers such as Twitter, AOL, and Rubicon Project use theMetamarkets platform to drive their business performance through intuitive access to real-time information. Metamarkets puts the power of ad hoc data navigation and visualization into the hands of marketers. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
SimpleReach — Nativo delivers meaningful content experiences to consumers, automates the way marketers distribute and analyze the impact of branded content, and enables media companies to sell, deploy and optimize paid native content across their properties. The largest native advertising agency and technology platform.