IA Capital Group is a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1992, specializing in insurtech and fintech. The firm backs early and growth-stage companies and also incubates startups, with investments spanning venture, growth equity, and buyouts in insurance technology, payments, and broader financial services sectors. It pursues opportunities in the United States, Canada, and North America, and often takes both majority and minority stakes. IA Capital collaborates with insurers through strategic venture programs and has a long track record of partnering with innovative companies in insurance technology and financial services to accelerate growth and scale adoption.
MetaProp is a New York-based venture capital firm that specializes in real estate technology (PropTech). Founded in 2015, the firm has invested in more than 175 technology companies across the real estate value chain and supports startups through programs such as PropTech Place, the MetaProp Accelerator at Columbia University, and related industry events like NYC Real Estate Tech Week. MetaProp also produces research and thought leadership, including the Global PropTech Confidence Index and PropTech 101, and engages with global markets across office, retail, residential, storage, hospitality, and leisure real estate sectors. Through its activities, MetaProp connects technology companies with real estate investors and strategic partners to advance innovation in the PropTech ecosystem.
Clocktower Technology Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2015 as the technology investing arm of Clocktower Group. It concentrates on financial services and fintech, including lending, credit and banking, payments, insurance, capital markets and investments, personal finance, and related enterprise tools. The firm backs early-stage and growth opportunities and has invested in numerous fintech companies globally, with portfolio activity across North America, Europe, and Latin America. Clocktower Technology Ventures leverages its deep industry network with policymakers, hedge fund managers, and institutional allocators to support portfolio companies in scaling, regulation navigation, and market access. The firm seeks to identify innovative financial technology platforms and services that can transform traditional finance ecosystems while building enduring value for founders and investors.
Portage Ventures is a Toronto-based global fintech-focused venture capital firm that concentrates on early-stage investments in promising Canadian financial technology companies with potential for global impact. Founded in 2016, the firm backs fintech and financial services startups pursuing innovations such as digital wealth management, insurance technology, and AI-enabled financial services, with a portfolio that spans Canada, the United States, and Europe.
Blue Bear Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 that backs technology companies in energy, climate and industrial sectors. It concentrates on energy infrastructure, renewable energy, electric grid modernization, and climate-tech solutions enabled by AI and data analytics. The firm targets investments in Western Europe and North America, supporting companies across energy, IT, and related sectors to scale sustainable energy production, grid resilience, pollution reduction, and water and land management.
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.
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.
Obvious Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded in 2014. It invests in early and growth-stage startups across a broad range of sectors, including B2B, B2C, energy, healthcare, financial services, information technology, agriculture, and various technology areas such as AI, clean technology, and climate tech, with an emphasis on companies that pursue both profit and social impact. The firm operates as a registered investment adviser.
QED Investors is a venture capital firm based in Alexandria, Virginia, founded in 2007. It specializes in fintech and financial services, making direct investments across seed, early, and growth stages and pursuing opportunities in the United States, Latin America, the United Kingdom, and other regions. The firm combines capital with hands-on support and emphasizes data-driven insight, direct engagement with portfolio companies, and a culture of experimentation and learning to help high-growth fintech firms scale.
Gradient Ventures is Google's AI-focused venture capital firm, founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California. The firm backs seed- and early-stage startups in artificial intelligence and machine learning, providing capital and access to Google’s technical leadership and ecosystem. It supports founders in developing and scaling AI-enabled products by sharing best practices in recruiting, design, marketing, and engineering, and by connecting portfolio companies with Google resources to navigate early product challenges and drive practical AI applications across industries.
Nyca Partners is a New York–based venture capital firm focused on financial technology. Founded in 2014, it provides venture investments and facilitates connections between fintech startups and financial institutions, technology companies, and experienced investors and advisers.
Anthemis Group is an independent growth and investment platform focused on financial technology and insurtech. Founded in 2010 and based in London, it supports startups across North America and Europe, targeting pre-seed through Series A investments. The firm manages multiple funds and seeks to back companies that advance resiliency, transparency, access and equity in the financial system. By combining capital with domain expertise and a network of entrepreneurs, institutions and researchers, Anthemis aims to accelerate innovation in finance and insurance. Its portfolio and activity span early-stage ventures in fintech and insurtech with a global reach, reflecting a commitment to shaping the future of financial services rather than merely managing assets.
Activate Capital Partners is a venture capital firm focused on sustainable, resilient transformation of the global economy. Based in San Francisco with a presence in Philadelphia, it provides growth equity and emerging growth investments in technology, sustainable energy, transportation, industrial information technology and systems, energy storage and software. The firm tends to take board positions and pursues both minority and control stakes, with typical transactions in the tens of millions of dollars. It backs management teams in high-growth companies that aim to decarbonize and modernize infrastructure, supply chains and mobility. Geographically, it targets opportunities in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia, and invests across sectors such as smart buildings, energy pricing and billing, analytics, cybersecurity, robotics and automation, and other innovations that improve efficiency and resilience.
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.
MS&AD Ventures is the corporate venture arm of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, based in Menlo Park, California. It invests in early-stage companies across sectors including property, insurance technology, ESG, health care, financial technology, and the future of transportation, seeking startups that leverage data and technology to advance the insurance and broader financial services ecosystems.
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.
Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. The firm backs entrepreneurs with venture assistance, strategic guidance, and capital, focusing on bold, early-stage technology companies. It invests across sectors including AI, climate and sustainability, enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technologies. Based in Menlo Park, the firm manages several funds to support startups across stages, prioritizing ventures that address large markets and have potential for significant social and economic impact.
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm headquartered in Munich that pursues a long-term, flexible capital approach. It targets pre-seed, seed and Series A rounds across sectors including financial services, HR, energy and climate, healthcare, logistics and mobility, real estate and construction, crypto and web3, deeptech and e-commerce. The firm works closely with ambitious founders to help build category leaders by offering strategic guidance and operational support, including marketing and sales expertise, talent access, and connections to its broad B2B and investor network to assist fundraising. With a philosophy of staying engaged throughout the lifecycle of portfolio companies, Picus Capital has backed more than 50 ventures to date, combining disciplined investment thinking with entrepreneurial pragmatism.
HPS Investment Partners is a global investment firm focused on non-investment grade credit across the capital structure. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, it operates a worldwide network of offices. The firm originated as a unit of Highbridge Capital Management, a subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, and was acquired by its principals in 2016 after Highbridge’s hedge fund strategies remained with J.P. Morgan. HPS manages a variety of strategies, including syndicated leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, privately negotiated senior secured debt, mezzanine, asset-based lending, and private equity, and serves clients across industries such as insurance, healthcare, media, retail, logistics, and marine.
ManchesterStory Group is a West Des Moines, Iowa-based venture capital firm that invests in early- to growth-stage companies in the insurance, financial services, and healthcare sectors. Founded by Dave Miles and Matt Kinley, the firm concentrates on InsurTech, FinTech, and HealthTech and leverages industry expertise and a broad network of strategic relationships to support entrepreneurs solving complex market challenges. It aims to connect innovative startups with established players and investors to drive sustainable growth.
Nine Four Ventures is a Chicago-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on property technology (PropTech). It invests in startups that influence the people, processes, and ecosystems interacting with the built environment to shape the future of the built world.
Zigg Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm established in 2018 that backs technology startups. The firm pursues early-stage investments across a range of sectors, including real estate technology, information technology, and consumer and business products and services. It also manages a proptech-focused fund dedicated to property technology and real estate services, reflecting a specialization in the property technology space while maintaining a broad technology portfolio.
First American Financial is a financial services company focused on title insurance and related services, along with specialty insurance. Through its Title Insurance and Services segment, it issues title insurance on residential and commercial property and offers closing and escrow services, real property data and records access, valuation products, lien release and document custodial services, and related risk mitigation for real estate transactions. The Specialty Insurance segment provides property and casualty coverage for homeowners, renters, and auto insurance, as well as home service contracts. The company also delivers data analytics, regulatory compliance, and valuation and collateral risk services, and supports banking, trust, and wealth management activities, with a network of direct operations and agents in multiple regions.
Markd is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 and based in Boulder, Colorado. It concentrates on funding and partnering with transformative insurtech companies to accelerate growth and innovation in the insurance technology sector. The firm operates as a registered investment adviser.
PJC is a venture capital firm based in Boston, founded in 2001. It is an early-stage investor that backs entrepreneurs across all industries in North America, providing capital and active support to help them build companies that shape the future. The firm has backed more than 100 companies, including Expensify, Nest, BlockFi, GetWell Network and Nexamp, reflecting broad sector experience and a focus on long-term relationships.
Bolttech is an international InsurTech company that develops an AI-based point-of-sale insurance platform. This platform offers a range of insurance products, including device protection, travel, motor, property, life, and digital insurance to consumers. Bolttech aims to create a technology-enabled ecosystem for protection and insurance, with a notable presence in Asia.
Gaingels is a venture investment organization focused on LGBTQ+-founded and led companies and their allies, investing across stages from pre-seed to pre-IPO and maintaining a global portfolio. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, it operates as a syndicate with more than 130 portfolio companies and around $70 million deployed. The organization supports inclusive leadership by backing ventures that promote diverse C-suite and board representation and actively assists portfolio companies in recruiting diverse executive talent. It also fosters a global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who pursue positive social change through business and successful investments.
Avanta Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of CSAA Insurance Group, based in Mountain View, California. The firm invests in insurtech, mobility and risk-adjacent sectors across the United States, offering portfolio companies time, resources and industry expertise beyond capital. It supports startups through internal CSAA capabilities and external mentors, aiming to accelerate product-market fit in the insurtech space. Avanta Ventures operates Avanta Studios, a three-month program that provides funding and a B2B engagement-focused curriculum to help participants validate and scale their offerings with guidance from CSAA professionals and external subject-matter experts. The venture unit emphasizes areas such as AI, analytics and connected devices to improve customer experience in insurance and related markets.
Pear is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson. It focuses on early-stage technology investments in North America, with an emphasis on pre-seed and seed rounds, across sectors including artificial intelligence, software as a service, enterprise technology, healthcare, biotechnology, fintech, climate technology, deep tech and consumer markets. Based in San Francisco, Pear provides capital and hands-on support to exceptional founders to help build scalable companies.
Flourish Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage global venture capital firm that backs fintech-enabled entrepreneurs focused on financial health and prosperity for individuals and small businesses. The firm pursues patient, long-term investments and manages around $850 million. It backs founders across the United States and global markets, including Asia, Africa and Latin America, and concentrates on sectors such as big data analytics, challenger banks, consumer and SME lending, digitizing money, fintech, insurtech, regtech and financial infrastructure. Since its founding in 2019, Flourish maintains partnerships with more than 70 global fintech founders and 18 ecosystem partners, including researchers, policymakers and regulators, to foster a fairer, more inclusive economy.
MTech Capital is a venture capital firm with offices in Santa Monica and London that backs technology companies across insurtech, wealthtech, asset management, health and wellness, employee benefits, and enterprise software. Founded in 2018, the firm invests across stages and focuses on opportunities in North America and Europe, with activity also noted in Israel.
Norwest Venture Partners is a global technology venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 1961 and based in California. The firm backs seed through growth-stage companies across the United States, India and Israel, with investments spanning technology, cloud and IT infrastructure, Internet and consumer products, SaaS, business services, financial services, healthcare, and other sectors. It has funded hundreds of companies and leverages a broad network and operating experience to help founders scale their businesses. Norwest pursues a flexible, long-term approach, tailoring its capital and support to each stage and company, and it deploys capital across multiple rounds from early checks to growth investments. The firm is known for partnering with CEOs and management teams to accelerate growth through strategic guidance, operational resources, and access to its portfolio network.
Advance Venture Partners is a California-based private equity and venture capital firm that targets technology, commerce and media companies, with a focus on software and consumer sectors. It pursues venture and growth investments, typically in early to growth stages, and provides active, hands-on support to help entrepreneurs scale. The firm invests about $10 million to $30 million per investment and maintains a strategic investor network through Advance Publications, a major media and technology company. Its portfolio has included Curology, Rent the Runway, Farfetch and Compass, among others.
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.
Forté Ventures is a Georgia-headquartered venture capital firm established in 2012 that focuses on early-stage investments in technology companies and technology-enabled services across the United States and Canada. Based in Atlanta, the firm backs startups in sectors such as mobility, digital media, and financial technology, providing investment support to technology firms.
Ribbit Capital is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Meyer Malka. It makes early-stage investments globally, focusing on financial services and technology sectors. The firm backs companies that aim to transform financial services, supporting innovative startups across information technology and related fields.
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.
Wind Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Empresas COPEC, focusing on startups and scaleups in the energy, mobility, and retail sectors. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, it makes global investments with a preference for Latin America, leveraging COPEC's resources to accelerate growth. The firm targets ventures building next generation energy, mobility, and retail companies and seeks to develop a strategic portfolio that enhances COPEC's ability to explore and realize new growth opportunities in its ecosystems.
Centana Growth Partners is a private equity firm focused on growth equity and venture capital for financial services, financial technology, and enterprise technology companies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with an office in Palo Alto, the firm backs growth-oriented businesses across the United States. Its partners bring decades of investing and operating experience and leverage a deep industry network to help portfolio companies accelerate growth, scale operations, and access strategic partners. The firm targets growth investments generally in the tens of millions of dollars, supporting expansion, product development, and market entry initiatives within the financial services ecosystem and related sectors.
Liquid 2 Ventures is a San Francisco, California-based venture capital firm that provides seed-stage and early-stage investments to technology startups. Founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma, the firm focuses on technology companies across software, telecommunications, media, and other TMT sectors, offering early funding and strategic guidance to its portfolio companies.
Insurtech Gateway is a London-based accelerator that supports insurtech startups, offering underwriting support, access to capital, and guidance on designing and building their products. The organization connects startups with insurers and technology partners to foster collaboration and innovation, guiding them from inception through growth and scale. It aims to create a safe environment for insurers to innovate and for insurtechs to scale.
Congruent Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Oakland and San Francisco that specializes in early-stage investments in climate technology and sustainable solutions across North America. The firm backs technology companies in mobility and urbanization, energy transition, food and agriculture, and sustainable production and consumption, with opportunities spanning hardware, software, and services that can scale while reducing energy and resource use. Founded in 2017, Congruent Ventures emphasizes positive environmental impact alongside growth and operates as an exempt registered adviser.
Partech is a global tech investment firm headquartered in Paris, with offices in Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi and San Francisco. It provides capital, operational experience and strategic support to entrepreneurs from seed through growth, helping them scale through multiple stages. Founded in San Francisco about 40 years ago, Partech currently manages €2.5 billion in assets and backs a portfolio of roughly 220 companies across 40 countries and four continents.
American Family Ventures is the venture capital arm of American Family Insurance Company. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, it focuses on early-stage investments, typically seed to Series B, in startups that redefine the insurance industry through technology. It seeks minority equity stakes and emphasizes active partnership, a broad InsurTech network, and value-add programs to support portfolio companies. The fund targets technologies related to insurance, FinTech, data analytics, IoT, and cybersecurity that can advance American Family’s core business and improve safety, efficiency, and quality of life. Typical investment sizes range from hundreds of thousands to several millions of dollars.
Redpoint Ventures is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1999 and based in California, with offices in Woodside, San Francisco, and Beijing and Shanghai. It backs startups across seed, early, and growth stages in technology, media, consumer internet, and enterprise software, including energy-related technology. The firm supports founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones and manages $4 billion across multiple funds.
Florida Funders is a Tampa, Florida based venture capital firm and angel investor syndicate that focuses on early-stage opportunities in the Florida region. It combines elements of equity crowdfunding and traditional venture capital, leveraging a network of over 1,500 members to source and support startups. The firm pursues Florida-based technology and technology-enabled businesses, including sectors such as B2B software, healthcare IT, AI, cybersecurity, digital health, e-commerce, edtech and fintech, and often co-leads rounds or participates in follow-on investments to help portfolio companies grow. By partnering with entrepreneurs and other investors, Florida Funders aims to generate returns while helping the state's next generation of companies scale.
True Ventures is a Silicon Valley–based venture capital firm founded in 2005 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It invests in early-stage technology startups in the United States, providing seed and Series A financing and managing substantial capital across its active funds. The firm supports founders with a platform of programs and a large team of professionals, including founders-turned-investors, to help portfolio companies grow. True has backed more than 350 companies and helped them scale, creating over 85,000 jobs worldwide, and has been recognized as Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association in 2018.
Scale Venture Partners is a Foster City, California-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies in the United States. It concentrates on intelligent business software, cloud, SaaS, artificial intelligence and machine learning, infrastructure, security, and related verticals, investing in software and platform-enabled businesses from seed to growth stages. Scale Venture Partners supports portfolio companies with a value-acceleration program that assists go-to-market strategy, product development, and operations, and provides access to a proprietary dataset of SaaS metrics covering growth, efficiency, churn, and burn to benchmark performance as companies scale. The firm seeks opportunities that leverage scalable software platforms and data-driven growth, helping teams move from initial customers toward market leadership.
Two Sigma Ventures is a New York City-based early-stage venture capital firm backed by Two Sigma Investments. It provides capital and access to a proprietary network of experts and startup resources to help data- and computing-driven entrepreneurs build the future. The firm focuses on seed to early-stage opportunities across sectors including infrastructure tools, healthcare, real estate, consumer hardware, information technology, artificial intelligence, big data, biotechnology, and financial technology, leveraging the parent company's data-driven engineering capabilities.
Service Provider Capital is a Colorado-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that funds seed-stage technology companies across domains such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, cybersecurity, fintech, e-commerce, education technology, hardware, robotics, information technology, health tech, and cannabis. The firm also co-invests in Series A rounds led by institutional venture funds, providing capital and guidance to startups in the United States, including the Midwest and Southeast regions.