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Top 50 Wine And Spirits VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United States in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United States in May 2025

Investor	Wine And Spirits United States investments
Imaginary Ventures	5
Brand Foundry Ventures	5
CircleUp	4
DN Capital	4
Tiller Partners	4
ATX Venture Partners	4
Greycroft	3
Döhler Ventures	3
Blue Falcon Capital	3
Sugar Capital	3
CSA Partners LLC	3
Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund	3
Blue Slide Ventures	3
Distill Ventures	3
The R-Group, LLC	2
Structure Capital	2
Next Act Fund	2
Crosscut Ventures	2
FJ Labs	2
M3 Ventures	2
New Coast Ventures	2
Winklevoss Capital	2
Tribeca Venture Partners	2
Fairhaven Capital Partners	2
Backend Capital	2
Blumberg Capital	2
Haystack	2
University of Chicago	2
Nelstone Ventures	2
Bulldog Angel Network	2
Khosla Ventures	2
Springdale Ventures	2
Wavemaker Partners	2
Golden Ventures	2
RevTech Ventures	2
Dream Machine	2
Overline	2
Resolute Venture Partners	2
Trog Hawley Capital	2
Reshape	2
Blue Equity	2
SoGal Ventures	2
Color Capital	2
InvestBev	2
Next Coast Ventures	2
Revolution	2
BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation	2
Selva Ventures	2
3Lines	2
Creandum	2

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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.
Goose — Pet Services SaaS Platform
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.
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.

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.
Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are Structure Capital. We help passionate teams build great companies by investing seed-stage capital, time, experience and relationships

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Biofire — Sign up by April 13th to be the First to Experience the Future of Firearms.
Pogoseat — Pogoseat provides innovative mobile ticketing solutions that helps live-entertainment venues sell more tickets and enhance the fan experience.
Artera — Well Health provides a communication platform that connects patients to healthcare organizations through text, email, phone, and live chat. WELL is a communication tool that allows front offices to have two-way text conversations with patients, using existing office phone numbers. The platform is designed from the ground up to make patientcommunications more intuitive across the enterprise. Well Health's mission is to make going to the doctor as easy as meeting up with a close friend.

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 is designed by a pediatric physical therapist, Augment Therapy is an all-in-one solution to engage, motivate, and monitor kids needing therapeutic exercise.
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

SoloPulse — SoloPulse is changing how the world sees by bringing a new approach to sensing and communication technologies that is based on proprietary mathematical wave theory algorithms. This approach unlocks barriers that legacy technologies face while also improving computational efficiency and resolution. SoloPulse’s advanced sensing and beamformingtechniques can use a single electromagnetic pulse to produce high-resolution imaging and increased data transmission rates.
Proteus Space — Pioneering Automated Satellite Design for Rapid, Payload-Tailored Satellite Deployments with a World-Class Space and Advanced Technology Leadership Team
MetOx Technologies — MetOx is a commercial manufacturer of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) wire using YBCO. HTS wire transmits transmits vast amounts of electricity in small cross-sections without electrical loss and without generating heat. HTS wire is critical for upgrading transmission and distribution lines (T&D), enabling magnetic confinement fusionreactors, and building next generation MRI scanners.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Devolut — Devolut offers a product designed for businesses and enhancing customer experience. The Company uses intelligent algorithms to boost sales, reduce costs, and improve customer experience through reusable shipments and a real-time management portal.
Principia — Principia develops and operates a digital platform that manages financial processes of universities. It is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Torch Dental — Torch Technology develops an all-in-one technology designed to meet dental practices supply ordering and inventory management needs. Torch Technology is based in New York, New York.

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.

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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.

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
Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.

Tribeca Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in digital media, e-commerce, fintech, education, ad tech, and mobile apps sectors. The firm was founded in 2011 by Brian Hirsch and Chip Meakem and is based in New York, United States.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Israel, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Actuate — Drastically increase the efficiency of your existing surveillance systems with Actuate's AI camera software. No hardware required.
Finix — Finix Payments is a payment infrastructure platform that gives businesses an alternate way to own, manage, and monetize their entire payments experience without the headaches or expenses associated with building an in-house system from scratch. Payments are the lifeblood of every business, and it is critical to company revenue and customerexperience that companies get the underlying technology right. Through its Visa partnership, Finix also facilitates real-time push-to-card payments.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Quantum Circuits — Quantum Circuits accelerates the path to fault-tolerant quantum computing with powerful dual-rail qubits with built-in error detection.

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.

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 (usage.ai), a platform that empowers companies to reduce their monthly cloud expenditure. The company generates, on average, 35% in monthly AWS savings for its customers. Because the company has collected millions of data points from its opt-in users with a variety of usage patterns, it's been able to identify hard-to-find savingsthat humans can't detect. It takes less than 15 minutes for a company to onboard with the company. Additionally, the company's customers get the deep discounts of reservations with the flexibility of on-demand since companies can sell their reservations back to Usage AI after just 30 days.

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

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.
Prescient AI — We built our cutting edge MMM from scratch with a team of data scientists, machine learning experts, and growth marketers to meet your paid media needs.
Field Materials, Inc. — Increase Margins and Cut Costs with Digital Procurement

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, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
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.
Astrix Health — Plug and play AI agents for healthcare organizations.
Reshape Automation — AI-powered industrial automation marketplace and platform that simplifies the discovery, design, deployment, and support of automation

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.

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 — Snyk is the trusted platform for developing fast and securing modern AI-based application development. Book a Demo today to build & run secure code with the power of AI.
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.

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

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech,offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Somite — Somite.ai is on a mission to transform the lives of millions of people by leveraging AI to produce human tissue for cell-based therapies.
Realta Fusion — Realta Fusion develops fusion energy technology for the production of industrial heat and power. It applies advances in super-conducting materials, plasma physics, and computing power to a simple linear fusion reactor configuration. It utilizes abundant fuel sources to provide a zero-carbon source of heat and power.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful new way to animate characters for videos, games, 3D, movies, ads or social media.

Springdale Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on consumer packaged goods. It partners with resolute founders, who are pursuing their passions, and helping them create meaningful, sustainable brands.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mill — Mill is the smartest device in your kitchen. Mill turns would-be food waste into resources for the Earth. Keep filling it for weeks.
Gooder Foods — Gooder Foods re-imagines Mac & cheese that's stealthily healthy and unbelievably delicious. It was launched in 2020 and operates in Santa Cruz, California.
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!

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.

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

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.
Pillar Security — Pillar is a unified AI security platform that enables organizations to build and run secure AI software by proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating security risks across the entire AI lifecycle. By embedding robust security foundations from development through runtime, Pillar accelerates AI initiatives while effectively managing criticalbusiness risks. With capabilities like AI fingerprinting, asset inventory, tailored adversarial testing, and adaptive guardrails, Pillar streamlines compliance, prevents data breaches, and empowers teams to ship AI-powered applications and agents with confidence.

RevTech is a leading retail technology venture firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

FINDMINE — The most iconic brands trust FindMine. The #1 content engine powering Styling, Outfitting, Complete the Look, for ecommerce, marketing, remote selling, clientelling, and more in Fashion, Home, and Beauty
Shelfleet — Join our fleet!
Gardenuity — Easy to grow Outdoor Herb + Veggie Gardens and Indoor Desktop Gardens. Improve your health and well-being through the restorative power of nature.

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 — Ghost Message enables users to send an anonymous message to pals in a group chat to flirt, make jokes, or pose queries.
Somewhere Good — Somewhere Good is a social platform centered around identity and community.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Sevii — Sevii is a cybersecurity company building an autonomous agentic AI defense platform.
Franzy — Franzy is the "Zillow for franchising"—a smarter, more transparent way to find, compare, and finance franchise opportunities. We match aspiring entrepreneurs with the right franchise brands based on their goals, experience, and budget, making the path to business ownership simpler, faster, and more accessible.
Pickleheads — Discover all of the pickleball courts in your area! The Pickleheads court finder has the most comprehensive list of indoor and outdoor pickleball courts. Browse over 13,000 places to play in the US and Canada. Filter by court type, surface, amenities, lighting and more.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The first female-led next generation venture capital fund

Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Torigen Pharmaceuticals — Torigen is leading the pack in vet pharmaceuticals and oncology. Our tissue vaccine uses the tumor to create a personalized immunotherapy for treatment of cancer in both exotic and companion animals. We recognize the instrumental role animals play in society and our families, and are determined to
August — A lifestyle period brand working to reimagine periods to be powerful.
Try Your Best — A play-to-earn platform for brands, TYB is where community engagement actually pays off. We provide the tech & measurement for brands to prove community ROI.

A consumer fund investing in the future of CPG, marketplaces, ecommerce, and media.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Arkive — Arkive is a web3 museum of real world items, curated by a community of passionate hobbyists, collectors, artists, designers, and creators.
MicroAcquire — Buy or sell a profitable online business in as little as 90 days. 500k+ qualified buyers, 1,000s of vetted listings. M&A advisory, legal help, escrow, & more.
Acquire.com — Buy or sell a profitable online business in as little as 90 days. 500k+ qualified buyers, 1,000s of vetted listings. M&A advisory, legal help, escrow, & more.

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.

We invest in emerging, next coast companies at the critical stage of development to launch them into hyper-growth.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Australia

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.
Marqii — Marqii’s automated system removes the daily pain points associated with updating content across consumer-facing platforms. Marqii revolutionizes the way restaurants, bars, coffee shops and dispensaries publish their menus, location data, and specials to potential customers. This process creates consistent and accurate content which leads to anincrease in unbranded local search.
Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.

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.

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, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

DropCap — We are an innovative foreign rights literary agency that elevates exceptional books to the worldwide stage.
Midwest Games — Midwest Games is a video game publisher focused on creating opportunities for the abundant talent across the Midwest and other underrepresented regions.
CHILD Health Imprints — Child Health Imprints is engaged in the development and application of cutting edge informational and computational technologies including IoT, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to the practice of medicine in neonatal intensive care units across the world with the objective of making early diagnosis of critical diseases and improvingoverall quality of healthcare which is being provided to neonates.

Selva Ventures is an investment firm that Invests in early stage consumer brands. It specializes in the fields of financial services, finance, and venture capital.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Wellness, Pet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

OneSkin — It's time to redefine how we think about skin health. Explore how we use aging & longevity science principles for products that'll leave your skin feeling healthier.
Nowadays — The Nowadays nugget is made with just 7 simple, plant-based ingredients.
Native Pet — Native Pet crafts organic supplements for dogs and cats that harness the nutritional power of whole food ingredients

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

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

Tola — Tola offers a simple and easy way for businesses to pay and get paid, however and whenever they want. Sign up today!
Appcharge — Sell in-game items directly to your players with our mobile-first webstore solution. No excessive fees, no hassle. Only higher revenue with Appcharge.
Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.

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