# Top 50 Social Impact Startup Investors in June 2026

## Praxis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 40
- 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.

## 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.

## Good Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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

## APX
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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.

## Google.org
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

## 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.

## Demeter
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy

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.

## 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.

## 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

## 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.

## Ascension
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, FinTech

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

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Oryzn Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Mobile

Early Stage VC. From Seed to Revenues.

## Tidal Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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

## 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.

## 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.

## 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

## Allen and Ollys International Limited -
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain

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## Techstars Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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.

## SOSV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

## 1/0 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

1/0 Capital is a privately held partnership that invests in growth stage companies.

## Ingka Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: South Holland, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, GPS

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.

## Wouter Born
- Type: Angel
- Location: Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

Wouter Born is a Founder at Born Capital. He attended IESE Business School.

## 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.

## Samaipata
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Real Estate

Samaipata is a specialized and pan-European venture capital fund investing in digital platforms with network effects at the early stage across Europe. With over $160M of assets under management, we start with investments of $750k to $2.5m and reserve up to $10m for future rounds, from pre-seed to Se

## 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.

## Working Capital Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Supply Chain Management, Software, Data Visualization

Working Capital Fund is an Investment Firm.

## coparion
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

Coparion provides venture capital to accelerate momentum and growth. With a currently active fund of EUR 275 million, Coparion has the means to do so.Coparion supports entrepreneurial vision with know-how, but without intervening in daily business operations. Thanks to in-depth experience in venture capital and in building companies, the Coparionteam discerns potential and opens up new perspectives. Coparion has the substance, tenacity, and creativity required to mutually manage difficult situations successfully.Coparion only invests with co-investors. The fund invests up to EUR 15M per company, usually in several financing rounds of EUR 0.5-8M each. The investment focus is on German companies in the start-up and early growth phases. Coparion is based in Cologne and Berlin.

## 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.

## Israel Innovation Authority
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Software

The Israeli innovation agency, the Innovation Authority, was established in 1965 as the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and was designed as a body that supports R & D conducted in the framework of government research institutes. Industrial development in order to increase industrial exports of high-techproducts. The Chief Scientist focused on reducing the risk by participating in financing the project, which the private companies chose and led.

## Sajeev Menon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sacramento, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Software, Social Impact, Service Industry

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.

## Curt Hopkins
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Fitness, Payments

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

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

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

## Brian Requarth
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, SaaS

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.

## 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.

## Musaab Hakami
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp

## 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.

## Ananda Impact Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

We are the home for entrepreneurs with a big vision who want to create something less ordinary. Something that matters. For all of us.

## Canary
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Canary is the first partner of the best founders in Latam.

## Signal Peak Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Signal Peak is a venture capital firm with more than $550 million of committed capital under management. The fund invests in information technology companies and looks for entrepreneurial teams with the potential to transform markets and create lasting value. Specific areas of focus include Internet, SaaS, enterprise software, communications,security, and mobile computing—all markets in which the firm has deep expertise.Our strategy includes providing a level of operational assistance that creates additional value. We take a labor-intensive, service-oriented approach by making early introductions to key customers and strategic partners, and by helping to recruit top executives and co-investors.Collectively, the Signal Peak team has founded and served as senior officers or board members in dozens of companies. The team has a combined history of successful company leadership and private equity investments that span over 60 years. As a result, our team has the resources, decision-making experience, and strategic relationships to meet the demands of today's passionate entrepreneurs.

## 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.

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