Top investors in Charity
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OneCause
OneCause is a fundraising software company offering an online and event fundraising platform for nonprofits. The platform combines event management, online and peer-to-peer fundraising, text-to-give, mobile bidding, payment processing, online ticketing, and registration to simplify donor engagement and increase giving. Originally BidPal, the company rebranded as OneCause and is based in Indianapolis, founded in 2008. It has supported more than 14,000 organizations and helped raise over $8 billion, backed by millions of supporters and thousands of fundraisers. The company emphasizes partnerships with clients and provides ongoing support and resources to adapt to changing fundraising trends. OneCause has been recognized on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies and by Techpoint with a MIRA award for Mobile Technology Excellence and Innovation.
Made 9 investments in Charity
Mercia Ventures
Mercia Ventures is an early‑stage to scale‑up investment firm that provides growth capital to ambitious UK businesses. With a national presence, it offers tailored support and expertise to help companies expand and achieve their strategic objectives.
Made 2 investments in Charity
Right Side Capital Management
Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage, capital-efficient technology companies in the United States and Canada. It employs a quantitative, data-driven approach to identify opportunities, enabling fast, transparent funding decisions. The firm typically writes small checks in the range of 50,000 to 500,000 and provides founders with mentorship, operational guidance, and access to later-stage investors. Focusing on startups outside major hubs, it emphasizes revenue-generating models with scalable potential and aims to build a diversified portfolio while delivering practical post-investment support.
Made 12 investments in Charity
Opes Impact Fund
Opes Impact Fund is an Italy-based venture capital firm that invests in companies focused on creating positive social impact. The firm provides capital and support to enterprises that aim to address societal challenges while pursuing sustainable growth.
Made 4 investments in Charity
Ulu Ventures
Ulu Ventures is a Palo Alto, California-based venture capital firm specializing in seed and early-stage technology investments. It backs startups across enterprise software, B2B and B2C applications, healthtech, sustainability, fintech, edtech, blockchain, and internet-enabled consumer and business services. The firm often engages in co-investments with other angels or venture funds and targets investments in the range of $500,000 to $1,000,000. The portfolio emphasizes diverse founders, including women, minority, and immigrant entrepreneurs, reflecting a thesis that diversity is correlated with strong financial performance.
Made 7 investments in Charity
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company is a global biopharmaceutical leader focused on the research, development, manufacturing, and commercialization of medicines. It is Japan's largest pharmaceutical company, with a diversified portfolio across oncology, gastroenterology, neuroscience, rare diseases, and plasma-derived therapies that account for the majority of revenue. The company operates worldwide, with a substantial presence in the United States, Europe, Japan, and other regions. Takeda emphasizes patient-centric innovation, pursuing a robust pipeline of therapies and innovative approaches to improve healthcare access, alongside climate-ready healthcare initiatives and other corporate social responsibility efforts.
Made 7 investments in Charity
Northstar Ventures
Northstar Ventures is a Newcastle-based venture capital firm in the United Kingdom that invests in early and later-stage technology companies, with a focus on climate technology and healthy ageing, primarily in the United Kingdom and North East England. It supports portfolio companies with capital, strategic guidance, and access to a network including university partners, funders, non-executive directors, and talent, aiming to create jobs and growth in the region and beyond.
Made 11 investments in Charity
Love Ventures
Love Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that invests in early-stage UK startups in fintech, proptech, and consumer tech. The firm targets seed to Series A rounds and supports portfolio companies with strategic guidance across product strategy, go-to-market planning, fundraising, and scaling operations. Its team comprises investors, operators, and advisers with extensive startup and venture experience, and the firm emphasizes a patient capital approach.
Made 2 investments in Charity
Upaya Social Ventures
Upaya Social Ventures is a social ventures firm that invests in and supports early-stage entrepreneurs to create dignified, stable jobs for people in extreme poverty, with a focus on marginalized communities in India. Its approach combines investment, consulting, and an accelerator platform to help startups scale, formalize livelihoods, and generate sustainable employment for families in need. The organization emphasizes inclusive, safe work and aims to advance climate justice and circular economy solutions through its portfolio, partnering with social ventures that address waste reduction and resource recovery while expanding dignified work opportunities in underserved markets.
Made 1 investment in Charity
Mighty Capital
Mighty Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco that specializes in B2B technology investments. It employs a proprietary Product Alpha Effect to identify outlier companies by reading product signals earlier and leveraging a network of over 600,000 product leaders. The firm pursues a hands-on approach to help founders scale, preserve ownership, and improve odds of successful exits, offering founder-friendly terms and operational guidance alongside its investments.
Made 1 investment in Charity
Orbit Ventures
Orbit Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on technology-enabled growth in emerging markets. Based in Singapore, it funds and supports startups that digitize traditional industries to raise living standards, with activity across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. The firm targets digitalization in e-commerce, fintech, media, healthcare, education, and logistics, and emphasizes hands-on, long-term partnerships, including business development, fundraising and growth support, alongside initial investments and follow-on funding. It operates accelerator programs and hosts events to connect founders with mentors and investors, and pursues nimble execution and operational excellence to drive rapid, sustainable growth in portfolio companies.
Made 1 investment in Charity
Berkeley Frontier Fund
Berkeley Frontier Fund is a Berkeley, California-based venture capital firm established in 2022 that provides growth-stage funding to startups emerging from the UC Berkeley ecosystem. It operates as a philanthropic venture capital vehicle intended to return capital to Berkeley and align private-market incentives with the campus’s public-benefit mission. The firm invests across AI, hardware, materials science, biotech and related fields, leveraging a team of Berkeley alumni and a broader advisory network to support portfolio companies. By design, it emphasizes engagement with the Berkeley community to translate alumni value into impact, and it commits a portion of fund profits to support student programs in entrepreneurship, diversity and inclusion. The organization focuses on partnerships and a portfolio strategy aimed at sustaining Berkeley’s influence while fostering innovation connected to the university.
Minderoo Foundation
Minderoo Foundation is an Australian philanthropic organization based in Nedlands that seeks to address global challenges and create a fair future through grantmaking, strategic partnerships, policy advocacy, and evidence-based solutions. It supports community uplift, gender equality, protection of natural ecosystems, and responses to emerging threats, including initiatives related to Ukraine’s food security and the transition away from fossil fuel plastics. The foundation combines funding with collaboration and storytelling to scale measurable impact, and it engages in impact investing to advance sectors such as healthcare, clean technology, education, climate, and the environment. Minderoo emphasizes inclusion and kindness as guiding principles while coordinating resources and knowledge to drive systemic improvements across diverse regions and issues.
Spring Point Partners
Spring Point Partners is a Philadelphia-based social impact organization that focuses on fostering community-driven change and promoting social justice through collaboration. It invests in transformational leaders, networks, and innovative solutions across areas such as water sector leadership, wealth building, human-centered learning, youth development, animal welfare, and community-rooted leadership. The organization supports community leaders to drive lasting change through grant-making, impact investing, and professional development, aiming for solutions owned by those directly affected. It also shares learnings and resources through webinars and events to foster inclusivity, innovation, and governance.
New Impact Fund
New Impact Fund is a financing organization focused on improving access to capital for BIPOC and immigrant entrepreneurs in the Twin Cities. It provides low-cost, flexible capital and networking opportunities, working with mission-driven investors to support ventures that traditional lenders often overlook. The organization aims to reshape wealth creation by offering transformational capital and fostering intergenerational wealth building within BIPOC- and immigrant-owned businesses. It operates as a community of philanthropic leaders that mobilizes resources to support entrepreneurship, including donor engagement and member participation to sustain its mission.
LeanSquare
LeanSquare is a venture capital firm and accelerator based in Liège, Belgium, investing in seed, start-up and growth rounds and focusing on cultural and creative industries within entertainment technology, including MusicTech, SportsTech, gaming, e-sports and related areas; the firm supports portfolio companies with capital, expertise and networks and often pursues sequential investments to reinforce prior rounds while providing incubation and acceleration services to selected startups.
Made 1 investment in Charity
Allos Ventures
Allos Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs early-stage B2B software and technology-enabled services companies in the Midwest. Founded in 2010 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio, with offices near Indianapolis, Indiana, the firm partners with entrepreneurs to accelerate growth, build value, and develop investor syndicates. It emphasizes a hands-on, lead-investor approach, prioritizing companies with existing revenue and a defined product or service and aiming to minimize bureaucracy. Allos typically invests within a five-hour drive of Indianapolis and focuses on sectors the team understands well, leveraging experience to help portfolio companies navigate scaling, partnerships, and fundraising. The firm targets early-stage opportunities in the Midwest, supporting companies as they move from initial traction toward sustainable profitability.
Made 10 investments in Charity
ICONIQ Capital
ICONIQ Capital is a global private investment firm and multi-family office based in San Francisco, with offices in New York, Palo Alto and Singapore. It serves high-net-worth families and institutional clients by providing financial advisory and family office services, governance support, and direct investments across asset classes. The firm concentrates its investments in technology-related sectors, including enterprise software, fintech, information technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, analytics, and software-as-a-service, as well as infrastructure and real estate opportunities. It operates as an integrated investment platform that leverages ICONIQ’s ecosystem of founders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders to help portfolio companies grow from early growth to scale. ICONIQ Capital positions itself as a global manager of client assets, offering advice, capital deployment, and long-term wealth planning for a diversified client base.
Made 6 investments in Charity
Ground Game Ventures
Ground Game Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 and based in Indianapolis, Indiana. It focuses on early-stage B2B SaaS and seed investments, prioritizing companies that demonstrate early revenue and strong customer signals. The firm positions itself as a strategic partner, leveraging AI expertise in NLP, ML, and LLMs to help portfolio companies develop innovative products and navigate AI-driven transformation. It provides access to tech-enabled services via Stellar to support product development and competitive edge.
Made 3 investments in Charity
Bossa Invest
Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil. Established in 2011, it concentrates on software as a service investments and aims to back startups across Latin America. The firm supports portfolio companies with strategic guidance, industry connections, and market access, helping them scale and reach customers. In addition to traditional VC activity, Bossa Invest offers corporate venture capital partnerships to help corporations innovate through startup collaboration. Through its ecosystem, the firm has built a network of partners and co-investors to broaden opportunities for growth and exits across diverse sectors.
Made 10 investments in Charity
Big Issue Invest
Big Issue Invest is a London-based investment firm established in 2005 that concentrates on early-stage funding for social enterprises across the United Kingdom. It describes itself as the UK's first social merchant bank, operating by social entrepreneurs for social entrepreneurs to enable mission-driven businesses to scale and generate social impact.
Made 7 investments in Charity
Brinc
Brinc is a global venture accelerator and early-stage investor headquartered in Hong Kong. It operates multidisciplinary accelerator programs across several countries, focusing on blockchain, artificial intelligence, hardware and IoT, climate tech, food tech, and related technologies to help startups scale. Brinc partners with corporations, governments, and institutions to source and support innovative startups, develop distributed innovation strategies, and build Web3-enabled ventures. The company provides founders with resources such as training, mentorship networks, and online tools, and maintains a broad ecosystem through collaborations and co-investment opportunities, with recent expansion into North America and strategic ecosystem initiatives.
Made 3 investments in Charity
Uncork Capital
Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2004 and based in California, with offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco. It focuses on early-stage investments in software, consumer services, healthcare, financial technology, and other technology-enabled sectors across the United States and Canada, with a particular emphasis on AI-native ventures. The firm seeks founders with strong founder–market fit and the potential for rapid scale, and it typically takes an active, hands-on approach by partnering closely with portfolio companies from the seed round onward. Its approach centers on simplicity and transparency in terms and a long-term partnership that provides strategic guidance, go-to-market support, and operational advice beyond capital. Uncork Capital supports a diverse portfolio spanning consumer and enterprise software, AI, and technology-enabled services.
Made 4 investments in Charity
American Express
American Express is a global financial services company that provides charge and credit card products and a broad range of related services for individual and business customers. Its offerings include merchant services and a connected payments network, expense management tools, loyalty programs such as Membership Rewards, fraud prevention, and data analytics. The firm serves consumers and a wide spectrum of businesses, from small firms to large enterprises, with corporate programs and business card solutions. It operates through four segments: US consumer services, US commercial services, international card services, and global merchant and network services, supporting merchant acquisition, processing, servicing and settlement, and marketing services. American Express emphasizes travel-related services, customer experience, and digital transformation across its global footprint, with operations in about 130 countries.
Made 6 investments in Charity
Rev1 Ventures
Rev1 Ventures is a Midwest-based venture studio and early-stage investor based in Columbus, Ohio. It partners with founders across SaaS, AI, deep tech and life sciences to build and scale companies, providing support from market validation through venture readiness. The firm combines capital with strategic services and corporate and research partnerships to help startups access customers, markets, and mentorship, accelerating growth. Its portfolio spans healthcare, finance, technology and related sectors, pursuing opportunities in enterprise software, data analytics, digital health, fintech, insurtech, HR tech, therapeutics, and energy technology. Rev1 aims to strengthen the Midwest as a hub for high-growth startups by fostering resources and collaboration with corporate partners and regional institutions. With substantial capital under management and a track record of active venture involvement in the Great Lakes region, Rev1 operates a startup studio model that aligns innovators with partners to solve real problems and bring innovations to market.
Made 2 investments in Charity
Imaginable Futures
Imaginable Futures is a global philanthropic investment organization focused on advancing equity in education. Established in 2020, it funds and co-creates education initiatives across public, private, and social sectors, aiming to expand access and improve learning outcomes for learners of all ages. The organization pursues cross-regional collaboration and data-driven insights to tackle root causes of inequity, with activity in Africa, Latin America, the United States, and India, and specific emphasis on Kenya and Brazil. It has invested roughly $200 million in more than 100 partners. As part of the Omidyar Group, it was founded and funded by Pierre and Pam Omidyar.
Made 6 investments in Charity
Social Tech Trust
Social Tech Trust is an Oxford, United Kingdom-based impact investment firm that funds early-stage technology ventures aimed at delivering social good. The organization focuses on tech sectors and seeks solutions that improve lives, strengthen communities, and promote inclusivity, with particular emphasis on artificial intelligence and social mobility, and on founders with lived experience. It offers funding and resources through initiatives such as the Social Tech Ventures fund and the GoodTech Ventures Accelerator, connecting entrepreneurs with a community of peers. The firm promotes diversity and inclusion and tracks its impact through annual reports to demonstrate progress and outcomes in the social tech ecosystem.
Made 13 investments in Charity
TSVC
TSVC is a venture capital firm based in Los Altos, California, focused on early stage deep tech startups. It backs founders in areas such as software as a service, artificial intelligence, fintech, biotechnology, blockchain, semiconductors, robotics and advanced manufacturing, with a preference for immigrant founded ventures. The firm has supported a broad portfolio across technology sectors and has backed leading companies including Zoom, Ginkgo Bioworks and Carta, among others, contributing to the growth of the deep tech ecosystem. TSVC concentrates on the next wave of innovation at the intersection of AI, hardware and energy systems and aims to help founders build globally impactful companies.
Made 1 investment in Charity
Redpoint eventures
Redpoint eventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 and based in São Paulo, Brazil. It invests in Brazilian companies across consumer services, information technology, retail, and media, focusing on early-stage opportunities in the Internet sector. The firm combines local and international venture capital resources to support entrepreneurs through deal sourcing, company building, financing, and exit planning. It emphasizes a hands-on approach and a broad network, including the Redpoint CUBO Network, a Latin American tech entrepreneurship hub conceived by Itaú Unibanco, to foster innovation and connect ecosystem players. The objective is to help founders build globally successful companies by leveraging both local insights and international capital.
Made 4 investments in Charity
PLG Ventures
PLG Ventures is a Santa Monica, California-based venture capital firm that provides pre-seed and seed funding to technology-enabled startups. The firm takes a hands-on approach, working closely with founding teams to develop leadership skills, emotional intelligence, and company culture, while helping to establish a solid foundation for scalable growth and a streamlined fundraising process. Its investment approach emphasizes early-stage technology ventures and active partnership throughout a company’s lifecycle, offering strategic guidance and operational support to accelerate development and scale.
Made 1 investment in Charity
Frontline Ventures
Frontline Ventures is a Dublin- and London-based venture capital firm that backs B2B technology companies, with a focus on helping them expand across the Atlantic. It operates two funds—Frontline Seed for early-stage European startups pursuing the US, and Frontline Growth for US-to-Europe expansion at Series B-D—supported by a team with hands-on operating experience in both markets. The firm emphasizes a practical, networks-driven approach to scaling, offering founders guidance and market insights to navigate cross-border growth. Its portfolio includes Workvivo, Vanta, Lattice, and Navan, illustrating a track record of growth and cross-border deployment.
Made 1 investment in Charity
Serra Ventures
Serra Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Champaign, Illinois, with offices in Champaign, Chicago, and Park City. It focuses on early-stage technology startups across the United States and select international locations, investing in sectors including information technology, software as a service, devices and instrumentation, agricultural technologies, fintech, healthcare, and other deep technology areas. The firm has funded more than 100 companies and maintains active engagement with its portfolio through partnerships and participation in industry events. Serra Ventures supports growth-oriented companies across B2B software, hardware, and AgTech, aiming to advance innovation and scale through strategic guidance and capital.
Made 1 investment in Charity
Forum Ventures
Forum Ventures is a founder-first AI venture studio, accelerator, and pre-seed fund established in 2014 that supports early-stage B2B software companies from inception to significant funding rounds. It offers hands-on support as a fractional co-founder, venture studio development, and accelerator programs with a focus on go-to-market and fundraising, complemented by a pre-seed fund. The organization emphasizes product development, customer discovery, product-market fit, and fundraising, while cultivating a community of founders and mentors. Based in New York, it has funded 430 companies and built a community of about 1,300 founders, facilitating around $1 billion in follow-on funding.
Made 3 investments in Charity
InnoSpring
InnoSpring is the holding company for a multinational ecosystem that includes technology industrial parks, incubators, and venture capital activities. With about 15 years of experience, it operates a vertically integrated platform to support entrepreneurs and drive technological innovation. The company maintains a transnational footprint across the United States, China, and Germany (where a park is under development), and it focuses on intelligent manufacturing through an industrial internet approach that connects R&D, start-ups, and industry applications. Its core platforms include the Nantong Chuangyuan Science and Technology Park, the Jiading Industrial Internet Park in Shanghai, and the New Micro Inno Source incubator in Jiading, providing coworking, incubation, acceleration, and park operations. InnoSpring collaborates with academic and innovation partners to advance AI-enabled manufacturing and conducts research programs such as the InnoX intelligent manufacturing series with institutions like Tsinghua University. The firm pursues high-quality regional development under the ONE GOOD INNOSPRING vision.
Made 1 investment in Charity
Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 and based in Menlo Park, California. It provides capital across development stages from seed to late-stage growth and invests in software and technology companies across artificial intelligence, biotech and health, consumer technologies, cryptocurrency, fintech, enterprise software, infrastructure, and related sectors. Beyond funding, the firm offers operational support through a structured ecosystem of technical advisors, executive talent, and industry operators, and differentiates itself with strategic guidance, thought leadership, and programs to nurture talent. It maintains a global presence and supports portfolio companies with resources and networks to accelerate growth.
Made 2 investments in Charity
MaC Venture Capital
MaC Venture Capital is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology investments. Founded in 2019 in Los Angeles with an additional office in San Francisco, it emerged from the merger of Cross Culture Ventures and M Ventures. The firm invests in technology companies across sectors such as fintech, e-commerce, marketplaces, interactive media, SaaS, logistics, space and aerospace, and more, taking a largely technology-agnostic approach. It seeks opportunities that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and diverse global markets, aiming to help ideas become infectious products. MaC provides capital along with strategic guidance, relationship building, and cultural intelligence to portfolio companies, describing itself as a conviction investor that supports founders with hands-on involvement and empathetic support.
Made 6 investments in Charity
Horizon Capital
Horizon Capital is a Tel Aviv–based early‑stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 that backs Israeli-founded startups in software, AI, and SaaS from pre‑seed to Series A. The firm emphasizes a hands‑on, mentorship‑driven approach, operating a 1:1 coaching program called Evolver designed to help portfolio companies achieve product‑market fit and navigate funding uncertainty. Typical investments range from $500,000 to $5,000,000. Horizon Capital supports its founders through Founder Space, a community resource offering mentorship, resources, and partner discounts. The firm has a history of successful exits, including unicorns, reflecting its focus on practical guidance and partnership to build enduring companies.
Made 4 investments in Charity
Bling Capital
Bling Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. It invests in seed, early, and growth-stage technology companies across consumer tech, internet and mobile, marketplaces, data, fintech, SaaS, and automation, supporting product development and scaling for product-led businesses.
Made 1 investment in Charity
Societe Generale
Societe Generale is a global financial services group headquartered in Paris that provides retail, corporate and investment banking, securities services, and financing solutions. It serves individuals, businesses, financial institutions, and public sector clients across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas through its universal banking model, offering capital markets, asset management, private banking, payments, trade finance, and vehicle leasing and fleet management services. The group emphasizes sustainable growth and impact financing, supports cross-border trade, and leverages a global network to deliver tailored financial solutions. With approximately 110,000 employees and millions of clients in 58 countries, Societe Generale operates across wholesale and retail banking, asset management, and related financial services, maintaining a client-centric approach and a commitment to responsible finance.
Made 1 investment in Charity
Anthill Ventures
Anthill Ventures is a global venture capital firm applying a speed-scaling model to back early-stage startups, with a focus on Urbantech, Lifestyle, Healthtech, and Mediatech. Headquartered in Hyderabad, India, and with a Singapore office, it invests from pre-Series A to Series A/B and aims to achieve growth within 1-2 years through scale-up capital, market access, and a technology platform to maximize returns. The firm has funded more than 80 companies across ten countries, supported by more than 70 mentors in its speed-scaling network, and its portfolio spans media, wellness, life sciences, automotive, aerospace, semiconductors, agriculture technology, cybersecurity, and water technology. It emphasizes cross-border market access, especially in India and Southeast Asia, to help startups demonstrate market proof, unit economics, and traction.
Beyond Capital Fund
Beyond Capital Fund is a nonprofit, evergreen impact investment fund based in New York that invests in seed-stage and early-stage for-profit social enterprises in East Africa and India. It supports companies focused on improving access to healthcare, sanitation, clean energy, agriculture and food security, and financial inclusion to enhance the lives of low-income communities. The fund seeks market-rate returns while prioritizing its social mission, funded by philanthropic donations and reinvesting proceeds to sustain and grow impact over time.
Greenline Ventures
Denver-based asset management firm focused on impact investing and buyout investments in the financial services sector across the United States, providing capital solutions including debt and equity to growth-focused businesses. The firm aims to deliver measurable social and economic benefits alongside financial returns and operates as an investment manager with exposure to capital markets solutions and technology-enabled industries.
Panda Capital
Founded in 2015, Panda Capital is a Shanghai-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies, investing from angel rounds to Series B and aiming to be a primary or co-investor for portfolio firms. It concentrates on fast-growing sectors such as data-driven AI applications, enterprise services, fintech, logistics, mobility and transportation, and new-generation consumer trends. The firm pursues value-driven, independent research to identify inflection-point opportunities in large markets and has backed a broad set of portfolio companies, with a track record of more than 70 invested projects and numerous honors. In 2019 Panda Capital broadened into industrial investing, including agriculture, to support modernization and branding of agricultural products. The firm emphasizes disciplined decision-making and provides strategic support to help founders scale technology-enabled businesses, with operations anchored by a presence in Shanghai.
Impanix Capital
Impanix Capital was a venture and growth capital investment firm based in Delhi, India. It invested in startups at early and growth stages.
Made 1 investment in Charity
Upfront Ventures
Upfront Ventures is a California-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1996 and based in Los Angeles, with investment activity across Southern California, the United States, Europe and Israel. It backs technology-led startups at seed and Series A stages, emphasizing long-term partnerships with founders and hands-on support through growth and challenges. The firm pursues a broad technology focus that includes financial services, healthcare technology, software, consumer internet, and related sectors. Its portfolio has included notable consumer, infrastructure and AI-enabled companies, reflecting a pattern of backing innovative teams such as Ring, Bird, Maker Studios, GOAT, Apeel Sciences, thredUP, Invoca and Kyriba. Upfront Ventures is led by managing partners Yves Sisteron, Mark Suster and Kara Nortman, and operates as a registered investment adviser, offering strategic guidance, capital and network access to portfolio companies.
Made 1 investment in Charity
GTMfund
GTMfund is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage B2B software and AI companies and provides go-to-market support through a network of GTM leaders. Founded in 2020 and based in Scottsdale, Arizona, the firm targets Pre-Seed and Seed rounds with an emphasis on helping portfolio companies accelerate market entry and growth through GTM strategy, hiring, and execution. Its portfolio spans enterprise AI, automated compliance, AI contract review, agentic workflow automation, computer vision, and AI scheduling. The firm distinguishes itself by combining financial investment with hands-on GTM guidance from experienced operators, drawing on a network of hundreds of GTM executives who have scaled fast-growing startups.
Made 1 investment in Charity
Braxton Capital
Braxton Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm headquartered in Singapore that invests in early-stage startups and mid-market companies across Southeast Asia. The firm provides investment, advisory, and growth acceleration services, focusing on sectors such as financial services, insurance, impact investments, and healthcare, with interest in opportunities across the South Asia region.
Made 1 investment in Charity
Sputnik ATX
Sputnik ATX is a Texas-based venture capital firm and startup accelerator founded in 2017 and headquartered in Austin. It combines early-stage funding with an accelerator program that provides mentorship, training, and hands-on support to maker founders, with two cohorts annually. The firm invests alongside the program, typically via SAFE notes, in early-stage startups across sectors including aerospace, agriculture, biotechnology, consumer products and services, clean technology and travel, with a focus on founders underrepresented in the tech ecosystem. It emphasizes founder-led growth and does not take board seats or charge fees, aiming to help companies move from inception to scale.
Made 4 investments in Charity
Higher Ground Labs
Higher Ground Labs is a Chicago-based venture capital firm and accelerator focused on political technology startups, funding early-stage companies that serve campaigns, advocacy groups, and civic infrastructure. The firm provides accelerator programs and ecosystem support to help founders refine products, scale operations, and connect with political organizations, with a portfolio spanning software for voter outreach, fundraising, organizing, and communications. Since 2017 it has invested over $50 million in more than 80 startups across multiple funds, aiming to advance democracy by supporting technology that improves electoral processes and civic engagement.
Made 3 investments in Charity
Gaingels
Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate focused on LGBTQ+ founders and inclusive leadership. It invests in companies with LGBTQ+ founders and C-suite leaders across stages and helps established firms build diverse teams and inclusive boards. The network is global, with a portfolio of over 130 companies and about 70 million dollars deployed. Gaingels emphasizes supportive founder relationships and leverages a broad network of co-investors to promote positive social change through business and inclusive leadership.
Made 3 investments in Charity