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Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in United States

Last updated: Aug 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
SOSV	11
True Ventures	8
MATH Venture Partners	8
First Round Capital	7
Morado Ventures	7
Compound	7
Alumni Ventures	6
Lemnos VC	6
Donald C. Moore III	6
M25	6
RRE Ventures	6
Hyde Park Venture Partners	6
Streamlined Ventures	6
Great Oaks Venture Capital	6
Female Founders Fund	5
Tuesday Capital	5
Collaborative Fund	5
Pathbreaker Ventures	5
Khosla Ventures	5
Craft Ventures	5
SV Angel	5
Redpoint	5
General Catalyst	4
Andreessen Horowitz	4
Kleiner Perkins	4
Coatue	4
Jason Finger	4
Greylock	4
Valor Siren Ventures	4
Gordon Food Service	4
Chicago Ventures	4
Rally Ventures	4
Lightbank	4
M13	4
Bread and Butter Ventures	4
Reshape	4
Techstars Ventures	4
Gaingels	4
AgFunder	4
Michael Seibel	4
Primary Venture Partners	4
FJ Labs	4
Pioneer Fund	4
Dave McClure	3
Gutter Capital	3
TenOneTen Ventures	3
Siddhi Capital	3
Index Ventures	3
Steven Kamali	3
TIA Ventures	3

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
NovoNutrients — NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and additives for food and feed by developing proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems.
Sodex Innovations — Sodex Innovations is a company which is specialized in developing assistance-systems and automating-kits for excavators

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

StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
Smashing — Smashing, an invite-only app by Daily Reader Labs, tackles content overload and social media burnout
Enveda Biosciences — Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California.

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 — The future of medicine is not a cure, it is a map - a guide to the right care at any given moment. We are creating that map one person at a time. Sleuth gathers the expertise of parents - collecting, analyzing, and sharing their experiences - so that infants and toddlers get better care. Share your story at hellosleuth.com

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Didero — The AI agent for procurement
Rillet — Rillet develops accounting software to support financial management for high-growth companies. The solution covers the full spectrum of accounting and finance needs including customer invoicing, GAAP-compliant revenue recognition, automated bank reconciliations, accrual-based expense recognition, real-time SaaS metrics, and other analyticscapabilities. Rillet covers multiple entities, geographies, and currencies and allows for consolidated multi-currency reporting all embedded within one platform.
Clay — Clay's spreadsheet helps you find, enrich and act on people and company data from any source - without a line of code. Get started for free, today.

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

Portfolio highlights

Briefly Bio — The tool to make your lab work reproducible. Capture and share your lab work, clearly and consistently.
Plural Energy — Invest in high yielding clean energy infrastructure around the world on Plural. As little as $500 can deliver some of the highest returns on-chain
Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.

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

Kudos — Kudos is a retail company that offers natural disposable baby diapers with cotton liners. The company's chemical-free diapers are made of plant-based renewable materials, providing parents with natural diapers that suit babies' sensitive skin. It was founded by Amrita Saigal in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
Savvy Wealth — Savvy is the next-generation wealth management firm that pairs world-class advisors with modern software to help clients achieve their financial goals.

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.

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.
Redi.Health — Redi.Health is a healthcare technology company that develops health management platforms for patients. The company aims to connect patients with chronic diseases to patient support programs. These programs are created in partnership with pharmaceutical manufacturers and are always free to the patient.
Continuum — Simplify B2B returns, warranties, and repairs with Continuum; the only Returns Management Software designed for distributors and manufacturers.

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

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!
Nomad Health — Search travel nurse jobs nationwide. Earn more money, haggle-free. Receive expert support without the pushy tactics of a traditional recruiter.
HyperSpectral — HyperSpectral - Leading the evolution of spectral data and AI/ML

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
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

ComplyAI — ComplyAI improves up the building permit process by leveraging workflow automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure applications are comprehensive, correct, and simple to evaluate.
Augie Studio — 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!

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

Spot2 — Spot² operates as a proptech startup. Spot² holds the promise of enabling commercial real estate identification, validation, and lease closing in six times less time than usual.
Flip — Download Flip App for free today to discover, learn & shop your favorite brands all in one place. Share and monetize your video reviews.
Mermaid Char — Mermaid Chart, founded by Knut Sveidqvist and Open Core Ventures, emerged from the Mermaid open-source project. Lead developers from Mermaid have joined, strengthening the project's connection. Mermaid Chart bolsters open-source Mermaid development, enabling professional usage, while maintaining open-source functionality. It supports Mermaidsignificantly, but also offers commercial services to fund project growth and expand the developer team.

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

Atllas — Atllas is a tech-based real estate organization that leverages software tools to offer brokerage services.
Proxima — Proxima is a predictive data intelligence platform built to help consumer brands find new customers, maximize marketing performance, and scale profitably.
Heyday Health — Discover virtual and in-home primary care for seniors on Medicare Advantage. Same day appointments available

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
Rising Team — Plug and play team sessions that lead to deeper connection, personal growth, and team effectiveness
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kollegio — Your Personal College Admissions Counselor
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

Collaborative 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

Verne — Verne is a hydrogen optimized for heavy transport that allows vehicle operators to maintain existing operations and meet zero-emission targets.
Voyage Foods — Voyage Foods has made sustainable and scalable alternatives to foods that have current obstacles –environmental, social, and health alike. Our breakthrough technology provides endless opportunities to make delicious, nearly identical, versions of beloved foods, without compromising individual health or our planet. We replicated the world’s favoritefoods so that we can all enjoy them, forever.
Matereal — Matereal is a biobased polyurethane manufacturer that seeks to replace the toxic polyurethane industry and bring a new environmentally safe plastic to market.

  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

BurnBot — Burnbot is a tech forward provider of wildfire mitigation, vegetation management, and prescribed fire operations. We offer force-multiplying solutions that reduce the risk of wildfire damage for critical infrastructure, firefighting agencies, agriculture, private enterprise, public lands, conservati
Framework — We know consumer electronics can be better for you and for the environment. Unlike most products, ours are open for you to repair and upgrade
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

Eden — Developer of non-invasive health technology designed to democratize access to early cancer risk assessment.
Aven — Inventing new ways to save people money
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful text-to-animation platform. Animate characters for your video, game, movie, ad, Social or VR project simply by typing.

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

Portfolio highlights

Vanta — Vanta automates the complex and time-consuming process of SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI, and GDPR compliance certification. Automate your security monitoring in weeks instead of months.
Pearl — Pearl is shaping the future of dentistry with a suite of FDA-cleared dental AI solutions, which dentists, practices, labs and insurers use to elevate the efficiency, accuracy and consistency of dental care around the world.
Onehouse — Open storage, continuous pipelines, and automatic optimizations across table formats, engines, clouds. Automated data platform across Hudi, Delta, and Iceberg.

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

Lekko — Dynamically configure your software without redeployments. With Lekko, engineers can focus on executing and safely hand off daily reconfigurations.
Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.

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, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Coder — The #1 self-hosted cloud development environment with over 50M open source downloads. Discover faster build times & reduce cloud costs with Coder today.
Cyberhaven — DLP works for 1% of companies; fortunately there is Cyberhaven for the other 99%. Cyberhaven makes data protection simple, accurate, and comprehensive. With it's Data Detection and Response (DDR) platform, Cyberhaven automatically discovers and classifies data, provides continuous risk detection, delivers accurate blocking and incidentresponse, and improves user behavior.
Restate — Restate build workflows, event-driven applications, and distributed services in a fault-tolerant manner with durable async/await.

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aven — Inventing new ways to save people money
Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.

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

Idrx — IDRx is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming cancer care with intelligently designed precision combination therapies.
Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fizz — Fizz, the student debit card that builds credit. Build your credit while you earn amazing rewards! No hidden fees, no credit check & no security deposit.
CesiumAstro — CesiumAstro builds high-throughput, software-defined phased array communication payloads for airborne and in-orbit platforms.
Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.

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

Norm AI — Norm Ai provides solutions for sludge problem by enabling compliance teams to delegate tasks to Regulatory AI via high-level instructions, while at the same time validating the resulting work product.
Fantasy Chess — Fantasy Chess is a platform that allows users to pick teams of real-world chess players, track their performance in tournaments, and receive points based on their achievement.
Butterflies.AI — Where AIs and humans coexist

Jason Finger is the Co-Founder and Director of Salvo Health. He previously worked at LiveAuctioneers as an Executive Chairman. Jason Finger attended New York University School of Law.

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 — Results-driven software, merchant-focused support, and an experienced team.

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

Uplimit — Unlock the potential of your organization with scalable, high-impact learning experiences.
Dazz — Dazz is a cloud security repair service that takes a unique approach to cybersecurity.
Abnormal Security — Advanced email protection to prevent credential phishing, business email compromise, account takeover, and more.

Valor Siren Ventures is a joint venture created by Starbucks and Valor .

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cove — On a mission to end the world's reliance on plastic. Cove has developed the first fully biodegradable water bottle.
The Desire Company — In a world of fake influencers, anonymous reviews, and misleading information, honest advice matters more than ever before. Through our video-led platform, The Desire Co. gives consumers access to hands-on classes, easy to follow how tos and authentic product reviews from experts at the top of their game. Through access to Pro wisdom and advice wegive consumers the confidence to learn new skills, and make more informed purchase decisions.
The Cumulus Coffee Company — The Cumulus Machine brings premium cold coffee home. Enjoy nitro cold brew, cold brew, and cold espresso on demand, at the touch of a button. Upgrade to cold coffee perfection, with the ideal system for enjoying exceptional cold coffee at home.

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!

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

Part3 — Part3 simplifies construction administration for architects and engineers. Leverage AI to collaborate on submittals, RFIs, changes, field reporting & more.
GoodShip — Streamline your shipping with Goodship. Discover efficient, cost-effective solutions and optimize your logistics for better results.
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.

We unite a thriving ecosystem of emerging business technology.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

401GO — 401GO provides a comprehensive 401k solution for small businesses of all sizes, from a single to thousands of employees. Ongoing administration is automated with payroll integrations while compliance, government filings, notifications, and all other responsibilities are handled by the company.
Blackwell Security — Blackwell Security provides cybersecurity services, tooling, and advisory support that is critical to healthcare.
Allen Control Systems — Allen Control Systems is a defense technology company developing counter-drone robotic gun systems to usher in a new era of drone warfare and fundamentally alter battlefield economics.

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

Protiv — Protiv is a worker bonus program that creates a win/win for crews and management alike with a performance pay model that ties quality and efficiency to employee incentives.
Ohana — Ohana is a company that allows users to find short-term housing and roommates.
Pinch — Book a Chicago Med Spa Appointment with Expert Nurse Practitioners that Come to You. $50 Off Your 1st Appointment. 15% off Pinch Parties.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Maven AGI — Maven AGI is a technology company that focuses on the development of modern artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Their primary aim is to reimagine the customer support experience by leveraging AI to lower costs, improve speed and quality, and drive efficiency. Their AI solutions are designed to unlock human potential by enabling teams to be moreproductive and giving them time back to do the work only humans can do. They also offer a range of services including customer acquisition strategy and operational planning. The company has a team size of 50 employees, with roles ranging from product management to sales and marketing.
Ensemble AI — Discover how a novel representation learning algorithm can increase the predictive power of your data in any domain and with any model.
Form Health — FORM takes a medical approach to weight loss. Our telehealth program provides convenient weight loss expertise wherever you are. Let our clinical team guide you towards improved health.

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, SaaS, Food and Beverage
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.
Ducky — Ducky improves your team's efficiency with automation that helps customer support agents respond to tickets faster and more accurately.
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!

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 $$.
ReviewTailor — Our purpose is promoting equitable outcomes and we provide HR Performance Management solutions that are efficient, insightful, and truly empowering for all.
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

AfterHour — Join the best stock trading community with over $200M+ in verified positions from retail traders. Get trade signals, due diligence, and real-time alpha.
TestParty — TestParty is the most effective solution for organizations to achieve digital accessibility compliance in the WCAG for the ADA, EAA, Section 508, and more.
OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback

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

Sylvarum — We improve the performance of hydroponic crops by hacking their metabolic system.
BioDefense — BioDefense presents Bioshield, which is made from food to protect your food, and it maximizes safety, freshness, and self-life for any fresh produce.
Plantik Biosciences — Plantik develops resilient crops through next-generation plant engineering technologies.

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

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dripos — Dripos was crafted by restaurant operators like yourself to do it all. We aren't joking, everything from payroll & accounting to mobile ordering & marketing.
Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.
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.

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.
Naya Homes — Proptech, real estate, vacation and short-term rentals, consumer finance
Teleskope — Teleskope is a modern data protection platform that automates data security, privacy, and compliance at scale.

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

Formic Technologies — At Formic, we want to increase the collective output of humanity by making automation deployments trivial and easy. Every factory should have access to unlimited 'labor' through robotics and automation rentals. We are building technology, financing, operations and services to make this vision possible.Formic is a fast-growingventure-backed startup focused on unlocking robotic automation in labor-starved industries such as food and beverage, advanced manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and other industrial settings. We combine financial innovation with a firm understanding of what robotics are capable of, to enable manufacturing customers to scale up their manufacturing capacity quickly and with minimal risk.
nodaFi — nodaFi mounts smart-signs in spaces giving guests the ability to quickly report issues linked directly to their location. nodaFi closes the gap between the maintainers of a facility and its users. Once an issue is reported, staff can leverage the mobile and web applications to collaborate on solving the issue and facility managers can access acomprehensive dashboard to make data-driven decisions about their building operations. nodaFi is a San Francisco/Milwaukee based, Delaware C-Corp.
OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback

300+ YC alumni investing in the top YC startups

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Apriora — Conduct real-time interviews with your AI Interviewer
Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
Founder AI — Discover ready-to buy prospects, break into key accounts and accelerate deal cycles with YC-backed AI sales tool.

Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
Tribal — Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs whohave built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.
Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.

Gutter Capital partners with the world's finest entrepreneurs to tackle the world's biggest problems, with a focus on healthcare, education and climate change.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Soundtrace — Soundtrace offers a comprehensive digital hearing conservation solution that includes real-time noise monitoring, remote audiometric testing, training, and cloud-storage recordkeeping. Our advanced technology allows businesses to proactively protect their employees' hearing, ensuring a safe and compliant workplace. With Soundtrace, you can rest assured that your team's hearing health is in good hands.
Simply Homes — Sell your home fast for cash - As-is. No repairs. No updates. No showings. Pay zero fees.
Treehouse — Treehouse is an electrical contractor for the 21st century. We offer a one-stop shop for EV charging, home batteries, and electrical services.

We invest in technical teams reimagining major industries

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RagaAI Inc. — The most comprehensive testing platform for AI.
ProjectMark — A new way to create AEC proposals and bids. Customized micro sites for AEC clients.
CoPilot — CoPilot pairs you with a 1:1 coach to make long-term positive changes for a healthier life.

Siddhi Capital is the growth equity partner for convention-crushing food and beverage companies.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Liberation Labs — Liberation Labs believe that by innovating technology, It can free the world from the costs of industrialized agriculture and unlock a new era of accessible, healthy foods. The mission is to make precision fermentation by commercializing purpose-built manufacturing facilities for industrial biotech.
Mush Foods — Mush Foods is an Israeli-based food tech company, growing edible mushroom mycelium to create innovative and sustainable animal-free protein as an ingredient for the food and beverage industry. We harness the fantastic power and innate intelligence of mushrooms to face future global challenges and provide sustainable groundbreaking food solutions tothe food of the future.
Momofuku Goods — Established by Chef & Founder David Chang, Momofuku includes restaurants, home cooking products, and foods for nationwide shipping.

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

Cloover — Cloover provides a flexible financing solution that allows you to rent renewable technologies and make savings from day 1, completely risk and worry free!
Siro — Game Film for Field Sales. Siro is your AI-powered sales coach, helping you save time and coach more effectively. World-class performance requires world-class coaching. You have never been able to coach your team like this.
Tofu — Tofu offers a single platform for generating hyper-personalized, multichannel campaigns at scale that deliver opportunities for B2B marketing teams.

A serial investor and entrepreneur with a passion for hospitality, restaurants and technology.

Investment focus

Restaurants, Hospitality, Food and Beverage
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Bbot — Bbot is a restaurant and hospitality tech startup dedicated to simplifying and improving the ordering and payments process. Bbot offers a configurable solution for restaurants, bars, hotels, cinemas, and other hospitality organizations to create digital menus and provide guest-controlled, contactless ordering, and payment.It was founded in 2017by Greg Jaworski, Luke Allen, and Steven Simoni and is based in Astoria, New York.
Kitchclub — Now more than ever food drives employee experience and company culture. Kitchclub was created to provide a convenient and streamlined way to feed your team. Powered by our tech enabled platform, we offer our clients a variety of menu choices from any of our family of brands, delivered together in one seamless order. Kitchclub’s customizableapproach to catering and group orders simplifies the logistics of bringing your team together for a meal.
Blanket — A work management platform designed and built for the multi unit restaurant operator

Seed-stage venture capital fund, based in NYC, Investing in extraordinary companies led by high-execution teams. We deploy in-depth customer research to assess product/market fit. The entrepreneurs we partner with are dedicated to creating powerful, customer-relevant solutions to problems worth solv

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Gipper — Gipper is a content creation platform for schools that makes graphic design quick and easy.
SION — Track and manage your travel commissions effortlessly with Sion. Our platform simplifies complex commission splits, offers real-time booking data, and speeds up payment reconciliation. Built for both in-house and independent advisors.
ShotQuality — The goal of ShotQuality is to dispel the luck of the game and deliver the expected results based on the accuracy of each shot’s quality, rather than just make or miss. There are over 90 different variables involved in calculating ShotQuality. Overall, we have over 60 NCAA D-1 teams subscribed including the likes of Auburn, Arizona, and StanfordUniversity

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