Startup Capital Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage B2B technology companies in the United States and China. Headquartered in Menlo Park and with an office in Honolulu, the firm targets software, fintech, healthtech, IoT, SaaS and related sectors, typically making initial investments around $0.25 million to $1 million and reserving capital for follow-on rounds. It emphasizes capital-efficient, revenue-generating companies and supports portfolio teams with hands-on operational guidance, leveraging an extensive professional network to help achieve milestones. The firm pursues partnerships with strong management teams and operates across Silicon Valley, Hawaii, Texas, Oklahoma, and parts of China, including a notable collaboration with SBI Holdings of Japan to extend its reach.

Reef Capital Ventures was a Hawaii-based venture capital firm that specialized in pre-seed, seed and early-stage investments. Founded in 2014 and associated with Hawaii, the firm offered sector-agnostic backing and provided capital, strategic guidance and industry experience to help portfolio companies reach milestones.

Ehukai Investments is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 and based in Paia, Hawaii. It focuses on early-stage investments and seeks minority stakes in its portfolio companies.

Founded in 2009, Sultan Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Honolulu, Hawaii. It focuses on early-stage financing, innovation programs, and fostering startup ecosystem development. The firm seeks to invest across diverse sectors, including healthcare, biotechnology, crowdfunding, entertainment, information technology, aviation, energy, and food and beverage.

Servco Pacific Capital is the direct investment arm of Servco Pacific Inc., based in San Francisco. Established to pursue venture to growth and private equity investments, SPC participates through add-ons, buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth capital across sectors including B2B, commercial products and services, commercial transportation, fintech, and micro-mobility. As part of Servco Pacific Inc., SPC leverages the parent’s private, multi-generational background and corporate development capabilities to support Servco’s operating groups in strategic initiatives. Servco originated in 1919 in Hawaii and is among the state’s largest privately held firms with operations in the United States, Asia, and Australia, including automotive distribution, retail dealerships, and appliance distribution.

PLG Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2015, that provides pre-seed and seed capital to technology-enabled startups. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in the technology sector and engages with founding teams to support leadership development and scalable growth, operating primarily in Southern California with an additional office in Los Angeles.

CIBC is a Canadian multinational bank offering a full range of financial services to individuals, small businesses, corporations, and institutions. Its activities span commercial banking, wealth management, asset management, and investment banking, including corporate and investment banking, equity and debt financing, advisory services, and cross-border banking. The organization operates through divisions such as CIBC Bank (providing retail and commercial banking), CIBC Bank USA (Americas-based commercial banking), CIBC World Markets and CIBC Capital Markets (investment banking and capital markets), and asset management units including CIBC Asset Management and CIBC Global Asset Management. CIBC serves clients across North America with offices in Toronto, Chicago and other international locations, and focuses on serving mid-market companies, high net worth individuals, pension plans, and financial institutions. The bank emphasizes long-standing client relationships, community investment, and a broad geographic footprint in Canada and the United States.

Kirenaga Partners is a Florida-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage, transformative technologies with potential for societal impact. Founded in 2014 and based in Winter Park and Orlando, the firm targets lower middle market companies across sectors such as advanced manufacturing, ag-tech, artificial intelligence and machine learning, clean technology, education technology, robotics, drones, life and material sciences, and space technology. Typical investments range from 1 to 3 million, providing 18 to 24 months of runway, and the firm supports portfolio companies with hands-on operating expertise and a national professional network to de-risk and accelerate growth. The focus is on companies with less than about 25 million in annual revenue, aligning with an early-stage, growth-oriented strategy.

Aqua Spark is a venture capital firm based in Utrecht, Netherlands, founded in 2013. It invests in small and medium-sized companies operating in the aquaculture sector across the value chain, prioritizing technologies, alternative proteins and feed ingredients, and sustainable farming solutions. The firm seeks long-term investments that balance financial returns with environmental and social benefits, supporting entrepreneurs who aim to scale innovative, responsible aquatic-food businesses to address global food security and ocean health.

Prime Movers Lab is a venture capital firm based in Jackson, Wyoming, founded in 2018. It specializes in early-stage investments in deep technology companies across energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, agriculture, and human augmentation, with broader interests in autonomous systems, advanced materials, quantum computing, and health innovation. The firm backs science- and technology-driven startups, typically investing a few hundred thousand to several million dollars, and usually takes minority stakes without board representation, without leading rounds, and without co-investments or controlling stakes.

Base Ventures is a Berkeley, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that focuses on seed- and early-stage investments in technology startups. It backs companies across sectors such as software, information technology, business-to-business and retail, SaaS, fintech, and related areas, aiming to support innovative ventures from inception through growth.

1517 Fund is a venture capital firm based in Telluride, Colorado, that provides pre-seed and seed capital to technology startups in software, hardware, and deep tech. It targets makers, hackers, and scientists who pursue ambitious projects outside traditional academic paths, supporting early-stage companies led by individuals who learn by doing and build new technologies through hands-on experimentation.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1995, that focuses on seed to growth investments in deep technology across health, environmental tech, hardware, robotics, and cross border software, with a particular emphasis on Asia. The company runs accelerator style startup development programs, including HAX and IndieBio, which provide facilities, engineering resources, and lab equipment to help founders accelerate product development, acquire customers, and attract later stage funding. SOSV pursues a limited number of high potential startups, offering extensive hands on support to speed commercialization and scale, and aims to back innovations that improve human and planetary health.

Happiness Capital is a global venture capital firm founded in 2017 and headquartered in Hong Kong. It provides capital and support to startups that aim to improve the world's happiness, seeking to co-create a happier world as a global community. The firm backs companies from seed to growth stages across the US, Europe, Israel, mainland China, and Hong Kong. Its investment focus spans the future of food, health, education, and work, along with innovations in aging well and other initiatives that enhance well-being. By backing diverse founders pursuing positive social impact, Happiness Capital aims to catalyze scalable solutions that contribute to everyday happiness while building a broad, interconnected ecosystem.

Dig Ventures is a London-based specialist venture capital firm that backs early-stage B2B software and cloud infrastructure companies. The firm focuses on pre-seed and seed rounds for cloud infrastructure and B2B SaaS businesses across Europe, Israel, and the United States.

S2G Investments is a multi-stage investment firm that targets venture and growth-stage companies in food and agriculture, oceans, and energy sectors. It provides capital to businesses shaping the future of food systems and energy resources and supports entrepreneurs and leadership teams with market-driven solutions intended to deliver greater value, improved results, and superior performance relative to conventional options.

Cavallo Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Wilbur-Ellis Holdings, based in San Francisco. It invests its own capital in early-stage ventures across livestock feed, pet nutrition, aquafeed, and related ingredients and formulation, including cosmetics and nutrition products for humans and animals. The firm looks for innovative solutions in areas such as water management, irrigation, soil biology, and resource conservation, and supports startups advancing agricultural and ecological sustainability. By partnering with entrepreneurs, Cavallo Ventures aims to accelerate commercialization of scalable technologies that align with Wilbur-Ellis’ core feed, nutrition, and agrochemical interests.

Canaan Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1987 that operates globally with offices in Israel and India. It focuses on early-stage investments in technology and healthcare, including software, fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, digital health, biopharma, and medtech, and it has a history of backing startups that achieve exits.

E2MC is a space-focused venture capital firm founded in 2020 and based in Arlington, Virginia, that invests in the space sector.

SpaceFund is a Houston-based venture capital investment firm founded in 2018 that focuses on space technology startups. It invests across seed, early, growth, and later stages, including opportunities in consumer products and services within the space sector. The firm seeks high-growth, practical companies addressing multi-billion-dollar space markets and aims to nurture portfolio companies through every stage of development rather than pursuing satellite swarms or rockets. SpaceFund emphasizes integrity, humility, and pragmatism, offering active support and hands-on guidance to its investments. It generally avoids weapons-related opportunities and tends to steer clear of traditional aerospace hardware while remaining open to space transportation when aligned with its mission.

Keiretsu Forum is an international investment community of accredited private equity investors, venture capitalists and corporate/institutional investors. Founded in San Francisco in 2000, it operates as a worldwide network that structures access to high-quality deal flow and investment opportunities through regional chapters across the United States, Europe and Asia. It is described as the world’s largest invitation-only angel investor network, with thousands of investor members who participate in funding opportunities for early- to growth-stage companies in technology, healthcare, energy, consumer products and other sectors. The forum emphasizes collaboration among members and partner resources to support due diligence, syndication and capital deployment, enabling private capital to back high-potential ventures.

Pangaea Ventures is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm focusing on hard tech and advanced materials, energy, cleantech, healthcare, and related sectors. It targets early to growth-stage companies, often taking significant minority stakes and board representation, and can lead or co-invest. The firm typically invests CAD 0.5–10 million in North America, Europe and Russia, and avoids pharmaceuticals and weapons. It backs companies with energy generation, energy storage, energy efficiency, electronics, materials science, nanotechnology, and environmental materials. It positions as an impact investor and supports ESG-related themes such as climate change, pollution, waste, decarbonization, renewable energy, and health. The firm is headquartered in Vancouver with additional offices in Phoenix and Hillsborough and was founded in 2000.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs science and technology companies across stages. The firm focuses on transformational technologies and has supported early backers of SpaceX, Palantir, Facebook, and Airbnb. It pursues a founder-friendly approach that provides significant support with minimal interference, and it invests globally across sectors including software, artificial intelligence, aerospace, energy, healthcare, cybersecurity, biotech, and information technology. The firm targets opportunities from seed to growth stages and emphasizes solving difficult problems through innovative technology.

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman. It allocates capital across public and private markets worldwide, with a focus on technology-enabled growth opportunities. The firm pursues public equity strategies, including long/short and growth investments, and private equity across early- to late-stage companies in multiple industries, seeking high-quality growth opportunities and guiding portfolio companies through their lifecycle.

Enerdigm Ventures is a Palo Alto, California-based investment firm founded in 2007 that engages in venture capital and project finance. In venture capital, it backs late seed to early Series A rounds in technology companies, with a focus on energy technologies, industrial technology, and software such as Cloud, Mobile and Big Data; it operates in the United States with emphasis on Silicon Valley and Hawaii and avoids investments in China and India. It typically invests between $0.5 million and $1 million per round, often aiming to lead and co-invest with others, taking board or observer roles. In project finance, it funds energy-related infrastructure and clean energy projects, including lighting retrofits, HVAC upgrades, and solar and wind energy initiatives. The firm seeks opportunities with market potential over $50 million and takes a hands-on approach to supporting portfolio companies.

Trinity Capital is a specialized lending firm that provides venture debt and related financing to emerging growth and venture-backed technology companies in the United States. Working with venture capital firms, technology banks, and portfolio companies, it offers debt solutions that include senior and subordinated loans, asset-backed financings, equipment leases and financing, and lines of credit, with the aim of preserving equity for founders and investors. The firm targets growth-stage and early-stage technology companies across sectors such as software, hardware, healthcare, semiconductors, energy, and telecommunications, and it often funds alongside syndicate partners. Based in Arizona with offices in Phoenix and Chandler, Trinity Capital emphasizes flexible structures, customized terms, and expertise in equipment financing and venture debt to support rapid scale, acquisitions, and buyouts when appropriate. The firm also manages SBIC funds as part of its investment activities.

Omidyar Network is an impact investing firm founded in 2004 by Pierre and Pam Omidyar. It supports social entrepreneurs through both investments and grants, aiming to improve lives and communities by funding organizations that harness technology and innovation. The firm operates as a philanthropic investment organization, focusing on catalyzing social impact across areas such as access to capital, media, markets and transparency, governance, citizen engagement, and information access. It backs both for profit and non-profit ventures, spanning seed to growth stages, and emphasizes responsible tech, digital inclusion, and strengthening institutions and democratic processes. The organization seeks to empower individuals and communities through investments that promote better governance, informed citizenship, and thriving communities worldwide.

Gaingels is a venture investment organization focused on LGBTQ+-founded and led companies and their allies, investing across stages from pre-seed to pre-IPO and maintaining a global portfolio. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, it operates as a syndicate with more than 130 portfolio companies and around $70 million deployed. The organization supports inclusive leadership by backing ventures that promote diverse C-suite and board representation and actively assists portfolio companies in recruiting diverse executive talent. It also fosters a global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who pursue positive social change through business and successful investments.

Struck Capital is a Santa Monica, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that emphasizes a founder-first approach to seed investing. It sources opportunities through a broad network and backs technology startups across sectors including software, fintech, agtech, cryptocurrency, SaaS, and TMT, aiming to support entrepreneurs from early traction toward growth.

Builders VC is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology-driven startups across the United States and Canada. The firm focuses on modernizing traditional industries through new business models, targeting sectors such as healthcare, agribusiness, life sciences, industrials, software, digital health, construction and real estate technology. It backs early-stage companies with growth potential in areas including B2B software, information technology, agricultural technology and advanced manufacturing, and maintains offices in Chicago, Calgary and Honolulu.

Valia Ventures is a global venture capital firm with offices in New York, San Francisco, and London. It backs founders building tomorrow's most iconic companies and focuses on minority investments across seed to growth stages. The firm seeks opportunities across a wide range of sectors, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, aerospace, audio software, B2B, biotech, consumer, data, fintech, healthcare, insurtech, logistics, marketplaces, robotics, and SaaS. Valia Ventures operates as a registered investment adviser.

EPIC Ventures is a Salt Lake City, Utah-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage software and technology companies across the United States. The firm combines operating and financial experience, access to world-class advisors, and a broad technology network to support its portfolio companies as they scale in the information economy. EPIC focuses on software-as-a-service, healthcare, security, and the future of work, with funds targeting software, mobile, big data, and Internet of Things opportunities. Through multiple vintage venture funds, the firm pursues nationwide investments and emphasizes helping entrepreneurs navigate growth with hands-on guidance and strategic capital.

Kapor Capital is an Oakland, California-based venture capital firm that serves as the investing arm of the Kapor Center for Social Impact. It focuses on seed and early-stage tech-enabled startups that can generate positive social impact, with emphasis on platforms and information technology that address urgent social needs. The firm backs companies across sectors including education, health, fintech, work, finance, justice, environment, food, and consumer services, often prioritizing diversity and inclusive business models and supporting minority- and women-owned ventures. It operates primarily in the United States and seeks investments that combine financial returns with social outcomes, aiming to close gaps in access and opportunity.

Buoyant Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage climate tech startups, focusing on digital climate solutions across energy, mobility, circular economy, food and agriculture, water, climate intelligence, and the built environment.

Echo River Capital focuses on early‑stage water technology companies worldwide, aiming to digitize, decarbonize, and decentralize the water cycle. The firm envisions a future of freshwater harmony with nature, facilitated by technology. It is one of few investors with a narrow focus on smart water technology that addresses global challenges for human health, the environment, and climate resilience.

FundersClub is a venture capital firm and online investment platform founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California. It focuses on seed and early-stage investments in technology and technology-enabled companies, providing capital and guidance through an online model. The firm has backed a portfolio that includes Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, and GitLab, and it operates globally to pursue seed and Series A rounds. Backed by a network of well-known investors, FundersClub emphasizes accessible venture investing by connecting founders with capital and resources.

UpHonest Capital is a California-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups, typically from pre-seed to Series A, across sectors including consumer tech, enterprise, AI, robotics, clean energy, agritech and more. The firm operates primarily from Palo Alto and has a cross-border focus on the United States and China, providing capital and resources to help portfolio companies accelerate value creation.

Glynn Capital Management is a Menlo Park-based investment firm that focuses on technology companies. It seeks long-term stakes in a limited number of high-potential private and public technology businesses, emphasizing strong management teams, sustainable business models, and durable growth potential. The firm targets information technology, artificial intelligence, big data, cybersecurity, software, and fintech sectors and pursues early-stage opportunities across private and public markets.

Evolution is a venture capital firm based in Cupertino, California. The firm focuses on investments in information technology and TMT sectors and also provides digitization and incubation services to startups. It engages in investments and strategic partnerships to build a global platform that connects leaders, investors, and corporates.

Charge Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that makes seed and early-stage investments in technology startups. Founded in 2015 and based in Brooklyn, it backs companies operating in artificial intelligence, machine learning, low-code tools, the creator economy, marketplaces, D2C healthcare, mobile apps, AR/VR, blockchain, SaaS, enterprise software, and logistics, with a focus on opportunities in the United States and a geographic emphasis on New York, including markets such as New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, San Diego, and Miami.

SemperVirens Venture Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2018, the firm focuses on early-stage investments in workforce technology, healthcare technology, and financial technology companies that address employer needs. Its team brings deep industry experience, strong relationships, and strategic insights to portfolio companies. SemperVirens operates as a registered investment adviser and emphasizes providing value through hands-on support and industry connectivity.

True Ventures is a Silicon Valley–based venture capital firm founded in 2005 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It invests in early-stage technology startups in the United States, providing seed and Series A financing and managing substantial capital across its active funds. The firm supports founders with a platform of programs and a large team of professionals, including founders-turned-investors, to help portfolio companies grow. True has backed more than 350 companies and helped them scale, creating over 85,000 jobs worldwide, and has been recognized as Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association in 2018.

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.

Seraph Group is a venture capital firm and angel investor network based in Milton, Georgia, that supports early-stage and growth-stage companies through capital and strategic guidance. Founded in 2004, the firm brings together business, entrepreneurship, and technology leaders to evaluate and invest in venture-scalable opportunities across a broad range of industries in the United States. It provides capital across multiple financing stages, pooling resources from a network of angel investors who contribute expertise and connections to entrepreneurs. The network spans numerous cities across continents, enabling access to capital and value-added support without geographic prejudice, and the firm focuses on ventures that typically require sub-million to several-million-dollar injections to reach scalable growth.

BAM Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Los Angeles. It targets early-stage and growth investments in consumer, business-to-business, and enterprise technology sectors, with a broader focus that includes energy, healthcare, fintech, social, and media companies across North America.

Manhattan Venture Partners is a New York-based firm focused on the secondary market for late-stage private technology companies and pre-IPO opportunities. Through its in-house valuation team and research platform, it provides direct and managed secondary investments and secondary direct venture capital, along with advisory services. It operates globally with teams in key markets and serves clients across media, financial services, information technology, and telecommunications sectors. The firm pioneered the Direct Secondary market with its Secondary-as-a-Service platform, unlocking liquidity for founders, employees, and investors and targeting high-growth, disruptive companies at pivotal inflection points.

Goodwater Capital is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Burlingame. It focuses on early-stage investments in consumer technology and related sectors, including housing, financial services, software, healthcare, education, and entertainment. The firm seeks to empower exceptional entrepreneurs solving pressing problems and believes consumer technology can reshape culture and the global economy. By backing founders who create products and platforms that consumers love, Goodwater aims to drive significant, scalable impact and improve billions of lives.

Network Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that provides seed-stage investment to companies operating in the internet and technology sectors.

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.

Matrix Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1977 that backs technology companies from idea through Series A and beyond. The firm focuses on software, AI, B2B, consumer, fintech, health tech, infrastructure, and related sectors, with a global footprint in the United States, India, and China. Its team comprises former founders and operators who work closely with portfolio companies and often join boards to support growth. Matrix Partners has backed a broad slate of successful companies in its decades-long history, including Apple, FedEx, Oculus, Zendesk, HubSpot, Canva, and Postmates, illustrating a pattern of helping developers and builders scale toward IPO or strategic exits. The firm's China arm extends its early-stage and growth investments in the Chinese market, reinforcing its international reach.