# Top 50 Social Impact Startup Investors in United States in June 2026

## Praxis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 35
- Stages: Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
- Focus: Non Profit, Social Assistance, Education

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

## Social Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

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

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

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.

## Connetic Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Covington, Kentucky, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Higher Ground Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Politics, Government

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

## SixThirty
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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

## CV VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology

We invest in blockchain

## SquareOne Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning

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

## Franklin Templeton Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series D
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Spero Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Education

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

## 10X Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech

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.

## Gaingels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech

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.

## David E. Weekly
- Type: Angel
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Robotics, Drones, Aerospace

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.

## Eddie Lou
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, Email, E-Commerce

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

## UpWest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software

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.

## Backstage Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

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.

## J-Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Machine Learning

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.

## SquareOne
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

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

## Ashley Mayer
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Natural Resources

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

## Nexus Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that helps founders build product-focused companies. The firm actively partners with founders at inception, seed, or series-A stages and stays involved throughout the company's growth. With $2.6 billion in capital, Nexus invests mainly in enterprise software in the US and digitally-drivenbusinesses in India.

## Omidyar Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Education

Omidyar Network is a philanthropy whose mission is to bend the arc of the digital revolution toward shared power, prosperity, and possibility.

## Daniel Gutenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

Daniel joined VI Partners in July 2003 as a Venture Partner focusing on IT. He started his career as Chairman and CEO of Gutenberg Communication Systems AG, a company he founded in 1991. Subsequent to selling Gutenberg Communication Systems AG to the Telindus Group in 2000, he became Country Manager of Telindus for Switzerland, Austria andHungary during the next two years, and he was also a member of the Executive Board. Since 2002 he has been taking consulting and advisory board assignments for various companies.

## Google.org
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Non Profit, Education, Information Technology

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.

## Ausum Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Blockchain

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.
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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.

## ISM Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Social Impact

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.

## Kapor Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Education, Software, Health Care

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.

## Lux Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

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.

## Drone.VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Robotics, Drones, Forestry

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.

## Elevation Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Elevation Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on consumers, enterprises, logistics, and B2B.

## Varsha Rao
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software

Varsha Rao is an Executive Partner at Flare Capital Partners, former Head of Global Operations at Airbnb, CEO of Nurx and COO at Clover Health. She was the Co-Founder of Eve.com. Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.She is an active angel investors withsuccessful investments in AI-Infra, Healthcare, Vertical AI, Consumer Tech and more.

## Joseph N. Sanberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Gaming, FinTech

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.

## New Media Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Non Profit, Government, Software

New Media Ventures is the first seed fund and national network of angel investors supporting media and tech startups that disrupt politics and catalyze progressive change.

## Signia Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile

When we started Signia, we wanted to build a firm that reflected the type of investors we would have wanted to work with in our entrepreneurial careers.

## Good Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Social Impact, Recruiting, Skill Assessment

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.

## Clocktower Technology Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica-based venture capital business focused exclusively on financial technology.

## Kishore Ganji
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marlboro, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software

Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures.

## The JumpFund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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

## Rethink Education
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: White Plains, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Education, EdTech, Software

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.

## Innova Memphis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Memphis, Tennessee, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device

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.

## TMT Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Social Media

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.

## Citi Impact Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services

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.

## Hustle Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Carlos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Oxford Angel Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

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.

## Precursor Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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.
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## Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Eagan, Minnesota, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Non Profit, Health Care, Communities

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

## Collab Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Marketplace, Analytics

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

## Mercury
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology

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.

## Portfolia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology

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

## Chingona Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce

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.

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

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