Established in 2013, Rebel Venture Fund is a Las Vegas-based venture capital firm focusing on equity investments in high-growth companies within Southern Nevada. It primarily invests in sectors such as hospitality tech, gaming tech, renewable energy, healthcare innovation, and logistics management.
Reno Seed Fund is a venture capital firm and angel investor group based in Reno, Nevada, founded in 2019. It invests in early-stage companies in Northern Nevada across sectors including software as a service, fintech, blockchain, life sciences, Internet of Things, advanced manufacturing, cybersecurity, and hospitality, providing capital as well as a network and ongoing operational guidance to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses.
VTF Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Las Vegas, Nevada, with additional offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The firm focuses on early-stage technology investments in the United States, including information technology, retail and software-as-a-service sectors, and provides capital and hands-on support to startups seeking to transform how products are made, distributed and accessed.
FundNV is a venture capital firm established in 2019 and located in Reno, Nevada. The firm focuses on early-stage investments, specifically targeting companies that are part of the StartUpNV accelerator or those with early revenue potential. FundNV typically invests in $50,000 increments, with the possibility of additional syndicate amounts up to $250,000, utilizing standard investment instruments such as series seed convertible notes or SAFEs. The firm aims to support businesses that are on the verge of achieving initial revenue, thereby fostering growth within the Nevada entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Hard Yaka is an investment firm based in Crystal Bay, Nevada. It engages in private equity and venture investments, focusing on technology and financial services sectors, including early-stage investments in exchange-related startups and opportunities in buyouts and distressed assets, often pursuing majority stakes.
Sierra Angels is an angel investment group based in Incline Village, Nevada, established in 1997. It specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on technology companies in sectors such as clean energy, health tech, social media, and software. With a preference for investing between $0.25 million and $2 million, Sierra Angels aims for investments that can achieve a return of 5-10 times within three to five years. The firm is known for its active involvement in the entrepreneurial community, providing not only capital but also mentoring and valuable connections to the startups it supports. Sierra Angels collaborates with other angel groups and earlier-stage venture capitalists, particularly when investing in companies located outside of its primary regions of Nevada and California. The group comprises experienced former startup founders and executives who have collectively supported over sixty companies across various industries, contributing to the economic growth of technology-driven enterprises in the Northern Sierra region.
Cypress Growth Capital is a Dallas, Texas-based growth capital firm founded in 2010 that uses royalty-based financing to support software and technology-enabled services companies in the United States. It provides growth capital typically in the range of $1 million to $5 million per company, targeting businesses with annual revenue between roughly $3 million and $20 million. The funding structure preserves equity and control by paying investors through royalties instead of taking equity, and serves as an alternative to traditional debt and equity. The firm concentrates on software and technology-enabled business services, with operations across the United States including additional offices in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and Denver, Colorado.
Redhills Ventures LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1997 and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, expansion rounds, and buyouts, primarily focusing on technology and healthcare companies. Redhills Ventures aims to support market-driven healthcare initiatives and typically invests between $0.25 million and $7 million in companies with annual revenues under $100 million. The firm prefers to collaborate with other venture capital firms and partners, emphasizing investments in businesses with strong management teams and viable business plans. Additionally, it guides companies through various growth stages, from startup to initial public offerings.
Aviso Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 and based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It concentrates on early-stage investments in enterprise software, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, and artificial intelligence.
Vemanti Group, incorporated in 2014 in Nevada, is a financial technology company that targets the emerging markets of Vietnam and Southeast Asia. The company specializes in digital banking and fintech applications, leveraging disruptive technologies to simplify access to credit for small to medium enterprises (SMEs). Vemanti's offerings include Internet Protocol communication solutions, such as unified communications, data center services, content delivery, VoIP, and cloud computing. Additionally, the company actively seeks to acquire and invest in businesses focused on blockchain projects and other innovative technologies, including machine learning, security, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Through its diverse range of services and strategic focus on technology development, Vemanti aims to drive growth and create social impact in its target regions.
Mountain Pacific Partners is a venture capital firm based in Salt Lake City, Utah, that specializes in early-stage investments within the life sciences and biotech sectors. Established in 2017, the firm focuses on supporting innovation in these fields, particularly in the Mountain and Southwest regions of the United States, including Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico, as well as in South Korea. Mountain Pacific Partners has launched multiple funds, including Fund NOW, which aims to enhance health security by reshoring critical healthcare product manufacturing, and Fund NEXT, which is dedicated to transforming healthcare delivery through innovative technologies and medical devices.
Ames Seed Capital, LLC is a venture capital firm based in Ames, Iowa, that was founded in 1987. The firm specializes in providing funding to startups, early-stage companies, and businesses seeking expansion. It focuses its investments primarily in the Ames, Story City, Nevada, Huxley, and surrounding areas within Story County. As a collective of private investors, Ames Seed Capital aims to support local entrepreneurial ventures and foster economic growth in its target regions.
Founded in 2024, Cannage Capital is a venture capital firm based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It focuses on investing in breakout interdisciplinary companies, with a preference for artificial intelligence, data, cybersecurity, and data-driven health sectors.
Numenor Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2002, specializing in seed and early-stage investments. It focuses on life sciences, technology, unique consumer products, fine art, and real estate opportunities, primarily in California, Colorado, Nevada, and the Pacific Northwest. The firm typically takes a board seat in its portfolio companies and offers advisory services.
Implistic Capital, founded in 2004 and based in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in early-stage technology companies, particularly in the e-commerce and information technology sectors. The firm seeks to provide both time and capital to innovative businesses that have the potential to make a significant impact in the world. By supporting companies with transformative ideas and concepts, Implistic Capital aims to contribute to the emergence of the next major players in the 21st century.
Colchis Capital Management, L.P. is a privately owned investment management firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Incline Village, Nevada. Founded by Robert and Edward Conrads in 2005, the firm specializes in alternative investments, focusing on early-stage ventures, growth equity, and bridge loans. Colchis is particularly dedicated to the emerging direct lending sector, investing in fixed income markets globally. The firm primarily targets non-bank specialty finance private credit assets sourced from fintech lending platforms and structured credit opportunities. It also invests in secured real estate, small business, skills-based education, and consumer credit sectors. Additionally, Colchis engages in venture capital investments within the fintech sector. The firm leverages proprietary technology, deep credit expertise, and financial structuring experience to identify and capitalize on investment opportunities.
Established in 2005, RAA Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It invests in early-stage companies across various sectors including internet marketing, technology, e-commerce, consumer products and services, lifestyle, media, entertainment, social media, energy production, infrastructure, mobile gaming, and apps.
Hybrid Capital, established in 2017, is a venture capital firm headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. It focuses on investing in companies within the information technology services and software sectors.
Established in 2023 and headquartered in Incline Village, Nevada, Flume Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to investing in innovative technology startups.
Vesta Ventures is a venture capital investment firm established in 2021 and based in Reno, Nevada. The firm focuses on investing in companies within the residential property technology sector, aiming to support innovative solutions that enhance the residential real estate experience. Through its targeted investments, Vesta Ventures seeks to drive growth and development in this evolving industry.
Established in 2022, Dream Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. It focuses on investing in and supporting high-growth, disruptive startups.
Deerfield Management is a New York-based investment firm established in 1994 that focuses on healthcare. It operates across investment, information, and philanthropy to support the healthcare ecosystem. The firm provides private and public investments and offers long-term, structured capital to both public and private healthcare companies. Its portfolio spans life sciences, medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, and health services. As an investment adviser, it seeks opportunities in healthcare products and services and aims to accelerate innovation by combining capital with industry insight.
Bessemer Venture Partners is a long-established venture capital firm based in Redwood City, California, founded in 1911. The firm makes early-stage and growth investments across software, cloud, fintech, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, biotech, healthcare, consumer services, marketplaces and other technology sectors, with global reach in the United States, Israel, Canada and India. It supports founders from seed to scale, providing strategic guidance and capital to build durable businesses. The firm has backed notable companies such as Pinterest, LinkedIn, Shopify, Yelp, Twilio, DocuSign and Wix, among others, reflecting a history of funding transformative technology companies. Bessemer Venture Partners operates as a registered investment adviser and pursues opportunities across information technology, hardware and services worldwide.
PSP Growth is the investment arm of PSP Partners, a Chicago-based asset management firm. It focuses on venture and growth equity investments in early-stage and high-growth companies across technology-enabled services, software, industrial technology, and real estate technology, among other growth sectors. The firm seeks to create long-term value by backing capable management teams and scalable business models, leveraging PSP Partners’ capital base and network to support portfolio companies. Operating within PSP Capital Partners’ platform, PSP Growth emphasizes a fundamental, long-horizon approach and provides strategic resources to accelerate growth and execution.
Revolution is a Washington, D.C.-based investment firm founded in 2005 by Steve Case, with additional offices in San Francisco. It operates a family of funds including Revolution Ventures and Revolution Growth, focusing on venture capital and growth investments in technology-enabled companies that disrupt traditional industries. The firm backs startups and growth-stage companies across sectors such as consumer internet, software, media, financial services, health, energy, and education, often investing alongside other top-tier investors and taking board seats when appropriate. It emphasizes entrepreneurship and geographic diversity, supporting companies in high-potential geographies through initiatives like Rise of the Rest Seed Funds. Revolution seeks opportunities across multiple stages, aiming to partner with capable founders and help scale companies from early ideas to growth, while maintaining a focus on driving meaningful change across industries.
Notation Capital is a Brooklyn-based venture capital firm that focuses on pre-seed and early-stage technology startups, often partnering with technically led founding teams in New York. It provides capital and hands-on support to help ventures go to market and scale, backing companies across software, AI, blockchain, cybersecurity, fintech, health tech, education technology, infrastructure, logistics, and climate tech. Initial checks commonly range from around $100,000 to $350,000, with total commitments typically in the low hundreds of thousands to a few hundred thousand dollars in US-based rounds. The firm emphasizes operational involvement to accelerate product development and market traction and concentrates its activity in the United States, particularly the New York region.
CLI Ventures is a global investment firm managing over $1 billion across venture capital and private equity. Established in 2014, it maintains offices in Palo Alto, New York, Boston, San Diego, Beijing, and Shenzhen. The company has invested in over 200 portfolio companies, primarily focusing on healthcare, real estate, software, and service sectors.
Established in 2006, Bengal Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments within the cannabis industry since 2013. The company provides seed stage and growth capital alongside traditional advisory resources to its operators across various sectors of the cannabis industry.
Trilogy Equity Partners, established in 2006 and located in Bellevue, Washington, is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments. The firm is led by a team of former entrepreneurs and operators who have substantial experience in the technology and wireless sectors, including the formation and leadership of major mobile operators in the United States. Trilogy emphasizes a hands-on investment approach and aims to align its interests with the long-term growth of the companies it supports. The firm primarily invests in early-stage companies across the Pacific Northwest, striving to build great companies over time.
SJF Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, with offices in New York and San Francisco. Founded in 1999, the firm concentrates on growth equity investments in the United States, with a focus on cleantech, sustainability, and technology-enabled services. It backs companies across energy, efficiency, circular economy, logistics, sustainable food, health and education technology, and enterprise software, typically investing 1 to 10 million per portfolio company and often participating in syndicates. SJF seeks teams with scalable models, strong profitability, and potential for rapid sales and premium exits, and often takes board seats to guide strategic growth. The firm emphasizes environmental and social impact alongside financial returns, pursuing opportunities in energy-related impact and climate tech.
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, established in 2013. It targets individual accredited investors who previously had limited access to venture capital by enabling alumni from top entrepreneurial schools to invest together in ventures led by fellow alumni. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with sector expertise. It offers focused funds that provide accredited investors access to a diversified venture portfolio by type, sector, stage, and geography. The organization engages in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments across technology, consumer, financial services, health care, life sciences, and other sectors.
Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs science and technology companies across multiple stages, from seed to late-stage. It pursues transformative technologies and follows a founder-friendly investment approach that provides substantial support with minimal interference. The firm invests in ventures solving difficult problems across sectors such as aerospace and transportation, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, healthcare, biotechnology, cybersecurity, fintech, consumer internet, software, robotics, and related technology fields. It has backed notable companies early, including SpaceX, Palantir, and Facebook, reflecting a history of partnering with ambitious founders to scale breakthrough technologies.
UNC Kenan-Flagler Private Equity Fund is a student-run private equity and venture capital firm located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, established in 2007. The fund focuses on making investments in both early and late-stage companies, engaging in buyouts, growth capital, and mezzanine debt financings. It aims to invest between $0.1 million and $0.15 million in portfolio companies that typically have enterprise values ranging from $20 million to $125 million. The fund operates with the dual purpose of delivering real returns for investors while providing an educational experience for its student members. It collaborates with partner private investment firms to enhance its investment strategies and reach.
Hackers/Founders is a Silicon Valley–based accelerator and venture capital firm that supports technology startups from seed to growth stages, equips founders, helps build vibrant tech ecosystems, and shares Silicon Valley insights with the broader entrepreneurial community.
WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm founded in 1993 with offices in San Francisco, Beijing, and Taipei. It focuses on early and early expansion investments across the United States, Greater China, and the Asia Pacific region, with emphasis on technology, healthcare, clean technology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, robotics, fintech, IoT, insurtech, blockchain, media, and wellness sectors. The firm supports startups from seed to later stages and has a track record of more than 300 investments with over 80 exits. It manages more than $1 billion in capital across multiple funds and maintains a team of investment professionals in its core hubs. WI Harper seeks opportunities that combine scientific or tech innovations with scalable business models, aiming to help companies grow internationally and leverage cross-border opportunities.
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.
PLG Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. It specializes in pre-seed and seed investments for technology-enabled startups, primarily focusing on Southern California. The firm provides hands-on support to founding teams, helping them develop leadership skills and emotional intelligence while setting up scalable growth foundations.
Bee Partners is a San Francisco-based pre-seed and early-stage deep-tech venture firm that invests in AI/ML, robotics, automation, synthetic biology and related technologies across the United States. It partners with founders from zero to one, providing initial capital and strategic support to help achieve product development, customer adoption and venture-scale growth. The team comprises builders, designers, entrepreneurs, operators and technologists with experience in large tech companies, startups and research environments, united to deliver outcomes for founders, enterprise partners and investors. The firm emphasizes identifying early opportunities in large, untapped markets and supporting portfolio companies toward rapid growth, with a track record of a 60%+ matriculation rate to Series A and significant follow-on capital from top venture firms.
Third Prime is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York. It focuses on early-stage investments in seed and startup companies, primarily in business-to-business and financial services, while also engaging with consumers, real estate services, and media sectors. The firm typically writes early capital rounds ranging from roughly 250000 to 3000000 and has assets under management exceeding 500000000. It maintains an additional office in the Southeast, reflecting a broader market footprint beyond its New York base.
Boost VC is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2012 by Adam Draper and Brayton Williams, the firm focuses on deep tech startups across the United States, including aerospace, robotics, hardware and software, bio/health, energy and climate, crypto, defense, space, artificial intelligence, and immersive technologies such as augmented and virtual reality. It typically participates in pre-seed and very early rounds, often leading initial investments in technology companies at the earliest stages of development, and it manages around $200 million in assets.
Merus Capital is a California-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in software and internet companies, with a presence in the Bay Area. Founded by former M&A leaders at Google and Microsoft, it partners with founders who bring unique industry and customer insights, a commitment to product innovation, and a disciplined approach to execution. The firm backs teams across sectors including iEnterprise, cloud, advertising, predictive analytics, virtual reality, augmented reality, commerce, and mobile, aiming to support platforms with potential to define their industries.
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.
Founded in 2017, Feenix Venture Partners is a New York-based investment firm primarily focusing on direct loans for growth capital to small and medium-sized businesses. Its unique venture lending platform integrates credit card processing fee revenue, creating a 'win-win' situation for the firm and its portfolio companies.
Curaleaf is a vertically integrated cannabis operator known for quality, expertise, and reliability. It cultivates, processes, markets, and dispenses cannabis products across medical and adult-use markets in the United States.
Tao Capital Partners is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2002. The firm focuses on investing in sectors such as technology, transportation, healthcare, education, and sustainable food, with an emphasis on businesses that create a positive social and environmental impact. Tao Capital Partners actively supports companies throughout various stages of their development, aiming to foster growth and innovation in its portfolio. The firm also explores opportunities in alternative energy, agriculture, consumer products, real estate, and hospitality, demonstrating a broad approach to investment in sustainable and impactful industries.
City Light Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 that conducts early- and growth-stage investments in United States companies. It backs teams building category-defining solutions across education, safety and care, and the environment, as well as technology-enabled sectors such as digital health, climate, energy, agriculture, and IoT. The firm pursues impact-oriented investments designed to scale revenue and improve lives by partnering with experienced entrepreneurs to build durable, market-leading businesses. City Light emphasizes aligning financial returns with social and environmental outcomes and acts as an active, hands-on investor across a broad range of sectors addressing societal challenges.
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.
Ecosystem Integrity Fund is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that finances early-stage companies advancing environmental sustainability. The firm seeks to demonstrate that sustainable practices can coexist with solid financial returns and targets investments in sectors including energy, transportation, clean tech, climate resilience, agriculture and food, water, and waste management, with emphasis on resource efficiency, biodiversity, and environmental remediation. It pursues impact investments aligned with ESG goals and often supports companies across North America, with later vintages expanding to Canada and Europe. Investments typically occur at the early growth stage, with capital deployed to help portfolio companies scale solutions that reduce environmental impacts and strengthen ecosystem integrity.
Nuveen Green Capital provides environmentally friendly financing for commercial real estate projects. Headquartered in Darien, Connecticut, the company was founded in 2015.
Vulcan Capital is the private equity and venture capital arm of Vulcan, a global technology and investment organization founded by Paul G. Allen. It engages in investments across all stages of corporate development, including leveraged buyouts, growth and early-stage ventures, distressed/turnaround opportunities, and select public market strategies. The firm targets sectors such as healthcare, software, media and entertainment, Internet services, mobile, telecommunications, energy, data intelligence, and infrastructure, with a global reach focused on the United States, Europe, and Asia. Typical deal sizes range from about $10 million to $100 million, and investments can be held for up to a decade. Vulcan Capital is headquartered in Seattle, with an additional office in Palo Alto.