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Top 50 Retail VC Funds in United States

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 50 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 VC Funds in United States

Investor	Retail United States investments
Forerunner	38
Right Side Capital Management	18
FJ Labs	17
SV Angel	17
Lerer Hippeau	17
New Enterprise Associates	17
RevTech Ventures	16
BAM Ventures	16
General Catalyst	13
Chicago Ventures	13
Great Oaks Venture Capital	13
Founders Fund	13
37 Angels	12
Slow Ventures	12
Brand Foundry Ventures	12
QueensBridge Venture Partners	12
Upfront Ventures	11
First Round Capital	11
Precursor Ventures	10
NextView Ventures	10
Silicon Road Ventures	10
Andreessen Horowitz	10
Commerce Ventures	10
Battery Ventures	10
Index Ventures	9
BBG Ventures	9
Bullish	9
RRE Ventures	9
Cowboy Ventures	9
Menlo Ventures	9
Reshape	9
Lightspeed Venture Partners	9
Serena Ventures	9
Founder Collective	9
Harrison Metal	9
Grace Beauty Capital	9
Matchstick Ventures	9
Social Starts	8
RiverPark Ventures	8
ATX Venture Partners	8
VTF Capital	8
Greycroft	8
Florida Funders	8
Basis Set Ventures	8
Maveron	8
XFactor Ventures	8
Gaingels	8
Finn Capital Partners	8
8VC	8
Khosla Ventures	7

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Forerunner is a venture capital firm focused on the modern consumer, investing at the intersection of culture and invention.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Joy — Joy is the creator of the first Smart Photo Album that allows you to curate and share your favorite photos with friends and family. Designed to live on your coffee table and sit comfortably in your lap, the Joy Album makes your most cherished moments instantly viewable in gorgeous layouts, finally modernizing the lost art of creating a physicalphoto album.The Joy team hails from Apple and Sonos and is building a premium all-in-one hardware and software photo solution for families to share memories with loved ones near and far.The company was founded in February 2016 and is backed by top investors including Obvious Ventures, David B. Heller, Maywic and The Chernin Group.Joy is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.joy.co.
Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
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.
UBILD — A.I powered construction workforce and vendor procurement platform

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Daylight Energy — Anode Labs is leveraging web3 infrastructure to build the world's largest virtual power plant.
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

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

MBX Biosciences — Homepage - MBX Biosciences
Brenig Therapeutics — Brenig Therapeutics develops therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.
Cardurion Pharmaceuticals — A Boston-based cardiovascular biotechnology company developing next-generation therapeutics for the treatment of heart failure and cardiovascular diseases.

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
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.
Trillion Labs — Trillion Labs operates as an AI company.

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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

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

Igloo — Our mission is to create the largest onchain community, driving the consumer crypto revolution.
Caldera — Deploy production-grade rollups on Caldera with Arbitrum Orbit or OP Stack. Caldera blockchains are live and production-ready. It takes under half an hour to deploy your Ethereum-compatible application to a Caldera Chain.
Aven — Inventing new ways to save people money

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.

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

Farmblox — Walk less, sleep more. Monitor your entire farm from your phone.
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.

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 — Matternet is a technology platform for urban aerial delivery. In March 2017, Matternet became the first company in the world to be authorized for urban drone delivery operations in Switzerland. In May 2018, the company was selected to participate in the FAA's Drone Integration Pilot Program for operations in North Carolina and San Diego. InMarch 2019, Matternet and UPS announced a partnership to implement drone delivery services at US hospitals and launched the first ongoing revenue drone delivery operation in US history at Wakemed in North Carolina.Founded in 2011, Matternet is headquartered in Mountain View, California
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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Nagish — Nagish captions your phone calls and empowers you to talk using text or voice. It's fast, private, and free.
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 retail company that offers natural disposable baby diapers with cotton liners. The company's chemical-free diapers are made of plant-based renewable materials, providing parents with natural diapers that suit babies' sensitive skin. It was founded by Amrita Saigal in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.
ZeroTier — ZeroTier is the best global networking solution and overlay for IoT infrastructure, SD-WAN, VPN, and remote access.

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

MoeGo — MoeGo is the best all-in-one pet grooming software designed to automate & simplify your pet grooming business.
Dazz — Dazz is a cloud security repair service that takes a unique approach to cybersecurity.
Savvy Wealth — Savvy is the next-generation wealth management firm that pairs world-class advisors with modern software to help clients achieve their financial goals.

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.

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.

RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that is in it with founders when it matters

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, China

Portfolio highlights

Kindo — Enhance AI productivity with Kindo. The first platform to support any AI model plus 200+ SaaS integrations, all while being centralized, compliant, and secure. Try today!
Nomad Health — Search travel nurse jobs nationwide. Earn more money, haggle-free. Receive expert support without the pushy tactics of a traditional recruiter.
HyperSpectral — HyperSpectral - Leading the evolution of spectral data and AI/ML

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

Uplimit — Unlock the potential of your organization with scalable, high-impact learning experiences.
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.

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

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.
Abnormal Security — Advanced email protection to prevent credential phishing, business email compromise, account takeover, and more.
Kinetic Automation — Kinetic is ushering in the next generation of mobility (EVs, AVs) with a network of highly automated service centers.

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

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

MoeGo — MoeGo is the best all-in-one pet grooming software designed to automate & simplify your pet grooming business.
Contextual AI — Our contextual language models are built to be more customizable, scalable and trustable, while keeping your data safe.
Clutch Security — Clutch is a Universal Non-Human Identity Security Platform that offers complete security and control over NHIs across the entire enterprise.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

RiverPark Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund, founded by entrepreneurs to invest in entrepreneurs. RiverPark Ventures is part of the RiverPark family of funds, a multi-strategy portfolio management firm. RiverPark Funds collectively manage over $3 billion in assets.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Prevu — Prevu empowers homebuyers with real estate commission rebates. Browse listings, schedule tours, and connect with a local agent.
Cyvl.ai — Next-gen infrastructure asset management for governments and civil engineers. Powered by Cyvl's 3D scanning sensors and artificial intelligence algorithms.
Simply Bail — Simply Bail is an online platform that offers a secure, hassle-free, and fastest way for people to get out of jail with bail. Their system allows them to locate their friend or loved one with just a little information from you. Simply Bail was founded in 2020 by Peter Morris in Santa Monica, CA.

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.

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.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sybill AI — Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Video Calls
Bee — Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant.
Contextual AI — Our contextual language models are built to be more customizable, scalable and trustable, while keeping your data safe.

Florida Funders is a hybrid of a venture capital fund and an angel investor network that discovers, funds & builds early-stage tech companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Kriptos — Kriptos uses AI to ensure accurate classification for your company. Kriptos helps businesses locate their most critical information and prevent data leakage through software that analyzes, classifies, and labels documents automatically.
Vali Cyber — Vali Cyber specializes in addressing Linux-specific security solutions. It secures workloads effectively, prevents attacks via hardening, and catches anything that gets through. It also minimizes the resource impact of security, saving costly computer resources for real work.
Gemini Sports Analytics — The first AI cloud for sports

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

Beeble — Extract 3D Geometry and PBR maps from video for integration with any 3D software. New era of storytelling with precise lighting and parallax, all in post-production.
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.
Momentum — Momentum is a workflow automation platform built for revenue teams. It replaces manual work with automation and decreases context switching between all your sales tools.

Maveron is a consumer-only venture capital firm focused on partnering with world-class entrepreneurs building standout consumer brands.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Goodbill — Goodbill helps people fight hospital bills. It's the fastest and simplest way to save money without weeks of research and hours of phone calls.
Sage — Sage is an app helps to improve care with better caregiver tools that ensures older adults receive individual care.
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.

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

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

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, Series A, Funding Round
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..
Cake — 18K Followers, 6,705 Following, 859 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Cake (@hellocake)
Adgile Media Group — Adgile Media Group is the nation’s leading tech-enabled, data-driven out-of-home media company

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

Tezi — Tezi is building an Autonomous AI trained by top hiring managers and recruiters to lead the end-to-end hiring process. It proactively sources, screens applications, schedules interviews, collects scorecards, and never drops the ball.
Saronic — Providing naval and maritime forces with the most intelligent Autonomous Surface Vessels available.
Rocketlane — Rocketlane is a customer onboarding software that lets you collaborate with customers, consistently hit your onboarding goals, and accelerate time-to-value. Try Now.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

WindBorne Systems — WindBorne designs, builds, and operates a constellation of long-duration smart weather balloons targeting the most critical data in the atmosphere.
Honey Homes — Hassle-free Home Upkeep
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful text-to-animation platform. Animate characters for your video, game, movie, ad, Social or VR project simply by typing.

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