Top 50 Social Impact Startup Investors in February 2025

Investor	Social Impact investments
Praxis	40
Social Capital	5
Right Side Capital Management	5
Connetic Ventures	5
Good Company	5
SixThirty	4
Higher Ground Labs	4
CV VC	4
APX	4
Oryzn Capital	3
Demeter	3
SquareOne Venture Capital	3
Spero Ventures	3
J-Ventures	3
Backstage Capital	3
David E. Weekly	3
Allen and Ollys International Limited -	3
Franklin Templeton Investments	3
10X Capital	3
Tidal Ventures	3
Eddie Lou	3
SquareOne	3
Ascension	3
UpWest	3
Gaingels	3
ANRI	2
Chris Adelsbach	2
Hustle Fund	2
Z Venture Capital	2
Luigi Bajetti	2
Young Song	2
Sajeev Menon	2
Joseph N. Sanberg	2
Lena Apler	2
Ålandsbanken	2
Techstars Ventures	2
Ingka Investments	2
Google.org	2
Algorand Foundation	2
Aare Ventures	2
Curt Hopkins	2
Citi Impact Fund	2
Vertex Ventures	2
Brian Requarth	2
Venkat Vallabhaneni	2
Viola Ventures	2
Tomahawk.VC	2
Cristina Santin	2
Ashley Mayer	2
Wiklöf Holding	2

We are a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship, supporting founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to love their neighbors and renew culture.

Investment focus

Non Profit, Social Assistance, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Malawi, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Church Space — Church Space is a platform that provides flexible shared rental options for renters seeking commercial space at an affordable rate. It was launched in 2019 by founder and CEO Day Edwards.
Please Assist Me — One app for all your home management needs. Say goodbye to all of the headache with managing multiple apps, service providers, and arrival times.
Parallel Fluidics — Custom microfluidic devices in 3 days.

At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Flock — Fair and flexible motor fleet insurance for cars, vans, and mixed fleets. Expert support, online policies and stress-free claims. For UK fleets of 20+ vehicles.
Mitra Chem — Mitra Chem is innovating and commercializing iron-based cathode materials to enable mass-market electrification for electric vehicles, energy storage solutions and beyond.
Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.

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

OFFSITE — OFFSITE provides cloud computing and data center solutions.
Offsite — Offsite operates a platform that provides retreat planning for remote and hybrid teams. The company helps in the planning, management, and follow-up of team retreats, client-facing events, and other transformational, in-person experiences.
ZippedScript — ZippedScript is an application programming interface system developer that specializes in automatically verifying educational details. ZippedScript is located in Toronto, Ontario.

Connetic Ventures is an investment firm that provides its services to early stage startup companies.The firm participates with venture capital firms and angel syndicates for companies that are in the seed stage. It focuses on developing core investment strategies and deploying them on startups to build up their portfolios. Connetic Ventures wasfounded by Brad Zapp in 2015. It is headquartered in Covington, Kentucky.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Native AI — It's time for software to catch up to the supply chain! Native is the only platform in the market that uses end-to-end data and artificial intelligence to optimize your products and supply chain. Old -school solutions like Nielsen and IRi fall short when converting consumer insights into actual decisions that would allow companies to improveproduct formulations, supply chains, and outcomes.We've combined all of the applications you need to engage and understand consumers, predict market trends, and create products with better outcomes!
Campus Ink - NIL Store — Campus Ink Screen Printing & Embroidery, Champaign - Urbana, Custom T-Shirts, Fraternity & Sorority Apparel Simple
TCARE — TCARE’s Medicaid-approved, SaaS platform reduces caregiver burnout and delays nursing home placement. TCARE’s evidence-based predictive technology saved Washington State Department of Social and Health Services over $10M in a 2,300-caregiver pilot by delaying nursing home admissions by 18-24 months. TCARE enables family caregivers to keep theirloved ones at home longer. TCARE’s aging-in-place enterprise SaaS solution partners with government and healthcare entities. TCARE uses its scientifically-validated algorithms to create an individualized care plan, which reduces stress and burnout of caregivers and allows their loved ones to age in place.

Good Company Fund is investing in early-stage companies that leverage deep technologies to solve the world’s biggest problems. The firm is constantly seeking bold entrepreneurs who are building frontier technology solutions. Good Company Fund is generally looking to invest in innovative, hyper scalable, software solutions. It is especially excitedabout: Future of Energy, Future of Work and Education, Future of Work, Circular Economy, Precision Farming, and Digital Health. However, it is constantly learning and looking for additional opportunities in other verticals and aiming to invest in the "Operating System of the New, Sustainable World".Good Company's studio brings together multinational corporations, entrepreneurs and capital, in order to solve the world’s biggest problems. Good Company Studio is a home for entrepreneurs who want to create businesses with a purpose. The Studio is a pre-seed platform that provides entrepreneurs with capital, network, go-to-market, mentoring, and support.

Investment focus

Social Impact, Recruiting, Skill Assessment
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

TaTiO — TaTIO is delivering a smarter way to hire through competency-based sourcing that combines artificial intelligence and job experience simulations to guarantee qualified candidates.
TULU — TULU is a smart platform and amenity services provider to over 10,000 people in 50 buildings across the United States, Europe and Israel. Founded in 2019, TULU provides urban tenants with on-demand access to hundreds of brand name appliances, grocery staples, micro-mobility and entertainment devices, and more. TULU’s IoT-based modular units arecustomized to provide the most necessary and useful items, while leveraging advanced machine learning tools to analyze behavioral patterns, optimize usage, refine inventory, and create a personalized experience for our users. The outcome is a new way of living, encouraging more responsible consumption, reducing the cost of living in the city, and consistent with the trend to smaller and smaller living spaces.
ReturnGO — Easy-to-use self-service return management portal that allows customers to return and exchange products increases revenue and customer retention.

At SixThirty, we connect bold early-stage companies in fintech, insurtech, privacy and digital health with corporate institutions to power growth.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Angle Health — Digital-First Health Plans For The Modern Employee
Senniors — Trusted home care for the elderly and dependents. We combine humanity and technology.
Bloom — Bloom is a Canadian fintech that provides home equity release solutions to 55+ homeowners, allowing them to access the money they've accumulated in their houses to help finance their retirement needs.

Higher Ground Labs is a venture fund and ecosystem builder investing in technology for political progress.

Investment focus

Software, Politics, Government
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Quiller — Quiller is an artificial intelligence copilot campaign helps to develop quality, effective fundraising content.
Civic Eagle — The legislation tracking tool of choice for government relations, law firms, associations, nonprofits, & coalitions at the state and federal level.
OpenGrants — OpenGrants is a grant search engine and marketplace of grant experts for startups, nonprofits, and small business.

We invest in blockchain

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Switzerland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pyrpose — Pyrpose is a climate finance platform.
Sytemap — We are building a blockchain-based property record to help home buyers and financial companies access, view and verify properties starting from digitizing Estate project layouts (Sytemap) Sytemap is a first step that allows us access to a large pool of property data. The end goal can really be described as building Zillow for Africa.
Natix Network — Earn passive income by owning a part of your favourite city

APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.

Early Stage VC. From Seed to Revenues.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

DataRails — Datarails is an FP&A software solution providing finance experts with an easy way to conduct FP&A, budgeting, and forecasting.
IndieFlow — IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. The platform provides a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage creative projects, distribute to streaming platforms, collect roylaties, register music with royaltycollection societies, promote music, book gigs, receive payments and more.
Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!

Demeter is a major player in venture capital and private equity for the energy and ecological transition. They invest from 500 K€ to 30 M€ to support companies at all stages of their development: innovative startups, high growth SMEs and infrastructure projects.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, Germany, Slovenia

Portfolio highlights

E-Recycle — E-Recycle is an online and offline store that specializes in recycling used high-tech products such as mobile phones, tablets, and PCs.
Plan A — Automate your company's ESG and carbon footprint reporting and reduce your emissions. Create decarbonisation plans plans based on data and science.
BeFC Bioenzymatic Fuel Cells — Miniature batteries are complex, expensive and unecological to collect and recycle. Our thin, light-weight and flexible paper-based biofuel cells are biodegradable, environmentally friendly and economically viable.

We invest in B2B tech entrepreneurs who are obsessed with solving complex problems in huge markets at pre-seed and seed stage

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Glassfy — The only subscription platform for developers and product managers. Glassfy provides the infrastructure to build & optimize subscriptions for mobile applications. You can now add subscriptions easily with a few lines of code, get info about any event happening in real-time, create different paywalls, and test which selling proposition usersprefer.
Hygraph — Hygraph is the next generation GraphQL-Native Federated Content Platform. Integrate all your services with our unique content federation approach and deliver to any destination of choice using our content APIs

Spero Ventures makes venture investments in the things that make life worth living - wellbeing; sustainability; learning, work, and play.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OOVA — OOVA is a fertility diagnostic company that spun out from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Using patent pending biochemistry and artificial intelligence, OOVA learns a woman’s fertility profile by accurately measuring key hormones over time through daily urine samples. By monitoring this critical balance of hormones, OOVA can help a woman getpregnant, identify reasons she is having trouble getting pregnant, and even expose reproductive health issues like PCOS.
Confirm — Confirm is the data-driven hiring platform that helps you make the right hire every time. It uses the knowledge of colleagues to get the perfect job, faster. Their mission is to match everyone who's looking for a job with their perfect role. The company was founded in November 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, USA.
Hyro — A stellar customer journey starts with conversational AI. Take complex data and turn it into simple dialogue across any digital channel, for all enterprises and their customers.

J- Ventures is a Silicon Valley based group of VC funds with over $60m under management. Backed by 400+ leading Investors ( 140+ Serial founders, 100+ VCs, 170+ Fortune 500 Executives) as LPs. Our active-LP venture fund brings the power of this connected & intellectual capital to add real value to the companies we invest in and create aremarkable difference by helping our founders grow and scale to markets quicker. Based in Silicon Valley with investors from 15 communities - Tel Aviv, NYC, LA, London, Miami, Boston, and more. Since 2016 the group made over 50 investments, 4 unicorns and over 10 exits.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Joylux — We offer innovative women's intimate care products, which can be used in the comfort of home. Take the first step on your wellness journey today & shop now!
BeeHero — BeeHero - Your precision pollination provider for almonds, berries, apples and more We raise and keep exceptional bees by combining generations of commercial beekeeping experience with cutting-edge technology. Get premium bees & pollinate your crops with precision.
Onebeat — Onebeat is one of the most exciting retail-tech solutions today. We specialize in adaptive inventory management at scale, item by item.

Backstage Capital is a venture capital fund investing in the best startups led by underrepresented founders in the U.S. The firm was founded in 2015 by Arlan Hamilton and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, United States.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Community — Community is a text messaging service that connects individuals and organizations instantly and directly to their audiences through text messaging at scale.
CloudNine AI — Augmented Intelligence Systems, Augmented Intelligence Companies, Augmented Intelligence applications
Patientory — Patientory empowers our users with actionable insights from health data, incentivizing them to take control of their health outcomes.

David E. Weekly is the Founder and CEO of Medcorder and he was the Founding Director of Hacker Dojo. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Investment focus

Robotics, Drones, Aerospace
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
Sugarlogix — A precise reflection of human milk to provide the best nutrition for babies
Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.

Allen and Ollys International Limited -

Investment focus

FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
Seed, Convertible Note
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.

Franklin Resources is a global investment management organization known as Franklin Templeton Investments. They have an extensive global presence, including offices in 35 countries and clients in more than 150. Their common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BEN and is included in the Standard & Poor’s500:registered: Index.Franklin Resources Inc. NYSE: BEN is an investment firm originally founded in New York in 1947 as Franklin Distributors, Inc. It is listed on the NYSE under the ticker BEN as in Benjamin Franklin, whom founder Rupert Johnson, Sr. admired. In 1973 the headquarters moved from New York to San Mateo, California.The firm specializes in conservatively managed mutual funds. It offers products under the Franklin, Templeton, Mutual Series and Fiduciary brand names. Like other large investment companies, the firm offers a wide variety of funds but is traditionally best known for bond funds under the Franklin brand, international funds under the Templeton brand, and value funds under the Mutual Series brand.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series D
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Databricks — Databricks combines data warehouses & data lakes into a lakehouse architecture. Collaborate on all of your data, analytics & AI workloads using one platform.
Xverse — Xverse is the most advanced and user-friendly Bitcoin wallet. Earn BTC, trade Ordinals, and connect to Web3 apps powered by Stacks. Download for iOS, Android and Chrome.
Carmot Therapeutics — Drug discovery and development to target the root causes that drive cancer and metabolic diseases using Chemotype Evolution.

10X invests across the capital structure, alongside the world's top technology investors. They align Wall Street and Silicon Valley by bringing institutional capital to high growth ventures in private and public markets, helping founders and investors achieve scale and liquidity while retaining upside and control.10X was founded in 2004 andis based in New York.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Biofire — Sign up by April 13th to be the First to Experience the Future of Firearms.
Aanika Biosciences — Molecular-level solutions to global scale problems. Aanika is revolutionizing how products are tracked through supply chains.
Maximus — Elevate energy, sex drive, and promote hair growth with our doctor-prescibed programs. Featuring enclomiphene testosterone improvement. Find your protocol.

We are a highly experienced Australian-US venture capital firm ready to back seed phase startups with brilliant ideas & global potential.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

FairSupply — FairSupply's unprecedented supply chain visibility will transform your ESG decision making: Modern slavery. Decarbonisation. Biodiversity.
Flagship — Flagship is a retail technology platform to bring new technology to the brick-and-mortar retail world. Flagship is introducing innovative visual merchandising technology to the world of brick-and-mortar retail.
Secure Code Warrior — Secure Code Warrior helps developers write more secure code. We are focused on bringing an innovative approach to developer security training. Contact us today.

Eddie Lou is the Board Director and Investor of HiLink. He holds an MBA and a B.S. in Engineering from Washington University.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Email, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sonero — Notes, analytics, coaching. Better meetings with AI. Good meetings are made of strong hosts and focused attendees. Sonero helps with both.
Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
ReloShare — ReloShare is the world's first corporate housing & hotel live-booking and live-sourcing marketplace for the US market.

We invest in B2B tech entrepreneurs who are obsessed with solving complex problems in huge markets at pre-seed and seed stage

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
Otterspace — Otterspace takes care of DAOs.
Flinn Comply — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.

Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders

Investment focus

Software, Internet, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
ManholeMetrics — We are a multi-award winning sensor and analytics start-up on a mission to stop flooding and bring wastewater into the 21st Century.
SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.

UpWest is a Silicon Valley-based seed fund investing in Israel’s most promising entrepreneurs. UpWest is focused on a hands-on approach to supercharge the growth of its startups, providing the essential ingredients for success: seed funding, proximity and access to markets and capital, and a supportive community of talented peers. For moreinformation, visit upwest.vc.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

BeeHero — BeeHero - Your precision pollination provider for almonds, berries, apples and more We raise and keep exceptional bees by combining generations of commercial beekeeping experience with cutting-edge technology. Get premium bees & pollinate your crops with precision.
Unity SCM — Data across your entire supply chain easily collected and organized in one place
PerfectScale — Ensure peak performance at the lowest possible cost with data-driven intelligence to optimize each layer of the K8s stack.

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
Paxton AI — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
Atropos Health — Atropos Health rapidly provides personalized real-world evidence for any clinical decision

ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Pleap — Pleap is a medical engineering company specializing in the development of AI and IoT-based technology solutions tailored for medical institutions. The company's product offerings include "medimo" which is an AI tool that automatically creates medical record manuscripts from medical audio.
Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
Optieum Biotechnologies — Optieum Biotechnologies Inc. is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company committed to developing innovative scFv antibody-based therapies for the treatment of patients with cancers. Their proprietary platform technology, Eumbody System™, enables to develop and detect a scFv-based product candidates that specifically bind to, and modulate tooptimize the immune-cell function for oncology targets.We are committed to helping patients with severe diseases by bringing life-changing therapies to the patients in need.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Blobr — Get your branded developer portal to launch and grow adoption of your API products.
Asset Reality — Asset Reality manages and realises seized and confiscated assets for public and private sector clients globally.
StructureFlow — Corporate Structuring has now been visualized. StructureFlow helps leading organizations benefit by mitigating risk and optimize efficiency.

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that seeks to invest in early-stage startups operating in software, business to business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arklow — Compliance for AI Datasets and their Models.
Oblivious — Oblivious builds tools to allow you to use your sensitive data with internal and external partners while keeping it private and secure.
Pro Platforms — Our teams are developing tools for contractors, homeowners, banks, and other stakeholders in the residential and construction industries. We are a venture capital backed Company on a mission to digitize the $1.5 Trillion dollar US construction industry.

Z Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Z Holdings that invests in companies that focuses on the insurance and finance industry.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Content, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, South Korea, Thailand

Portfolio highlights

Vivident — Vivident is to create an unparalleled entertainment world where fans and creators collaborate, blurring the lines between the virtual and the real.
Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

Luigi Bajetti is the managing partner and founder of Lombardstreet Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California.Luigi is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the tech and internet industries, with a wealth of knowledge and expertise in building and scaling startups.As a full-time investor since2013, he has been leveraging his experience and insights to identify and support the next generation of Silicon Valley founders. With a passion for backing game-changing technologies and a talent for spotting emerging trends, Luigi has a proven track record of success in identifying groundbreaking startups. He has invested almost always at the earliest possible stage of seed in 20+ US startups valued at over $30 billion combined, including 8 that have since become unicorns.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Italy, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Cardenxe Sotol — Artisanal Small Batch 100% Sotol Spirit Cardenxe Sotol is a terroir-inspired premium craft spirit, distilled from the heart of the Dasylirion plant, in North of Mexico - where it holds a Denomination of Origin. Every label (Desierto and Sierra) honors a different environment in which the plants used to distill grew.
Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
Rebellyous Foods — Rebellyous Foods makes crispy, juicy, 100% plant-based nuggets. Your guests will love the taste. Your team will love the simplicity. Get Rebellyous with us!

Young Song joined NComputing as Founder and CEO in 2003.Mr. Song brings over 20 years of technology vision and entrepreneurial leadership with a focus on products that deliver life-enhancing value to education, business and consumers. He has founded and operated several start-up ventures with an inherent talent and track record for turning ideasinto viable products and sustainable businesses. He is also active angel investor through his own investment vehicle, Booga Ventures and Big Basin Capital as a venture partner. He founded and currently is Chief Executive Officer of NComputing group. Prior to co-founding NComputing, Mr. Song was also the founder and CEO of DoubleSight Displays, a company that delivered affordable and cost-effective dual displays to businesses and consumers and successfully acquired by Erae Inc, TV and Monitor company in South Korea. In addition, Mr. Song co-founded and was vice president of product marketing for eMachines, a pioneer in bringing affordable computing to consumers. eMachines went NASDAQ in 3 years and acquired by Gateway Computer. He began his career as marketing director for both TriGem America Corporation and TriGem Computer, Inc.Mr. Song holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. He is also an active volunteer for several non-profit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Palo Alto with his family.

Investment focus

Travel, Software, Logistics
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
Airmule — Airmule Founded in 2015 and built with love in Los Angeles, California, Airmule is a trusted community marketplace for anyone to affordably express ship worldwide with a traveler from a mobile phone or tablet.Whether across the country or the world, Airmule connects people to safely deliver packages anytime, anywhere at low rates and in lesstime. Airmule is the easiest way for people list their trip to earn money with their extra luggage space.
Talkwheel — Talkwheel is where you discuss what you are passionate about in life. We are ushering in the new days of mobile conversation. Want to argue over who has the cutest pet, debate politics, or talk about the Giants during the game? Talkwheel is the app for that!Instead of tweeting and getting no response, write in Talkwheel and find fellowaficionados to have meaningful conversations around topics you care about. Unlike most mobile forums, Talkwheel believes that forums don’t have to be ugly to be functional. That’s why we’ve designed a beautiful mobile app with you, the user, as the focal point. You can even continue the conversation at your desktop at social.talkwheel.com!

Sajeev Menon is an Associate Vice President at Infosys Ltd. . sajeev Menon is a successful executive and corporate officer track with deep experience in Sales, Delivery and Practice Management. Managed revenue of over $150M with a TCV of over $400M, and lead a team of over 120 consultants. Sajeev Menon is highly experienced in selling services inall the Oracle products including Oracle ebusiness, Peoplesoft, JDE, Seibel, Oracle fusion and Oracle edge products. Excellent general management and leadership experience, strong communication and team-building skills; and the ability to generate significant growth. Sold complex global programs and projects, lead sales and business development, established and grew Oracle partnerships to deliver planned goals. Strong communicator who fosters team work, partnerships and collaboration.

Investment focus

Software, Social Impact, Service Industry
Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

Hug Innovations — At Hug Innovations, we constantly endeavor to bridge the gap between people and technology through our wearable products. We believe that our world is in growing need of technology that is more companion than gadget. Innovations you can adopt without having to adapt to them.

Joe Sanberg is a public and private-sector entrepreneur and investor harnessing the power of innovation to improve the quality of life for all. He is Co-Founder of Aspiration, an online financial company built for everyone. Aspiration serves people at the heart of their financial lives – their banking account – in a trust-based model that empowerspeople to choose whatever fee they think is fair (even zero) and enables them to bank, invest, and spend in accordance with their values. Joe is regarded as one of the nation's leaders in the fight to end poverty. Joe has been the leading advocate for California's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for low-income families. Joe not only lobbied California to pass the credit, but in 2015 when the state didn’t allocate enough money for outreach, Joe created CalEITC4Me. This community organizing program has connected working California families with $4 billion of state and federal Earned Income Tax Credits. A native of Southern California, Sanberg attended Servite High School in Anaheim where he has created an International Leadership Program that supports students learning Mandarin and visiting China. Sanberg graduated from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Gaming, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Aspiration — Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice.
Bright Funds — All-in-one CSR platform for companies of all sizes: employee giving, volunteering, and grants management. Bring purpose and impact to your workplace.
Three Day Rule —

Lena Apler is the Founder and CEO of Collector Bank.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Marketplace
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Inimini — Inimini is a second-hand children’s clothing company by style and size.
Songsay — Share music video clips like gifs with sound!
Go North — Go North is an e-commerce aggregator operated by Amazon FBA entrepreneurs.

Alandsbanken provides retail banking, corporate finance, asset management, and private banking services to institutions and individuals.

Investment focus

FinTech, Social Impact, Sustainability
Series A, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Doconomy — Doconomy is a Sweden-based fintech company that offers digital banking services. Their vision is of enabling a sustainable lifestyle for everyone. Doconomy wants to inspire change in behaviour and reduce unsustainable consumption and carbon emissions. Doconomy activates a circular ecosystem, connecting the consumer, the producer, the retailer andinfluencer to futureproof planet earth, and achieve a sustainable lifestyle for all.

Techstars Ventures (formerly Bullet Time Ventures) is the venture capital arm of Techstars. Bullet Time Ventures is a $150 million fund based in Boulder, Colorado.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

KYD Labs — KYD Labs enables event organizer and artist events to be 2x more profitable through audience ownership, loyalty, and ticket resale.
Paperstack — We help online merchants supercharge their businesses, by offering capital to purchase inventory, invest in advertising, and hire more talent.
i-BrainTech — Elevate your athletic performance with neurofeedback training.

We're Ingka Investments, along with Ingka Centres and IKEA Retail, one of the three core businesses of Ingka Group. We invest in generations, not quarters.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, GPS
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kreditz — Kreditz makes sense out of open banking/PSD2-data with their proprietary Analytics Categorization Engine (ACE). By using ACE, Kreditz is able to fine-tune the transaction data (from any AISP-data aggregator) to make it understandable and usable in valid functional products such as income verification, credit scoring, KYC and many more. Theproducts are available both by API or by an integration-free Web portal. Kreditz serves industries such as consumer- & SME-lending, money transfer, auditing, gambling/betting, insurance and more throughout the Nordic countries.
DirectID — We build solutions that create frictionless financial experiences, breaking down barriers & creating trust with bank data online. Bank Data, Open Banking.
GoBolt — Logistics, Simplified. GoBolt is building a sustainable, first-party supply chain network. Delivering an end-to-end customer experience.

Google.org is a platform that pulls together Google's philanthropic efforts. Google.org funds teams with big ideas that have a long-term global impact.

Investment focus

Non Profit, Education, Information Technology
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

InnovateUS — InnovateUS provides no-cost, at-your-own pace, and live learning on data, digital and innovation skills for public servants like you.
Global Sisters — Global Sisters is a Making Business Possible for ALL women
Climate Policy Radar — Climate Policy Radar is a UK-based nonprofit, building open databases and AI-powered research tools to accelerate climate action

Fulfilling the global promise of blockchain technology by leveraging the Algorand protocol and open source software for an inclusive ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Parcision — Parcision revolutionizes the hiring process on Wall Street by introducing a crucial element: quantifiable skill. The current Wall Street hiring practice puts too much emphasis on alma mater and network connection, which deters many candidates. We aim to establish a quantitative approach that enables individuals from all backgrounds to assess theirskills and demonstrate their accuracy in analyzing critical market events, such as company earnings and economic announcements. We firmly believe that regardless of identity, sex, race, location, or educational background, everyone deserves an equal opportunity to pursue a rewarding career in the financial industry. Through our blind hiring and skills-first approach, we hope to change the DNA of Wall Street.To achieve this, we harness the power of Web 3 technology, specifically smart contracts, to facilitate and oversee tamper-proof tests that quantify candidates' analytical capabilities. By leveraging this advanced technology, we ensure a transparent, auditable, and provable performance metric for participants. The most accomplished participants are duly acknowledged financially and reputationally based on their exceptional proficiency. This recognition is facilitated through participants' undeniable track records on Parcision.Parcision is chess for financial analysts.
PlanetWatch — We leverage advanced technologies of the population to improve environmental monitoring worldwide and help protect public health
Quantum Temple — Quantum Temple is the Web3 platform that enables equitable exchanges between conscious collectors and ancestral communities. Our goal is to protect and share the knowledge, traditions, and art forms of cultures around the world in perpetuity through blockchain technology.

Aare Ventures - der Berner, Freiburger und Solothurner Business Angel Club. Bei unseren Veranstaltungen pitchen jeweils bis zu 10 top Startups aus der Region und der Schweiz.

Investment focus

Software, Industrial Automation, SaaS
Seed, Angel
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

qCella — qCella Impregnate natural fibers with copper and utilize them to create heating mats that outperform commercially available heating wires. When linked to a power source (e.g., a battery), the mats have the right electrical resistance over the entire structure, allowing them to heat uniformly.
Yoordi - scan order pay — We implement your desired concept according to your design. For efficient service and more satisfied guests. Order with tip calculator in just a few clicks. Without app download.
Fairpicture — Fairpicture offers ethical photo and video production and consulting services, working with local photographers and videographers and experts worldwide.

Tech CEO, Chairman and venture builder in sustainable tech, fintech and the future of work.

Investment focus

SaaS, Fitness, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Keia Ltd — From acupuncture to yoga, browse, compare and book on the world's most extensive wellness platform from the comfort of your phone, tablet or laptop.
Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.

We make equity investments in double bottom line companies developing innovative solutions to society's most pressing challenges.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Wellthy — Wellthy supports families with complex, chronic and ongoing care needs. Through our online platform, we connect families with their own dedicated Care Coordinator to help tackle the logistical and administrative tasks of caring for the ones they love, including themselves.
Daylight — Banking for you and your chosen family.
Circuit — Provider of micro-transition services intended to be offered through electric cars. The company's services uses electric vehicles which can be booked through application which are provided with responsible and efficient drivers, enabling users to access their shuttle service at their convenience.

Vertex US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

CloseFactor — CloseFactor uses machine learning to reimagine the business to business sales process, bringing the benefits of greater automation and precision targeting to sales teams.
ElevateBio — We provide the tools, time, and environment to innovate and accelerate development of life-saving Cell and gene therapies.
Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.

Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.
Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Venkat Vallabhaneni is the Founder & Managing Partner of Inflexor Ventures.He attend to the NJIT in 1988.

Investment focus

Apps, Fashion, Medical
Series A, Angel, Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

VioletStreet — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
e Health Access — e Health Access provides telemedicine services for non-emergency conditions.The company works on primary and preventive healthcare and allows communication between doctors and patients through various modes such as telephones or mobiles, video conferences, and chats and emails. It provides short-term prescriptions, enables physicians toadvise patients about reference to a specialist based on their conditions, and provides medication to kids as well allows them to contact and discuss various personal questions with doctors about health-related issues during travelling, allows patients to analyze lab test results, and offers natural or home remedies for minor problems.The company also provides post-operative care advice for non-emergency medical issues when patients are unable to consult their primary-care physicians. It offers a healthcare web portal, eVaidya.com which provides virtual doctor consultation services to patients apart from providing free personal health record storage services.
Hug Innovations — At Hug Innovations, we constantly endeavor to bridge the gap between people and technology through our wearable products. We believe that our world is in growing need of technology that is more companion than gadget. Innovations you can adopt without having to adapt to them.

Viola Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in Israeli or Israeli-related early-stage techology companies, in key market segments including FinTech, Consumer, Enterprise Infrastructure & Applications, Frontier & Deep Technologies (automotive, IOT, AR/VR, drones), Robotics and AgTech.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Duetti — Duetti acquires music catalogs from independent artists a-la-carte with transparent, data-driven deals. Fund your career and breathe new life into tracks with uniquely intelligent marketing. Partner with us one track at a time, or even just a percentage of one.
Volumez — Volumez is SaaS composable data infrastructure. With Volumez, you can deploy applications in your cloud with precise control of IO characteristics using a fully declarative interface.
Alive — Alive is building a globally leading decentralized artificial intelligence platform supported by a global community of developers, individuals, economists and technologists.The Alive Foundation is a steward, and will support and grow the Alive community until it becomes self-sufficient. Time51 Labs helped launch Alive, and currently serve asadvisors to the Foundation and operators.

Tomahawk.VC (www.tomahawk.vc) is an entrepreneur-led early-stage venture capital firm founded by serial entrepreneur Cédric Waldburger. We invest in global-first companies in Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A rounds. We give honest and quick feedback and value empathy, execution and clarity. We think that data beats experience beats opinion.Global-first companies are ventures that think and act global from the very start. They hire the best talent from anywhere in the world and build company culture incorporating remote employees from day 1. Investments range from USD 100k-1M per transaction and up to USD 2M per company. Global focus, based in Switzerland. Get in touch via www.Tomahawk.VC.

Investment focus

FinTech, Cryptocurrency, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Buynomics — buynomics is the leading solution to optimize your product portfolio. Our clients use buynomics to optimize pricing, promotions, & portfolio architecture.
Pods — Building DeFi. Strategies, primitives and tooling. Welcome to Pods.
Daylight — Our transaction recommendation API helps apps, protocols, and creators grow transactions and revenue.

Cristina Santin

Investment focus

FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.

Ashley Mayer is the Operating Council at Mixing Board . Ashley Mayer attended Georgetown University.

Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, Natural Resources
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.

Wiklöf Holding operates as a holding company. It invests in logistics, construction, helicopter, real estate ownership, trade, and tourism sectors.

Investment focus

FinTech, Social Impact, Sustainability
Series A, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Doconomy — Doconomy is a Sweden-based fintech company that offers digital banking services. Their vision is of enabling a sustainable lifestyle for everyone. Doconomy wants to inspire change in behaviour and reduce unsustainable consumption and carbon emissions. Doconomy activates a circular ecosystem, connecting the consumer, the producer, the retailer andinfluencer to futureproof planet earth, and achieve a sustainable lifestyle for all.