FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. It is stage-agnostic and focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups, making seed and Series A investments. Typical checks range from 50,000 to 5,000,000 dollars. The firm supports early-stage companies across sectors such as e-commerce, fintech, ad tech, mobile, and software-as-a-service, seeking opportunities with high growth potential in the United States and internationally. Its portfolio includes a mix of consumer brands and marketplace platforms, reflecting an emphasis on business models that connect buyers and sellers or enable direct consumer experiences. FJ Labs aims to back entrepreneurs building scalable, disruptively positioned products and services, often partnering with founders early in their development to help accelerate growth.

Cleveland Avenue is a venture capital firm based in Chicago, established in 2015, that makes investments across seed-stage through growth-stage rounds in food and beverage companies, lifestyle consumer brands, AgTech, and technology.

Source Code Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that invests in Chinese technology companies across both early and growth stages. The firm centers its thesis on three drivers—Internet+, AI+, and Global+—and targets sectors including media and entertainment, consumer services, enterprise technology, finance, retail, transportation, housing, education, and healthcare. It has backed leading Chinese technology founders, including Bytedance, Meituan, and Homelink, and operates a post-investment platform that offers mentorship, resources, and global perspectives to help portfolio companies scale. Source Code Capital focuses on the TMT space in China and seeks to support innovative startups with long-term growth potential.

Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. Headquartered in New York City with offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto, it concentrates on growth-stage software, internet, and data services, with notable focus areas including fintech, cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and healthcare. Founded in 1995, Insight Partners manages over $75 billion in regulatory assets under management and has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide, with over 55 portfolio companies achieving an IPO. The firm combines capital with hands-on, right-sized software expertise to support portfolio companies on their growth journey from first investment to IPO.

K2VC is a Beijing-based venture capital firm focused on angel and early-stage investments in technology-driven startups in China. Founded in 2010, it backs ventures in internet, e-commerce, mobile internet, fintech, and other technology sectors, emphasizing technology upgrades, innovative business models, and changes in consumer lifestyles. The firm supports early-stage companies across areas such as advanced manufacturing, new energy, industrial digitalization, healthcare, and consumer technology to accelerate growth and innovation in the Chinese market.

Strong Ventures is a Los Angeles-based investment firm focused on seed-stage opportunities in the United States and South Korea. Operating as a seed fund and venture capital investor, it finances, supports, and mentors entrepreneurs, including Korean, Asian, and global founders, helping them build and scale ventures in global markets. The firm emphasizes hands-on assistance, network access, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration to create tangible value for portfolio companies. Its sector coverage spans software as a service, content, mobility, food technology, e-commerce, healthcare, fashion, fintech, blockchain, travel, gaming, education, community/platform, consumer goods, property technology, life science, beauty, sports, human resource recruiting, and media. Strong Ventures aims to empower founders to grow sustainable businesses across industries.

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.

Alliance Consumer Growth is a New York-based private equity firm focusing on growth and expansion investments in consumer brands across the United States. With an office in Los Angeles, it backs food and beverage, personal care, beauty, pet care, restaurants, apparel and related consumer sectors by providing growth capital and a value-added partnership designed to accelerate brand development, distribution and scale. The firm seeks to collaborate with promising consumer goods, retail and leisure brands, offering strategic guidance and operational support to help them expand market reach and performance.

7wire Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 and based in Chicago. It focuses on early-stage investments in digital health, healthcare IT, mobile and technology-enabled services in the United States. The firm seeks to back companies that disrupt traditional approaches and provides funding along with operating guidance to help turn innovative ideas into scalable businesses. By combining capital with hands-on support and industry insight, 7wire Ventures aims to accelerate the development of digital health solutions and related technologies, guiding portfolio companies from early stages toward growth opportunities and lasting impact.

IDG Capital is a global investment firm that backs technology-focused companies across stages, from early to growth. With a blend of international reach and local market insight, the firm mobilizes resources to help portfolio companies scale in China, Asia, and beyond. It partners with private equity and venture capital fund managers and other investment entities, drawing on a broad base of limited partners including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, institutions, and family offices. The team combines deep local knowledge with global perspectives to identify opportunities and provide strategic support, governance, and access to networks that accelerate growth. IDG Capital targets software, information technology, consumer and healthcare sectors, among others, and pursues a long-term value strategy through active collaboration with management teams and ecosystem players rather than short-term financing alone.

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.

Hiventures is a venture capital investment firm headquartered in Budapest, Hungary. It backs startups across multiple sectors and supports high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises, with the aim of fostering a sustainable and competitive SME and enterprise ecosystem in Hungary and the broader Central and Eastern Europe region. The firm is described as one of the largest and most active venture capital partners in Central and Eastern Europe.

Aozora Corporate Investment is the corporate venture capital arm of Aozora Bank in Tokyo, Japan. It invests in Japanese small and medium-sized enterprises to support domestic growth.

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

ISAI is a Paris-based venture capital firm that backs technology-driven companies, with a focus on software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, and related technology sectors such as data, sustainability, and 5G. It pursues early-stage and expansion investments in French and European internet and tech businesses, supporting portfolio companies with capital and strategic guidance to accelerate growth.

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.

Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors and venture capital firms that supports technology and healthcare startups across the United States, China, Israel, India and Southeast Asia. It partners with entrepreneurs by offering hands-on operating experience and broad access to capital, talent, partners and customers to help build global businesses. The firm focuses on early to growth-stage investments in software infrastructure, developer tools, data, security, vertical SaaS, enterprise software and healthcare technologies, drawing on a wide international footprint that includes the US, Israel, Singapore and China. Vertex Ventures emphasizes active portfolio involvement and leverages the broader Vertex network to create value for portfolio companies through strategic guidance and partnerships.

Skalata Ventures is an Australian venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments in startups, primarily in Australia. Based in Docklands, Victoria, the firm concentrates on consumer products and information technology sectors and is known for offering extensive hands-on support, including one-on-one coaching, to help founders navigate the seed stage and build capabilities for long-term growth.

Faraday Venture Partners is a Madrid-based venture investment firm that operates as a private investors club to support early-stage startups across Europe. The organization analyzes innovative projects in need of private financing, identifying investment opportunities for partners, co-investors, and business angels. It provides project analysis and confidential due diligence, guides active management of investment stakes, and conducts acquisition and exit assessments of existing portfolio interests. The firm emphasizes ongoing involvement with portfolio companies, offering personalized support and resources to entrepreneurial ventures and facilitating strategic empowerment initiatives. Founded in 2011, Faraday Venture Partners focuses on building long-term relationships with portfolio companies and partners, combining rigorous evaluation with hands-on guidance to foster growth and successful exits.

JIC Venture Growth Investments is the venture capital arm of Japan Investment Corporation, based in Tokyo and established in 2020. It targets growth-stage technology startups to promote innovation and enhance international competitiveness, supporting new technologies and businesses across sectors including manufacturing, transportation, monitoring equipment, drug discovery, healthcare, fintech, edtech, education, and financial services.

Global Founders Capital is a Berlin, Germany-based venture capital firm with a global focus that invests across seed, early, and later-stage companies. It maintains a stage-agnostic approach, seeking innovative ideas with potential impact and feasibility in global markets.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that invests in early-stage technology startups. It specializes in pre-seed and seed rounds for capital-efficient companies, with a focus on the United States and Canada and occasional activity in Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. The firm typically makes 75 to 100 investments per year, with round sizes from 50,000 to 500,000 and pre-money valuations ranging from 1,000,000 to 3,500,000. Portfolio companies are typically located outside the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and the firm aims to provide a clear yes or no on opportunities within about two weeks.

Bayern Kapital is the venture capital arm of LfA Förderbank Bayern, the Bavarian development bank. Based in Landshut, Germany, it finances research and development and the market introduction of new products, product diversification, and expansion of market share for Bavarian companies. It focuses on high‑tech sectors such as information technology, software, life sciences, biotechnology, nanotechnology, micro-systems, materials and environmental technologies, and supports small and medium-sized enterprises located in Bavaria. Typical investments range from €0.25 million to €9 million, targeting seed through growth stages, and the firm has backed more than 250 startups and growth companies since its founding in 1995.

Founded in 2015, Elevation Capital Partners is a growth equity firm based in Paris, France. It focuses on making investments in growth equity and venture capital opportunities.

Foundry Group is a Boulder, Colorado-based venture capital firm founded in 2007 that specializes in information technology, Internet and software companies across North America. It funds both early-stage and later-stage ventures and has launched multiple funds, including a fifth fund of about $225 million. Since inception it has invested in more than 100 companies as institutional investors and in more than 50 as angel investors, with a focus on software, digital services and related technology sectors.

Feenix Venture Partners is a New York-based investment firm established in 2017 that provides growth capital through equity, debt, and hybrid investments to U.S. consumer-focused sectors, including retail, food and beverage, education, health and wellness, lifestyle brands, and consumer services. The firm also engages in direct lending to small and medium-sized businesses via a venture lending platform that monetizes credit card processing fees to improve lending economics, enabling a distinctive origination model and potential outsized returns for portfolio companies.

ZhenFund is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Bob Xu and Victor Wang in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. Headquartered in Beijing, it focuses on seed and early-stage investments, supporting entrepreneurs with mentorship, resources, and a large network. The firm has a portfolio of more than 800 companies, including numerous unicorns in China, and offers services such as biannual demo days, ZhenHR, marketing and PR consulting, and fundraising assistance. Its extensive CEO network enhances collaboration among entrepreneurs, notably through its WeChat platform. ZhenFund has earned recognition as a leading early-stage investor for multiple years, and its founders and partners have frequently appeared on prestigious lists such as the Midas List, reflecting its prominence in China’s startup ecosystem.

We Founder Circle is a Mumbai-based global community of successful founders and strategic angels that collaborates with early-stage startups to support growth through seed funding, business development, and global networking. Founded in 2020, it operates as an angel network investment firm connecting entrepreneurs with mentorship, capital, and international opportunities.

CDH Investments is an international alternative asset manager based in Beijing with offices in Hong Kong. Established in 2002, it runs a diversified platform across private equity, venture capital, growth, real assets, mezzanine, public equities, and wealth management, focusing on Greater China. The firm invests across stages from early to middle-market buyouts, targeting consumer, hard technology, new energy, and healthcare sectors, as well as related areas such as information technology, media, finance, and manufacturing. With experienced investment teams that have collaborated for years, CDH seeks to generate value through its China-focused approach, managing over $27 billion in assets.

Lanai Ventures is a Barcelona-based venture capital firm, founded in 2016, that backs early-stage startups in Spain with a sector-agnostic approach focused on pre-seed and seed rounds. It leverages a network of prominent founders who participate as investors, providing strategic guidance and connections to portfolio companies across information technology, financial services, consumer products and services, and related sectors.

Mad’a Investment Company is the private equity and venture capital arm of Abdul Aziz Al Othaim & Sons Holding Company, specializing in growth capital investments with a focus on the Saudi Arabian market. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Riyadh, the firm works with management teams to unlock value and drive performance across its portfolio. It seeks to contribute to the Kingdom’s development and aligns its investment approach with national priorities, including Vision 2030. The company has expanded its presence with additional offices in Seef, Bahrain, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to support regional opportunities and collaboration with portfolio companies.

BlueRun Ventures is a venture capital firm with offices in the United States and Asia, including Shanghai, Beijing and Korea. Founded in 1998, the firm invests globally in technology-driven companies with emphasis on mobile opportunities, fintech, digital health, enterprise software, and consumer experiences. It has backed more than 160 companies and achieved notable exits including PayPal, Waze, Topsy, and Coupa. Historically branded as Nokia Venture Partners, the firm rebranded to BlueRun Ventures in 2005. It operates as a registered investment adviser and manages multiple venture funds targeting software and related technology opportunities across the United States, Asia, Israel, and the United Kingdom.

ICONIQ Capital is a global multi-family office and investment firm that provides financial advisory and family office services while making direct investments across asset classes. The firm emphasizes technology growth equity, venture capital, middle-market buyouts, and real estate, and operates an integrated platform that supports founders and high-net-worth clients. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Palo Alto and Singapore, ICONIQ Capital combines wealth management with strategic investments, including a growth-focused arm that backs growth-stage technology and other sectors through its ecosystem of portfolio companies.

Kima Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Paris with an office in London, founded in 2010 by Xavier Niel. It invests in seed and early-stage startups worldwide, often as lead investor, and supports founders with funding, an extensive network, and guidance to accelerate product development and growth. The firm emphasizes rapid decision-making and aims to smooth fundraising so founders can focus on building their business. Described as a network of founders and experts with a pay it forward mindset, Kima has invested in hundreds of startups across multiple countries, reflecting its global reach and active early-stage engagement.

Nissay Capital is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm founded in 1991 that provides funding across seed, start-up, growth, middle, and later-stage investments, focusing on information technology, manufacturing, medical, distribution, and retail sectors.

Global Brain is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm founded in 1998 that backs technology companies from seed stage through growth rounds. It targets a broad range of sectors including AI, cloud and software, fintech, robotics, life sciences, media, and mobility, and pursues global investments across Europe, North America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. The firm emphasizes hands-on support and resources for portfolio companies, aiming to help them scale beyond financing. It operates a pure investment fund alongside corporate venture funds formed with leading public companies across telecom, real estate, financial services, beverages, agriculture and food, logistics, and electronics.

Übermorgen Ventures is a Zürich, Switzerland-based venture capital investment firm, founded in 2019. It backs climate-focused startups and early-stage companies across sectors including climate technology, clean energy, carbon capture, storage and utilization, green transportation and mobility, sustainable agriculture and food technology, advanced manufacturing and resource efficiency, and materials.

Math Venture Partners is a Chicago-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that invests in early to middle-stage technology companies in the United States and Canada. It targets sectors such as e-commerce, hardware-enabled software, marketplaces, software as a service, tech-enabled services, software and information technology, healthcare technology systems, ad tech, and IT services. The firm emphasizes a hands-on, partnership approach with entrepreneurs, seeking coachable teams with a strong customer acquisition focus, and has helped portfolio companies scale to successful exits.

Blume Ventures is a Mumbai-based venture capital firm that backs technology-driven startups in India at the seed to pre-Series A stage. It focuses on tech-enabled ventures across consumer internet, enterprise software, SaaS, and deep tech, among other areas, including fintech and healthcare. The firm typically serves as one of the first institutional investors in its portfolio companies, and it pursues a collaborative approach by co-investing with like-minded angels and seed funds. It provides follow-on capital to portfolio companies and offers mentoring and strategic support to help them scale, with an investment horizon of roughly 8-10 years.

SMBC Venture Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Tokyo, with an office in Osaka, the firm invests in growth capital and buyouts across multiple sectors. It targets information technology, life sciences, services, and manufacturing, supporting portfolio companies with strategic value and access to SMBC's network and resources.

Evolem is a Lyon, France-based private equity and venture capital firm that makes seed, growth capital, acquisitions and leveraged buyout investments across Europe. It backs small and mid-sized enterprises in sectors such as industrial goods and services, transport, consumer and financial services, agriculture, renewable energy, healthcare, and construction, with a focus on France’s regions including the South-East and Île-de-France. The firm typically pursues both minority and majority stakes and invests through platforms that target revenue ranges from roughly €10 million to €100 million, with equity investments up to about €35 million. Evolem also operates an early-stage vehicle for smaller French startups and emphasizes long-term partnerships, co-investment opportunities, and strategic consolidation.

Branded Hospitality is a New York-based venture capital firm focused on investing in the hospitality and technology sectors. It supports growth through venture investments in innovative brands and scalable solutions that transform food service and hospitality. The company also offers solutions to corporate partners to enhance operational efficiency, brand visibility, and market reach, including influencer marketing, digital storytelling, and strategic partnerships. Its media arm produces industry content, most notably The Hospitality Hangout podcast, to engage decision-makers and share insights. By combining capital, strategic guidance, and media, Branded Hospitality connects emerging brands, technology providers, and partners to drive transformation in the hospitality industry.

Palm Tree Crew is a global entertainment, hospitality, and investment company that develops a consumer brand, produces music festivals, operates destination venues, and backs early-stage startups to enable cultural experiences and related services. It was co-founded by Kygo alongside Myles Shear and Austin Criden, and the group conducts live events, talent management and hospitality ventures through its brand and related ventures.

FuturePlay is a startup accelerator and early-stage investor based in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2014. It operates an accelerator that provides funding, hands-on management support, and access to a collaborative ecosystem in exchange for a small stake to help deep tech ventures launch and scale. The firm specializes in deep tech startups, has invested in dozens of companies primarily in Korea with a growing share from the United States, and is expanding into Southeast Asia including Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. It runs two programs, TechUP and TechUP+, the latter a co-acceleration with large enterprises focused on specific industries; TechUP+ has sponsorships from major brands such as AmorePacific and is fostering beauty tech ventures. FuturePlay also participates as a limited partner in tech-focused funds like 500 Kimchi and Zeroth.ai and receives backing from global corporations including Cisco, DeNA, LG, NHN, and SK Planet.

Edition Capital is a London-based venture capital firm that provides growth and early-stage funding to UK companies in entertainment, leisure, hospitality, lifestyle, well-being, content creation, IP, digital and technology sectors. Founded in 2015, it typically invests between £0.5 million and £5 million per round in post-revenue businesses, supporting expansion in areas such as marketplaces, live events, food and beverage, immersive experiences, and TV and music production.

Torch Capital is a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs consumer technology companies and the infrastructure layers that power them. It supports visionary founders using technology to transform how consumers and businesses operate, focusing on opportunities in the consumer and technology sectors.

Plum Ventures is a venture capital firm based in China that concentrates on seed and early-stage investments. It backs technology, new media, telecommunications, consumer-focused businesses, and related sectors such as hardware, the new economy, and internet finance. The firm typically invests in rounds ranging from RMB 2 million to RMB 30 million. Founded in 2014, Plum Ventures supports early-stage companies across China, helping them scale and innovate in fast-changing markets.

DLF Venture is a family-owned investment company based in Luxembourg, founded in 2016. It focuses on consumer-oriented sectors, primarily investing in food and beverage, health and care, edtech, and innovative retail and hospitality, with a strong preference for markets in Western Europe. The firm targets companies at various stages, including seed, early, and later stages, emphasizing products and services that foster strong branding and a direct-to-consumer business model. DLF Venture maintains operations in key locations such as Brussels and London, reflecting its commitment to nurturing consumer-focused innovations.

Greater Sum Ventures is a Knoxville, Tennessee-based private equity firm that targets lower-middle market software and technology-enabled services companies. It provides growth and acquisition financing, including management and leveraged buyouts, as well as recapitalizations and restructurings for its portfolio companies. Founded in 2015, the firm concentrates on software, software-enabled information services, and tech-enabled business services, aiming to help growth-oriented companies scale through operational and strategic support.

Gaorong Capital is a Beijing-headquartered venture capital firm that targets early-stage technology investments in the Asia-Pacific region, with interests spanning telecommunications, media, life sciences, cosmetics, and other technology sectors.