Top 50 Social Startup Investors in United States in September 2025

Investor	Social United States investments
Betaworks	8
SV Angel	8
Spark Capital	6
Sweet Capital	6
Groove Capital	5
First Round Capital	5
Boost VC	5
Goodwater Capital	5
Founders Fund	4
Freestyle Capital	4
Felicis	4
Greylock	4
Ronald Conway	4
Cyan Banister	4
Relay Ventures	4
Precursor Ventures	4
Golden Ventures	4
Redpoint	4
Andreessen Horowitz	4
Tuesday Capital	3
Pascal Levy-Garboua	3
Rothenberg Ventures	3
Accomplice	3
Ulu Ventures	3
Floodgate	3
Cowboy Ventures	3
MaC Venture Capital	3
Tim Kendall	3
Fuel Venture Capital	3
Bessemer Venture Partners	3
HearstLab	3
Overline	3
Gaingels	3
Wei Guo	3
Maverick Ventures	3
Learn Capital	3
Builders and Backers Capital	3
Fuel Capital	3
Uncork Capital	3
Shrug Capital	3
37 Angels	3
Kapor Capital	3
Homebrew	2
Brightstone Venture Capital	2
XFactor Ventures	2
Forefront Venture Partners	2
Ryan Allis	2
Kickstart	2
Zillionize	2
Finnvera Venture Capital	2

Betaworks is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome
Flower Labs — A unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. Federate any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language.
Quadratic — Spreadsheet with Python, JavaScript, and SQL built-in. Data Connectors to pull in your data. Take your data and do something powerful with it now!

SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ai.work — Amplify your team with intelligent AI Workers connected to your systems, knowledge, and policies - built to work the ticket queues, automate the repetitive tasks, and get things done - lightning fast.
TravoAI — Mobile app for annotating PDF worksheets with real-time AI tutoring. Made by Stanford students.
Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.

Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Medallion — Provider credentialing and enrollment reimagined. Accelerate time-to-revenue, stay compliant, and scale provider operations, without adding headcount, through automated credentialing and enrollment.
Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.
Piston — The Smarter Way to Fuel Your Fleet

Sweet Capital is the private investment fund of the founders of King.com (Candy Crush Saga), following their $5.9b sale to Activision Blizzard in 2015 (ATVI:US; acq. MSFT:US).

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Pachama — Harnessing AI to drive carbon capture and protect global forests
The Expert — Book consultations with the world's top design experts
Masters — Train mind and body on the Masters app with full workout programs designed and run by the world's best athletes. Join today and start training like a pro.

Groove Capital is a new investment firm targeting early-stage companies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Rorra — Rorra creates plumbing-free water filtration products to provide safe drinking water for individuals.
Vireo Ag — Vireo Ag is a Biotechnology Research firm developing a plant genome editing platform for crops effective and efficient growth.
Claros Technologies — Claros Technologies Inc.- Advanced Materials Company

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Flex — Start growing your business today by accepting HSA/FSA payments. Flex offers the most comprehensive solution on the market with a solution for all e-commerce needs.
Central — Central simplifies payroll, hiring, benefits, and compliance for startups, automating back-office tasks to save time and reduce risks.
Parallel — Parallel is a technology company focused on adapting the web for artificial intelligences. It builds retrieval, ranking, and reasoning systems that enable AIs to perform high-value tasks using web data. The company's initial offering is an API designed to facilitate these interactions, enhancing the capabilities of advanced AIs.

Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Virtual Reality
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Neurvona — AI Digital Twin Personas
Castle — Castle is a technology company that makes it easy for companies to add bitcoin to their treasury, regardless of their knowledge of bitcoin. We enable businesses to go from zero to bitcoin in less than 48 hours.
m00m world — m00m multiplayer sci-fi world! Build your container home, make friends, play mini-games, and fight the F8 Corporation. Based on our audio series and webcomic.

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Memebox — Memebox Corporation is a consumer company that provides customers with the Asian beauty products, culture, and trends. A global company focused on forecasting trends and creating private, in-house labels inspired by K-beauty (and made for the product obsessed).
Bigger Games — Bigger Games, a dynamic mobile gaming company, is at the forefront of transforming the mobile gaming landscape. We aim for great execution and passionately work on each and every detail in our casual games to build the best experience for our players.
Stackup — Stackup is transforming how businesses manage their on-chain operations by offering a smart account platform designed to simplify and automate complex blockchain tasks. As the need for seamless, secure, and efficient crypto transactions grows, Stackup provides centralized control over decentralized assets, allowing businesses to take charge ofevery detail of their operations with ease. Our platform integrates advanced security and adaptive features to eliminate the chaos of traditional crypto wallets, empowering businesses to manage their crypto stack in real-time. Whether you’re orchestrating large-scale transactions or ensuring complete transparency, Stackup’s solution brings order and precision to blockchain management—turning crypto chaos into structured, seamless business flow.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Armada — The Armada Platform is a whole new way to succeed at the Edge with Starlink connectivity, mobile data centers & AI. Schedule a demo today.
Eight Sleep — Fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer with personalized cooling and heating for each side of the bed. The Pod reduces snoring, tracks your sleep, and works with any mattress. Try it risk-free for 30 nights.
Aven — Inventing new ways to save people money

Freestyle is an early-stage venture capital firm with investments in over 130 technology companies including Airtable, Intercom, Patreon, and BetterUp.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Dash Bio — A modern, automated platform engineered from the ground up to deliver high-quality and dramatically accelerated bioanalysis.
Stackpack — AI-powered visibility and control for your company's spend and contracts - fully synced with your financial software. Try it risk-free for 30 days today.
Infinity Constellation — Infinity Constellation is an AI-focused startup holding company and incubator that builds and launches service-based businesses leveraging artificial intelligence. Their mission is to empower visionary founders to create the next generation of impactful, tech-enabled companies, emphasizing long-term growth and sustainable value creation.

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Knox — Knox Systems is a provider of security solutions, dedicated to enhancing safety and efficiency for businesses and organizations. With a focus on innovative technology, Knox Systems offers a comprehensive range of products and services, including access control systems, surveillance solutions, and integrated security management.
Slingshot AI — Slingshot AI is a mental health research lab building a foundation model for psychology. Our mission is to use AI to make mental health care more accessible, and to help people change their minds and lives the way they want to.
Cambridge Terahertz — Cambridge Terahertz, a leader in terahertz (THz) imaging technology, offers an AI-powered Concealed Weapons Detection (CWD) solution to enhance workplace security. Our patent-pending system can see through clothing, luggage, plastic, paper, ceramics, and cardboard to detect concealed threats, including firearms, knives, and explosives.

Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Baseten — Baseten is the ML Application Builder for data science teams. Ship full-stack apps in minutes. No frontend, backend, or infrastructure knowledge required.
Mandolin — Streamline your infusion center operations with Mandolin. Our AI workers handle back-office tasks within your EHR, leveraging millions of buy-and-bill datapoints to ensure peak efficiency. Focus on delivering life-changing therapies, not paperwork.
Cogent Security — Discover how Cogent Security's AI-native platform leverages the latest advances in machine learning to streamline security workflows, free up resources, and accelerate risk reduction.

Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Advertising
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Canada, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.

Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vigil Labs — Vigil Labs is an applied research lab building proprietary systems for trading.
Barndoor AI — Barndoor AI offers a centralized governance layer to manage granular access, policy enforcement, and visibility across agentic AI workforce.
TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!

We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ownright — Doormat is a real estate lawyer that combines legaltech and proptech by enhancing the property legal process with advanced technology solutions online to ease the real estate buying and selling process.
Trusty Estate — Trusty helps you create a digital Letter of Wishes, so the things you love end up with the people you love. Securely add assets, documents, and more.
ALT Sports Data — Real Time Alternative Sports Betting Data.

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, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Parento — Parento is a pioneering national insurance-based solution for paid parental empowering companies to support working parents with proactive, tangible paid leave coverage and employee resources.
Voiceops — Your high-volume calls contain the blueprint for business growth, cost reduction, and risk management. Voiceops doesn't just analyze calls - it works alongside your team to automatically implement improvements that most businesses miss.Founded in New York and backed by top-tier investors on both coasts, Voiceops has driven billions ofdollars of revenue and cost-savings for industry leaders in education, financial services, and insurance. Real results: 80% increase in close rates, 98% reduction in compliance violations, 70% reduction in post-call work, 93% reduction in attrition, and 50% reduction in cost per lead.We're a fast-growing AI platform, with customers who have called our AI teammate “stunning” and the most advanced capability they’ve seen “by a landslide” — and we're just getting started.
PlayMaker — PlayMaker is building the modern operating system for sponsorships—centralizing inventory, contracts, activations, and reporting in one place so commercial teams can move faster and prove ROI. Designed and built by industry insiders who sat in the seat of rights-holders and brands, PlayMaker combines intuitive workflows with AI to extract contractterms, surface under-utilized assets, streamline approvals, and generate executive-ready reporting.

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
Vessel — One platform for all your investor relations needs.
Pillar Security — One platform to identify, assess and mitigate security risks across your entire AI lifecycle.

Redpoint partners with visionary entrepreneurs to create new markets & redefine existing ones. We invest in startups across seed, early & growth phases.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Anam — Anam is the developer of real-time AI personas for brands to increase consumer interaction..
Augment — Augment is an AI tool that help the logistics company with AI assistants, emails, chats and invoicing services.
Zed Industries — Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lead — Lead Bank is a community-minded, independent commercial bank with a national client base recognized for its imaginative approach to community banking.
Databricks — Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data Intelligence Platform.
Allocate — Allocate is the operating system for private market alternatives investing

Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Kollegio — Kollegio is an AI-driven platform for college applications.
Paypercut — Paypercut is a fintech startup that allows small and mid-scaled merchants to offer Buy Now, Pay Later at checkout via a single integration.
EVERBLOOM — Bloomlabs provides a method to catalyze waste value by regenerating it as adaptable and appealing bio-plastics and textile fibers. It envisions a future in which outmoded, resource-intensive processes are phased out in favor of cutting-edge, sustainable, and scalable alternatives.

Pascal Levy-Garboua is an angel investor, founder, and operator. He is currently VP. Business Development at Checkr, where he joined as their first executive and Employee #9.Previously, he was CEO/Cofounder at SixDoors, Cofounder at VirtuOz (acquired by Nuance Communications) and VP Product at IQ Engines (Acquired by Yahoo). He started hiscareer at eBay in France.Pascal invested in 85+ Companies including Checkr, Wag, Womply, Origin, RealtyShares, and Caviar (Acquired by Square).

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Morocco, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Wave Sports + Entertainment — Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company building brands, original content, talent, and products for the next generation of digital super fans.
Litehaus — AI Agent for Construction making construction faster, cheaper and smarter. From text to build.
Base64 — Base64 Document Intelligence Platform automates document processing with Agentic AI and over 2,800 prebuilt models.

Rothenberg Ventures invests in early-stage frontier technology startups. Its team of investors, operators, and community builders support founders through portfolio success programs across virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, drones, space, next-generation hardware, and IoT. It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

VRChat — VRChat is a virtual reality social platform that allows users to easily build social virtual reality content. Any virtual world built with the VRChat platform instantly becomes a social VR world. This means VRChat users can explore and play in these worlds together, in a social setting. Using VRChat, content creators can take their 3D worlds and bewalking around those worlds in VR, with friends, in under an hour. Users can then sell their content to other users using the VRChat market place.It was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Wave — Wave focuses on interactive virtual experiences with a mission to help artists make money at the intersection of gaming and entertainment. Wave’s technology enables musicians to create lifelike avatars of themselves that can “perform” their music on a virtual stage. Most of these virtual shows take place either on the company’s YouTube channel, butWave’s apps let users tune in on gaming consoles, phones or even the Oculus Rift VR headset. While watching a Wave, viewers can log in to comment in a chat function and give live feedback to the avatar performers.
InsiteVR — InsiteVR helps architects and 3D designers easily create immersive virtual reality experiences. At InsiteVR.com architects and 3D designers can upload existing 3D models, which are then converted and optimized for viewing in virtual reality devices like the Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or simply on mobile devices.Trying to understand 3D spacesby looking at static two-dimensional pictures is not intuitive. Communicating those 3D designs to a client, friend or colleague who isn't trained to understand 3D space isn't always trivial either. With virtual reality, architects and designers can effortlessly communicate the essence of their designs, save time and feel confident their viewer understands the design.

Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office. We have been part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, Coinlist, Currencycloud, DraftKings, FalconX, FLOW, Freshbooks, Integral Ad Science, Hopper, HQO, Luna, Near, Orchard, Patreon, PillPack, Plastiq, Recorded Future, SecurityScorecard, Skillz, Veracode, Work Human, WHOOP, Zoopla, and more. We are also founders behind Accomplice Blockchain and the Spearhead operator-angel movement.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bolo AI — At Bolo AI, we are pioneering the future of knowledge management in heavy industries, starting with Oil & Gas. Our groundbreaking platform combines domain-specific models with cutting-edge AI technology to redefine how millions of heavy industry professionals access and create vital knowledge. Our products, Bolo AI Answer and Bolo AI Writer,streamline access to critical information and documentation processes, setting new standards in productivity, safety, and efficiency.
TrueX — TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets.
Throne — Throne is a health company that focuses on individual gut wellness and hydration maintenance.

With deep connections to Stanford and Silicon Valley, Ulu Ventures is a venture capital firm that actively seeks and funds women and diverse founder teams.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

TrueMeter — EcoTrove is your energy concierge for cheaper, greener and more predictable power bills.
Empo Health — Empo Health is an in-home health monitoring that fits seamlessly into patients' lives.
RevelAi Health — RevelAi Health delivers AI-agent powered care coordination and patient engagement tools to optimize healthcare delivery. By leveraging large language models and machine learning, RevelAi identifies care gaps, automates outreach, and improves outcomes, with a strong emphasis on underserved populations. The platform integrates seamlessly intoclinical systems, aligning with value-based care models and addressing both clinical needs and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), with a specialization in orthopedic care.

Your first true believers. Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Plug — Plug is a wholesale auction that facilitates online buying and selling of used EVs.
Replenysh — Replenysh is a set of tools for communities and companies to build circularity in days, not years.
Bluejay AI — Bluejay is the platform for AI agent quality assurance. Reducing development processes from days to minutes, preventing performance regressions, and identifying issues before entering production.

Palo Alto-based VC supporting extraordinary seed-stage founders of all backgrounds to build legendary technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Palla — Palla is a REST API that lets banks empower their customers to request, receive and manage international inward remittances. Its product is built to allow its partners to fully customize the experience within their app and includes tailored reporting to drive customer insights and engagement.
Portex — Portex makes freight procurement more efficient by eliminating emails, spreadsheets and pdfs, while instantly unlocking insights to lower freight spend.
Continuum — Simplify B2B returns, warranties, and repairs with Continuum; the only Returns Management Software designed for distributors and manufacturers.

MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious. The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace.MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful LosAngeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Blok — Prioritize the right experiments and simulate potential product decisions. Discover the future of product development driven by AI.
Quilt Health — Quilt Health is a digital health company focused on improving access to innovative treatments for people living with rare and complex conditions, starting with sickle cell disease. The company leverages technology, data integration, and artificial intelligence to streamline clinical trial recruitment, enhance patient access to therapies, andstrengthen provider networks
Carrot Credit — Carrot Credit is a financial services company that provides line of credit to the customers and businesses.

Tim Kendall is the Co-Founder of Moment.He attend to the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2004.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Pendulum — Improve glucose control, metabolic health, gut function, and support a healthy weight. The only brand with live Akkermansia. Pendulum Metabolic Daily | Optimizes metabolism Pendulum Akkermansia | For gut health Pendulum Glucose Control | For A1C management Pendulum Butyricum | For occasional gut discomfort
Alto Neuroscience — We leverage brain biology to develop personalized medicines, helping patients get better faster.
Checkmate — Never miss a deal.

Fuel Venture Capital is a firm located in the heart of Miami's iconic Coconut Grove where it works to fund the world's most promising startups and integrate lifelong investors into the creative economy. Fuel Venture Capital applies a tested methodology to mitigate the risk of early-stage investing. Founded in 2016, Fuel Venture Capital isindustry agnostic in its venture sourcing, targeting instead exceptional entrepreneurs with experience and vision. The firm’s “founder-focused, investor-driven” approach is led by a core team with decades years of combined experience in investment banking, wealth management, and executive leadership.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Curve — Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015.
Transak — Transak offers a simple integration to allow your users to buy more than 100+ cryptocurrencies with credit/debit cards, or bank transfers in more than 120+ countries.
Aracor AI — Discover how Aracor AI delivers advanced Legal AI solutions to streamline business processes, enhance decision-making, and drive efficiency for modern enterprises.

We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

DroneDeploy — DroneDeploy is a provider of cloud-control software solutions for drones which include automated flight safety checks, workflows, and real-time mapping and data processing.The company has partnered with leading drone manufacturers like DJI to provide its software to end users in a variety of industries, including agriculture, real estate, mining,construction and many other commercial and consumer arenas. DroneDeploy is compatible with any drone.
Sphinx — Sphinx is AI that thinks in statistics and patterns and generates artifacts and insights that an adult can reproduce and fully own.
Unrivaled — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.

HearstLab provides cash investments and services to early-stage, women-led startups innovating across fintech, data analytics, health, transportation, enterprise technology and media. Its mission is to close the gap in VC funding for women by helping founders build sustainable and highly scalable businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sandgarden — We help support teams eliminate tedious tasks and focus on meaningful work. Our AI daemons work in the background, making your engineers more effective without changing how they work.
UNLISTED — Find your next home before it goes on the market
Quantum Platform — Quantum | B2B platform to acquire new customers, use our marketing & consumer behavior analysis tools to reach your exact target audience right to their doorsteps!

Overline is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Atlanta. We lead pre-seed and seed rounds in support of exceptional founders building in the Southeast.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Logistics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

Portfolio highlights

Sevii — Cybersecurity industry's first Autonomous Defense and Remediation (ADR) platform that harnesses advanced agentic AI technology to neutralize adversaries in real-time.
BreachRx — Reduce business risk by proactively streamlining the planning and response processes for privacy and security breaches with our dynamic and automated platform. Take the crisis out of breach response.
Pickleheads — Discover all of the pickleball courts in your area! The Pickleheads court finder has the most comprehensive list of indoor and outdoor pickleball courts. Browse over 13,000 places to play in the US and Canada. Filter by court type, surface, amenities, lighting and more.

Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of diversity, inclusive of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

1up — 1up is a competitive AI for users to observe and understand everything their competitors are doing. 1up accelerates and automates the competitive experience for teams. 1up enables teams to save hours of manual effort in product, sales, and marketing, understand what their competitors are building and saying, and win competitive deals faster andeasier than ever before.
Holly — Equipping local governments with the tools to streamline hiring, optimize workforce management, and attract top talent. With deep expertise in civic innovation, our team understands the unique challenges facing HR departments and is committed to delivering powerful, data-driven solutions that save time and simplify processes.
Qnovia — Respira Technologies is a platform device and biotechnology company focusing on aerosol science. The company is creating breakthrough aerosol devices and formulations that safely deliver a broad range of pharmaceuticals and nicotine.Respira Technologies' mission is to create novel medical devices of unparalleled efficiency and to advance theprotection of public health with consumer devices through novel innovation, responsible sourcing, draft legislative proposals, transparent product information, and common sense oversight.

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.

Maverick Ventures is the venture arm of multi-billion dollar investment firm Maverick Capital. Combining the resources of a global firm with the benefits of an agile, focused team, Maverick Ventures supports entrepreneurs from seed through maturity. With over 30 years of early-stage investment experience, the Maverick Ventures team has funded morethan 100 companies in the healthcare, software and deep technology sectors. The highly-experienced team of operating executives and investors at Maverick Ventures generally lead rounds, take board seats and work with management to build successful enterprises.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Series A, Series C, Seed
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

Nourish — Achieve your desired health and wellness through personalized nutrition counseling. Nourish is the easiest way to find a registered dietitian and get it covered by your insurance. Find a dietitian today and start your telehealth appointments.
Mandolin — Streamline your infusion center operations with Mandolin. Our AI workers handle back-office tasks within your EHR, leveraging millions of buy-and-bill datapoints to ensure peak efficiency. Focus on delivering life-changing therapies, not paperwork.
Daymark Health — At Daymark, we connect the dots between your primary care physician, your oncologist, and the rest of your care team to create a seamless, supported experience for you 24/7, year-round.

LearnCapital is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on funding entrepreneurs with a vision for better and smarter learning. They believe that the future is shaped by the way we teach and learn in the present, and that we’re in the middle of one of the great revolutions in the history of education. New technology platforms, applications, andservices are not only amplifying and augmenting classroom learning, but creating a world in which any Internet-enabled device can become a classroom on demand.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Feeling Great — Feeling Great is a mental wellness app that offers a revolutionary AI-powered chatbot and interactive learning program, which have been developed based on the groundbreaking work of David Burns, MD and his T.E.A.M. approach to cognitive behavioral therapy.
Emergence — Emergence is technology company that advances science and development of AI agent systems for enterprise.

Builders + Backers Capital offers syndicate investments to accredited investors wishing in early-stage companies solving our communities greatest challenges.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Soar — As the world's top ai powered human development platform, our mission is to uplift humanity, unleashing and maximizing every person's strengths, helping them reach their full potential.
Digiphy — Build QR codes and templated pages to connect directly with customers, capture first-party data, tell your origin story, drive sales, product registration and more.
SureBright — Increase Revenue with SureBright's Insurance-as-a-Service Platform Today!

Fuel Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm investing in consumer, SaaS and infrastructure businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Charm — We build tools to make the command line glamorous.
Rosebud — Rosebud's therapist-backed platform combines AI with interactive journaling, habit-building, and emotional support. See significant improvements in just 7 days.
Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.

Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Koobz — Koobz is revolutionizing footwear with fully automated, on-demand production. Discover sustainable, high-quality shoes made faster and more efficiently in the USA. Join us in shaping the future of footwear manufacturing.
DroneDeploy — DroneDeploy is a provider of cloud-control software solutions for drones which include automated flight safety checks, workflows, and real-time mapping and data processing.The company has partnered with leading drone manufacturers like DJI to provide its software to end users in a variety of industries, including agriculture, real estate, mining,construction and many other commercial and consumer arenas. DroneDeploy is compatible with any drone.
Amperos Health — AI coworkers for healthcare billing teams that help collect on claims.

Shrug Capital is a Venture capital firm that invests in consumer-based startups. Shrug Capital was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
Antares — Continuous energy with no sustaining supply chain for 3 years. Automated controls, power management, and distribution with no specialized workforce.
Shinkei Systems — We set the standards for the integrity of our food and our ecosystem. The highest quality on the market, our fish are traceable from line to table.

Community of women angel investors that offers angel investing training for investors

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Liberare (Formerly Intimately) — Intimately sells adaptive bras and underwear for women with disabilities. We sell the easiest bras to put on that are also fashionable. Front opening bras with the newest technology allow for easy dressing for everyone.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is the fastest growing on-demand delivery management software for restaurants and beyond. We help businesses to launch a delivery program in-house or upgrade their third-party delivery infrastructure.
Just Enough Wines — You deserve quality wine, whenever, wherever. Premium, great-tasting wine in the convenience of a can.

Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups. They are an Oakland-based fund that understands that startup companies have the ability to transform entire industries and to address urgent social needs as they do so. It was founded in 1999 and headquartered in Oakland, California.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Parento — Parento is a pioneering national insurance-based solution for paid parental empowering companies to support working parents with proactive, tangible paid leave coverage and employee resources.
Beanstack — At Beanstack, we are in the business of motivating people to read more. Through our platform, you can run reading challenges, readathons, and more.
Subscript — Create, understand, and tell the story of your subscription business through numbers.

Seed venture capital and operational expertise for mission-driven entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Mexico, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Ambrook — Manage your finances, improve your margins, and stay independent.
Scrunch AI — Scrunch AI is a platform that empowers businesses to understand and optimize their presence in AI search.
Bluejay AI — Bluejay is the platform for AI agent quality assurance. Reducing development processes from days to minutes, preventing performance regressions, and identifying issues before entering production.

Brightstone Venture Capital (BVC) has a 30 year history of building successful technology and life-science companies. We love to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs with a unique vision of how to solve a huge problem in a large and growing market, and help them "dream big" and achieve their vision.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Therapeutics
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Afriex — Send and receive money to and from Africa at no cost. Get a completely free multi-currency Afriex e-wallet and begin sending and receiving money to Africa instantly.
Xplore — Xplore is flying commercial missions in Earth orbits with their XCRAFT™, and they invite you to join us. They take civilian, commercial and national security payloads to their desired orbit around Earth for their science or reconnaissance missions.
Mosaic — Mosaic is a construction technology company building software to make residential construction more scalable. The company operates as a digital general contractor to provide construction and related services to homebuilders and residential developers, allowing them to offload their construction processes and related needs to Mosaic’s integratedplatform and team. Mosaic’s platform standardizes the construction process, and not the homes, allowing them to deliver places people love and create better communities.

XFactor Ventures is focused on making pre-seed and seed stage investments in companies with billion dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Buildstock — Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation.
Morf Health — Morf Health is making it 10x faster for healthcare providers to setup and maintain integrations across their tech stack, e.g. easily structure data from patient intake and send to an EHR. We pull data out of the tools they use to deliver care and run the business, unify and normalize the data, and then send it to the tools that need it.
Pow.bio — Pow.bio provides fermentation services for synthetic biology.

Forefront Venture Partners is one of the largest and most successful syndicates on AngelList. Founded by Phil Nadel, Forefront Venture Partners (formerly Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners) invests in high-growth, revenue-generating, early-stage companies with great teams.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, New Zealand, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Sprout.ai — Sprout.ai, the most intelligent claims automation engine, was created by experts in AI to revolutionise the insurance experience.
Illuma — Illuma Shield is the voice authentication and fraud prevention solution from Illuma, a FinTech serving credit unions and community banks
Illuma Labs — Frictionless Voice Authentication and Fraud Prevention for Credit Union Call Centers

Ryan Allis is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He is currently a Managing Partner at HeartRithm (www.heartrithm.com), a crypto quant fund,and the Chairman Hive (www.hive.org).Ryan was previously the co-founder and CEO of iContact from 2003 until 2012. iContact grew to 300 employees, 70,000 customers, and $50M in annual sales before its Feb2012 sale to Vocus (NASDAQ:VOCS) for $170M.Ryan is also an angel investor and has invested in 34 firms including SpaceX, Robinhood, LendingClub, Change.org, and Off-Grid Electric.Ryan served as a National Co-Chairperson for Tech for Obama during the 2012 Presidential Election along with Reid Hoffman and Marc Benioff and was a inaugural member of the United Nations Global Entrepreneur Council. Ryan is the author of The Startup Guide: Building a Better World Through Entrepreneurship at www.startupguide.com and the book Zero to One Million (McGraw-Hill, 2008).Ryan attended the University of North Carolina and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Social Media, Collaboration, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Crux — Crux is a messaging app for college students. It lets you share, discover and organize what's happening right now on campus. It has a smart, channel-based group chat that makes it faster and easier to run an entire group in one place. It also offers a location-based feed of everything that’s happening on campus. We're based in Venice,CA and launched in January 2015. Our investors include Jason Calacanis, LAUNCH fund, Ryan Allis, Big Colors, and Patrick Gannon of Lending Club. We're also featured on the App Store.Download the app here: http://dl.crux.la/m/XFtbNympZl
Bento — We believe that you should not have to choose between eating healthy and conveniently. Bento delivers delicious Asian food in minutes in San Francisco. Using our app, customers start building their Bento by choosing a main dish. We have three options, that rotate daily. Next customers choose four side dishes. We have six to eight side options, thatalso rotate daily.The menu focuses on Asian-inspired food with dishes like Korean short ribs, Japanese eggplant, dragon roll, seaweed salad, okonomiyaki, and gyoza.After placing an order, customers track their server’s location and progress. They’ll meet our server curbside, grab their Bento, and it’s time to eat!Our patent pending packaging enables this system allowing for delivery in an average of 15 minutes.Since launch we have seen double-digit W/W growth.
Butter.ai — The rush of bots may be exciting to contemplate — there is a lot of promise in the idea of combining artificial intelligence, natural conversation and super fast computing to make our lives easier.

Seed investing in the Mountain West since 2008

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Rad AI — Made for Radiologists, by Radiologists. Empowering radiologists with AI to save time, reduce burnout, and improve patient care.
Redo — Redo develops a free return automation application for brand owners. It turns refunds into exchanges or store credit. It also automates the return process to operate under preferences and helps clients transform their returns center into a profit center. Its package protection simplifies claims management with an all-in-one customer portal, makingit easy to offer, track, and resolve claims.
Data Quality Co-Op — As the independent clearinghouse for data quality signals, we transform how buyers and suppliers of 1st-Party data measure, understand and manage quality.

Zillionize is a seed round startup investor. We focus on early-stage investing in founders who see the future and startups that create the future. We are self funded experienced operators. Our team live and breath enterprise software on a day to day basis and are equally as passionate about other areas of technology.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tavus — Programmatically create thousands of videos of yourself, without saying a word. AI generated videos for sales, product, marketing, recruiting, and more
Metriport — Metriport helps digital health companies access and manage patient health and medical data, through an open-source and universal API.
Thera — All things money movement. Built for global teams. Thera is an ecosystem of apps designed to save you money - Payroll, Banking, AP/AR. Whether you're looking to use one of our products or the full suite, we've got you covered.

Finnvera makes direct investments in early-stage enterprises through Seed Fund Vera Ltd. Finnvera's goal is to cover shortcomings existing on the market between product development funding and private equity investments. Finnvera does not compete with private financiers; instead, it strives to supplement the financial market.Finnvera'sinvestments enable, start and accelerate growth and internationalisation among investment targets. Enterprises are developed to make them attractive targets for further financing by other investors and industrial actors. Investments are made in technology enterprises at an early stage and in technology-intensive or innovative service enterprises that have potential for developing into international growth enterprises.Finnvera is also known as a specialised financing company owned by the State of Finland. It provides its clients with loans, guarantees, venture capital investments and export credit guarantees.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

AISTI — AISTI develops wood fiber-based acoustic tiles that are carbon negative, easy to recycle and plastic-free – bringing sustainability to construction tile by tile.
Nexstim — Nexstim is a medical device company that specializes in image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation. The company is committed to improving the quality of life of patients with significant unmet clinical needs. It has developed a SmartFocus TMS technology designed for the treatment of the major depressive disorder.The company was founded in2000 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Southern Finland.
Enifer — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.