Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors

Investor	Social Media investments
SVA	45
Betaworks	24
First Round Capital	22
True Ventures	20
New Enterprise Associates	20
Lowercase Capital	19
Uncork Capital	19
Greycroft	19
Lerer Hippeau	19
Ronald Conway	18
Floodgate	17
Kleiner Perkins	17
General Catalyst	17
Andreessen Horowitz	16
Social Starts	16
Lightspeed Venture Partners	16
Google Ventures	15
Knight Enterprise Fund	14
Cyan Banister	14
Founder Collective	13
TMT Investments	13
Upfront Ventures	13
RRE Ventures	13
Slow Ventures	13
Benchmark	12
Jason Calacanis	12
Scott Banister	12
Advancit Capital	12
Foundation Capital	12
Crosslink Capital	12
Ludlow Ventures	12
Scout Ventures	12
Great Oaks Venture Capital	12
Greylock	12
Right Side Capital Management	11
Lightbank	11
Michael Birch	11
CRV	11
Founders Fund	11
Reid Hoffman	11
Correlation Ventures	11
Dharmesh Shah	11
East Ventures	10
Shasta Ventures	10
Gary Vaynerchuk	10
Spark Capital	10
Redpoint	10
BoxGroup	10
Sequoia Capital	10
Bessemer Venture Partners	10

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Our experience spans from helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe scale. Over the last 30 years of early-stage investing, our core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with our founder-first approachhave driven our strategy. We are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. We support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging our network to help them propel their businesses forward.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.
Amber Bio — Amber Bio is rewriting the rules of medicine.
Nomic AI — Nomic AI engages in improving both the explainability and accessibilty of AI.

Betaworks Ventures is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund, having invested in more than 150 companies. We invest in new consumer behaviors and trends powered by frontier technologies, and are often amongst the first institutional investors to invest.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Wand App — Wand is a co-creative, AI-driven tool that allows artists the manual control and customization they need to realize their ideas.
Tableland — A 3k generative NFT built from 1,074 handcrafted works of art for the builders and creatives of cyberspace.
Ghost Message — Ghost your messages

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Ossium Health — Ossium is building the world's first bone marrow bank to treat blood cancers, improve organ transplantation, and repair damage from radiation.The cells of the immune system are the human body’s natural defenders against disease. At Ossium, they are developing better methods of recovering, preserving, deploying these critical cells to keepdisease at bay.
Cymbal — The human readable block explorer. Explore any wallet, NFT or collection to understand their activity, all in real time.
Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.

A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lex — Lex is a modern writing tool that helps people think through their ideas and communicate more effectively.
Carbon13 — We are the venture builder for the climate emergency, with a mission to reduce CO2e emissions by 400m tonnes through scalable climate tech ventures.
PayNearMe — PayNearMe is a modern and reliable billing and payments platform that lets your customers pay how, when and where they want.

New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’slifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Functional Finance — Automated FinOps for Insurance. Unify and automate all of your financial operations, workflows and servicing without replacing your current infrastructure.
Nexo Therapeutics — Nexo Therapeutics is a small molecule oncology company dedicated to the discovery and development of new drugs for cancer patients who currently lack meaningful therapies.
Embrace — Stay informed with Embrace's mobile monitoring solutions. Optimize app performance & user experience with our comprehensive platform. Learn more now.

Lowercase Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed/startups, mature, and acquisition of later-stage companies. The firm typically invests in wireless, media, commerce, infrastructure, energy, and transportation sectors. It also advises businesses and funds. Lowercase Capital was founded in 2010and is based in New York, New York.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kolors — Kolors is a technological platform that focuses on providing intelligent intercity mobility of bus transportation in the region.
Tala — Tala provides flexible financial tools to help you borrow, save and grow your money, all from our app. Learn why millions trust Tala to build their financial future.
Tala — Tala provides flexible financial tools to help you borrow, save and grow your money, all from our app. Learn why millions trust Tala to build their financial future.

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

GPTZero — Covered by >100 media outlets, GPTZero is the most advanced AI detector for ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard. Check up to 50000 characters for AI plagiarism in seconds.
Inscribe — Inscribe helps financial institutions manage risk by empowering teams with fraudulent document detection, intelligent automation, and the ability to better understand customer creditworthiness.
Memfault — Memfault's IoT reliability platform empowers teams to build more robust devices at scale via performance monitoring, debugging & OTA updates.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Embrace — Stay informed with Embrace's mobile monitoring solutions. Optimize app performance & user experience with our comprehensive platform. Learn more now.
Octave — Octave is a national behavioral health practice that’s creating a new standard for care delivery that’s both high-quality and accessible to more people. With in-person and virtual clinics in California and New York, the company offers personalized care plans that can include individual therapy, couples therapy, and groups, while pioneeringrelationships with payers to make care more affordable through insurance. Grounded in science, Octave enables clients to experience profound change that is as measurable as it is meaningful.
Contextual AI — Contextual AI offers a pioneering approach to generative AI for the workplace.

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
Teleskope — Teleskope is a modern data protection platform that automates data security, privacy, and compliance at scale.
Advocate — Advocate will help Americans engage with federal agencies through a scalable technology-enabled services platform to provide disabled Americans with a transparent, hassle-free way to receive the government benefits they deserve. We believe that the application process for these benefits should be easy and the financial support accessible to allqualified claimants

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 — Query the future. Deliver predictive analytics across your enterprise in days, regardless of ML experience. Powered by cutting edge deep learning techniques.
Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.
Synapticure — The era of personalized care is finally coming to ALS. Synapticure will give all ALS patients access to the best care while fueling the advancement of personalized treatments for every type of ALS.

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

StoryCo — Story DAO platform enlists Hollywood creators to engage, solve, build, create, and co-own IP universes using blockchain.
Harmonic.ai — All in one platform with billions of datapoints on startups, talent, and trends updated daily. Start saving up to 10 hours a week per user with Harmonic today.
Roo — The premier veterinary relief services platform, Roo, pairs freelance veterinarians and technicians with animal hospitals in need of relief.

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lightforce Orthodontics — LightForce Orthodontics, founded in 2015, makes the world’s first and only fully customized 3D-printed bracket system that is based on the anatomy and tooth morphology of each patient. The company’s mission is to apply modern technology and mass-customization to improve the orthodontic experience for both patients and doctors. LightForce’s platformunites the latest in digital treatment capabilities with cutting-edge, on-demand, 3D manufacturing to offer clinicians the first significant advancement in bracket-based treatment protocol in the past 50 years. A first-of-its-kind in the orthodontic space, Lightforce offers an unparalleled platform for orthodontists and LightForce technicians to collaborate on treatment plans for each individual patient. The company’s solution significantly reduces patient visits to the orthodontist and time spent wearing braces by providing 100 percent fully-customized solutions that improve both convenience and quality, ensuring patients receive the gold standard of care.
Flagship — Flagship develops a SaaS data science solution that brings predictive machine-learning intelligence to retail. Its centralized platform helps businesses make timely, data-driven decisions across internal stakeholders and channels. Flagship enriches retail brands' first-party data with machine learning algorithms to optimize customer retention,inventory sell-through, and revenue.
Captions — Say hello to Captions, the only camera and editing app that automatically transcribes, captions and clips your talking videos for you.

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Modular — Modular is the next-generation AI developer platform unifying the development and deployment of AI for the world.
Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
Georgiamune — Georgiamune is a biotechnology company developing next-generation immunotherapeutics for cancer and autoimmune diseases.

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, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ideogram — Ideogram: Helping people become more creative.
Genesis Therapeutics — Their academia-leading research was the initial component of our expanding portfolio of AI technologies. They are combining novel deep neural networks, biophysical simulation, and massively scalable computing infrastructure to achieve industry-leading performance in a molecular generation and property prediction.The company was founded in 2019and based in South San Francisco, California.
Thyme Care — Thyme Care is a dedicated team of nurses and care experts offering value-based cancer care to help you through all phases of the cancer experience.

Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hey Jane — Get safe, effective and affordable abortion pills delivered fast to your home. Hey Jane is the first digital abortion clinic, connecting you to licensed providers in your state through telemedicine.
Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.
Fulcrum — Designed with technology in mind, be free of paper with Fulcrum, the manufacturing ERP of the future. Ai scheduling, visual BOM, live tracking

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies.Lightspeed Venture Partners invests invarious sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Markato — Markato offers an all-in-one online wholesale platform for businesses and stores in Asia to source from hundreds of premium, independent brands from the United States, Europe, and Australia.
Portkey — Portkey enables companies to develop, launch, maintain & iterate over their generative AI apps and features faster. It is an LMOps platform that speeds up your development and your app.
Endowus — Licensed by MAS. Grow all your money through intelligent investment portfolios built by experts, customised to your goals. Award-winning fee-only wealth platform.

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Context.ai — Context.ai is product analytics for LLM applications. Understand your users and improve their experiences in your LLM powered products.
deepset — We build Haystack NLP framework and deepset Cloud enterprise ML/NLP SaaS platform. We help you implement NLP.
EpiBiologics — EpiBiologics develops first-in-class antibody based targeted therapies against membrane and extracellular proteins that drive underlying disease biology.

Knight Enterprise Fund is a venture capital firm based in Florida that finances early stage investments of media and technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Digital Media, Social Media
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

WhereBy.Us — WhereBy.Us builds tools for content creators and media to grow and connect with engaged communities.
NewsGuard — Transparent Tools to Counter Misinformation on Behalf of Readers, Brands, and Democracies.
CODE2040 — Code2040 is a nonprofit activating, connecting, and mobilizing the largest racial equity community in tech to dismantle the structural barriers that prevent Black and Latinx technologists from fully participating in the tech industry.

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

Orson — Meaningful connection is a universal human need. It's our stories that create empathy and bind us together.
Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.
TipTop — Buying stuff is easy, selling it is hard. But maybe there is a world where you don't have to sell things any longer? Curious?

Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Akooda — AI-powered wizard for understanding and optimizing how you deliver value as a team
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Pollen — Grow your freelancing business with step-by-step playbooks from industry experts who have been in your shoes. Join the waitlist for early access.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. We invest in technology businesses across digital media, SaaS, consumer internet and retail innovation.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Clair — Clair is a New York-based fintech startup that provides Instant Pay Access as a service for human capital management platforms and the gig economy. With Clair, employees, and contractors get access to a digital bank account that allows them to get a portion of their earned wages as soon as they finish work. It aims to make every worker financiallyfree.
Renew — Renew is a scalable, centralized solution that automates and optimizes the lease renewal and renter retention process to drive NOI and improve the bottom line for multifamily property managers.
Hathora — Seamlessly build, deploy, and scale game servers globally

RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that is in it with founders when it matters

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, China

Portfolio highlights

OpenEnvoy — Invoice reconciliation for overworked finance teams. OpenEnvoy audits every invoice for duplicate billings, excess charges, and supplier fraud and has audited over $2 billion in spend to-date through automation.
Catio — Catio is a cloud infrastructure platform enabling companies to excel with cloud-native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution.
HYPR — HYPR delivers true passwordless multi-factor authentication. Increase identity security with FIDO-based, passwordless login for your employees and customers.

Slow Ventures is a community built on the collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Gleen AI — Accurate AI Support You Can Trust : Scale customer support with best-in-class AI solution and human expertise. Accurate answers and seamless integration with a variety of tools for a unified, cross-platform user experience.Helix offers a top-notch support solution for Discord, Telegram, and Twitter communities.Advanced AI: Learns fromdocuments, wikis, and chats for accurate responses; compatible with Discord and websites. Community Engagement: Incentivizes experts to address support tickets, enhancing engagement and efficiency. Unified Ticketing: Centralizes support ticket management across Discord, Telegram, websites & Emails.
Teamshares — One hundred percent close rate on LOIs. Committed capital with no financing contingency. Teamshares is the buyer of choice for your business listing. Request a buyer profile to learn more about us.
RecruitBot — RecruitBot Is A Platform That Helps You Find Top Talent Through Machine Learning, AI & Cloud Tools. Contact RecruitBot, The Top Online, AI Recruiting Agency

Benchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. They focus on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Woodside and San Francisco, California. The firm has been recognized for itscommitment to open source and is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The six equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company they back, with no junior investment staff. Current general partners are Matt Cohler, Peter Fenton, Bill Gurley, Mitch Lasky, Eric Vishria, and Scott Belsky. Benchmark has had 37 exits since beginning of 2011; 14 IPOs and 23 M&As representing a total market value of more than $60 billion.Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, Stitch Fix, Elastic and Cyanogen; recent IPOs and acquisitions such as Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, League of Legends, Jasper, OpenTable, New Relic, Hortonworks, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Instawork — Instawork connects local businesses with proven hourly workers for temp, temp-to-hire shift work.
LangChain — LangChain is a large language model application development library.
Here Not There Labs — Here Not There Labs develops a fully decentralized chat protocol for online communities. The company is composed of a team of web3 creators led by CEO Ben Rubin. Here Not There Labs is the developer of Towns, a protocol and a web-based chat app designed to facilitate self-owned and self-governed online communities.

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
CyberFilm — Bring your story to life!
Bonjuur — Housekeeping Membership that tidies up your house daily and cleans room by room, for a serene life. Welcome to Bonjuur Life.

Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Highlight — highlight.io is the open source monitoring platform that gives you the visibility you need.
Together — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
TipTop — Buying stuff is easy, selling it is hard. But maybe there is a world where you don't have to sell things any longer? Curious?

Advancit Capital is a venture firm investing in media, technology and web3 startups. We partner with best-in-class entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading companies.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Media and Entertainment, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Goldenset Collective — Investing in the next generation of creators
Religion of Sports — Founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, and Gotham Chopra, Religion of Sports creates best-in-class content, and is building a brand focused on human/emotional storytelling in and around the world of sports
Irreverent Labs — Irreverent Labs creates artificially intelligent hundred-year entertainment experiences on a blockchain. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Sheridan, Wyoming.

Building companies is in our bones.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ikigai Labs — From data reconciliation to forecasting and what-if analysis - automate manual, data-intensive operations within clicks.
Kombai — Convert your Figma designs to flawless front-end code effortlessly with Kombai.com's AI-powered Figma to code conversion tool. Unlock the potential of automated development handoff, save time, and bring your designs to life with pixel-perfect precision.
ZetaChain — An EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that connects everything: Build interoperable dApps that span any chain including Bitcoin, access all chains from one place.

Crosslink, founded in 1989, is a premier early-stage venture capital firm with over $1.3B in assets. Crosslink partners with founders that are market disrupters and category creators, typically at the Seed-Series A stage, across highly dynamic enterprise and consumer technology sectors. Over its history, Crosslink has had the opportunity topartner with defining companies such as Bleacher Report (acquired by TWX), BuildingConnected (acquired by ADSK), Chime, Coupa (COUP), DataStax, Molekule, Omniture (acquired by ADBE), Personal Capital (acquired by Empower Retirement), Postmates (acquired by UBER), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Verodin (acquired by FEYE), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone) and Weave.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Britive — Our solution is cloud-native, delivering multi-cloud privileged access visibility, policy enforcement, and threat monitoring all in one platform. Britive significantly increases operational efficiency by instant provisioning of cloud privileges to users and making them productive from day one.
Cleary — The Cleary Employee Experience platform is purpose built to help distributed, remote, and hybrid teams to scale their culture.
Inscribe — Inscribe helps financial institutions manage risk by empowering teams with fraudulent document detection, intelligent automation, and the ability to better understand customer creditworthiness.

Ludlow operates differently because we’re a different kind of VC. We believe in VC without ego. We wear our hearts on our sleeves, avoiding the puffery and posturing that has given venture capital a bad name. We fund the dreams of entrepreneurs and startups, becoming close friends with all of the teams we invest in.Truly great companies arebuilt on trust and friendship (and rainbows and luck). VC is a customer service business. Whether it’s testing product, leveraging our network, or forcing people to download your app, we’re here to help. You make our dream jobs possible and we’re forever thankful for that. Check out some of our other projects - www.carpool.vc and www.computer.show

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PackageX — PackageX is revolutionizing the logistics industry with the world's first Headless Logistics Cloud. PackageX empowers retail and commercial enterprises to achieve unprecedented success by delivering unparalleled developer experiences, workflow improvements, customer loyalty, and profitability.
Wingspan — Onboard, pay and manage your contractors. Improve your contractor satisfaction with health and financial benefits.
CoverTree — Finally, a better kind of manufactured home insurance. Buy online and save up to 40% in less than 3 minutes. Powered by Three steps. Three minutes.

Scout Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that is making the world a better, safer place by cultivating standout frontier technologies built by hard-to-access founders.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

BioFlyte — BioFlyte is commercializing a revolutionary new class of fieldable aerosol mass spectrometers and complementary products for protection from biological and low-volatility chemical threats. Our instruments identify microbes including spores, vegetative bacteria, and viruses, bio-toxins, opioids, and other airborne threats to our safety and security.Our products are designed to autonomously sample ambient air, for example, in critical infrastructure, but can also accept liquid or powder samples manually.
ID.me — ID.me is a digital identity network that aims to simplify the user's indication verification experience. The company's platform streamlines authentication, identity proofing, and federation of external identity and attributes providers through a single API, enabling military, students, first responders, teachers, and government employeesto easily prove their identity online via a single login and avail discounts on various networks.
Agnostiq — Agnostiq is a quantum and high performance computing company

Great Oaks Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with a mission to support and invest in the most innovative and disruptive startups. Visit our home page to learn more about our portfolio companies, investment approach, and the experienced team behind our success.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Leverage — Answering the Fundamental Question: "Where
Dashy Dash — Dashy Dash is a free community powered tool that makes it easy to manage invoices, discover new products & compare prices to help you save money.
Pesto — Pesto is a San Francisco-based fintech business that recently released the Pesto Mastercard a next-generation asset-backed secured credit card.

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

PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
Upwind Security — Upwind Security creates and develops software and online tools that ensures security of cloud infrastructure. It manages runtime environments of the cloud platform.
Rockset — Build blazing fast search and AI applications in record time.

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OFFSITE — OFFSITE provides cloud computing and data center solutions.
Offsite — Offsite operates a platform that provides retreat planning for remote and hybrid teams. The company helps in the planning, management, and follow-up of team retreats, client-facing events, and other transformational, in-person experiences.
Aiden — Reduce risk, enhance compliance, and simplify IT with modern, intelligent software packaging and deployment using Artificial Intelligence.

Lightbank VC is a $380M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k - $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr (NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social(NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Clearcover, Extend and Expel.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Blueprint — Blueprint is a digital platform that helps clinicians implement measurement-based care in their practice through automated, personalized assessments to enhance client outcomes.
AllFly — AllFly is a group air travel platform that allows tour operators, travel agencies, meeting planners, and businesses the ability shop and manage their next group trip, all in one place.
Bacarai — Ditch the phone call and search group flights from your favorite airlines online, all with a click of a button.

Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo and Birthday Alarm. Birch was raised in North London, England, went to Imperial College, London in Central London (where he met Xochi, his wife), then worked in West London. After finally deciding that he had done London, Michael moved to San Francisco in 2002.Michael and Xochi Birch sold Bebo to AOL inMarch 2008 for USD 850 million. Their combined 70% stake yielded a profit of $595 million from the deal. In June 2008, Michael invested in, and joined the board of MyStore.com along with Julian Lennon and Gordon Crawford. He is also an investor in Goodreads, a book oriented social network.Having worked in a number of not-so-exciting computer related jobs, he relished the chance to set up an Internet based family business with his wife, Xochi and brother, Paul. Remembering birthdays was never his strong point, much to his embarrassment, so what could be better than something he could use himself. Michael was responsible for developing the original Birthday Alarm website back in 2001, but is no longer involved in its development.

Investment focus

Apps, Social Media, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

HolidayFox — Camping & Glamping Holidays throughout the UK
Whatifi — Whatifi turns passive viewers into active players who control what happens next.
Keyo — Keyo is an end-to-end solution that offers apartment rentals. Now, Keyo has blossomed into a full-scale software-as-a-service for landlords, targeting small-to-medium-sized renters with 20 to 5,000 units. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise and consumer startups. Since 1970, the firm has invested in more than 400 startups at their most crucial stages, including DoorDash, Airtable, Patreon, Drift and Iterable. Founders need more than capital to build a great company. It takes a partner who understands the entrepreneurial journey and knows what it takes to win. From founding to IPO and beyond, CRV is there every step of the way. Founders rely on CRV to be trusted, long-term, committed partners, which has helped make CRV into one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the world. Learn more about CRV and the companies shaping the future at https://www.crv.com.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ProjectDiscovery — ProjectDiscovery is a remote-first open-source software company simplifying security operations for hackers and developers.
Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
Revcast — A modern approach to sales capacity planning. Drive revenue predictability, improve business agility, and uncover risk earlier.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
Mendaera — Mendaera enables all healthcare providers to perform precise and consistent point-of-care interventions. Their platform combines real-time imaging, robotics, and artificial intelligence to aid physicians in image acquisition and interpretation.
Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.

Reid Hoffman is a Partner at Greylock and a Co-founder and Board Member at Inflection.AI. He was a Chairman and CEO at Linkedin. Reid attended the University of Oxford and Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.
JusticeText — JusticeText is a software platform that makes it easier for public defenders to process and incorporate crucial audio and video evidence in defense of their clients.

Reimagining our industry. So our clients can disrupt theirs.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
RightRev — Simplify and streamline your accounting process with RightRev's automated revenue recognition software. Get in touch with us to know more.

Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Vellum — Vellum is the development platform for production-worthy large language model applications.
Entre — Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur Network, Entrepreneur Community, Startup network, startup community, Creator Economy, Creator Community, Freelancers, Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Start a business, How to start a business, Startup jobs, Startup events, Cofounder, Find a cofounder, Find a mentor, Find an Investor, meet entrepreneurs, host virtual event, host virtual meeting, entrepreneur events, tech events, entrepreneurship, find gigs, freelancing jobs, online business
Peerlist — Peerlist is a platform for professionals to discover, connect & collaborate based on their projects, mutual skills, and interests.

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Indonesia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.

Shasta is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise technology like SaaS, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence & camera vision.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Deep Sentinel — Deep Sentinel offers the only video surveillance systems on the market with live security guards. See how it works and prevent crime on your property now.
Lightup — Stay on top of data quality with Lightup.ai. Detect data drift and data outages before they hurt product experience and business decisions. Get started in minutes with a free trial. Continuously monitor all your data assets across the enterprise. Be data-driven with confidence.
Tracksuit — Tracksuit has created beautiful, always-on, and radically affordable brand tracking for modern consumer brands. Brand marketers and leaders at consumer brands have access to enterprise-tier brand tracking, specifically built for them, at a price point that works. Teams can easily track awareness, consideration, preference and brand associationsfrom real humans within the wider market, and compare results against competitors.

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX, a modern-day media and communications holding company, and the active CEO of VaynerMedia, a full-service advertising agency servicing Fortune 100 clients across the company’s 4 locations. In the late 90s, after identifying “the internet” as a land-grab opportunity, Gary transitioned his father’s localliquor store into one of the first wine e-commerce platforms resulting in growing the family business from $3-60MM in sales during a 5-year period.During his time in the family business, Vaynerchuk also started one of the first long-form episodic video shows on YouTube in 2006 called WineLibraryTV, filming 1,000 episodes over a 5-year window. Gary’s wine knowledge, charisma, and uncanny ability to engage with his community landed him appearances on national television with Ellen Degeneres and Conan O’Brien, as well as establishing him as one of the most followed people on social media during its nascent years.Not only did Gary leverage content creation and the rise of social media for his personal brand, but it was the seed which would become the pillar to his now 9-year old advertising agency VaynerMedia, servicing brands with an ever-expanding variety of offerings.Outside of being the Chairman and CEO of his own companies, Gary is a highly sought after public speaker, a 5-time New York Times bestselling author, as well as a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook,Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, and Uber.Gary is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it’s like to be a CEO and public figure in today’s digital world, as well the host of The GaryVee Audio Experience, a top 50 global podcast, and host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show which can be found on both YouTube and Facebook.Gary also appeared as judge in Apple’s first original series “Planet of the Apps” alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and Will.i.am onIn addition to VaynerMedia, VaynerX also houses The Gallery, a new publishing company started after acquiring leading women’s lifestyle property PureWow in January 2017. In addition to running VaynerMedia, Gary also serves as a partner in the athlete representation agency VaynerSports and restaurant reservations app Resy.Gary is a board/advisory member of Ad Council and Pencils of Promise, and is a longtime Well Member of Charity:Water.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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

Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
Nomad — Nomad is providing financial services.
Teamshares — One hundred percent close rate on LOIs. Committed capital with no financing contingency. Teamshares is the buyer of choice for your business listing. Request a buyer profile to learn more about us.

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, Internet
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Atmosfy — Atmosfy lets you explore dining through video. Easily browse 10-second, engaging videos from customers who recently dined there.
Mindigital Group — Mindigital is a leading global Fintech firm specialzing in providing Banking As A Service to local institutions in each country. We have served clients from different continents in countries including US, Spain, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines and Vietnam. Mindigital has consistently helped our partners to upgrade theirdigital infrastructure, improve profit , control risk and save operation cost.
Cyera — Cyera provides organizations with data reality for cloud data security. Cyera was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in San Mateo, USA.

BoxGroup is an early stage investment fund focused on technology companies. Contact Us: hello@boxgroup.com

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

iVerify — IVerify is a mobile threat hunting company that provides mobile security solutions for individuals who want to know they can trust their devices with their most sensitive information without sacrificing privacy.
Rightfoot — Add debt repayment to your product in a snap. Rightfoot's APIs streamline debt repayment across a market of fragmented loan servicers.
Reflex — Pynecone is an open-source, full-stack Python framework that makes it simple to build and deploy web apps in minutes. Pynecone combines the flexibility, performance, and customizability of traditional web development with the ease of use and accessibility of low-code frameworks.

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Rockset — Build blazing fast search and AI applications in record time.
Apollo.io — Search, engage, and convert over 265 million contacts at over 70 million companies with Apollo's sales intelligence and engagement platform.
Buidler DAO — Buidler DAO describes itself as a "network of web3 projects and talents." The effort brings together developers, researchers, and operators with the goal of providing an infrastructure and accelerator for cryptocurrency ventures.

For the entrepreneurs who want to create revolutions of their own.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fulcrum — Designed with technology in mind, be free of paper with Fulcrum, the manufacturing ERP of the future. Ai scheduling, visual BOM, live tracking
Luxury Presence — Luxury Presence helps realtors thrive online with beautiful, award winning real estate agent websites and marketing. Trusted by 20+ of the WSJ Top 100 agents.
GlossGenius — GlossGenius is the all-in-one booking, payments and POS solution that helps beauty and wellness professionals drive bookings and grow your business.