Founded in 2015, FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm focusing on stage-agnostic investments in marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. Their investment range varies from $50,000 to $5,000,000, typically at seed or series A stages.
Second Century Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital firm that focuses on real estate technology and related sectors. Founded in 2009, it backs early and mid-stage companies in real estate tech, software as a service, big data applications, digital media, fintech, and business services. The firm aims to promote innovation in the real estate industry and supports portfolio companies with strategic resources. It is backed by the National Association of Realtors, a nationwide trade association with extensive industry reach, enabling access to a large network and expertise to help portfolio companies scale. The firm emphasizes collaboration across regions including North America, Europe, and Asia, and seeks opportunities that leverage technology to transform real estate processes and services.
Founded in Munich, Germany in 2015, Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. It works closely with daring founders to build successful global companies across various sectors including financial services, HR, energy & climate, healthcare, logistics & mobility, real estate & construction, crypto & web3, deeptech, and e-commerce. Picus invests in pre-seed, seed, and series A ventures, aiming to become the closest partner of its portfolio companies by supporting strategic decisions and operative challenges throughout their lifecycle.
Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. It provides capital and strategic guidance to startups across stages, focusing on technology-driven companies in areas such as artificial intelligence, climate and sustainability, enterprise software and services, fintech, digital health, medical technology and diagnostics, therapeutics, consumer products, and frontier technologies. The firm backs bold ventures with the potential to disrupt markets and improve lives, supporting companies from early to growth stages and working closely with entrepreneurs to apply science, technology and innovative business models. While primarily investing in North American technology companies, Khosla Ventures pursues opportunities globally and emphasizes experimentation and impact alongside financial returns. The firm also maintains related impact initiatives that support entrepreneurs addressing socio-economic challenges in emerging markets.
Founded in Singapore in 2017, Antler is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests globally. It focuses on backing exceptional founders from day one, offering a global community network of co-founders, talent, advisors, expansion support, and capital across various sectors such as technology, healthcare, finance, consumer goods, and more.
Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and based in Menlo Park, California. It funds startups across the entire lifecycle, from seed to growth, with a broad focus on software and technology-enabled businesses. The firm backs companies in software, cloud infrastructure, digital platforms, data storage, and mobile and Internet services, as well as sectors at the intersection of technology with life sciences, such as bio healthcare and computational medicine. Its investments span artificial intelligence, fintech, consumer and enterprise software, crypto and blockchain, cybersecurity, and related infrastructure. Through strategic guidance and a hands-on approach, the firm aims to help portfolio companies scale and innovate.
NFX is a venture capital firm founded in 2014, based in San Francisco. It invests in pre-seed and seed-stage companies across various sectors including software, fintech, bio, gaming, AI, space, proptech, marketplaces, and cryptocurrency. NFX operates as a transformative investor focused on improving the startup experience for founders, leveraging its entrepreneurial background to support fearless innovators.
Fifth Wall is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 that concentrates on technology for the real estate industry, investing in startups and later-stage companies worldwide. It aims to connect real estate owners and operators with innovators redefining the built world, spanning sectors such as property technology, climate, energy, and tenant experience. Headquartered in California with offices in Venice and San Francisco, the firm maintains a broad network of strategic partners and limited partners from real estate, retail, hospitality and related sectors. Through its investments and collaborations, Fifth Wall supports portfolio companies in scaling solutions that improve operations, asset management and customer experience across markets in the United States, Europe and Asia. The firm has about $3 billion in commitments, reflecting its role as a leading source of capital for real estate technology.
Founded in 2014, Goodwater Capital is a venture capital firm based in Burlingame, California. It invests in early-stage consumer technology companies, empowering exceptional entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems and create global impact.
Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs science and technology companies across multiple stages, from seed to late-stage. It pursues transformative technologies and follows a founder-friendly investment approach that provides substantial support with minimal interference. The firm invests in ventures solving difficult problems across sectors such as aerospace and transportation, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, healthcare, biotechnology, cybersecurity, fintech, consumer internet, software, robotics, and related technology fields. It has backed notable companies early, including SpaceX, Palantir, and Facebook, reflecting a history of partnering with ambitious founders to scale breakthrough technologies.
Founded in Berlin in 2013, Global Founders Capital is a venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs across various stages and global markets. It focuses on software and TMT sectors, investing based on potential impact and feasibility.
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with offices across North America. It provides access to venture investing for individual accredited investors, particularly alumni networks, by offering diversified portfolios of venture opportunities and allowing members to invest alongside fellow alumni in ventures led by peers. The firm backs early-stage and later-stage opportunities across technology, consumer, healthcare, financial services, and other sectors, with a sector- and geography-agnostic approach. It typically invests between $10,000 and $3 million per deal and emphasizes the involvement of alumni connections and an institutional lead investor in opportunities. Alumni Ventures also offers focused funds to broaden participation, enabling accredited investors to access venture portfolios diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. The model aims to democratize access to venture capital while maintaining rigorous selection standards through alumni networks.
QED Investors, established in 2007, is a venture capital firm headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, with an additional office in New York City. It specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on disruptive financial services and fintech companies. QED invests in seed, early venture, and mid venture stages across the United States, Latin America, and the United Kingdom. The firm provides not only capital but also strategic support to its portfolio companies, emphasizing the role of information in their success and fostering a collaborative, hands-on approach.
Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.
Founded in 2014, Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate dedicated to supporting the LGBT+ community. It invests globally in companies led by LGBT+ founders or C-suite executives at all stages of growth, focusing on inclusivity and positive social change.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm that backs startups across enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, healthtech, and cleantech from seed through growth stages. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, it maintains offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzliya to engage markets in the United States, Asia, and Israel. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and has supported companies across software, mobile, data, e-commerce, and services, spanning early-stage to expansion rounds. It offers strategic guidance, network access, and capital, and has historically included debt financing as part of its investment approach. With a multi-region footprint and a broad multi-stage mandate, Lightspeed seeks to partner with entrepreneurs to scale innovative companies globally.
Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, Unpopular Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies. Since its inception, it has invested $75 million across approximately 500 startups, supporting innovative ventures such as Zepto, Jeeves, and Yassir.
Pareto Holdings is an early-stage investment firm founded in 2020 by Jon Oringer and Edward Lando, based in New York. The company focuses on pre-seeding exceptional entrepreneurs across various industries and geographies, executing dozens of investments each month. With over 500 investments to date, Pareto Holdings distinguishes itself by investing solely its own capital and maintaining a lean operational team. In addition to its investment activities, the firm also offers support to startups, functioning as a venture studio to help foster growth and innovation.
SFC Capital is a United Kingdom based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that focuses on early-stage investments, including pre-seed and seed rounds, in sectors such as software, technology, e-commerce, consumer products, enterprise solutions, green technology, medical technology, and hospitality. It backs UK startups through an Angel Network and seed funds, providing capital and guidance and offering access to SEIS- and EIS-qualifying investment opportunities. The firm is described as a leading seed investor in the UK.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development finances projects and provides advisory services to the public and private sectors. It supports new ventures and expansion in existing companies through project financing, loans, and equity or quasi-equity investments, including equity funds and guarantees, and it partners with private entities to invest across sectors such as banking, energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, information technology, and services. The bank also helps publicly owned entities privatize and restructure municipal services and engages in policy reform dialogue and advisory services, along with trade finance and loan syndication. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in London, it operates across regions including Southeastern and Central Europe, the Baltic States, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, Central Asia, and parts of the Middle East and Africa, aiming to foster market-oriented change and private sector development by mobilizing capital for sustainable investments. It has invested more than €130 billion in over 5,200 projects.
MetaProp is a New York-based venture capital firm and accelerator focused on real estate technology (PropTech). Founded in 2015, it backs startups across the real estate value chain and runs a 16-week accelerator program, supporting early-stage ventures and broader PropTech initiatives. The organization operates PropTech Place and the MetaProp Accelerator at Columbia University, and hosts global events to advance PropTech adoption.
Headquartered in San Francisco with offices globally, Citi Ventures explores, incubates, and invests in innovative ideas across fintech, data analytics, commerce, security, marketing, property tech, distributed ledger technology, and digital assets. It collaborates with Citi colleagues, clients, and the broader innovation community to drive discovery of new value.
Advantage Capital Partners is a United States‑based venture capital firm that provides growth equity, debt, and mezzanine financing to small and mid‑market companies, with a focus on underserved communities and state and local economic development. The firm invests across sectors including manufacturing, technology, business services, life sciences, and energy, and also supports real estate development projects with equity and debt. It typically makes initial investments ranging roughly from half a million to ten million in companies with modest sales, and may participate in larger follow‑on rounds or co‑invest with other firms. It uses senior debt, mezzanine debt, subordinated loans, and government‑guaranteed lending, and often pursues equity positions through preferred shares or convertible notes. Advantage Capital operates nationwide in the United States, with roots in New Orleans and offices in multiple states, and has backed thousands of jobs and housing projects as part of its mission to expand inclusive economic growth.
Founded in 2015, Liquid 2 Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. It specializes in seed-stage investments for technology startups.
Ulu Ventures is a Palo Alto, California-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm that backs technology-driven startups across the United States. Founded in 2008, it focuses on internet-enabled consumer and business services and a broad range of sectors including EdTech, FinTech, healthcare, sustainability, enterprise IT, SaaS, IoT, digital media, mobile, agtech, and marketplaces. The firm emphasizes backing diverse entrepreneurial teams and typically engages in co-investments with other investors to pursue meaningful exits. It is described as the first Latina-led venture fund in Silicon Valley and is among the larger seed-focused vehicles in the region.
Founded in 2006, Greycroft is a venture capital firm based in New York and Los Angeles. With over $1 billion under management, it focuses on early-stage investments in consumer internet, financial technology, healthcare, and enterprise software sectors across the United States. The firm leverages its extensive network of media and technology industry connections to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, and bring products to market.
Parker89 is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California, serving as the corporate venture capital arm of First American. The firm focuses on investing in entrepreneurs who are reimagining both residential and commercial real estate. Its investment strategy includes technology-driven solutions such as tech-enabled brokerages, mortgage software, and innovative models like fractional homeownership. Parker89 is committed to supporting advancements that simplify and enhance the property transfer process through new technologies and business models.
Zigg Capital, established in 2018 and headquartered in New York, is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. Its investment focus spans across real estate technology, information technology, business products, consumer products, and services sectors.
Clocktower Technology Ventures is a Santa Monica, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2015. It specializes in financial services and fintech, investing in lending, credit and banking, payments, insurance, capital markets and investments, personal finance, enterprise financial software, and real estate finance. As the technology investing arm of Clocktower Group, it supports fintech companies globally, with a portfolio across North America, Europe, and Latin America. Since its inception, it has invested in 96 fintech companies.
Founded in 2012, LiveOak Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas. It focuses on technology and technology-driven services across Texas, typically investing at the seed stage and providing full lifecycle support.
Triangle Tweener Fund, established in 2021 and based in Raleigh, North Carolina, is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage, high-technology startups within the Triangle area, which includes Raleigh, Durham, and surrounding regions. The firm aims to build a comprehensive index of private company investments that meet its specific 'Tweener List' criteria, targeting promising ventures at a critical stage of their development. By concentrating on seed and early-stage investments, Triangle Tweener Fund seeks to support the growth of innovative companies that have the potential to contribute significantly to the local economy and the tech landscape.
Founded in 2015, Moderne Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed to Series B investments. It focuses on technology companies operating in real estate, mortgage, finance, insurance, and home services sectors. The firm also runs an industry immersion accelerator program for tech companies of all stages. Based in Chicago, Illinois.
The Kairos Society is a global community of innovative individuals focused on addressing the world's biggest problems through entrepreneurship. It fosters a network spanning 50 countries and 100 universities, with members aiming to disrupt broken industries that governments and big businesses have not solved. The society also manages its own investment fund to support young founders and serve as a signal for institutional Series A investments.
Navitas Capital is a California-based venture capital firm that focuses on technology investments for the built environment, with an emphasis on real estate and construction; founded around 2009, it provides capital, industry expertise and market access to portfolio companies, helping them scale in the United States; the firm operates as a registered investment adviser and is headquartered in Los Angeles, concentrating on early-stage software and related technologies that improve real estate development, property management, and construction workflows.
Service Provider Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2014 and based in Colorado. The firm focuses on early-stage investments, notably seed-stage opportunities, and participates as a co-investor in Series A rounds led by institutional venture funds. Its portfolio interests span a broad range of technology sectors, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, cybersecurity, e-commerce, education technology, fintech, hardware, information technology, robotics, health, and cannabis.
Camber Creek is a venture capital investment firm focused on technology-related opportunities in real estate. Headquartered in Rockville with an office in New York, the firm concentrates on investing in real estate technology companies across the United States. It leverages expertise across real estate sectors such as construction, property management, development, and leasing, and combines investing, operating, and technology know-how with the assets of its partners, investors, and advisors to support the growth and success of its portfolio companies.
Norwest Venture Partners is a global technology venture capital firm founded in 1961 and based in California. It invests across venture and growth stages in the United States, India, Israel, and other markets, targeting software, cloud and IT infrastructure, information services, enterprise software and services, financial services, consumer products and healthcare. The firm backs entrepreneurs with capital plus an extensive network and operating experience to help scale their businesses. Since its inception it has backed hundreds of companies and manages a multi-billion-dollar portfolio, deploying capital in seed to growth rounds and across sectors that drive technology-enabled growth. Norwest emphasizes building lasting relationships with founders and mentoring teams through strategic guidance and market access to accelerate expansion and scale globally.
Partech is a global technology investment firm headquartered in Paris with offices in Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi, and San Francisco. It provides capital, operational experience, and strategic support to founders from seed to growth, working alongside the entrepreneurs it backs to pursue long-term success. Founded about 40 years ago in San Francisco, Partech currently manages around 2.5 billion euros in assets and backs a portfolio of about 220 companies across 40 countries and four continents. The firm concentrates on technology sectors, including software, cybersecurity, fintech, AI, cloud, and related areas, investing across the United States, Europe, and emerging markets.
Founded in 2013, Susa Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco. It invests primarily in early-stage technology companies across sectors such as software, fintech, health, commerce, and education. The firm focuses on investments in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and the Bay Area.
Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage, pre-seed technology startups in underserved segments of the ecosystem. It invests in a high-volume, capital-efficient portfolio, typically funding rounds of 50,000 to 500,000 and making roughly 75 to 100 investments per year. The firm targets opportunities across the United States and internationally, including Canada, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe, prioritizing companies with scalable products and prudent capital use outside major metro hubs. Since its inception, it has built a broad portfolio across many states. It commits to a fast decision process, often delivering a yes or no within two weeks to help founders establish momentum.
Desjardins Capital is the private equity and venture capital arm of Mouvement des caisses Desjardins, based in Quebec, Canada. It provides growth capital, mezzanine, and select debt financing to early-stage through mature companies across industrial, manufacturing, technology, and service sectors, with emphasis on health care, life sciences, and biotechnology. The firm also supports cooperatives, including worker-owned and housing cooperatives, and network cooperatives, financing development, acquisitions, expansions, and succession plans. It primarily invests in Quebec and surrounding regions, and can finance growth, acquisitions, management buyouts, and modernization. Investments may be equity or debt, including unsecured loans, with instruments ranging from senior debt to equity, and tenures typically five to eight years for equity and three to five years for debt. The firm often takes minority stakes with board participation. It does not invest in natural resource exploration or financial services. Desjardins Capital traces its roots to 1974 and operates within the Desjardins Group.
East Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2009, headquartered in Tokyo with offices in Singapore and Indonesia. It operates as a sector-agnostic investor, providing multi-stage capital from seed to growth for technology startups across Southeast Asia. The firm has backed more than 300 companies in the region, including notable names such as Tokopedia, Traveloka, Ruangguru, and Xendit, and focuses on early-stage technology companies to drive regional growth. East Ventures emphasizes active involvement in the Indonesian and broader Southeast Asian ecosystems and is recognized for its long-standing commitment to responsible investing, having signed the Principles for Responsible Investment. The firm combines investment with guidance and ESG-aligned practices to support sustainable development of the regional tech sector.
Zeev Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2015, it specializes in seed and early stage investments across technology, financial services, e-commerce, and consumer service sectors.
Founded in 2017, Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm based in San Carlos, California. It specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors across the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia.
Moonshots Capital is a venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas. It makes seed-stage investments in technology startups led by founders who are building products that re-imagine work and personal life in large and growing markets. The firm uses a disciplined investment process to identify companies with moonshot potential. It focuses on dual-use technology, fintech, consumer Internet, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. Moonshots Capital is a registered investment adviser and supports portfolio companies through early growth to scale.
Established with $500 million, Citi Impact Fund invests equity in U.S.-based private companies addressing societal challenges through innovative solutions. They typically co-invest alongside other venture capitalists, committing between $250,000 to $10 million across seed to pre-IPO stages. The fund focuses on four verticals: future of work, climate resilience, financial inclusion, and social infrastructure. It actively supports women and minority-led businesses.
Primary Venture Partners is a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm established in 2004. It invests globally, focusing on pre-seed to Series A rounds in B2B SaaS, fintech, healthcare, infrastructure, and supply chain sectors. The firm is known for its low-volume, high-conviction approach, providing exceptional support to founders through its dedicated Impact team, which outnumbers investors 2:1. This team works full-time on tasks such as hiring, customer acquisition, and fundraising to accelerate portfolio companies' growth. Primary's track record includes backing unicorns like Alloy, Chief, and K Health, with portfolio companies being 2x more likely to raise a Series A and 19x more likely to reach a billion-dollar-plus valuation compared to industry averages.
Alate Partners is a Toronto-based venture capital firm established in 2018 that focuses on investing in innovative technology companies within the real estate sector. The firm was founded through a collaboration between Dream and Relay Ventures and aims to empower entrepreneurs who are rethinking various aspects of real estate, including commercial, residential, and industrial applications. In addition to providing capital, Alate Partners offers its portfolio companies access to a valuable network of experienced real estate owners, operators, and managers, enhancing their ability to design, build, and manage real estate more effectively.
Vesta Ventures is a venture capital investment firm established in 2021 and based in Reno, Nevada. The firm focuses on investing in companies within the residential property technology sector, aiming to support innovative solutions that enhance the residential real estate experience. Through its targeted investments, Vesta Ventures seeks to drive growth and development in this evolving industry.
JamJar Investments LLP is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2013, specializing in seed and early-stage investments primarily in the consumer services and products sectors, as well as technology and non-tech industries, including food and drink. The firm targets high-growth consumer brand businesses in Europe and typically invests between £0.15 million and £1 million in initial rounds, with the capacity for follow-on investments. JamJar is distinctively led by the founders of innocent drinks, who bring over 14 years of operational and commercial experience from building the brand to its acquisition by Coca-Cola. This background enables JamJar to understand the entrepreneurial journey, including its challenges and potential solutions, and fosters a collaborative investment approach, often preferring to work with teams rather than individuals.