Get 250+ investors tailored to your startup

Invest in your industry and stage
Emails & contact info included
Excel and CSV export
Automatically

Trusted by 3,000+ startups

Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in United States

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Restaurants startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Restaurants companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in United States

Investor	Restaurants United States investments
MATH Venture Partners	8
True Ventures	8
First Round Capital	7
Morado Ventures	7
Compound	7
Streamlined Ventures	6
Hyde Park Venture Partners	6
M25	6
Lemnos VC	6
Donald C. Moore III	6
RRE Ventures	6
Great Oaks Venture Capital	6
SVA	5
Craft Ventures	5
Tuesday Capital	5
Pathbreaker Ventures	5
Khosla Ventures	5
Redpoint	5
Collaborative Fund	5
Female Founders Fund	5
Lightbank	4
Rally Ventures	4
Pioneer Fund	4
Greylock	4
M13	4
General Catalyst	4
Gordon Food Service	4
Coatue	4
Bread and Butter Ventures	4
Andreessen Horowitz	4
Primary Venture Partners	4
Chicago Ventures	4
Alumni Ventures	4
Jason Finger	4
Reshape	4
Techstars Ventures	4
Gaingels	4
AgFunder	4
FJ Labs	4
Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures	3
Imaginary Ventures	3
Clear Current Capital	3
Michael Seibel	3
Felicis	3
Wavemaker Partners	3
TDF Ventures	3
Wayne Chang	3
Marc Rowan	3
Cherrystone Angel Group	3
PS27 Ventures	3

Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.

Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.

Investor list

Here at Math Venture Partners, we partner with founding teams to take their vision further and grow with greater certainty.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Reposite — Reposite is the industry-leading planning tool that fuels supplier discovery on our B2B marketplace and simplifies coordination for group travel & event planners. Get Started Free! Book a Demo.
WorkTorch — QuickHire is a career discovery platform for the service economy workforce. We partner with job seekers to find career fulfillment by finding the right job and advancement opportunities. This unique approach helps us provide a better engaged and aligned talent pool for employers.
Sleuth — Sleuth is where parents share hard-fought lessons and specific data about symptoms, diagnostic approaches, recommended experts, and treatments.

A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

AccessPay — AccessPay develops and offers cloud-based payment and cash management solutions. The company’s cloud-based service provides ease of integration with any ERP, TMS, or other back-end systems. It also enables the straight-through processing of domestic and international payments via BACS, FPS, CHAPS, and SWIFT. By connecting an organization’s backoffice systems with its banks and providing a consolidated view of all banking relationships, AccessPay gives corporate enterprises real-time visibility of all cash balances and offers a detailed analysis, which helps financial professionals maximize the use of working capital. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Synadia Communications — Synadia | Secure, decentralized, secure global utility, powered by NATS for IoT, microservices and all digital systems.
Lykos Therapeutics — Lykos is aspiring to challenge the status quo through the development of novel therapies and therapeutic approaches to treat mental health conditions.

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.

Morado Ventures is focused on high-growth, seed-stage technology companies, with particular emphasis on “Data-fueled” businesses. The firm currently invests in Artificial Intelligence, Data Infrastructure, Industrial Internet, Robotics & Autonomy, Computer Vision, and Health.Morado Ventures was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto,California, United States.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.
Headroom — Headroom Embedded is the best way to bring intelligent video conferencing to your platform. Give your users focused space to connect, understand and remember everything.
Everestlabs.AI — Everest Labs uses AI analytics to implement customized software and robotics MRF solutions recover more, exceed government standards and help manufacturers meet their recycling responsibilities.

A thesis-driven, research-centric investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Stepwell Care — Stepwell Care provides a path to sustainable recovery, based on evidence and tailored to you.
Pear Bio — Pear Bio uses organ-on-a-chip and computer vision technology to recreate, visualize, and compute the human tumor microenvironment and its effects on cancer progression. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London.
Orbital Materials — Orbital Materials: Building novel solutions for clean air, water and energy with AI.

Streamlined Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm. We invest in visionary founders who are building the next generation of transformational technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Flip — Download Flip App for free today to discover, learn & shop your favorite brands all in one place. Share and monetize your video reviews.
Activeloop — Deep Lake. Vector Database for All AI Data. Deploy Anywhere. Fine-Tune Your Models with the #1 Data Loader for PyTorch. Trusted by Google, Intel, & Waymo
Mermaid Chart — Building the next generation of smart diagramming for enterprise teams. Easily create and collaborate on complex diagrams from text.

Hyde Park Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on high-growth, mid-continent technology startups. We seek companies with an exceptional founding team and fast-growth potential, looking to raise a first or second round of capital.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Aug X Labs — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
Dentologie — With convenient dentist office locations throughout Chicago, Dentologie is here to provide a stress-free dental experience. Book your visit today!
InvestNext — Create sharable offering pages, collect digital signatures, and pay your investors automatically.

M25 is an early-stage venture firm based in Chicago, investing solely in companies headquartered in the Midwest.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Chipp — Turn prompts into products. Build, share and sell your AI tools. Simply copy and paste to embed them into your existing products and services.
Hummingbirds — Our platform helps businesses find & work with hyper-local content creators and influencers on-demand. Drive awareness and growth by working with our hummingbirds today!
Corral Technologies — Corral Technologies offers an easy to use virtual fence system. Allowing ranchers to move, track, and analyze every single cow at the touch of a button.

Lemnos VC Provides Venture Capital And Private Equity Principals.

Investment focus

Robotics, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.
FORT Robotics — FORT Robotics enables OEMs & end users to build and operate smart machines safely and securely, while maximizing productivity and reducing risks.
Duality — Digital twin simulator and enterprise metaverse that enable teams to close data gaps in machine learning and behavior gaps in robotics & workflow automation.

Donald C. Moore III is the Partner at DOM Food Group.

Investment focus

Restaurants, Robotics, Industrial Automation
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Zitti — Zitti is a first-of-its-kind payment and credit platform built for food industry management and vendors.
Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.
Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.

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.

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

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.

Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to the craft of building great companies. Craft has brought together a rare combination of entrepreneurial experience and investor acumen. Over the past twenty years, David, Bill, Jeff and Sky have built and invested in some of the most iconic companies of this generation.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Respell — Respell combines no-code workflows, an agent-driven chat experience, and suggestions so you can make magic with AI.
Knock — Knock is flexible, reliable notifications infrastructure that's built to scale with you. Use our APIs to engage your users, power cross-channel workflows, and manage notification preferences.
Simplify — Simplify is a common application for jobs & internships. Autofill job applications anywhere on the web, get notified when new jobs open, & seamlessly track your applications.

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

  Pursue The Uncharted Path Pathbreaker invests in specialized teams solving hard engineering problems. We lead or co-invest in Pre-Seed & Seed rounds of wildly ambitious new companies in pursuit of generational impact.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

PaintJet — PaintJet is the most advanced commercial painting contractor, providing efficient and hassle-free services. With our revolutionary technology, you can save time and money while achieving a perfect finish. Experience the future of painting firsthand. Get an instant quote.
Sidework Solutions — The world's first fully automated cocktail maker. Our product makes entire orders at the touch of a button so you can deliver quality customer experience all the time.
Delivery Collective — Delivery Collective means we can order directly from our favorite restaurants. When ordering your food through delivery apps, you pay more in price markup and fees. You can save yourself and the restaurant lots of money by ordering directly.

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Metaplane — Metaplane is a data observability platform that helps data teams know when things break, what went wrong, and how to fix it.
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.
Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.

Redpoint partners with visionary entrepreneurs to create new markets & redefine existing ones. We invest in startups across seed, early & growth phases.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Ideogram — Helping people become more creative.
Abridge — For patients, clinicians, and enterprise, our audio-based solutions capture the details and summarize medical conversations, anywhere care happens.
Foundry — Elastic cloud infrastructure built for machine learning.

Collab Fund is a leading source of capital for entrepreneurs pushing the world forward.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Airhive — Revolutionising carbon removal with our patented technology. Rapid scaling & industrial-based solutions in London, UK.
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.
Anthro Energy — Anthro Energy combines advanced materials with battery components to create the highest performance flexible battery.

Female Founders Fund is a seed stage venture fund that invests exclusively in female-founded companies. We believe strongly in the exponential power of exceptional female talent. We invest in e-commerce, media, platforms, advertising and web-enabled services businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

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
Suma Wealth — SUMA is a revolutionary financial wellness company with the mission to engage, educate, and empower the Latinx community via a holistic approach of Digital Media, Experiences, and FinTech. By creating culturally relevant content, virtual experiences, and providing financial tools that demystify and reimagine financial wellness throughentertainment, we aim to become the trusted source to help Latinos own their economic power, overcome financial challenges, and better prepare for a more prosperous future.
Hearth — A new tool for family management and productivity, made to lighten the load of organization for busy families

Lightbank VC is a $380M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k - $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr (NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social(NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Clearcover, Extend and Expel.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Blueprint — Blueprint is a digital platform that helps clinicians implement measurement-based care in their practice through automated, personalized assessments to enhance client outcomes.
Protiv — Inspire Human Potential.
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.

We unite a thriving ecosystem of emerging business technology.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Oxide Computer Company — Servers as they should be. Hardware, with the software baked in, for running infrastructure at scale. Shipping early 2022.
Spec — Spec provides security for your online customer journey with end-to-end protection and the power to automatically stop AI-attackers in their tracks
PayGround — PayGround provides healthcare businesses of all sizes a modernized payment solution in which they can easily upload their A/R and trigger digital-first requests for payment (via a mix of email/text/U.S. Mail). Patients can make payments in just a matter of a few seconds.

300+ YC alumni investing in the top YC startups

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

dili — Dili is a deal platform built for venture funds and private equity. We use AI to contextualize new deals and help you make better decision faster.
Flower Labs — A unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. Federate any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language.
Assort Health — Our call center generative AI reduces hold time, decreases dropped calls, and contains costs while driving appointment revenue.

Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Fermat Commerce — The Next Wave of Commerce. Working with brands to 3x their ad spend results through custom, content-native storefronts
WarpStream Labs — WarpStream Labs offers an object storage-based drop-in solution for Apache Kafka that does not require local drives.
Bedrock Security — At Bedrock Security, frictionless data security means freedom to embrace data growth safely, without slowing your business down.

M13 provides strategic counsel and operational expertise to help founders grow their companies. Through Fund II, M13 will expand its focus to emerging technologies driving change in consumer behavior over the next decade. Founded in 2016 with offices in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Code — Code is a Canadian payment platform provider that makes it simple for web developers to collect modest payments from consumers worldwide.
Layla — Find, plan & book your next trip in seconds using AI. Layla will give you personalized ideas for where to go, help you plan an itinerary & book hotels & flights.
Upwards — Every day, Upwards matches thousands of families with daycares, nannies, babysitters, preschools, and caregivers that provide safe, affordable, high-quality child care.

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
Summer — Summer partners with employers help their populations navigate and reduce student loan debt. Summer is a certified B-Corp.
Alsym Energy — Alsym™ Energy has developed an innovative low-cost, high-performance rechargeable energy storage technology that’s free of lithium and cobalt, and ideal for applications such as stationary storage, maritime shipping, and electric vehicles.By using readily available, inherently non-toxic and non-flammable energy storage materials, Alsym is workingto deliver wide-duration storage with performance comparable to lithium ion at a much lower cost, speeding the pace of decarbonization for people around the world.

Gordon Food Service is a prominent family-owned food distributor in Grand Rapids, MI, serving restaurants, healthcare, and schools.

Investment focus

Software, Hospitality, Restaurants
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Boostly — Boostly automatically collects & analyzes customer data for restaurants from a variety of sources (including POS, in-store kiosks, online ordering, loyalty programs, 3rd party delivery orders, WiFi, and QR codes) and then leverages text messaging to drive incremental visits from those customers. Boostly then brings new customers to therestaurant and generates high quality reviews & feedback.Boostly's platform is completely automated & learns from the engagement of consumers to have smarter targeting on a weekly basis.
86 Repairs — 86 Repairs is the repair and maintenance management platform built for the restaurant industry. Spend less time and money with our tech-enabled solution.
Here Here Market — Here Here Market brings you curated food gift boxes and delicious artisan food products from up-and-coming local creators. Discover hidden culinary gems now!

Coatue is a lifecycle investment platform focused on turning big ideas in world-shaping technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Monzo — Spend, save and manage your money, all in one place. Open a full UK bank account from your phone, for free.
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Glean — Glean is the work assistant with intuition. Find exactly what you need, right when you need it. So you and your team can get big things done.

Bread and Butter Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Minnesota, the Bread and Butter State, investing globally while leveraging our state and region’s unparalleled access to strong corporate connections, commercial opportunities, and industry expertise for the benefit of our teams. Led by Brett Brohl and Mary Grove, we investin founders at the seed stage across foodtech, digital health and enterprise saas.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Chiyo — Fertility, pregnancy & postpartum meal delivery for new mothers. Eastern food therapy meets nutritional science, we use whole, nutrient-dense ingredients to help alleviate or avoid pregnancy symptoms like morning sickness, heartburn, gestational diabetes and more. OBGYN recommended, nutritionist curated, ready-to-eat.
SocialCrowd — SocialCrowd automates employee incentives by tracking progress towards goals, reminding them of the work they have left, and instantly rewarding employees – so you can save time and stay focused!
First Bite — Foodservice prospecting, tracking, and forecasting, all in one easy to use platform. Find menu and location data for every restaurant in the country.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pulpos — Pulpos es el mejor punto de Venta para tu Tienda. Crear tu catalogo online, gestionar tu inventario y facturacion en linea nunca fue tan facil. El sistema ideal para tu negocio, a un precio accesible.
Lil Snack — New pop-culture games & puzzles every day!
Splitting Me — Welcome to Splitting Me, the first technology startup to apply blockchain technology to the field of real estate investment in the direction of NFT in the world.Through our workflow, Splitting Me allows users to own as much real estate as they want without the declaration to any individual or institution. With blockchain technology and the Law ofBusiness, we sure that our clients’ properties ownership is completely legal and confidential."In fact, because each investor does not have sufficient financial capability, there are many cases of people pooling their funds into a “pooled funds” to invest in the same real estate. Although they are acquainted, for some reason, the person holding the pool disappears or goes bankrupt, the remaining people will lose all their money. And we are the best solution to this story."More than that, let discover me on our official website: https://splitting.me/

Early-stage investors in NYC startups like Jet, Chief, Mirror, K Health, Noom, Latch, Alloy, and more.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Mexico, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Etched.ai — Transformers etched into silicon. By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we're creating the world's most powerful servers for transformer inference.
Bedrock Ocean Exploration — Bedrock is building smarter, more efficient ways to collect and manage seafloor data.
Marker Learning — The wait is over: we provide a clinically valid, professional learning disability assessment and action plan in just one month

Chicago Ventures leads seed investments in overlooked teams.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Leverage — Answering the Fundamental Question: "Where
Part3 — Part3 makes construction administration simple for Architects and Engineers. Collaborate with the speed and precision of AI on all Construction administration tasks including submittal reviews, RFI response, Changes, Instructions, Field Reporting & more.
GreenLite Technologies — GreenLite makes getting a construction permit fast, predictable, and transparent. Let the GreenLite Platform handle your permitting needs so you can focus on growing your business.

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cyvl.ai — Next-gen infrastructure asset management for governments and civil engineers. Powered by Cyvl's 3D scanning sensors and artificial intelligence algorithms.
Picogrid — Picogrid builds a unified platform for autonomous systems. Connect, command, and monitor sensors and autonomous systems at global scale.
Century Health — Accelerating access to breakthrough treatments, with the power of AI. Century Health does the heavy lifting to rapidly get you the insight you need, all while supporting the research community and protecting patient privacy.

Jason Finger is the founder of Salvo Health.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Axion Ray — AI platform & predictive digital thread for engineering program management. Currently in stealth mode until public launch in Q4 2021. Axion enables leaders to help their teams do what they do best: creative work.
Constructor — The only site search and product discovery built for ecommerce KPIs. Delivering superior experiences with AI, NLP, data and personalization.
StayTuned — through results-driven software, merchant-focused support, and an experienced team.

Reshape is a next-generation investor in technology-enabled companies that need real estate to scale.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Colombia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MedsNow — SaaS for independent pharmacies
Ansa — The closed loop platform built for your customers.
Good Weird — A new genderless approach to beauty. Be you, it's good

Techstars Ventures (formerly Bullet Time Ventures) is the venture capital arm of Techstars. Bullet Time Ventures is a $150 million fund based in Boulder, Colorado.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Chargerzilla — Search and Book EV Charging stations near you. List your charger with us and start earning $$.
Season Share — There are 3.2M season tickets holders in the U.S. and 70% of season ticket holders share their tickets with other fans. We are the only mobile app that enables fans to buy, group, split and share season tickets to live sporting events. Season Share was founded by three sports fans with deep ties in tech, entertainment, sports and ticketing. Ourtechnology is ready to disrupt the stagnant ticketing industry, increasing team and league revenue while making the fan experience easier and more realistic for today’s consumer. Let’s change the game together.
Machinery Partner — Machinery Partner is a marketplace buying heavy machinery and equipment directly from manufacturers. Browse our range of construction and mining equipment.

Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of diversity, inclusive of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.
Summer — Summer partners with employers help their populations navigate and reduce student loan debt. Summer is a certified B-Corp.
Mermaid Chart — Building the next generation of smart diagramming for enterprise teams. Easily create and collaborate on complex diagrams from text.

AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Varaha — Varaha generates carbon credits through its tech solutions.
Neatleaf — Sustainable agriculture with optimal yields through data-driven understanding and comprehensive automation for everyone.
Umaro Foods — Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Mama — Hispanic super market with ready-to-eat food, frozen goods, and Venezuelan snacks at a great price. Delivered to your door across the US. From pantry to tropical fruits and homemade desserts, it's all in here!
ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.
Midas — U.S. Treasuries, On-chain.

O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) is in the business of funding disruptors, innovators, and hackers of the status quo. From open source to the early days of the web and its recent resurgence, O'Reilly Media has played a key role as trend spotter and advocate for putting world-changing technologies on the map. OATV effort is to bring thelegacy, resources, and relationships of O'Reilly to each investment they make.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pachama — Harnessing AI to drive carbon capture and protect global forests
Videra Health — Videra Health often provides vital signs, such as heart rate, blood pressure, etc. The richness of the whole can drive insight into the relationship with the providers, medications, and treatment programs. Videra Health aims to empower patients and healthcare providers through AI-powered care-related analytics and insights to improve patientengagement, develop treatment plans, track symptoms, evaluate progress, monitor medication responses and safety, and achieve positive outcomes.
Impart Security — Real-time API Security spanning discovery, monitoring, and enforcement.

We invest in iconic, generationally defining brands and the technology businesses that empower them through thoughtful capital investment.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Consumer Goods
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

10Beauty — The only 5-step manicure machine in the world.
LUCKY F*CK — LUCKY F*CK is a better-for-you energy drink company.
Lone Palm Labs — Lone Palm Labs is a consumer technology company focused on social applications for friends and family. Lone Palm Labs currently building a pre-release product called Retro, a friends-only photo journal for moments big and small.

Proprietary deal flow and valuable strategic partners. Focus investments in the plant based food/clean meat space at Seed/Series A level. Social impact with focus on ROI. Initial capital close 2/15/18. Fund I is now closed to new investors. Fund II held first close on 4/15/21 and is open to new investors.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tupu — Tupu engages in the manufacture and supply of mushroom-based foods.
Nosh Biofoods — We create nutritional and highly functional proteins from non-GMO fungi. Our proprietary ferementation process is minimal, scalable, and sustainable.
New School Foods — Whole-muscle, plant-based seafood

Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Awesomic — Get matched with the best-fit designer on a fixed budget with no stress. Place a design task and see the first results on the next business day. Start today!
Artifact — Artifact helps capture important memories with ease by creating personal podcasts with the people of customers choice.
Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Brevian — AI for enterprise business users
Metaplane — Metaplane is a data observability platform that helps data teams know when things break, what went wrong, and how to fix it.
Salvo Health — Salvo Health is a digital care team for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), GERD, SIBO, and other chronic gut health conditions. Sign up today!

Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

MFast — MFast operates as a fintech platform. MFAST is a brand under Digital Payment Solution Joint Stock Company - DigiPay JSC.
Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
Serve Robotics — Why move a 2-pound burrito in a 2-ton car? Meet Serve, the future of sustainable, self-driving delivery.

TDF Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm with offices in Washington DC and Silicon Valley. We focus on startups that serve enterprise markets within infrastructure, software, and services (IaaS, SaaS, XaaS). We invest from a $150M permanent pool of capital and are currently investing out of Fund IV. We believe in the power of technology to improve lives and support development initiatives via TDF Foundation in parallel to our venture activity.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Arpio — Get instant disaster recovery protection for your AWS workloads. Protect your business from ransomware and data loss. Recover in minutes from any outage.
Osano — Osano simplifies privacy compliance by helping organizations build, manage, and scale their privacy program. Become compliant with the GDPR, CPRA, and more.
Rewst — Rewst is an automation and integration platform that streamlines workflows with easy-to-use tools, enabling MSPs to increase their productivity and efficiency.

Wayne Chang (born August 3, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist. He is best known for founding Crashlytics, which in little over a year was acquired by Twitter for over $100 million in 2013 (later valued at $259.5 million at Twitter's IPO), creating i2hub, a popular filesharing network, his seedinvestments that include companies like JetSmarter, Draftkings, and Gusto, and his lawsuit against the Winklevoss brothers, who were famously depicted in The Social Network movie.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.
CryptoTaxCalculator — Online Crypto Tax Calculator with support for over 400 integrations. $49 for all financial years. Money Back Guarantee.

Mr. Rowan is the CEO and a co-founder of Apollo Global Management, LLC and Managing Partner of, inter alia, Apollo Management, L.P. Mr. Rowan currently serves on the boards of directors of Apollo Global Management, LLC, Athene Holding Ltd., Caesars Entertainment Corp. and Caesars Acquisition Co. He has previously served on the boards of directorsof the general partner of AP Alternative Assets, L.P., AMC Entertainment, Inc., Beats Music, Cablecom GmbH, Culligan Water Technologies, Inc., Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., Countrywide PLC, Furniture Brands International, Mobile Satellite Ventures, LLC, National Cinemedia, Inc., National Financial Partners, Inc., New World Communications, Inc., Norwegian Cruise Lines, Quality Distribution, Inc., Samsonite Corporation, SkyTerra Communications Inc., Unity Media SCA, Vail Resorts, Inc. and Wyndham International, Inc.Mr. Rowan is also active in charitable activities. He is a founding member and Chairman of the Youth Renewal Fund and a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Mr. Rowan also serves on the boards of directors of Jerusalem Online and the New York City Police Foundation. Mr. Rowan graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business with a BS and an MBA in Finance.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Media and Entertainment
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
United States, Israel, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.
Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.
SpringHill Entertainment — SpringHill is one of the video-production companies created by LeBron James and Maverick Carter. SpringHill develops and produces entertainment in partnership with the biggest brands and platforms in the world. Our films and original series can be found everywhere, from Netflix, HBO, Disney+ and Apple+ to CBS, NBC, ABC and ESPN.

Cherrystone Angel Group, founded in 2004 and comprised of over 60 Rhode Island members, is Rhode Island’s first organized angel investment group. Its members invest in early stage, typically pre-revenue companies, across the tri-state region. While it is the entrepreneur who drives the company — and on whom ultimate success depends —Cherrystone believes that good advice and focused expertise are vital to the success of any business venture. When Cherrystone invests, it not only brings money to the table but industry knowledge and connections that will make its business succeed. All its members are experienced and qualified investors who have either built their own companies or have extensive experience launching new business ventures. Their backgrounds include creating or working with manufacturing, distribution, technology, and service companies.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Jaia Robotics — Aquatic data collection is our passion using micro sized low cost hybrid autonomous surface vehicles and underwater vehicles.
Lenoss Medical — Lenoss Medical engages in providing solutions that support the natural osseous healing process. They disrupt the treatment of spinal fractures with the osteopearl VBA system, a viable, minimally invasive, and cement-free technology that utilizes the natural healing properties of healthy bone.
Advanced Silicon Group — Advanced Silicon Group operates a nanotechnology company dedicated to commercializing silicon nanotechnology. The company was founded in 2015 with the goal of commercializing silicon nanotechnology developed by ASG employees.

We provide venture capital and advisory services to driven and passionate founders at the critical early stages of their business.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Skillcycle — SkillCycle is a learning-first talent development company driving worklife success for employees and business results for companies.
NotedSource — NotedSource helps companies discover and collaborate more effectively with academia and opinion leaders to accelerate people development & product innovation.
PayAll Payment Systems — A new Cross Border Processor offering Correspondent Banking as a Service and enabling 24x7 Instant Cross Border Payments

Investors by industry

Media (entertainment)

EdTech

Consumer

Climate