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Top 50 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Wine and spirits startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Wine and spirits companies. This investor list updates every month.

Top 50 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in January 2026

Investor	Wine And Spirits investments
Distill Ventures	7
Imaginary Ventures	5
Brand Foundry Ventures	5
DN Capital	4
Max Ventures	4
CircleUp	4
Inflection Point Ventures	4
Tiller Partners	4
Snowball Effect	4
ATX Venture Partners	4
Club Italia Investimenti 2	4
CapTable	3
Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund	3
Döhler Ventures	3
Sugar Capital	3
Blue Falcon Capital	3
Hayden Zou	3
Pente Capital	3
Blue Slide Ventures	3
CSA Partners LLC	3
Angels Den	3
Whiterock Finance	3
Wavemaker Partners	3
ah! Ventures	3
InvestBev	3
Reshape	3
Fabrice Grinda	3
James Robertson	3
Great Oaks Venture Capital	3
Greycroft	3
AfterWork Ventures	3
CPE	3
Hillhouse Investment	3
Lucas Driggers	2
3Lines	2
Resolute Venture Partners	2
Next Act Fund	2
Robin Knox	2
Khosla Ventures	2
Black Sheep Capital	2
Mistral Equity Partners	2
Kima Ventures	2
Christen O'Brien	2
Pankaj Jain	2
HashtagOne	2
BA Capital	2
BAI Capital	2
Creandum	2
University of Chicago	2
Overline	2

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Distill Ventures provide investment and support for spirits startups and entrepreneurs who want to create the global drinks brands of the future.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits, Winery
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lodestar — Lodestar is a pre-launch American Whisky created by relatives and members of the entertainment business.
UME Plum Liqueur — UME is The Purple Potion for a New Era. UME Plum Liqueur is a delightfully tart, mildly sweet plum liqueur with a show-stopping royal purple hue at 17% ABV.
Jackson McCrea Whiskey — We asked women what they like and the resuly is Jackson McCrea - a great tasting premium whiskey made by women for women - enjoyed by everyone.

Based in New York City, Imaginary Ventures is a leading venture capital firm investing in the most generationally-defining consumer businesses.

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Beauty
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hook — Hook operates as a music expression platform that harnesses the power of AI.
Ayoh Foods — Ayoh is mayo with a POV or as we like to call it, Sando Sauce. Our sauces are the ultimate pairing for burgers, fries, nuggets, veggies, or anything else you want to dip or slather. Check out our lineup here.
Lucky Energy — LUCKY F*CK is a better-for-you energy drink company.

Brand Foundry Ventures they invest in early-stage companies operating in the consumer and business sectors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

CollX — Snap photos of them and instantly get the current market price. Add them to your collection and track your overall portfolio value.
Ledgebrook — Best in class service and pricing from industry veterans delivered at the speed of InsurTech
Lucky Energy — LUCKY F*CK is a better-for-you energy drink company.

DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aibidia — Discover the Aibidia TXM Platform and our digital transfer pricing applications, eliminating billions of euros in tax inefficiencies and risks.
Quandoo — In 8 years, Quandoo has expanded into 11 countries and has seated more than 200 million diners in 18,000+ restaurants. Quandoo’s technology-enabled marketplace equips both restaurants and diners with innovative products to elevate dining out as we know it. Headquartered in Berlin, with international footprints in Austria, Switzerland, Italy,Turkey, the UK, Hong Kong, Finland, Singapore, Australia and the Netherlands; the founders’ vision is to grow Quandoo into the world’s leading marketplace for dining out experiences. Quandoo is a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings, and with its sister companies HotPepper and AirRegi, forms the world’s largest restaurant marketing and software company. Quandoo currently employs more than 370 people from 50 countries.
Ben — Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalise benefits and reward.Our secret? Marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee Mastercards and financial infrastructure. That’s how Ben instantly adds employee choice to your existing benefits, unlocks access to hundreds of additional options through Ben Card, all whilesaving you time and money.

Max Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in consumer tech and health-tech companies. Max Ventures primarily invests in digital commerce, digital media, fintech, and digital Health. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Sweden, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Belidor — Belidor Helps preconstruction teams win more bids with AI bid leveling and bid management tools.
Previvor Edge — Previvor Edge is an clinical and comprehensive program for cancer prevention and early detection.
Equal Parts — Join a network of like-minded insurance agencies ready to help reimagine the industry and bolster their earning potential.

Learn more about CircleUp Growth Partners, what we look for in early-stage consumer brands, and the brands we have funded.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GEM — Discover plant based vitamins in delicious flavors, designed for whole body nutrition. Order as you go or choose a monthly vitamin subscription.
Liquid I.V — Liquid I.V. is a health-science nutrition and wellness company.
Partake Brewing — Partake Brewing is the craft non-alcoholic beer brand that focuses on flavor, health, socializing, and inclusivity for people who choose not to drink alcohol whether as a need or increasingly as a lifestyle choice.

Inflection Point Ventures, with over 3300 CXOs and professionals, HNIs and Family Offices, is India’s leading angel network investing in early-to-mid stage startups. IPV supports new-age entrepreneurs with not just capital but also uses its wide network of investors to provide startups with access to new markets, customers, guidance and mentorship.Inflection Point Ventures is democratizing angel investing with low membership fee, lowest investment ticket size (per investor), transparent investment process and extensive upfront due-diligence led by industry experts. IPV is industry agnostic, with a focus on committed and competent founders.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ARX — ARX smart contracts and HaLo chips enable creators build decentralized, immutable and composable physical crypto assets.
Bharatsure — Bharatsure provides an entire set of technology, services, and product infrastructure to power insurance access in India. By bridging the gap between traditional practices and modern technology.
MangoPoint — MangoPoint provides a sustainable, integrated value chain for mangoes with single-origin, carbide-free, chemical-free high-quality fresh mangoes, and processed mango products through sustainable farming, planet-friendly processing, and eco-friendly packaging.

iller Partners offers co-founding and funding possibilities for seed and early-stage ventures.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Advertising
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bevz — Bevz is a software and services (SaaS) platform for local, independently operated liquor/convenience stores. Our vision is to transform the 100,000+ independent liquor stores across the nation with the technology, data, and support
AppOnboard — AppOnboard is a Los Angeles-based software company empowering creators to build businesses without any programming experience. The company offers two no-code products: Buildbox, the largest no-code mobile game engine, and AppOnboard Studio, a mobile, interactive design studio that enables anyone to create playable ads and app prototypes.
Frontier Car Group — Frontier Car Group is a berlin-based startup who develop, launch, and operate used-automotive marketplaces within emerging market economies, with operations in Nigeria, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Pakistan, and Indonesia. Additionally, we are successfully engaging in two joint ventures with OLX in India and Poland. We increase theefficiency of selling and buying cars through technology, infra-structure creation, access to capital and innovative business models that allows all stakeholders to gain from our impact.

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Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Ubco — UBCO is a New Zealand and US-based tech company that designs, develops, and distributes Utility Electric Vehicles and Portable Power Supplies for on-and off-road adventures, leisure and recreation, and commercial use where vehicle utility is required. UBCO have a desire to Power Your Purpose, through it's Utility Electric Vehicles (UEVs) thatcan change the way people ride, work, and play. UBCO currently has a digitally connected UEV platform which includes on- and off-road transport (2×2), portable power, accessories, and software. They provide a complete solution, from users to managers across a wide range of applications.
Tether Limited — Tether develops a solution that continuously assesses, reports on, and rates the environmental quality and energy efficiency of homes, offices, and classrooms. Tether will not only enable continuous evaluation and feedback, but it will also provide ways to improve the environments in which users live, work, or learn.Through connected hardware andsoftware solutions, Tether promotes healthy living, learning, and working environments.
Projectworks — Project Works is a cloud based workforce management platform designed to help professional & creative services businesses better manage their organisations in the areas of project management, project financials, and people management. Our mission is to provide a platform that enables world class services businesses to get the most out of theirexisting workforce, and enable them to grow.

ATX Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm in Austin Texas with funds investing in B2B software, marketplaces, and applications.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Autonomize AI — AI Copilots for Healthcare & Life Sciences. Empower knowledge workers, reduce administrative burden and improve health outcomes.
EcoPulse — Partner and innovate for a sustainable future!At EcoPulseⓇ we empower industries and companies with cutting-edge, AI-driven technologies to tackle the urgent PFAS "forever chemicals" problem.PFAS ("forever chemicals") is posing a growing challenge to manufacturers and retailers due to the severe health harms these syntheticchemicals can do to people and communities. With increasing global regulations and public attention, companies need smarter tools to analyze and mitigate PFAS risks.EcoPulse's PFAS AI™ software is an AI-first software specialized in analyzing and managing PFAS (forever chemicals) risks across material inventory and supply chain in manufacturing — uncovering hidden threats, streamlining compliance and mitigation actions, and saving millions in potential costs.
Rendezvous Robotics — Changing how we build in space.

Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!

Captable is a startup investment platform that operates transactions through crowdfunding. They exist to simplify and make startup investments viable, as well as to connect the entire ecosystem, by leveraging business growth with high return potential for investors who want to contribute to the growth of startups. It makes connections at variouslevels for various agents in the innovation market with the goal of encouraging entrepreneurship through investment in startups. CapTable was founded in 2018 by Guilherme Enck and Paulo Deitos Filho.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Veggi — Veggi is the first vegan delivery platform in Brazil.
CowMed — CowMed is an agricultural service company of technological solutions for health, nutrition, and reproduction for milk cattle. It also develops animal monitoring products for precision livestock, generating value, and ensuring the sustainability of the business.The company was named 2018 - NEOVIA's Future Farm, 2017 - Ideas for Milk andAcceleration Criatec 3, and 2017 & 2016 Tecnova Notice SEBRAE.CowMed was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
E-Comprei — E-Comprei is a company that buys and sells beauty and hygiene products for small shop keeper.

Investing catalytic capital in promising seed stage companies located outside of Silicon Valley, NYC & Boston. Backed by a group of iconic entrepreneurs, executives & investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Ox — Wearable technology that directs frontline operators to perform their work through software intelligence.
Sofy — Sofy provides no-code test automation for mobile apps. Run QA tests from CI/CD on real devices & complete testing in just a few hours.
Cambium — Saving wood to save the planet. By revolutionizing supply chains, we introduce the world's first carbon smart material.

Döhler Ventures is a long-term oriented & entrepreneurial investor empowering early-stage startups in the nutrition & technology ecosystem.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Health Care, Food Processing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nukoko — Nukoko is a bean-to-bar manufacturing company that creates cocoa-free chocolate. Using ingredients from the UK, the company developed a patent pending technology to naturally produce a new kind of chocolate. Nukoko cocoa free chocolate is healthier and dramatically less impactful on the environment .
Vertosa — Vertosa utilizes Nanogen technology to create effective, reliable, and scalable active ingredients for infused product makers. Discover how we can infuse your products.
XOXO Soda — XOXO Soda is a plant-based drink with prebiotic fiber that is low in sugar and calories.

Sugar Capital invests in the brands and technology that power the future of commerce. The firm specializes in the fields of finance, financial services, and financial exchanges. It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Energy — LUCKY F*CK is a better-for-you energy drink company.
Motion — Motion is a visual analysis hub that helps marketers and creative teams identify what works to make high-performing creatives that convert.
Nostra AI — Nostra is an AI-based personalization solution. The technology automatically optimizes the content of every page on your site for maximum conversions. It learns from your visitors to see what performs best and applies that learning to subsequent website visitors, resulting in a better experience for all.

Blue Falcon Capital is an angel investment fund focused on early-stage investing, seed, start-up, and early-growth funding.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Chiyo — Fertility, pregnancy & postpartum meal delivery for new mothers. Eastern food therapy meets nutritional science, we use whole, nutrient-dense ingredients to help alleviate or avoid pregnancy symptoms like morning sickness, heartburn, gestational diabetes and more. OBGYN recommended, nutritionist curated, ready-to-eat.
VOW — Meet Quick, a purpose-built Webflow template to promote SaaS and software apps without writing code. Its pre-built content will help you get your website up and running in no time at all.
Brooklyn Health — Brooklyn Health is a company of clinicians, scientists, and engineers dedicated to enhancing digital health measurement.

Hayden Zou

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.

At Pente, we invest in entrepreneurs and operators who aim to build great businesses. The teams we partner with are true builders, whether they work with wireframes, code, physical products or ideas.We see the emergence of a kinder and more sustainable world, powered by a new generation of businesses. A world where life's luxuries areredefined as design being the central determinator of quality. We are working with the most promising founders and businesses to catalyze change with radical, empathetic visions for a better future.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, Austria

Portfolio highlights

WatchHouse — Cosy, unique coffee spots & eateries in London. We make great coffee and exceptional food within beautifully bespoke environments tailored around our local community. It is as simple as that. | Never worry about running out of coffee supplies again. The Modern Coffee experience from the comfort of your own home.
Pentire Drinks — Made from unique plants native to the Cornish coastline, Pentire is a new botanical non-alcoholic spirit drink. A gin style drink that harnesses the power, beauty and immense flavour of plants, without the after effects. Buy online now.
Mytos — The Infrastructure for Cell Manufacturing

Blue Slide Ventures is an early stage personal and SPV investment vehicle focused on backing consumer, brand centric companies. Blue Slide Ventures is hands on at the seed stage to support key business needs and utilize our trusted network of partners.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Health Care, Snack Food
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Ohza — Ohza crafts mouth-watering mimosas made with sparkling wine and real juice, but with fewer calories and less sugar. We're a ready-to-drink cocktail with good vibes only: all-natural, vegan, gluten-free, and preservative-free.
MealMe — MealMe: We compare services for delivery pickup and groceries to ensure that we are the fastest food delivery app, the cheapest food delivery app, and the food delivery app with the largest selection.
Snazzy — Snazzy is a teledentistry platform for teeth straightening. It offers affordable and accessible clear aligner treatment. Snazzy was founded in 2020 by Ayush Pateria and Keshav Chouksey and was headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.

CSA Partners, LLC is a venture fund that invests in early stage, high growth companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Edda — Software Suite for Venture Capital, Corporate Venture Private Equity, Family Offices & Investment Bank Manage your dealflow, support your portfolio companies, track your performances in real-time and raise your next fund with edda.
EVEN — EVEN empowers artists and fans to invest in each other.
Pet Krewe — Pet costumes, dog costumes, cat costumes for Halloween, or any pet dress-up occasion. Free shipping.

Angels Den is an angel-led investment platform that connects fast-growing companies with experienced investors.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
OnCare — Home care software | care management system
SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.

Growth Loan Fund Invest NI and NILGOSC.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Retail, Manufacturing
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

RE-KKUR — Building a Brighter Future.
Titanic Distillers — Titanic Distillers produces Irish whiskey and hosts events in Belfast.
Cumulus Neuroscience — Cumulus Neuroscience has created a next-generation integrated physiological and digital biomarker platform.

Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
Atomionics — Atomionics is building atomic sensors for navigation and resource exploration. Sensing technology is severely inadequate for a lot of applications navigation and positioning, pinpointing oil and gas reserves, tunnel detection etc. Atomionics builds atomic sensors harnessing quantum mechanical properties of the atoms. This enables measurement ofparameters like gravity, acceleration and rotation with 1000x higher precision and accuracy than the current state of the art, leading to a completely new way of global positioning, and resource exploration.
Soul Parking — Soul Parking is a parking management service company, which has successfully developed motorcycle storage equipment as a solution for traffic and parking problems that are cluttered using 100% designs and raw materials. Soul Parking provides solutions by developing a modern, safe and comfortable vehicle parking system that takes into accountlimited land area.

ah! Ventures is India’s only curated, sector agnostic and the largest fundraising platform for early stage startups raising funds up to 10 MN USD. Very strong network of 3000+ Investors including 2000+ angel investors and 1000+ institutional investors & fund/family houses, Robust deal pipeline of more than 600 business plans/monthand Well-established brand as one of India’s premier aggregators with a cornucopia of offerings to catalyze startup growth.

Investment focus

Software, EdTech, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Konect U — Konect U is an AI based research oriented firm specialized in Large Language Model (LLM).
Zealopia — Zealopia provides access to affordable mental health services. We connect you to therapists and like-mided strangers in a group through anonymous chats. With Zealopia, you can chat with strangers who act like a support system. We teach you how to deal with daily life problems, career growth, stress from toxic job, etc. We are an app for mental health that helps you through safe, secure and anonymous social interactions.
Flowatt Battery Science — Take a battery and pay per kilowatt hour. Powering EV fleets for efficient, sustainable last-mile delivery.

Investing strategic capital across all facets of the adult beverage industry.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits, Winery
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Renais Spirits — A bold and vibrant gin inspired by the people, produce and provenance of Burgundy, France.
True Story Whiskeys — Made by the Co-Founder of Angel's Envy, Wes Henderson and his six sons to make american legacy whiskeys, Finished Bourbon and Finished Rye.
Rare Character Whiskey — Experience Rare Character Whiskey's exclusive blends, including Brook Hill bourbon and the innovative RCLR series. Embrace American whiskey like never before.

Reshape is a next-generation investor in technology-enabled companies that need real estate to scale.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Colombia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Koppiku — Our CoffeeYour Way Our CoffeeYour Way Discover your new fave drinks From full-bodied coffees, to refreshing coolers View Menu View Menu koppiku latte (Hot/Iced) Cereal latte (Iced) koppiku milk tea (Iced) snow black (Iced) Americano (Hot/Iced) latte (Hot/Iced) cappuccino (Hot/Iced) Koppiku coconut latte (Hot/Iced) There is no Koppiku without You
MedsNow — SaaS for independent pharmacies
Good Weird — Good Weird was made to help you stay vibrant, be colorful, and shine bright, because the world is more beautiful if we all stay a little weird.

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.
Accumulator — Accumulator is a U.S. private equity firm regulated by the SEC, operating as an index-like fund covering a wide range of privately held, growth-stage tech companies.

James Robertson

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.

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

SingleStore — SingleStore is a provider of a database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications. It provides global enterprises with an intelligent database that works on any cloud on-premises or as a service runs transactions and analytics at the same time and lets clients promote their business through analytics and combine semi-structured datainto a consolidated big data platform.
Nimblemind.ai — Nimblemind offers a faster and safer way to structure, label, & manage multimodal health data with automation, audit trails, and APIs.
Streamline AI — Spend more time on legal analysis, less time on admin work. Streamline AI's intake and workflow automations help in-house legal teams and their business stakeholders work faster. Build conditional routing and automate manual business processes based on custom rules.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MapAnything — Integrate and leverage location-based data and prioritization in your CRM, using Salesforce maps, to optimize your reps' activities.
Optimus Ride — Optimus Ride is a self-driving vehicle company based in Boston, MA. It designs technologies to enable efficient, sustainable, and equitable mobility systems and solutions.As an MIT spinoff company, it combines over 30 years of interdisciplinary university research in self‑driving technologies (DARPA Urban Challenge), electric vehicles (CityCar),and Mobility-on-Demand Systems. The team includes decades of industrial and entrepreneurial experience that combines manufacturing robots, urban design, and shared vehicle fleet management.
Resonate — Resonate's pioneering approach goes beyond traditional targeting on broad demographics, past behaviors or general interests. Political campaigns, advocacy groups and major consumer brands now use Resonate's motivations based targeting to deliver successful online ad campaigns based on otherwise unidentifiable values such as patriotism,environmentalism, taste for luxury, interest in innovation and thousands of other human dimensions.

We are a community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Australian and New Zealand startups. Our community is rallied around a shared goal: to invest in the next generation of Australia and New Zealand startups at the very earliest stage, and then support them on their long a

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
PropHero — Invest wisely in real estate There is an easier way to invest in real estate. Whether you are just getting started or already on your investment journey, at Pro
Samphire Neuroscience — Samphire Neuroscience provides solutions that specialize in women's health. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.

CPE is a leading alternative asset manager, with asset classes spanning private equity, mezzanine and the public market. Founded in 2008 by a world class team of investment professionals and supported by over 200 domestic and international investors, CPE knows China like no one else and is a globally minded long-term value investor. The firm usesits sector expertise to generate deal flow and drive the value creation work during the post-investment stage. CPE follows a disciplined investment approach to preserve and grow its investors’ capital. The firm’s private equity portfolio of more than 100 companies is highly diversified by sector and stage of investment. CPE takes pride in its forward-looking investment philosophy and works hard to create value over the long-term for its investors and a better world. For more information, please visit www.citicpe.com.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Series C
China, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Royma — Royma is a high-tech R&D and production enterprise integrating R&D, production, sales and service.
Sangon Biotech — Sangon Biotech Co. (生工生物) is engaged in the research and development of chemical synthesis of DNA.It is a high-tech Sino-foreign joint venture established in 2003. After ten years of development, Sangon has become a professional biotechnology company that integrates research and development. Chemical synthesis DNA earned reputation for Sangonin the global market.In 2006, Sangon invested 50 million to build a manufacturing and industrial base in Songjiang Industrial Park, which has been put into use. Sangon produces various products such as DNA synthesis, DNA sequencing, Gene Synthesis, peptide synthesis, chemical agents, enzymes, molecular biology kit, cultivation medium, lab consumptive material, and miniature instruments.
Orange Connex Global UK Limited — Orange Connex Global UK Limited is a technology-led fourth-party logistics provider (4PL) to enable global supply chains.

Founded in 2005, Hillhouse is a leading global investment management firm, active across public equity, private equity, real estate and private credit. The firm invests over a long-term horizon and partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to deliver sustainable value creation for quality companies.Hillhouse is a full life-cycle private equityfirm, investing for the long term across opportunities in the healthcare, business services, consumer, and industrials sectors. The firm manages capital on behalf of global institutions such as non-profit foundations, endowments, and pensions.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sainte — Sainte is a company which provides professional nutritional solutions for babies with different nutritional needs
Vita Dynamics — Vita Dynamics involves learning through real-world interactions by developing robots that can physically engage with their environment, they can adapt more naturally and efficiently.
Horizon Continental Technology — Horizon Continental Technology is a joint venture between Continental Group and Horizon Robotics

Lucas Driggers

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed, Series A
China

Portfolio highlights

Nine Rivers Distillery Company PLC — The story of what happened when a group of whisky loving friends decided it was time to put China on the international whisky map.

3Lines fund is investing in Artificial Intelligence, IoT, and SaaS Software technology in USA and Agricultural and Food Processing Technology investments in India.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Our Food — Empowering Farmers With Technology And Knowledge For Primary Grading And Processing. OurFood farmers becoming entrepreneurs.
Arzooo.com — We are disrupting $80bn+ electronics retail market in India, largely dominated by fragmented physical retail (90% share), with Arzooo "Go Store" technology, removing barriers of scale and inventory, and making each retail store better than an e-commerce platform with the largest virtual selection and the best prices to in-shop consumers,higher profits to retailers, along with integrated financing and quick delivery capabilities. Arzooo has also become the gateway for fast growing emerging brands to launch into huge untapped offline channel.
Aarna Networks — Zero touch orchestration, management, and automation of private 5G networks and edge computing applications by Aarna Networks

Resolute Venture Partners is the newest angel investment vehicle in a family of funds created by Clayton Associates. Following the start of Nashville-based Rolling Hills Ventures in 2013, Resolute is one of only a few institutional groups in the United States to take the formal processes and resources of later-stage venture capital firms and applythose to the traditionally unstructured arena of early-stage angel investing.Led by Managing Partner Jay Zeidman and a team of senior healthcare executives, Houston-based Resolute Venture Partners was created to uniquely capitalize on the region’s large reimbursement markets, shortage of major investment sources in the Houston area, booming patient population, and long-term healthcare industry growth expectations. Resolute’s typical investment is approximately $500,000 up to $2,000,000 and focuses on early stage funding for health care IT, digital health, mobile health, and technology enabled services.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

AlphaFlow — AlphaFlow is a tech-driven investment company providing professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to institutional investors. They work with the residential real estate lenders around the country and underwrite their loans across 50+ factors. AlphaFlow invests in the best deals, splitting our clients’ portfolios across 75-100 loansinto15+ states to create AlphaFlow Optimized Portfolios. They took the best practices of investment management, like diversification, rebalancing, and institutional-quality data analytics, and automated them so that investors could receive these benefits without the high fees and high minimums of traditional real estate investing. It is ultimately a simpler, more intelligent way to invest in real estate.AlphaFlow was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Haus — An alcohol brand designed for the way we drink today. Born and bottled in California, Haus is made with things you can pronounce - think chardonnay grapes. elderflower and lemon. With less alcohol than hard liquors, Haus is shipped directly to your door, so you can gather and connect on your time.
Nest Collaborative — Nest Collaborative offers online lactation consults. Virtual appointments are available same-day & are covered in full by most insurance plans.

We help women grow their personal wealth by investing in early-stage, women-owned/led companies, thereby positively impacting women, the region, and the nation. Next Act Fund has achieved over $3 million in investment funding that will focus on women-owned/led businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, Therapeutics, Hospital
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Augment Therapy — Augment Therapy creates AR rehabilitation exercises for enhanced therapy outcomes and fun wellness games to encourage movement at home.
Pomp and Whimsy — Wondrously crafted from gin and other lovelies. Pomp & Whimsy brings modern sensibilities to the tradition of gin making, by infusing classically distilled gin with a natural, delightfully flavorful botanical liqueur. The result is a highly refined, yet playfully sensorial spirit, that is both
Astarte Medical — Astarte Medical offers clinical decision support software solutions to enhance pediatric nutrition & feeding practices, optimize care & improve patient outcomes.

Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Network
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
Handl — Handl is an online platform for vehicle & fleet servicing.
My Probate Partner — Simplify the probate process in Scotland with expert support. Join our free webinar and book a consultation today.

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

Moonvalley — The imagination research company building ML video and image models that captivate.
Vitara Biomedical — Vitara Biomedical has developed a therapeutic platform to support premature infants. Vitara Biomedical's platform was inspired by natural physiological processes to transform neonatal care.
Outsmart Education — Join the waitlist and see why higher education will never again be the same.

Black Sheep Capital is making its mark as a preferred investment capital provider due to their 'Everyone Wins' approach. Their philosophy is to work with their investment partners to create and grow opportunities where they can all enjoy success. Through this approach, they have been able to create a diverse portfolio of investments thatcontinues to grow.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Beamible — Get the most for and from your workforce. Deconstruct work down to its individual components so it can be reconstructed to better meet the needs of the business and the employees. Reduce turnover and burnout, enable flex and drive efficiency with Beamible.
Aerotruth — Aerotruth is a B2B SaaS solution which automates the document on-boarding process for banks, financial institutions and fintechs
Curious Thing AI — Curious Thing is a conversational AI startup for mass information discovery. The technology enables businesses to proactively discover deeper insights from humans. The AI has applications including candidate assessments, customer engagement, stakeholder check-in, and more.

Mistral Equity Partners is a private equity firm comprised of highly experienced investment professionals and seasoned industry executives.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Apps
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

LOLA — Founded by women, LOLA's period and sexual wellness products are always made without synthetic fibers, fragrance, bleach, chemical additives, or dyes.
Wisely — Enhance the customer experience to drive profit with our best-in-class restaurant software: Waitlist, Reservations, Table & Order Management, CRM, and CDP.
Solarcore — Solarcore is a materials technology enterprise that specializes in the advancement of cutting-edge thermal solutions globally.

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Olyzon — Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors.
Tracklab — Tracklab is a B2B compliance software helping regulated companies manage their mandatory supplier documentations.
Directo Tech, Inc - Travel Browser Extension — Contact the host directly with Directo Chrome extension. Save money, get better deals! Get it free!

Christen O'Brien

Investment focus

SaaS, Logistics, Accounting
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Partender — Partender: Bar inventory, Online Ordering, and Accounting Software in 15 min. Save $1,200-$5,000 in time, labor, and reduced inventory loss.

Pankaj Jain is the Managing Partner at Saka Ventures. Previously, he was a Partner at 500 Startups, a California based seed fund and accelerator program. Pankaj focuses on investing in early stage startups across New York City, India, South Asia and has led investments in over fifty companies at 500 Startups across 6 countries.Pankaj spent over12 years in the Financial industry at firms such as JP Morgan, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) and GlobeOp Financial Services in various operational roles including enterprise mortgage risk management, application development, market data infrastructure, trade management, pricing infrastructure and customer service areas.In 2007, Pankaj’s adventures in India began, where he started a company building an on-demand, employment marketplace for the under-served. In 2008, Pankaj became a co-founder of the HeadStart Network Foundation and the led the efforts in Delhi. In late 2010, he began setting up Startup Weekend in India.

Investment focus

Analytics, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

WhizAI — One of the augumented analytics platform used for consumers purpose. Attend a trained session on life sciences data and other patient analytics as a sole! Hurry up to take a weekly demo on the life science by the best expertise on this field.
Cypherock — Welcome to Cypherock, where we are dedicated to building the world's safest cold wallet to protect your crypto. Discover Cypherock X1 with cutting-edge technology and robust security features.
Paperstreet — Write beautiful company updates to engage your investors, advisors, and users.

Seed-stage venture capital firm investing out of a $22m fund.

Investment focus

News, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

Saucey — Get alcohol delivered to your door in 30-60 minutes. Beer, wine, liquor, and more from local stores.
Elite Daily — Elite Daily is the ultimate digital destination for Gen Z women who are discovering the world, and themselves in the process. Elite Daily delivers authentic and relatable content across entertainment, dating, lifestyle, food, travel, astrology, fashion, and beauty.

BA Capital is a venture capital firm focused on the consumer sector.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Retail, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Seed
China, Spain

Portfolio highlights

KDHY Foods — KDHY Foods is a company that specializes in manufacturing processed fruit and potato products. KDHY Foods involves producing canned, frozen, or dried fruits, as well as processed potato goods such as frozen fries, chips, and mashed potato products.
Laopu Gold — Laopu Gold is an ancient handmade goldware brand that produces jewelry using ancient handmade gold.
Snack Is Busy — Snack Is Busy is a snack food chain industry. They mainly open stores in the community to create a chain brand of snacks at the doorstep of ordinary people, which is even closer to their lives.

BAI Capital is an investment arm of German media mogul Bertelsmann. Its notable investments include electric vehicle upstart Nio, Southeast Asia’s popular live streaming app Bigo, and China’s shared bike pioneer Mobike, which was acquired by Meituan. BAI Capital was founded in 2008 by German businessman Carl Bertelsmann.

Investment focus

Hardware, Semiconductor, Art
Series A, Seed, Series B
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

CYGNUSEMI — Cygnus Semi is a semiconductor chip technology company that focuses on 5G IoT applications.
Speedfox — Speedfox is a home cleaning smart home company.
CIX Technology — This Core Technology offers next-generation intelligent computing solutions, designing and developing spec intelligent computing systems.

We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Sweden, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Swan — Use Swan's APIs to embed white-labeled banking features like accounts, cards, and IBANs into your workflows and UX.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface

University of Chicago is a private research university that focuses on sciences, medicine, economics, law, business, and others. In addition to providing a dynamic education based on critical thinking and interdisciplinary exposure, the university sponsors hundreds of art and cultural events open to the public free of charge. Venues such as theCourt Theatre, the Oriental Institute, and the Smart Museum often host these events for local residents and students. The university’s retail development initiatives also help strengthen the economic health of the city.Academics include more than 50 areas of specialized undergraduate and graduate study, including some interdisciplinary programs like Big Problems, which tackles matters of global and universal concern that do not belong to one discipline or interest group, scientific fields like Biological Chemistry, and more.Experiential programs known as “Chicago Careers In” provide students with research, internships, and advising in fields like business and health professions.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Dwellsy — Find a rental and make it home. Check out Dwellsy's comprehensive inventory of apartments, condos, and houses near you. What was once hard to find, is now easy.
Mindful Care — Urgent Psychiatry, Therapy, and Medication Management Treatments Covered by Insurance
Giant Magellan Telescope Organization — The Giant Magellan Telescope is the most powerful telescope on Earth. It is designed to discover the unknown. The Universe Awaits.

Overline is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Atlanta. We lead pre-seed and seed rounds in support of exceptional founders building in the Southeast.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Logistics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

Portfolio highlights

BreachRx — Reduce business risk by proactively streamlining the planning and response processes for privacy and security breaches with our dynamic and automated platform. Take the crisis out of breach response.
Condoit — Create digital single-line diagrams with EV charger installations, IR reporting, and arc flash analysis in the field quickly and efficiently.
The Zero Proof — The Zero Proof is the leading non-alcoholic beverage online store with over 30+ brands to savor. Browse The Zero Proof site and find your new favorite today!

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