Top 50 Social Network Startup Investors in United States

Investor	Social Network United States investments
SVA	14
First Round Capital	8
Reid Hoffman	8
Betaworks	7
Lerer Hippeau	7
Sequoia Capital	6
FirstMark	6
CRV	6
Google Ventures	6
Redpoint	5
BoxGroup	5
Unshackled Ventures	5
Floodgate	5
Founders Fund	5
Canaan Partners	5
General Catalyst	5
New Enterprise Associates	5
Upfront Ventures	5
Boston Seed Capital	5
Mark Pincus	5
Ronald Conway	5
NextView Ventures	5
Advancit Capital	5
Accel	5
Strong Ventures	4
Gary Vaynerchuk	4
Andy Brown	4
HealthTech Capital	4
Menlo Ventures	4
Virginia Venture Partners	4
GrandBanks Capital	4
Foundry Group	4
TSVC	4
Social Starts	4
Lunsford Capital	4
Magma Venture Partners	4
Cowboy Ventures	4
XFactor Ventures	4
Cyan Banister	4
Boost VC	4
Founder Collective	4
Atlas Benjelloun	4
Gaingels	3
William Lohse	3
Asymmetry Ventures	3
Flybridge	3
The Westly Group	3
NXT Ventures	3
IA Ventures	3
Sunmeet Jolly	3

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

SESO — Seso is a labor solution for agriculture. We provide support with the entire H-2A process, including the H-2A Visa, recruiting farmworkers, H-2A compliance, and digital worker onboarding.
nsave — nsave provides offshore saving accounts for the middle-class in distressed economies. Think countries with high inflation, banks that cap withdrawals, no trust in banks, or no financial services like insurance and investments. By leveraging emerging technologies, Swiss financial infrastructure, and its recent regulatory changes, Masref provides themiddle class in these countries with what they never had – a safe place to store their savings. Masref will first provide simple saving accounts, before offering other financial services.
Aligned Marketplace — Aligned Marketplace operates as a personalized primary care for workforce.

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

treet — Treet helps brands launch fully-branded recommerce sites where customers can buy & sell items from each other.
Cache — Holding on to individual stocks that make up a large percentage of your portfolio? Cache gives you access to the same advanced investing products used by the ultra-wealthy to manage concentrated wealth.
Loyal — Loyal is a biotechnology company developing medicines to extend dog lifespan. By developing drugs with the potential to slow the aging process, they aim to delay or prevent age-related diseases like cancer and dementia.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rapport — The smart solution for building superhuman teams. Rapport distills decades of research on high performing teams down to a few smart, simple steps that integrate seamlessly into your workflow.
Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Flower Labs — A unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. Federate any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language.
Barnyard Games — Barnyard Games is a gaming production studio that creates strategic games and simulations.
Kosmik — Kosmik is the visual canvas for knowledge management. Kosmik allows you to write, create large media collections, browse the web and share it all with your team! No more folders, bookmarks or infinite message threads.

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

TollBit — TollBit is a content monetization platform that allows AI bots and data scrapers to pay websites directly to license their content and protects the health of the entire content ecosystem.
10Beauty — The only 5-step manicure machine in the world.
Haven Energy — Haven Energy is a climate technology company that is accelerating home energy storage adoption. Haven walks homeowners through the process of selecting, quoting, and financing a home battery system, and then connects them with vetted, qualified electricians to complete the installation. Haven works with homeowners after installation to integratetheir batteries into an aggregated virtual power plant, allowing customers to monetize grid participation and significantly reduce their electricity costs.

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

Zafran Security — Zafran offers Risk Mitigation which leverages current security policies to protect enterprises during crucial exploitation periods.
Grow Therapy — Find a psychiatrist or therapist near you who takes your insurance. Finding the right therapist and scheduling your session is easy, safe, and secure. Book today!
Smiths International Group — a diverse conglomerate holding company founded and operated by me. It aims to acquire and manage a wide range of businesses with a focus on long-term growth and profitability. The company’s business model prioritizes sustainable value creation over short-term gains, and it seeks to invest in businesses with strong management teams, competitiveadvantages, and potent

FirstMark is an early-stage venture capital firm in New York City. We back and accelerate founders of iconic and industry-defining companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.
Revela — Revela is a property management platform that unlocks new revenue streams and boosts margins. Seriously grow your business while helping investors grow theirs, too.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Clerk — With Clerk, you can add beautiful, high-conversion Sign Up and Sign In forms to your React application in minutes. After signing in, Clerk empowers your users to take control of their account security with multi-factor authentication and device management.If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, “there’s got to be a better way to build auth” -Clerk was built with you in mind. It truly only takes minutes to add best-in-class authentication experiences to your application - and Clerk’s team is constantly working behind-the-scenes to make them even better.
dataroomHQ — dataroomHQ is the driving force behind creating a blueprint to grow profitability and efficiently, allowing SaaS companies to do more with less. Our AI-powered platform delivers a single source of truth for all operational metrics, allowing business leaders to automate reporting and build predictive models for the most important SaaS operational metrics.
GobbleCube — GobbleCube's AI-powered copilot automates revenue monitoring and RCA, allowing revenue staff to focus on execution.

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
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!
Home From College — H\FC is the professional development platform built specifically for career starters and young professionals. Created to help students build their first professional brand, manage their resume and unlock experiences to help them grow. Our Mission is the even the professional playing-field and give career starters a platform to help them start.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ideogram — Helping people become more creative.
Abridge — For patients, clinicians, and enterprise, our audio-based solutions capture the details and summarize medical conversations, anywhere care happens.
Foundry — Elastic cloud infrastructure built for machine learning.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Coast — Coast is the simple, all-in-one fleet and fuel card that helps businesses easily pay for and track vehicle expenses. It's quick to set up, easy-to-use, and full of rewards.
Nourish — Achieve your desired health and wellness through personalized nutrition counseling. Nourish is the easiest way to find a registered dietitian and get it covered by your insurance. Find a dietitian today and start your telehealth appointments.
Aligned Marketplace — Aligned Marketplace operates as a personalized primary care for workforce.

Our mission is to create 100,000 new American jobs. We invest in immigrants. And sponsor their visas. With a playbook of strong customer service, we help immigrant entrepreneurs succeed faster.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

TextQL — TextQL is you personal virtual data analyst, built for enterprise and powered by AI. Ask in natural english and Ana can build insightful analysis, stunning charts, and powerful models, all with enterprise-grade security.
Cache Energy — Cache Energy is developing energy storage technology that is non-toxic, non-flammable, and a fire retardant for easy transportation.
Masa — Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Arch — Arch is a vertical SaaS company that leverages AI to optimize and finance sustainable HVAC systems.
Handraise — Unlock the power of PR with Handraise, an AI platform designed to enhance brand impact and connect content with the right audience. Explore the future of press coverage.
Legends — A confidence-training program for elementary schoolers, building legendary kids in 5 minutes a day.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Avail — Avail is the essential modular blockchain base layer for next-generation, trust-minimized applications.
Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud,marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health, and medtech.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Anzenna — 74% of security breaches are due to human error. Anzenna is a User Security Posture Management (USPM) platform that helps companies deter, detect and disrupt insider risk.
Acesion Pharma — Acesion Pharma ApS is a Danish biotech company founded in 2011 and based in Copenhagen. Acesion Pharma develops more efficacious and safe drugs for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common type of cardiac arrhythmia.
AgomAb Therapeutics — AgomAb is developing molecular therapies for the regeneration of damaged tissues. Their unique agonistic monoclonal antibody molecules (“agomAbs”) stimulate molecular and cellular repair mechanisms that have the potential to restore organ function in patients with fibrotic, inflammatory, autoimmune and degenerative diseases.

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
Summer — Summer partners with employers help their populations navigate and reduce student loan debt. Summer is a certified B-Corp.
Alsym Energy — Alsym™ Energy has developed an innovative low-cost, high-performance rechargeable energy storage technology that’s free of lithium and cobalt, and ideal for applications such as stationary storage, maritime shipping, and electric vehicles.By using readily available, inherently non-toxic and non-flammable energy storage materials, Alsym is workingto deliver wide-duration storage with performance comparable to lithium ion at a much lower cost, speeding the pace of decarbonization for people around the world.

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

Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
Foundry — Elastic cloud infrastructure built for machine learning.
Avenzo Therapeutics — Developing the next generation of oncology therapies for patients.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Clair — Clair is a New York-based fintech startup that provides Instant Pay Access as a service for human capital management platforms and the gig economy. With Clair, employees, and contractors get access to a digital bank account that allows them to get a portion of their earned wages as soon as they finish work. It aims to make every worker financiallyfree.
OurSky — OurSky is a modern developer platform for space applications. We provide real-time observational data and analysis of objects and activities in space. Built as an open, community-driven resource for the new space age engineer.
Renew — Renew is a scalable, centralized solution that automates and optimizes the lease renewal and renter retention process to drive NOI and improve the bottom line for multifamily property managers.

Boston Seed Capital provides seed-stage funding for internet-enabled businesses. Boston Seed Capital's experience is in internet-enabled, consumer, B2B SAAS, and the supporting services marketplaces. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Rithmm — Rithmm is a personalized predictive analytics platform for sports betting. We enable our users to test their own strategies, rather than relying on the thoughts of others, through the simplification and personalization of sports betting models. Your instincts. Our algorithm. Give yourself an edge.
Graff Golf — Our unique combination of ball electronics and external sensors result in the most accurate shot data available for an at-home golf simulator.
BG Networks — BG Networks’ is an Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity software company focused on enabling IoT security everywhere. Our mission is to make it easy to do cybersecurity right. Our approach uses low-code automation tools to add customized security for automotive, industrial, consumer, and healthcare applications. BG Networks' award winningSecurity Automation Tool (BGN-SAT) helps engineers quickly improve security, reduce development time, and take advantage of in-silicon security features. With our Security Automation Tools, we aim to remove all obstacles preventing embedded engineers from including robust cybersecurity in their applications.

Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Loop — Control your freight spend with Loop. A tech-first audit and pay platform loved by Shippers, Carriers and 3PLs.
Tract — Tract is the first for kids, by kids online community for student-directed learning. We are reimagining education by giving kids full control and making learning fun. We offer members (kids age 8+) unlimited on-demand courses (learning paths) and vibrant weekly live events, taught by our inspiring community of accomplished creators. Together, theyenable kids to develop passions through meaningful, real-world lessons giving them the skills and mindset to address 21st-century challenges and opportunities.Tract is based on TRICK, the philosophy pioneered by our co-founder Esther Wojcicki. Esther has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children from her award-winning student-run journalism program and is a mother of three successful women (CEO of YouTube, CEO, and founder of 23andMe, and top UCSF medical researcher) all by applying TRICK.TRICK stands for Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. These five pillars are at the core of Tract and our mission to empower all kids to become tomorrow's innovators, leaders, and global citizens.Our team is unified by Esther’s lifelong work to evolve education for the 21st century and comes from top Consumer and Education Technology companies (Uber, Microsoft, and Instracture).What We Believe:- The secret to getting kids interested in learning is giving them control - Kids are much smarter and capable than most people think - Successful people believe in themselves and aren’t afraid to take risks - Creative people with great passions don’t follow the rules - Current rates of depression and lack of career-readiness is a global epidemic - Our education system of standardization and obedience limits creativity and a growth mindset - Education is not equitable and the achievement gap is widening - We need a generation of community-minded global citizens to make the world a better place - Education that works for kids, not against them is the silver bullet for the world’s problems
Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.

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, Internet
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Canada, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

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

The Future is Coming

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FirstMate — FirstMate is a software company that designs and develops software tools for NFT creators.
Forum — Forum is a marketplace for peer support groups that connects mission-driven facilitators with people seeking support for life's biggest challenges–including life transitions, career, health, relationships, and more. Peer support is a proven model for personal change, healing, and growth – and our vision is a world where everyone has easyaccess to it.
Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
Coast — Coast is the simple, all-in-one fleet and fuel card that helps businesses easily pay for and track vehicle expenses. It's quick to set up, easy-to-use, and full of rewards.
Imperia — We provide to our clients tools for managing and optimizing their processes in the area of operations through an innovative, advanced and user-friendly software solution. Analytics Demand Planning (ADP) is a complete solution to support the demand forecasting process, based on two key pillars: 1. Easy-to-use: the solution is fully integrated inExcel, providing great ease of use and minimum implementation times. “If you know how to use Excel, you know how to use ADP”. 2. Collaborative planning: the tool is developed under a collaborative environment in which all members of the organization can be involved in the process, improving the decision-making process.Furthermore, it has great computing power based on statistical models and a wide range of advanced functionalities that add extra value to the product. Such as reference segmentation, intelligent cleaning of historical data series and integrated dashboards for sales and forecast analytics.

Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

K Visa — K Visa is an immigration service agency that offers visas, permanent residency, and employment services.
Realry — Search, compare, and shop your luxury items here. Realry is your luxury fashion search engine that lets you search thousands of online fashion stores at once.
Spotlite — Spotlite operates a professional model recruitment platform for commercial photography.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
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.

Andy Brown is a seasoned enterprise technology executive with over 30 years of hands-on experience running large organizations in Banking, Telecoms, Oil and Pharma. Andy has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2015. Andy was Group CTO of UBS from 2010 to 2013; Head of Strategy, Architecture & Optimization at Bank ofAmerica Merrill Lynch from 2008 to 2010; and from 2006 to 2008 the CTO of Infrastructure at Credit Suisse. Prior to that, Mr. Brown served for 10 years in various leadership roles at Merrill Lynch, including Chief Technology Architect and CIO of Direct Markets.Andy is a board member of Guidewire (GWRE), Zscaler (ZS), Pure Storage (PSTG), Digital Asset, LMRKTS and Moogsoft, and is advising a number of technology startups, including in his role as CTO in Residence at Fintech Innovation Lab in NYC. Andy holds a BSc. Honors degree in Chemical Physics from University College London.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Social Network
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Tornado — Tornado is an investing app that advances financial wellness through community, insights & data for investors at all stages. Tornado promotes financial wellness and empowerment through a highly personalized investing experience and a social network of trusted sources. Tornado's technology leverages machine learning to meet users on theirinvesting journey, whether they're investing for the first time or are veterans with decades of experience. The platform allows users to buy and sell stocks and ETFs, while utilizing world class analytical tools, risk assessment metrics, performance benchmarks and a portfolio optimization tool powered by independent, Nobel Prize-winning research.
Cape Privacy — Cape is an Enterprise Al platform that you can run anywhere, optimized for both the security and privacy of your data.
Lionize — Influencer Marketing. Simplified. The easiest way to build credibility with branded stories told by influencers.

Private angel investors and corporate venture ecosystem investing in healthtech, digital health and other healthcare technologies startups

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

SafKan Health — OtoSet® by SafKan Health is the first FDA Cleared automated ear cleaning device for the 35 million Americans affected by impacted earwax - the leading cause of conductive hearing loss.
GT Metabolic Solutions — GT Metabolic Solutions has developed minimally-invasive incisionless bypass technology for bariatric, metabolic and digestive surgery.
Wavely Diagnostics — Wavely Diagnostics is pioneering the future of remote digital diagnostics and enabling telehealth growth by leveraging smartphone technology to address pediatric care.

Menlo Ventures is a Bay Area venture capital firm that pursues companies with the potential to disrupt huge markets. We invest in all stages, across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Higgsfield — Foundational video model for social media
Barnyard Games — Barnyard Games is a gaming production studio that creates strategic games and simulations.
Brain Jar Games — Brain Jar Games is a new worldwide studio comprised of AAA professionals dedicated to creating bold and bright games that players want to share.

Virginia Venture Partners is a family of seed-stage investment funds placing near-equity and equity investments in Virginia-based technology, life science, and cleantech companies. Virginia Venture Partners invests in companies with a high potential for achieving rapid growth and generating significant economic returns for entrepreneurs,co-investors, and the Commonwealth of Virginia. CIT’s family of funds includes:GAP Fund I is a vintage 2004 fund fully invested in a broad array of seed-stage technology companies. Portfolio.GAP BioLife Fund is a seed fund investing exclusively in life science companies.GAP Tech Fund is a seed fund investing in IT and technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

CarpeDM — CarpeDM app is an exclusive member-only dating community created for singles seeking meaningful relationships with professional Black women.
WRANGLD — WRANGLD operates as a SaaS company that provides a platform for the trades and service industries.
OpsCanvas — Your ultimate solution for effortless cloud deployments, with an intuitive visual interface designed specifically for developers.

GrandBanks Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in wireless and mobile technologies, digital media, web-based commerce, cloud-based services, storage, and financial technologies.The GrandBanks team and its partners collectively have more than 100 years of venture capital investing and senior operating experience, a proofpoint to their insight and expertise that helps entrepreneurs build the next wave of premier companies in emerging markets. Comprised of recognized business builders within targeted investment sectors, the investment team possesses a sought after reputation within the venture capital community for actively building successful companies.Recognizing new technologies with the potential for significant impact, GrandBanks Capital team members and partners have been lead investors and senior executives for some of the most successful companies in their respective sectors, including Yahoo!, E*Trade, Art Technology Group, GEAC, GeoCities, Multex Systems, 1800Flowers.com, GSI Commerce, SOFTBANK, EMC Corporation, Thomson Financial, First Call, CCBN, Lycos, The Learning Company, and Phoenix Technologies LTD.Current portfolio companies include Where Inc., I Love Rewards, Glasshouse Technologies, KnowledgeVision, Vela Systems and Nexage.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Advertising
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Later (Formerly Mavrck) — Mavrck is the leading all-in-one influencer marketing platform enabling enterprise brands such as P&G, Reebok, and Walgreens to harness the power of social proof that consumers trust today. Marketers use Mavrck to identify and activate influencers, employees, and consumer advocates to create authentic content at scale. Using its self-serviceproduct, marketers take an automated and data-driven approach to influencer marketing. Founded in 2014, Mavrck is headquartered in Boston, with offices in Denver, has 65 employees, and has raised $20M in venture capital. The platform has been recognized for its superior offering by the Shorty Awards and Retail Innovator Awards, honored as “Best Influencer Marketing Platform” by Digiday, and named to the 2020 Inc. 5000, awarded to America’s fastest-growing private companies. Mavrck was also named a “Leader” among the top emerging influencer marketing platforms in Forrester’s evaluation, The Forrester New Wave™: Influencer Marketing Solutions, 2020. Mavrck's culture of curious hustlers has also been recognized as "Top Company Cultures Among Small Companies" by Entrepreneur.
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.
Dispatch — Dispatch is the only software platform to help enterprises successfully unlock the potential of flexible service provider networks to provide world-class customer experiences.

Foundry is a venture capital firm focused on providing early-stage technology investments. The firm was established in 2007 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vendasta — Grow your agency with Vendasta's platform, designed for selling online services. Join 80k+ agencies, expand offerings & scale with SaaS revenue.
Optimize.health — Running a remote patient monitoring program couldn't be easier. Launch and scale remote patient monitoring, with a simple and reliable RPM Solution.
SingleFile Technologies — SingleFile Technologies automates secretary of state filings with our cloud based, filing platform using AI technology. From business formations to foreign qualifications, and many other filing documents, the SingleFile platform saves time, eliminates confusion, and reduces cost.

Founded in 2010, TSVC (formerly TEEC Angel Fund) is proud to be a leading early-stage venture capital fund in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MyShell — MyShell is a decentralized and comprehensive platform for discovering, creating, and staking AI-native apps.
KURUKURU — Bring your comics and visual stories to life in clicks on KURUKURU.
Leadoptik — Leadoptik is a California-based company is currently operating in stealth mode.

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, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

Lunsford Capital is a private investment company in Louisville, Kentucky that invests in a wide range of companies. Bruce Lunsford is the Chairman and CEO.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Podcast
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

GoWild — Search GoWild for trending outdoor gear. Find gear for hunting, fishing, camping, and more you'll find deals on member recommended gear.
Phyt.Health — Phyt Health allows patients to be treated at home with the highest care from top physiotherapists and the power of computer vision.
Resound — Editing a podcast is too hard and time-consuming. That's why we're building a next-gen tool to help creators edit their podcast as easily as a TikTok.

Magma is Israel's leading venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in communication, semiconductors, internet and media. They seek bright ideas, infuse them with experience and foresight, and facilitate their rise as industry leaders that redefine the global communications sector. They use their experience and sectorspecialization in cooperating with entrepreneurs, industry experts, and other investors to define the future of the communication, semiconductors, internet and media arenas. Their goal is to foster and enable the flow of innovation from an idea's early stages and through a company's emergence as a leader within its dynamic market. They understand the local market and help to influence the global one.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Seed
Israel, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Cylus — Cylus, the global leader in rail cybersecurity, helps rail, freight and metro companies avoid service disruption and safety incidents by detecting cyber-attacks in their signaling and control networks, wayside and onboard, before harm happens.
CoreTigo — CoreTigo provides high-performance IO-Link Wireless communication solutions for machine builders, system integrators & industrial equipment manufacturers.
Allseated — AllSeated is a free collaboration network for planning events that enables you to design floor plans, manage guest lists, and create seating seating charts. We save you time and make planning your event simple.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vic.ai — Vic.ai is an autonomous accounting and financial intelligence company for enterprise finance teams, BPO's and outsourced accounting firms. We build sophisticated AI for real-time, autonomous accounting paired with prescriptive intelligence enabling radical time-savings and optimal financial decision making.
CapStack Technologies — Discover Capstack, the leading bank-to-bank marketplace driving banking digital transformation. Join the innovation wave and transform your banking experience now!
Homebase — 100,000+ small (but mighty) businesses use Homebase to manage their hourly teams, with employee scheduling, time clocks, and more.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

TipTop — TipTop is the easiest way to sell and a great new way to buy. Upgrade your devices and get cash for your old stuff with a single tap.
Orson — Meaningful connection is a universal human need. It's our stories that create empathy and bind us together.
Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

forml — Discover how our platform can help your business harness the power of Machine Learning and drive growth. Get started today!
AstroBeam — AstroBeam is focused on creating more comfortable, more accessible, and more human ways to hangout and have fun with friends in VR!
Taxa Technologies — Designer probiotics for personal care

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

RateGain — Move forward and maximize revenue everyday with the #1 Saas company in Travel and Hospitality
Packfleet — We serve millions of Londoners, combining a top-notch delivery service with advanced technology to offer a carbon-neutral delivery experience like no other.
TravelJoy — From first reply to final payment, TravelJoy makes it easy for you to book your ideal client faster, with less legwork.

Atlas Benjelloun has been working as a Group Chairman, Atlas Finance at Atlas Holding for 13 years. Atlas Holding is part of the Holding Companies & Conglomerates industry, and located in San Francisco, United States.Atlas Benjelloun invest and support curious, mission-minded people who are committed to solving the Internet’s toughestchallenges.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series C
United States, Morocco, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Atlys — Atlys is the world's leading visa platform with 99.5% on-time delivery for over 150 destinations.
Silo — Silo is a platform that automates the perishable supply chain. More time, more opportunity, less waste.
Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
Paxton AI — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
Atropos Health — Atropos Health rapidly provides personalized real-world evidence for any clinical decision

William Lohse is a Founder Joyance Europe of Joyance Partners.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Beatrust — Tags connect and drive collaboration, expanding your team's potential
SmartNews — Trusted by over 40+ million worldwide readers, SmartNews provides the best news, stories and events across 200+ local news sites.
Greenhouse Software — Greenhouse is a talent acquisition software company that offers its suite of tools and services to help businesses with the hiring process.The platform aims to assist companies with sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding the right talent. It assists employers to establish who they are looking to hire and plan a consistent interviewprocess, enabling recruiters to collect feedback and track employees after they have been hired.Daniel Chait and Jon Stross co-founded the company in 2012 and headquartered it in New York, New York.

Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
SFA Therapeutics — SFA Therapeutics is a development-stage bio-pharmaceutical startup company focused on a new advancement in the treatment of chronic inflammatory disease - the use of microbiome-derived metabolites as drugs.
Rejuvenation Technologies — Rejuvenation Technologies is a biotechnology company that developed nucleoside-modified TERT mRNA to safely and rapidly extend telomeres. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Flybridge is an early-stage venture capital fund with 20+ years of investing experience and over $1B under management. Flybridge has offices in New York and Boston.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
Metaplane — Metaplane is a data observability platform that helps data teams know when things break, what went wrong, and how to fix it.
Karma3 Labs — Karma3 Labs is an open protocol that allows developers to create an on-chain ranking and recommendation system for their apps. Karma3 Labs provides peer-to-peer social attestations, open data, reliable algorithms, and contextual and customizable features.

The Westly Group is focused on investing in the most innovative companies in the energy, transportation and smart building sectors. We are dedicated to finding and funding the best talent in creating a sustainable future.With extensive operating experience in the private and public sectors, from Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C. and beyond, TheWestly Group uses its experiences to give firms the momentum they need to achieve their potential.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Enpal — Kostenlose Planung von Solaranlagen. Gewinnbringende & schnelle Umsetzung von Photovoltaikanlagen inklusive professionelle Installation & Netzanschluss. Zum Festpreis!
Circulor — Circulor is a leader in bringing traceability to complex industrial supply chains. We help customers to demonstrate responsible sourcing, to monitor inherited emissions from the supply chain and to underpin their circular economy ambitions. We help procurement and sustainability professionals see and manage what was previously invisible.
Ampcontrol — Charging for electric vehicles is easier with Ampcontrol. Our charging management software makes fleet operations easier and more efficient by ensuring fully charged batteries, cheaper charging infrastructure, and more.

NXT Ventures Fund is a Boston Angel Investment Fund established for the purpose of discovering and enabling the next truly disruptive start-up companies.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Analytics
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Luminopia — Luminopia is pioneering a new class of treatments for significant neuro-visual disorders. Luminopia is committed to creating digital therapeutics that are both rigorously evaluated for FDA approval and genuinely engaging for patients. As an Innovation Partner of Boston Children’s Hospital, the company is developing its lead product, Luminopia One,to treat amblyopia, the leading cause of vision loss among children. For more information, visit luminopia.com.
Connectbase — We give the connectivity industry location insights & automated tools to help them win more deals. Transform your network buying & selling.
Clinical Research IO — CRIO is home to the industry's leading eClincial solutions that drive protocol compliance and eliminate transcription, saving time and money.

IA Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in seed-stage investments in the fintech sector. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in information technology, e-commerce, software, financial services, healthcare, media, big data, and business services sectors.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Aclid — Automate compliance with real-time screening and cusomer verification
Betr — At betr, It provides tools to support responsible play and give you control over your gambling. It encourage you to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within your personal limits.
January — January builds and enforces trust in consumer finance.Borrowers in delinquency and default face harassment, hidden fees, and harmed credit scores. Creditors lose out on recoveries, expose themselves to compliance and operational risks, and compromise the trust on which their relationships with borrowers are built.January works with borrowerswho fall behind on their loans to achieve financial stability, while helping creditors modernize their collections.

Founder and Patent holder - GROTU mobile app @ 101 Islands LLC. Angel investor in 40 pre-IPO technology startups. Frequently invited by accelerators and angel forums to Judge startup competitions and discuss technology innovation. Former IT Consulting industry executive who sold hundreds of millions of dollars in consulting services to Fortune 500companies working for Cap Gemini, HCL, L&T, NTT data.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Rentberry — Find your next home for long-term rent in any country at Rentberry.
AtomBeam — AtomBeam is a software company that is developing an artificial intelligence driven ecosystem of algorithms and computational paradigms that will transform the way data is transferred and stored, dramatically reducing the size of data transferred but without adding latency, using only modest computing power. This technology has profound benefitsfor a very large number of applications, in particular IoT and edge computing. The technology's advantages are unmatched and give it a wide range of uses: a) it can act on very small packet sizes, enabling it to stream data, b) computational latency is near zero, c) it is not sensitive to data errors, and c) it provides random file access. It has the potential to be virtually universal, especially in IoT.
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