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.

Wasabi Ventures is a venture capital, incubator, and consulting firm that builds and advises early-stage technology companies. Founded in 2003, it has built, funded, and advised more than 200 startups, including Right Now Technologies, PBworks, Ustream, and Etherpad. The firm focuses on mobile, SaaS, and artificial intelligence sectors and offers services spanning development, sales, product marketing, fundraising, and business planning. It maintains a global presence with offices in Manchester, New Hampshire; Baltimore, Maryland; Donetsk, Ukraine; and San Mateo, California, with a global headquarters in San Mateo. Through its investment, incubation, and advisory programs, Wasabi Ventures supports startups from concept to growth.

Green D Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Bedford, New Hampshire, focused on early-stage technology and service companies, with a preference for Dartmouth alumni ventures. It participates in Series A rounds and convertible notes with caps, typically making investments from $50,000 to $500,000. The firm plans to deploy capital in 15 to 25 deals per year and co-invests with top-tier venture funds across a broad range of industries, stages, and geographies. It does not lead rounds, price rounds, or take board seats, aiming to be valuable and frictionless for portfolio companies. The firm leverages the Dartmouth alumni entrepreneurial network and Dartmouth-led ventures.

Borealis Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 and based in Hanover, New Hampshire, with an additional office in Portsmouth. It backs seed, Series A and early-to-mid-stage companies across life sciences, healthcare and digital health, information technology, application software, internet and mobile services, and design and engineering software, including innovations stemming from Dartmouth College and biotechnology. The firm typically acts as lead investor but also co-invests, often takes a board seat, and operates nationally with a focus on New Hampshire and Northern New England. Initial investments range from $0.1 million to $2.5 million, with capital available for follow-on rounds; target companies generally have sales up to $10 million, enterprise value up to $20 million, and EBITDA around $2 million.

10X Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, focused on seed and early-stage investments in companies located in the New England region. It backs portfolio companies with capital and operational expertise, targeting sectors such as mobile, internet, wireless, security, medical technology, and green technology, and engages in follow-on and syndicated investments as needed.

York IE is an advisory and venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, focused on helping technology companies grow. It selectively invests in early-stage B2B SaaS startups and provides advisory as a service across product, go-to-market, and finance. The firm leverages a global operating team, data and automation technology, and deep ecosystem relationships to support founders and executives in building, scaling, and monetizing their businesses.

CEI Ventures is the venture capital and private equity arm of Coastal Enterprises, a Brunswick, Maine-based investor established in 1994. It targets seed, startup, early-stage, mid-venture, recapitalization, and growth capital opportunities, focusing on companies in underserved markets across the Northeastern United States and New England, with a preference for Maine. The firm typically commits 250,000 to 1 million per financing, often in multiple rounds, and seeks exits in five to seven years. It aims to take a board seat in portfolio companies, supporting growth across sectors and business models as they scale.

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It pursues investments across multiple sectors, including information technology, healthcare, manufacturing, mobile, nanotechnology, financial services, internet, energy, media, and retail, and provides early to growth-stage funding coupled with strategic support to help founders build lasting, category-defining companies.

FiEE is a digital service provider that uses artificial intelligence and data analytics to help creators, artists, and businesses develop, manage, and optimize their digital presence across platforms, including customized graphics, short videos, and editorial calendars aligned with brand goals. The entity traces its origins to Minim Inc, a Manchester, New Hampshire based company with roots in networking and IoT platforms for home management and router analytics, and it has been associated with a Motorola license for consumer networking products. It also operated as a subsidiary of Zoom Telephonics, Inc. since 2020, reflecting a shift from hardware and network-focused offerings toward AI-driven digital services for brand management and content creation.

Novalis LifeSciences is a venture capital firm focused on life sciences. Founded in 2017 and based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, it invests in small to mid-sized life science companies operating in biopharma therapeutics, diagnostics, and life science tools. The firm functions as a registered investment adviser.

Verissimo Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 and based in Bedford, New Hampshire. It focuses on early-stage investments, primarily pre-seed to Series A, across the United States, Israel, and Europe. The firm targets companies with differentiated technology that can disrupt large markets, including sectors such as software-as-a-service and artificial intelligence. Verissimo Ventures takes a hands-on approach from day one, leveraging its experience and network to support portfolio companies in finance, operations, and go-to-market strategy, with the aim of turning these functions into strategic assets and helping startups navigate early-stage challenges. The firm co-invests with a broad range of partners.

Alterna Capital Partners is a private equity firm founded in 2008 and based in Bedford, New Hampshire. It provides growth capital, management buyouts, equipment financing, acquisition finance, cash flow monetization and leveraged buyouts to companies in energy, industrial, transportation, power and related sectors. The firm targets income-producing core capital assets essential to expansion and maintenance of productive operations, investing across the United States, Europe and Canada. Typical equity investments are in the range of $25 million to $100 million, with openness to co-investments. Sectors include energy, power generation, terminals and port infrastructure, maritime and air transportation, mining, freight rail, containerized trade, logistics and related equipment. The firm emphasizes long-term asset ownership and focuses on assets with economically vital roles, long useful lives and stable technology.

New North Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire. The firm concentrates on dual-purpose technology that can address both national security and commercial market needs. It invests across sectors that include directed energy, hypersonics, integrated sensing and cyber, trusted artificial intelligence and autonomy, integrated network systems of systems, microelectronics, space technology, renewable energy generation and storage, advanced computing and software, human-machine interfaces, biotechnology, quantum science, future generation wireless technologies, and advanced materials.

Jackson Square Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on seed and Series A technology investments, including software, SaaS, marketplaces, and B2B. The firm emphasizes hands-on, operator-informed support, with partners who are former founders or tech executives, and it pursues long-term conviction in its portfolio. Notable investments include Docusign, Upwork, Strava, Seismic, and OfferUp, reflecting a track record of backing growing software and technology companies. Established in 2011, the firm operates primarily in the United States and seeks to help portfolio companies scale through practical guidance and strategic resources.

Go4it Capital is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Founded in 2016, it partners with entrepreneurs to build innovative global businesses in the sports, digital media, and well-being sectors, backing companies that aim to advance active lifestyles and enjoyment across markets.

TCV is a private equity and growth capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 1995, that provides capital to growth‑stage technology companies and offers management teams data‑driven insights, sector expertise, access to talent, and industry connections. It makes equity investments across minority, majority, and public deal structures in information technology, software, cybersecurity, big data, e‑commerce, healthcare, and other technology‑enabled sectors, and has invested billions in hundreds of technology companies. Notable exits include Airbnb, Facebook, Netflix, Peloton, and Zillow, demonstrating a track record of helping portfolio companies scale through growth and strategic guidance.

Northwood Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm established in 1983 and based in Florida. Over three decades, it has been a leading investor in venture capital and buyouts, partnering with experienced management teams to pursue long-term value creation and superior cash-on-cash returns. The firm invests across growth stages and tailors its structures to meet portfolio needs. Its sector focus spans communications, manufacturing, and consumer goods and services, including retail and other consumer sectors, as well as financial services and information technology. Northwood emphasizes an entrepreneurial approach and long-term horizons, aiming to align with management teams to grow and transform companies across the United States.

Greenline Ventures is a Denver, Colorado-based investment firm that provides capital solutions to the financial services sector and related technology-enabled industries across the United States. It pursues buyout investments in financial services and engages in capital markets activities, with an emphasis on long-term value and impact.

LAUNCH is an Austin, Texas-based early-stage investment firm and accelerator platform that combines capital with education for startups. It provides syndicate funding and operates a suite of programs to support builders, including Founder University, the LAUNCH Accelerator, and Startup Tuneup, as well as events such as Remote Demo Day. The LAUNCH ecosystem pairs investment with structured training, community access, and practical guidance to help founders move from idea to growth. By coordinating funding and educational programs, LAUNCH aims to accelerate startup development and enable teams to scale.

Catalyst Health Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on health care and life sciences, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 2008, the firm backs technology-enabled solutions across medical devices, diagnostics, drug delivery, digital health, and other life sciences areas. It pursues a hands-on, collaborative approach with management teams and syndicate partners to build companies, leveraging both intellectual and financial capital to originate deals, nurture opportunities, and realize growth in the health care marketplace. The firm targets unmet clinical needs in oncology, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and women’s health, and supports technologies grounded in engineering and development designed to reduce treatment costs and improve patient outcomes.

Polaris Partners is a Boston-based venture capital firm with offices in Boston and San Francisco that backs technology and life sciences companies across the United States and Europe. Founded in 1996, the firm partners with repeat entrepreneurs to support companies through multiple stages, from inception to growth, with a focus on software, healthcare information technology, digital health, life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, genomics, and related sectors. Its investments span the business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets, software as a service, and other technology-enabled solutions, aiming to build durable platform companies and address significant needs in healthcare and technology.

.406 Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm founded in 2005 that specializes in early-stage investing in enterprise information technology and services. The firm backs B2B software, cybersecurity, IT security and infrastructure, data and cloud technologies, technology-enabled business services, digital health, fintech, big data, and artificial intelligence, with a geographic focus on the Northeast United States. It often acts as lead or first institutional investor in de novo and early-stage rounds and supports portfolio companies through growth with follow-on investments. Typical initial commitments range from 2 to 5 million dollars, with total investments of about 6 to 10 million per company. The team emphasizes practical industry experience and networks to help companies scale.

Sputnik ATX is a venture capital firm and startup accelerator based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2017. It provides early-stage funding along with mentorship and hands-on training to maker-founders, supporting them through an accelerator program that runs two cohorts annually. Participating companies typically receive investments ranging from 100000 to 500000 via SAFE notes, enabling development across a broad spectrum of industries.

BITKRAFT Ventures is a venture capital firm that concentrates on early-stage investments in video gaming, esports, immersive technology, interactive media, Web3 and AI. The team is spread across San Francisco, Berlin, Los Angeles, New York, London, Madrid and Lisbon, enabling a global approach to digital entertainment and technology opportunities. The firm operates as a global investment platform with US-domiciled funds and positioning as a registered investment advisor. It focuses on supporting founders building new experiences in gaming, immersive tech and related media across key markets.

Morgenthaler Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Portola Valley, California, with more than 45 years in the industry. It backs early- and growth-stage technology and life sciences companies across sectors such as information technology, software, manufacturing, and healthcare, primarily in North America. The firm collaborates with management teams to support growth through strategic counsel, operating resources, and long-term capital. Its track record includes funding notable technology companies such as Apple, Siri, Evernote, MuleSoft, LendingClub, and Doximity, reflecting a history of backing startups that become widely used platforms and services.

SV Health Investors is a United States‑headquartered healthcare and life sciences venture capital and growth equity firm. Formerly known as SV Life Sciences, it supports entrepreneurs who create breakthrough companies and treatments across biotech, medical devices, and healthcare services. With offices in Boston, San Francisco and London, the firm has over two billion dollars of capital under management across seven private healthcare funds and more than two decades of activity in the US and Europe.

Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm and the corporate venture capital arm of Fidelity International, with offices in the United Kingdom, China, India, Japan and the United States. It manages a substantial asset base and has backed hundreds of companies across technology, healthcare, financial services and consumer technologies, including software, SaaS, enterprise tech and fintech. The firm typically makes early to growth‑stage investments, often takes minority stakes and seeks board representation in its portfolio companies. With an international footprint, Eight Roads Ventures supports growth across Europe, Asia and North America, including Greater China, and collaborates with associated funds to back technology‑driven businesses.

Will Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 2019, it backs startups in sports, entertainment, and consumer sectors, with an emphasis on e-sports and gaming. The firm uses sports as a lens to identify technologies with the potential to scale beyond the category and into large adjacent markets. It focuses on United States opportunities, supporting founders through the early stages of development.

Established in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Gutbrain Ventures is an independent venture capital firm specializing in investments within the enterprise software sector.

QuestMark Partners is a Baltimore, Maryland-based venture capital firm established in 1998 that provides growth capital to expansion-stage companies across the United States. The firm targets highly differentiated, category-creating enterprises and manages over $900 million in assets, seeking teams with strong commercial traction and strategic position to support long-term standalone success. QuestMark pursues a collaborative, patient approach to company building and focuses on investments in enterprise software, vertically focused cloud software, mobile software, tech-enabled business services, security, financial technology, consumer internet, and healthcare technology, including venture and secondary opportunities. It operates as a registered investment adviser.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Israel. The firm backs early and growth stage start-ups across sectors such as enterprise software, consumer technology, fintech, healthtech, cleantech, and information technology, and pursues opportunities in the United States, Asia, and Israel. It funds a broad range of rounds, including seed, early, later, and expansion, and also provides debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed focuses on helping entrepreneurs scale through capital, strategic guidance, and operational support, and maintains a diversified portfolio across enterprise, consumer, big data, mobile, and internet-enabled sectors.

Primary Venture Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm based in New York that invests in technology companies from pre-seed through Series A, with a global reach. It backs companies across B2B SaaS, fintech, healthcare, infrastructure, and supply chain, including notable portfolio companies such as Alloy, Chief, Electric, K Health, Slice, and Vestwell. The firm employs a low-volume, high-conviction approach and dedicates substantial resources to operational support through an Impact team that helps with hiring, customer acquisition, and fundraising to accelerate growth. A broad Expert Network of over 200 seasoned operators, a Talent Program, and advisory services in finance, market development, and content marketing equip founders to build world-class teams and scale. Primary partners with portfolio companies to position them for Series A and beyond, leveraging hands-on guidance and strategic networks.

Transformation Capital is a growth and expansion investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 2016, it serves as a registered investment adviser focused on healthcare companies across the United States, with emphasis on healthcare technology and services. The firm is the successor to Leerink Transformation Partners and is led by founders Todd Cozzens, Jared Kesselheim, and Michael Dixon, operating independently from SVB Leerink and Leerink Capital. It targets growth-stage opportunities, helping portfolio companies scale through strategic guidance and capital support.

Fresco Capital is a global early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011, with offices in San Francisco, Singapore, Hong Kong, Palo Alto, and Tokyo. The firm is led by managing partners based in San Francisco and Singapore and backs technology startups across the globe, including education technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and digital health.

Bessemer Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm founded in 1911 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It backs startups across seed to growth stages, focusing on software, cloud, cybersecurity, fintech, consumer and healthcare technologies, and high-growth business models. The firm operates internationally, supporting portfolio companies from early product development through scale, and has backed well-known names such as Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, Wix and others. BVP emphasizes helping founders establish durable foundations and guides companies through multiple growth phases, leveraging hands-on operational support, strategic networks, and cross-border expertise. With a diversified approach that includes consumer, enterprise and deep-tech investments, the firm seeks to build lasting companies that matter across global markets.

F-Prime Capital is a venture capital investment firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1969 with roots in Fidelity Investments, it backs entrepreneurs across technology and life sciences, investing in sectors such as crypto, enterprise information technology, fintech, frontier technologies, health information technology and services, medtech and therapeutics, with a global reach across the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Sigma Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1984 that focuses on early-stage investments in technology companies. The firm is based in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices on the West Coast in Menlo Park and San Ramon, California. It has invested across software, internet, semiconductors, mobile computing, electronics, infrastructure, and telecommunications, and has managed more than $2 billion in capital.

Gilde Healthcare, founded in 1982 and based in Utrecht, is a European private equity and venture capital firm focused on healthcare. It operates across Europe and North America, backing growth-oriented companies in medtech, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, diagnostics, digital health, life sciences, healthcare services, and related enabling technologies. The firm pursues venture capital, growth equity, and buyout investments, often supporting management buyouts and expansion opportunities in early to late stages, including start-ups and more established businesses. Typical investment sizes range from a few million euros up to about €50 million, with a preference for leading roles on the board to drive growth. Gilde Healthcare targets opportunities in Europe and the United States, including Benelux and the DACH region, and seeks exits through IPOs, strategic sales, or other liquidity events. It maintains international reach through activities across its networks and partnerships.

OrbiMed is a healthcare-focused investment firm based in New York, founded in 1989, with approximately $5 billion in assets under management. It engages in private equity, venture capital, and growth investments across the global healthcare landscape, spanning biopharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences tools, medical devices, diagnostics, health care services, and digital health. The firm invests across the development spectrum, from startup ventures to mature companies, and pursues opportunities worldwide, including North America, Europe, Asia, Israel and India, leveraging a long-standing specialization in the sector. Through its diversified capital programs, OrbiMed partners with management to advance innovative therapies, tools, and services that address significant medical needs.

Draper Associates is a venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups worldwide, investing from pre-seed to Series A and maintaining an industry-agnostic, opportunistic stance. It seeks transformative ideas across AI, robotics, biotech, fintech, crypto, space, defense, software as a service, cloud, new media, gaming, and other deep technologies, aiming to support teams with the potential to disrupt markets and drive substantial growth. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

aMoon Fund is a venture capital firm focused on healthtech and life sciences. Based in Ra'anana, Israel, it was founded in 2016 by Marius Nacht and Dr. Yair Schindel. The firm invests in early and later-stage companies across the United States, Europe and Israel, targeting healthtech, digital health, biopharma, medical technology and other life sciences ventures that apply technology and cutting-edge science to accelerate cures and address global healthcare cost drivers. It partners with management teams to scale companies that aim to deliver meaningful clinical and commercial impact.

CRV, originally Charles River Ventures, is a Palo Alto–based venture capital firm founded in 1970 that focuses on seed to Series B investments in technology, consumer, and healthcare companies across North America. The firm pursues a hands-on, value-added approach to help portfolio companies grow into category leaders, and it has a long track record of backing startups that later went public or were acquired. CRV manages about $1.5 billion in capital and maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Menlo Park, California.

Valor Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, that invests in early-stage and seed companies across the Southeast United States, with an emphasis on underrepresented and female-led teams. The firm concentrates on B2B AI and SaaS, software, fintech, platform software (PaaS), consumer tech, and health tech, prioritizing companies with at least one female founder and aiming to support the demographic shift toward a minority-majority economy. Valor typically makes seed investments in the range of 1-2 million and targets opportunities outside Silicon Valley, notably along the East Coast and Southeast. The firm emphasizes inclusive entrepreneurship and operates Startup Runway, a major pitch event for underrepresented founders, supporting founders through its network of investors and institutional partners.

Broadview Ventures, Inc. is the venture capital arm of the Foundation Leducq, established in 2008 to accelerate the development of cardiovascular and neurovascular technologies. Based in Boston, the firm backs early-stage companies working in therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and regenerative therapies for cardiovascular, metabolic, and neurovascular diseases. It typically makes equity investments up to approximately $1 million and collaborates with licensing and consortium funding to support translational progress. The program seeks opportunities across North America and Europe, providing strategic guidance and funding to bridge critical early-stage gaps in promising science.

Argon Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It focuses on early-stage technology investments and seeks founding teams that combine deep industry insight with novel technology platforms, often leveraging proprietary data to create globally scalable businesses.

Sprig Equity is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 and based in Wilmette, Illinois. The company focuses on growth equity and late-stage investments primarily in the healthcare sector. Sprig Equity aims to partner with top-tier teams and innovative medical technology companies to enhance patient outcomes. By concentrating on this sector, the firm seeks to drive advancements in healthcare through strategic investments.

MK Capital is a United States-based venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2003. It concentrates on early and growth-stage technology companies, focusing on software and other technology-enabled sectors and primarily targets opportunities in the U.S. market. The firm provides strategic capital, deep operating expertise, and hands-on collaboration, including active board participation to help portfolio companies scale. MK Capital operates from multiple offices in the Chicago area and on the West Coast, including Northbrook, Deerfield, Ann Arbor, and Santa Monica, reflecting a broad regional footprint. By partnering with management teams on strategy, operations, and technology, the firm aims to accelerate growth for disruptive B2B software and related technology businesses.

Joint Effects is a venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2022. It invests in fintech, deep tech, web3, and health technology sectors.

Hillside Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Mansfield, Connecticut, founded in 2020. It makes early-stage investments in companies focused on sustainability, insurtech, and edtech, and it supports ventures connected to the University of Connecticut, including those founded by University of Connecticut alumni. The firm leverages a network of alumni for mentorship and guidance to help portfolio companies grow.

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.