Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in January 2025

Investor	Social Media investments
SV Angel	48
Betaworks	24
First Round Capital	23
True Ventures	22
Greycroft	22
Lerer Hippeau	21
General Catalyst	20
Lowercase Capital	19
Lightspeed Venture Partners	19
New Enterprise Associates	19
Uncork Capital	19
Ronald Conway	18
Kleiner Perkins	17
Floodgate	17
Andreessen Horowitz	16
Social Starts	16
Alumni Ventures	15
Google Ventures	15
Slow Ventures	15
Advancit Capital	14
Cyan Banister	14
Benchmark	14
Founders Fund	14
TMT Investments	14
Foundation Capital	13
Great Oaks Venture Capital	13
Founder Collective	13
Greylock	13
RRE Ventures	13
Knight Enterprise Fund	13
Upfront Ventures	13
Scout Ventures	13
Scott Banister	12
Jason Calacanis	12
CRV	12
Crosslink Capital	12
Ludlow Ventures	12
Right Side Capital Management	12
Sequoia Capital	12
SOSV	11
Gary Vaynerchuk	11
Bessemer Venture Partners	11
Michael Birch	11
Dharmesh Shah	11
Correlation Ventures	11
Spark Capital	11
Shasta Ventures	11
Reid Hoffman	11
Goodwater Capital	11
Lightbank	11

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

Investment focus

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

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.
Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare
Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
Prepared — We are harnessing the power of everyday technology to enhance the way that people communicate during emergencies.

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

Team-GPT — Team-GPT helps companies use any AI model, find the right use cases for it, keep data safe, organize workflows, and track results. It speed up work with pre-made prompts, use cases, and editable AI Pages. Team-GPT is built with enterprise security, privacy, and compliance in mind from day one.
Chain Cat — Chain Cat is a discount marketplace for local life services. The company has developed a "digital + local life" life empowerment system that covers housing, food, transportation, and apparel, relying on key technologies including big data summary analysis, intelligent screening, and AI clever algorithms.
Enveda Biosciences — Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Whatnot — Whatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and geek out with collectors and other like-minded people. All items on Whatnot are verified. Shop on web or download the app.
Reflexivity — Say goodbye to stodgy terminals and clunky, decades-old interfaces. By asking questions in natural language, our institutional-grade analytic tools come alive and at your service.
Thread AI — Thread AI makes infrastructure simple for enterprises and can drive adoption and innovation in AI.

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

MOTORMIA — Meet Mia! MOTORMIA - Curated by auto enthusiasts, powered by AI. MOTORMIA is revolutionizing personalized discovery of aftermarket upgrades for your enthusiast vehicle
Conflixis — Conflixis develops conflict monitoring platform intended to manage conflicts inside organizations.
Symbiotic Security — Symbiotic Security revolutionizes cybersecurity with an AI-driven coach, offering real-time detection, remediation, and training within the developer's IDE.

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

Investment focus

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

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.
Current — Current is a financial technology company that offers mobile payments, online banking, and financial services. The company's mission is to enable members to change their lives by creating better financial outcomes. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare

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

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.
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.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Whatnot — Whatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and geek out with collectors and other like-minded people. All items on Whatnot are verified. Shop on web or download the app.
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.
Seekho — Learn from 10,000+ bite-sized videos on Technology, Money, Youtube, Instagram, and 10+ more categories with Seekho Experts. Start Now

Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FIRE1 — FIRE1 and is based in Dublin, Ireland, will focus on developing novel therapeutic devices.
Ouro Medicines — Ouroboros Medicines is a biotechnology company that specializes in immunology and focuses on treating long-term immune-mediated illnesses. The company addresses chronic immune-mediated conditions directly by integrating scientific knowledge, a proven history of progressing cell-depleting treatments through clinical trials, and a strong pipeline.
Orbis Medicines — Orbis Medicines is a novel macrocyclic chemistry and computational platform for high-throughput drug discovery.

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

brand.ai — Brand.ai is an AI platform that analyzes business data, market trends, and cultural shifts to inform brand and creative strategy throughout the lifecycle of a brand. In other words, it helps you do what a fully staffed brand team could for a fraction of the time and cost.
Nuon — Deploy your app into customer cloud accounts and make it feel like SaaS. Unlock sensitive customers and integrate with customer data, networks and LLMs in minutes.
Wyvern — Wyvern was created to unlock the secrets of the elec-tromagnetic spectrum by providing groundbreak-ing access to high-resolution and quality imagery.This will enable a sustainable future for humanity.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in early-stage, growth, and incubation companies. The firm continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas. They also focus on earlycomputer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. It also invests in the digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Terradot — The Earth Regeneration Company
Enterpret — All customer feedback categorized automatically, combined with advanced analytics capabilities that ensure no customer pain goes unnoticed.
Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ZITADEL — Zitadel provides everything developers need to incorporate identity management. It's as easy as pie. Because serverless, you'll be ready when you're ready. Because open-source, at your place or ours.
Lume — Automated data integrations using AI. Transform any data schema automatically using no code.
Counsel Health — Counsel Health helps patients to get access to medical advice virtually.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Whatnot — Whatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and geek out with collectors and other like-minded people. All items on Whatnot are verified. Shop on web or download the app.
Anysphere — Anysphere is a company that builds Artificial Intelligence tools and assistants to help humans.
Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare

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, 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.

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Spintly — Integrate the Spintly Smart Access control system with your apps and software, without having to toggle between multiple devices & software.
Torch Dental — Torch Dental develops an all-in-one technology designed to meet dental practices' supply ordering and inventory management needs. Torch Dental simplifies and streamlines the ordering process, allowing dentists to focus on their patients.
Mojave Energy Systems — Mojave the latest in HVAC innovation. Help the Climate. Reduce Energy Use. Improve Indoor Comfort. Perform Reliably. Lower Costs.

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rhygaze — Rhygaze develops a novel gene therapy that targets cone cells to restore vision in patients suffering from diseases causing blindness.
Cala Health — Cala Health is a bioelectronic medicine company transforming the standard of care for chronic disease. The company's wearable neuromodulation therapies merge innovations in neuroscience and technology to deliver individualized peripheral nerve stimulation. The first indication for Cala Health's wearable therapy is an essential tremor, adisease experienced by more than seven million people and characterized by severe hand tremors. New therapies are under development in neurology, cardiology, and psychiatry. The company is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and backed by leading investors in both healthcare and technology.
Prudentia Sciences — Prudentia Sciences is a platform enables AI-powered Asset Diligence and Valuation to De-Risk Investment in Drug Development.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Prospinity — Prospinity provides the technical and legal infrastructure to make these success pools work.
Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.
Sublime Security — Sublime lets you write, run, and share rules to block phishing attacks, hunt for threats, and more.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

BetHog — BetHog is a new crypto sports book that brings home the bacon.
KIKI — KIKI World is at the heart of this evolution, a virtual-led beauty brand at the intersection of gamified commerce.
Goldenset Collective — Goldensetsupport creators by becoming equity partners in their growing and evolving businesses, with the collective goal of creating long-term enterprise value truly owned by the creator. We believe that creators are more than just "influencers" who can be rented like billboards by other companies and brands but are also the founders ofhigh-growth start-ups with Fortune 500 potential.

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

Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
Orson — The brainchild of documentarians and unscripted TV pioneers, Orson has developed the first automated video storytelling platform that helps people open up and share their stories, experiences, and aspirations.
Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Agentio — Agentio's patent-pending ad platform empowers marketers to finally unlock scalable, creator-led advertising. Programmatically buy the highest quality creator and influencer ad reads to deliver unprecedented efficiency and performance.
Decart — Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models.
New Lantern — New Lantern provides cutting-edge AI-powered cloud-native PACS solutions for healthcare providers, enabling faster and more accurate radiology diagnostics.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
Network Bio — Network Bio is a clinical and molecular data library enabling precision medicine approaches for common human diseases. Its platform delivers a centralized repository for clinical and molecular data that allows researchers to identify patterns and correlations that can be used to develop new treatments and diagnostic tools.
Crusoe Energy Systems — Crusoe is on a mission to help the oil industry reduce routine flaring of natural gas. They are passionate about creating solutions that benefit the environment, local communities, and energy producers.Crusoe Energy Systems provides oil and gas companies with a fast, low cost and simple solution to natural gas flaring. As the energy industrystruggles with pipeline constraints and increasing regulations around flaring and combusting, Crusoe is here to help. Their service lets operators preserve or regain regulatory compliance, maintain existing production and facilitate future development.

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

Enty — All-in-one subscription for Invoicing, Contracts, Finances, and Pre-accounting of your European company
Whizz — My Device is a subscription-based rental service provider for devices like electric scooters, bicycles, home sports equipment, etc.
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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tennr — Tennr is a custom AI assistant that accelerates research, answers complex questions, and generates custom reports.
Arcade — Arcades are super easy to create. Build interactive product tours to embed within websites, blogs, and social media.
Prime Security — Shift security to the design stage and solve software vulnerabilities before development starts.

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

Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
Amulet — Amulet is shining a light on invisible threats in our food system. Amulet has two core brands: - Allergy Amulet helps consumers determine whether their foods are safe by detecting potentially life-threatening allergenic ingredients. - Amulet Scientific equips businesses and manufacturers with tools to help ensure the safety of their food supplychain. Learn more: www.allergyamulet.com www.amuletscientific.com
Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.

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

Cephable — Assistive technology platform that extends digital controls to head movement, voice, gestures, facial expressions and more.
AirOps — Deploy task specific AI where you need it most with AirOps Apps. Install and configure in minutes, scalable and available everywhere.
Regal — Regal is the first branded, event-driven phone & SMS sales platform. Regal's Journey Builder and Branded Caller ID drive 35%+ answer rates, 25%+ revenue increase.

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

Cresta — Self-service, live coaching, and post call insights. AI that uncovers expertise so teams can make every customer conversation count.
Fully Ramped — Fully Ramped is for sales teams that prioritize phone calls. With the help of the voice AI platform Fully Ramped, your representatives may rehearse their phone sales techniques with simulated prospects who sound exactly like your clients. With many at-bats and various settings, practice pitching, resolving objections, product
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.

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

Avina — Signals-based AI copilot for B2B sellers that's with them from their first meeting to their last email. Extract buying signals, get real-time account alerts, draft the perfect communication, prep for every meeting, and get questions answered.
TrueX — TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets.
Autoplay — Autoplay is an AI-powered platform that improves digital adoption by offering real-time, context-aware guidance. It learns from user interactions and software interfaces, adapting to help enterprises optimize usage, streamline workflows, and boost engagement across teams.

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

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.

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

Jiko — Jiko is a financial technology company that offers a new way to store and move money, designed to create a fluid and rewarding banking experience for all. In September of 2020, Jiko became the first Fintech to acquire a national bank, in addition to being a licensed broker dealer. Prior to that accomplishment, Jiko spent 4 years developing afull-stack technology infrastructure that merges payment rails with real-time, 24/7 principal trading capabilities. This innovative combination is the backbone for Jiko’s transparent and rewarding model, which doesn’t use deposited funds for it's own investment purposes. Instead, customer’s funds are transparently invested in U.S. government-backed Treasury Bills (T-Bills), enabling cutting edge features such as virtual cards, tokenized bank account numbers, automated investments in T-Bills, and cashback on debit purchases. This model is made available to individuals through a mobile banking app, and to business partners through it's API platform. Jiko is a creative and hard-working team with cross-functional expertise in technology, trading, payment, and creative fields. The team is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with offices in New York City and Reykjavik, Iceland. Since its inception in 2016, Jiko has raised over $50M from trusted investors such as Upfront Ventures, Wafra Inc., Radicle Impact, NYCA Partners, and Anthem Ventures among others.
Grove — AI-accelerated Participant Relationship Management (PRM) for Clinical Research
Arcade — Arcades are super easy to create. Build interactive product tours to embed within websites, blogs, and social media.

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, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

HavocAI — HavocAI is an artificial intelligence company that offers maritime autonomy solutions to the defense and commercial markets.
Tern AI — We exist to be the leading provider of navigation solutions that transform the way people move and explore the world.
Beacon AI — Beacon AI is building the future of flight safety for commercial and private fleets.

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

Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
Stell — Stell is a platform that digitizes the relationship between aerospace companies and their suppliers with a living specification workflow
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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, Seed
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Kong — Kong powers APIs and microservices with the world's most popular open source API gateway and industry-leading service connectivity platform. Kong is funded by leading VC firms, including Index Ventures, a16z, CRV, GGV, Tiger Global, Stanford University, Jeff Bezos, and Eric Schmidt.
Flipturn — The unified control center for EV fleet and charger operations
Astrix Security — Astrix is the first integration access management solution - helping organizations unleash the power of automation and app integrations while keeping their ever-expanding web of third-parties under control.

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

Provarity — PreSales Operations Management
Argo Space — Argo will harvest lunar water and use it as propellant to create a true in-space transportation network. By sourcing propellant from the moon, we will provide the freedom to maneuver throughout space.
Abstract Security — The Future of Security Engineering is Abstract. Find out how you can transcend next-gen SIEM and get back to business value.

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 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.
Gumloop — The no-code platform to build and host AI-powered business automations.
MarkOS — MarkOS is a brand management operating system.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
UBILD — A.I powered construction workforce and vendor procurement platform
Hutsy — Hutsy helps you budget, spend less and offers a concierge service to handle tasks like negotiating bills, canceling subscriptions, saving you time and money.

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Safara — Book over 1M hotels that are carbon offset for free on Safara, plus get insider travel recommendations and enjoy an unbeatable loyalty program.
Decart — Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models.
Stainless — With Stainless, you can deliver idiomatic SDKs while you stay focused on building the API.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
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.
Unrivaled — Unrivaled operates as a professional women's basketball league.

We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ANYbotics — ANYbotics provides autonomous legged robots for industrial applications to provide high availability and reliability in automated routine inspections.
Torch Dental — Torch Dental develops an all-in-one technology designed to meet dental practices' supply ordering and inventory management needs. Torch Dental simplifies and streamlines the ordering process, allowing dentists to focus on their patients.
Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible

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

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 turns passive viewers into active players who control what happens next.

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

CrewAI — CrewAI is a multi-agent automation platform for enterprises to automate complex tasks. With its automation platform, organizations can deploy and manage AI agents to automate complex tasks and to value across a wide range of use cases, from research and analysis to coding and reporting.The company also offers a range of advanced new featuresincluding self-iteration, performance evaluation, persistent memory, and a range of new agent collaboration structures.
Persana AI — Hyperpersonalized AI enables businesses to easily identify qualified leads, surface customer insights and send personalized outreach at scale.
Twenty — Experience the forefront of open-source CRM. Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, and community support. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.

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

Cake AI — Cake is the fastest way to drive AI initiatives to success. Cake manages the entire stack - compute infrastructure, open source platform elements, common integrations, and pre-built project components.
Twill — Twill is a platform that makes hiring easier and faster by having top talent recommend their peers & friends for open roles.
Valora Therapeutics — Valora Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that provides engineering of chimeric antibodies .

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

9fin — 9fin is a leading provider of debt market intelligence and offers everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one AI-powered platform
Boosted.ai — Boosted.ai makes AI software that helps investment managers save time, improve portfolio metrics, and make better decisions.
Cimulate AI — Cimulate AI: Revolutionize commerce and optimize customer experiences with intent-based search and Gen AI.

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

Voxel51 — We build software that enables ML engineers to build better models, more quickly. Try FiftyOne, our powerful platform for dataset curation, analysis, and model development.
LeakSignal — Sensitive data and attack observability/mitigation across service mesh architecture. WAF, Data Exfiltration, Data protection, Real time mitigation.
Overland AI — Overland AI is a manufacturer and developer of autonomous navigation for off-road autonomous vehicles.

Reid Hoffman is the Partner of Greylock. He previously worked at Convoy Inc as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Perugia.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vor Biopharma — Shield the healthy cells, expose the cancer - Vor Bio (also known as Vor Biopharma) aims to cure blood cancers through cell and genome engineering.
Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.
Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
Tembo Money — Need help boosting your budget or accessing lower rates? Voted Best Mortgage Broker 2023 & 2022, our award-winning service is available 7 days a week.
Kast — Kast Finance provides open access, financial freedom, and rapid gratification services.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Claim — Claim is a social application that allows users to earn and trade rewards with friends. It also connects friends through their favorite brands and for brands to reward their customers. Its application enables friends to earn cash back, exchange rewards, and redeem together by shopping at their favorite brands.
Pathos — Pathos is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on re-engineering drug development with the power of advanced AI technologies.
Allegro Energy — Our mission is to radically accelerate the transition to a world powered by plentiful, cheap, clean energy. Talk to us today about your project to find out how our technology can help you reach your energy goals.