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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

East Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 and based in Singapore, investing in technology startups across Southeast Asia, including Singapore and Indonesia. It provides early-stage investments and, as described by sources, supports a multi-stage approach from seed to growth across sectors such as e-commerce, software, fintech, health tech, edtech, crypto, logistics, and AI. The firm has backed notable Southeast Asian tech companies, illustrating an active role in developing the regional startup ecosystem and supporting portfolio companies through growth in dynamic markets.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Founded in 2018, RPSG Capital Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Gurugram, India. It invests in consumer-focused companies operating within the food & beverage, personal care, and lifestyle goods sectors.

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.

Ocampo Capital is a venture capital firm based in Pacific Palisades, California, founded in 2023, focused on early-stage consumer companies. It makes investments and provides advisory support to consumer businesses to help them achieve their goals.

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.

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.

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 and based in London with additional offices in San Francisco and Geneva, supporting entrepreneurs shaping technology-driven global businesses by investing across early and growth stages in software, TMT, and related sectors including artificial intelligence, data, fintech, healthcare, and mobility, and partnering with founders to scale companies globally.

Willow Growth Partners is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California, providing capital to early-stage and early-growth consumer brands across health and wellness, beauty and personal care, apparel and accessories, food and beverage, baby and home sectors, and supporting technologies powering these companies.

Sonoma Brands is a California-based investment firm founded in 2015 that concentrates on growth equity investments in the consumer economy. It partners with bold founders to build enduring brands across physical and digital channels, focusing on consumer products, food and beverage, beauty and personal care, wellness, pet, home and lifestyle, and consumer services. The firm typically commits five to thirty million dollars per investment and seeks minority or majority stakes, often taking a seat on the portfolio company's board. Based in Sonoma, California, Sonoma Brands operates as a registered investment adviser and pursues opportunities that accelerate growth for scalable consumer brands.

FuturePlay is a startup accelerator and early-stage investor based in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2014. It operates an accelerator that provides funding, hands-on management support, and access to a collaborative ecosystem in exchange for a small stake to help deep tech ventures launch and scale. The firm specializes in deep tech startups, has invested in dozens of companies primarily in Korea with a growing share from the United States, and is expanding into Southeast Asia including Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. It runs two programs, TechUP and TechUP+, the latter a co-acceleration with large enterprises focused on specific industries; TechUP+ has sponsorships from major brands such as AmorePacific and is fostering beauty tech ventures. FuturePlay also participates as a limited partner in tech-focused funds like 500 Kimchi and Zeroth.ai and receives backing from global corporations including Cisco, DeNA, LG, NHN, and SK Planet.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CAVU Venture Partners is an investment firm focused on branded consumer brands, specializing in the better-for-you segment across Food and Beverage, Wellness, Beauty and Personal Care, and Pet products. Founded in 2015, it targets high-growth, iconic consumer brands and partners with founders to scale category-leading companies. The firm pursues early-stage and growth opportunities in the consumer goods and retail space, leveraging deep industry experience to support brand-building, product development, and go-to-market execution.

Forerunner Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on consumer-led technology and branded consumer companies in North America. The firm targets early-stage and high-growth opportunities, backing entrepreneurs who connect offline and online commerce, social and mobile commerce, and internet marketplaces with enabling tools and services. It provides capital alongside strategic guidance and consumer insight to help portfolio companies scale within evolving retail and digital ecosystems. Its focus spans sectors such as consumer products and services, health and wellness, finance, entertainment, and productivity, with emphasis on opportunities where brands meet modern consumers and technology enhances the consumer experience.

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.

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.

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.

Gore Range Capital is a venture capital firm that emphasizes hands-on, early-stage investments in healthcare, with a particular focus on skin health and dermatology. Leveraging domain expertise and broad industry relationships, the firm targets startups in medical devices, therapeutics, life sciences, oncology, cardiovascular, and related technologies across North America and Western Europe. Gore Range Capital typically participates in seed and early venture rounds, often taking a lead or co-lead role and working closely with management teams to provide not only capital but operational, clinical, and scientific guidance. The firm combines elements of private equity's hands-on approach with venture capital's guidance to help portfolio companies achieve growth and scale in competitive markets.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that invests in early-stage technology startups. It specializes in pre-seed and seed rounds for capital-efficient companies, with a focus on the United States and Canada and occasional activity in Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. The firm typically makes 75 to 100 investments per year, with round sizes from 50,000 to 500,000 and pre-money valuations ranging from 1,000,000 to 3,500,000. Portfolio companies are typically located outside the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and the firm aims to provide a clear yes or no on opportunities within about two weeks.

SFC Capital is a United Kingdom-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that makes early-stage investments in UK startups, including pre-seed and seed rounds. It backs companies across sectors such as software, technology, e-commerce, consumer, enterprise, green tech, medical technology, and hospitality, providing capital plus strategic guidance to support growth and product development. The firm operates a model that combines an angel network with seed funds to back SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, aiming to offer exposure to a diversified portfolio while delivering hands-on support to portfolio companies.

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.

Jinding Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm established in 2014. It makes equity investments in Chinese companies across the consumer, industrial, science and technology, health, and related consumption sectors, spanning early to growth stages.

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.

Founded in 2021, Sandbox Studios is a venture capital firm based in West Hollywood, California. It invests in seed-stage to later-stage companies across beauty, wellness, lifestyle, food & beverage, and eSports sectors.

Consumer Ventures is a venture capital and advisory firm based in Chicago, established in 2017. The firm specializes in developing and investing in consumer brands and companies, with a focus on various sectors including food, beverage, health, wellness, personal care, sporting goods, retail, e-commerce, apparel, and products for families and pets. By concentrating on consumer-branded products and services, Consumer Ventures aims to support the growth of innovative companies that cater to everyday needs and lifestyles.

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.

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.

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.