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.

IMM Investment is a Seoul-based independent private equity and venture capital firm established in 1999. The company engages in mezzanine and growth investments and pursues opportunities in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, corporate restructuring, private equity, industry consolidation, management buyouts, spin-offs, recapitalizations, and cross-border transactions. It concentrates on medium-sized companies operating in information technology infrastructure, wireless communications, software, contents, and other technology-enabled sectors, with a particular emphasis on information technology, healthcare/biotech, and manufacturing. The firm typically takes an active role in governance and strategic direction and focuses on opportunities within South Korea and cross-border contexts. IMM Investment aims to support portfolio companies through growth, expansion, and consolidation, leveraging its long-standing relationships with institutional investors and investment professionals.

True Beauty Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on beauty and wellness startups. Based in New York and Florida, it was founded in 2020 and targets investments in beauty and wellness brands across the United States, Canada, and Europe. The firm supports consumer beauty and personal care companies, seeking to build a portfolio of brands in the sector. It has invested in notable brands such as Crown Affair and Feals.

V3 Ventures is a venture capital firm based in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2022. It invests in early-stage, consumer-focused companies that pursue mission-led, scalable brands, with a particular emphasis on wellness and beauty, food and drinks, and lifestyle sectors.

Founded in 2018, this venture capital arm of L'Oréal invests in innovative business models focused on marketing, digital technologies, R&D, and communication within the sustainable beauty, clean natural beauty, health and wellness, data management, beauty tech, and green science sectors.

Antler is a global venture capital firm based in Singapore that backs early-stage technology companies. It runs incubation programs and provides a global community of co-founders, access to talent, expert advisors, expansion support, and capital to help startups grow. The firm targets a broad range of sectors, including healthcare, finance, software, energy, consumer and B2B technologies, and operates through regional programs across Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and beyond.

Korea Investment Partners is a Seoul-based venture capital and private equity firm with decades of experience in funding bold, innovative entrepreneurs. It operates globally with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale and manages multiple funds totaling several billions of dollars in assets under management. As the venture capital and private equity arm of Korea Investment Holdings, KIP backs a broad range of sectors including information technology, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, mobility and gaming, as it seeks to help companies scale and commercialize new technologies. The firm emphasizes long-term value creation and has built a diversified portfolio across Asia and beyond.

DSG Consumer Partners is a Singapore-based venture capital firm that focuses on identifying and investing in consumer brands in India and Southeast Asia. It typically takes minority equity stakes but will pursue control transactions with the right management team, and provides capital for growth with liquidity options via secondary exits. Since 2004 it has backed leading consumer brands, including Sula Wines, Saffronart, Cleartrip, Bakers Circle, Mocha, Salt Water Café, Redmart, Mswipe Technologies, Exito Gourmet, Tierra Food, Saraf Foods and Veeba Food Services, aiming for long-term value creation in the consumer sector.

Rukam Capital is a venture capital firm based in New Delhi, India, investing in early-stage consumer products and services companies across sectors including beauty and personal care, food and beverages, food service, fashion, health and nutrition, household goods, and mother and baby care, targeting companies with strong growth potential.

Fireside Ventures is a Bengaluru-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage consumer brands and digital startups in India, focusing on consumer products and services across sectors.

Halogen Ventures is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups founded or led by women, with a focus on consumer technology and B2B software. The firm invests across pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds and prioritizes companies with female founders on the founding team. It provides active, hands-on support to portfolio companies, helping them build networks, gain brand exposure, recruit talent, raise follow-on rounds, and navigate exits such as acquisition or IPO.

Estée Lauder Companies is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of prestige skincare, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products. The company sells its products in about 150 countries and territories and manages a diverse brand portfolio that includes Estée Lauder, Clinique, M.A.C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown, Jo Malone London, Aveda, Origins, TOM FORD BEAUTY, Smashbox, Le Labo, and GLAMGLOW. It operates New Incubation Ventures, its strategic early‑stage investing and incubation arm, which partners with founders to create, fund and support new beauty brands and business models to shape the future of beauty and to build a diversified pipeline and growth engines for the portfolio. Through this approach, Estée Lauder Companies focuses on product development and global brand management across premium beauty segments.

Joyance Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups in technology, health tech, consumer, internet, and mobile sectors across North America, Europe, and Asia. Founded in 2012, the firm seeks companies that, through science and technology, cultivate joy and improve how people live, with emphasis on health and consumer applications from pre-seed to Series A.

Anicut Capital is a Chennai-based investment firm active in both venture capital and debt financing in India. Founded in 2015 as a venture investor and described as providing debt services since 2016, it targets opportunities across consumer-oriented sectors and technology. The firm pursues venture investments in D2B, B2C, media, retail, information technology, the Internet of Things and SaaS, while also offering debt funding to consumer goods companies across the country.

Sekhmet Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Portola Valley, California, founded in 2019. It invests in beauty and wellness companies, prioritizing science-based, ultra-pure products. The firm offers portfolio companies access to teams with expertise in marketing, sales, manufacturing, regulatory compliance and other commercial areas to accelerate growth and scale without building internal infrastructure.

Obratori is the corporate venture capital arm of L'Occitane Group, established in 2018 and based in Marseille, France. It invests early-stage startups in beautytech, e-health, retailtech, and tech4good, providing financial support and hands-on collaboration to help founders reach key milestones. Obratori backs a portfolio of about 16 startups focused on wellbeing and cosmetics, pursuing ventures that aim for positive impact on people and the planet. In addition to investment, Obratori offers a 950 square meter coworking space with prototyping laboratories, meeting rooms, and offices to support entrepreneurial projects.

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

IgniteXL Ventures is a Palo Alto, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that invests in technology-centered beauty and wellness companies, spanning seed and early-stage opportunities to support startups at the intersection of technology, beauty, and wellness.

Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London and Bangalore. It funds early- and growth-stage technology companies across software, cloud, SaaS, consumer, enterprise IT and related sectors, and it supports portfolio companies as they scale internationally. With a global network and more than three decades of experience, Accel seeks to help entrepreneurs build world-class, category-defining businesses. Notable investments include Atlassian, Facebook, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify, Etsy, Braintree, Cloudera and Qualtrics, among others. Accel operates multiple funds and programs to back companies at different stages, continuing a long track record of backing ambitious technology founders around the world.

Founded in 2019, Sauce.vc is a venture capital firm based in New Delhi, India, that backs early-stage consumer brands across food and beverages, personal care, apparel, and lifestyle categories. The firm emphasizes high engagement with its portfolio and leverages a broad service-partner network to provide scaling support for Indian brands, helping them expand operations, distribution, and market presence.

JamJar Investments is a London-based venture capital firm that backs European consumer-focused startups across seed to later stages. It invests across consumer services and products, technology and non-tech sectors, including food and drink, and focuses on high-growth consumer brands in both digital and non-tech areas. The firm typically makes initial investments in the range of £0.15 million to £1 million, with the option to follow on, and prefers teams of more than one founder, often taking a lead or co-investor role. Its approach draws on operational, commercial and brand experience developed through the founders’ work with innocent, including scaling it into a major brand and sale to Coca-Cola, which informs its support for entrepreneurs navigating growth challenges. JamJar seeks to back European businesses with potential to scale, offering practical guidance alongside capital.

Cult Capital is a New York-based growth capital investment firm that backs emerging consumer brands with strong growth potential in beauty and personal care, food and beverage, fashion and leisure, household products, and pet goods. The firm targets growth-stage companies with revenues in the range of a few million to around ten million dollars and typically makes investments in the mid single to low double digits, commonly from about $1 million to $10 million, with some sources noting investments up to $5 million. Cult Capital focuses on brands that have developed cult-like followings and seeks opportunities in the United States.

Smilegate Investment is a venture capital and private equity firm headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. Established in 1999 (originally MVP Capital), it engages in venture capital and private equity investments across South Korea, supporting growth-oriented companies. The firm has organized and managed more than 30 funds and invested in over 200 companies, reflecting its broad investment activity and market experience.

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.

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.

Glory Ventures is a Shanghai-based venture capital firm that backs startups across early and growth stages, with a focus on information technology, IoT, artificial intelligence, and consumer-oriented ventures. The firm pursues a cross-border approach, particularly between China and Israel, and builds an ecosystem by integrating industrial resources from private equity markets and public companies to create strategic synergies. It targets subsectors such as B2B enterprise services, consumption upgrade, and IoT, and seeks value-added exits through M&A or IPO. Its portfolio includes AI, IoT, fintech, and related technologies, with several companies attracting follow-on investments from industrial capital and notable investors.

KVIC is a government-backed investment institution in South Korea that allocates capital to venture activities by investing in venture capital funds globally and administering the Korea Fund of Funds on behalf of the government. Founded in 2005, the organization operates under the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and supports the country's venture ecosystem through its fund-of-funds activities and public-backed funding. Headquartered in Seoul, KVIC also maintains offices in California, Shanghai, and Singapore to engage with international partners. The company includes a research division that produces monthly reports on venture capital and private equity trends, issues, and policy developments in Korea, complementing its investment mandate with market insight and policy analysis.

Established in 2020, the European Innovation Council supports innovative startups and researchers with promising ideas, focusing on early-stage companies with positive environmental, social, or governance impacts. It co-invests alongside private investors.

Founded in Switzerland in 2021, Covalo operates an online marketplace for the personal care product manufacturing industry. Its platform facilitates connections between beauty brands and suppliers of ingredients, packaging, and related services, streamlining product development processes.

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

Fable Investments is the corporate venture capital arm of Natura &Co, founded in 2020 to back emerging and high-growth companies. The firm focuses its investments on the beauty and wellness sectors, seeking opportunities that align with Natura &Co’s strategic priorities. As a corporate venture unit, it supports selected ventures across early and growth stages and aims to accelerate product development, market entry, and geographic expansion through capital and the parent company’s network and resources.

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.

Sixth Sense Ventures is a Mumbai-based venture capital firm focusing on consumer-centric businesses in India, with investments spanning consumer goods, healthcare and technology and a regional footprint across Asia-Pacific and North America. Founded in the mid-2010s by Nikhil Vora, a former managing director at IDFC Securities, the firm draws on a senior team with extensive experience in the consumer sector. It is described as India's first domestic consumer-centric venture fund, emphasizing partnerships with founders to scale consumer brands and related services.

Greycroft is a venture capital firm based in New York and Los Angeles that concentrates on technology startups, with a focus on the Internet and mobile markets. The firm uses its extensive media and technology industry connections to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, bring products to market, and scale successful businesses. Since inception Greycroft has invested in more than 200 companies and manages over $1 billion in capital. Its investment scope spans consumer internet, fintech, healthcare, and enterprise software, reflecting a broad approach to funding early- and growth-stage ventures in technology sectors.

Kae Capital is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology investments in India and the United States. The firm is sector agnostic and seeks to back innovative startups with growth potential, emphasizing leadership and execution. With a track record dating to the early 2010s, Kae Capital partners with entrepreneurs to accelerate product-market fit and scale, prioritizing speed. Its interests span tech-driven sectors such as mobile, e-commerce, education, healthcare, and consumer internet, among others. Based in India, the firm targets early-stage opportunities and provides strategic guidance and capital to build scalable businesses.

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.

Founded in 2006, Z47 is a venture capital firm based in Bengaluru, India. It invests in technology startups focused on the Indian consumer market and global enterprise solutions, typically at seed, early, and early growth stages.

Innovation Works is a Pittsburgh-based venture capital firm established in 1999 that targets seed-stage technology companies in Southwestern Pennsylvania. It provides capital, business guidance, and other resources to high-potential startups and is the region's largest seed-stage investor. The organization also helps manufacturers adopt new technologies and pursues investments in robotics, artificial intelligence, medical devices, retail technologies, and enterprise software.

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

Qiming Venture Partners is a China-based venture capital firm founded in 2006, with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Hong Kong, and Singapore. It manages USD and RMB funds totaling about 9.5 billion in capital and backs early- and growth-stage technology, consumer, and healthcare companies. The firm has backed more than 530 portfolio companies, with over 200 exits via IPOs or M&A, and more than 70 unicorn or super unicorn companies.

BEENEXT is a Singapore-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that backs early-stage technology startups. It focuses on seed and Series A rounds across the United States, Southeast Asia, Japan and India, with emphasis on information technology, enterprise software as a service, fintech and other tech-enabled sectors. The firm supports founders with operating experience, network and capital, and aims to build a platform of founders by founders for founders worldwide. Since inception, BEENEXT has invested in hundreds of companies globally, spanning domains such as AI, analytics, agritech, cloud infrastructure, cloud kitchen, e-commerce, edtech, health tech, insurtech, mobility and proptech.

Established in 2017, The Invention Lab is an innovative venture capital firm based in Seoul, South Korea. It specializes in seed investments across consumer tech, digital healthcare, vertical O2O services, and software as a service sectors.

XRC Ventures is a New York City-based venture capital firm and startup accelerator founded in 2015 that funds and mentors early-stage companies in retail technology, consumer goods and consumer healthtech, focusing on pre-Seed to Series A rounds. It has invested in more than 130 startups, including early backers of Billie, Recurate and MD Integrations. The firm's portfolio spans consumer brands, next-gen commerce, generative AI, consumer healthtech, marketplaces, e-commerce technology, store tech, data infrastructure, on-demand manufacturing, supply chain, analytics and marketing technology. It emphasizes diversity and inclusion, with a significant share of portfolio founders and leadership roles held by women and BIPOC entrepreneurs, and a leadership team that is itself majority female. XRC operates three funds: the Accelerator Fund for pre-Seed to Seed, the Opportunity Fund for Seed to Series A, and the Brand Capital Fund for Seed to Series A consumer products in Beauty, Personal Care, Home Goods and Health and Wellness, and it collaborates with about 25 strategic partners and 370+ mentors to support its portfolio, along with industry conferences like NRF Retail Big Show and Shoptalk.

Imaginary Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage opportunities at the intersection of retail and technology in Europe and the United States. Founded by Natalie Massenet and Nick Brown, the firm focuses on consumer-oriented sectors such as e-commerce, fashion, lifestyle, and beauty, and on technology-enabled retail models and marketplaces. It supports startups that enhance how consumers discover, buy, and engage with brands online. Its portfolio includes notable consumer brands and platforms in fashion and beauty, such as Farfetch, Reformation, Everlane, Glossier, and Daily Harvest.

Venture Catalysts is an integrated incubator that provides funding, mentorship, and a broad network to early-stage startups. It offers investments ranging from 500K to 2 million per startup with incubation support for 18-24 months. Founded in 2016, it has built a large network of 4500+ angel investors across 36 cities in six countries, with co-investments from notable global investors. The organization prioritizes developing the startup ecosystem in Tier II and III cities in India, operating incubation programs in cities such as Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Raipur, Surat, Nagpur, as well as Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata. It supports seed and Series A rounds, provides strategic guidance and business-lead generation through its network, and helps startups access education and opportunities for investor engagement. More than 10 incubatee companies have raised Series A in recent years, underscoring its role in early-stage investments and incubation leadership.

Shunwei Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 that focuses on early to growth-stage investments in China's internet and information technology sectors. It seeks opportunities in technology, media, telecommunications, high technology, new media, games, internet services, and rural internet, with an emphasis on internet-enabled businesses and related IT applications. The firm concentrates on Chinese startups while pursuing selective cross-border opportunities in East Asia, and it supports incubation and scaling through multiple funds. Its investors include sovereign wealth funds, fund of funds, university endowments, and family offices, reflecting a diversified capital base to back ambitious entrepreneurs in the digital economy.

Lotte Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of the Lotte Group, based in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 2016, it makes equity investments in biotechnology, robotics, and other advanced technology sectors to support Lotte's innovation strategy.

Bullish is a New York-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in consumer goods and retail companies. It backs B2C startups from pre-seed through Series A and maintains additional offices in Connecticut and Colorado.

Sharrp Ventures focuses on investing in early stage and growth stage companies that have shown some level of business traction. The firm is sector agnostic but tends to favor consumer and consumption-related ideas. Operating with a small team, Sharrp Ventures benefits from a broad network connected to the Marico Group, allowing it to provide valuable connections and insights to the companies it invests in on a pull-basis. This strategic positioning enables Sharrp Ventures to support its portfolio companies effectively while exploring diverse investment opportunities.

Fab Co-Creation Studio is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that funds seed-stage companies in marketplaces, platforms, consumer technology, e-commerce, sustainable fashion technology, direct-to-consumer, impact, and conscious beauty technology across the Americas, including Latin America, as well as Europe and Asia. It targets purpose- and data-driven founders and has investments in women's health and wellness, conscious beauty, sustainable fashion, and new commerce and retail tech, operating at the intersection of technology, impact investing, and sustainability. The firm also emphasizes inclusive practices, adopting a diversity term sheet rider.