Top 50 Social Impact Startup Investors in United States in September 2025

Investor	Social Impact United States investments
Praxis	35
Right Side Capital Management	5
Connetic Ventures	5
Social Capital	5
Higher Ground Labs	4
CV VC	4
SixThirty	4
Spero Ventures	3
Franklin Templeton Investments	3
SquareOne Venture Capital	3
SquareOne	3
J-Ventures	3
David E. Weekly	3
Backstage Capital	3
10X Capital	3
Gaingels	3
UpWest	3
Eddie Lou	3
Rethink Education	2
Innova Memphis	2
TMT Investments	2
Citi Impact Fund	2
Ausum Ventures	2
Hustle Fund	2
Oxford Angel Fund	2
Precursor Ventures	2
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota	2
ISM Angels	2
Ashley Mayer	2
Collab Capital	2
Mercury	2
Portfolia	2
Chingona Ventures	2
Chris Adelsbach	2
Entrée Capital	2
The JumpFund	2
Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund	2
Kapor Capital	2
Matthew Dowd	2
Socially Financed	2
Brian Requarth	2
WndrCo	2
Alliance of Angels	2
Aflac Global Ventures	2
I2BF Global Ventures	2
Working Capital Fund	2
Orbit Startups	2
Lux Capital	2
Drone.VC	2
Techstars Ventures	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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Rethink Education is a venture capital fund focused exclusively on education technology that invests in early- and growth-stage start-ups looking to scale their solutions both domestically and across the globe.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Peru, France

Portfolio highlights

Campus.edu — Campus.edu is a community college focused on maximizing access to world-class education.
Campus — Live courses with top professors.
MagicSchool AI — Join thousands of teachers saving hours of time using AI to help lesson plan, differentiate, write assessments, write IEPs, communicate clearly, and more!

Founded in 2007 by the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, Innova is a pre-seed, seed and early-stage investor focused on starting and funding high-growth companies in the Biosciences, Technology and AgBio fields across the state of Tennessee. Innova links capital with great ideas to create groundbreaking products and services.At Innova we invest instart-up companies, help them grow, and then assist them in linking with established corporations for licensing, buy-outs or further investments. We provide the synergy of experienced management, market expertise and venture capital to accelerate the development of new products and services into viable business units that can stand on their own and then take their place with a mature market leader, if desired.Whether an innovation is still on the drawing board or stalled in the market place the Innova staff has the expertise, skills, and experience to envision and create a functioning business unit that is prepared to thrive in the market place. Technical know-how, market-proven staffing, and "just-right" funding assure the greatest chance possible for success.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Argentina, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Isomark Health — Isomark Health is a patented AI-based, real-time and 100% green breath technology that detects and prevents bacterial and viral infections.
Rantizo — Rantizo provides drone spraying systems and support services for custom applicators, agribusinesses and contractors. Elevating precision ag.
Glanris — Glanris developed a completely green, non-toxic, filtration media for water purification from an agriculture by-product. This agricultural product is grown around the world, is plentiful, and can be used locally to ensure clean drinking water in developing countries. It also gives local farmers a significant additional income source for a productthat today they are throwing away.This media has been independently tested over the last two years of development and is ready for production.

TMT Investments PLC invests in high-growth technology companies across a number of core specialist sectors and has a significant number of Silicon Valley investments in its portfolio. Founded in 2010, TMT has invested in over 65 companies to date. The Company’s objective is to generate an attractive rate of return for shareholders,predominantly through capital appreciation. The Company is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. www.tmtinvestments.com.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Feel — We make the cleanest, potent supplements in the world. Delivered straight to your door. Designed by nutritionists for energy, sleep, stress and hair, skin & nails.
Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
Mobilo Card — Share your contact details with a tap. The best digital business card for teams. This is a real business card, no app. The best and cheapest digital business card.

Through our $500 million Impact Fund, they are using their own capital to make equity investments in "double bottom line" U.S.-based private sector companies that are applying innovative solutions to help address some of society's pressing challenges.They typically co-invest alongside other investors in the venture capitalecosystem, making equity capital commitments ranging from $250,000 to $10 million across the seed to pre-IPO stages. Investments are primarily made in companies that have demonstrated proof of concept, secured prior rounds of funding, and exhibited the potential for scale. They invest in four verticals: the future of work, climate resilience, financial inclusion, and social infrastructure.They are actively seeking opportunities to invest in businesses that are led or owned by women and minority entrepreneurs to help combat the gender and race gaps that exist in the VC-funded startup world. As part of this commitment, early-stage seed investments are primarily allocated to businesses that are led or owned by women and minorities.Additionally, as part of Citi and the Citi Foundation’s $1 billion+ Action for Racial Equity initiative, the Citi Impact Fund’s Black Entrepreneurs Investment Initiative—a $50 million capital commitment from Citi to help reduce the racial wealth gap by creating equitable access to venture capital funding for black founders—has made equity investments in tech-enabled ventures led by black founders.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Clerkie — We help struggling Americans solve hard financial problems with real-time automated solutions
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.
Bitwise Industries — Bitwise Industries was founded in 2013 to move Fresno’s technology ecosystem forward by focusing on the key areas of education, execution, and place. Education is delivered via Geekwise Academy, an accelerated training program providing real-world technology skills to all ages. Bitwise Industries provides execution by way of its full-service,custom software development firm, Shift3 Technologies. And, the ever-growing place component is made up of Bitwise’s collaborative workplace, Hashtag, the technology hub, Bitwise South Stadium, and two new projects currently under construction in downtown Fresno, Bitwise|41 and Bitwise State Center Warehouse.

Investing in blockchain technology as an instrument of social change is a bold strategy. It is a paradigm that empowers entrepreneurs and fuels technologies, not for the world that we live in today, but for one that enables a better tomorrow. At Ausum, we have embarked on an ambitious journey towards financial and social inclusion by harnessingWeb3. The decentralization of the internet will change how we organize intelligence (both human and machine) and capital globally.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MyCrypto — Securely manage ALL of your crypto accounts with MyCrypto. Swap, send, and buy crypto with your favorite wallets like Ledger, Metamask, and Trezor.
Syncfy — LATAM's leading financial API.
Proof of Impact — Proof of Impact (POI) is the leading B2B SaaS ESG and Impact Data Intelligence Platform. The company incorporates a micro-services architecture to collect, visualize, and analyze ESG and impact data. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

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

Deskree — Generate a complete and scalable back-end infrastructure with tons of features via a web interface. Infinitely scalable & truly independent.
EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.

Oxford Angel Fund is an early-stage investor that invests in technology-based companies and start-ups. The Oxford Angel Fund is a group of Oxford-educated angel investors with the common interest of investing in Oxford-educated entrepreneurs. Their investment goal is to support Oxonian Entrepreneurship through funding and mentoring.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

CNote — CNote created technology to streamline community-centered impact investing at scale. Further Racial Equity and Social Justice by investing with CNote.
Uprise — Uprise is building wealth management for all - bringing the tools and the tricks of the 1% to everyone :). The company was founded by Chris Goodmacher and Jessica Chen Riolfi.
Proof of Impact — Proof of Impact (POI) is the leading B2B SaaS ESG and Impact Data Intelligence Platform. The company incorporates a micro-services architecture to collect, visualize, and analyze ESG and impact data. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

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

Crate — Crate is an AI-powered shareable artifact that is filled with data collected from across the internet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States.
StretchDollar — The simplest, most affordable health benefit option for small businesses. More control over your budget and more choice for your people. Get started today!
Wicked Saints Studios — We used behavioral technology to create interactive media that is wickedly fun and actively good. Wicked Saints emerged from Niantic’s incubator last fall (CNBC article) with a prototype of the world’s first adventure activism game, World Reborn. At its simplest, World Reborn is an interactive story game with real-life quests facilitated byaugmented reality (AR). It not only defies genres between narrative and AR games but blends the digital and real world. Wicked Saints sees AR as a bridge between fantasy and reality, with untapped potential to offer players immersive experiences that change them and their world for good.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is a health insurance company that provides health plans and programs.

Investment focus

Non Profit, Health Care, Communities
Grant, Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

All Nations Rise — All Nations Rise is a non-profit organization.
Children's Defense Fund-Minnesota — Children's Defense Fund-Minnesota leads programs to serve and empower children, families, and communities.
African Economic Development Solutions — African Economic Development Solutions (AEDS) builds wealth within African immigrant communities through economic development. Our program and services include business lending, development, and financial capabilities. Our events - Little Africa and the National African Leadership Conference - build communities.

The only community exclusively investing in startups founded by Alumni of ISM Dhanbad. Our mission is to build a community of ISM angel investors who will support ISM startup founders.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Social Impact
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Chezuba — Chezuba enables companies to build employee volunteering and employee giving programs through it's high-quality software and an NGO partner network spread in 76 countries

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.

Collab Capital - Transforming genius into generational wealth. A New Institution for Black Entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

WriteSea — Writesea helps online recruitment marketplaces unlock new revenue by offering white-labeled career services to its candidates. Our mission is to help candidates find meaningful work and employers find quality talent. By partnering with us, job boards have the capability to increase their bottom line and improve the overall candidate experience. If you truly care about your candidates, schedule a demo with our team today.
SmartHelio — SmartHelio wants to be the doctor for solar plants: we remotely diagnose existing problems, predict faults and prescribe solutions in real time. Our team is made up of highly skilled engineers and scientists with deep domain knowledge of solar technology and data science. The company has developed a cost effective Edge Computing IoT device(HelioHealth, FitBit for Solar), world’s first in its category, that collects and processes data at the panel level using its proprietary physics-based algorithms. SmartHelio provide a dashboard or fully integrate into the existing customers’ IT platform. SmartHelio is deploying AI on Edge devices to reduce the cost of data collection, storage, and processing without compromising the quality of analytics services. This empower energy developers and managers to maintain their assets consistently at a high-performance level with minimum human intervention. SmartHelio is able to generate 5% extra energy and optimize 30% of O&M effort.
National Cycling League — The National Cycling League (NCL), a pioneering professional sports league powered by cutting-edge technology, offers fans a first-of-its-kind experience by using its own patented technology to measure athletes' speed, performance, and health in real-time.

With over $500 million under management and $8 billion of value creation since inception, Mercury focuses on entrepreneurs and startups across Middle America. Our investment themes target SaaS, cloud, and data platforms enabling the digital transformation of markets, industries, and customer relationships.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Polco — Polco is an online community engagement platform that provides the tools local governments need to bring community members and leaders together.
Blumira — Blumira helps lean IT teams protect their organizations against ransomware and breaches with an open SIEM + XDR platform.
Brassica Finance — Brassica Finance develops an investment infrastructure for private securities and digital assets. Its API-forward solutions are designed to seamlessly integrate with the existing infrastructure of the investment platform.

Investing Funds Designed for Women Backing Innovative Companies We Want in the World - For Returns and Impact

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Attn: Grace — Attn: Grace is a sustainable wellness brand designed for women. Starting with bladder leakage, they're creating thoughtful, more sustainable solutions for life’s inconvenient truths, one challenge at a time.
Prime Roots — Prime Roots is on a mission to provide a better cut of meat for every type of eater. Rooted in koji, Prime Roots is able to replicate the taste and texture of meat without any of the environmental costs of animal proteins.
Carbice Corporation — Carbice is the first no-compromise thermal interface material. It achieves all the advantages of both solid and liquid thermal interface materials without any of the pitfalls.

Chingona Ventures, headquartered in Chicago, focuses on industries that are massively changing and founders whose backgrounds uniquely position them to create businesses in growth markets that are often overlooked. Chingona Ventures' focus areas are in financial technology, female technology, food technology, health/wellness, and futureof learning at the pre-seed/seed stage.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Empower3d — Empower3d provides athletes with the opportunity to connect with and learn from industry leaders across all facets of business. The goal is to provide athletes with unbiased advice and a network of experts to support the next chapter of their careers.
Kudos — Kudos is a smart assistant in the browser that tells the customer the best card to use when they check out when shopping online. Their first offering is a browser plugin that helps users maximize the benefits of their cards when they shop online by calculating rewards and perks for them and streamlining the checkout process with seamless autofill.Over a million merchant sites can use Kudos, which supports about 3000 different cards.It was founded in 2021 and is based in Woodland Hills, California.
Sigo Seguros — Sigo uses data and automation to provide lower-cost policies for the Latino market.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
Kavida.ai — Kavida helps procurement managers ensure on time deliveries and improve supplier collaboration.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.

We're a team of former serial founders managing over $1B across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cypago — End-to-end intelligent compliance solution for any security standard including SOC 2, ISO 27001, SOX-ITGC, and HIPAA
Swapp — Real estate developers, architects and engineers use Swapp to design buildings in a smart, flexible and efficient process.
NVision Imaging Technologies — NVision Imaging Technologies is leveraging advances in quantum physics to enable the first routine, convenient and affordable use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for assessing early patient response to cancer treatment at the metabolic level.

The JumpFund is an all women investment group investing only in women-led ventures in the Southeastern United States.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Resilia — Our mission is to strengthen the capacity of nonprofits and help grantors scale impact through data-driven technology solutions. Our clients are champions for public good. They are big-picture entrepreneurs solving global problems. They are local organizations creating positive dialogue within their community. They found schools and fund the arts.They fight for progress where they work. We are honored and humbled to be a part of their story.Resilia powers the people changing the world. After spending nearly a decade advising nonprofits and grantmakers of all sizes, Founder and CEO Sevetri Wilson set her sights on transforming the nonprofit sector through technology.Resilia was launched in 2016 as a software solution to expedite the incorporation and exemption process of nonprofit organizations across all 50 states. Today, Resilia has evolved to serve nonprofits, foundations, corporations, governments, and other grantmakers. Our methodology is centered on trust-based philanthropy principles. Resilia, a name that represents a commitment to positive impact, is the only SaaS platform solution that enables nonprofits to increase capacity and funders to go beyond the grant with technical assistance, coaching, and capacity-building support. We meet changemakers where they are.Resilia’s mission has always been to strengthen and uplift nonprofit organizations by elevating their stories, driving advocacy efforts, and prioritizing those that are underserved through long-term capacity building. From our team to the organizations we serve, DEI is in everything we do.As of May 2021, Resilia has raised over $11M in venture capital. We are based in New Orleans with an office in New York City.
Inclusivv — Inclusivv is an engagement platform designed to help companies, universities, and communities increase understanding and collective action around important topics.
Funding U — Funding U is a merit-based student lender for career-focused college students. It offers an alternative to old FICO and cosigner-based bank loan models, and offers loans on the basis of student's academic performance, career trajectory, and earning potential, thus enabling students to apply for loans with fixed interest rates and avoiddropping out of college.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Rabobank emerged from several small agricultural cooperative banks, founded by Dutch farmers in the late nineteenth century. Food & Agriculture (F&A) is in our DNA, from which we built a unique position in the F&A sector as a key financier and international player, attributes which we leverage for the benefit of our stakeholders andportfolio companies. We recognise and understand the food security challenges lying ahead of us and how Innovation in F&A supply chains is key to the solution, which is why we are dedicated to committing capital to the space.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, The Netherlands, Canada

Portfolio highlights

30MHz — The data platform for horticulture | Sense. Act. Impact.
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.
EarthOptics — EarthOptics is building the cloud-based machine learning platform for soil and ground management.

Kapor Capital is an Oakland-based venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming startups. We redefine what venture capital is capable of by prioritizing a new outcome: a more fair, just, and equitable society for low income communities and underrepresented communities of color.

Investment focus

Education, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Japan, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Attn: Grace — Attn: Grace is a sustainable wellness brand designed for women. Starting with bladder leakage, they're creating thoughtful, more sustainable solutions for life’s inconvenient truths, one challenge at a time.
Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
Driver Technologies — Turn your phone into a dash cam.

During the past thirty years, Matthew Dowd has helped shape strategies and campaigns for CEOs, corporations, foundations, governments, candidates, and presidents. He most recently founded Paradox Capital, a social impact venture fund focused on for-profit social good companies. His experience in business and politics will help bridge the paradoxbetween capitalism and social consciousness. Over the last 25 years, Dowd has been an active entrepreneur in Austin, Texas founding three companies which have been highly successful including Vianovo and Public Strategies, all of which he sold his interests in to pursue other endeavors. Dowd has worked both sides of the aisle, but now considers himself a diehard Independent. Dowd’s political work includes serving as the chief strategist on two winning re-election efforts – for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006 and for President George W. Bush in 2004. His innovative approach on the 2004 campaign led the bi-partisan American Association of Political Consultants to name him Strategist of the Year.In the 1980s and 1990s, he advised a wide variety of political clients including helping former Democrat Texas Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock win election and re-election. He has also worked as a member of Democrat U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen's staff, and has worked on the staffs of two Democratic Congressmen.Dowd currently serves as a special correspondent and analyst for ABC News where he appears on This Week, Good Morning America, and Nightline, and writes a regular column for various publications. Dowd covers not only politics but cultural, economic, and spiritual trends as well. He has served on the boards of various non-profit entities including Seton Family of Hospitals, a Catholic nonprofit health system in Texas. He was adviser to Bono at the One Campaign, and to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has taught seminars at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and the University of Texas’ LBJ School of Public Affairs.He is co-author of the New York Times bestseller Applebee’s America: How Successful Political, Business and Religious Leaders Connect with the New American Community.

Investment focus

Social Impact, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Verb — Verb accelerates Paycor Paths, a new product for creating customized learning and development journeys for frontline leaders and their teams.
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.

We're a group of SoFi employees, alumni, partners, and friends with hard-won experience building financial services and technology businesses. We leverage our network and expertise to identify and, most importantly, support early stage entrepreneurs that are transforming financial services.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Ownify — Ownify offers a powerful mortgage alternative for first time homebuyers. With a 2% down payment we make a cash offer and buy the home with you. Learn more.
StellarFi — We Pay Your Bills, So YouCan Build Credit. With Stellar your bills are paid on time and on your terms.
Meanwhile — Licensed and regulated life insurance in Bitcoin. Leverage the value of crypto today and pass it to the next generation without passing on a huge tax burden.

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).

WndrCo is a holding company that acquires, operates, and develops businesses at the intersection of technology and media.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Frond — Building new spaces for communities that can't share a place.
Arpeggi Labs — Arpeggi is a web3 music creation platform where musicians can publish their sounds for others to create with. Begin remixing samples, loops, and songs in our free in-browser DAW in one click. Connect with artists. Grow your following.
Byte Kitchen — Byte Kitchen builds ghost kitchens that make the best dishes from the best restaurants.

Largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Vega Cloud — Vega is a next-generation Cloud management platform. With increased visibility, scalable management, and advanced optimization strategies, Vega can save you up to 35% on your monthly cloud bill.
Give InKind — Set up a Give InKind Page to coordinate support from anywhere. Create a Care Calendar, add items to your Wishlist and connect your Crowdfunding - all for free.
Inherent Biosciences — Inherent Biosciences is a molecular diagnostics company that revolutionizes trial and error medicine and restore hope. The company does this by discovering what's inherent in our biology about the unexplained and translating discoveries into personal insights that inform actions.Inherent Biosciences develops medicines for treating pain,infertility, embryo quality, autism, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, fetal heart disease, COVID-19, and many more.

Aflac Corporate Ventures invest in startup companies in cancer, health tech, and insurtech business areas. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Columbus, Georgia, United States.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Insurance
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Japan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

PhableCare — Experience simplified chronic disease management with intelligent health insights. Manage diabetes and hypertension, with 24x7 assistance from your doctor.
Pendella — Pendella is an on-demand insurance agency that offers employee benefits, business and business owner protection, and HR solutions to businesses. Pendella was founded in 2018 and is based in Fort Myers, Florida.
Covr Financial Technologies — About Covr Financial TechnologiesFounded in 2016, Covr offers a full suite of digital life insurance platforms, tools and planning services for financial institutions, including: Covr Advisor for financial advisors, Covr Consumer for offering insurance products directly to customers financial institutions and Covr Insights for inforce policymanagement. Covr currently serves over 24,000 financial advisors and 13 million customers across 30 financial institutions including wealth management firms, RIAs, IBDs, banks, credit unions, personal finance apps and P&C agencies. Covr’s investors include leading venture capital firms: Nyca Partners, Commerce Ventures, Allianz Life Ventures, Connectivity Capital Partners, Contour Venture Partners, Connecticut Innovations and Fairview Capital. Covr’s Advisory Board includes financial services leaders including Brian Finn, former president of Credit Suisse First Boston; Sallie Krawcheck, CEO of Elevest and formerly at Citigroup and Smith Barney; Hans Morris, managing partner, Nyca Partners, chairman of Lending Club, formerly president of Visa; Brady Dougan, former CEO of Credit Suisse; Gregg Fleming, CEO of Rockefeller Capital, Bob Kerzner, formerly CEO of LIMRA and Joe Plumeri, formerly of Smith Barney, FirstData and Willis Group.

I2BF Global Ventures is an international venture capital firm with a global investment mandate. Established in 2005, I2BF Global Ventures has $400M+ under managment and it is currently investing from its fifth fund.The mission of I2BF Global Ventures is to seek out innovative and competitive companies across SaaS, Hardware Enabled B2B solutions(AI, IoT, AR, VR, robotics, RPA & automation), Digital Healthcare, and New Media, which it believes can lead the path to a brighter future. Since the first investment in 2006, I2BF Global Ventures has successfully backed 60+ startups and exited 12 companies.In keeping with its worldwide investment focus, I2BF Global Ventures retains a team of technology and sector experts in New York, London, and Los Angeles. This impressive team ensures a truly global venture capital strategy and a hands-on management approach.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
Portside — Portside is an aircraft data, reporting & analytics platform for individual and corporate plane owners.
AeroCloud — AeroCloud is revolutionizing airport management delivering modular, scalable airport operations solutions based on leading-edge technology.

Working Capital Fund is an Investment Firm.

Investment focus

Supply Chain Management, Software, Data Visualization
Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Contingent — Contingent is an enterprise supplier risk and resilience platform that provides users with tools and services to assess, screen, monitor, and analyze risks in their supply chains.
CompScience — Kinetic Eye's ground-breaking technology allows for detection of risk within hours rather than days. Protecting your bottom-line and more importantly, your employees.
Proof of Impact — Proof of Impact (POI) is the leading B2B SaaS ESG and Impact Data Intelligence Platform. The company incorporates a micro-services architecture to collect, visualize, and analyze ESG and impact data. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
India, Singapore, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.
Tappi — Convert one-time customers into loyal ones by getting discovered, growing leads and building your business reputation.

Lux Capital manages over $5 billion in assets focused on founding, seed, early-stage, and growth investments at the intersection of technology and the sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high growth sectors. Its investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux's investmentstrategy ensures our portfolio companies are better connected, have a deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mendaera — Mendaera enables all healthcare providers to perform precise and consistent point-of-care interventions. Their platform combines real-time imaging, robotics, and artificial intelligence to aid physicians in image acquisition and interpretation.
Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
Pivotal Commware — Pivotal Commware was established in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough in electromagnetic physics, Holographic Beam Forming™ (HBF). Years ago, Pivotal’s founders recognized that wireless demand for data would outgrow the complex coding, multiplexing and modulation schemes that network operators have deployed thus far. Beamforming was theanswer, but existing high cost, size, weight and power-consuming (C-SWaP) solutions were not. That’s why Pivotal assembled a team experienced in advanced commercial antenna and RF circuit design, advanced DARPA technology programs, and, uniquely, active/nonlinear metamaterials. Beyond technology, Pivotal also offers the depth and breadth of skills to develop integrated, end-to-end solutions.

Drone.VC Syndicate: This is a domain-specific syndicate built to discover and invest in prototype-phase companies working with drones. Investments are intended to be the first money in to these companies, often as early as time of incorporation. Applications are expected to cover a very wide range of geographies and industries, including farming,oil and gas, real estate, retail/delivery, and security/surveillance. They do not plan on investing in military-focused applications or weaponized platforms.As the founder of the world's largest hackerspace, Hacker Dojo, and Mexico's first seed fund for tech entreprenurs (Mexican.VC), David is well-connected to the global startup community. As an award-winning startup mentor, David has a rich history in mentoring successful startups, including naming Sean Parker's Plaxo (exit to Comcast for >$150m), acting as the lead advisor for Attassa ($Xmm to YouSendIt), advising Like.com (exit to Google for >$100m), and dozens of others.

Investment focus

Robotics, Drones, Forestry
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
Nightingale Security — Fully autonomous, 24/7 physical security drone systems equipped with real-time aerial surveillance cameras & data gathering sensors.

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

LunarCrush — Smarter crypto, NFT, and stock investing with insights from millions of conversations happening across social.
In-Seam — IN-SEAM. LUXURY, CONNECTED.
AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.