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Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in United States in May 2025

Last updated: May 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 May 2025

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

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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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Usul — Rosetta: Query government policy and spending data as it relates to your workflow.
Pallie AI — Pallie AI develops AI-powered companion that supports health and wellbeing.
The Nuclear Company — The Nuclear Company is a fleet-scale nuclear deployment firm that offers for nuclear sectors.

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

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.
Global Predictions — De-risk external risk for customer investments by forecasting the future more accurately using a hybrid-AI, data-driven modeling platform

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

Crossmint — An all-in-one platform for companies and agents: wallets, payments, tokenization, and more.
Assort Health — Our call center generative AI reduces hold time, decreases dropped calls, and contains costs while driving appointment revenue.
Dyna Robotics — We're making Al-powered robotic automation accessible for businesses of all sizes by building affordable, easy-to-deploy Autonomous Al Robots.

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

LiveKit — Build, deploy, and scale realtime agents. Open source. Enterprise scale.
Chainguard — We build products and offer services that help protect organizations from software supply chain attacks and vulnerabilities.
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.

A thesis-driven, research-centric investment firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Achira — Building foundation simulation models for drug discovery
Manifest — Manifest is the simplest way for investors worldwide to access institutional-grade U.S. real estate through onchain ownership.
General Intelligence Company of New York — General Intelligence Company of New York is an artificial intelligence company taking advantage of upcoming AI developments.

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.

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

Certiverse — Certiverse is an end-to-end exam development platform using industry-leading psychometric standards, intuitive machine learning, and an innovative, asynchronous, crowdsourced content-creation model.
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.

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, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
TAU Systems — TAU Systems provides medical imaging technology.
Foundation Alloy — Foundation Alloy makes better parts, faster, for modern engineering.

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.
Nimblemind.ai — Nimblemind.ai enables healthcare providers to organize and enrich multimodal clinical data through labeling and curation.
Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.

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, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Precog — Precog is a data analysis platform that helps companies productize their data assets. Precog allows companies to store, integrate, and analyze large volumes of measured data. Featuring the industry-leading implementation of Quirrel, the "R for big data" statistical language, the Precog platform allows companies to create analytics orpredictive models that can be deployed as new products or features inside existing products.Companies use Precog to build analytics and reporting into their applications, to turn existing data assets into new data products that can then be resold, and to build advanced analytical features like recommendations and personalizations.Precog is the next-generation technology that spawned out of ReportGrid, a 2011 Precog is funded by RTP Ventures, Resonant Ventures, David G. Cohen, and other seasoned angels. Its board of directors includes SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin, and serial entrepreneur Kirill Sheynkman.
Perceptis AI — Perceptis is AI-powered service for creating professional business proposals. Create winning multimillion-dollar proposals - fast. Our models are trained on proposals generated by elite consultants.
Precog Data — Data has become increasingly large and complex, end users have been cutoff, and the data engineer has become paramount. Precog is changing this and giving access and control back to the end users and business teams.Our solution is a huge leap forward in data transformation and preparation. It’s not just another variation of some open sourceproject, It’s the biggest change in data thinking in 30 years. Our team of world class developers and mathematicians is building technology unlike anything else in the market today. Based on our unique and powerful mathematical foundation, MRA (Multi-dimensional Relational Algebra), our solutions are changing how users gain value from data.Funded by the best technology investors in the world, and supported by our customers and partners we will continue to push the boundaries of both ease of use and hyper performance for transforming massive complex data sets into ready to use analytic data tables for any application.

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

Benji — Benji is a modern API for loyalty programs. It helps businesses enhance conversion rates and profitability by providing clients with a new way to pay using rewards points.
Vigil — Vigil helps carriers empower their agents and policyholders with a modern, delightful service experience.
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!

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.

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

Unframe — Unframe solves all your AI use cases with secure, scalable solutions on one unified platform. Say goodbye to generic software and complex implementations. Get tailored AI solutions in days, not months.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful new way to animate characters for videos, games, 3D, movies, ads or social media.
Allen Control Systems — Allen Control Systems is a robotics defense company purpose-built to deliver advanced robotic capabilities to fill modernization demands across the defense industry and national security communities.

  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.
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.
Solideon — Additive Space Technologies uses additive manufacturing systems, a machine-learning collaborative system for building vehicles and infrastructure on Earth, the Moon, or Mars.

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech,offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Somite — Somite.ai is on a mission to transform the lives of millions of people by leveraging AI to produce human tissue for cell-based therapies.
Realta Fusion — Realta Fusion develops fusion energy technology for the production of industrial heat and power. It applies advances in super-conducting materials, plasma physics, and computing power to a simple linear fusion reactor configuration. It utilizes abundant fuel sources to provide a zero-carbon source of heat and power.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful new way to animate characters for videos, games, 3D, movies, ads or social media.

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

Catio — Cloud architecture platform enabling companies to excel with cloud native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution, with the help of AI.
1up — 1up is a competitive AI for users to observe and understand everything their competitors are doing. 1up accelerates and automates the competitive experience for teams. 1up enables teams to save hours of manual effort in product, sales, and marketing, understand what their competitors are building and saying, and win competitive deals faster andeasier than ever before.
Lovelace — Lovelace, currently in stealth mode, is developing an AI platform and solutions to support missions in national security, disaster relief and other areas where advanced computer science can help keep people safe.

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

Porosity — Porosity is an application software company that offers a platform to streamline operations management and data collection.
Ravel — Ravel revolutionizes textile recycling through purification technology, effectively separating and repurposing blended materials. Join us in shaping a circular textile economy.
Pendulum Systems — Alternative PNT solutions for national security. Pendulum Navigate uses inertial sensors for advanced geolocation for GPS denied and degraded environments. AI advantage for the tactical edge.

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.
GetWhys — Introducing GetWhys: AI trained on firsthand experiences
Mavvrik — DigitalEx specializes in FinOps SaaS for hybrid and multi-cloud management, providing innovative solutions to optimize cloud expenditures. Experience our platform with a single pane of glass view that enhances decision-making across IT, Finance, and Executives. Schedule a demo today!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Paid — Paid is a business platform for AI agents.
Yutori — Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own.
Operand — AI-Enabled Consulting for Consumer Retail

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, Series B
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.
Rebellyous Foods — Rebellyous Foods makes crispy, juicy, 100% plant-based nuggets. Your guests will love the taste. Your team will love the simplicity. Get Rebellyous with us!
Brightly Ventures — Transform food waste into measurable climate and community impact.

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

Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
Inductive Bio — Bringing the data, ML, software, and expertise needed to rapidly solve your most challenging ADMET problems.
Sprinter Health — Sprinter Health is an on-demand mobile health company that sends full-time nurses and phlebotomists (“Sprinters”) into the home.

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.

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

7AI — The Agentic Security Revolution Starts Here. Swarming AI Agents to Eliminate Non-Human Work for Exponentially Better Security Outcomes.
Highstock — The private marketplace for vetted global buyers and coveted brands.
Greenlite — Greenlite aspires to replace outsourced anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-client (KYC) analysts with its AI bots.

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!

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.

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 — Good Weird was made to help you stay vibrant, be colorful, and shine bright, because the world is more beautiful if we all stay a little weird.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

CTGT — CTGT builds efficient, trustworthy AI, preventing errors and maximizing ROI with secure, reliable enterprise-grade solutions.
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.
Arena — Arena is a software firm that builds active learning systems and techniques like reinforcement learning.

Dylan Field is the CEO and Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

HeyGen — HeyGen is an innovative video platform that harnesses the power of generative AI to streamline your video creation process. Unleash your creativity with HeyGen - the future of video production.
Roam — Roam is the platform for affordable home ownership. Roam helps homebuyers purchase their next home with a low-interest rate mortgage included.
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

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

Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.

Kimbal Musk is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Big Green.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, News
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Goodr — Goodr is a sustainable food surplus management platform that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger. They provide an end-to-end solution for businesses seeking to earn money from their edible food waste by donating it to local nonprofit organizations. Their platform provides the logistics, analytics, and security for businessesto earn deductions under the PATH act in compliance with the Internal Revenue Services. Goodr’s blockchain-enabled platform also provides an IRS audit-friendly donation record, real-time food waste analytics, and community impact reports. Their model aims to provide a triple-win situation: improve business’ bottom line through tax deductions, reduce greenhouse emissions from landfills, and use edible food waste to reduce hunger.
BlocPower — BlocPower is your one-stop-shop for modern, all-electric heating and cooling. Secure big incentives & save up to 40% on energy bills when upgrading to a sleek, comfortable and extremely efficient heat pump system.
Everytable — Everytable aims to redefine the food landscape the same way McDonald’s did fifty years ago. But this time, instead of burgers and fries, they are selling nutritious, fresh, made-from-scratch food, at fast-food prices.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Wisdom AI — WisdomAI is a data analytics platform that enables enterprise users to ask natural-language questions and receive answers from both structured and unstructured data sources—even when the data is messy or incomplete. It allows business leaders to quickly drill into insights, replacing the need for time-consuming analyst reports with real-time,accurate responses. The platform avoids hallucinations by using generative AI only to generate queries, not the answers themselves. Early adopters include companies across sectors like oil and gas, who use WisdomAI to query data from documents, telemetry, and databases.
Miter — Miter's software streamlines HR, finance, and compliance for the construction industry.
Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.

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

Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.
Near Space Labs — Near Space Labs is an aerial imagery and earth observation company, Near Space Labs' imagery makes it easy to monitor assets and gain remote access over broad or specific areas. Near Space Labs offers cloud-based delivery of fully processed images through its API. The company provides frictionless, affordable imaging for insurance, utilities,infrastructure, conservation, smart cities, retail, energy, government, and disaster response.
Jericho Security — Train your team to defend against the latest cyber attacks with our complete cybersecurity platform.

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%

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 — Accelerate your AI projects with Cake's comprehensive platform, offering seamless integrations and control over advanced AI components without the tradeoffs of traditional solutions.
Cargado — As nearshoring leads to explosive trade between the U.S. and Mexico, Cargado is building software to simplify the entire cross-border process.
Alium — Buyer Intelligence for decision makers, by decision makers.

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, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Gumloop — The no-code platform to build and host AI-powered business automations.
Highstock — The private marketplace for vetted global buyers and coveted brands.
Nuvo — Onboard customers through configurable, high-converting branded experiences that accelerate credit approvals, unlock revenue, and reduce fraud.Nuvo replaces manual credit forms with AI-powered application flows, real-time business and principal identity verification, and embedded credit insights—enabling confident decisions that protect and growyour business. Designed for complex trade partnerships, Nuvo is the B2B commerce platform trusted and preferred by 40,000 businesses.

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.

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.
Lumi AI — Ask questions in simple language and receive instant answers. No coding (SQL/Python) skills needed. Lumi is your personal, available 24/7, data analyst AI. Sign up for early access!
Ingenimax — StarOps by Ingenimax, the future of platform engineering, built for AI/ML teams and platform engineering teams. Focus on outcomes, not cloud ops.

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, Real Estate
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Upkid — Upkid is the first app that matches up daycares/preschools with amazing early childhood professionals who need a more flexible job.
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

Fleequid — Buy or sell buses and commercial vehicles through auctions: Join Fleequid and effortlessly participate in top-notch B2B auctions for industrial vehicles
Powerhouse91 — Powerhouse91 operates as an eCommerce roll-up platform. Powerhouse91's business model relies on identifying high-potential consumer brands, acquiring, and scaling them through growth capital, shared resources, and e-commerce focused optimizations.
Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.

$170m+ to invest in Seed and Late Seed SaaS and Cloud Companies

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Developer APIs
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Gorgias — Helpdesk designed for e-commerce stores. Provide multichannel customer service from a single app. Gain productivity with automated responses to common requests.
Mangomint — Mangomint is the highest rated scheduling software for hair salons, spas, nail salons, barbershops, tanning salons, massage studios, tattoo shops and more.
RevenueCat — RevenueCat handles the pain points of in-app subscriptions, so you can get back to building your app.

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

Kouper Health — The transitions-of-care platform ensuring patients receive timely access to follow-up care.
Sprinter Health — Sprinter Health is an on-demand mobile health company that sends full-time nurses and phlebotomists (“Sprinters”) into the home.
TaleMonster Games — TaleMonster is a multinational mobile game firm that genuinely wants to provide millions of gamers experiences they won't soon forget. By putting our passion at the center of everything we make, we hope to reinvent what casual in mobile gaming means.

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.
1up — 1up is a competitive AI for users to observe and understand everything their competitors are doing. 1up accelerates and automates the competitive experience for teams. 1up enables teams to save hours of manual effort in product, sales, and marketing, understand what their competitors are building and saying, and win competitive deals faster andeasier than ever before.
Pathos — Pathos is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on re-engineering drug development with the power of advanced AI technologies.

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

Ottometric — Ottometric provides an intelligent verification framework that gives deeper understanding of events and anomalies, helping the industry deliver safer vehicles. The race to get reliable ADAS features to vehicles is speeding up, from driver assistance to full self driving. The industry is investing greatly to innovate. Today, the auto industry isdelivering Level 1 to Level 3 Autonomous capabilities that industry stakeholders have called out as sub-par.
VanishID — Privacy as a managed service for the enterprise. Shift your cybersecurity from detection and response to prevention.
Allen Control Systems — Allen Control Systems is a robotics defense company purpose-built to deliver advanced robotic capabilities to fill modernization demands across the defense industry and national security communities.

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 — Discover powerful Shopify apps designed to boost sales and streamline operations. Trusted by 50,000+ merchants for supporting growth on Shopify.

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

Delfina — Intelligent pregnancy care for healthier moms and babies.
VoiceCare AI — Supercharging healthcare with GenAI. Automated calls, admin co-pilots and Healthcare Administration General Intelligence (HAGI) to help you save time.
Nimblemind.ai — Nimblemind.ai enables healthcare providers to organize and enrich multimodal clinical data through labeling and curation.

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

Stord — Stord offers fulfillment, warehousing, and transportation for DTC and B2B, plus the integrated software you need to provide your end consumers with the best pre-purchase and post-delivery consumer experience. No matter your product, Stord is ready to power your commerce.
NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
Chainguard — We build products and offer services that help protect organizations from software supply chain attacks and vulnerabilities.

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