Everywhere Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2017. It operates as a community-powered, early-stage investor that combines capital, mentorship, and operational experience from founders and operators across ten micro funds. The firm funds pre-seed startups globally, with emphasis on purpose-driven teams in the money, health, and work verticals, and typically participates in the first financing round. Its limited partners include more than 500 founders and operators who provide hands-on guidance and contribute to the fund's capital. The model centers on founders helping founders, aiming to accelerate the next generation of entrepreneurs through a collaborative platform rather than a traditional fund structure.
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.
BBG Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups, with a focus on companies led by women. The firm funds both consumer and enterprise-oriented ventures and seeks scalable solutions across sectors such as health and wellbeing, education and the future of work, climate-friendly commerce, and inclusive consumer experiences. BBG Ventures prioritizes investments where at least one founder is a woman and where the business model targets large markets and meaningful impact. The firm has a preference for early-stage rounds and opportunities in areas including mobile, software, digital media, and vertical artificial intelligence, supporting ventures that reshape everyday life and consumer behavior. By pairing capital with hands-on support, BBG Ventures aims to accelerate growth for overlooked founders and drive innovation across North America.
SteelSky Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 2019. It focuses on investments in women’s health companies across consumer health, digital health and healthcare infrastructure, aiming to back high-growth startups that improve access, care and outcomes.
Female Founders Fund is a New York-based venture capital firm that invests in technology companies founded by women at early stages. Established in 2013, it targets women-led startups across climate technology, healthcare, beauty and personal care, software, e-commerce, media, platforms, advertising, and web-enabled services, and provides capital and strategic support to help female founders scale.
Calgary, Alberta-based venture capital firm focused on growth capital for Canadian startups, The 51 Ventures pursues a financial feminism approach by mobilizing female wealth and backing women-led ventures to advance social and environmental impact alongside returns. By combining investment activities with a platform that supports women investors and entrepreneurs, the firm aims to expand access to venture capital in Canada and foster female-led innovation across sectors, while maintaining a global outlook.
Amboy Street Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 and based in Los Angeles. It targets investments in fertility, sexual health, and women’s health technology startups, supporting companies advancing health tech in the United States and Europe.
Avestria Ventures is a San Francisco, California-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage companies in women's health and female-led life sciences and healthcare. It targets sectors such as women's health, life sciences, digital health, health technology, and femtech, and prioritizes startups led by women or addressing women's health needs. The firm focuses on seed and early-stage opportunities and typically supports portfolio companies through their early growth phase.
Golden Seeds is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2005 that focuses on women-led companies across North America, investing in early-stage and seed opportunities in consumer goods, healthcare, technology and services, including B2B and B2C software, mobile, digital media and other tech-enabled sectors. The firm backs ventures led by women who own substantial equity, aiming to foster diverse leadership and better outcomes, with research indicating gender-diverse teams can drive stronger returns. It provides capital and strategic guidance to help entrepreneurs raise additional funding and scale their businesses.
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.
Emmeline Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, that makes pre-seed and seed-stage investments in female-founded, tech-enabled startups.
Ingeborg Investments is a venture capital firm based in Bentonville, Arkansas, founded in 2017, that makes direct investments in women-led startups at seed, early-stage, and Series B rounds. The firm focuses on enterprises led by women and prioritizes innovations that advance parenting, careers, financial security, women's health, and overall quality of life.
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.
Halogen Ventures is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups founded or led by women, with a focus on consumer technology and B2B software. The firm invests across pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds and prioritizes companies with female founders on the founding team. It provides active, hands-on support to portfolio companies, helping them build networks, gain brand exposure, recruit talent, raise follow-on rounds, and navigate exits such as acquisition or IPO.
New Enterprise Associates is a U.S.-based venture capital firm founded in 1977 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It invests in technology and healthcare companies across stages and geographies, supporting startups from seed to growth. The firm operates globally with investments in the United States, Asia, and Brazil among others, and has a long track record of portfolio IPOs and acquisitions. It has over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital.
Astarte Medical is a clinical intelligence company that uses software and predictive analytics to improve outcomes for children with medical complexity. Its platform provides digital tools to support standardized care protocols, care planning, and decision-making in acute and complex pediatric settings, enabling hospitals to monitor growth, nutrition, and clinical outcomes. The company offers a universal view of real-time clinical data to assess conditions such as preterm infant gut health and feeding, with features that standardize feeding practices in NICUs and support protocol-driven care across medically complex pediatric populations.
37 Angels is a New York-based angel network founded in 2012 that invests in early-stage technology startups across sectors including B2B, B2C and B2B2C. It emphasizes involvement of women investors, aiming to increase female participation and bring capital and experience to both male- and female-led ventures. The network sources high-potential deals, coordinates due diligence for members, and enables investments typically in the range of $50,000 to $200,000. It also offers a training program to educate novice angels about investing in young companies.
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.
Pivotal Ventures is a single-family office based in Redmond, Washington, established in 2015. It invests in women-led companies and in funds that offer market-based solutions to societal challenges, aiming for both social impact and financial returns. The organization also makes grants to initiatives addressing caregiving, youth mental health, paid family leave, and expanding women’s political and technological influence.
Backbone Angels is a Toronto-based angel investor group founded in 2021. It operates as a collective of individual investors that backs early-stage startups, prioritizing founders who are women or non-binary, with a focus on supporting companies led by Black, Indigenous, and women of color founders.
Robin Hood Ventures is an angel investor group based in Philadelphia that focuses on early-stage, high-growth companies in the Greater Philadelphia region. It provides capital, mentoring, expertise and connections to help entrepreneurs grow. Typical investments range from $250,000 to $500,000. Founded in 1999, the group collaborates with other angels, institutions, and venture networks. Sectors include information technology services and software, life sciences, hard technology, consumer, and financial technology.
General Catalyst is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 that provides early-stage and growth equity investments in technology companies. It supports portfolio companies with momentum and mentorship to accelerate growth toward long-term success and typically engages across seed to growth stages, potentially taking minority or majority stakes. The firm targets a broad range of sectors enabled by software and technology, including consumer, enterprise, fintech, crypto, healthcare IT, and related areas, and maintains a multi-region presence with offices in North America and Europe to back companies as they scale globally.
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.
XFactor Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that concentrates on early-stage investments, primarily pre-seed and seed rounds, in companies with billion-dollar market opportunities and at least one female founder. The firm backs startups across a wide range of sectors, including deep tech, B2B software, SaaS, digital health, fintech, consumer technology, direct-to-consumer brands, and e-commerce, with a national focus on the United States. It commonly seeks minority stake investments and emphasizes diversity and inclusion, supporting minority- and women-owned ventures. Through its portfolio, XFactor Ventures aims to back ambitious founders at the earliest stages, pairing capital with strategic guidance to accelerate growth and market impact.
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.
Auxxo is an angel group established in 2019 and based in Berlin, Germany. The organization focuses on investing in pre-seed and seed-stage startups that are founded and led by women. Auxxo aims to enhance equitable participation of women in the entrepreneurial and investment landscapes in Europe, leveraging its network and experience to support female entrepreneurs. By prioritizing female-led companies, Auxxo contributes to fostering a more inclusive venture capital ecosystem.
Fund F is a venture capital firm based in Vienna, Austria, investing in pre-seed and seed-stage startups across Europe, with a focus on climate tech, femtech, health tech, fintech, insurtech, and HR tech, and supporting teams with gender diversity.
True Wealth Ventures is a Texas-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in Austin. It invests in seed- and early-stage, women-led startups across environmental health, human health, and sustainable consumer sectors, including clean technology and healthcare technology, with a focus on United States-based companies led by women entrepreneurs. The firm employs an ESG risk framework to evaluate investments and targets opportunities that advance health and environmental sustainability.
FemHealth Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York that was founded in 2020. It concentrates on early-stage investments in companies advancing women’s health across drugs, devices, diagnostics, and digital health applications. The firm seeks to support innovations addressing conditions that affect women or particularly manifest in women, with an emphasis on solutions that improve diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes in women’s health. By backing startups at the forefront of biomedical and digital technologies, FemHealth Ventures aims to expand the scope of women’s health beyond traditional boundaries and accelerate development of therapies and tools tailored to women’s needs.
Curate Capital is a venture capital firm based in Houston, Texas, founded in 2020. It concentrates on investing in women-led companies developing consumer products and services and aims to address the needs of female consumers through market-ready solutions. The firm emphasizes backing female founders and seeks opportunities in consumer-facing sectors.
Icon Ventures is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2003 that focuses on leading Series B and C financings in technology sectors such as cloud and data, security, digital health, and other information technology. The firm collaborates with leading venture partners to back category-winning startups at early momentum and has backed notable companies including FireEye, Palo Alto Networks, Proofpoint, MoPub, Infinera, Aster Data, and 41st Parameter.
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.
Fearless Fund is a venture capital firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 2018. It invests in women of color-led businesses at the pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages, aiming to support underrepresented founders and accelerate growth through early-stage funding and strategic guidance.
Innovation Works is a Pittsburgh-based venture capital firm established in 1999 that targets seed-stage technology companies in Southwestern Pennsylvania. It provides capital, business guidance, and other resources to high-potential startups and is the region's largest seed-stage investor. The organization also helps manufacturers adopt new technologies and pursues investments in robotics, artificial intelligence, medical devices, retail technologies, and enterprise software.
Founded in 2019, The Artemis Fund is a venture capital firm that provides seed, early-stage, and Series A funding to female-founded and female-led technology-enabled companies. It focuses on fintech, e-commerce infrastructure, and care-tech, and typically invests between $0.1 million and $5 million per portfolio company. The firm aims to support wealth creation and sustainable care for families and communities. It is based in Houston, Texas, with offices in New York and Nevada.
The Josephine Collective is a women-led angel investor network funding early-stage startups across the United States. It prioritizes companies led by women and people of color and participates in small co-investments with other investors.
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.
Calm/Storm Ventures is a Vienna-based boutique venture capital firm and founder network founded around 2019–2020. It makes early- and growth-stage investments across Europe and the United States, with a focus on digital health, health tech, healthcare, software, AI, fintech, and related sectors. The firm emphasizes health and wellbeing solutions and supports entrepreneurs through lifelong learning, empowering them with unique access to successful founders.
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.
The Perkins Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Sonja Hoel Perkins. It backs technology-driven companies that address unmet market needs through a combination of advanced technology, market insight, and execution. The firm invests across all stages, typically taking a minority stake in rounds, and provides strategic support in fundraising, market positioning, and business planning. It emphasizes long-term relationships with entrepreneurs and strives to assist portfolio companies with growth, operations, and strategy. The fund has backed a diverse set of technology startups, and over half of the portfolio founders are women.
Social Starts is a California-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in healthcare and technology, with a focus on Series A rounds. It seeks to back scientists and technologists worldwide from the earliest stages to advance health, prevent illness, and tailor care, leveraging advances in biotech, therapeutics, and AI-driven health insights.
Human Ventures is a New York City-based venture capital firm and partner that supports early-stage founders. Drawing on its own experience building businesses, the firm adopts a hands-on approach to backing category-defining startups at pre-seed and seed stages. It pursues opportunities within the Human Needs Economy, focusing on areas such as health and wellness, the future of work and finance, the attention economy, and human connection through experiences. By partnering with founders to validate ideas, refine products, and accelerate growth, Human Ventures aims to help portfolio companies address meaningful consumer and social needs. The firm emphasizes a collaborative approach and long-term value creation rather than merely providing capital.
Torch Capital is a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs consumer technology companies and the infrastructure layers that power them. It supports visionary founders using technology to transform how consumers and businesses operate, focusing on opportunities in the consumer and technology sectors.
Portfolia is a San Mateo, California-based venture capital firm and investment platform founded in 2013. It creates and manages funds designed for women to invest in startups, aiming to deliver financial returns and social impact by backing innovative companies. The firm supports investment across sectors including health, fintech, longevity, media, sustainability and emerging markets, and its investment arm targets startups at early to growth stages, including seed through Series C. It focuses on United States opportunities for women, people of color and LGBTQ founders, and promotes inclusive investing and mentorship through its ecosystem.
Amplifyher Ventures is a New York City-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 that invests in early-stage companies led by women. It operates as an evergreen investor and targets sectors including logistics, commerce, consumer health, hospital infrastructure, and technology, supporting founders to scale their businesses.
Founded in 2020, Five35 Ventures is a South Africa-based venture capital firm dedicated to investing in early-stage African technology startups with a focus on female-led businesses.
Seae Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm providing early-stage and growth capital to healthcare service and technology companies, with a focus on minority- and women-led ventures, targeting opportunities across women's health, mental health, digital health, personalized medicine and genomics, artificial intelligence, data analytics, information technology, fintech, and tech-enabled services primarily in the United States, and prioritizing investments from women and BIPOC-led teams that support underserved populations to advance innovative health solutions.
Amplifica Capital is a venture capital firm based in Mexico City, founded in 2020, that makes seed-stage investments in women-led startups across agriculture technology, financial technology, education technology, clean technology, and women's health sectors, with a focus on opportunities in Mexico and Latin America.
Great Oaks Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York, founded in 2005. The firm makes seed and Series A investments in tech-based startups across software, healthcare, financial services, marketplaces, and enterprise sectors.