Mercury Fund is a Houston-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies across the United States, with additional activity in Ann Arbor. It concentrates on software, SaaS, cloud, data, and artificial intelligence, and emphasizes an operationally oriented approach to accelerate growth. Mercury Fund partners with both first-time entrepreneurs and experienced founders, offering strategic guidance and access to a broad growth-partner network to help startups scale, particularly in Middle America and other midcontinent markets. The firm manages multiple early-stage funds and maintains a focus on technology-driven businesses.

EnCap Investments is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1988 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, with an additional Dallas office. It specializes in investments across the oil and gas value chain, including upstream exploration and production, and midstream infrastructure such as natural gas pipelines, gathering, processing, compression, storage, and transportation. The firm also targets energy infrastructure and clean energy initiatives within the energy transition. It typically provides equity on a deal-by-deal basis, with typical investment sizes in the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, and may support reserve acquisitions and drilling projects. Its geographic focus includes the United States, Canada, and Mexico. EnCap Investments pursues opportunities in early-stage to growth-oriented companies and is registered as an investment adviser, emphasizing partnerships with operators and infrastructure developers to build long-term value in the oil, gas, and energy services sectors.

Uma Ventures, based in Houston, Texas, is a private investment firm focusing on early-stage investments. It specializes in human-centric foundational technologies that aim to benefit humanity.

Amnis Ventures is a Houston, Texas-based investment firm founded in 2013 that provides growth capital to companies across multiple sectors, including financial services, real estate, oil and gas, technology, industrial services, and renewable energy. The firm targets opportunities in hardware technologies for renewable energy and blockchain-based financial services platforms, aiming to back organizations pursuing sustainable results and long-term growth through innovative business models and technologies.

Limitless Crypto Investments is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in Houston, Texas, focused on investing in the cryptocurrency sector and related blockchain projects, seeking diversified exposure to ventures, tokens, and digital assets within blockchain technology and crypto ecosystems, supported by rigorous due diligence and an emphasis on technology, economics, game theory, and code.

Catalyst Partners is a capital advisory and principal investment firm specializing in energy and emerging technology sectors.

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.

Citigroup is a diversified financial services company providing a broad range of financial products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. It operates through two main segments: Global Consumer Banking, which includes retail banking, Citi-branded cards, and consumer finance, and Institutional Clients Group, which covers wholesale banking, investment banking, fixed income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, research, corporate lending, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. The company maintains a global footprint across regions including Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and Latin America, and emphasizes sustainability and social responsibility initiatives.

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.

1789 Capital is a Palm Beach, Florida-based growth equity firm founded in 2023 that provides venture and growth capital to middle-, late-, and crossover-stage companies operating in artificial intelligence, software, aerospace and defense, healthtech, and fintech. The firm concentrates on four areas: replication and the parallel economy, deglobalization, sectors adversely affected by ESG policies, and cutting-edge technologies that disrupt industries burdened by bureaucracy.

Type One Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in technology, infrastructure, and services. The firm backs startups developing software, hardware, and enabling technologies across sectors such as space technology, robotics, artificial intelligence and automation, future mobility, nanotechnology, human longevity, augmented and virtual reality, fintech, and healthcare. Based in California, Type One Ventures supports entrepreneurs by providing capital and strategic guidance to help scale innovative solutions. The firm typically makes co-investments with rounds up to about $1.5 million.

IMM Investment is a Seoul-based independent private equity and venture capital firm established in 1999. The company engages in mezzanine and growth investments and pursues opportunities in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, corporate restructuring, private equity, industry consolidation, management buyouts, spin-offs, recapitalizations, and cross-border transactions. It concentrates on medium-sized companies operating in information technology infrastructure, wireless communications, software, contents, and other technology-enabled sectors, with a particular emphasis on information technology, healthcare/biotech, and manufacturing. The firm typically takes an active role in governance and strategic direction and focuses on opportunities within South Korea and cross-border contexts. IMM Investment aims to support portfolio companies through growth, expansion, and consolidation, leveraging its long-standing relationships with institutional investors and investment professionals.

Act Venture Capital is a Dublin, Ireland-based technology-focused venture capital firm that backs ideas and companies from seed to growth. It concentrates on software, IT infrastructure, communications, Internet and mobile sectors, seeking potentially category-defining businesses with ambitious growth plans. The firm manages multiple funds and has raised hundreds of millions of euros to support portfolio companies, providing capital and strategic guidance to help founders scale globally. Act maintains a broad network of US and European investors and founders, and collaborates with institutions such as the European Investment Fund to support its investments.

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.

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.

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.

TLV Partners is a Tel Aviv-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on Israeli startups in cybersecurity, data, artificial intelligence, DevTools, fintech, biotech, and eCommerce. Founded in 2015, the firm partners with ambitious founders to turn disruptive ideas into category-defining companies and has backed a number of notable exits, including Granulate (acquired by Intel), Oribi (acquired by LinkedIn), Neosec (acquired by Akamai), Puresec (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), and Aqua Security. With assets under management exceeding $1 billion, TLV Partners supports portfolio companies with strategic resources and an extensive network to accelerate growth from day one.

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.

Social Impact Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm, founded in 2016, focused on seed and early-stage investments in companies whose business model advances social good. It targets sectors such as biotech, deeptech, consumer, B2B, fintech, healthtech, and blockchain, and seeks ventures addressing essentials like energy, water, food, health, environment, education, housing, access to capital, and social justice.

Chingona Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that backs early-stage startups across the United States, with emphasis on fintech, health technology, and education technology, including the future of learning.

Blue Collective is a Brooklyn-based investment firm that provides venture capital and private equity funding to startups and growth companies across technology, life sciences, consumer goods, and business services. It invests across the funding spectrum from pre-seed and seed to late-stage and growth, including growth capital, buyouts, and majority investments, with a focus on opportunities primarily in the United States. The firm maintains an industry-agnostic approach and emphasizes backing exceptional teams capable of building scalable, enduring businesses.

Energy Impact Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in New York. It concentrates on financing companies that advance the energy transition and sustainable energy, investing across venture, growth, credit, and infrastructure. The firm operates globally, with activity in North America and Europe, and collaborates with energy companies and entrepreneurs to accelerate innovation in areas such as energy efficiency, smart grids, storage, alternative energy equipment, and related software and services. It manages more than $2.5 billion in assets and pursues opportunities across the energy and climate sectors.

Palumni VC is a venture capital firm based in Miami, Florida, founded in 2020, that invests in companies founded and led by Palantir alumni.

Hemisphere Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 that targets high-tech sectors, including software, biotechnology, robotics, nanotechnology, drones, space, and synthetic biology. It concentrates on helping portfolio companies achieve scale and identify early revenue opportunities to advance growth.

Starbridge Venture Capital is a Washington, DC-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that focuses on investments at the intersection of space technology and traditional technology. The firm seeks opportunities in communications, computing, energy, and space technology, backing companies whose products will play a key role in developing commercial space activity while delivering substantial profit potential in terrestrial markets. The firm supports so-called Space Scalable businesses—solutions with potential to enable new space initiatives and to succeed in existing markets on Earth—and aims to shape the next decade of commercial space and space investing.

Samara Asset Group is a venture capital firm based in Sliema, Malta. Founded in 2018, it specializes in investments in crypto assets and blockchain companies, supporting ventures across the blockchain ecosystem.

Cool Japan Fund is an investment firm established in 2013 and based in Tokyo, Japan. As a public-private fund, it provides risk capital to companies across media and content, food and services, and fashion and lifestyle, with the aim of promoting overseas demand for high-quality Japanese products and services and supporting international expansion of Japanese brands.

Harbert Growth Partners is a growth equity investment firm and the U.S. growth equity affiliate of Harbert Management Corporation. It partners with entrepreneurs to finance high-growth companies, focusing on information technology, software, cybersecurity, fintech, digital media, and healthcare IT and services in markets underserved by traditional venture capital; it has over a decade of experience and invests across early to growth stages, often taking an active governance role and leveraging Harbert Management’s broader platform to support portfolio companies.

Lowercarbon Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Jackson, Wyoming. It invests in companies developing technologies to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a focus on sectors including energy, impact, transportation, industrial materials, and agriculture. The firm supports research and commercialization of emissions-reducing solutions and backing for entrepreneurs pursuing ways to lower emissions, remove carbon, and actively cool the planet.

The Venture Collective is an early-stage venture capital firm backed by world-class entrepreneurs and business leaders. An experienced team of venture investors, ex-founders, and investment management executives leads investments in defensible, fast-growing companies with the potential to solve major problems. The firm writes high-conviction checks at Pre-Seed and Seed with reserves for follow-on rounds through Series A to support founders and growth. Its portfolio spans sectors including artificial intelligence, agriculture technology, climate technology, digital health, education technology, fintech, SaaS, e-commerce, mobility, real estate technology, life sciences, and space technology, reflecting a global outlook. Headquartered in New York City and London with a global footprint, the firm emphasizes diverse founding teams and impact-oriented investing. It is described as a registered investment adviser.

Camber Creek is a venture capital firm focused on technology-enabled real estate businesses. Based in New York with an office in Rockville, the firm invests in real estate technology companies across the United States. Founded in 2011, Camber Creek emphasizes opportunities in information technology and real estate technology within construction, property management, development, leasing, and related activities. It supports portfolio companies by leveraging its real estate industry expertise, operating experience, and network of partners, investors, and advisors to provide strategic value beyond capital.

Firestreak Ventures is a venture firm based in Aspen, Colorado, founded in 2022, focused on investing in companies across open-source software, cybersecurity, blockchain infrastructure and applications, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and software as a service.

Mantis VC is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Santa Monica, California. It specializes in early-stage investments and growth capital, focusing primarily on consumer technologies within the Media & Entertainment, Fintech, and Health & Wellness sectors. The firm manages multiple funds, including Mantis Capital Fund I, II, and III, which target innovative companies in these areas. Mantis VC operates as a Registered Investment Adviser, demonstrating its commitment to compliance and professional standards in the investment landscape.

A100x Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that concentrates on early-stage investments at the intersection of blockchain and artificial intelligence. It backs startups across healthcare, supply chain, climate, food, gaming, drugs and related technology-enabled sectors, aiming to support teams that build real-world solutions with meaningful impact. The firm emphasizes active collaboration and hands-on support to help founders scale and create lasting value.

Decathlon Capital Partners is a capital provider founded in 2010 and based in Park City, Utah. It offers long-term growth capital through revenue-based financing, delivering non-dilutive funding that avoids equity dilution and preserves management control. The firm operates as a debt provider and also pursues venture investments, backing growth-stage companies across North America. Its target sectors include business products and services, consumer products and services, financial services, information technology, healthcare, manufacturing, e-commerce, and technology-enabled industries such as big data, cybersecurity, IoT, AI and machine learning, SaaS, gaming, and mobile and virtual reality. By combining flexible repayment terms with an emphasis on scalable growth, Decathlon supports companies pursuing rapid expansion without traditional equity dilution.

SignalFire is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that invests in seed- and growth-stage technology companies across North America. It provides data-driven insights and tailored advisory programs across sectors such as health, fintech, and cybersecurity, and supports founders with a centralized infrastructure for recruiting, business development, and customer acquisition through a distributed network of entrepreneurs, product and engineering leaders, and investors. The firm seeks to back leaders leveraging data and technology to disrupt large markets, combining hands-on support with broad connectivity to help portfolio companies scale.

Alchemy Ventures is a Sydney-based independent venture capital firm founded in 2016 that invests in early to late-stage companies across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. It targets opportunities in mining, financial services, agriculture, and consumer technology, supporting growth and expansion while maintaining an independent approach to identifying high-potential ventures in these sectors.

Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm that makes seed and early-stage investments in technology-focused startups, including software, B2B, fintech and digital health. Based in San Carlos, California, the firm targets early-stage opportunities and has activity across the United States, Canada and Southeast Asia.

Stellantis is a global automotive manufacturer formed in January 2021 by the merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Peugeot. It ranks among the world’s largest vehicle makers as the fourth-largest OEM by sales at the time of formation. The company offers a broad portfolio spanning mainstream passenger cars, SUVs, pickup trucks, and commercial vehicles under brands such as Fiat, Jeep, Chrysler, Ram, Peugeot, Citroën, Opel, Alfa Romeo, and Maserati. Stellantis pursues mobility solutions through electrification, software strategies, and an ecosystem of partnerships to drive sustainable mobility. In 2024, the group sold about 5.5 million vehicles, with regional shares of 47% in Europe, 26% in North America, and 17% in South America. The company emphasizes electrification, connectivity, and advanced software to support its global product lineup and diversified regional footprint.

Founded in 2006 and based in Austin, Texas, S3 Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm that backs early-stage to growth companies. The firm targets seed, Series A and Series B/C rounds in technology-driven sectors, with a focus on business technology, digital experiences and healthcare technology, and it also invests in software, information technology, medical devices and life sciences. It operates primarily in the Southwestern United States, notably Texas and Austin, and provides patient capital and resources to entrepreneurs to help build high-impact companies.

Robert W. Baird & Co. is an employee-owned financial services firm offering wealth management, capital markets, asset management and private equity capabilities. Founded in 1919 and headquartered in Milwaukee, it provides advisory and investment banking services, asset management and private equity solutions to individual, institutional and municipal clients, and operates through offices and affiliates in the United States, Europe and Asia, with a focus on growth-oriented lower- and middle-market companies.

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.

Invariantes Fund is a Guatemala City-based venture capital firm that supports early-stage startups across the United States and Latin America. It maintains a sector-agnostic stance but emphasizes software-driven models, including SaaS, software infrastructure, and corporate solutions, as well as hardware ventures that incorporate data components. Founded in 2015, it seeks to broaden access to venture capital in the region.

Prosperity7 Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Aramco, based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It invests in early- and growth-stage startups across sectors including geo-energy, enterprise technology, fintech, industrial technology, artificial intelligence, robotics, medical technology, biotechnology, mobility, cybersecurity, e-commerce, cloud computing, blockchain, and software-as-a-service. The firm pursues long-term investments with a global reach, seeking opportunities that deliver scalable impact and international growth. It collaborates with Aramco and engages in cross-sector innovation initiatives to support portfolio companies in scale-up and market deployment.

Sand Hill Angels is a Mountain View, California-based angel investor network in Silicon Valley founded in 2000. The group comprises around 60+ technology professionals who collaborate to form and grow startup companies by investing in private technology firms at early stages. Its members focus on technology sectors including clean technology, Internet, information sciences, and life sciences, with activity in areas such as semiconductors, enterprise software, storage, and communications, as well as medical devices, diagnostics, and bioinformatics. Sand Hill Angels typically invest in seed and Series A rounds, and occasionally later-stage bridges, often committing $300K to $500K at a pre-money valuation under $5 million. The network works openly with venture capital funds and other angel groups to support the Bay Area ecosystem.

RevTech Ventures is a Dallas-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments at the intersection of retail and technology. It makes numerous small initial investments and pursues follow-on rounds in companies that demonstrate rapid growth and a sustainable competitive advantage, with the aim of helping the retail industry adapt in the age of Amazon. The firm backs companies across software, consumer products and services, apparel and accessories, consumer durables and non-durables, and other retail-enabled sectors such as services, media, restaurants, hotels and leisure.

Helios Capital is a third-generation, New York City-based single-family office established in 2018. It concentrates on early-stage investments, typically Series A or earlier, with follow-on allocations, and emphasizes distributive technologies that advance Industry 4.0. Guided by an executive team, it leverages an ecosystem of technology experts, partnerships, and industry thought leaders to add value to portfolio companies.

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.

Lombardstreet Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, that backs early-stage technology companies across the United States. The firm focuses on pre-seed and seed investments in B2B software and related areas, with emphasis on software as a service, infrastructure software, open source, developer tools, API-first solutions, and security. It also pursues opportunities in enterprise AI tech stacks and generative AI infrastructure, and is open to opportunities beyond these sectors when the founding team is exceptional and the vision aligns. While primarily targeting US-based startups, Lombardstreet Ventures maintains a broad, sector-aware approach and aims to support the next wave of tech leaders through hands-on partnership and capital.