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Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in United States in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Video games startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Video games companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in United States in May 2025

Investor	Video Games United States investments
BITKRAFT Ventures	21
Galaxy Interactive	17
Andreessen Horowitz	16
1Up Ventures	16
Griffin Gaming Partners	11
Courtside Ventures	11
Makers Fund	11
Transcend Fund	9
LVP	9
March Capital	8
Lightspeed Venture Partners	8
EOS VC Fund	7
Sisu Game Ventures	7
The Venture Reality Fund/VRF	7
Javelin Venture Partners	6
Gaingels	6
Hiro Capital	6
Advancit Capital	6
Animoca Brands	6
Spark Capital	6
Kleiner Perkins	6
Colopl Next	6
Sequoia Capital	5
Bessemer Venture Partners	5
NFX	5
Play Ventures	5
SOSV	5
Felicis	5
GFR Fund	5
Dune Ventures	5
Benchmark	5
SeventySix Capital	5
Sierra Ventures	5
Mark Pincus	5
vgames	5
Founder Collective	4
CAA Ventures	4
SV Angel	4
Krafton	4
FirstMark	4
Right Side Capital Management	4
a16z crypto	4
Ludlow Ventures	4
DCM Ventures	4
Uncork Capital	4
Velo Partners	4
First Round Capital	4
Headline	4
CRCM	4
General Catalyst	4

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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

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.
Appcharge — Appcharge specializes in offering a comprehensive payment solution that supports direct-to-consumer sales through a mobile-first web store. The platform features over 500 payment methods and 100 currencies, ensuring a seamless checkout experience for users worldwide.
Tarta Labs — Tarta Labs is dedicated to building a next-generation anime IP ecosystem and aims to innovate within the anime gaming space by blending engaging narratives, high-quality visuals, and community-driven gameplay experiences.

Play the Future. Galaxy Interactive is a leading sector-focused VC investing in interactive entertainment, at the intersection of content, social, finance and technology.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Superlogic — OneOf is the mass-consumer Web3 company connecting the next 100M non-crypto-native fans to iconic brands, artists, and athletes. OneOf technology enables global brands and enterprises to reimagine commerce, loyalty and engagement, allowing consumers to seamlessly collect or trade digital assets with no prior crypto expertise. Deeply committed to a sustainable and inclusive blockchain future, minting digital assets on OneOf's platform uses up to 2 million times less energy than previous generation proof-of-work networks, and costs up to 99% less in gas fees. A leader in diversity, over 80% of the collections curated by OneOf come from minority or female creators.
DeltaStream — Deltastreasm is a secure and scalable unified streaming data platform driven by SQL - built for teams to process and share easily.
OpenOrigins — OpenOrigins ensures pixel-perfect authentication at the source, restoring believability in visual media.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
Inductive Bio — Bringing the data, ML, software, and expertise needed to rapidly solve your most challenging ADMET problems.
Sprinter Health — Sprinter Health is an on-demand mobile health company that sends full-time nurses and phlebotomists (“Sprinters”) into the home.

1Up Ventures is an investment firm that specializes in game developers. The company is based in Kirkland, Washington.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Dead Astronauts — Dead Astronauts reinvents open-world game experiences with technical innovation at the core of the company and PLAYER CREATIVITY at the core of the games we make.
Day 4 Night Studios — Day 4 Night Studios is a game development studio that offer interactive and original computer as well as video games.
Moon Beast Productions — Moon Beast Productions is a company.

Griffin Gaming Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing across the broad gaming ecosystem.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BIT ODD — Gaming company building games filled with wonder, weirdness and delight
ForthStar — ForthStar operates as a gaming company with a mission to make free-to-play hits.
OpusMajor — Opus Major is a French video games studio building a cross-platform multiplayer game set in a vast & joyful universe. Discover our first opus and get in tune!

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

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, Fitness
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Eternal — Eternal provides lifelong athletes with an expert team of health and performance advisors to keep them going in the activities they love for as long as possible.
Eternal — Eternal provides lifelong athletes with an expert team of health and performance advisors to keep them going in the activities they love for as long as possible.
Infinite Reality — Infinite Reality is an innovative technology and entertainment company specializing in the development of cutting-edge, AI-powered immersive experiences.

Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Voldex — Voldex is an innovative video games studio focused on UGC (user-generated-content). It owns and operate several top Minecraft+Roblox games.
BIT ODD — Gaming company building games filled with wonder, weirdness and delight
Human Computer — Human Computer is an independent video game studio. Building games that matter. High-quality experiences that respect your time and push creative boundaries. Stories pull you in, computers provide the magic.

Transcend Fund is a early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of games and digital entertainment

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Ruckus Games — Ruckus Games is to create unparalleled player experiences through style interactivity and emergence.
Adaptive Reader — Adaptive Reader is a company that expands educational opportunities by translating books into many languages and reading levels. The company use artificial intelligence and smart design to give web and hardcopy solutions that ensure no student falls behind owing to language hurdles or learning disabilities.
Live Aware Labs — Live Aware helps game developers effortlessly capture, analyze and act on player experiences at every stage of development.

LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Bitpart AI — BITPART.AI - The AI NPC engine built by game developers for game developers. Populate virtual worlds with characters that mimic real behavior.
Look North World — Publisher and Developer of interactive entertainment for Creator platforms like Fortnite (UEFN) and Curseforge. Enclave: Survival Skyward available now in ARK: Survival Ascended.
Steel City Interactive — Steel City Interactive develops gaming.

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Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Suki — Suki is an AI-powered voice assistant that lifts the administrative burden from clinicians, so they have time to focus on what matters - patient care.
Luminance — Luminance develops document analysis software to secure big data systems for multinational and governmental organizations. Its software provides overview of various companies and picks out warning signs without any instructions; and document clustering and filtering to enable users focus on eliminating administrative tasks. Luminance identifiesrisk clauses, data visualization, and anomaly detection, as well as reviews and enables users to allocate tasks and track the progress of their team; and manages numerous mergers, acquisitions, and financings. It also helps lawyers and legal teams to categorize, review, and analyze various documents and contracts in the data room. Emily Foges founded founded Luminance in 2015. It has its headquarters in Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
Altana — Connect to the only dynamic, intelligent, universal map of the global supply chain.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Seel — Peace of mind for shoppers and increased conversion rate for merchants. Available on Shopify App Store.
Virtue AI — Virtue AI operates as an AI security and compliance platform for applications.
Emversity — Beyond Odds focuses on upskilling the workforce and offers support to yhe healhcare industry.

Galaxy Digital is a NYC-based multi-strategy investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Gaming
Grant, Seed, Series A
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wyden — AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally.
SparkChange — SparkChange provides specialist carbon data that empowers better ESG investment, risk management & reporting across financial institutions.
Timeless — Buy shares in exclusive assets such as rare sneakers, watches & luxury cars from as little as €50 per share (incl. VAT).

Sisu Game Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused 100% on games. We set up shop in 2014 to support the most promising founders in the industry. Sisu has deep roots in the Nordic region, but our network of founders is fully global.The Sisu team consists of Samuli, Paul, Erik, Kalle, Moaffak, Kadri, and Jere - all of whom haveextensive backgrounds in the game industry and startup circles, both as entrepreneurs and investors. We've founded and built sixteen game companies since the early 90s and had several successful exits. Apart from funding companies, the team uses their expertise to act as a studio builder. Individual founders are supported in building their team, honing their product strategy and in gathering the right group of investors.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Virtual Reality
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Bitmagic — Discover Bitmagic, the revolutionary game development platform powered by Generative AI. Create multiplayer 3D games with simple prompts, no coding needed. Join our community and start creating your own games today!
VIZTA DGTL — VIZTA is an innovative gaming studio at the forefront of significant technology shifts and increasing demands from new generations and various consumers.
Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!

The Venture Reality Fund drives innovation and investment at the intersection of immersive, spatial, and intelligent computing for consumer and enterprise sectors.

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Software, Augmented Reality
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Finland, Australia

Portfolio highlights

GRACIA.AI — AI-powered ultra-photorealistic volumetric videos for VR, MR and more
Astrocade AI — Turn your imagination into reality with Astrocade. Create games instantly with AI and share with friends.
Little Umbrella — Future is Fun with Social & AI Games. At Little Umbrella, we create AI-powered games that deliver immersive experiences, bringing families, friends, and communities closer together. Proudly serving a growing community of over 30 million players

Javelin Venture Partners invests in early-stage tech companies with incredible potential, managed by teams of energetic, trustworthy, and capable leaders. Javelin looks for advanced bleeding-edge innovations, where the addressable market size is substantial, and strong competitive advantages exist. A typical investment is between $1 to $6million, with reserves for follow-on investments. In addition, Javelin also considers smaller seed investments for unique companies just getting started. Located in downtown San Francisco, while invests throughout the world. Javelin is a very active investor with a long-term outlook and the objective of creating substantial value.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kalder — Kalder is a unified web3 brand loyalty platform for brands and creators to drive meaningful engagement, onboard new users, and reward superfan communities.
TensorWave — Access AMD MI300X GPUs today on TensorWave Cloud. Contact us today to get started.
OnRamp — Move onboarding projects along faster by putting customers at the center of a simple, guided experience. OnRamp is the customer onboarding platform built for customer success and implementation teams.

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

Portfolio highlights

Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.
Near Space Labs — Near Space Labs is an aerial imagery and earth observation company, Near Space Labs' imagery makes it easy to monitor assets and gain remote access over broad or specific areas. Near Space Labs offers cloud-based delivery of fully processed images through its API. The company provides frictionless, affordable imaging for insurance, utilities,infrastructure, conservation, smart cities, retail, energy, government, and disaster response.
Jericho Security — Train your team to defend against the latest cyber attacks with our complete cybersecurity platform.

Investors in the Future HIRO Capital is a London / Luxembourg Venture Capital firm which invests in Spatial Computing, Simulation, Games, Esports, Sports Tech, Human Augmentation, AI and next gen Cloud. We are battle-scarred entrepreneurs who have founded

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Meeple Corp — The Meeple Corp Games Studio Homepage - Transforming analogue play for the digital world.
Sidero Labs — Simplifying and securing Kubernetes deployment, operations, and management for bare-metal and edge, with an immutable Kubernetes specific OS.
Maintain Altitude — Maintain Altitude is a new mobile game development company that loves both music and games. The company is based in the United Kingdom.

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

BetHog — BetHog's founding team were the founders of FanDuel.com and think that Betting should be fast, easy and it should reward the players who are risk takers. We want to celebrate the winners, reward them for using our product, and have them help craft the experience we all want to see.
Beamable — One line of code is all you need to build your own custom server logic via microservices along with a world of LiveOps tools and live services.
Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Memes Lab — Memes Lab is a multi-level meme infrastructure on TON, integrated with Telegram Stars, which allows users to purchase meme coins without a wallet.
Domin Network — Domin Network is a decentralized business network that connects software and hardware in many business situations using the NFT middleware protocol and DePIN rollup technology.
Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.

Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ravio — Ravio allows you to understand compensation in your market in real-time. Make smarter salary, equity and benefits decisions without touching a spreadsheet.
Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome. No awkward meeting bots - just beautiful notes for you and your team, every single time.
Nuvo — Onboard customers through configurable, high-converting branded experiences that accelerate credit approvals, unlock revenue, and reduce fraud.Nuvo replaces manual credit forms with AI-powered application flows, real-time business and principal identity verification, and embedded credit insights—enabling confident decisions that protect and growyour business. Designed for complex trade partnerships, Nuvo is the B2B commerce platform trusted and preferred by 40,000 businesses.

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

Stord — Stord offers fulfillment, warehousing, and transportation for DTC and B2B, plus the integrated software you need to provide your end consumers with the best pre-purchase and post-delivery consumer experience. No matter your product, Stord is ready to power your commerce.
NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
Chainguard — We build products and offer services that help protect organizations from software supply chain attacks and vulnerabilities.

Colopl Next is the corporate venture capital of is Colopl, Inc, which is a leading Japanese gaming company. Colopl, Inc. is founded with the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life”, and constantly put its customer as first priority.Colopl Next is headquartered in Japan, but invests globally in a variety of internet businesses, with the commitmentto support innovative entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Levellr — Stop losing insights in Discord noise
SALOWIN — SALOWIN is a shared salon where freelance hairdressers can freely provide customer service and service.
CaseBlink — AI for immigration lawyers | CaseBlink is AI software for immigration law firms. With CaseBlink, generate EB-2 NIW, EB-1A, and O-1 applications end-to-end.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Strava — Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community.Founded in 2009, millions of athletes have joined Strava for the competition and camaraderie found in tracking and sharing their fitness activities. The company’s free mobile apps and website help membersdiscover and plan workouts, record and share activities, and analyze and compare performance. Strava’s ability to connect athletes around the world makes fitness a more social experience, providing extra motivation even when training alone.
Nuvo — Onboard customers through configurable, high-converting branded experiences that accelerate credit approvals, unlock revenue, and reduce fraud.Nuvo replaces manual credit forms with AI-powered application flows, real-time business and principal identity verification, and embedded credit insights—enabling confident decisions that protect and growyour business. Designed for complex trade partnerships, Nuvo is the B2B commerce platform trusted and preferred by 40,000 businesses.
Reflect Orbital — Reflect sells sunlight from space.

We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Miter — Miter's software streamlines HR, finance, and compliance for the construction industry.
TurbineOne — TurbineOne is the frontline perception company. It started with the vision of a world where people could sense every threat, speak any language, and deploy robots to dangerous environments instead of putting people unnecessarily in harm's way.
Optimal Dynamics — Optimal Dynamics' AI solution provides real answers by using dynamic forecasting models to simulate downstream impacts with confidence.

We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FERASET — FERASET builds next-gen apps by combining deep AI expertise with cutting-edge technology.
Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.
PvX Partners — PvX Partners is a platform designed to help consumer apps scale. PvX Capital is our first line of services focused on cohort financing: fast, flexible capital without the risk and drawbacks of traditional equity or debt. PvX Capital enables you to scale marketing spends meaningfully without the worry of equity dilution or loan defaults. PvX is alsodeveloping an operating system for growth — a unified platform enabling incremental ROAS. A single integration that will grant you access to the industry’s most useful tools proven to help consumer businesses scale.

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.

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Supabase — The Open Source Alternative to Firebase.
Deep Infra — Deep Infra offers cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and production-ready machine-learning models and infrastructures for deep-learning models.
Operand — AI-Enabled Consulting for Consumer Retail

GFR Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups that are disrupting the consumer entertainment industry. GFR Fund is managed by GREE VR Capital, an affiliate of GREE Inc., a global leader in the mobile gaming industry.With over a decade of experience driving innovators in multi-platform entertainment,we see emerging technologies such as VR, AR, AI, Video Streaming and Blockchain as powerful tools that will propel the entertainment industry into a new generation of consumable content. We are looking for talented entrepreneurs who share our passion and values to help realize their vision and expand their businesses globally.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Unvale — UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online.
Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.
Little Umbrella — Future is Fun with Social & AI Games. At Little Umbrella, we create AI-powered games that deliver immersive experiences, bringing families, friends, and communities closer together. Proudly serving a growing community of over 30 million players

We back outsiders obsessed with the overlooked.

Investment focus

Video Games, Gaming, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Starform — We believe that the best games are forged in the crucible of player feedback.
Cartridge — Build, ship and play provable games and Autonomous Worlds
Orbit Technologies — Building a process to change the future of brain-computer interfaces. Orbit has one goal: to make magic, at an industrial scale.

Benchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. They focus on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Woodside and San Francisco, California.The firm has been recognized for itscommitment to open source and is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The five equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company they back, with no junior investment staff. Current general partners are Chetan Puttagunta, Sarah Tavel, Victor Lazarte, Peter Fenton, and Eric Vishria. Benchmark has had 37 exits since beginning of 2011; 14 IPOs and 23 M&As representing a total market value of more than $60 billion.Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, Stitch Fix, Elastic and Cyanogen; recent IPOs and acquisitions such as Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, League of Legends, Jasper, OpenTable, New Relic, Hortonworks, Amplitude, Confluent, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mercor — Mercor is a better way to hire. We're an AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your next team members.
Numeral — We fully manage the headaches of sales tax so you can get back to real work. Get started for free today!
The Open Network Foundation — A decentralized and open internet designed to onboard 500M people on-chain, built by the community using technology developed by Telegram.

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.

Sierra Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of enterprise, healthcare, infrastructure, and more.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

VISO TRUST — Empower security teams to quickly and accurately assess third-party vendor risk, automate assessments, and enhance risk detection
Cimulate AI — Cimulate AI: Revolutionize commerce and optimize customer experiences with intent-based search and Gen AI.
Spectro Cloud — Enterprise Kubernetes management platform built for scale. Complete lifecycle management of any type of cluster, from bare metal to the edge.

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

Substack — Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions.
Troveo AI — AI companies are scouring the internet for high-quality video. Troveo helps you capture the value and turn your video into revenue.
Echo Chunk AI — We build epic strategy games that generate themselves. Starting with Echo Chess: the daily chess puzzler where you are what you eat.

vgames is the venture fund for game entrepreneurs. Having both worked with some of the youngest and most mature developers, we have a deep understanding of what it takes to build a great game. We are passionate about games, and about supporting companies as they grow to become global leaders.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Computer
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Israel, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Sett — Sett AI is building technology that helps mobile game teams find winning creatives faster and grow their games into global hits.
Mountaintop Studios — Spectre Divide is the genre-evolving, competitive 3v3 tactical shooter driven by Duality. Use Duality to control two bodies in real-time, letting you defend two sites at once, cover your own cross, or even trade yourself. Master tactical gunplay and an arsenal of future tech to achieve infamy.
Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.

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

Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
Rynse — Rynse offers a comprehensive fleet management software solution tailored for organizations to efficiently manage their vehicle services. The platform provides features such as compliance tracking, expense management, and real-time data analytics to enhance operational efficiency. Rynse's software supports location flexibility, enabling usersto manage fleet operations from anywhere. Additionally, the system is designed to streamline billing processes, making financial management more straightforward for businesses. With a focus on technology and automotive industries, Rynse aims to simplify fleet management through innovative software solutions.
Cephable — Assistive technology platform that extends digital controls to head movement, voice, gestures, facial expressions and more.

CAA Ventures is the venture arm of Creative Artists Agency.

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Iceland

Portfolio highlights

Bungalow — Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States.Bungalow offersprivate bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members.Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.
Harper Wilde — The world's most comfortable underthings. High quality everyday garments, priced without the traditional retail markup.
DeSo Foundation — DeSo is a layer -1 blockchain designed to build and scale decentralized social apps to 1 Billion users. Take back ownership of your content and social graph with web3 versions of Twitter and LinkedIn.

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

Formation Bio — Building the pharma company of the future.
Pomelo Care — Pomelo is a virtual maternity care program that supplements traditional pregnancy care with unlimited, customized support. Ask a dietitian about prenatal vitamins, speak to a therapist about labor anxiety, or join a prenatal group. Become a member today for free.
Butterflies.AI — Where AIs and humans coexist

Create the original. Connect the world.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cashfree Payments — Built for your business payment needs - Collect payments, send payouts, manage international payments, launch your next neo banking product and do a lot more.
Axion — AI driven Custom Libraries, DFM and BEYOND Contact us Our Products Three Design Optimization SW that share a common AI engine. Axion CellAI driven SW to automatically generate customized libraries. Axion DFMAI driven Design for Manufacturing SW that enables yield improvement measurable in silicon Axion XAI driven design optimization beyond chips View all products Why
Ruckus Games — Ruckus Games is to create unparalleled player experiences through style interactivity and emergence.

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

Synthesia — Create AI videos by simply typing in text. Make engaging videos for e-learning, customer onboarding, etc. No need for actors, cameras or audio equipment.
Pickle — Pickle is a rental marketplace that aims to monetize the billions of underutilized assets sitting in consumers closets and brand inventory. Our users can easily tap into shared closets within their community through flexible and/or on-demand delivery options (i.e. UberEats style door-to-door delivery). Our goal is to provide affordable andconvenient access to quality items exactly when our users need them.
Firsthand — Protect, control, & deploy your content across conversational campaigns that are powered by custom AI agents, and distributed anywhere your consumers are.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Averi — Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growthoperation in one seamless experience.
UBILD — A.I powered construction workforce and vendor procurement platform
Hutsy — Hutsy Financial is a financial services company that provides mobile banking, early payroll access and credit building products. In partnership with Peoples Trust we provide a prepaid debit card that our users can spend with. We also offer cash back on all purchases, spending insights, and categorizations to provide valuable insight on where yourmoney is going. Hutsy was recently on CBC’s Dragons Den where we raised our pre-seed funding round of $500,000 to bring our product to life.

A16z crypto is a $300M venture fund that will invest in crypto companies and protocols. The company's fund is designed to include features of traditional venture capital, updated to the modern crypto world.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

KYD Labs — KYD Labs enables event organizer and artist events to be 2x more profitable through audience ownership, loyalty, and ticket resale.
Miden — Miden grants applications the power to scale with public and private transactions.
Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.

Ludlow operates differently because we’re a different kind of VC. We believe in VC without ego. We wear our hearts on our sleeves, avoiding the puffery and posturing that has given venture capital a bad name. We fund the dreams of entrepreneurs and startups, becoming close friends with all of the teams we invest in.Truly great companies arebuilt on trust and friendship (and rainbows and luck). VC is a customer service business. Whether it’s testing product, leveraging our network, or forcing people to download your app, we’re here to help. You make our dream jobs possible and we’re forever thankful for that. Check out some of our other projects - www.carpool.vc and www.computer.show

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tildei — Tildei makes it simple for marketers to create engaging conversations, capture data, and drive conversions through truly personal messages. Leverage the enormous reach of WhatsApp's 2.4 billion users today.
Stable Sea — Stable Sea provides seamless, compliant, cost-effective stablecoin offramping solutions, enabling businesses to bridge the gap between digital and traditional finance and unlock new opportunities.
Keebler Health — Keebler Health is an AI-first risk adjustment platform for providers and payers that are at risk for Medicare & Medicaid lives.

DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology.DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investingpartners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses.DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
Route-D — Route-D is an operation management app that improves operating income and expenditures and manages logistics operations.
Lingopal — SaaS API Layer for translation

Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pienso — Use Machine Learning to explore language data without a single line of code. Experiment, train and deploy effortlessly, with an interactive and responsive learning interface that imprints your expertise at AI scale.
GPTZero — Covered by >100 media outlets, GPTZero is the most advanced AI detector for ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard. Check up to 50000 characters for AI plagiarism in seconds.
bem — Engineering teams use bem to transform any data point into whatever shape they need.

Founded in 2011 by Evan Hoff, Velo Partners is a venture capital firm that invests and manages a portfolio spanning the global gaming and gambling industry. Velo typically invests in Series A or early growth stage rounds. Our ideal investment candidates demonstrate strong early transaction and a clear understanding of their unit economics and growth trajectory. We also work in association with a gaming accelerator called RNG FOUNDRY for earlier stage investment in iGaming content.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, Sports
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
Jarvi Games — Jarvi Games is a team of young and enthusiastic people who share the goal of making the best MMO action game on mobile devices. We aspire to build the best gaming experience in open world!
Bettormetrics — Bettormetrics is a data analytics infrastructure for your sports trading operation.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

And AI — And AI is a platform for managing patents, helping attorneys and inventors streamline searches and claim drafting
Gumloop — The no-code platform to build and host AI-powered business automations.
Collate — Collate creates and streamlines documentation for drug development, medical device, and diagnostic companies from concept to market using artificial intelligence. They produce accurate documentation for the life sciences industry, which speeds up innovations that can save lives.

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Heidi Health — Heidi Health is modernizing primary care with AI-powered technologies to improve care's quality and accessibility. its creators and engineers is to completely eradicate missed and sluggish diagnoses worldwide. They are committed to bridging the gap between the level of care that patients desire and the level of care that doctors can delivergiven their budget constraints. To create a platform where patients can quickly and easily get the treatment they require and to give every clinician the resources they need to deliver care that is secure, efficient,
Closinglock — Closinglock is modernizing the real estate world’s way of transferring information to eliminate wire fraud & protect buyers.
Cycles Nutrition — Cycles Nutrition provides science-backed, accessible nutritional strategies that empower health-conscious individuals to optimize longevity and enhance quality of life.

CRCM is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Paren — The most comprehensive electric vehicles charging data on reliability, availability, pricing, amenities, safety and NEVI across all charging networks.
Venteur — Venteur is a digital benefits marketplace for independent workers. We make health insurance more transparent and give you back control over your benefits.
ClearBlue Markets — ClearBlue Markets helps companies use compliance and voluntary carbon markets worldwide to achieve decarbonization goals with maximum financial benefit.

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.
Soda Health — We are a healthcare technology company dedicated to eliminating health inequities through social determinants of health. Our services include supplemental benefit administration, highly customizable member benefit programs with restricted spending and multi-balance capabilities, and robust member data analytics with benefit design recommendations.
Endo Health — Reverse Your Diabetes With a Game

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