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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in United States

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

Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in United States

Investor	Retail United States investments
Forerunner Ventures	38
Right Side Capital Management	18
New Enterprise Associates	17
FJ Labs	17
SV Angel	17
Lerer Hippeau	17
RevTech Ventures	16
BAM Ventures	16
General Catalyst	13
Founders Fund	13
Bryan Rosenblatt	13
Chicago Ventures	13
Great Oaks Venture Capital	13
Brand Foundry Ventures	12
QueensBridge Venture Partners	12
Slow Ventures	12
37 Angels	12
First Round Capital	11
Upfront Ventures	11
Silicon Road Ventures	10
Commerce Ventures	10
Battery Ventures	10
NextView Ventures	10
Andreessen Horowitz	10
Serena Ventures	9
Lightspeed Venture Partners	9
Harrison Metal	9
Menlo Ventures	9
Matchstick Ventures	9
Bullish	9
Precursor Ventures	9
Cowboy Ventures	9
RRE Ventures	9
Joanne Wilson	9
Index Ventures	9
Reshape	9
Grace Beauty Capital	9
BBG Ventures	9
Founder Collective	9
Fabrice Grinda	8
XFactor Ventures	8
Gaingels	8
VTF Capital	8
Jason Calacanis	8
Greycroft	8
8VC	8
Finn Capital Partners	8
Basis Set Ventures	8
Social Starts	8
ATX Venture Partners	8

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Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
TravelJoy — From first reply to final payment, TravelJoy makes it easy for you to book your ideal client faster, with less legwork.
Fay — Find dietitians and nutritionists near you who accept insurance. We'll help you find the right dietitian nutritionist for your needs and make it affordable. Book your session today.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Anterior — Lead your plan into the future.
Twelve Labs — Twelve Labs helps developers make programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do by giving them the most powerful video search API
Amber Therapeutics — Developing intelligent bioelectrical therapies that can adapt, respond and learn from each person's individual physiology

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CuspAI — CuspAI is a revolutionary AI startup that is developing a platform for next-generation materials to address global sustainability and renewable energy concerns. CuspAI uses cutting-edge generative AI, deep learning, and molecular simulation to accelerate the material design process. Their platform works similarly to a search engine for materials,allowing users to request certain properties for new materials on demand.
Formic Technologies — At Formic, we want to increase the collective output of humanity by making automation deployments trivial and easy. Every factory should have access to unlimited 'labor' through robotics and automation rentals. We are building technology, financing, operations and services to make this vision possible.Formic is a fast-growingventure-backed startup focused on unlocking robotic automation in labor-starved industries such as food and beverage, advanced manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and other industrial settings. We combine financial innovation with a firm understanding of what robotics are capable of, to enable manufacturing customers to scale up their manufacturing capacity quickly and with minimal risk.
Rhea — Transforming fertility experiences for many. Recognizing the fragmented nature of the fertility market, we're here to unite and connect.

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

Formation Bio — Building the pharma company of the future.
Pomelo Care — Pomelo is a virtual maternity care program that supplements traditional pregnancy care with unlimited, customized support. Ask a dietitian about prenatal vitamins, speak to a therapist about labor anxiety, or join a prenatal group. Become a member today for free.
Butterflies.AI — Where AIs and humans coexist

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Expressable — Expressable is an online speech therapy practice for everyone with a communication disorder. It has pioneered a parent-focused care model that uses technology and education to integrate speech therapy techniques into children's daily lives, improving outcomes and experiences.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Austin,Texas.
Footprint — The last identity verification you'll ever need
Teleskope — Teleskope is a modern data protection platform that automates data security, privacy, and compliance at scale.

RevTech is a leading retail technology venture firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

FINDMINE — The most iconic brands trust FindMine. The #1 content engine powering Styling, Outfitting, Complete the Look, for ecommerce, marketing, remote selling, clientelling, and more in Fashion, Home, and Beauty
Shelfleet — Join our fleet!
Gardenuity — Improve your health and well-being through the restorative power of nature. Easy to grow Outdoor Herb + Veggie Gardens and Indoor Desktop Gardens.

BAM Ventures is an early-stage consumer-focused fund based in Los Angeles, CA.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Nectar AI — Social commerce platform for Brands
SimpleCar — Simple Car is a car subscription at a fixed monthly rate with flexible terms. Use a car on your terms and we handle everything from insurance to maintenance.
Sway — Sway offers regenerative design solutions for plastic pollution using seaweed to create compostable replacements for single-use plastics. The company was co-founded by Julia Marsh, Matt Mayes, and Leland Maschmeyer and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

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

AuthZed — The platform to store, compute, and validate application permissions.
AfterHour — Join the best stock trading community with over $200M+ in verified positions from retail traders. Get trade signals, due diligence, and real-time alpha.
Wordsmith AI — Best in class legal ai for in house legal teams. Wordsmith is used by some of the best companies in the world. Powerful products include legal ai chatbot, legal ai document generation and a whole tool kit of ai for legal documents.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

AfterHour — Join the best stock trading community with over $200M+ in verified positions from retail traders. Get trade signals, due diligence, and real-time alpha.
inspeq ai — Inspeq AI uses metric-based evaluation and improves model performance, helps detect responses with low factual accuracy, and prevents them before serving to the end-users.
Sentient — Community-built open AGI

Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures, which he started in 2017, and a former executive at Reddit and Twitter. Hepreviously worked at Reddit as the Head of Sales. Bryan Rosenblatt attended the University of Connecticut School of Business and Charles University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
Jomboy Media — We cover the topics we love, including sports, movies, songs, and history. If we can talk about it with enthusiasm, we've got a show for it.
Underdog Fantasy — Fantasy sports for real money

Chicago Ventures leads seed investments in overlooked teams.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Part3 — Part3 simplifies construction administration for architects and engineers. Leverage AI to collaborate on submittals, RFIs, changes, field reporting & more.
GoodShip — Streamline your shipping with Goodship. Discover efficient, cost-effective solutions and optimize your logistics for better results.
GreenLite Technologies — GreenLite makes getting a construction permit fast, predictable, and transparent. Let the GreenLite Platform handle your permitting needs so you can focus on growing your business.

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

Oula Health — Oula is a modern maternity clinic combining the best of obstetrics and midwifery care to deliver an evidence-based and personalized pregnancy experience
Proxima — Proxima is a predictive data intelligence platform built to help consumer brands find new customers, maximize marketing performance, and scale profitably.
Heyday Health — Discover virtual and in-home primary care for seniors on Medicare Advantage. Same day appointments available

Brand Foundry Ventures they invest in early-stage companies operating in the consumer and business sectors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

CollX — Snap photos of them and instantly get the current market price. Add them to your collection and track your overall portfolio value.
Ledgebrook — Best in class service and pricing from industry veterans delivered at the speed of InsurTech
Zippy — Zippy engages in providing a simple, online, and fast loan. It aims to expand access to affordable homeownership through manufactured home loans. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.

QueensBridge Venture Partners invests in technology companies in highly competitive and visible markets.The company's collective experience has shaped our approach to investing by allowing us to quickly recognize and capitalize on key trends. Furthermore, by focusing on co-investment opportunities with leading venture capital funds and angelinvestors in Silicon Valley, we have unique access to very attractive companies.Successful venture capital investing is highly influenced by a network of reputable investors. QBVP aligns itself with firms that have proven their ability to source and invest in the next generation of leading technology companies in Silicon Valley and emerging markets. We bring capital along with our network of industry veterans and corporate relationships to accelerate the development of the companies in which we co-invest. We seek to partner with firms that generate the most value among VCs and back the companies that reach enterprise value of over $1 billion on a regular basis.The general partners of QBVP are industry veterans in consumer products & services, media & entertainment, and financial services. We have (i) advised tech, media, and entertainment companies in raising over $20 billion of capital at bulge bracket Wall Street firms (e.g. Goldman Sachs; Deutsche Bank) (ii) started over twenty businesses, (iii) produced and/or recorded six number 1 albums on the Billboard 200, (iv) sold over 25 million records worldwide, (v) have products in over 3,000 stores.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Edyn — The Edyn smart garden system lets you know what’s happening in your garden at all times. Whether you’re a novice gardener or managing a small-scale organic farm, Edyn is there to take the guesswork out of gardening. Inserted in the soil, the Edyn Garden Sensor gathers and analyzes data about changing weather and soil conditions. The Edyn Appdisplays this data as a real-time snapshot of your garden, and pushes alerts and suggestions to maximize plant health.
Matternet — An end-to-end technology solution integrating the Matternet M2 Drone, the Matternet Station and the Matternet Cloud Platform. We provide our platform as a service to healthcare, e-commerce and logistics organizations.
ALL DAY — All Day is building an editorial media brand and publishing technology for mobile-first Millennial audiences. The company leverages a network of owned and partner Social Media properties for content distribution and audience engagement, driving content sharing and virality. All Day’s network partners, writers, and editors manage posts, trackanalytics, and grow engagement through its CMS and Social distribution dashboard.Today, All Day maintains and engages a growing audience on Social Media channels through owned and operated content brands with over 28 million followers, as well as a distribution network reaching over 200 million followers across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Included among the company’s more popular social accounts are HistoryinPics and EarthPix on Twitter. Through these owned and partner accounts, All Day distributes highly visual and shareable editorial content, which is often featured on its destination site AllDay.com.

Slow Ventures is a community built on the collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

dub — The first Copy-Trading platform for stocks. Copy anyone's investments. For free. Regulated Broker-Dealer member FINRA and SIPC & FDIC insured.
Rails — Rails operates as a crypto derivatives trading company.
Authentic Insurance — Authentic is a community based insurance platform that offers captive insurance services for small businesses.

Community of women angel investors that offers angel investing training for investors

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sensate — Wearable technology using science to help you relax, reduce stress and anxiety and improve your mental health. Learn more about Sensate and our mission.
Pulp Pantry — Pulp Pantry transforms upcycled ingredients from the overlooked, nutritional byproducts of fruit and vegetable processing into a wholesome, better-for-people-and-better-for-the-planet pantry staple. From upcycled ingredients like organic kale, celery, and okara, pulp chips provide nearly a full day's serving of gut-healthy fibre.
ChalkTalk — Using results from a student placement test, ChalkTalk’s machine-learning software generates standards-aligned curriculum customized to fit within the existing class schedule. Lesson plans, instructional materials, and small group activities are adaptively generated for the teacher, while personalized practice problems and review exercises areadaptively generated for each student. In this way, ChalkTalk acts as the ultimate teacher’s assistant - scaffolding instruction for each student while using class progress to shape future instruction.After just 15 weeks, every school who used ChalkTalk had their students experience 2-6x more growth on state test scores compared to their peers after a full year of traditional instruction.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Clay — Clay's spreadsheet helps you find, enrich and act on people and company data from any source - without a line of code. Get started for free, today.
Pomelo Care — Pomelo is a virtual maternity care program that supplements traditional pregnancy care with unlimited, customized support. Ask a dietitian about prenatal vitamins, speak to a therapist about labor anxiety, or join a prenatal group. Become a member today for free.
Boulder Care — Whole-person online opioid, alcohol, and SUD addiction treatment grounded in unconditional support. Medication (MAT), a dedicated care team, and complete care management. Call us at 503-563-2550 to get started - you've got people now.

Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. We invest in technology businesses across digital media, SaaS, consumer internet and retail innovation.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SOOT — SOOT is a new species of filesystem. An infinite canvas purposed for expression and endless discovery, inspired by the self-organizing principles of nature.
Clair — Clair is a New York-based fintech startup that provides Instant Pay Access as a service for human capital management platforms and the gig economy. With Clair, employees, and contractors get access to a digital bank account that allows them to get a portion of their earned wages as soon as they finish work. It aims to make every worker financiallyfree.
OurSky — OurSky is a modern developer platform for space applications. We provide real-time observational data and analysis of objects and activities in space. Built as an open, community-driven resource for the new space age engineer.

Silicon Road Ventures (SRV) is an Atlanta-based, venture capital firm focused on building the future of commerce. SRV empowers retailers to take charge of their own future through investment in transformational innovation. Silicon Road’s ecosystem approach focuses on relationships and connects entrepreneurs, startups, retailers, enterpriseorganizations, investors and academics to build the future of global commerce tech across eCommerce, retail and CPG.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Trinidad and Tobago

Portfolio highlights

Pitchit.ai — Monetize your company's greatest asset: your trusted sales network. Execute your Go-To-Network Strategy on the #1 Sales Network Monetization Platform.
Pull Logic — Optimize your Inventory and Maximize Product Availability across locations with our advanced AI driven platform.
Qortex — CatapultX is pioneering On-Stream video monetization. Combining AI, computer vision, contextual targeting and programmatic advertising to create new formats preferred by audiences.

At Commerce Ventures, they are building a new and different type of venture capital firm. Their investors are a unique and strategic blend of leading entrepreneurs, senior executives, and corporates from their focus sectors (mobile, retail/e-commerce, payments, fin-tech, insurance). In addition to providing capital, they are committed tohelping their portfolio companies succeed in scaling their commerce-related innovations.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Forward — Forward is a company that helps progammers and developers coordinate their program codes to build better websites.
Finaloop — Hands-off, real-time accounting tailored-fit for your ecommerce.
Canary Technologies — Use Canary to securely conduct contactless check-in and process credit card authorizations, contracts, and amenities online. Canary is the only PCI Level-1 Compliant solution for hotel authorizations. Schedule a demo today, and see how we can help your properties reduce chargebacks, save time, and improve the guest experience.

Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology. It invests in potentially, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vidyard — Go beyond traditional video hosting and unlock the power of video.
Fetcherr — We offer an AI technology based on algo-trading methodologies that empowers our airline partners to redefine the way they price flights to maximize profit and optimize workflow.
Procurement Sciences AI — Procurement Sciences AI is a Vertical AI SaaS that offers a transformative platform powered by advancements in generative AI. A growth-stage vertical AI SaaS company was disrupting the government contracting procurement process from start to finish with various AI tools, copilots, and autonomous agents.

The Future is Coming

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Runwise — Thousands of buildings use Runwise's unique wireless control, sensor network and software platform to operate their heating systems better.
KarmaCheck — KarmaCheck has reimagined background checks with a tech-first, AI-driven approach that provides the fastest background check for employment needs. Employers and employees benefit from real-time, actionable notifications, so hiring decisions come sooner. Our mobile-first background check platform is easy to access, reliable, and compliant.
Form Health — FORM takes a medical approach to weight loss. Our telehealth program provides convenient weight loss expertise wherever you are. Let our clinical team guide you towards improved health.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hebbia — Hebbia's neural search lets you execute research 10X faster and 10X more accurately. Transform your productivity today.
SDF — SDF is the next generation transformation layer and best developer platform for data. A compiler and execution engine designed to improve the data engineering experience, with compile time guarantees and composable execution.
Formation Bio — Building the pharma company of the future.

Serena Ventures focuses on early-stage companies and giving them the opportunity to be heard. Serena Ventures extends relationships, encourages collaboration among portfolio companies, and expands partnership opportunities across my vast network.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Lolli — Lolli is a rewards application that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.The company has partnered with 1,000+ top brands to give people the ability to easily earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. When users shop on one of the partner sites, Lolli gets a percentage of each sale. The company then splits that percent with users, sendingbitcoin to users' Lolli wallet.Lolli was founded in 2018 by Alex Adelman and Matt Senter and is headquartered in New York, NY.
KLIQ — Fitness Coaches, launch the app you've been dreaming of with no upfront costs. Build, manage and grow your community based business using our fully managed product.
SoLo Funds — SoLo is a community that allows members to easily access and supply short-term funds for immediate needs. Our community works together to create mutually beneficial outcomes where members can both improve their financial health.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

k-ID — At k-ID, we specialize in integrating safety and privacy by design compliance solutions for digital platforms, focusing on creating a safer, more responsible online environment for children and teenagers.
Zyod — ZYOD is the most trusted B2B apparel sourcing and clothing manufacturing platform, providing end-to-end design to deliver solutions to fashion brands.
Stability AI — AI for Humanity. Stability AI is a solution studio dedicated to innovating ideas. By using collective intelligence principles and augmented technology we design and implement feasible solutions to seemingly intractable problems.

Harrison Metal invests in early stage technology companies led by exceptional founders.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Quilter — Physics-based automated circuit board design tools for professionals and the masses.
Crowdbotics — It's not low-code, it's full code made easy. Build business-ready software, apps, integrations, and more with the Crowdbotics App Builder. Hire certified PMs and developers to help build your project at any time.
Vital Interaction — Vital Interaction uses patient engagement insights & intelligent medical scheduling to improve practice profitability & patient satisfaction

Menlo Ventures is a Bay Area venture capital firm that pursues companies with the potential to disrupt huge markets. We invest in all stages, across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Vilya — Vilya is a biotechnology company developing a novel class of drugs that precisely target the biology of disease. The company aims to create new medicines to leverage computing to make high throughput screening obsolete and cure diseases.
Sidecar Health — Looking for a new kind of health insurance? Sidecar Health offers transparent & affordable health insurance for individuals, and you can choose any doctor you like. Learn more.
Kinetic Automation — Kinetic is ushering in the next generation of mobility (EVs, AVs) with a network of highly automated service centers.

Matchstick is an early stage venture fund in the North and Rockies. We invest where innovative ideas, huge markets and, most importantly, diverse founders strike. We are honored to support "underdog" founders who will stop at nothing to succeed. Matchstick exists to act as a catalyst for our founders, our partners, and our startup communities.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Freeplay — Freeplay builds AI features that do real work.
Liminal — Unlock generative AI without compromising on data security. Liminal provides horizontal security for enterprises looking to leverage gen AI across any use case.
Tab Commerce — Tab Commerce helps restaurants of all sizes consolidate, analyze, and better manage every single expense they have.

We are a marketing operating partner, blending the worlds of capital, consulting and creation to design the most remarkable businesses in the world.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Goodhood — FixMyCar is a mobile auto repair platform that offers car repair services to every car owner. FixMyCar provides affordable and trusted rates, convenient service locations, sends in mobile car mechanics to homes, offices, or parking lots, and has flexible hours, thereby enabling customers to book their highly-rated mobile car repair services attheir convenience.
Daisy — Make your life easier with smart spaces. Learn how these innovative solutions enhance technology usage at home and work.
Captain Experiences — Choose from the largest selection of fishing charters in the U.S., book online, and head out with verified guides in your destination of choice.

Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in North America. The firm focuses on investments in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware. Precursor Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Alinia AI — Alignment Platform for Generative AI. Alinia makes it easy for enterprises to control and guide Gen AI applications based on their policies and preferences.
Kudos — Kudos is a smart assistant in the browser that tells the customer the best card to use when they check out when shopping online. Their first offering is a browser plugin that helps users maximize the benefits of their cards when they shop online by calculating rewards and perks for them and streamlining the checkout process with seamless autofill.Over a million merchant sites can use Kudos, which supports about 3000 different cards.It was founded in 2021 and is based in Woodland Hills, California.
The New Club — The leading private network for women in engineering. Find your community of women engineering peers, accelerate your career through executive coaching and courses, and unlock professional and personal growth through our in-person retreats.

Palo Alto-based VC supporting extraordinary seed-stage founders of all backgrounds to build legendary technology companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vic.ai — Vic.ai is an autonomous accounting and financial intelligence company for enterprise finance teams, BPO's and outsourced accounting firms. We build sophisticated AI for real-time, autonomous accounting paired with prescriptive intelligence enabling radical time-savings and optimal financial decision making.
CapStack Technologies — Discover Capstack, the leading bank-to-bank marketplace driving banking digital transformation. Join the innovation wave and transform your banking experience now!
Homebase — 100,000+ small (but mighty) businesses use Homebase to manage their hourly teams, with employee scheduling, time clocks, and more.

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

Joanne Wilson has had many careers. She started out in retail, eventually moving to the wholesale arena. She then transitioned to the media side of the technology world, before once again reinventing herself as an investor. She is currently an active angel investor with a portfolio of over 90 companies such as Food52, Sweeten, Vengo, Nestio, Phinand Phebes, Makers Row, Clutter, and Union Station. She has been involved in numerous real estate transactions from beginning to end and continues to make investments in that world. She is also an investor in a few restaurants in the New York area. In addition to these endeavors, Joanne has been involved in various education projects and served as chairperson at Hot Bread Kitchen, non-profit committed to increasing access to the culinary industry for woman and minority entrepreneurs. She also sits on the board of The Highline. Joanne has maintained her very popular blog, www.gothamgal.com for over 11 years and has recently take her talents to the airwaves on her podcast, ""Positively Gotham Gal"". She loves to bake, cook, throw a good party, travel, read, collect art, do the crossword and stay on top of what's happening around the globe and in NYC.Her most successful venture is being married to her best friend, Fred and raising their three kids- Jessica, Emily and Josh

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Poland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.
Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.
Porter Road Butcher — Pasture-raised beef, pork, lamb, and chicken delivered straight to your door. Free of antibiotics, hormones, and GMOs. All of our beef is dry aged for 14 days! Shop better meat per piece or per month with Butcher's Choice Subscription Boxes at Porter Road.

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

Rohlik — Rohlik is an innovative grocery delivery startup that offers a 90-minute same-day delivery service. Since its inception, Rohlik has been growing and is on track to EUR 300 mil. revenues in 2020. Rohlík was founded in 2014 by Marek Sacha and Tomas Cupr and is headquartered in Karlín, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
Wordsmith AI — Best in class legal ai for in house legal teams. Wordsmith is used by some of the best companies in the world. Powerful products include legal ai chatbot, legal ai document generation and a whole tool kit of ai for legal documents.
Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Grace Beauty Capital is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to the consumer & retail sectors founded on the core belief that deep domain and industry knowledge, operating expertise and extensive networks are essential to support early stage entrepreneurs and generate superior investment returns. Our mission is to become the premierpartner for early stage digital brands, consumer and retail technology startups on the journey from kitchen table to household name.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Voray — Voray is a community of professionals who gather for small networking dinners (15 or so people) on a regular basis. The purpose of each Voray is to develop more authentic relationships and build value for each other in the long run. The community is enabled through a web platform that helps members identify interesting events, suggest others, andcontinue communicating and connecting. The goal of Voray is to build a more authentic professional network of people you have actually met (over dinner) so connections are more longstanding and meaningful.
Eloquii — Eloquii is your one-stop shop for the latest fashion styles and trends in Women's Clothing! Unbeatably low prices. Shop brand new dresses, tops, pants, sweaters, denim jackets, lingerie, jumpsuits, activewear, shoes, and more!
Bravo Sierra — Bravo Sierra is the first military-native performance wellness company, pioneering a user-driven performance personal care and nutrition organization developed within the U.S. military community. Powered by the insight generated through social manufacturing including direct collaboration with its core community of 1,000 U.S. military active dutyservice members, the company delivers performance goods with unprecedented responsiveness and accuracy for those who serve and for the benefit of all. Designed to support and enhance today's ultra-active lifestyle and engineered with critically relevant innovation and stress-tested in the field, the products include first-to-market technologies and formulas that are clean, vegan, and cruelty-free. Bravo Sierra is built around a revenue share model contributing 5% of all sales to the Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) program, which offers a complete range of community support and quality of life programs for members of the U.S. Armed Forces, their families, retirees, and veterans.

BBG Ventures is an early-stage, generalist fund focused on startups with a female or diverse founder.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Naya Homes — Proptech, real estate, vacation and short-term rentals, consumer finance
SuperCircle — SuperCircle develops a tech platform and reverse logistics system that powers circularity for retail brands. It links retail with the waste management industry to close the loop and eliminate post-consumer clothing waste.
Maia Oncology — Maia Oncology is an onco-primary care clinic for cancer patients and survivors.

Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Suno — Suno is a music start-up that enables anyone to make the songs they want. The company aims to help people rediscover the joy of play and exploration.
Baselayer — Baselayer automates business risk assessment and eliminates B2B fraud in the financial sector. It offers services such as business verification (KYB), fraud detection, business onboarding optimization, risk profiling, portfolio monitoring & alerting, and workflow automation. Baselayer empowers 100s of financial institutions, governmentagencies, lenders, and fintech to unlock instant trust with any business in America.
Draftboard — Refer your friends, community and following with our hiring platform, and get paid when they get hired! Start referring (or hiring!) now!

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.

XFactor Ventures is focused on making pre-seed and seed stage investments in companies with billion dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder.

Investment focus

Software, Wellness, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
Morf Health — Morf Health is making it 10x faster for healthcare providers to setup and maintain integrations across their tech stack, e.g. easily structure data from patient intake and send to an EHR. We pull data out of the tools they use to deliver care and run the business, unify and normalize the data, and then send it to the tools that need it.
Pow.bio — Pow.bio provides fermentation services for synthetic biology.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Psylo — Psylo is an Australia-based psychedelic biotech business focusing on Psychedelic-inspired medicine to treat mental illness.
Colors AI — Colors helps companies see the full spectrum of clients.
Novel Capital — Novel Capital provides non dilutive funding and operational sales expertise to early-stage B2B software companies.

We Invest In The Future of Commerce

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Ross & Snow — Alexia Fashion Clothing
The/Studio — Manufacture high-quality custom products in small batches with fast turnaround and free shipping online from The/Studio. Browse our custom products, here.
ZenBusiness — Start a new business today for $0 or grow your existing business with the ZenBusiness platform. Get to your first dollar faster without the stress.

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pika — The idea-to-video platform that sets your creativity in motion.
Stability AI — AI for Humanity. Stability AI is a solution studio dedicated to innovating ideas. By using collective intelligence principles and augmented technology we design and implement feasible solutions to seemingly intractable problems.
Thoughtly — Thoughtfully assists companies in creating and implementing AI speech agents that mimic humans.

8VC seeks to enable industry transformation. In a wave of creative destruction, they believe emerging platforms will replace the decades-old technology infrastructure behind many industries, promoting greater innovation and prosperity.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vercel — Vercel's Frontend Cloud gives developers the frameworks, workflows, and infrastructure to build a faster, more personalized web.
Hello Patient — AI meets Healthcare Operations Coming soon
Amber Therapeutics — Developing intelligent bioelectrical therapies that can adapt, respond and learn from each person's individual physiology

Finn Capital Partners is a family fund born out of a third generation family business and a deep-seated family tradition of entrepreneurship. Led by Founder and Managing Partner Patrick Finn.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Builder.io — Drag and drop with your components, right within your existing site or app. Build and optimize digital experiences for any tech stack, visually..
Disco — Co-op commerce is a network of the world's best brands partnering together to grow.
Adgile Media Group — Adgile Media Group is the nation’s leading tech-enabled, data-driven out-of-home media company

Basis Set Ventures invests in early-stage startups that are harnessing the opportunities for artificial intelligence to enable people to perform more productively. We believe artificial intelligence (AI) delivers core value to businesses by improving the current business workflow and uncovering new opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Rasa — Build contextual AI assistants and chatbots in text and voice with our open source machine learning framework. Scale it with our enterprise grade platform.
Norm AI — Norm Ai provides solutions for sludge problem by enabling compliance teams to delegate tasks to Regulatory AI via high-level instructions, while at the same time validating the resulting work product.
Teal — Teal helps SMB software companies build accounting products for their customers.

ATX Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm in Austin Texas with funds investing in B2B software, marketplaces, and applications.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Inpleo — Inpleo provides an enterprise AI-driven procurement platform that allows buyers and vendors to match in a reverse auction setting with a wide range of controls and analytics. Data analytics are provided live for customized metrics, and custom implementations are provided free of charge. Inpleo offers multi-level access and 256-bit encryption for astate-of-the-art security system.
RiskScout — RiskScout is a software that provides cloud banking and infrastructure services to financial institutions that resolve financial risks.
Light Frame — Light Frame is a Swiss American financial technology company building advanced technologies for private banks, wealth management firms, and banks offering investment and wealth services. The company was founded in January 2024 by Schuyler Weiss, Mathieu Clement, Philippe Kernevez, and Gregory Bataille, and it maintains offices in Providence, RI andLausanne, VD. Light Frame completed its Pre-seed round of financing in April 2024, with ATX Venture Partners and New Stack Ventures co-leading the round. Other investors include Rogue Venture Partners, Halfcourt Ventures, Studio Alpha, and Underdog Labs.

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