Top 50 Social Network Startup Investors in United States in January 2026

Investor	Social Network United States investments
SV Angel	14
Reid Hoffman	8
First Round Capital	8
Betaworks	7
Sequoia Capital	7
Lerer Hippeau	7
CRV	7
NextView Ventures	6
FirstMark	6
Founders Fund	6
Floodgate	6
Google Ventures	6
General Catalyst	6
Ronald Conway	6
Accel	6
Unshackled Ventures	5
New Enterprise Associates	5
Antler	5
Advancit Capital	5
Redpoint	5
BoxGroup	5
Lowercase Capital	5
Canaan Partners	5
Mark Pincus	5
Polychain	5
Boston Seed Capital	5
Alumni Ventures	5
Flybridge	4
Kevin Hartz	4
Andy Brown	4
Lunsford Capital	4
Cyan Banister	4
XFactor Ventures	4
TSVC	4
GrandBanks Capital	4
Foundry Group	4
Menlo Ventures	4
Upfront Ventures	4
Atlas Benjelloun	4
Flori Ventures	4
Gaingels	4
Gary Vaynerchuk	4
Founder Collective	4
Boost VC	4
Pear VC	4
Social Starts	4
Cowboy Ventures	4
Strong Ventures	4
HealthTech Capital	4
Virginia Venture Partners	4

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Telepatia — Telepatia is a health tech platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to support medical professionals.
Console — Console helps IT teams get to Inbox Zero. Auto-resolve over 50% of your support requests directly in Slack and Teams, using AI Agents that understand how your company does work.
Sage Care — Empowering smarter healthcare decisions with AI.

Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and also board of directors of Sanmai. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Perugia. Reid Hoffman has been awarded Marshall Medal.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Every Media — A daily newsletter on what comes next in tech. 100K+ readers.
Boom Supersonic — Making the World Dramatically More Accessible
Arcade — Arcade is a B2C platform that transforms the jewelry market through its prompt-to-product solution, allowing users to create unique designs using AI. The marketplace supports various user roles, enabling customers, designers, and influencers to engage and collaborate.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Actively — A seamless booking assistant for your favorite fitness classes & wellness experiences
House Rx — House Rx is a health technology platform focused on improving affordability and patient access to specialty medications.
Troops — Never miss a revenue signal with Troops. Easily update Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, and Jira right from Slack and Microsoft Teams. Get started for free.

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

Twin — We are building the AI productivity platform for SMB teams to automate complex and repetitive tasks across, as seamlessly as delegating them to smart interns.
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!

We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Infracost — Infracost creates cloud cost estimates for infrastructure as code in pull requests, so developers know how much their cloud resources will cost before launching them, creating a cost-aware engineering organization.
Catch — Catch is a payment method that provides a new way to pay and earn store credit.
Papaya — Pay any bill in a matter of seconds. No stamps, no complicated portals, no stress.

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

BLADE — BLADE is a technology-powered, short-distance aviation company committed to reducing travel friction by enabling cost-effective air transportation alternatives. They leverage their technology to enable travelers to utilize and enjoy air travel. BLADE arranges on-demand charter and scheduled flights across a diverse accessible fleet of helicopters,jets, turboprops, and seaplanes.BLADE operates in New York City, Long Island and the Hamptons, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington DC, and many other locations.
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.
Symbiotic Security — Symbiotic Security revolutionizes cybersecurity with an AI-driven coach, offering real-time detection, remediation, and training within the developer's IDE.

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

Scribd — Scribd is the unlimited reading subscription that offers access to the best books, audiobooks, news and magazine articles, documents and more. Scribd's e-book subscription service is available on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as well as the Kindle Fire, Nook, and personal computers. Scribd brings together the best books, audiobooks,and journalism to help readers become their best selves. The company offers unlimited access to the best books, audiobooks, articles, documents, and more, all in one app.
Zip — Zip is the new concierge for procurement. Increase employee adoption and get spend and risk under control.
Vergo — Vergo is a financial technology company and is not a bank. Banking services provided by Blue Ridge Bank, N.A.; Member FDIC.

NextView helps entrepreneurs build companies of consequence to shape a future of collective prosperity. https://nextview.vc/

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Poly — Poly is an intelligent file browser & cloud hosting service for your personal files and media, that lets you search in intuitive natural language, chat about your files with AI, and sync with your local file system. All with a platform that's privacy-first and secure. Available on web and desktop.
Ten Little — Ten Little makes it easy for parents to find expert-vetted products and resources personalized for each child's unique size and stage to support healthy brain and body development.
Handspring Health — Handspring Health is an evidence-based behavioral health center that provides children and families with essential mental health treatment, counseling, and lifelong skills that empower their success. We currently provide therapy to children between the ages of 10 and 17.

FirstMark is an early-stage venture capital firm in New York City. We back and accelerate founders making their mark on the world.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Clerq — Clerq makes it easy for your business to accept low-cost, guaranteed bank payments with the ease and safety of cards.
Highbeam — Highbeam is a fintech company that offers an online platform for ecommerce originators to comprehend, invest, and expand businesses. Highbeam is headqaurtered in New York, United States.
Tycho AI — Tycho AI delivers autonomous intelligence with AI that acts independently, adapts in real time, and drives mission outcomes at the edge.

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

Newfront — Modern insurance platform transforming risk management, employee experience, insurance, and retirement solutions with transparent data to lower your total cost of risk.
Nubank — Nubank issues, administrate, processes, and transfers payments related to post-paid credit cards and equity investment in other entities. It serves clients in Brazil. The company launched its proprietary loyalty rewards program ("Nubank Rewards"), as well as a digital account ("NuConta") that is already used by more than 17million people.Cristina Junqueira, David Velez, and Edward Wible founded EO2 Solucoes de Pagamento on May 6, 2013 that became Nubank in on June 25, 2013. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.
Vest — Vest is an app-based brokerage that wants to provide Latin American savers with access to American assets that are differentiated by product, pricing, and content. Latin Americans are known for saving, but many prefer to do so in cash or in zero-interest savings accounts.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Plug — Plug is a wholesale auction that facilitates online buying and selling of used EVs.
Replenysh — Replenysh is a set of tools for communities and companies to build circularity in days, not years.
Bluejay AI — Bluejay rigorously tests and monitors conversational AI agents across voice, chat, and IVR. Run full simulations, load-test high traffic, detect regressions, and use deep observability to ensure accurate, compliant, and reliable AI performance.

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

Instawork — Instawork connects local businesses with proven hourly workers for temp, temp-to-hire shift work.
SingleStore — SingleStore is a provider of a database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications. It provides global enterprises with an intelligent database that works on any cloud on-premises or as a service runs transactions and analytics at the same time and lets clients promote their business through analytics and combine semi-structured datainto a consolidated big data platform.
Resistant AI — Resistant AI provides fraud detection and prevention in automated document processing workflows, transaction monitoring, and identities analysis.

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Arphie — AI-powered software to respond to RFPs, RFQs, questionnaires, and DDQs. Secure, live integrations with company-approved data. Win more, and save 80%+ time.
Doccla — We are a start-up. However, our management and advisors combine 100 years of experience in service delivery to large public and private healthcare operators in six European states, as well as several years in wearable device implementation in the global consumer space.
Backupify — Protection, restoration, security, and compliance for all your SaaS data.

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.

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

Cyera — Cyera provides organizations with data reality for cloud data security. Cyera was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in San Mateo, USA.
Corelight — Corelight helps network defenders reach the high ground where they can see more and react faster.
H Company — H is an AI Research Lab and Product Company

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

Dispo — Dispo is a photo-sharing app designed to simulate the experience of using a disposable camera from the comfort of mobile phones. The app replicates the experience of taking photos on a disposable camera without a front-facing screen and develop those photos over a period of one day, thereby enabling users to create raw and authentic photos.
Hairtelligence — Hairtelligence is using computer vision technology that enables customers to customize their hair wigs and extensions, all from the comfort of their home. This is the first direct-to-consumer customization business model, eliminating the need for in person visits, and removing the costs associated with customization from traditional stylists.Our service generates customizable 3D hair models that match wigs and other hair extensions, such as clip-ins, braids, bundles, and closures that we manufacture, customize and sell, allowing the user to visualize realistic product results in real time. By capturing the dimensions of our customers facial features to measure wig, closure, and frontal fit, using color identification to match skin tone to lace tint, and allowing our customers to select the color and cut of their hairstyle, we provide fully customized wigs, weave bundles, frontals, and closures with a single purchase. The company was co-founded by Isoken Igbinedion and Ifueko Igbinedion.
Inspirit — TOTO328 menghadirkan panduan bermain Blackjack profesional bersama Inspirit Academy dengan strategi cerdas dan teknik akurat yang membantu pemain meningkatkan peluang kemenangan.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Wizard — Join the world's leading businesses using Wizard to sell, market, and engage their customers via text.
Immunomedics — Immunomedics is a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in developing monoclonal antibody-based products for the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases. Its corporate objective is to become a fully-integrated biopharmaceutical company. The company was founded in 1982 and headquartered in Morris Plains, New Jersey.
Willow — Willow is a female technology company that develops an in-bra wearable breast pump. Its breast pumps are cordless and spill-proof. It also tracks milk output through a mobile application along with an online portal, enabling mothers to pump anywhere without hassle. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Singapore, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Balo — Balo is the on-demand platform powered by the Top 1% of Salesforce Experts globally. Get immediate hands-on support for any Salesforce needs.
Voltrac — Voltrac is a robotics company that develops an autonomous, fully electric tractor platform called THOR, designed to operate in demanding environments for both agricultural and logistics use. THOR employs per-wheel electric motors instead of a conventional drivetrain, reducing mechanical complexity and maintenance requirements. It runs on swappable200 kWh battery packs, enabling long-duration operations and continuous work cycles. The platform supports a standard three-point hitch (Category II) and can be configured with a flatbed, making it versatile for fieldwork or transport tasks. Voltrac’s autonomy system combines reinforcement learning with real-time sensor data to adapt driving behavior and implements to changing terrain and crop conditions. Beyond farming, THOR is also intended for frontline logistics missions, with modular designs that can support cargo transport and resilience in challenging settings.
ROLO Robotics — ROLO Robotics is rethinking the kitchens of the future using robotics and automation.

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

Portfolio highlights

worm.wtf — worm.wtf is the prediction marketplace for the Solana ecosystem.
Sanctuary — Sanctuary is a mystical products and services company that provides illuminating experiences to millennials. Sanctuary’s daily horoscopes, planetary transits, and real-time chart readings are written and performed by professional astrologers. Sanctuary’s offerings provide members with a full spectrum of cosmic insights.
Public — Invest in stocks. Learn from others. Public lets you invest in stocks with any amount of money and see what others invest in.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

n8n — n8n is a free and source-available workflow automation tool
Scribe — By capturing your process while you work, Scribe automatically generates a visual guide, ready to share with the click of a button.
Modal Labs — Modal develops machine learning software to help run code in the cloud. The software enables users to run or deploy machine learning models, massively parallel compute jobs, task queues, web apps, and more. It also writes the code to launch hundreds of custom containers and runs scripts in the cloud faster than on the local machine.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Universe — Universe is the first website builder and commerce platform built for mobile devices. With its magical drag and drop interface, anyone can easily create a website and start selling online in minutes from anywhere.
David Energy — David Energy is an electricity provider that designs, builds, and manages onsite energy grids. The company empowers buildings with the tools needed to maximize onsite energy and bring transparency to a traditionally opaque, commoditized industry. It provides hands-on expertise and on the ground support, all delivered through its software platform.Founded in 2017, David Energy is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
FullyRamped — 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

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

MiSalud — MiSalud offers a unique combination of personalized preventative wellness services, along with traditional healthcare via Spanish speaking physicians.
Stensul — The Stensul Marketing Creation Platform lets marketers create no code emails and landing pages up to 90% faster.
Kolors — Kolors is a technological platform that focuses on providing intelligent intercity mobility of bus transportation in the region.

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, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Hermeus — Hermeus is developing hypersonic aircraft to connect the world faster than ever before.
CarTrade — CarTrade - Buy and Sell Used Cars in India at right price. Find New Cars, car prices, upcoming cars and images. Read latest auto news, reviews and car comparisons.
Matrimony.com — Revolutionizing the Indian matrimonial industry with world class matchmaking and wedding planning services. Your search for the perfect match ends here!

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

Portfolio highlights

Polymarket — Bet on your beliefs
SalesPatriot — SalesPatriot serves as an advanced back-office operating system tailored for companies within the defense sector.
Schemata — Schemata is a three-dimensional content creation company intended to help the Department of Defense and enterprises.

The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using the software. Polychain Capital is committedto exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Allora Labs — The source for NFT pricing. Upshot uses machine learning to provide deep insight into NFT markets and unlocks a wave of exotic new DeFi possibilities.
ETHZilla — Born from Ethereum. Built for everyone
Heritage Distilling — Heritage Distilling Co. (HDC) is a craft distillery based in Gig Harbor, Washington. HDC is the most awarded craft distillery in North America by the American Distilling Institute 10 years in a row. We pour a little of our heart into every batch of spirits we make.

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

Portfolio highlights

EnFi — EnFi Powers AI Assistants for Bank and Private Lending Origination, Underwriting and Portfolio Management Teams
Splash Sports — Splash Sports is the leading skill-based sports gaming platform built for friends to use their knowledge to compete for real money. Learn more and get started.
SKYGATE Technology Limited — Bombnovel.ai is a startup dedicated to AI text generation and voice comics, aiming to simplify creators' workflows, freeing them from the tedious steps of sketching, composing, coloring, and text selection. In Bombnovel AI-Studio, users can leverage intelligent AI features for editing and output, enhancing the synergy between technology andcreativity. By integrating advanced technology into content creation, the platform lowers the technical barriers of comic creation, especially for those who lack drawing skills but wish to turn their stories into voiced comics. Bombnovel.ai effectively supports various stages of traditional comic production, including script writing, sketch coloring, background addition, review, and modification. The Bombnovel AI-Studio interface, similar to other text-generated comic products, consists of a drawing board and an operation panel. Creators can upload storyboards, then select characters for the panels or upload photos/drawings to generate corresponding images and audio. Bombnovel.ai adds AI-generated storyboard and audio dialogue functions, making it easy for creators to get started and reducing the creation time to just one hour. As their slogan says, "Let everyone become a comic master," enabling daily updates of voiced comics!

Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers accredited investors access to diversified venture portfolios. The firm operates multiple funds, including alumni-focused and thematic funds, and co-invests alongside established venture firms. Investors can choose between fund-based investing or selecting individual deals. Alumni Venturesleverages a broad network to source capital, evaluate opportunities, and support portfolio companies. The firm manages a portfolio encompassing over 1,400 venture-backed companies across various sectors and stages.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
ZZ Driggs — ZZ Driggs is an award-winning company reimagining how we furnish our lives for a new economy and a more sustainable future. We offer exceptional, sustainable, and ethically-made heirloom-quality furniture to rent, buy, or both, made by the best independent & emerging designers today.
Mythical Games — We are Mythical Games, a Venture-backed next-generation game technology company at the intersection of video games and economics led by industry veterans.

New York and Boston Based Early-Stage Venture Capital Firm Backing Seed Stage AI Companies. Focused on AI Enablement, Developer Platforms, Agentic Business Applications, and Native AI for Human Ingenuity

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Jibo — Founded in 2012, Jibo is widely known for creating the eponymous robot, Jibo: the first social robot for the home. Jibo is built to interact and communicate with the people around him, and he uses advanced Natural Language Understanding (NLU) along with speech and facial recognition to forge relationships with his family. Jibo, Inc. officiallylaunched Jibo to the public in 2017 after nearly three years of intensive development and optimization. The company is privately held and headquartered in Boston.
Metaphi — Metaphi is the AI agent that gives you superpowers by proactively researching things of your interest, and executing tasks for you.
MelodyArc — MelodyArc is a platform for building and deploying AI operators - agentic AI systems that work across real-world tools, data and teams.

Kevin is the Co-Founder and GP of A* Capital & The Co-Founder & Chairman of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB)Prior A* Capital, Kevin was at Founders Fund. Previously Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB). Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company servicing more than 30 countriesworldwide. Xoom went public in 2012 and was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Kevin has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to successful start-ups including Airbnb, Lookout, PayPal, Pinterest, Skybox Imaging, Trulia, Uber, and Yammer.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rillet — Rillet automates majority of month-end close and offers powerful GAAP and SaaS reporting. The software has built-in revenue recognition, invoicing, and AI-powered accounting.
Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
Vigil Labs — Vigil Labs is an applied research lab building proprietary systems for trading.

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 — Digest information from thousands of public filings and your own documents with a versatile AI analyst, plus the reliability of full source attribution.
Cape.ai — AI-Powered Automation for Every User
Lionize — Influencer Marketing. Simplified. The easiest way to build credibility with branded stories told by influencers.

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 — GoWild is a social commerce platform for outdoor enthusiasts. Our robust social network and ecommerce engine empowers consumers to socially share about and shop for gear. With hundreds of thousands of products, GoWild has the largest marketplace of outdoor gear online, with an active audience of consumers engaging with brands. The company wasfounded in 2017 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.
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.

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 a crypto startup.
Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
Vigil Labs — Vigil Labs is an applied research lab building proprietary systems for trading.

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

Bountiful — Optimizing the agricultural industry
Clara Labs — Clara did inventive work on human-in-the-loop NLP systems and built one of the earliest well-loved conversational UX products. In 2019, the business was acquired by TopFunnel (https://topfunnel.co) who continues to operate the service, and Twitter acquired the R&D talent and some IP to apply towards content moderation.
Tastemakers Africa — Tastemakers Africa is a NYC-based travel experiences marketplace connecting travelers to creative entrepreneurs in African cities. Currently live in Accra, Cape Town, and Johannesburg, we’ve booked 2,000 experiences for 400+ travelers since launching in November 2018.

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

Lumotive — Lumotive is a Seattle-based startup company developing high performance, solid-state lidar for autonomous systems in the automotive, UAV, robotics and related industries. The company's revolutionary beam-steering technology leverages Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces (or LCMs) implemented in mature semiconductor manufacturing processes to deliversmall, inexpensive 3D perception systems with unprecedented performance and reliability. For more information, visit us at www.lumotive.com.
Petal Surgical — Petal is a surgical technology company pioneering incisionless surgery through Acoustic Sculpting, a proprietary form of boiling histotripsy. Our platform uses focused sound waves to precisely destroy harmful tissue without cuts, heat, or toxicity offering gentler alternative to traditional surgery.
Carbon Free Energy Cloud — Carbon Credits Simplified

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 — 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 operating system that empowers modern service experiences for the world’s largest service brands. Our platform connects the enterprise, service provider, and customer together to create a world-class service experience that surpasses the rising expectations of the modern-day market.

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

Portfolio highlights

RealWear — Discover the future of hands-free technology with RealWear smart glasses. Rugged, voice-operated solutions for industrial use with AI capabilities.
Vendasta — At Vendasta, our core purpose is to drive local economies by democratizing technology for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). We accomplish this by providing a robust platform to local experts around the world—our channel partners. Partners use Vendasta’s technology to market, sell, bill, fulfill, and deliver digital solutions to their SMBclients. Our end-to-end platform and marketplace are tightly integrated into an operating system delivered to SMBs, providing a single sign-on to their digital products and analytics. Vendasta serves 50,000+ channel partners, who in turn work with more than five million SMBs worldwide. Sign up for free and explore Vendasta at www.vendasta.com.
Looking Glass Factory — Introducing Looking Glass Portrait, your first personal holographic display. Designed for people, real and imagined. Available for pre-order today.

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, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Suno — Suno is a music start-up that enables anyone to make the songs they want. The company aims to help people rediscover the joy of play and exploration.
CloudTrucks — CloudTrucks is a new way to manage your trucking business. Maximize revenue and minimize headaches with technology-driven products that give you everything you need to make the most of your trucking business.
Numeric — Hundreds of teams streamline reconciliations, organize their close, and leverage AI for flux analysis and reporting with Numeric.

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
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cordial — Cordial is a cross-channel marketing platform built for enterprise brands to personalize email, SMS, and push campaigns that drive growth.
Daytona — Deploy Al code with confidence using Daytona's lightning-fast infrastructure. 90ms environment creation, stateful operations, and enterprise-grade security.
Modern Animal — Modern Animal is an innovative veterinary platform building a new kind of veterinary experience for animals and humans. The veterinary platform offers unlimited exams, in-app prescription requests & delivery, 24/7 virtual care, and more. They build innovations in technology and design give you greater access to a team of experts,flexibility, and convenience in every interaction, and the highest level of personalized care.Modern Animal built the next generation in veterinary care, reshaping a traditional industry to better meet the needs of pet owners, pets, practitioners and staff. Through the state-of-the-art app and in-clinic technology and design, as well as a membership model that allows for quality relationships to develop between doctors, pets and pet owners.Modern Animal was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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, Cryptocurrency
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.
Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.
Bluesky — Bluesky is a new social media platform.

More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.

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

Portfolio highlights

Ashby — Ashby is a developer of recruitment software used for high-growth companies. It develops usable, enterprise-grade employment software that enables company leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers to run their hiring process significantly better. It was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Paxton — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
Viridian Space — Viridian Space develops a propulsion technology intended to use oxygen to stay in ultra-low earth orbit. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Culver City, California.

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 — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.

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

Appy.AI — Appy.AI platform enables anyone to build complete AI businesses through natural conversation without coding.
Coverflow — Coverflow is an AI-powered platform designed for policy checking, AMS updates, and generating proposals. Users can upload policies, and the AI automatically identifies and organizes them for analysis, flagging discrepancies and highlighting key details. The platform enables the generation of personalized proposals and provides complete checks toensure accurate decision-making. It also offers integration with other systems, automatic updates, and secure data handling with SOC2 compliance.
Weavy — Weavy is a company focused on enhancing team collaboration by providing developers with pre-built, seamlessly integrated collaboration features for web applications. Their platform offers components such as chat, messaging, file sharing, AI tools, and cloud integrations designed to save developers from repetitive coding tasks, enabling them tobuild smarter and faster without reinventing the wheel. Weavy's tools emphasize developer-friendliness, intuitive user experience, and cost-effectiveness, aiming to empower developers across skill levels to embed collaboration and AI-driven capabilities into internal apps efficiently.

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 — Use forml to build and integrate intelligent workflows for any task in seconds, with flexible integrations.
ego AI — Building intelligent, embodied characters that bring human-like behavior to games, simulations, and beyond.
Neurvona — AI Digital Twin Personas

Pear VC partners with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category-defining companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Axle Health — Axle Health provides scheduling and workforce management software to help home healthcare and hospice providers improve their clinician productivity.
Flicker Corp. — Multi-agent AI system that finds and fixes vulnerabilities faster than ever before.
Nightfall — Nightfall is one trusted DLP platform to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across SaaS and cloud apps with machine learning.

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.

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

CapStack Technologies — Discover Capstack, the leading bank-to-bank marketplace driving banking digital transformation. Join the innovation wave and transform your banking experience now!
Portex — Portex makes freight procurement more efficient by eliminating emails, spreadsheets and pdfs, while instantly unlocking insights to lower freight spend.
Continuum — Simplify B2B returns, warranties, and repairs with Continuum; the only Returns Management Software designed for distributors and manufacturers.

Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Veramore — Veramore is an online store that sells a wide range of beauty and cosmetic products.
SQUARES — SQUARES build commerce sites with no-code and use and manage them with ease.

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, Canada

Portfolio highlights

xCures — An AI-assisted platform that gathers medical records from anywhere. It extracts clinical insights, resulting in significant information gain.
S2 Genomics — The Singulator Platform automates the dissociation of tissues into single cells and nuclei for genomics applications. Learn more at S2genomics.com
GT Metabolic Solutions — GT Metabolic Solutions has developed minimally-invasive incisionless bypass technology for bariatric, metabolic and digestive surgery.

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

Syntrillo — Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability worldwide, but it doesn’t have to be. We know that with the right kind of care, 8 out of 10 strokes could be prevented. Through a combination of digital health and AI, we are making expert-level care accessible to millions of at-risk patients. Our team of neurologists, rehabilitation experts, andpsychologists have made it our mission to improve your brain health and protect against stroke.
NearStar Fusion Inc. — NearStar Fusion is developing fusion power plants with a tritium-free pulsed impact fusion approach leveraging extensive experience with hypervelocity plasma railguns. The simplicity of the NearStar Fusion power plant reduces development time, construction, and operating costs, while improving operational reliability and longevity.NearStar's design heavily leverages existing materials and technologies thereby avoiding major investments in material science or complicated supply chains.
Thumbprint Furniture — Thumbprint is dedicated to simplifying the commercial furniture design and specification process.