Gaingels is a venture capital investment firm founded in 2014 and based in Burlington, Vermont. It specializes in investing in companies led by LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders across various stages of growth, as well as in established firms aiming to create more inclusive teams. With a global portfolio of over 130 companies and $70 million in investment capital deployed, Gaingels actively supports its portfolio by helping to identify and recruit diverse talent for leadership roles. The firm fosters a vibrant community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who are united in their mission to drive positive social change through business and successful investments.

Founded in 2020, Rose Street Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York, New York. The firm seeks to invest in the consumer internet sector.

Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC. It helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with expertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, and Mike Collins co-founded the firm in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2013.

Improving Enterprises is an software professional services firm that challenges the basic assumptions of technology service models.

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in acquisitions, buyouts, recapitalizations, refinancing, balance sheet restructuring, growth financing, structured equity, distressed debt, leveraged loan and mezzanine investments in lower middle market. It also makes fund of funds investments and invests in a combination of debt and equity securities. The firm invests in Financials, Information Technology, Consumer/Branded Products, Franchises, Business Services, Healthcare, Education, and Engineered Products/Light Manufacturing. It prefers to invest in companies headquartered in the United States, the Netherlands and throughout continental Europe. The firm seeks to make investments between $5 million and $100 million in companies with revenues between $25 million and $750 million. Within Flagship Platforms, it primarily invests in U.S. companies with revenues of approximately $50 million to $250 million. Within Lower Middle Market Platforms, it primarily invests in U.S. companies with less than $50 million of revenues and/or investment amounts of $100 million or less and within Europe Platforms, it seeks to invest primarily in European companies with revenues of approximately €25 million ($30.10 million) to €250 million ($301.00 million). It invests in both private and public companies. The firm seeks to exit its investments through public offering, sale of the company, and recapitalization. It prefers to take a majority stake. It prefers to participate at the executive committee level rather than on the board of directors. The firm can invest anywhere in the capital structure of its portfolio companies. It also manages bank loans, high yield bonds, and special situation investments through its structured investment products. It seeks majority control ownership positions. Levine Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, LLC was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in the United States and Europe.

Venrex is a VC firm that backs creative founders to launch and build innovative businesses.

Ground Up Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups in the United States and Israel.

Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that focuses on SaaS, consumer, marketplaces, hardware, and new technology startups. The firm currently investing out of two funds: a $200M Seed fund (Fund VII) and a $200M Opportunity fund (Plus III) earmarked for larger investments in mature, existing portfolio companies. Uncork Capital, formerly SoftTech VC was founded in 2004 and is based in Palo Alto, California, United States. Uncork Capital has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Lightspeed Europe is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage and growth investments across various sectors, including consumer, health, and fintech. With its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and regional offices in Europe, Israel, India, and China, Lightspeed aims to identify and support innovative companies that can disrupt traditional markets. The firm invests in a wide range of industries, such as enterprise technology, e-commerce, software, and biotechnology, providing both equity and debt financing. Lightspeed has a particular interest in technology-led businesses, as well as opportunities in advertising, media, healthcare, education, and retail. Its investment strategy emphasizes the provision of capital along with ongoing consulting and advisory services to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses effectively.

LearnCapital is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on funding entrepreneurs with a vision for better and smarter learning. They believe that the future is shaped by the way we teach and learn in the present, and that we’re in the middle of one of the great revolutions in the history of education. New technology platforms, applications, and services are not only amplifying and augmenting classroom learning, but creating a world in which any Internet-enabled device can become a classroom on demand.

Investing in the world's most ambitious startups

K5 Global Advisor LLC (“K5”) is a venture capital firm and incubation studio that supports founders across the business lifecycle. The firm was founded in 2018 by Michael Kives and Bryan Baum and has deployed capital of around $1B as of March 31, 2024. K5 invests across multiple stages, from seed through growth stage companies, with a focus on Enterprise SaaS, Vertical SaaS, and FinTech. In 2023, Keenan Rice and Daniel Marcotte, investors from Tokyo Black Capital Advisors, LLC, and both on the founding team of Looker (acquired by Google in 2020 for $2.6B), joined with K5’s early-stage SaaS investing team. K5 seeks to help innovative companies expand their networks and best position them to achieve growth targets.

We’re (not just) investors. We’re (more than) advisors. We’re (beyond) connectors. Ben Franklin Technology Partners combines the best practices of early stage investing with a higher purpose – to lead the region’s technology community to new heights, creating jobs and transforming lives. For over 30 years, Ben has been the leading seed stage capital provider for the region’s technology sectors, investing over $170 million in more than 1,750 regional technology companies, many of which have gone on to become industry leaders. Ben Franklin has also launched university/industry partnerships that accelerate scientific discoveries to commercialization, and has seeded regional initiatives that strengthen our entrepreneurial community.

The It Gets Better Project is a non-profit organization that is focused on empowering to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth around the world. It is focused on reducing harassment, bullying, and other related categories. It helps LGBT kids and teens to achieve levels of happiness, potential, and positivity. This is achieved by webinars, online forums, educational events, activities, and community projects. The It Gets Better Project was founded in 2010 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

MassChallenge is a non-equity startup accelerator headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional locations in Israel, Mexico, Switzerland, Texas, and the UK. Founded in 2009, it focuses on fostering innovation and entrepreneurship by supporting high-potential startups across various industries globally. MassChallenge provides expert mentorship, a tailored curriculum, and access to corporate partners without taking any equity from the startups. Its programs, including specialized initiatives like MassChallenge FinTech and MassChallenge HealthTech, aim to facilitate partnerships between startups and established companies to drive innovation and growth. To date, MassChallenge has helped over 1,200 alumni raise more than $2 billion in funding and create over 65,000 jobs, demonstrating its significant impact on the global innovation ecosystem.

Haatch Ventures LLP is a venture capital firm and incubator based in Stamford, United Kingdom, established in September 2013. It focuses on early-stage investments, particularly in technology sectors such as software as a service, retail tech, and digital consumer markets. Haatch Ventures specializes in providing growth capital for startups at the pre-seed and seed stages, with investments typically ranging from £100,000 to £300,000, and participation in funding rounds up to £2 million. The firm also manages an EIS fund that targets high-growth, scalable digital businesses. Haatch combines financial investment with hands-on support, leveraging its extensive network and experience to help accelerate the growth of its portfolio companies.

Mentaal Beter is a mental health care services provider active in the mild to moderate severity of mental care and learnings disorder. Their professionals, psychologists, and psychiatrists provide the best care for mental health problems in children, young people, and adults.

Ulu Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture fund in Silicon Valley investing in diverse entrepreneurial teams as well as Enterprise IT, EdTech, FinTech, Healthcare, and Sustainability startups. Ulu is the first Latina-led venture fund in Silicon Valley and is one of the largest in the country with over $200M in assets under management. As well, the firm has designed its investment process to reduce risk and produce better, more consistent returns. Ulu’s process structures intuition and applies it intelligently to investments, avoiding cognitive biases common in VC; systematically identifies key drivers of risk and uncertainty, streamlining due diligence; and calculates a probability-weighted multiple(PWM) on invested capital, ensuring consistent decision-making.

Joyance Partners invests in companies that, through science and tech, cultivate joy to improve how we live, focusing on the health and consumer sectors from Pre-Seed to Series A.

Freestyle Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology companies at the seed stage. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, the firm leverages its extensive experience to support market leaders and enhance diversity in the investment landscape.

DFJ, established in 1985 and based in Silicon Valley, is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing growth capital to technology companies. With a focus on partnering with visionary entrepreneurs, DFJ aims to invest in businesses that are rapidly scaling and poised for market leadership. The firm emphasizes a high-conviction investment strategy, targeting innovative companies across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology sectors. DFJ Growth, a later-stage investing practice within the firm, seeks to support extraordinary entrepreneurs as they create iconic technology-driven businesses. Through its investment approach, DFJ facilitates access to valuable networks and resources that can help transform entrepreneurial visions into reality.

Eudemian Ventures is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm with a transatlantic footprint investing in US Seed and Series A software startups with the potential to become global market leaders. The firm focus on AI, B2B SaaS, Consumer, Marketplaces, FinTech, and Digital Health software.

Offline Ventures they provide services for science, engineering, design, and art.

Scribble Ventures is an early-stage investment fund that focuses on Pre-Seed through Series A.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. Their investments are seed and series A. The investment range of the company is $50,000 to $5,000,000. It invests in Alibaba Group, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, Adore Me, and Earnest.

Great North Ventures invests in entrepreneurs who are using the latest breakthrough technologies to innovate industries still dominated by analog processes. From Seed to Series B, the team provides guidance, capital, and connections. The fund looks for the best startups wherever they are located, because the next generation of great companies are growing outside of Silicon Valley. Built by successful founders, Great North Ventures values the ability to execute above all else.

ah! Ventures is India’s only curated, sector agnostic and the largest fundraising platform for early stage startups raising funds up to 10 MN USD. Very strong network of 3000+ Investors including 2000+ angel investors and 1000+ institutional investors & fund/family houses, Robust deal pipeline of more than 600 business plans/month and Well-established brand as one of India’s premier aggregators with a cornucopia of offerings to catalyze startup growth.

HealthCap is a family of multi stage venture capital funds, investing globally in life sciences, with the Odlander Fredrikson Group as their exclusive investments advisor. With committed capital exceeding € 800 million, HealthCap is one of the largest specialized provider of venture capital within life sciences Europe.

Global investor in big ideas with the potential for positive impact & exponential growth

Think.Health invests as a boutique risk-taker in healthcare ventures. We continuously seek innovations and disruptive business models in digital healthcare, medical technologies and health service providers,

REDO Ventures provides an understanding deeply entrepreneurship, courage, taking a long-term view, risks, transparency, and honesty. We partner with founders early stage in all sectors of consumer technology.

Unilever Ventures, established in 2002 and headquartered in London, operates as the investment arm of Unilever, focusing on venture capital and private equity. The firm specializes in direct investments in seed, early-stage, and later-stage companies, as well as fund of funds investments targeted at private equity funds. Unilever Ventures invests primarily in sectors such as personal care, digital media, e-commerce, healthcare, and consumer products, with a keen interest in companies that promote sustainable living and innovative technology. The firm typically invests between $0.5 million and $15 million, favoring minority or majority shareholdings, and aims to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. With additional offices in Mumbai, India, Unilever Ventures emphasizes opportunities in Asia and Europe, particularly Western Europe, while also considering investments in North America. The firm collaborates closely with The Unilever Foundry to support technology innovators through mentorship and growth financing, leveraging Unilever's extensive global ecosystem to accelerate the growth of promising companies.

4Founders Capital is Venture Capital fund, founded in Barcelona in 2017 investing in high growth technology companies with a clear focus on profit generation, efficient use of capital and with solid teams. 4Founders Capital is promoted by Jesús Monleón, Marc Badosa, Javier Pérez-Tenessa and Marek Fodor. 4Founders team's international DNA and extensive experience as Founders and CEOs of successful technology companies allows to assist entrepreneurs and maximize their chances of success to build high impact global technology businesses. We are interested in projects with solid teams, which aim to create large international companies, with a market-tested superior product or service, and a clear revenue and profit generation model. Companies are not required to be in break-even. We invest anywhere from €100K in early stage investments, and typically bring co-investors with us to increase that amount. We do follow-ons for up to €4M per company over the lifetime of our investment.

Hevella Capital is a principal investment firm.

Oxford Capital is a technology venture capital investor established in 1999 and based in London and Oxford. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage technology and technology-enabled start-ups with high growth potential. It manages capital for a diverse range of clients, including private investors, family offices, endowments, pension funds, and other institutional investors. By focusing on innovative companies, Oxford Capital aims to support the development of emerging technologies in the United Kingdom.

The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.

Capital Midwest Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in advanced manufacturing, B2B, and healthcare technology companies.

North Coast Ventures (formerly North Coast Angel Fund) is comprised of four contributed capital funds with a focus on early-stage technology investments. Our membership consists of a number of Ohio's leading investors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders who are dedicated to accelerating early-stage ventures. North Coast Ventures members play an active role by generating deal flow, serving on due diligence teams, working with portfolio companies, or serving on the Investment Screening and Executive Committees. Through this involvement, our goal is to provide a supportive environment for our portfolio companies and ultimately enhance the performance of our Fund. Northeast Ohio has a long tradition of active and successful angel investing, but until recently, the success of this crucial form of funding has hinged on the efforts of a relatively small number of individual investors. As the region’s first professionally managed angel fund, North Coast Angel Fund works to improve the early-stage funding environment for both entrepreneurs and investors.

Collaborative Fund is an investment fund that provides funding to companies based on creativity and collaborative consumption. The fund centers around two macro themes which drives business innovation in the coming years: the growth of the creative class and the concept of collaborative consumption. Craig Shapiro founded it in New York in 2010.

Crosslink, founded in 1989, is a premier early-stage venture capital firm with over $1.3B in assets. Crosslink partners with founders that are market disrupters and category creators, typically at the Seed-Series A stage, across highly dynamic enterprise and consumer technology sectors. Over its history, Crosslink has had the opportunity to partner with defining companies such as Bleacher Report (acquired by TWX), BuildingConnected (acquired by ADSK), Chime, Coupa (COUP), DataStax, Molekule, Omniture (acquired by ADBE), Personal Capital (acquired by Empower Retirement), Postmates (acquired by UBER), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Verodin (acquired by FEYE), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone) and Weave.

Will Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that leverages the power of sport to change the world. The reach, demands and allure of the sports market make it an ideal proving ground for innovations that will scale beyond the category. That’s why Will Ventures is the first venture firm to use sports as a lens to identify novel technologies in large, adjacent markets.

Motley fool Ventures is a $150 million tech-focused venture capital fund. It focuses on Series A companies leveraging technology to drive scale, efficiency, or access in large and growing markets.

Cooley is a legal services company that solves legal issues for entrepreneurs, investors, and established companies. Clients partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP matters, and bet-the-company litigation, often where innovation meets the law. Cooley was founded in 1920 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Plus Capital is a venture infrastructure trusted by elite artists and athletes from film, television, music, and sports for their venture capital investing and equity for endorsement opportunities.

IBB Ventures is a venture capital and mezzanine arm of Investitionsbank Berlin specializing in seed/startup, early venture, and mid venture investments. The firm invests in technology-oriented companies and companies from the creative industries. It typically invests in information and communication sector with a focus on hardware and software, network technology, new media, and internet and mobile technologies; life science sector with a focus on biotechnology and media technology; and industrial technologies sector with a focus on software, PPS, supply chain management, micro and nanotechnology, environmental and power technology, automation, manufacturing technology, transport technology and logistics, and new materials. The firm also invests in movies, broadcast, television, publisher, music, entertainment, advertising, fashion, design, architecture, multimedia, games, software, and art and culture. It invests in companies based in Berlin. It typically invests between €0.25 million ($0.32 million) and €3 million ($3.83 million) per transaction. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. IBB Ventures was founded in 1997 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Alchemist is a venture-backed accelerator focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). CB Insights rated Alchemist the top accelerator in 2016 based on the median funding rates of its grads (YC was #2). The accelerator’s primary screening criteria is on teams, prioritizing having distinctive technical co-founders. The organization provides seed investment into companies it admits (typically $36K), and provides founders a structured path to traction, fundraising, mentorship, and community throughout a 6-month program. The company's backers include many of the top corporate and VC funds in the Valley -- including Khosla Ventures, DFJ, Cisco, GE, next47(Siemens), and Salesforce, among others—the accelerator seeds around 75 enterprise-monetizing ventures/year. Notable alumni include LaunchDarkly, Rigetti Quantum Computing, mPharma, Matternet, and Mightyhive.

Founded in 2022, Storytime Capital is a venture capital firm based in Toronto, Ontario. The firm seeks to invest in artificial intelligence, social content creation, business automation, commerce, cyber, development tools, health technology, human resource technology, leadership, transportation, and work 2.0 sectors.

The51 is a Financial Feminist platform that aims to build mutual wealth and social/environmental impact. By uniting Canada’s untapped female wealth, The51 is creating a new critical mass of female investors, making Canada the center for female-powered capital. With 30% of Alberta’s tech start-ups founded or co-founded by women, The51’s home province is well on its way to achieving this goal; however, with female-founded startups only receiving 3% of venture capital available worldwide, The51’s vision spans globally.

LOI Venture is a $20M Pre-Seed Fund focused on founders aged 15-30 attending the LOI Program.

Archangel is the overarching early stage investment fund based in Waterloo Region, the North Silicon Valley of North America.