Staley Capital is a Massachusetts-based growth equity investor focused on technology-enabled business services and software, with activity across North America in sectors including B2B technology, fintech, vertical SaaS, marketing services, and related areas. It typically funds growth equity or buyouts in the 5–20 million range for companies with recurring revenue and scalable business models. Based in the Boston area, the firm draws on private equity experience to partner with management teams to support growth strategies and operational improvements.
Interlock Partners is a Dallas-based early-stage venture capital firm with an additional office in New York, backing technology startups in the United States. Founded in 2014, Interlock Partners typically invests between $1 million and $5 million in early-stage companies across sectors including advertising and marketing, industrial automation and infrastructure, education and training, travel and mobility, digital media, consumer digital, financial services, as well as marketplace platforms, enterprise information technology, real estate technology, web video, robotics, and artificial intelligence. The firm focuses on opportunities in Dallas and Austin, as well as Silicon Valley and Boston.
Pallasite Ventures is a venture capital firm offering early-stage and seed financing to high-growth technology and consumer product companies. Founded in 2012 by David Light, the firm is based in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional office in Vancouver, Canada. It seeks to back ventures across regions including Vancouver, San Francisco, Boston, Denver, Chicago, and the Toronto region.
Victress Capital is a venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 2016. The firm focuses on investing in technology-enabled consumer startups that are led by diverse leadership teams. By leveraging over 40 years of combined experience in consumer operations and investing, Victress Capital provides capital and resources to support the growth of visionary founding teams in the consumer sector. The firm employs a diversified investment strategy, aiming to foster innovation and drive success within its portfolio companies.
NextView Ventures is a Boston- and New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that focuses on seed and early-stage investments across a broad set of sectors including fintech, software, B2B and consumer technologies, health, and internet-enabled businesses. The firm operates on a hands-on, high-conviction approach, often taking a lead or board role in portfolio companies and supporting them through early growth. It targets U.S. startups, with a notable emphasis on the Boston and New York ecosystems, and maintains an accelerator program that provides investment and guidance to a small number of pre-seed and seed ventures. NextView emphasizes thematic investing and aims to help entrepreneurs build companies of significance to shape a future of collective prosperity.
Kodiak Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that specializes in seed and early-stage investments, primarily in emerging technology sectors. The firm focuses on communications and wireless, semiconductor and equipment, software and services, Internet and new media, and life technology companies. Kodiak Venture Partners is based in Boston, Massachusetts, and primarily invests in Eastern North America, with particular attention to Boston, New York, and Eastern Canada. The firm typically makes investments ranging from $100,000 to $3 million and emphasizes building strong relationships with entrepreneurs to help develop business strategies, management teams, and essential alliances. Founded in 1999, Kodiak Venture Partners has a reputation for fostering high-growth industry leaders through a hands-on investment approach.
Citigroup is a diversified financial services company that provides a broad range of products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. It operates through two main segments: Global Consumer Banking, which offers traditional retail banking, Citi-branded cards, and related services to retail customers; and Institutional Clients Group, which delivers wholesale banking, fixed income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, derivatives, equity and fixed income research, corporate lending, investment banking and advisory services, private banking, cash management, trade finance, and securities services to corporate, institutional, public sector, and high-net-worth clients. The firm maintains a global footprint and emphasizes sustainability and social responsibility as part of its business strategy.
Founder Collective is a seed- and early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2009 by entrepreneurs who have built and exited technology companies. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an office in New York, the firm makes early investments across the United States and globally. It is industry-agnostic but prefers ventures with an information technology component, including software and TMT-enabled businesses. The firm focuses on supporting founders at the seed and early stages, drawing on the experience of its partners who have firsthand startup experience.
Cleveland Avenue is a venture capital firm based in Chicago, established in 2015, that makes investments across seed-stage through growth-stage rounds in food and beverage companies, lifestyle consumer brands, AgTech, and technology.
Singtel Innov8 is the corporate venture capital arm of Singtel Group. Established in 2010 and based in Singapore with offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, it invests in early-stage technology startups worldwide and partners with them to apply innovations across Singtel’s business. The focus is on software and technology sectors that can drive quantum changes in network capabilities, next-generation devices, and digital services, ultimately improving customer experience. Beyond funding, Singtel Innov8 serves as a gateway to the Singtel Group’s resources and expertise, helping startups scale internationally while giving the Group access to emerging technologies.
Morningside is a Boston-based investment firm founded in 1986 as a family office for the Chan family. It makes venture capital investments in companies with novel science and technology, with deep expertise in life sciences, digital health, artificial intelligence, materials, and technology. The firm takes a long-term approach to building companies and emphasizes ethical conduct. In addition to its investment activities, Morningside supports charitable initiatives in education, research and healthcare, including collaborations with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, UMass Chan Medical School, and the MIT Morningside Academy for Design.
OrbiMed is a healthcare-focused investment firm founded in 1989 and based in New York. It manages about $5 billion in assets and pursues investments across the healthcare spectrum through private equity, venture capital, and public equity strategies. The firm backs early-stage start-ups, growth companies, and a family of funds such as the Caduceus Private Investments venture funds and related public equity vehicles. With a global footprint, it maintains offices in New York, San Francisco, Mumbai, Herzliya, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Luxembourg, and invests in companies across biopharmaceuticals, life sciences, medical devices, diagnostics, health IT, and healthcare services globally, including North America, Europe, and Asia.
Marcy Venture Partners is a venture capital firm co-founded by Shawn Carter (Jay-Z), Jay Brown and Larry Marcus that invests in consumer and culture-driven businesses with an emphasis on positive impact, including sustainability, inclusivity, accessibility, empowerment, and health and wellness. The firm backs management teams with a clear vision and executional excellence and tends to lead or co-invest in companies that combine meaningful brand values with high customer joy, outstanding products, demonstrated growth, and catalysts for the next level of scale. MVP targets consumer products, consumer services, e-commerce, micro-mobility, robotics, drones, virtual reality, and other technology-enabled ventures across North America, supporting seed, early, and later-stage opportunities to build innovative mass-market brands that resonate with diverse audiences.
Collab Capital is a venture capital firm based in Atlanta, founded in 2019, that provides social and financial resources to Black-owned and Black-led technology companies. It seeks to build sustainable, technology-enabled businesses by prioritizing profitability, ownership, and optionality over constant valuation raises. The firm aims to create a pathway to sustained wealth for the Black community by guiding portfolio companies toward increased revenue and profitability and by leveraging financial, human, and social capital to support growth opportunities for Black founders in the United States.
StageOne Ventures is an Israel-headquartered venture capital firm, founded in 2001 and based in Herzliya. It focuses on early-stage technology startups, with emphasis on B2B software, information technology, fintech, insurtech, AI, cloud, big data, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and related sectors. The firm seeks Israel-based and cross-border opportunities, including a presence in the United States, and typically invests in seed and early-stage rounds, often ranging from roughly 0.5 to 3 million dollars. It leads seed rounds and provides follow-on financing as portfolio companies grow, sometimes taking a seat on boards and leveraging a global network of co-investors. StageOne combines an entrepreneurial mindset with investor expertise to support portfolio companies through market-disruptive growth.
DGF Investimentos is a São Paulo-based venture capital firm founded in 2001 that focuses on emerging technology and software companies in Brazil. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, particularly in software and technology-driven businesses, including B2B software, and has a history of backing high-growth startups with several notable exits such as Logocenter, Daitan Group, Mastersaf, RD Station and Reclame Aqui.
Signal Lake is a private equity and venture capital firm that invests across incubation, seed and later-stage ventures in technology companies. The firm focuses on software, communications and networking, broadband telecom, network infrastructure, information technology, cloud computing, embedded systems, semiconductors and green energy. It pursues global investment opportunities from a Northeast United States base, with offices in Westport, Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts.
Lighthouse Capital Management is a venture capital firm based in Shanghai, founded in 2011. It specializes in early-stage investments in hardware equipment, the internet, and enterprise data services, with activity in both China and the United States. It has invested in more than 40 companies domestically and overseas.
XAnge is a Franco-German venture capital team based in Paris and the innovation brand of the Siparex private equity group. Founded in 2004, it manages about €450 million and backs seed and early-stage startups in digital, deeptech and impact sectors across Europe. The firm seeks game-changing founders and entrepreneurs who leverage technology to solve large-scale problems, including cybersecurity, AI, fintech, sustainability, healthtech and related fields. With its cross-border footprint and technical expertise, XAnge supports early ventures from concept to scale, helping them navigate product development, go-to-market and international expansion.
Refactor Capital is a Burlingame, California-based venture capital firm focusing on seed- and early-stage investments in hard technology, biotechnology, health, climate, and related sectors. The firm is led by Zal Bilimoria, a former partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a veteran product and engineering executive with experience at Google, Netflix, and LinkedIn, who typically leads seed rounds with checks in the 1–2 million range.
Omega Funds is a Boston-based venture capital firm that backs life sciences, biotechnology, health care technology and related software-enabled solutions. Founded in 2004, the firm invests across the United States and Europe, targeting pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, oncology, immunology, rare diseases, precision medicine, digital health, healthtech and cybersecurity. It manages multiple funds, including Omega Fund IV, V, VI and VII, and supports companies from early to growth stages. The firm serves as an investment adviser to its funds and seeks to build a diversified portfolio at the intersection of science and technology.
Vintage Investment Partners is an Israel-based investment firm that operates as a venture capital and fund-of-funds manager. Founded in 2003, it allocates capital to technology-focused venture funds and private equity funds globally, with activity in Israel, Europe, and the United States. Through primary and secondary transactions, it acquires limited partnership interests in funds and also makes direct growth-stage investments in technology companies, often alongside partner venture funds. The firm also engages in co-investments in late-stage technology companies and offers advisory services to Israeli institutions regarding international private equity and venture investments.
Boston Impact Initiative is a nonprofit organization that operates an impact investment program designed to empower communities of color. It seeks to build a future in which entrepreneurs of color and their communities have financial, social, and political power to create a sustainable, inclusive, and equitable economy. The organization provides integrated capital to social enterprises and to community-controlled real estate ventures to increase wealth and asset-building opportunities for communities of color. It also engages in field-building and education to advance economic and racial justice as a core element of community-based investment strategies.
Gradient Ventures is Google's AI-focused venture capital firm that invests in seed- and early-stage startups operating in information technology, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Founded in 2017 and based in California, it provides founders with access to Google's resources and technical leadership, including guidance in recruiting, marketing, design, and engineering to help bring innovative AI products to market.
Deep Track Capital is a venture capital investment firm focused on life sciences and biotechnology, headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. Founded in 2020, the firm partners with management teams of innovative public and pre-IPO biotechnology companies, providing capital, time, expertise, and an extensive network to support growth. It seeks to lead transactions, build large syndicates, and participate in rounds led by other qualified investors, aiming to create value through strategic guidance and collaborative partnerships rather than simple financing.
Greenfield Partners is a Tel Aviv–based investment platform and venture manager established in 2016 by TPG Growth and independent since 2020. It focuses on tech-enabled businesses at the early growth and later stages, applying private equity rigor to support entrepreneurs as they scale globally. While rooted in Israel, the firm pursues global opportunities and provides strategic partnership and growth acceleration through go-to-market playbooks to help portfolio companies achieve rapid expansion.
Acrew Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California. It invests in technology-driven sectors such as data and security, fintech, health, and artificial intelligence and machine learning, supporting companies across cybersecurity, fintech and information technology at various growth stages. The firm emphasizes building long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs, aims to diversify perspectives and cap tables, and seeks to back transformative businesses that drive technology growth.
Takeda is a global pharmaceutical company, and Japan's largest drug maker, focused on researching, developing, manufacturing, marketing and distributing prescription medicines and related therapies. Its core therapeutic areas include oncology, gastroenterology, neuroscience, rare diseases, and plasma-derived therapies, which together account for the majority of revenue. The company operates globally with a diversified geographic mix, deriving more than half of sales from the United States, about 20% from Japan, and about 20% from Europe and Canada. Takeda pursues innovation across drug discovery and development, maintains a portfolio spanning pharmaceuticals and biologics, and emphasizes patient-centric care and collaboration with researchers to advance clinical proof concepts and address unmet medical needs.
Foundry Group is a Boulder, Colorado-based venture capital firm founded in 2007 that specializes in information technology, Internet and software companies across North America. It funds both early-stage and later-stage ventures and has launched multiple funds, including a fifth fund of about $225 million. Since inception it has invested in more than 100 companies as institutional investors and in more than 50 as angel investors, with a focus on software, digital services and related technology sectors.
E14 Fund is a venture capital firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, focusing on seed-stage investments in deep technology sectors and related software, often originating from MIT. It supports early-stage companies by providing financing typically in the 0.5 to 1 million dollar range per company and leveraging a network of investors, industry experts, and entrepreneurs to move technologies from lab to market. The firm backs ventures across fields including biotechnology, smart cities, consumer electronics, and manufacturing, and serves as a bridge connecting MIT founders with capital and strategic guidance. It emphasizes diversity and inclusion, noting that a significant share of its portfolio founders are female and originate from outside the United States.
Flourish Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage global venture capital firm that backs fintech-enabled entrepreneurs focused on financial health and prosperity for individuals and small businesses. The firm pursues patient, long-term investments and manages around $850 million. It backs founders across the United States and global markets, including Asia, Africa and Latin America, and concentrates on sectors such as big data analytics, challenger banks, consumer and SME lending, digitizing money, fintech, insurtech, regtech and financial infrastructure. Since its founding in 2019, Flourish maintains partnerships with more than 70 global fintech founders and 18 ecosystem partners, including researchers, policymakers and regulators, to foster a fairer, more inclusive economy.
TLV Partners is a Tel Aviv-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on Israeli technology entrepreneurship. Founded in 2015, it invests primarily in early-stage startups across cybersecurity, data, artificial intelligence, developer tools, fintech, biotech, and eCommerce, aiming to help founders turn disruptive ideas into category-defining companies. The firm has backed notable Israeli companies such as Aqua Security, Next Insurance, Firebolt, Immunai, Granulate, Oribi, and Neosec, and has assets under management exceeding $1 billion.
Aspect Ventures is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm, founded in 2014, that funds seed and early-stage technology companies across sectors including fintech, security, digital health, AI, mobile, cloud, and enterprise software. It aims to back startups at the intersection of mobile, social, cloud and big data, with a focus on business-to-business, business-to-consumer, healthcare, and information technology. The firm pursues long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses and operates from Palo Alto with an additional office in San Francisco.
Revolution is a Washington, D.C.–based venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Steve Case. It backs technology-enabled companies at early and growth stages across the United States, with a focus on software, information technology, media and entertainment, financial services, health, energy, consumer products, e-commerce, education, and travel. The firm partners with entrepreneurs to build disruptive businesses, often taking leadership roles on boards and providing strategic support to accelerate growth. It maintains an emphasis on investing across diverse geographies, reflecting a belief that strong companies can emerge from non-coastal regions and that startup hubs outside traditional centers can yield high impact opportunities. Revolution operates multiple venture platforms and maintains a presence in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, collaborating with founders to create enduring value for customers and investors.
Hyperplane Venture Capital is a Boston-based early-stage technology investment firm focused on machine intelligence and data companies. Founded in 2015, it backs founders leveraging machine intelligence, sensor technology, and cloud computing to solve complex problems at the intersection of perception, communication, intelligence, and insight. The firm concentrates on software and business-to-business products and services, seeking to partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to support companies through early growth stages.
One Way Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm, founded in 2017, that focuses on seed-stage technology investments. The firm emphasizes backing immigrant tech founders and targets early-stage software, fintech, and digital services companies primarily in the United States and Canada, with the goal of helping diverse entrepreneurs scale into globally competitive companies.
Valo Ventures is a thesis-driven venture capital firm based in California that invests in North America and Europe across venture and growth stages. It backs companies applying digital technologies to address climate change, circular economy, mobility, urbanization, autonomy, and related social, environmental, and economic challenges. The firm seeks long-term value by supporting entrepreneurs delivering technology-enabled solutions that generate sustainable economic, environmental, and social impact.
Spark Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 with offices in San Francisco, Boston, and New York City. It focuses on early-stage investments across technology-enabled sectors, supporting founders with flexible, founder-centric backing. The firm has backed high-profile consumer and software companies such as Twitter, Discord, Oculus, Warby Parker, Tumblr, Niantic, and Anthropic, reflecting a tendency toward ambitious products and teams that reshape consumer, media, and technology markets.
Good Growth Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in Charleston, South Carolina. It is a majority women-owned firm that invests in early-stage life sciences, green tech, hard sciences, and data science companies. The firm emphasizes technology commercialization, seeking to fund and grow defensible technologies that address pressing societal needs. It supports early-stage ventures across sectors including pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, software, energy, and materials, aiming to deliver meaningful returns while advancing scientific and technological progress.
Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm founded in 2004 by Pierre and Pam Omidyar and based in California. It makes both investments and grants to organizations that aim to improve people's lives and strengthen communities, partnering with like-minded initiatives to scale impact. The firm organizes its efforts around two investment initiatives, Access to Capital and Media, Markets and Transparency, and seeks to support ventures in areas such as internet and mobile technology, information technology, education, governance, financial inclusion, and civic engagement. Through funding and strategic collaboration, Omidyar Network aims to advance courageous leadership, good governance, informed and engaged citizens, and thriving communities, harnessing market-based approaches to generate social impact.
Uncork Capital is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 as SoftTech VC. It concentrates on seed- and early-stage investments in software, consumer products and services, marketplaces, hardware, and other technology sectors, with a geographic focus on the United States and Canada. The firm backs startups across areas such as SaaS, fintech, e-commerce, health tech, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and provides strategic support including product development, go-to-market planning and business development to its portfolio companies.
nvp capital is a venture capital investment firm based in New York, NY. The firm prefers to invest in companies operating in the B2B technology, software, SaaS, developer tools, finance technology, insurance technology, and supply chain sectors based in the United States region.
PureTech Health, founded in 2001 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in seed and early-stage companies within the life sciences sector. The firm focuses on various areas, including therapeutics, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, metabolism, neuroscience, drug delivery, and immunology. By targeting innovative startups and emerging technologies, PureTech aims to foster advancements in healthcare and improve patient outcomes.
Glasswing Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that concentrates on early-stage investments in artificial intelligence, frontier technology, enterprise software, and cybersecurity. The firm backs startups applying AI and frontier tech to enterprise and security markets, leveraging domain expertise and advisory councils to support founders who aim to transform industries. Typical investments target seed and early-stage rounds, with check sizes commonly in the low-to-mid single-digit millions. Glasswing focuses on the United States, particularly the East Coast, including Boston and New York, and emphasizes disciplined investing and a collaborative approach with portfolio companies. The firm seeks to back ambitious entrepreneurs building AI-powered and security-focused software that can redefine enterprise applications and market dynamics.
Ulu Ventures is a Palo Alto, California-based seed- and early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology-driven startups across IT, software, internet-enabled services, EdTech, FinTech, IoT, digital media, and related sectors in the United States, with a Bay Area emphasis. Founded in 2008, the firm backs diverse entrepreneurial teams and frequently co-invests with other angels or venture funds in early rounds. Ulu is noted as the first Latina-led venture fund in Silicon Valley and is among the largest in the country by assets under management, with over $200M.
Atlas Venture is a Cambridge, Massachusetts–based venture capital firm founded in 1980 that specializes in life sciences and technology. It pursues seed-led venture creation and early-stage investments to build scalable companies in biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical devices, and related biomedical technologies, as well as software and other technology sectors. The firm often leads investments and seeks board representation to support portfolio companies as they grow toward acquisition or public offerings. Atlas operates with dedicated life sciences and technology teams and maintains an international footprint across the United States and Europe.
Venrock is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 1969 as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family. It concentrates on seed and early-stage technology and healthcare investments and has backed landmark companies such as Apple Computer, Intel, Illumina, Gilead Sciences, Athenahealth, DoubleClick, Nest, SlideShare, and Tudou. The firm manages multiple funds and maintains a US-focused investment approach, supporting entrepreneurs across information technology, life sciences, and related sectors throughout their growth journey.
Slow Ventures is a generalist early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco with additional presence in Boston and New York. Founded in 2011, it invests in technology‑driven startups and ventures at the intersection of science, society, and culture, supporting companies across sectors such as software, fintech, cryptocurrency, e-commerce, mobile, consumer and commercial services, financial services, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. The firm emphasizes helping founders through capital, resources, and industry connections to build sustainable, scalable businesses. It operates as a registered investment adviser.
Linear Venture is a Shanghai-based venture capital firm established in 2014 that concentrates on early and mid-stage technology investments, with a focus on data intelligence, data infrastructure, and frontier technologies. The firm backs startups in areas such as internet, mobile internet, fintech, artificial intelligence, robotics, big data, IoT, and smart appliances, aiming to apply data-driven solutions to transform industries and digitize value chains. It collaborates with a network of investors and industry veterans and supports portfolio companies with sector expertise and resources to accelerate growth. Linear Venture operates multiple funds including RMB and USD vehicles managed by Linear Capital, and pursues opportunities primarily in China.
Owl Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on education technology. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, it invests across the education spectrum, including early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility or professional learning. The firm leverages domain expertise and takes an active, hands-on approach to help portfolio companies scale into category-leading businesses. It has backed numerous edtech companies and reports over $600 million in assets under management.