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Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in United States

Last updated: Sep 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Sports startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in United States

Investor	Sports United States investments
Courtside Ventures	32
Alumni Ventures	25
KB Partners	20
Founder Collective	19
Right Side Capital Management	19
Will Ventures	16
Gaingels	16
Boston Seed Capital	16
New Enterprise Associates	14
Invest Nebraska	14
Khosla Ventures	14
Elysian Park Ventures	13
SeventySix Capital	13
MaC Venture Capital	13
Accomplice	13
FJ Labs	13
Alliance of Angels	13
Greycroft	12
True Ventures	12
Social Starts	12
Crosscut Ventures	12
Sharp Alpha Advisors	12
Forerunner	11
Founders Fund	11
Collaborative Fund	11
Advancit Capital	11
SOSV	11
Daren Cotter	11
SV Angel	11
Global Founders Capital	10
First Round Capital	10
Jason Calacanis	10
Andreessen Horowitz	10
Great Oaks Venture Capital	10
Accel	10
Sterling.VC	10
Lerer Hippeau	10
Brainchild Holdings	10
Goodwater Capital	9
Connecticut Innovations	9
TCG	9
General Catalyst	9
Dorm Room Fund	9
Florida Funders	9
Joyance Partners	9
M13	9
Kleiner Perkins	9
Human Ventures	9
Correlation Ventures	9
BITKRAFT Ventures	9

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Courtside Ventures is the leading early-stage fund focused on Sports, Lifestyle, and Gaming. We invest in passionate entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Kabata — Full workout comprehension. Data-driven coaching. Gamified progression. Welcome to the next generation in connected fitness.
Holograph — Holograph enables NFTs to survive and bridge between blockchains while maintaining total data integrity. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, US.
Fermat Commerce — The Next Wave of Commerce. Working with brands to 3x their ad spend results through custom, content-native storefronts

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

PrivacyHawk — PrivacyHawk is a Personal Data Protection service that makes opting out, unsubscribing, and deleting your data from thousands of companies easy.
Fortera — 8% of global greenhouse emissions are caused by cement manufacturing, accounting for more than 3.5 billion tons of CO2 produced each year. Fortera addresses CO2 emissions directly from the kiln.
Trestle — Trestle helps construction organizations streamline the vendor contracting and procurement process with integration, smart tools, and use data that's currently going uncollected to reduce risks in future contracts.

We invest in passionate innovators at the intersection of sports and technology.

Investment focus

Sports, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Rypplzz — Through Interlife™, our mission is to advance humanity by spatially engineering the flow of the environment to create optimal efficiency. Interlife™ enables unique location-based experiences and transforms physical spaces into smart environments with precise geolocation and enhanced connectivity. The evolving use and omnipresence of connecteddevices and the increasing demand for experiential content, including mixed reality, are resulting in an exponentially increasing need for Interlife™ and its applications.Rypplzz partners with investors who like to back companies creating breakthrough proprietary tech and are on a mission to build a more sustainable world.
Symitri — Symitri is the integrated privacy firewall and real-time data cleanroom for the open web.
Tixologi — Tixologi’s blockchain-based ticketing software is putting event organizers in control of their own ticketing experience.

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

Anjuna — Anjuna confidential cloud software establishes a secure enclave that isolates and encrypts applications and data in runtime, at rest, and on the network for end-to-end data protection
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.
Baselayer — Baselayer automates business risk assessment and eliminates B2B fraud in the financial sector. It offers services such as business verification (KYB), fraud detection, business onboarding optimization, risk profiling, portfolio monitoring & alerting, and workflow automation. Baselayer empowers 100s of financial institutions, governmentagencies, lenders, and fintech to unlock instant trust with any business in America.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ASETS — ASETS develops software for engineers and created the first cloud-based Integrated Design Suite.
HLRBO — HLRBO is an online hunting network that connects landowners and hunters. List your property on HLRBO. No fees. No commissions. Hunters contact you directly with questions or to lease.
UBILD — A.I powered construction workforce and vendor procurement platform

Will Ventures, Early-stage teammates for consumer, health, and media startups.

Investment focus

Health Care, Sports, Fitness
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Youth Inc — Youth Inc. is a digital media network and commerce marketplace focused exclusively on youth sports. We are a content resource for the 65M U.S. families navigating the daily opportunities and challenges presented by youth sports.
Wondercraft — Craft a unique voice for your ideas. Create ads, podcasts, audiobooks, and effortlessly translate your content for a global audience.
Gemini Sports Analytics — The first AI cloud for sports

Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of diversity, inclusive of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AfterHour — Join the best stock trading community with over $200M+ in verified positions from retail traders. Get trade signals, due diligence, and real-time alpha.
TestParty — TestParty is the most effective solution for organizations to achieve digital accessibility compliance in the WCAG for the ADA, EAA, Section 508, and more.
OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback

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!

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

Agree.com — Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments.
MBX Biosciences — Homepage - MBX Biosciences
Brenig Therapeutics — Brenig Therapeutics develops therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.

Invest Nebraska builds a better future for our state by providing financial and operational assistance to high growth companies, advancing the entrepreneurial economy, and attracting out-of-state capital to Nebraska.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
United States

Portfolio highlights

Wunup — Wunup allows you and your friends to stay connected through fitness competitions. Check leaderboards, stay motivated with this social fitness app.
DivorceTech — AI-powered legal document automation software that streamlines client intake and produces state-specific divorce case documents efficiently.
Tour Golf League — Your Night Golf Event starts here! Tour Golf League designs and manufactures Night Golf Products to help golf courses host Night Golf Events.

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
Father Son Matching Shirts — FatherSonMatchingShirts store offers a wide variety of apparel such as t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, tank tops, and mugs. We're trying our best to bring customers. You are welcome to FatherSonMatchingShirts. We're trying our best to bring customers the shirts are made of high quality materials for maximum comfort in whatever you do.
Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.

We invest where sports intersect with life.

Investment focus

Sports, Software, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FORTË — FORTË enables fitness brands globally to create a high-quality, premium digital fitness platform cost-effectively. FORTË installs its proprietary streaming hardware and software at one or more of its clients’ locations, deploys a customized website and accompanying mobile apps, and assists the client to launch and promote its new virtual offering.End-users can stream live and on-demand fitness classes from their favorite gym while interacting with their community on two-way video, tracking their performance in real-time on leaderboards and through wearable integrations, participate in challenges, and get social with their friends. FORTË powers UFC, Goodlife Fitness, YMCA's, NFL Player's Association, The Edge, Heartcore, GYMVMT, and many other well-known gym chains and boutique studios.
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.
SweetSpot — SweetSpot products make sports and outdoors more accessible, more affordable and more fun to play anytime, anywhere.

SeventySix Capital is a venture capital company investing in game-changing tech startups in sports, esports, and sports betting.

Investment focus

Software, Sports, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

FORTË — FORTË enables fitness brands globally to create a high-quality, premium digital fitness platform cost-effectively. FORTË installs its proprietary streaming hardware and software at one or more of its clients’ locations, deploys a customized website and accompanying mobile apps, and assists the client to launch and promote its new virtual offering.End-users can stream live and on-demand fitness classes from their favorite gym while interacting with their community on two-way video, tracking their performance in real-time on leaderboards and through wearable integrations, participate in challenges, and get social with their friends. FORTË powers UFC, Goodlife Fitness, YMCA's, NFL Player's Association, The Edge, Heartcore, GYMVMT, and many other well-known gym chains and boutique studios.
Web3 Pro — The easiest onramp to Web3 for Enterprises with our leading white-label products. Engage consumers with NFT PRO. Establish your brand presence in digital worlds with GEER. Leverage the power of NFRs across your business with NAAS.
Boomerang — Boomerang is a technology-powered service that collects, stores, and returns lost valuables back to their owners.

MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Chef Robotics — Chef Robotics is a robotics and artificial intelligence company serving the food industry. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Buzz Solutions — Buzz Solutions provides a software platform powered by Artificial Intelligence, Actionable Insights, and Predictive Analytics for faults and anomaly detection for the power line inspection process for power utilities. The company's platform automates the process of storing and organizing visual data (captured in the field through drones andhelicopters), analyzing for faults using its AI algorithms, mapping the data and providing heat maps as well as predictive insights for when, where and what kind of faults are happening on power line and assets. Using its solutions, power utilities save over 50% of cost and time to analyze data which makes condition-based maintenance efforts easier and time-efficient, thus, preventing wildfires, power outages, and other climate change effects on the physical infrastructure of the grid.
Cambium Carbon — Saving wood to save the planet. By revolutionizing supply chains, we introduce the world's first carbon smart material.

Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office. We have been part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, Coinlist, Currencycloud, DraftKings, FalconX, FLOW, Freshbooks, Integral Ad Science, Hopper, HQO, Luna, Near, Orchard, Patreon, PillPack, Plastiq, Recorded Future, SecurityScorecard, Skillz, Veracode, Work Human, WHOOP, Zoopla, and more. We are also founders behind Accomplice Blockchain and the Spearhead operator-angel movement.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ZOE — ZOE analyzes your unique gut, blood fat and blood sugar responses. So you can take back control of your health & weight
Storm Labs — We are an open-source software development studio that builds infrastructure for the next financial generation.
Layer2 Financial — Layer2 is a regulated Payments infrastructure that enables payment processors, fintechs, neobanks to launch innovative payments products in weeks.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Comun — The Neo Bank for Latino families
Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
The Rounds — Zero-waste deliveries and refills of sustainable staples. Philadelphia | DC | Miami | Atlanta

Largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Vega Cloud — Vega is a next-generation Cloud management platform. With increased visibility, scalable management, and advanced optimization strategies, Vega can save you up to 35% on your monthly cloud bill.
Give InKind — Set up a Give InKind Page to coordinate support from anywhere. Create a Care Calendar, add items to your Wishlist and connect your Crowdfunding - all for free.
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.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sybill AI — Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Video Calls
Guidewheel — In manufacturing unplanned downtime and idle time are huge hidden costs. Guidewheel's real-time machine monitoring helps improve OEE and increase production capacity.
Contextual AI — Our contextual language models are built to be highly accurate while minimizing hallucinations, are fully auditable, and keep your data safe.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Parry Labs — Parry Labs is a solutions provider to the U.S. Department of Defense and commercial companies. Parry designs and deploys solutions ranging from mission computing, power systems, manned and unmanned system architectures, and RF solutions. Parry’s Stellar Relay products, is a full system suite of high-performance mission computing, ArtificialIntelligence (A.I.) processing, and cross-domain systems.
Smashing — Smashing, an invite-only app by Daily Reader Labs, tackles content overload and social media burnout
Enveda Biosciences — Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California.

Crosscut is a venture capital firm in Los Angeles. We partner with early-stage founders to build extraordinary technology companies from Seed to Series A.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Heliux — Heliux centralizes cross-functional teams, operations, and data onto a single platform by replacing your legacy PDM, PLM, ERP, and MES systems.
Dirac — Work instructions, automated. Automate assembly work instructions with just a CAD file.
Monarx — Automatic malware protection for PHP web hosting providers.

Sharp Alpha Advisors is a venture capital firm specializing in sports betting and online gaming

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, Fantasy Sports
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
GridRival — GridRival is a sports betting startup built for race fans with the mission of making motorsports more engaging. We accomplish this through a valuable and unique fusion of fantasy-style gaming & betting, motorsports content, and built-in social functionality.
Players' Lounge — Play For Something. Make money playing video games on Players' Lounge. Madden, NBA 2K, Fortnite, Call of Duty, FIFA, & more!

Forerunner is a venture capital firm focused on the modern consumer, investing at the intersection of culture and invention.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Joy — Joy is the creator of the first Smart Photo Album that allows you to curate and share your favorite photos with friends and family. Designed to live on your coffee table and sit comfortably in your lap, the Joy Album makes your most cherished moments instantly viewable in gorgeous layouts, finally modernizing the lost art of creating a physicalphoto album.The Joy team hails from Apple and Sonos and is building a premium all-in-one hardware and software photo solution for families to share memories with loved ones near and far.The company was founded in February 2016 and is backed by top investors including Obvious Ventures, David B. Heller, Maywic and The Chernin Group.Joy is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.joy.co.
Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
Fay — Find dietitians and nutritionists near you who accept insurance. We'll help you find the right dietitian nutritionist for your needs and make it affordable. Book your session today.

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

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).
EnClear Therapies — EnClear Therapies is a Cambridge (USA) based life sciences company developing a device-based therapy to aid in the treatment of neurodegenerative disease and delivery and monitoring of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). EnClear’s proprietary therapeutic platform focuses on removing toxic proteins from the CSF. The company’s first products will targetimproving the lives of patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP).
Turntable Labs — Turntable Labs: Hang out online with music

Collaborative Fund is a leading source of capital for entrepreneurs pushing the world forward.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Verne — Verne is a hydrogen optimized for heavy transport that allows vehicle operators to maintain existing operations and meet zero-emission targets.
Voyage Foods — Voyage Foods has made sustainable and scalable alternatives to foods that have current obstacles –environmental, social, and health alike. Our breakthrough technology provides endless opportunities to make delicious, nearly identical, versions of beloved foods, without compromising individual health or our planet. We replicated the world’s favoritefoods so that we can all enjoy them, forever.
Matereal — Matereal is a biobased polyurethane manufacturer that seeks to replace the toxic polyurethane industry and bring a new environmentally safe plastic to market.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kiki World — KIKI World is at the heart of this evolution, a virtual-led beauty brand at the intersection of gamified commerce.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Daren was the Founder and CEO of InboxDollars, an online marketing company that connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits both. He founded the company as a Freshman in college in 2000 and bootstrapped the company to more than $25 million in annual revenues. InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege in 2019. Daren is active in the MNstart-up community as an investor, advisor and mentor.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

AnyCreek — AnyCreek is a platform that facilitates the booking of outdoor adventures such as fishing or hunting trips. It aims to connect adventure-seekers with guides and outfitters, providing a space for them to discover and book the best outdoor experiences. The platform is designed to be guide-friendly, empowering guides and outfitters to reach a wideraudience.
Coldcart — Coldcart is a technology platform which orchestrates, optimizes and scales frozen and refrigerated parcel logistics for leading D2C and B2B companies - unlocking unprecedented new efficiencies in perishable parcel logistics.
Refr Sports — Welcome to Refr Sports, the world's fastest growing assigning solution. Our comprehensive suite of services saves you time and money while allowing you to be the assignor people love to work with.

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

Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.
Safe Superintelligence — Safe Superintelligence is an artificial intelligence research lab that solves the technical challenge of building superhuman intelligence. The company operates a dedicated lab to advance capabilities while prioritizing safety through revolutionary engineering.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Didero — The AI agent for procurement
Rillet — Rillet develops accounting software to support financial management for high-growth companies. The solution covers the full spectrum of accounting and finance needs including customer invoicing, GAAP-compliant revenue recognition, automated bank reconciliations, accrual-based expense recognition, real-time SaaS metrics, and other analyticscapabilities. Rillet covers multiple entities, geographies, and currencies and allows for consolidated multi-currency reporting all embedded within one platform.
Clay — Clay's spreadsheet helps you find, enrich and act on people and company data from any source - without a line of code. Get started for free, today.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Viggle AI — Viggle AI is a pioneering Canadian firm that uses artificial intelligence to enable people of all skill levels to easily create high-quality animated video using simple text instructions.
Levels — Levels helps you see how food affects your health with data from biosensors like continuous glucose monitors (CGMs)
Safe Superintelligence — Safe Superintelligence is an artificial intelligence research lab that solves the technical challenge of building superhuman intelligence. The company operates a dedicated lab to advance capabilities while prioritizing safety through revolutionary engineering.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Atllas — Atllas is a tech-based real estate organization that leverages software tools to offer brokerage services.
Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
Amulet — Amulet is shining a light on invisible threats in our food system. Amulet has two core brands: - Allergy Amulet helps consumers determine whether their foods are safe by detecting potentially life-threatening allergenic ingredients. - Amulet Scientific equips businesses and manufacturers with tools to help ensure the safety of their food supplychain. Learn more: www.allergyamulet.com www.amuletscientific.com

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

Laravel — Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. They believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.Laravel aims to make thedevelopment process a pleasing one for the developer without sacrificing application functionality. Happy developers make the code. To this end, They've attempted to combine what They have seen in other web frameworks, including frameworks implemented in other languages, such as Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET MVC, and Sinatra.
Recommercex — Recommercex is an organized scrap aggregator that works as a catalyst for positive change in the waste management and recycling industries. Its mission is to transform the reverse supply chain by removing superfluous middlemen and providing pure, sustainable resources.
Uppercase — Acefour Accessories operates as a D2C travel accessories company.

Sterling.VC is a sports, media and real estate VC fund supported by Sterling Equities, the principal owner of the Mets, SportsNet New York (SNY) and OverwatchNY.

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, eSports
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Feature — The future of storytelling has arrived. Join us.
Souq G-Commerce — Souq is lowering the barriers to access and participate in GameFi. We're building the infrastructure powering community-owned financial markets where players can thoughtfully invest in the games they love.
Midnight Society — Midnight Society is a game studio developing online multiplayer games. It is a AAA game studio and develops community-focused, online PVP multiplayer games.

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

Aerflo — Aerflo a transportable method of carbonating sparkling water.
Daylight Energy — Anode Labs is leveraging web3 infrastructure to build the world's largest virtual power plant.
Footprint — The last identity verification you'll ever need

120 companies, 250 founders, $4BB in follow-on capital. Introductions, talent, growth, product, financing and strategy.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Presto — Presto overlays next-gen digital solutions onto the physical world. Our enterprise-grade touch, vision, and voice technologies help hospitality businesses thrive while delighting guests.
Shadow — Community led app
Biorez — Biorez is a medical device company whose aim is to apply its patented and proprietary technology comprised of PLLA, a degradable polymer, in orthopedic implant devices for regeneration and augmentation of soft tissue. In addition to the L-C Ligament®, Biorez has also developed a suite of associated products, including the biorez GRAFT™, a FDA510(k)-cleared innovative device for soft tissue augmentation of the rotator cuff in the United States.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
Reforged Labs — Make every creative a hero creative.

At Connecticut Innovations, we see venture capital the way you see your business. Like no one else. We invest in innovative biotech, IT, and other industries.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

OOVA — OOVA is a fertility diagnostic company that spun out from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Using patent pending biochemistry and artificial intelligence, OOVA learns a woman’s fertility profile by accurately measuring key hormones over time through daily urine samples. By monitoring this critical balance of hormones, OOVA can help a woman getpregnant, identify reasons she is having trouble getting pregnant, and even expose reproductive health issues like PCOS.
Raise Green — Raise Green is the climate tech marketplace for local impact investing licensed with the SEC and FINRA to sell private securities.
Driver Technologies — Turn your phone into a dash cam.

TCG is an independent media company. Their focus is on majority and minority investments in growing consumer businesses. Our portfolio includes digital media, commerce, marketplaces, sports, gaming, consumer finance, and health and wellness brands and platforms.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sphere — Better cross-border payments through beautiful interfaces for businesses to buy, sell, send and manage stablecoins.
Unrivaled Sports — Unrivaled Sports manages a diverse portfolio of youth sports properties in Baseball, Softball, Football, and Action Sports. The company focuses on providing world-class experiences and development opportunities for young athletes.
Classic Football Company — Classic Football Shirts is the home of classic, rare, retro and vintage football shirts from around the world, new & used.

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

Clarium — Clarium is transforming healthcare by empowering providers with an AI-powered platform with intelligent workflow automation and actionable insights.
Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.
Inventive AI — Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.

Building a company as a student is really, really hard. We make it easier by giving you a powerful investor network, world-class mentors, and a $40,000 check.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Faura — Faura offers Climate analytics and statistics to support and safeguard precious possessions. Faura lowers the risk of natural disasters for homeowners and insurers.
dub — The first Copy-Trading platform for stocks. Copy anyone's investments. For free. Regulated Broker-Dealer member FINRA and SIPC & FDIC insured.
Slingshot — Join the premier business platform for artists & creators.

Florida Funders is a hybrid of a venture capital fund and an angel investor network that discovers, funds & builds early-stage tech companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Kriptos — Kriptos uses AI to ensure accurate classification for your company. Kriptos helps businesses locate their most critical information and prevent data leakage through software that analyzes, classifies, and labels documents automatically.
Vali Cyber — Vali Cyber specializes in addressing Linux-specific security solutions. It secures workloads effectively, prevents attacks via hardening, and catches anything that gets through. It also minimizes the resource impact of security, saving costly computer resources for real work.
Gemini Sports Analytics — The first AI cloud for sports

Joyance Partners is the first venture fund supporting companies that deliver Delightful Moments derived from science - a new, transformative cycle of human experience that we see as one of the greatest investment opportunities in decades.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
Lilac — A modern, cloud native Payer Analytics Stack toDrive better business & health outcomes
Sunnyside — Cutback Coach is a developer of an alcohol tracking app to help people build healthier habits around their drinking. It offers a custom plan based on current drinking habits and goals, then set a daily reminder via text message that help users set the limit of their drinking habit.

M13 provides strategic counsel and operational expertise to help founders grow their companies. Through Fund II, M13 will expand its focus to emerging technologies driving change in consumer behavior over the next decade. Founded in 2016 with offices in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Maven AGI — Maven AGI is a technology company that focuses on the development of modern artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Their primary aim is to reimagine the customer support experience by leveraging AI to lower costs, improve speed and quality, and drive efficiency. Their AI solutions are designed to unlock human potential by enabling teams to be moreproductive and giving them time back to do the work only humans can do. They also offer a range of services including customer acquisition strategy and operational planning. The company has a team size of 50 employees, with roles ranging from product management to sales and marketing.
Ensemble AI — Discover how a novel representation learning algorithm can increase the predictive power of your data in any domain and with any model.
Form Health — Form Health's tele-health program takes a medical & personalized approach to weight loss. Get weight loss expertise wherever you are & improve your health today!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Browserbase — Browserbase is a comprehensive platform for developers to host, administer, and monitor headless browsers in the cloud.
CesiumAstro — CesiumAstro builds high-throughput, software-defined phased array communication payloads for airborne and in-orbit platforms.
Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.

Human Ventures is a business creation platform.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Salvo Health — Salvo Health is a digital care team for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), GERD, SIBO, and other chronic gut health conditions. Sign up today!
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful text-to-animation platform. Animate characters for your video, game, movie, ad, Social or VR project simply by typing.
Unnatural Products — Unnatural Products is a startup pairing AI with chemistry to create treatments for drug targets. Its AI-enhanced technology platform creates entirely new drugs by engineering passively permeable, macrocyclic peptides that access traditionally undruggable targets.Unnatural Products was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz,California.

Reimagining our industry. So our clients can disrupt theirs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Qlaris Bio — Qlaris Bio focuses on developing novel and innovative therapies for serious and debilitating ophthalmic diseases. Qlaris Bio is a spinout company of Qrativ, a biotechnology incubator formed as a joint venture between Mayo Clinic and inference, a pharmaceutical-focused artificial intelligence company. Its lead program is QLS-101, a novel compoundinvented at Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota. QLS-101, with its unique and first-in-class mechanism of action, may potentially serve as an efficacious treatment for high unmet need conditions related to disturbances in intraocular pressure, including a sight-threatening and progressive Pediatric Rare Disease for which effective therapies remain elusive and limited.Qlaris Bio was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful text-to-animation platform. Animate characters for your video, game, movie, ad, Social or VR project simply by typing.
HyperSpectral — HyperSpectral - Leading the evolution of spectral data and AI/ML

We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

New Tales — New Tales operates as a game developer and publisher, focusing on creating original intellectual properties (IPs) and offering publishing support to partner game studios. With a commitment to nurturing game DNA and player communities, New Tales leverages its expertise to enhance the gaming experience. The company's approach includes developingits own game titles while also collaborating with other studios to bring their games to wider audiences. New Tales emphasizes the importance of engaging game narratives and strong community connections in the success of its projects.
Cambria — Cambria is a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) project. It builds a Runescape-inspired game with onchain stakes.
Mirror World — Mirror World is a blockchain-based virtual world, also known as the Metaverse, where we aim to connect Mirror World with different games and experiences, allowing users to move through different game scenarios with interconnected & independent economic systems.

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