Blume Ventures is a Mumbai-based venture capital firm that invests in seed- and early-stage technology ventures in India. It acts as an initial institutional investor in its portfolio and typically supports companies through follow-on rounds over the long term. The firm emphasizes a collaborative approach, co-investing with angels and seed funds, and often provides capital to help companies scale from seed to pre-Series A. Its focus spans software, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, business software, and consumer internet, with a preference for minority stakes and relatively small seed investments. Blume backs portfolio companies across India, aiming to help them grow in their early stages and expand regionally or nationally.
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.
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.
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 2018, Electric Capital is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. The company invests in early-stage companies operating in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors.
Standard Crypto is a venture capital firm that supports early-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain companies. Based in San Francisco and founded in 2020, it combines deep technical expertise with hands-on company-building experience and a track record in crypto to help decentralized protocols and blockchain-focused startups grow. It operates as a registered investment adviser.
a16z crypto is the crypto-focused unit of Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It invests in cryptocurrency companies, blockchain protocols, and related software sectors through a series of dedicated venture funds established between 2018 and 2021.
Founded in 2022, Tirta Ventures is a New York City-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments at the intersection of gaming and technology. The firm backs innovative companies across game infrastructure, spatial computing, game-adjacent tech platforms, content creation, and generative AI within the broader gaming ecosystem.
Konvoy is a venture capital firm founded in 2017, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It invests in early-stage companies focused on gaming platforms and technologies at the frontier of the industry.
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.
Founded in 2013, Maven Ventures is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments in tech companies addressing emerging consumer behavior and trends. They invest in bold founders with a vision to change the world, maintaining a concentrated strategy of 6-8 core investments annually.
Sauce.vc is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New Delhi, India. Established in 2019, it focuses on investing in consumer-centric businesses operating within the food & beverages, personal care, apparel, and lifestyle sectors.
Founded in Bengaluru, India in 2017, Fireside Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage digital startups operating within the consumer products and services sectors across India.
Founders Future is a Paris-based venture capital firm and startup studio established in 2018. It provides capital and hands-on support to early-stage startups, including pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds, with a European focus. The firm backs companies across sectors such as business-to-business products and services, software as a service and information technology, fintech, e-commerce, transportation, retail, semiconductors, and food technology.
Founded in 2000, General Catalyst is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and growth equity investments. It focuses on accelerating ideas, careers, and companies towards success by providing ongoing momentum and mentorship based on deep experience.
Brand Foundry Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 and based in Austin, Texas. It makes early-stage investments in companies serving the consumer and business sectors, supporting startups through initial rounds and helping them scale.
Founded in 2017, Halogen Ventures is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage consumer technology startups led by women. The firm supports founders throughout their lifecycle, providing hands-on assistance with networking, brand exposure, talent acquisition, follow-on funding, and strategic growth.
Founded in 2002, Europlay Capital Advisors is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. It works with entrepreneurs to grow their businesses, focusing on healthcare, mobile, retail, media, and information technology sectors.
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.
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.
Everywhere Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage, pre-seed investments. Founded by founders for founders, it operates as a community-powered investing platform that unites capital, expertise, and mentoring from a broad network of founders and operators across ten micro funds. The firm supports global startups in their first financing rounds, with a focus on purpose-driven teams across money, health, and work verticals. Its model combines hands-on guidance from experienced builders with early-stage funding to help entrepreneurs build durable companies.
Founded in 2013, Homebrew is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Burlingame, California. It invests in early-stage software companies across the United States and Canada, focusing on sectors such as B2B/B2C services, healthcare, fintech, and technology.
Crosslink Capital is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 1989. It invests in technology and media companies in the United States, with a focus on early-stage and growth opportunities in consumer and enterprise software and related sectors. The firm partners with founders to support category-creating companies from seed-stage through expansion, and manages a family of funds that target software, TMT, and energy technology opportunities across the United States.
Climber Capital is a Mumbai-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology investments. It seeks opportunities across B2B and B2C markets and supports sectors including information technology, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, digital health, education technology, financial technology, and software-as-a-service.
Old College Capital is the corporate venture arm of the University of Edinburgh, providing growth equity and development finance to early- and mid-stage spin-out and start-up companies connected to the university or the Edinburgh ecosystem. It supports commercialization and growth by investing typically £50,000 to £250,000 in portfolio companies and may offer follow-on funding. It can participate in co-investments with other institutions or angel groups and may appoint a non-executive director or an observer to the board. Founded in 2011 and based in Edinburgh, it concentrates on opportunities associated with the University of Edinburgh and its broader local tech community.
Founded in 2009, SV Angel is a San Francisco-based angel investment firm and service organization that backs early-stage startups, particularly in software and technology, by providing business development support, financing, strategic guidance on mergers and acquisitions, and other resources. It leverages a broad network to assist founders at critical inflection points, helping with market strategy, partnerships, and access to capital to build durable companies across the United States.
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.
Route 66 Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 and based in Alexandria, Virginia. It provides venture capital and credit solutions to emerging financial services and fintech companies, supporting entrepreneurs across seed, early, and growth stages. The firm invests globally in sectors such as financial services, fintech, digital health, healthcare, wellness, and technology, with activity across the United States, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Its credit arm funds alternative lending platforms and other business models by purchasing whole loans or offering secured debt facilities, complementing its equity investments.
Founded in 2002, Invest Nebraska is a venture capital firm based in Lincoln, Nebraska. It specializes in seed and early-stage investments across various industries, with a focus on companies located in or willing to relocate to Nebraska.
Capnamic is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage companies across Europe. Founded in 2013, it focuses on technology startups, with a particular interest in business products and services, financial services, and information technology sectors. The firm's experienced team has made over 70 investments, including several successful trade sales and IPOs.
Founded in 2012, Z Venture Capital is a corporate venture capital firm based in Tokyo, Japan. It invests primarily in technology-focused companies operating within sectors such as commerce, media, financial technology, software as a service, data, crypto, healthcare, human resources, educational technology, and cybersecurity.
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.
IA Ventures, established in 2010, is a New York-based venture capital firm focusing on seed and early-stage investments. It specializes in financial services, fintech, fraud detection, healthcare, and data privacy sectors, with a particular interest in companies utilizing machine learning, predictive analytics, and data-driven technologies. The firm invests in the U.S. East Coast, Israel, and the United Kingdom, with transaction sizes ranging from $0.25 million to $0.75 million.
Lorimer Ventures, established in 2019 and based in Brooklyn, New York, is an operator-led investment firm that backs early-stage B2B startups globally. The company invests across various sectors, including financial services, energy, business products and services, and technology, with a focus on seed, early, and later-stage companies.
Founded in 2018, Town Hall Ventures is a New York-based investment firm dedicated to transforming the U.S. healthcare market through technology. It invests in and supports visionary entrepreneurs focused on improving care delivery and health outcomes for underserved populations.
Founded in 2003, Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York. It specializes in early to late-stage investments in internet-focused companies, with a focus on web services creating large networks and innovative use of information technology across industries like media, marketing, fintech, climate tech, and healthcare.
Founded in 2023, Core Vision Investments is a venture capital firm based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It focuses on investing in early-stage companies within the e-commerce, logistics, educational technology, digital health, fintech, enterprise solutions, and retail technology sectors.
Pear is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson, based in Menlo Park, California. The firm specializes in investing in technology companies across various sectors, including consumer, business-to-business, healthcare, biotech, fintech, climate tech, SaaS, and deep tech. Pear targets exceptional founders who are building innovative companies and provides extensive support to help them succeed. The firm has a history of seeding successful startups such as Dropbox and Lending Club, emphasizing its commitment to fostering entrepreneurial talent in North America.
Founded in 2009 and based in New York City, BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund focusing on pre-seed to Series A rounds. It invests globally, with a primary focus on New York City, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles. The firm typically allocates between $50,000 and $250,000 per investment across various sectors including consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, life science, marketplace, synthetic biology, and climate.
MAYA Capital is an early-stage venture firm that supports businesses focused on accessibility, transformation and efficiency in Brazil and Latin America. It backs startups addressing regional needs and aims to deliver scalable, impactful solutions across sectors in the region, helping them navigate local markets and accelerate growth.
Alven Capital Partners is a Paris-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs primarily French and France-related entrepreneurs in the digital technology space. The firm focuses on technology and consumer-oriented opportunities, including artificial intelligence, data management, software-as-a-service, security, marketplaces, and disruptive web brands, with investments across Europe and North America. It manages over $500 million in capital and supports portfolio companies in early rounds as they scale, offering hands-on guidance and strategic support to help entrepreneurs build durable businesses in the tech and digital economy.
Founded in Singapore in 2017, Insignia Ventures Partners is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments across various sectors including B2B, e-commerce, consumer tech, fintech, and more. The company is led by former Sequoia Asia partner Yinglan Tan.
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.
Samsung NEXT is an innovation group within Samsung Electronics that focuses on identifying and pursuing new growth opportunities. Through Samsung NEXT Ventures, it acts as the company’s venture capital arm, investing in early-stage startups and technologies with potential to redefine multiple industries. The group targets areas including artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, media technology, software, and related fields such as robotics and drones. By combining internal startup acceleration with external investments, Samsung NEXT aims to accelerate technology adoption and create scalable platforms that complement Samsung’s hardware and software ecosystems.
Better Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Santa Clara, California. Established in 2021, the firm focuses on investing in innovative businesses with a strong emphasis on profitability across sectors such as cryptocurrency, creator economy, and climate tech.
Dreamers VC is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Los Angeles, California, United States. It backs early-stage companies—seed, Series A, and Series B—in the United States, investing in technology-driven startups across sectors including software, consumer, enterprise, entertainment, fintech, health, and biotechnology.
ICONIQ Capital is a private investment firm and global multi-family office that provides financial advisory and family office services while managing direct investments across asset classes. The firm focuses on technology growth equity, venture capital, middle-market buyouts, and real estate opportunities, serving high-net-worth families and organizations. Headquartered in San Francisco, it maintains offices in New York, Palo Alto and Singapore to support activity across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Founded in 1989, Connecticut Innovations supports high-tech companies by providing strategic capital and operational insight. They focus on energy, biotechnology, information technology, and photonics sectors, offering flexible financing, guidance, and valuable partnerships to enable growth.
Established in 2019, this fund invests in healthcare companies that have partnerships with institutions on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. It focuses on digital health, therapeutics, and devices, managing a $50 million portfolio.