Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in May 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social media startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social media companies. This investor list updates every month.Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in May 2025
Investor | Social Media investments |
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SV Angel | 47 |
Betaworks | 24 |
First Round Capital | 23 |
Greycroft | 23 |
True Ventures | 21 |
Lerer Hippeau | 21 |
General Catalyst | 20 |
Uncork Capital | 19 |
Lightspeed Venture Partners | 19 |
Lowercase Capital | 19 |
Ronald Conway | 18 |
New Enterprise Associates | 18 |
Floodgate | 17 |
Kleiner Perkins | 16 |
Social Starts | 16 |
Advancit Capital | 15 |
Andreessen Horowitz | 15 |
Alumni Ventures | 15 |
Google Ventures | 15 |
Slow Ventures | 15 |
Cyan Banister | 14 |
Founder Collective | 14 |
Benchmark | 14 |
TMT Investments | 14 |
Foundation Capital | 13 |
Scout Ventures | 13 |
Founders Fund | 13 |
Great Oaks Venture Capital | 13 |
Knight Enterprise Fund | 13 |
RRE Ventures | 13 |
Crosslink Capital | 12 |
Ludlow Ventures | 12 |
Scott Banister | 12 |
Upfront Ventures | 12 |
CRV | 12 |
Jason Calacanis | 12 |
Sequoia Capital | 12 |
Right Side Capital Management | 12 |
Greylock | 12 |
Antler | 12 |
Bessemer Venture Partners | 11 |
Gary Vaynerchuk | 11 |
Reid Hoffman | 11 |
Michael Birch | 11 |
Lightbank | 11 |
BDMI | 11 |
Goodwater Capital | 11 |
Dharmesh Shah | 11 |
Correlation Ventures | 11 |
Spark Capital | 11 |
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Paid — Paid is a business platform for AI agents.
- Yutori — Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own.
- Operand — AI-Enabled Consulting for Consumer Retail
Betaworks is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund.
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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!
First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Crossmint — An all-in-one platform for companies and agents: wallets, payments, tokenization, and more.
- Assort Health — Our call center generative AI reduces hold time, decreases dropped calls, and contains costs while driving appointment revenue.
- Dyna Robotics — We're making Al-powered robotic automation accessible for businesses of all sizes by building affordable, easy-to-deploy Autonomous Al Robots.
Venture capital and technology investments
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
- Prezent AI — Presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams. Add zen to your presentations!
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Usul — Rosetta: Query government policy and spending data as it relates to your workflow.
- Pallie AI — Pallie AI develops AI-powered companion that supports health and wellbeing.
- The Nuclear Company — The Nuclear Company is a fleet-scale nuclear deployment firm that offers for nuclear sectors.
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- P-1 AI — P-1 AI is a technology company focused on developing an artificial general engineering intelligence (AGEI) designed to help humanity design physical systems with far greater efficiency and complexity than currently possible.
- Teal — Free tools and resources to run a faster and better job search so you can focus your time and energy on finding and landing a job you will love.
- Urban Sky — Urban Sky is developing the first-ever reusable 'micro-sat' version of a near-space balloon, armed with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market and making daily and weekly aerial imagery collection a cost-effective reality. Leveraging advances in componentminiaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability, and the high vantage point of the stratosphere, the Microballoon drastically reduces the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas, leading to more impactful data over more areas than ever before.With a new wealth of data from the stratosphere - this completely untapped layer of Earth’s atmosphere - we can fundamentally change the collective human understanding of the surface of our planet and urban centers.
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Kouper Health — The transitions-of-care platform ensuring patients receive timely access to follow-up care.
- Sprinter Health — Sprinter Health is an on-demand mobile health company that sends full-time nurses and phlebotomists (“Sprinters”) into the home.
- TaleMonster Games — TaleMonster is a multinational mobile game firm that genuinely wants to provide millions of gamers experiences they won't soon forget. By putting our passion at the center of everything we make, we hope to reinvent what casual in mobile gaming means.
Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ivo — Ivo reduces the time, effort, and cost of negotiating agreements.
- Numeral — We fully manage the headaches of sales tax so you can get back to real work. Get started for free today!
- Final Round AI — Final Round AI is an AI-driven platform designed to fundamentally change the job search process.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Seel — Peace of mind for shoppers and increased conversion rate for merchants. Available on Shopify App Store.
- Virtue AI — Virtue AI operates as an AI security and compliance platform for applications.
- Emversity — Beyond Odds focuses on upskilling the workforce and offers support to yhe healhcare industry.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MiSalud — MiSalud offers a unique combination of personalized preventative wellness services, along with traditional healthcare via Spanish speaking physicians.
- Kolors — Kolors is a technological platform that focuses on providing intelligent intercity mobility of bus transportation in the region.
- Tala — A money app for the majority. Tala bridges digital and cash ecosystems to help customers seamlessly manage their financial lives, all in one app.
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.
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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.
Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Arkestro — Bid Ops is the only predictive procurement software built to keep your team continuously exceeding targets. Using Bid Ops, you can orchestrate your activities across systems using instant forecasts and real-time collaboration. Predict and win 2-5x faster savings and never get stuck waiting for a KPI report again. Learn more athttps://www.bidops.com
- Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
- Samaya AI — The company specializes in developing AI research agents that streamline knowledge workflows.
Your first true believers. Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Eudia — Eudia offers an augmented intelligence platform designed to enhance the efficiency of legal teams. The platform integrates artificial intelligence tools that streamline legal processes, enabling teams to transition from traditional bottlenecks to more productive business drivers. Eudia provides features such as document analysis, contract review,and workflow automation, which assist legal professionals in managing their workload effectively. By leveraging AI technology, Eudia supports legal teams in making informed decisions and improving overall operational efficiency.
- 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.
Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Stord — Stord offers fulfillment, warehousing, and transportation for DTC and B2B, plus the integrated software you need to provide your end consumers with the best pre-purchase and post-delivery consumer experience. No matter your product, Stord is ready to power your commerce.
- NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
- Chainguard — We build products and offer services that help protect organizations from software supply chain attacks and vulnerabilities.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, 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.
- Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
- Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.
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.
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Investment focus
- Digital Media, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- BetHog — BetHog's founding team were the founders of FanDuel.com and think that Betting should be fast, easy and it should reward the players who are risk takers. We want to celebrate the winners, reward them for using our product, and have them help craft the experience we all want to see.
- Beamable — One line of code is all you need to build your own custom server logic via microservices along with a world of LiveOps tools and live services.
- Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
- Inductive Bio — Bringing the data, ML, software, and expertise needed to rapidly solve your most challenging ADMET problems.
- Sprinter Health — Sprinter Health is an on-demand mobile health company that sends full-time nurses and phlebotomists (“Sprinters”) into the home.
Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
- TAU Systems — TAU Systems provides medical imaging technology.
- Foundation Alloy — Foundation Alloy makes better parts, faster, for modern engineering.
GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Veza — Veza is the identity security company that enables organizations to understand, manage and control who can and should take what action on what data.
- Blacksmith — Blacksmith is a company that helps businesses to conduct their continuous integration (CI) up to twice as quickly and at half the expense. Blacksmith accomplish this by running CI on powerful gaming CPUs.
- Glass Imaging — Traditional cameras rely on an imaging lens which typically consists of several lens elements and a light sensitive sensor. Cameras have been built like this since 1816. Glass has been historically used to make high quality optical elements. We are replacing these elements with deep neural networks that give extreme flexibility when designing ourcameras. It allows us to squeeze a huge sensor into an ultra thin module that fits perfectly into a mobile device without the need for protruding bumps. Our cameras bring SLR image quality into your pocket.
Slow Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in companies central to the technology industry as well as those operating at the intersection of science, society, and culture. The firm seeks to support innovative ideas and solutions that shape the future across various sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Starday Foods — Building a next-gen food conglomerate. Welcome to a food-forward future.
- Tapestry — Tapestry enables anyone to create and deploy social applications using simple prompts.
- Sublime Security — Sublime lets you write, run, and share rules to block phishing attacks, hunt for threats, and more.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
- 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!
- Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Jones — Quit vaping products and app. Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and behavioral support for quitting smoking or vaping.
- Trek Health — Maximize Practice Revenue with Smart Payment Solutions
- Sourgum Waste — Sourgum Waste provides sustainable waste management with easy online ordering and transparent pricing.
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 five 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 Chetan Puttagunta, Sarah Tavel, Victor Lazarte, Peter Fenton, and Eric Vishria. 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, Amplitude, Confluent, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Towns — Towns is an on-chain messaging platform co-founded by the creator of Houseparty and Meerkat.
- Reducto — Reducto is an API that provides high quality data ingestion for large language models (LLMs). It works with any vector database or embedding system. It can parse PDFs, Excel, PowerPoint, and more.
- Manus AI — Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Enty — All-in-one subscription for Invoicing, Contracts, Finances, and Pre-accounting of your European company
- Global Work — We help freelancers find remote jobs and gigs faster with AI. Unlock the latest job search strategies with our AI-powered platform.
- 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.
Building companies is in our bones.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Seel — Peace of mind for shoppers and increased conversion rate for merchants. Available on Shopify App Store.
- Nuvo — Onboard customers through configurable, high-converting branded experiences that accelerate credit approvals, unlock revenue, and reduce fraud.Nuvo replaces manual credit forms with AI-powered application flows, real-time business and principal identity verification, and embedded credit insights—enabling confident decisions that protect and growyour business. Designed for complex trade partnerships, Nuvo is the B2B commerce platform trusted and preferred by 40,000 businesses.
- Lumber — Lumber automates scheduling, time tracking, payroll, and more for building contractors. Discover effortless construction workforce management software today.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Usul — Rosetta: Query government policy and spending data as it relates to your workflow.
- HavocAI — HavocAI is an artificial intelligence company that offers maritime autonomy solutions to the defense and commercial markets.
- Beacon AI — Beacon AI is building the future of flight safety for commercial and private fleets.
Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Stord — Stord offers fulfillment, warehousing, and transportation for DTC and B2B, plus the integrated software you need to provide your end consumers with the best pre-purchase and post-delivery consumer experience. No matter your product, Stord is ready to power your commerce.
- NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
- Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
- Nimblemind.ai — Nimblemind.ai enables healthcare providers to organize and enrich multimodal clinical data through labeling and curation.
- Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.
Knight Enterprise Fund is a venture capital firm based in Florida that finances early stage investments of media and technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Digital Media, Social Media
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- NewsGuard — Transparent Tools to Counter Misinformation on Behalf of Readers, Brands, and Democracies.
- WhereBy.Us — WhereBy.Us builds tools for content creators and media to grow and connect with engaged communities.
RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that is in it with founders when it matters
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, China
Portfolio highlights
- Catio — Cloud architecture platform enabling companies to excel with cloud native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution, with the help of AI.
- 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.
- Lovelace — Lovelace, currently in stealth mode, is developing an AI platform and solutions to support missions in national security, disaster relief and other areas where advanced computer science can help keep people safe.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
- Provarity — PreSales Operations Management
- Near Space Labs — Near Space Labs is an aerial imagery and earth observation company, Near Space Labs' imagery makes it easy to monitor assets and gain remote access over broad or specific areas. Near Space Labs offers cloud-based delivery of fully processed images through its API. The company provides frictionless, affordable imaging for insurance, utilities,infrastructure, conservation, smart cities, retail, energy, government, and disaster response.
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
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Tildei — Tildei makes it simple for marketers to create engaging conversations, capture data, and drive conversions through truly personal messages. Leverage the enormous reach of WhatsApp's 2.4 billion users today.
- Stable Sea — Stable Sea provides seamless, compliant, cost-effective stablecoin offramping solutions, enabling businesses to bridge the gap between digital and traditional finance and unlock new opportunities.
- Keebler Health — Keebler Health is an AI-first risk adjustment platform for providers and payers that are at risk for Medicare & Medicaid lives.
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.
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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
- Validated — Validated tests product ideas against real users before you launch. We measure the feasibility of your product idea rank value propositions and test messaging.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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.
- Grove — Grove AI powers Grace, the industry-leading digital staff for clinical trial operations, and the Participant Relationship Management (PRM) platform for clinical operation executives. Speak with a Grove AI expert to learn more.
- Arlo Health — Hundreds of businesses trust Arlo to offer health insurance that works the way it should: affordable coverage that puts employees and their doctors in the driving seat.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Israel, Canada
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- Dyna Robotics — We're making Al-powered robotic automation accessible for businesses of all sizes by building affordable, easy-to-deploy Autonomous Al Robots.
- Vega Security — Vega Security offers cybersecurity services for cyberattack detection.
- Mercury — Powerful banking. Simplified finances. Apply in 10 minutes for business banking that transforms how you operate.
Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.
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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, Canada
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- TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
- Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
- Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, India
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- Strava — Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community.Founded in 2009, millions of athletes have joined Strava for the competition and camaraderie found in tracking and sharing their fitness activities. The company’s free mobile apps and website help membersdiscover and plan workouts, record and share activities, and analyze and compare performance. Strava’s ability to connect athletes around the world makes fitness a more social experience, providing extra motivation even when training alone.
- Nuvo — Onboard customers through configurable, high-converting branded experiences that accelerate credit approvals, unlock revenue, and reduce fraud.Nuvo replaces manual credit forms with AI-powered application flows, real-time business and principal identity verification, and embedded credit insights—enabling confident decisions that protect and growyour business. Designed for complex trade partnerships, Nuvo is the B2B commerce platform trusted and preferred by 40,000 businesses.
- Reflect Orbital — Reflect sells sunlight from space.
Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital
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- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Averi — Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growthoperation in one seamless experience.
- Eachlabs — AI marketplace for developers.
- Hutsy — Hutsy Financial is a financial services company that provides mobile banking, early payroll access and credit building products. In partnership with Peoples Trust we provide a prepaid debit card that our users can spend with. We also offer cash back on all purchases, spending insights, and categorizations to provide valuable insight on where yourmoney is going. Hutsy was recently on CBC’s Dragons Den where we raised our pre-seed funding round of $500,000 to bring our product to life.
Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter.
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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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- 7AI — The Agentic Security Revolution Starts Here. Swarming AI Agents to Eliminate Non-Human Work for Exponentially Better Security Outcomes.
- Highstock — The private marketplace for vetted global buyers and coveted brands.
- Greenlite — Greenlite aspires to replace outsourced anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-client (KYC) analysts with its AI bots.
Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia
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- GenPage — GenPage is a SaaS platform that supercharges outreach & account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns with personalized landing pages that captivate, engage, and close. We help our users create unique experiences at scale for every prospect with AI - and win more deals.
- Lodgicl — Lodgicl streamlines the insurance supply chain to enhance the claims experience for policyholders, insurers, and partners.
- FoodHealth — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!
We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, Israel
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- Miter — Miter's software streamlines HR, finance, and compliance for the construction industry.
- TurbineOne — TurbineOne is the frontline perception company. It started with the vision of a world where people could sense every threat, speak any language, and deploy robots to dangerous environments instead of putting people unnecessarily in harm's way.
- Optimal Dynamics — Optimal Dynamics' AI solution provides real answers by using dynamic forecasting models to simulate downstream impacts with confidence.
Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College.
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- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Australia, Canada
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- 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.
- 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.
Reid Hoffman is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder of Manas AI. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the
University of Perugia. Reid Hoffman has been awarded Marshall Medal.
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- Software, Social Media, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Workhelix — Workhelix is a developer of workforce management platform to assist with business management.
- Manas AI — Manas AI uses proprietary AI, generative computational chemistry, and best-in-class biology to reduce the time and expense of traditional medicinal development while also revolutionizing cancer and rare illness treatments.
- Reflection.Ai — Reflection.Ai is a start-up that develops artificial intelligence solutions, with a focus on computer vision.
Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo. He previously worked at Blab as a Co-Founder. Michael Birch attended Imperial College London.
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- Apps, Social Media, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
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- 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.
- HolidayFox — HolidayFox is a platform to discover and book family staycations. From a fun filled day out with the kids through to a whole holiday, HolidayFox has it all. Get suggestions, find, build and book your perfect package all in one place
- Whatifi — Whatifi provides a new way to make and consume interactive experiences on your phone with friends. Whatifi unlocks the ability to discuss, debate and decide what happens next in the movies you watch with friends and family, offering dozens of plotlines, character arcs, and endings.
Lightbank VC is a $700M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage vertically focused AI, 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+), Extend, Attain, Paytient and Expel.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Wendy — Wendy is pioneering a new era of storytelling with its app, designed to bring the excitement back to reading for kids.
- Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
- Campus Ink - NIL Store — Campus Ink Screen Printing & Embroidery, Champaign - Urbana, Custom T-Shirts, Fraternity & Sorority Apparel Simple
Part of media company Bertelsmann, BDMI initially invests $100k to $4m in seed and early stage digital media startups in online video, nextgen publishing and pubtech/adtech.
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- Software, Advertising, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
- Spikerz — Manage social media security threats in one platform. Real-time protection detects and alerts on threats, letting you focus on growth.
- Hark — Video feedback that tells a story. Deliver best-in-class customer experience. Agents receive "the perfect ticket" every time. Customers feel heard.
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.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, South Korea
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- Stash — Invest and build wealth with Stash, the investing app helping over 6M Americans invest and save for the future. Start investing in stocks, ETFs and more today.
- Rabbit — At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL!
- Wrtn Technologies — Wrtn Technologies develops an AI-powered writing assistant through NLP-based AI.
Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and CTO at HubSpot. Dharmesh Shah attended University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada
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- Owner — Owner gives you the same tools that major national brands use to drive sales. Online ordering proven to grow sales. Mobile app with rewards. And more.
- Persana AI — Hyperpersonalized AI enables businesses to easily identify qualified leads, surface customer insights and send personalized outreach at scale.
- Twenty — Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, supported by a large community. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.
Reimagining our industry. So our clients can disrupt theirs.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Estonia
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- dub — The first Copy-Trading platform for stocks. Copy anyone's investments. For free. Regulated Broker-Dealer member FINRA and SIPC & FDIC insured.
- Nervonik — Nervonik is a medical device company developing an opioid-free peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) system. Nervonik is focused on advancing clinical research and achieving regulatory milestones to bring its innovative therapies to market.
- Trek Health — Maximize Practice Revenue with Smart Payment Solutions
Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Ravio — Ravio allows you to understand compensation in your market in real-time. Make smarter salary, equity and benefits decisions without touching a spreadsheet.
- Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome. No awkward meeting bots - just beautiful notes for you and your team, every single time.
- Nuvo — Onboard customers through configurable, high-converting branded experiences that accelerate credit approvals, unlock revenue, and reduce fraud.Nuvo replaces manual credit forms with AI-powered application flows, real-time business and principal identity verification, and embedded credit insights—enabling confident decisions that protect and growyour business. Designed for complex trade partnerships, Nuvo is the B2B commerce platform trusted and preferred by 40,000 businesses.
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