FreshTracks Capital is a Vermont-based private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2000 and headquartered in Shelburne. It concentrates on seed and early-stage technology-driven companies in the United States, with a regional focus on Vermont and surrounding Northeast states such as New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The firm backs startups across multiple sectors, including software and information technology, healthcare technology, energy, media, advanced manufacturing, and consumer products, often supporting several rounds of financing as companies grow. FreshTracks typically makes equity investments in partnership with Village Ventures, sizing deals from tens of thousands to a few million dollars depending on the fund, and it aims to build diversified portfolios across its vintage funds. The firm has managed several funds, including FreshTracks III (2014), FreshTracks IV (2016) and FreshTracks Growth Fund (2019), reflecting a steady strategy of regional tech investment and hands-on support through networks and resources.

Features Capital, founded in 2022 and located in Norwich, Vermont, is a venture capital firm focused on the medtech sector. The firm is dedicated to investing in and collaborating with teams to develop innovative solutions aimed at significantly improving patient outcomes and enhancing health economics. Additionally, Features Capital is committed to addressing health disparities, striving to create equitable access to healthcare innovations.

Hula is a venture capital investment firm based in Burlington, Vermont, founded in 2019. It concentrates on seed and early-stage technology startups, with emphasis on deeptech, greentech, medtech, artificial intelligence and machine learning, electric propulsion, SaaS, and battery technology, primarily in Vermont and the wider Northern New England region. The firm supports entrepreneurs by providing early funding, mentorship, and access to its professional network to help accelerate growth and bring disruptive technologies to market.

CORI Innovation Fund is an early-stage technology venture capital fund affiliated with the Center on Rural Innovation, based in Hartland, Vermont. It targets United States–based information technology and other technology companies that generate revenue and seek to scale, primarily at the seed stage though later-stage transactions may be considered. The fund concentrates on opportunities in rural areas, aiming to support innovative startups that advance technology adoption and economic growth in rural communities.

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.

Craft Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that focuses on early-stage and growth investments to help build innovative companies. The firm backs teams with strong leadership and scalable business models across sectors including software, e-commerce, consumer and enterprise technology, information technology, and fintech, with additional interest in cryptocurrency and blockchain ventures. It combines entrepreneurial experience with investment acumen to identify next generation world-changing companies and provides strategic guidance and operational support to help founders scale.

Betaworks is a New York-based technology company that operates as an accelerator, an investment platform, and a community hub through Betaworks Studios. Founded in the mid-2000s, it supports early-stage startups by running accelerator programs and investing in technology-focused ventures. The organization emphasizes building and scaling startups across information technology, software-as-a-service, gaming, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, and related frontier technologies. Betaworks Studios provides a membership space where entrepreneurs can meet, collaborate, attend events, and access guidance to advance projects. Through its activities, Betaworks aims to foster talent, accelerate product development, and connect founders with resources and peers.

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 and based in London with additional offices in San Francisco and Geneva, supporting entrepreneurs shaping technology-driven global businesses by investing across early and growth stages in software, TMT, and related sectors including artificial intelligence, data, fintech, healthcare, and mobility, and partnering with founders to scale companies globally.

LaunchCapital is a venture capital investment firm founded in 2008 and based in New Haven, Connecticut, with offices in Boston, New York, New Haven, and San Francisco. The firm concentrates on seed and early-stage opportunities across technology, consumer, and medical markets, including commerce, marketplace models, media and entertainment, enterprise software and services, emerging tech, data, finance, healthcare, and medical technology. It operates two investment vehicles: LaunchCapital Ventures, which provides equity investments in startups with exponential growth potential, and LaunchCapital Small Business, which blends equity and debt financing to support locally or regionally focused businesses with near-term revenue. Typical seed investments target around $50k to $150k, with plans for significant follow-on investments in exceptional companies as they scale.

Oak HC/FT is a Stamford, Connecticut-based venture and growth equity firm that concentrates on healthcare information services and financial technology. It supports entrepreneurs with strategic counsel, board‑level participation, and access to an extensive network of industry leaders to drive transformation in these sectors. The firm draws on Oak Investment Partners’ sector expertise to build and grow innovative businesses, with a history of notable exits and large valuations. Founded in 2014, Oak HC/FT targets both growth‑stage and early‑stage companies in the United States, aiming to deliver strong value for investors.

Initialized Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that concentrates on early-stage technology investments, with a focus on seed opportunities. It manages multiple funds and has a team of investing partners, supporting technology startups through the initial funding stages.

Third Sphere is a Brooklyn-based venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in climate action technologies. Founded in 2013, it backs early-stage companies across energy, food, water, waste, transportation, healthcare, and government technology, with a track record of over 100 portfolio companies delivering greenhouse gas reductions and resilience. The firm emphasizes first-in capital to support inception and broaden ownership before Series A, and it seeks to unlock institutional funding for its portfolio. It relies on a proprietary network of more than 12,000 professionals to enable thousands of 1:1 introductions annually, accelerating portfolio growth. The leadership is recognized in climate tech circles for investing in durable companies at the intersection of technology and sustainability.

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.

Day One Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, with an additional office in New York. It focuses on early-stage investments in disruptive technologies across AI and machine learning, fintech (including blockchain), consumer products, edtech, healthcare and mental health, marketplaces, AR/VR, quantum, space, climate and energy, and other frontier sectors; it typically invests from $100,000 to $5 million across pre-seed to seed rounds and occasionally Series A. The firm backs customer-obsessed portfolio companies and spearheads their communications, taking a hands-on approach to support growth. The founder is Masha Drokova.

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.

Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Beverly Hills, California, founded in 2015, that invests in technology companies at early and mid stages and operates as a registered investment adviser.

Boston Seed Capital is a venture capital firm focused on seed- and early-stage investments in internet-enabled and technology-driven companies. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with an office in Wellesley Hills, it backs startups across the United States in consumer goods, business services and technology, including information technology, software and SaaS, cybersecurity, e-commerce, big data, marketplaces, and artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Qure Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Herzliya, Israel, specializing in digital health investments. Founded in 2012, it is led by experienced digital health veterans with a track record of founding, growing, and exiting companies over two decades. The firm concentrates on early to growth-stage startups in Israel and leverages a network of strategic partnerships across consumer, provider, payer, and pharmaceutical domains to expedite market entry and clinical trial opportunities for portfolio companies.

IA Capital Group is a New York-based independent venture capital firm focused on insurance technology and financial technology. Founded in 1992, the firm backs early- and growth-stage insurtech and fintech companies across areas such as payments, financial infrastructure, property and casualty insurtech, life and health insurtech, lending, capital markets, wealth technology, and retirement technology. It also incubates startups and runs strategic venture programs with insurers, collaborating with 16 insurers to support portfolio growth. The firm pursues direct investments across venture and growth stages in the United States, Canada, and parts of Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, typically taking both majority and minority stakes. IA Capital Group operates independently in the venture space and focuses on opportunities at the intersection of insurance and financial services.

OrbiMed is a healthcare-focused investment firm founded in 1989 and based in New York. It manages about $5 billion in assets and pursues investments across the healthcare spectrum through private equity, venture capital, and public equity strategies. The firm backs early-stage start-ups, growth companies, and a family of funds such as the Caduceus Private Investments venture funds and related public equity vehicles. With a global footprint, it maintains offices in New York, San Francisco, Mumbai, Herzliya, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Luxembourg, and invests in companies across biopharmaceuticals, life sciences, medical devices, diagnostics, health IT, and healthcare services globally, including North America, Europe, and Asia.

Optum is a health services and innovation company dedicated to helping people live healthier lives. It designs a healthcare system that connects people, places, and ideas across the ecosystem to deliver personalized care, including medication, healthcare financial services, and guidance, along with technology and services for health plan providers. The company offers a broad range of medical services, including family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, women's health, substance use treatment, and mental health, as well as care for common conditions of the eyes, ears, skin, and nervous system. By integrating data, insights, and digital tools, Optum seeks to improve access, care coordination, and the efficiency of the medical system for patients, providers, and employers in collaboration with health plans and other partners.

Patamar Capital is a venture capital firm that backs early- to growth-stage technology-enabled companies in South and Southeast Asia. Founded in 2011, the firm focuses on mass-market opportunities and seeks to generate financial returns along with social impact by investing in sectors such as financial services, education, health, supply chain services, and agriculture, as well as other technology-driven businesses serving the emerging middle class.

Route 66 Ventures is a venture capital firm with a global footprint and a credit arm, based in Alexandria, Virginia. Founded in 2012, it backs seed through growth stage fintech and financial services companies, and also focuses on adjacent areas such as digital health, healthcare technology, wellness, and technology sectors. The firm operates a Venture Capital unit that invests across the financial services ecosystem worldwide, and a Credit unit that funds alternative lending platforms by purchasing whole loans or providing secured debt facilities, enabling balance sheet support for innovative business models.

Volta Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Ghent, Belgium, with an additional office in Amsterdam. Founded in 2014, it provides seed and early-stage capital to internet and software companies in the Benelux region, with a focus on enterprise software and SaaS. The firm supports founders with active guidance, market and customer development, senior talent recruitment, and ongoing financing rounds, leveraging a network that includes business angels to help portfolio companies grow.

Scribble Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 and based in Portola Valley, California. It targets seed and early-stage startups across business-to-business, commercial services, information technology, healthcare, and software as a service sectors, and focuses on Pre-Seed through Series A rounds. The firm typically writes initial checks in the range of 300,000 to 750,000 dollars, and collaborates with other angel investors and seed funds to support portfolio companies. Beyond capital, Scribble Ventures leverages its network of operators, executives, and investors to help accelerate growth, enhance recruiting, and strengthen future fundraising efforts.

Animoca Brands is a global developer, publisher, and platform provider in the Web3, metaverse, and blockchain gaming space. It leverages gamification and blockchain to create and publish mobile games and IP-based products, including titles tied to well-known brands, while enabling digital property rights through non-fungible and fungible tokens. The company operates a platform that allows intellectual property holders to issue assets, monetize rights, and grow fan communities within Web3 ecosystems. It also supports a venture arm that finances and mentors creators and early-stage projects in blockchain, gaming, and related technologies. With regional initiatives to advance Web3 strategies for Japanese IP holders, Animoca Brands pursues global expansion of digital ownership, transparency, and new business models across gaming and branded content.

Kering is a global holding company and one of the leading luxury goods groups, owning a diversified portfolio of luxury fashion, leather goods, jewelry and watches, as well as sport and lifestyle brands. Its luxury stable includes Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Brioni, Pomellato and Boucheron, among others, while its sport and lifestyle segment features Puma along with several other brands. Gucci is the flagship brand and accounts for a substantial share of revenue and profits, with other major labels contributing to a broad, multi-brand portfolio. The company focuses on owning and managing brand-led businesses across geographies and product categories, and it operates a venture investment arm that acquires minority stakes in startups to support strategic innovation.

WAGMI Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 that concentrates on cryptocurrency and web3 opportunities. Based in New York, it invests in crypto and web3 companies, often through a collective network to source and support portfolio growth.

Divergent Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York, founded in 2020, that provides venture capital financing to startups and early-stage companies with high growth potential.

Gratitude Railroad is an investor community founded in 2013 in Park City, Utah, focused on impact investing. It aligns its activities to address environmental and social challenges and emphasizes measurable outcomes as part of its theory of change. The group seeks to shift capital from traditional finance toward impact investing and pursues opportunities across sectors, including agriculture, seeking to generate positive social and environmental effects alongside financial returns.

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.

Shrug Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2018, it focuses on investing in consumer-focused startups, primarily in the consumer sector. The firm backs early-stage and growth opportunities across consumer products and services, helping startups scale in a competitive market.

Angel Collective Opportunity Fund is an angel network firm founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California, that focuses on technology companies. It connects individual investors with early and growth opportunities and provides strategic guidance to portfolio companies. The organization is led by a group of managers including Sriram Krishnan, Cindy Bi, Jens Lapinski, Anthony Pompliano, Kat Cole, Tim Chen, Julia Lipton and Tommy Leep.

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.

Breyer Capital is a global venture capital and private equity investor founded by Jim Breyer in 2006. The firm pursues long-term, idea-driven strategic investments across core technology sectors, including social media, entertainment and media, digital health, and financial technologies, with broader interest in quantum, artificial intelligence, health tech, consumer software, media and gaming, enterprise data, security, and climate-related opportunities. It partners with early-stage startups, fast-growing companies, and established corporations to catalyze high-impact entrepreneurship in the United States and China and beyond. The team draws on a network of investors and founder/operator insights to frame investments and believes advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual reality will transform technology and investment opportunities globally.

1984 Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that focuses on technology startups. It engages in seed and early-stage investments as well as growth-capital transactions, with a portfolio spanning software, services, SaaS, fintech, healthcare, consumer, e-commerce, and marketplace sectors. The firm targets areas including artificial intelligence and machine learning, open source, supply chain, proptech/fintech, and infrastructure, and it generally does not take board representation.

AltaIR Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded in 2005, backing seed- and early-stage startups across sectors including productivity tools, future of work, software as a service, fintech, insurtech, artificial intelligence, and digital health.

Promus Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital firm, founded in 2012, with an additional office in San Francisco. It specializes in early-stage investments in software and deep-tech companies, including analytics, data-driven products and services, mobile, digital media, tools, connected web, and hardware. The firm typically targets seed and Series A rounds and pursues opportunities globally, supporting visionary founding teams as they commercialize innovative technologies.

Midnight Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 and based in Austin, Texas. It invests in the consumer packaged goods sector and supports early-stage brands with capital plus sales, marketing, and operational assistance to accelerate value creation. By pairing industry experts with capital partners, the firm helps portfolio companies achieve smart, scalable growth in the consumer packaged goods market.

Trousdale Ventures is a private venture capital firm led by founder and CEO Phillip Sarofim. Founded in 2018, it supports seed to growth-stage companies across technology, enterprise software, cybersecurity, fintech, renewable energy, consumer products, health and wellness, climate tech, space and mobility, and related sectors that address societal challenges. The firm pursues mission-driven opportunities that can catalyze positive change and accelerate innovation, including efforts to democratize wellness and improve quality of life. Typical investments range from $1 million to $5 million per deal, and the firm maintains a California base with additional offices in Austin and Los Angeles.

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.

Scout Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, United States. It focuses on frontier and dual-use technologies with national security and commercial applications, investing in sectors such as space and aerospace, autonomy, quantum technologies, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, drones, robotics, autonomous mobility, cybersecurity, and software-as-a-service. The firm provides capital, strategic support, and operational expertise to mission-driven founders, leveraging a network of professional investors, operators, and experienced entrepreneurs to advance its investment thesis.

Volta Energy Technologies is a venture firm founded in 2017 and based in Naperville, Illinois, focused on battery and energy storage technologies. It identifies and supports entrepreneurs and companies solving key technical challenges in transportation, the electric grid, and portable electronics, and collaborates with strategic investors to bring transformative energy storage solutions to market. The firm works with researchers and industry partners, including research agreements with national laboratories such as Argonne National Laboratory, to validate technologies and accelerate development. By helping corporate partners leverage breakthrough energy storage innovations, Volta aims to create strategic advantages for its clients while delivering financial returns.

Unpopular Ventures is a San Francisco, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that focuses on technology companies. It makes active investments across a broad range of startups, supporting companies through various growth stages. Since inception it has deployed approximately 75 million dollars across roughly 500 startups, including Zepto, Jeeves, and Yassir, reflecting a high level of ongoing deal activity.

HumanCo is a mission-driven holding company dedicated to promoting healthier living and sustainability. It invests in and builds brands that focus on creating impactful and cleaner consumer products aimed at improving health outcomes. Recognizing the concerning trend of declining life expectancy in current generations, HumanCo seeks to reverse this phenomenon by fostering meaningful change through its investments and incubations. The company employs a long-term strategy to advance consumer health and enhance trust in its brands, ultimately benefiting clients through its comprehensive approach to incubation, investment, and growth.

Avalanche VC is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 and based in New York. It funds technology companies that transform how people learn, earn, and own, with a focus on the future of work, learning technology, govtech, and the ownership economy.

Learn Capital is a venture capital firm focused on education technology. It invests in early to mid-stage edtech startups worldwide, funding innovative learning platforms, content and services that expand access to education. The firm emphasizes global reach, including opportunities in emerging markets, and maintains offices in San Mateo, California; Austin, Texas; and Beijing, China.

Spacecadet Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that seeks investments in artificial intelligence, energy, space, biotechnology, and robotics. It is described as The Marketing VC, focusing on moonshot ventures and helping their teams tell their stories.

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