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Top 50 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in United States in April 2025

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

Top 50 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in United States in April 2025

Investor	Wine And Spirits United States investments
Tiller Partners	4
Imaginary Ventures	4
CircleUp	4
DN Capital	4
ATX Venture Partners	4
Brand Foundry Ventures	4
Döhler Ventures	3
Greycroft	3
Blue Falcon Capital	3
Fabrice Grinda	3
Blue Slide Ventures	3
CSA Partners LLC	3
Distill Ventures	3
Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund	3
Fairhaven Capital Partners	2
M3 Ventures	2
Nelstone Ventures	2
Winklevoss Capital	2
Guild Capital	2
Max Ventures	2
Blue Equity	2
K Street Capital	2
Bulldog Angel Network	2
Mistral Equity Partners	2
NaHCO3	2
BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation	2
Gaingels	2
Great Oaks Venture Capital	2
Balaji Srinivasan	2
University of Chicago	2
Backend Capital	2
Reshape	2
SeedInvest	2
Haystack	2
Austin Rosen	2
Golden Ventures	2
Markus Frind	2
Revolution	2
Ligaya Tichy	2
HashtagOne	2
Wavemaker Partners	2
Khosla Ventures	2
Rahul Vohra	2
InvestBev	2
Trog Hawley Capital	2
Blumberg Capital	2
Jen Rubio	2
The R-Group, LLC	2
New Coast Ventures	2
Dream Machine	2

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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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lucky Energy — LUCKY F*CK is a better-for-you energy drink company.
Pepper — Built for the food industry. The only platform built for catalogs with 100K+ items and customer specific pricing. Use built-in promotional tools to grow your
[cafeteria] — [cafeteria] allows individuals to influence businesses, get paid for opinions, and develop professional talents.

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

Koia — Plant protein, but not that chalky stuff. Our shakes are sweet without all the sugar, creamy without the dairy, and serves up a variety of nutrients without sacrificing deliciousness.
Partake Foods — Gluten-free, vegan, non-GMO and free of the top 14 allergens, our super delicious cookies are made with real, healthy, and safe ingredients that everyone can share and enjoy. Choose from multiple flavors including carrot oat, chocolate chip, double chocolate, and sweet potato millet.
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.

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

Napo — Comprehensive pet insurance by Napo. Full dental cover included. Free unlimited video vet and behaviourist consultations. 5% multi-pet discount.
Sanas — Sanas is the world's first solution for Real-Time Accent Translation.
Unique — Unlock the power of generative AI in Finance with Unique FinanceGPT. Get custom use cases and accurate insights in a secure, enterprise-ready platform.

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

LUXUS — Luxus partner with premium brands to unlock fractional ownership in precious gems and other bespoke accessories.
Reflex — Reflex connects retailers with the top flexible retail talent locally, on demand. Retailers can cover callouts, omni-channel needs, holiday staffing and more. Workers can find flexible work, set their own schedule, and get paid quickly.
Light Frame — Light Frame is a Swiss American financial technology company building advanced technologies for private banks, wealth management firms, and banks offering investment and wealth services. The company was founded in January 2024 by Schuyler Weiss, Mathieu Clement, Philippe Kernevez, and Gregory Bataille, and it maintains offices in Providence, RI andLausanne, VD. Light Frame completed its Pre-seed round of financing in April 2024, with ATX Venture Partners and New Stack Ventures co-leading the round. Other investors include Rogue Venture Partners, Halfcourt Ventures, Studio Alpha, and Underdog Labs.

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.
Vizit — Vizit is the Visual Brand Performance Company.Vizit enables leading brands and retailers to simulate the visual perspective of consumer audiences with patented AI technology. The company’s Visual Brand Performance Platform measures, optimizes and monitors visual content at scale, driving increased traffic, conversions, and sales, while providingproduct and design teams a powerful new source of visual insights to bring products to market more efficiently and effectively than ever before
Lucky Energy — LUCKY F*CK is a better-for-you energy drink company.

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 States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

XOXO Soda — XOXO Soda is a plant-based drink with prebiotic fiber that is low in sugar and calories.
Mighty Pea — Mighty Pea is a pea milk producer, which uses yellow split peas in the creation of its beverages.
Naughty Nuts — Naughty Nuts primarily engages in the nut butter market.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
Prezent AI — Presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams. Add zen to your presentations!
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.

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.
Arbor — SaaS
Chubby Snacks — Chubby Snacks is a better-for-you choice compared to your traditional PB&J. Using high quality nut butters, nutritiously fruity jams, and whole grain bread, Chubby Snacks is giving your PB&J a long overdue upgrade, with approximately 75% less sugar and 30% less calories than leading brands.

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, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.

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.

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.

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

Knit — Knit helps researchers run agency-quality quant + qual research at DIY costs, by taking the most time-intensive research tasks off their plate through Researcher-Driven AI.
Cambium Carbon — Saving wood to save the planet. By revolutionizing supply chains, we introduce the world's first carbon smart material.
Gig Wage — Instant payouts for 1099 contractors and easy contractor payroll. 1099 Payments & Payroll APIs. Stay compliant with Gig Wage. Sign up free.

Fairhaven Capital (previously TD Capital) is a Cambridge, MA based venture capital firm investing in early stage technology startups.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

LÜK Network — LÜK is a talent marketplace for the fashion and entertainment industries (models, photographers, stylists, hair and makeup artists, etc.). LÜK has assembled the top talent agencies into one location for clients to easily book talent for photo/video shoots. Think Expedia, but for professional talent. Now, LÜK is becoming the payments platformfor the entire industry. Currently, it takes talent agencies 60-150 days to get paid. LÜK is factoring the receivables of the 150 talent agencies in their network to get them paid out same day.
Pwnie Express — Intelligence-led cyber risk management. Identify security gaps across your entire attack surface & prioritize vulnerabilities that matter the most.
Ionic Materials — Ionic Materials technology team has extensive experience in polymer science, electrochemistry and battery science and they are further supported by leading experts from academia and industry. Ionic’s polymer electrolyte represents a major breakthrough in battery technology. By enabling the creation of batteries that are safer, cheaper, and higherperformance than the current state-of-the-art, Ionic’s polymer electrolyte shatters the traditional battery design paradigm, under which safety, cost, and performance must generally be traded off against one another. They are excited to bring this technology to market with core partners in the battery industry.

M3 Ventures is a New York based strategic investment partner to visionary founders in the fashion, lifestyle and wellness spaces. Managed by former creative artists agency executive Martin Dolfi, M3 Ventures provides early-stage capital to companies based in the United States.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Isla — Isla is a beauty brand that aims to blur lines between skincare and make-up for a clean beauty future.
Foxtrot — Foxtrot is a mobile app that lets customers shop their curated collections of drinks, food, and everyday essentials. The customer's order will be delivered straight to them in under an hour. The company was co-founded by Mike LaVitola with Brian Jaffee and Taylor Bloom in 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.
Blue Jet Healthcare — We are a global, science-led, pharmaceutical company evolved as Strategic Partner for Collaboration, Development & Manufacturing of advance Pharmaceutical Intermediates and API.

Nelstone Ventures is an investment fund founded by Rich Nelson. Nelstone Ventures invests and syndicates investment opportunities in various stage technology companies with a focus on enterprise software, gaming, health care, consumer internet and technology enabled business-to business companies. Nelstone Ventures seeks strong management teamswith a disruptive idea where there is a large market opportunity and competitive differentiation. Nelstone Ventures looks to nurture these opportunities by providing strategic capital, a network of relationships, investment insights, strategic M&A and exit related ideas and advice.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Fitness
Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
United States, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Snyk — Enable developers to build securely from the start while giving security teams complete visibility and comprehensive controls.
Allermi — Custom allergy treatment designed by board-certified allergists, backed by science, and delivered right to your door.
Flexport — Cut costs, automate workflows, reliably move goods, go carbon-neutral, and improve your supply chain from end to end. It all starts here.

At Winklevoss Capital, we believe in determined entrepreneurs. Risk-taking is just in their blood. By providing guidance, relationships and capital, we reinforce their pursuit of a frictionless world and a better human experience. Because those who dare to fail greatly, dare to achieve greatly.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, E-Commerce, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Azura — Azura is a new all-in-one crypto application aggregation layer launched with the assistance of some of the most well-known cryptocurrency pioneers. The company's application and interfacing layer provides reliable access to DeFi assets, real-time market data, and full trade lifecycle support.
Yellow Card — Buy and Sell BTC, ETH, USDT & More in Africa | Yellow Card
Dandi Fertility — A new kind of fertility care is here. The Dandi IVF Care Kit was designed with doctors and patients to bring comfort and peace of mind to every step of the injection process. Add on-demand, personalized support from a Fertility Nurse with Dandi Care. We're here for you, every step of the way.

Founded in 2009 by Iain Shovlin, Guild typically backs founders as their first institutional investor, actively partnering with them to assist in crafting growth strategies, architecting high-performance teams, creating distinctive brands, and embracing metric-driven management. The company is headquartered in Miami Beach and invests in Chicago,Los Angeles and New York in the US, and in Mumbai and Pune in India.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Easebuzz — Simplify your online payment processing with Easebuzz. Get access to fast and secure Digital payment solutions for your business. Sign up Now to Schedule a demo!
Plix Life — Looking for plant-based products? Buy Plant Protein Powder, Tablets & Capsules Online for Men & Women in India at PlixLife. We have a wide range of plant based vegan products for weight, skin, hair & wellness.
Pickrr Technologies — Pickrr is India's largest ecommerce logistics solution & shipping software for professional courier aggregator services. Take advantage of our real-time order tracking, cash on delivery (COD) features & make your shipping experience hassle-free.

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

UnityAI — At UnityAI, we specialize in developing innovative AI solutions that drive business success. Our state-of-the-art technology and expert team empower companies to optimize operations, enhance decision-making, and unlock new opportunities. Discover how UnityAI can transform your business with our comprehensive suite of AI services. Partner with us to turn your vision into reality.
Adonis — Adonis is the first revenue intelligence and automation platform that delivers AI-driven insights to help your medical practice, hospital, or digital health clinic beat revenue KPIs.
Hello Patient — Healthcare AI that gets your team off the phone & in front of patients

Driving Innovation. Accelerating Opportunity.

Investment focus

Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage, Language Learning
Private Equity, Series A, Seed
United States, Mexico, Jamaica

Portfolio highlights

Gopuff — Gopuff is a Philadelphia-based company that delivers products like over-the-counter medicine, baby food, and alcohol. Across America, Gopuff is known for satiating late-night cravings for Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, Doritos, Red Bull, and, in select markets, White Claw and rescuing those in need of diapers, condoms, and cleaning products. Gopuffallows users the joy of browsing the shelves without the hassle of going to the store. It takes seconds to navigate the app and minutes for Gopuff’s Driver-Partners to deliver the customer’s needs and wants. The company was founded in 2013 by Yakir Gola and Rafael Ilishayev, two Drexel University students with a minivan and a vision to make everyday life a little easier.
Spiritless — Beautifully distilled non-alcoholic spirits for those who want to live fully but drink differently. Vegan, gluten-free & keto-friendly. Women owned & operated.
Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.

K Street Capital seeks to support and accelerate startup growth with investment capital, industry expertise, mentorship, and community.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Convertible Note, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Nopsec — NopSec's vulnerability risk management and cybersecurity solutions help you prioritize and remediate the most critical cyber threats across your networks, configurations, applications.
Coba — Coba is a simplified and convenient way to live cross-border. All in one platform.
Procurement Sciences AI — Procurement Sciences AI is a Vertical AI SaaS that offers a transformative platform powered by advancements in generative AI. A growth-stage vertical AI SaaS company was disrupting the government contracting procurement process from start to finish with various AI tools, copilots, and autonomous agents.

Why We Exist: We want to help Mississippi State University entrepreneurs.Who We Are: We are a network of Mississippi State University alumni and friends of the university that provide angel investments to early stage companies that are majority owned by Mississippi State University students, faculty or alumni.What We Do: By working closelywith the Mississippi State Entrepreneurship And Outreach Center, we look for angel investing opportunities and provide a complete process from start to finish to help our members make investments in early stage companies as well as offer opportunities for members to mentor target companies.Benefits: Members get numerous benefits by joining the Bulldog Angel Network such as access to investment deals once per quarter via online meetings, due diligence performed by an ad-hoc committee, ability to discuss deals with other members, opportunity for mentoring young companies and much more. Angel Investing: The Bulldog Angel Network is a member of the Angel Capital Association and generally follows their guidelines for angel investing groups.How To Join: If you are not a member and would like to join or get more information on becoming one, please go to our website

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Social Shopping
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Potluck — Potluck has the simplest event building tool featuring item selection, in-event chat, and the easiest RSVP process for guests. All with unlimited invitations and no download required!
Live Music Network — mySet lets live musicians and DJs easily accept digital song requests and tips from their fans in the crowd or during livestreams.
Duet Technology — Building the next generation of barber tools, for the next generation of barbers

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.

Helping people rise to their potential.

Investment focus

Gaming, Biotechnology, Education
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

OpenBCI — OpenBCI is a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform that gives anybody with computer access to their brain waves. Their vision is to realize the potential of the open-source movement to accelerate innovation in brain science through collaborative hardware and software development. Behind the many lines of code and circuit diagrams,OpenBCI has a growing community of scientists, engineers, designers, makers, and a whole bunch of other people who are interested in furthering our understanding of the brain. We feel that the biggest challenges in understanding what makes us who we are cannot be solved by a company, an institution, or even an entire field of science. Rather, we believe these discoveries will be made through an open forum of shared knowledge and concerted effort by people from many different disciplines. Today, the leading brain-computer interface (BCI) companies distribute fixed devices with limited or closed access to the algorithms that translate raw EEG signals to meaningful data. These devices are powerful and effective for application development but not ideal for R&D requiring adjustable hardware setups and direct control over the signal processing techniques. OpenBCI is fully accessible and powered by an open-source community of hardware and software builders, making it easy for creators of any skill level and ideal for researchers who haven’t yet settled on the perfect system design. The OpenBCI platform is intended to serve as a malleable starting point in the rapidly growing field of brain-computer interfacing.
Inworld AI — AI for Metaverse
Arcturus — Experience sports like never before.

BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to getting capital to our incredible Wisconsin entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Spotz — Everyday, teams, businesses, and family lose precious time looking for spaces to practice, work, and host their events. The struggle to find a space to conduct the client meetings or the building pressure to locate a practice field for your child’s sports team is a time and labor-intensive activity that most of us take for granted. Enter Spotz, theindustry solution for managing, hosting, and booking spaces. Spotz is the digital platform the makes managing, hosting, and booking space easy. Rental organizations save time and money while increasing engagement and revenue. Athletes, businesses, and families have increased opportunities to train, play, work, and gather in a place that fits their needs. Activity and event organizers save time and resources.
Midwest Games — Midwest Games is a video game publisher focused on creating opportunities for the abundant talent across the Midwest and other underrepresented regions.
Immuto Scientific — Immuto Scientific is a biotechnology services company that provides analytical insights to pharmaceutical companies for drug discovery.

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

CO/AI — CO/AI is a community focused on fostering expertise and skills in artificial intelligence (AI) among individuals and businesses. This initiative aims to prepare participants for success in an increasingly AI-driven economy through various educational and collaborative efforts.
1up — 1up is a competitive AI for users to observe and understand everything their competitors are doing. 1up accelerates and automates the competitive experience for teams. 1up enables teams to save hours of manual effort in product, sales, and marketing, understand what their competitors are building and saying, and win competitive deals faster andeasier than ever before.
Utila — Securely manage, build, and scale your institutional digital asset operations with Utila's MPC-powered platform. Leverage unparalleled security, robust governance and countless ecosystem integrations.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

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.
Pippin Title — Discover Pippin Title's technology to deliver fast, accurate, thorough nationwide commercial & residential title search reports in the USA.
Bright Star Community Outreach — Bright Star Community Outreach is a non-profit organization that focuses on community development. They work towards addressing violence among youth and improving schools. They provide holistic ministry services, touching mind, body, and spirit. Their mission is to empower residents to share in the responsibility of building community throughpooling resources and forming partnerships.

Investing in the next billion dollar engineers

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tarsal — Tarsal is a data pipeline that builds for security data movement. Tarsal applies normalized fields including IPs, domains, and more to all log records.
UnshETH — unshETH is a decentralized, on-chain movement to use incentive engineering to preserve and protect the trustless, immutable, and censorship-resistant nature of Ethereum.
Usage AI — Usage AI's automated cloud management tools help companies save time and money in the cloud.

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

MedsNow — SaaS for independent pharmacies
Ansa — The closed loop platform built for your customers.
Good Weird — A new genderless approach to beauty. Be you, it's good

SeedInvest is a leading equity crowdfunding platform for growth-obsessed startups. Because everyone should be able to invest in the next big thing.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
United States, Israel, France

Portfolio highlights

Qairn — Qairn provides review and validation of promotional materials. They also provide ANSM submission, constitution, validation of promotional documents, and other regulated content services.
His Lovers — His Lovers is an online dating platform. It offers the chance to meet new people and form romantic relationships.
Asian Hustle Network — Asian Hustle Network (AHN) is an online community of 150,000+ members that uniquely connects Asian entrepreneurs and creatives globally across different industries. The goal of AHN is to centralize community, content, information, resources, e-commerce, and mentorship into one single location.

Haystack VC partners with innovative software and tech startups. We invest $500K-$2M in initial rounds, leading or participating. Discover how our decade of experience can fuel your startup's growth.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bounti.ai — Bounti streamlines prospecting, quickly elevating response rates and conversion, delivering results in seconds instead of hours.
Haus — Automated incrementality experiments and durable, cookieless attribution to help brands make informed investment decisions.
Reshape Automation — AI-powered industrial automation marketplace and platform that simplifies the discovery, design, deployment, and support of automation

Austin Rosen is the founder and CEO of Electric Feel Entertainment and Ventures.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Last Crumb — Last crumb offers the world’s most premium cookies, expertly crafted with uncompromising quality, though a unique DTC experience.
Actual Veggies — Filling, Colorful & Delicious burgers Made With Fresh Veggies.
Creative Intell — Real education for the real music business

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Deck — Open Data API accessing Energy, Water, Government and many more data verticals to power sustainability, credit check, accounting, bill payments and many more use-cases. Start building now with Deck's self-serve platform.
Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.
Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.

Markus Frind

Investment focus

Retail, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cymax Group Technologies Ltd. — Cymax Group simplifies the complexities of eCommerce by combining nearly two decades of technology expertise with award winning products and dedicated account management. Maximize the best of technology, automation, and AI to simplify the complexities of eCommerce through our two products - Channel
Symend — Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Tastry, Inc. — Tastry wine AI provides unparalleled visibility for winemakers and retailers into your wine's chemistry and how consumers will perceive it. Learn more here.

Revolution invests in people and ideas that can change the world. Our mission is to build disruptive, innovative companies that offer more choice, convenience, and control in the lives of consumers and businesses.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

GovSky — Building cybersecurity technology to secure America’s supply chain.
Kashable — Kashable is on a mission to help employees handle unexpected expenses and tackle high-interest debt. Our platform provides financial wellness solutions that help employees to preserve retirement savings, improve their credit scores, and navigate financial hardships responsibly. Plus, Kashable provides employees access to free Financial Literacy resources to help plan for the future.
Carbon Robotics — The Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder solves one of agriculture's biggest problems: weed control. Laserweeding kills weeds without herbicides or tilling by harnessing computer vision and thermal energy to identify and destroy weeds at the meristem. It's healthier for crops and land, and safer for farmers.

Ligaya launches new markets for consumer technology companies. She kickstarted Airbnb's international development as Global Head of Offline Marketing & Community during their most rapid growth phase. Prior to that, she was a Marketing Manager for Yelp, helping the company expand their footprint across the US. Ligaya now angel invests andadvises startups and serves as a mentor for 500 Startups. She is also a regular speaker at SXSW, various TEDx, and CMX Summit. Ligaya was also selected as a 2014 TechWomen by the US Department of State.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Apps, Marketplace
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

CloudPeeps — CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. Hire a team of quality professional freelancers to get the job done. Work the way you want, wherever you are!
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.
Holey Grail Donuts — Discover fresh, taro-based donuts cooked in organic coconut oil. Weekly new flavors from local Hawaiian farms.

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 — The fastest, easiest and most reliable on-demand alcohol delivery service. Order beer, wine and spirits online or download the mobile app for iOS or Android
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.

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.
Oneteam — We acquire small to medium businesses and help next-gen hardworking employees grow into capable owners of these businesses. Using digital-first solutions to drive growth, synergies and innovation, we collaborate with your employees to transform your business into global enterprises.
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.

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.Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech, digital health, medtech anddiagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technology.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Onyx — The open-source AI enterprise search platform that helps teams find information across all company data.
Tempero Bio — Tempero Bio develops treatments for Substance Use Disorders as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company.
Resource Chemical — Resource Chemical develops CO2 into high-performance plastics that do not pollute the environment. The company's headquarters are in Berkeley, California.

Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO at Superhuman. He is also the Technical Advisor at BOLDstart Ventures and Investor & Advisor at Partender and Investor of sendwithus and EasyPost.Rahul Vohra is a former CEO and Co-Founder of Rapportive and Game Designer at Jagex. Rahul received a bachelor of arts in Computer Science at the University ofCambrigdge.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bubbles — Bubbles is a collaboration tool that lets you tag anything on your screen and invite your teammates to discuss in-context. Get excited by organic growth and viral loops, and less so by paid advertising. Are active on one or more social platforms like Medium, Twitter, Product Hunt, etc.
Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
Zed Industries — Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SpeakeasyCo — Speakeasy Co. provides an integrated direct-to-consumer solution for beverage alcohol brands that remains three-tier compliant.
L'uva Bella Winery — L'uva Bella Winery develops and produces a variety of wine and juice products for CPG, commercial winery, and home winemaking markets.
Pilot Project Brewing — Pilot Project is a trendy brewery incubator, tasting room, and cafe based in Logan Square Chicago. Visit for great beer, coffee, sandwiches, and a great place to hang.

Trog Hawley Capital is a single-family office in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series B, Funding Round, Seed
United States, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Get Spiffy — On-demand car cleaning technology and services company with the mission to redefine the car washing experience everywhere.
KORE Power — At KORE, we provide integrated renewable energy resources by bringing state-of-the-art commercial and industrial battery and ESS technology to North America.
Speakeasy — Speakeasy Co. provides an integrated direct-to-consumer solution for beverage alcohol brands that remains three-tier compliant.

Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in leading Seed & Series A rounds and partnering with founders from inception to exit. Learn more.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Partful — Make sure customers get the right parts first time, every time with digital 3D parts catalogue software and digital work instructions.
Ferrum Health — Ferrum Health is a developer of an enterprise IT and AI patient safety platform for health systems. Ferrum Health provides an artificial intelligence (AI) technology platform for health system executives to prevent medical errors across their patient population, serving as a safety net that uses AI algorithms to assist quality teams in the peerreview of radiology studies.
Field Materials, Inc. — Increase Margins and Cut Costs with Digital Procurement

Jen Rubio is the Co-Founder and CEO at Away.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

The Expert — Book consultations with the world's top design experts
Medley — Medley is a membership for curious, growth-minded people who want a structured, social, and accessible way to invest in themselves.
tvg hospitality — Venue Group is an entertainment and hospitality operator in the United Kingdom and the United States. The company was founded in 2019 by Ben Lovett and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

Family Office, active Angel Investing

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cleary — The Cleary Employee Experience platform is purpose built to help distributed, remote, and hybrid teams to scale their culture.
PDX Angels, LLC — A syndicate of friends
STRIVE — STRIVE Elite delivers the most complete, accurate and actionable data platform proven to optimize muscle performance for elite athletes and teams.

New Coast Ventures is a full-service web and mobile development firm that builds solutions for Fortune 500s, startups, and even itself. It helps big companies innovate by acting like their own personal entrepreneur-in-residence, and it helps small companies succeed by acting like another member of their team.New Coast Ventures builds products,develops new businesses, and helps companies innovate through mobile and responsive web development, design, and consulting services. In addition to its in-house development work, the company also makes small seed investments in companies.New Coast Ventures was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, I.L.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States

Portfolio highlights

Truss — Truss is an online marketplace to help small and medium-sized business owners find, tour, and lease space. Its tech-enabled platform and its people help you find the right space for the best price in record time. Its technology enables business owners to find the right space confidently by comparing spaces in its marketplace. Truss also offersdedicated brokers who act as the point person throughout the seamless process. Plus, it is the only platform to offer price transparency for small business owners, which means that Truss is the only site to compare pricing on traditional office space and co-working space.Truss was established in 2016 and is based in Deerfield, Illinois.
Specless — Specless is the only platform built specifically for premium publishers to create, streamline, and scale a more valuable portfolio of ad products.
Hunt Club — We're not like traditional recruiting firms. Hunt Club's recruiting network contains leaders, executives, founders, and entrepreneurs across all industries.

Dream Machine is an oppotinistic seed fund, interested in AI, voice, AR, VR, IoT, and blockchain.It is founded by Alexia Bonatsos, the former co-editor-in-chief of TechCrunch and one of the earliest reporters to write about Whatsapp, Uber, Airbnb, and Pinterest.With Dream MAchine, she hopes to help exceptional founders make science fictionnon-fiction.

Investment focus

Social Media, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

OneRoof — OneRoof is an app that helps meet people with similar interests living in your building and build new friendships. Communication should go further than a nod in the elevator.
Ghost Message — Record In-Person Conversations, Maximize Sales.
Somewhere Good — We design and thrive with technology that calms and strengthens, that comes from a place of joy with a deep belief in a world that exists for us.

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