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Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in United States in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in January 2025

Investor	Restaurants United States investments
SOSV	11
MATH Venture Partners	8
True Ventures	8
First Round Capital	7
Compound	7
Great Oaks Venture Capital	7
Morado Ventures	7
Streamlined Ventures	6
Donald C. Moore III	6
Alumni Ventures	6
Lemnos VC	6
Redpoint	6
M25	6
RRE Ventures	6
Hyde Park Venture Partners	6
Pathbreaker Ventures	5
Craft Ventures	5
Khosla Ventures	5
Female Founders Fund	5
Collaborative Fund	5
SV Angel	5
Tuesday Capital	5
Coatue	4
Jason Finger	4
Greylock	4
Gordon Food Service	4
Bread and Butter Ventures	4
Gaingels	4
Rally Ventures	4
Techstars Ventures	4
Lightbank	4
Primary Venture Partners	4
Pioneer Fund	4
Andreessen Horowitz	4
Kleiner Perkins	4
M13	4
Groove Capital	4
Max Mullen	4
Chicago Ventures	4
Clear Current Capital	4
TIA Ventures	4
Reshape	4
Michael Seibel	4
AgFunder	4
Valor Siren Ventures	4
Gutter Capital	4
FJ Labs	4
General Catalyst	4
PS27 Ventures	4
Wayne Chang	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

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

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

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, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Team-GPT — Team-GPT helps companies use any AI model, find the right use cases for it, keep data safe, organize workflows, and track results. It speed up work with pre-made prompts, use cases, and editable AI Pages. Team-GPT is built with enterprise security, privacy, and compliance in mind from day one.
Chain Cat — Chain Cat is a discount marketplace for local life services. The company has developed a "digital + local life" life empowerment system that covers housing, food, transportation, and apparel, relying on key technologies including big data summary analysis, intelligent screening, and AI clever algorithms.
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.

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

Reducto — Reducto is an API that provides high quality data ingestion for large language models (LLMs). It works with any vector database or embedding system. It can parse PDFs, Excel, PowerPoint, and more.
Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
Prepared — We are harnessing the power of everyday technology to enhance the way that people communicate during emergencies.

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

SuppCo — SuppCo helps people find health supplements, manage supplement routines, and track their health.
Briefly Bio — The tool to make your lab work reproducible. Capture and share your lab work, clearly and consistently.
Aifleet — aifleet is a tech-powered trucking company based in Austin, TX. The company is using proprietary technology to rebuild and humanize trucking for hard-working drivers.

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

Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
Amulet — Amulet is shining a light on invisible threats in our food system. Amulet has two core brands: - Allergy Amulet helps consumers determine whether their foods are safe by detecting potentially life-threatening allergenic ingredients. - Amulet Scientific equips businesses and manufacturers with tools to help ensure the safety of their food supplychain. Learn more: www.allergyamulet.com www.amuletscientific.com
Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.

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

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.
one.bio — BCD Bioscience is an emerging biotechnology spinout from UC Davis that creates ingredients for food and biopharmaceutical applications. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Davis, California, United States.
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.

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

FLYR — Helping airlines and hospitality businesses around the globe improve revenue performance, reduce cost, and modernize their e-commerce experience.
Cimphony — Cimphony is revolutionizing the legal landscape for businesses! Our cutting-edge Gen AI technology platform, combined with our legal expert providers, offers fixed price or à la carte legal solutions that are up to 10x faster, more affordable, and predictably priced than traditional law firms. Our mission? To supercharge your business'sgrowth by delivering full-stack legal support for every stage of your journey - from incorporation and launch to commercial contracts, fundraising, data privacy, and employment compliance. With Cimphony, you can ditch the tedious legal legwork and laser-focus on what matters most: building your dream company. Cimphony is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Mesa — Earn points on your mortgage. With the first ever Homeowner Membership Platform, Mesa makes homeownership more affordable and rewarding. Join Mesa and get rewarded for your home.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Spintly — Integrate the Spintly Smart Access control system with your apps and software, without having to toggle between multiple devices & software.
Torch Dental — Torch Dental develops an all-in-one technology designed to meet dental practices' supply ordering and inventory management needs. Torch Dental simplifies and streamlines the ordering process, allowing dentists to focus on their patients.
Mojave Energy Systems — Mojave the latest in HVAC innovation. Help the Climate. Reduce Energy Use. Improve Indoor Comfort. Perform Reliably. Lower Costs.

Lemnos VC they focuses on engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and financial capital, turning ideas into successful hardware companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pico MES — Pico MES is a computer software company that offers computer software designed for factory and machinery control. Its driven by its mission is to empower small & mid-sized manufacturers in the United States to take control of their own continuous improvement journey. Using our innovative platform and suite of tools, manufacturers collect andharness the power of data, gaining valuable insights, and taking control of their processes.
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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Boon — Boon uses AI to find and book the most profitable business to book head hauls and back hauls. Leverage Boon's robust AI capabilities to automate order processing and updates from phone calls, emails, attachments, and EDI.
Nuon — Deploy your app into customer cloud accounts and make it feel like SaaS. Unlock sensitive customers and integrate with customer data, networks and LLMs in minutes.
Parafin — Parafin provides you with an end-to-end solution to offer one-click financing to your sellers.

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

Pear Commerce — Pear is the retail ecommerce platform that connects omnichannel CPG brands to retailers, combining shoppable media, where-to-buy, and closed-loop data to help strategically capture greater share of wallet.
Continuum — Simplify B2B returns, warranties, and repairs with Continuum; the only Returns Management Software designed for distributors and manufacturers.
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!

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

Avina — Signals-based AI copilot for B2B sellers that's with them from their first meeting to their last email. Extract buying signals, get real-time account alerts, draft the perfect communication, prep for every meeting, and get questions answered.
TrueX — TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets.
Autoplay — Autoplay is an AI-powered platform that improves digital adoption by offering real-time, context-aware guidance. It learns from user interactions and software interfaces, adapting to help enterprises optimize usage, streamline workflows, and boost engagement across teams.

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, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

FinOpsly — Maximize your cloud ROI with FinOpsly. Our AI-driven platform empowers organizations with smart cost management, fostering collaboration across teams for over 32% in savings. Simplify your cloud strategy with FinOpsly.
Zengines — Zengines is an entirely new way of converting data. We automate the entire data conversion process end-to-end, speeding your system migrations, and quickening your digital transformation initiatives.
Slip Robotics — Auto-load and auto-unload any truck in 5 minutes with SlipBots to drive 10X speed, safety, and savings across the supply chain. With Slip, truckers don't wait and forklift drivers don't risk it.

  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

Slip Robotics — Auto-load and auto-unload any truck in 5 minutes with SlipBots to drive 10X speed, safety, and savings across the supply chain. With Slip, truckers don't wait and forklift drivers don't risk it.
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
General Galactic — General Galactic revolutionize the energy supply chain by producing synthetic hydrocarbons from air and waste CO2 using renewable electricity, making clean fuel affordable and accessible. General Galactic is developing technology to enable democratization of access to critical fuels at the site of need through modular hardware.

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

Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.
First Resonance — First Resonance presents ION Factory OS, factory operating system -transforming how companies gain productivity, efficiency, and scalability through digitized workflows that change the speed and quality of manufacturing.
Upwind Security — Upwind Security creates and develops software and online tools that ensures security of cloud infrastructure. It manages runtime environments of the cloud platform.

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.Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech, digital health, medtech anddiagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technology.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zetwerk — Zetwerk offers high-quality production, globally competitive costs, and unparalleled lead times in every area of manufacturing.
Jones — Jones is a software company that rebuilt liability management for real estate companies who want do less and get more – much more. We are solving one of the most archaic and outdated processes in commercial real estate - insurance certificates. For owners, managers and developers who need to solve insurance compliance for everyone in the valuechain, Jones is the simplest solution ever made.
Basis — Basis operates as an AI platform built specifically for accounting firms.

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 delivers comprehensive maternity care from midwives & OBGYNs, including prenatal care, hospital birth, postpartum care, & gynecology.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

WeaveGrid — WeaveGrid operates with utilities and owners of electric vehicles (EV) to allow and speed up transportation electrification. Using machine learning, optimization, and predictive analytics, the company's software solution solves several EV-grid integration challenges for utilities in a systems-oriented manner; helps integrate renewable energyresources on the grid; and saves utility customers' money on their bills.
one.bio — BCD Bioscience is an emerging biotechnology spinout from UC Davis that creates ingredients for food and biopharmaceutical applications. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Davis, California, United States.
Brightly Ventures — High-integrity carbon credits that fund food recovery in your community.

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

Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare
Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi 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, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, Israel

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Cyera — Cyera provides organizations with data reality for cloud data security. Cyera was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in San Mateo, USA.
Cohesity — Eliminate mass data fragmentation with Cohesity's next-gen data management. Begin with backup, gain instant recovery. Learn more today.
Albert Invent — 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com

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 — At Staytuned, we specialize in Shopify apps that drive sales and growth for top brands.

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

Cresta — Self-service, live coaching, and post call insights. AI that uncovers expertise so teams can make every customer conversation count.
Fully Ramped — Fully Ramped is for sales teams that prioritize phone calls. With the help of the voice AI platform Fully Ramped, your representatives may rehearse their phone sales techniques with simulated prospects who sound exactly like your clients. With many at-bats and various settings, practice pitching, resolving objections, product
Upwind Security — Upwind Security creates and develops software and online tools that ensures security of cloud infrastructure. It manages runtime environments of the cloud platform.

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 — Boost your restaurant's outreach with Boostly SMS marketing tool. Drive engagement and increase sales! Click to learn more.
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!

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.
ChampionHQ — ChampionHQ operates as a customer marketing platform to activate your customers and fans to create post-sale marketing programs.
Ducky — Ducky improves your team's efficiency with automation that helps customer support agents respond to tickets faster and more accurately.

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, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

OneRail — OneRail is a final mile delivery orchestration platform providing real-time visibility, actionable data, and data-driven optimization capabilities for its enterprise clients. OneRail’s cloud-based “delivery switch” simplifies same-day and on-demand delivery execution by connecting the demand signal (POS, eCommerce, ERP) with the ecosystem ofdelivery networks and internal fleets in real-time. The result of OneRail’s centralized view of disparate final mile data enables data-driven optimization, positively impacting the dependability, speed, and cost of final mile fulfillment.
Holly — Holly operates as an AI company that modernizing government hiring.
Qnovia — Respira Technologies is a platform device and biotechnology company focusing on aerosol science. The company is creating breakthrough aerosol devices and formulations that safely deliver a broad range of pharmaceuticals and nicotine.Respira Technologies' mission is to create novel medical devices of unparalleled efficiency and to advance theprotection of public health with consumer devices through novel innovation, responsible sourcing, draft legislative proposals, transparent product information, and common sense oversight.

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

pgEdge — pgEdge offers distributed PostgreSQL that is optimized for the network edge in order to reduce data latency and achieve ultra-high availability.
JustiFi — JustiFi develops a payments technology platform that processes payments in a better way by qualifying, routing, and optimizing each transaction to lower rates. JustiFi levels the playing field so businesses can keep more of their hard-earned money.
Abstract Security — The Future of Security Engineering is Abstract. Find out how you can transcend next-gen SIEM and get back to business value.

Techstars helps founders succeed. Through our global accelerators, we invest in early-stage startups led by founders building a better future for everyone.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MD Ally — MD Ally allows dispatchers and first responders to connect non-emergent calls to telehealth, in-network resources, social services & more in real-time.
Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
Viva — Landlords use Viva to grow a property's online reputation, improve renter behavior, reward residents to increase renewals, create loyalty, drive more referrals, reduce vacancy, increase profits by up to 9%

Lightbank VC is a $700M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage vertically focused AI, 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+), Extend, Attain, Paytient and Expel.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Claim — Claim is a social application that allows users to earn and trade rewards with friends. It also connects friends through their favorite brands and for brands to reward their customers. Its application enables friends to earn cash back, exchange rewards, and redeem together by shopping at their favorite brands.
Pathos — Pathos is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on re-engineering drug development with the power of advanced AI technologies.
Allegro Energy — Our mission is to radically accelerate the transition to a world powered by plentiful, cheap, clean energy. Talk to us today about your project to find out how our technology can help you reach your energy goals.

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

Cake AI — Cake is the fastest way to drive AI initiatives to success. Cake manages the entire stack - compute infrastructure, open source platform elements, common integrations, and pre-built project components.
Tabs — Tabs provides AI-powered accounts receivable software to save time analyzing contracts, improve cash flow, and avoid billing errors.
Casap — Casap is an award-winning dispute automation platform that streamlines compliance, reduces operational costs, and enhances consumer satisfaction by automating up to 30% of dispute cases. Trusted by fintechs and financial institutions to deliver fast, accurate, and compliant resolutions.

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.

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, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Whatnot — Whatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and geek out with collectors and other like-minded people. All items on Whatnot are verified. Shop on web or download the app.
Anysphere — Anysphere is a company that builds Artificial Intelligence tools and assistants to help humans.
Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in early-stage, growth, and incubation companies. The firm continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas. They also focus on earlycomputer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. It also invests in the digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Terradot — The Earth Regeneration Company
Enterpret — All customer feedback categorized automatically, combined with advanced analytics capabilities that ensure no customer pain goes unnoticed.
Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare

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, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Vambe — Vambe is a multi-channel AI sales representative who handles customer interactions at all stages of the sales process. Vambe interfaces with sales tools and CRMs, generates extensive customer profiles from chat habits, and recommends items based on customer requirements.
CAT Labs — CATLABS.IO - Building Digital Asset Recovery and Cybersecurity Tools to Enable Public and Private Sector Customers to Fight Crypto-Enabled Crime
RadiantGraph — RadiantGraph is on a mission to make healthcare more accessible and user-friendly for all of us. AI technology assists top healthcare organizations in developing deeper and more meaningful connections with their patients, resulting in tailored engagement and therapeutic outcomes.

Groove Capital is a new investment firm targeting early-stage companies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

GUDEA — Control the narrative.
Roy — Roy is a fan engagement platform that raises and influence team selections, while simplifying fund management for athletes.
Sobrynth — Sobrynth provides 24/7 assistance for employees and their families dealing with substance use issues or exploring sobriety.

Max is the Co-Founder of Instacart. He started the company with two co-founders in 2012. Previously, he's worked for several startups including Schematic, an award-winning interactive agency which was acquired by WPP. Max is originally from Los Angeles where he graduated from the University of Southern California, studying entrepreneurship andcinematic arts.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Gumloop — The no-code platform to build and host AI-powered business automations.
Tempest DX — Tempest delivers a ready-to-use self-serve platform, empowering developers to automate building, deploying and managing their apps with built-in security and compliance. Tempest combines everything teams need from a service catalog and software ownership to powerful end-to-end automations, enabling organizations to accelerate time to market, boostproductivity, and maximize engineering ROI.
Tempest — Tempest is a ready-to-use self-serve platform that enables developers to automate app development, deployment, and management while ensuring security and compliance.

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

OneRail — OneRail is a final mile delivery orchestration platform providing real-time visibility, actionable data, and data-driven optimization capabilities for its enterprise clients. OneRail’s cloud-based “delivery switch” simplifies same-day and on-demand delivery execution by connecting the demand signal (POS, eCommerce, ERP) with the ecosystem ofdelivery networks and internal fleets in real-time. The result of OneRail’s centralized view of disparate final mile data enables data-driven optimization, positively impacting the dependability, speed, and cost of final mile fulfillment.
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.

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, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Concert Bio — Concert Bio helps businesses manage their microbiome. We combine monitoring with analytics to develop interventions that improve the microbiome that matters to you. Our pilot program for CEA growers is currently live and accepting partners, see website for details.
Nosh Biofoods — We create nutritional and highly functional proteins from non-GMO fungi. Our proprietary ferementation process is minimal, scalable, and sustainable.
Brightly Ventures — High-integrity carbon credits that fund food recovery in your community.

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

Rally UXR — User Research CRM: automate outreach, scheduling, incentives, and participant management. Empower UX Research, Product, and Design teams to talk to users.
Ovation — Find out how your drive thru, third-party delivery, pickups, and in-store customers are feeling, fix anything in seconds, get more 5-star reviews, and have an easy-button for insight and retention.
Balto — Balto shows agents the best things to say, automatically scores 100% of calls, and alerts managers for coaching moments in real-time.

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

Koppiku — Our CoffeeYour Way Our CoffeeYour Way Discover your new fave drinks From full-bodied coffees, to refreshing coolers View Menu View Menu koppiku latte (Hot/Iced) Cereal latte (Iced) koppiku milk tea (Iced) snow black (Iced) Americano (Hot/Iced) latte (Hot/Iced) cappuccino (Hot/Iced) Koppiku coconut latte (Hot/Iced) There is no Koppiku without You
MedsNow — SaaS for independent pharmacies
Good Weird — A new genderless approach to beauty. Be you, it's good

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.

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, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Klim — Klim enables farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture at scale by providing them financial support, knowledge, documentation tools, and a community via our digital companion for farmers.Klim-verified carbon removal credits, generated by Klim farmers, help companies to transition to net zero by offsetting their carbon emissions locallyand with maximum impact and transparency.
Uviquity — Uviquity is a firm that wants to encourage safety for their clients. The company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.
Eion — Eion removes atmospheric CO2, permanently and verifiably, with enhanced rock weathering on soil

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

David — Rigorously perfected protein.
The Desire Company — Drive conversions with trusted product reviews from verified experts.
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.

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, Series A
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Bikky — Bikky is the #1 CDP for Restaurants and the Switzerland of guest data. We break down data silos across operating and marketing systems and surface the business insights restaurant marketers and c-suite leaders need to truly see customers. With Bikky, act faster and smarter to grow the business.
Tetra — InHome makes it easier, faster, and cheaper to buy a new boiler, furnace, or air conditioner replacements for your home in MA. No need to call contractors, have sales visits, wait for quotes, or research products. InHome does it all for you online. Get a free instant quote today for a replacement as soon as the next.
Simply Homes — Sell your home fast for cash - As-is. No repairs. No updates. No showings. Pay zero fees.

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, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Faks — Faks is an app development company. The company's application allows users to send faster requests, track the status of the requests, and settle any complaints, enabling the pharmacists to maintain a secure relationship with supplier laboratories.
Wurthy — Get instant access to low cost credit using your accounts receivable, so you can keep your business running smoothly.
Odyssey — Discover how Odyssey Energy Solutions unblocks bottlenecks in DRE project development. Access diverse financing, procure equipment efficiently, and remotely monitor system performance. Join over 2000 renewable energy companies that use Odyssey to scale. Get in touch today.

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
Current — Current is a financial technology company that offers mobile payments, online banking, and financial services. The company's mission is to enable members to change their lives by creating better financial outcomes. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare

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

Restaurent — Restaurent is a food and events service provider firm. They provide services for art galleries, bars, botanical gardens, cafes, and college universities. They offer products that are available for shopping online.
OnRamp — Move onboarding projects along faster by putting customers at the center of a simple, guided experience. OnRamp is the customer onboarding platform built for customer success and implementation teams.
QuickCode ai — Try our quick, accurate Product Compliance and HS Code Lookup Tool at Quickcode.ai and reduce your trade risk.

Wayne Chang is the Founder and CEO of Patented.ai. He previously worked at Crashlytics as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Wayne Chang attended the University of Massachusetts.

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.

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