Antler is a global venture capital firm and startup incubator based in Singapore that invests in early-stage technology companies and supports startups across sectors including healthcare, finance, consumer, and software. It builds a worldwide community of co-founders and provides access to talent, mentors, and expert advisors, along with expansion support and capital to help teams form, validate business models, and grow internationally. Antler emphasizes long-term partnerships with portfolio companies, continuing to back ventures through growth stages as they scale.

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011. It focuses on software-as-a-service startups in Latin America, providing growth capital, mentorship, and access to a broad network of strategic partners and co-investors to help portfolio companies scale, and operates a corporate venture capital arm that collaborates with corporate partners through flexible operating models and end-to-end support.

Forum Ventures is a founder-first venture studio, accelerator, and early-stage seed fund that supports B2B software startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, it focuses on helping founders from concept to market and funding through hands-on studio involvement, a 15-week pre-seed program with structured mentorship and funding, and a seed fund that backs startups at the seed stage. The organization operates a community and network to facilitate go-to-market strategies, fundraising, and partnerships, drawing on a portfolio of over 250 companies and connections with leading venture firms. It emphasizes founder welfare and practical support across product development, customer discovery, and fundraising, aiming to simplify the B2B SaaS journey for early-stage founders.

Liquid 2 Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma. It provides seed- and early-stage capital to technology startups, occasionally supporting later rounds such as Series B, and often invests alongside co-investors. The firm emphasizes strategic introductions and hands-on guidance to help portfolio companies scale, with a focus on software, TMT, and other technology sectors. By partnering with founders and other investors, Liquid 2 Ventures aims to align capital with long-term company growth.

Flat6Labs is an accelerator firm and entrepreneurship platform operating in emerging markets. Founded in 2011 and based in Cairo, it supports founders to build, launch, and grow transformative startups through acceleration programs, ecosystem development, and tailored innovation services. The firm has expanded across the Middle East and Africa with offices in Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Jeddah, Manama, and Tunis, and it runs regionally focused programs such as StartMashreq and Nawah Pre-Accelerator, along with sector initiatives in FinTech and PropTech. Flat6Labs collaborates with international partners and government initiatives to accelerate scale and regional impact, and it maintains programs and partnerships across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, and Pakistan. The company aims to strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems and bridge local startups to global markets.

SFC Capital is a venture capital firm in the United Kingdom that focuses on early-stage investments, including pre-seed and seed rounds, mainly within the UK. Founded in 2012, it backs a broad range of sectors such as software, technology, e-commerce, consumer, enterprise software, fintech, digital health, food technology, and mobile. The firm combines an angel network with seed funds to provide capital and strategic support to British startups, offering access to SEIS- and EIS-qualifying opportunities and hands-on guidance to help portfolio companies scale.

LAUNCH is a startup ecosystem founded by Jason Calacanis that supports early-stage companies through accelerator programs, venture funds, a syndicate, and a global media network. It has backed more than 1,000 companies, including Uber, Robinhood, Calm, and Superhuman, and runs programs such as Founder University, the LAUNCH Accelerator, Startup Tuneup, and Angel University Global, with cohorts that can be remote or hybrid and demo days that reach a global audience. Its investment path includes accelerator funding and follow-on rounds, complemented by The Syndicate’s capital through a broad investor network. In addition to funding, LAUNCH publishes media for founders and provides resources, connections, and opportunities to help build transformative companies at scale.

Turkey Development Fund is an economic development agency based in Istanbul, established in 2019. It aims to advance Turkey’s sustainable development by investing in companies and funds that support strategic sectors and cultivate the early-stage venture capital ecosystem, including through sub-funds. The organization seeks to develop the enterprise landscape by backing new generation startups. Assets are managed by a board of directors.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. It is stage-agnostic, backing seed and Series A rounds, with an investment range of fifty thousand to five million dollars. Founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda, the firm leverages its network and experience in the marketplace sector to support founders aiming for rapid growth. The firm maintains a broad portfolio across e-commerce, on-demand services, fintech, and related technologies, with notable investments in Alibaba, Coupang, Delivery Hero, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, Adore Me, and Earnest. FJ Labs emphasizes partnerships with visionary founders and uses its sector expertise to help portfolio companies scale and achieve expansion.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm that provides early-stage and seed investments alongside structured accelerator programs and deeply resourced facilities to accelerate product development. Focused on deep tech, human and planetary health, and cross-border software, SOSV backs startups from pre-seed onward and runs programs that accelerate technical development, regulatory strategy, and fundraising. The firm maintains labs and engineering spaces with specialist staff in multiple regions, including the United States and Asia, to support portfolio companies in biosafety, chemistry, mechatronics, analytics, and electrical engineering. Programs such as HAX and other live events offer founders access to prototyping, testing, and investor networks. Annually, SOSV makes around sixty pre-seed investments (up to roughly $550k each) and participates in numerous follow-on rounds, leveraging a global portfolio and extensive co-investor network to help deeply technical startups scale and reach markets.

Hiventures is a venture capital investment firm headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, focused on funding Hungarian startups across multiple sectors. It takes a patient, long-term approach, supporting portfolio companies from prototyping and market validation through subsequent financing rounds and exits. The firm emphasizes technology-driven ventures, including artificial intelligence, deeptech, medtech and greentech, and engages in co-investment partnerships. It maintains a dedicated investment team and actively contributes to the local ecosystem through events and partnerships, including initiatives to back domestic startups via EU-backed funds.

Pioneer Fund is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded in 2017. It concentrates on investing in startups, with a focus on those arising from Y Combinator, and leverages an extensive network of alumni and seasoned venture partners to inform investment decisions and provide ongoing operational support to portfolio companies. The firm pursues opportunities across a broad range of sectors, including consumer products and services, financial technology, information technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, education technology, healthcare, real estate technology, ridesharing, and software-as-a-service, aiming to help innovative startups scale and succeed.

Everywhere Ventures is a New York based venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and early-stage startups worldwide. Founded in 2017, it operates as a community-powered platform that pools capital, mentorship, and strategic introductions through ten micro funds, backed largely by more than 500 founder and operator limited partners. The firm invests in early rounds across sectors including software, money, health, and work, providing hands-on support and practical guidance to founders from inception to traction. It emphasizes founder-led collaboration and peer learning, leveraging the experience of operators and entrepreneurs who have built successful companies to help the next generation of startups.

LvlUp Ventures is a global, value-focused venture capital firm and startup ecosystem that backs founders from pre-seed through growth across industries. It operates a family of funds and programs and provides both equity and non-dilutive financing along with hands-on support. The company offers accelerators and fund programs including industry-agnostic seed, consumer packaged goods, B2B SaaS non-dilutive, real economy non-dilutive, and other non-dilutive funds, plus first-check initiatives, enabling a broad financing toolkit. It invests across stages, up to about $1M per investment and up to $20M non-dilutive capital for select funds, with seed rounds and consumer CPG allocations up to $250K. LvlUp emphasizes an extended-team approach, linking portfolio companies with a vast network of corporate partners, partnerships, customers, and follow-on capital, and operates through a large ecosystem including a VC-in-Residence network and regional hubs such as the Middle East Investment Hub. Since its founding in 2019 in Los Angeles, it has backed thousands of startups globally, supported by an expansive ecosystem of more than 2,500 members and 750+ corporate and investment partners.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that targets early-stage, capital-efficient technology startups in the United States and Canada. The firm employs a data-driven, quantitative approach to investment decisions and aims for rapid yes-or-no conclusions, often within two weeks. Typical rounds encompass small checks in the low hundreds of thousands, with the potential for larger commitments in exceptional cases, and a portfolio-wide strategy that emphasizes diversification. Beyond capital, it provides hands-on mentorship in areas such as sales, marketing, and fundraising, leveraging a network of investors and seasoned operators to support portfolio companies after investment. The firm focuses on teams still refining product-market fit, including those outside traditional tech hubs, and seeks to help founders scale efficiently through structured operational support and transparent decision processes.

STRT Holding is an investment team rooted in startup experience, focused on backing early-stage companies. The group operates with a model that aligns the interests of founders, investors, and the startups themselves, aiming to foster mutual success. Drawing on hands-on experience from the startup world, STRT Holding supports portfolio companies through strategic guidance, network access, and collaboration that helps them navigate growth challenges and fundraising. The firm emphasizes building long-term relationships with investees and strives to contribute meaningfully beyond capital, leveraging its collective know-how to help startups achieve their goals.

Pareto Holdings is a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Jon Oringer and Edward Lando. It backs startups across industries at the early stages, including pre-seed opportunities, and operates a venture studio to provide hands-on support to portfolio companies, funded by the founders' own capital with a small global team.

Red Cedar Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in East Lansing, Michigan. It makes early‑stage investments in high‑tech startups commercializing intellectual property created at Michigan State University, supporting the commercialization of MSU research through its connection to the MSU Research Foundation as a wholly‑owned subsidiary. The firm focuses on Michigan-based technology ventures, helping entrepreneurs bring university-origin innovations to market.

Orange DAO is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm and crypto ecosystem builder founded in 2021. It focuses on investing in crypto and web3 technologies and supports founders through mentorship, partnerships, and access to a broad founder and investor network. The organization runs the Orange DAO Fellowship, a 12-week founder-led program offering personalized mentorship, networking opportunities, and direct investor exposure, with cohorts culminating in a Demo Day and a track record of fellows advancing to major accelerators such as YC or a16z CSX. Its ecosystem emphasizes a founder-first approach and collaboration with mentors from firms like Quantstamp, Cega, and Privy. Orange DAO is connected to Orange Fund, described as the venture partner of Orange DAO, which further supports its portfolio and network. Based in San Francisco, the group aims to accelerate growth in the crypto ecosystem by supporting past, present, and aspiring founders.

Entrepreneur First is a London-based accelerator and early-stage venture capital firm that identifies and supports individuals with technical startup ideas, helping them form founding teams and develop concepts into fundable ventures. Through structured programs and cohorts, it provides idea validation, mentorship, access to potential cofounders, workspace, and guidance on fundraising, connecting participants with investors. It operates globally with offices in multiple cities and runs seed funding programs, taking an equity stake in participating startups. The organization focuses on technology-centric founders across Europe, Asia, and North America, aiming to accelerate the transition from initial idea to a funded venture.

Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with offices in New York, Boston, Menlo Park, Chicago, London, and Tokyo. It enables accredited investors, especially alumni networks, to access diversified venture opportunities by co-investing alongside leading venture capital firms. Through funds, syndicates, and investing clubs, it sources opportunities across stages and geographies, conducts rigorous due diligence, and aims for transparent, founder-friendly support. The firm backs a diversified portfolio of startups, including more than 1,600 companies, and has attracted substantial committed capital and a large community of individual investors, underscoring its mission to democratize access to venture capital while partnering with established VC firms.

Founded in 2014 and based in Santa Monica, California, Expert DOJO is an international early-stage startup accelerator and venture capital firm. It runs accelerator programs and makes seed- and pre-seed investments, supporting startups to gain traction and scale, and provides follow-on capital to promising ventures. The firm backs a diverse, global cohort of technology founders, with many portfolio companies led by minority or female founders, and maintains an industry-agnostic approach focused on visionary companies and helping founders realize growth potential through acceleration and capital.

Haatch is a United Kingdom-based venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage investments in B2B software-as-a-service companies across the United Kingdom. It focuses on founder-led sales and building early sales capabilities, and operates SEIS and EIS-qualifying funds to back startups from pre-seed to seed. Haatch emphasizes automation, data, AI, and digital transformation, and uses in-house operating expertise to support portfolio companies. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Stamford, England, the firm combines smart capital with strategic guidance and network access to help portfolio firms scale efficiently and create lasting value.

Brinc is a Hong Kong-based venture accelerator and network that operates 15 multidisciplinary accelerator programs across seven countries, focused on blockchain, AI, connected hardware, robotics, climate tech, clean energy, food technology, IoT, and related areas. It partners with corporations, governments, universities, and early-stage funds to run scalable programs, source new technologies, and explore distributed innovation strategies, including Web3-enabled ventures. The company collaborates with multinational customers and institutions to provide hands-on acceleration and venture-building opportunities, and it supports follow-on investment through its ecosystem. Brinc's training arm, Brinc AOA, offers fee-based programs for incubators, accelerators, and investment firms to raise program quality and build lasting relationships with startups. The business emphasizes practical, market-ready ventures and ecosystem development, positioning Brinc as a global facilitator of startup acceleration and corporate collaboration rather than a standalone fund.

Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm and seed investor based in San Carlos, California, founded in 2017. The firm focuses on early‑stage technology startups, with a portfolio spanning software, business‑to‑business, fintech, digital health, information technology, healthcare, financial services, SaaS, and blockchain. It supports pre‑seed and growth‑stage opportunities and pursues global exposure, including activity in Asia and markets in the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia. Hustle Fund emphasizes rapid decision‑making, founder education, and a broad network of venture capitalists and angels through initiatives such as Angel Squad and related events, aiming to provide founders with capital as well as mentorship, resources, and connections to accelerate growth. The organization manages a family of funds and operates as a venture capital firm focused on technology‑driven startups.

Village Global is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm and accelerator founded in 2017. It funds technology startups at pre-seed and seed stages across sectors such as fintech, healthcare technology, software, artificial intelligence, information technology and mobile, typically investing in the lower to mid seven figures. Beyond capital, it provides a broad network of over 400 founders, operator angels and luminary LPs, offering founder retreats, peer dinners, masterclasses and access to an investor database. The firm emphasizes hands-on support for portfolio companies, including help with co-founder formation, fundraising, strategic introductions and mentorship, to help startups grow and navigate early-stage challenges through its ecosystem.

Goodwater Capital is a San Francisco Bay Area based consumer technology investment firm that backs early-stage startups worldwide, focusing on consumer technology and fintech. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, it supports ventures from Series A to IPO using software enabled, data driven approaches to help founders scale and reach millions of customers. It provides portfolio companies with detailed data, concierge services, startup curricula, and strategic advice to accelerate growth across housing, healthcare, food delivery, financial services, education, entertainment, and transportation. The portfolio targets consumer products and services, software, and related sectors, aiming to drive measurable social impact and substantial value for both entrepreneurs and investors.

Seedcamp is a London-based European seed-stage investor and accelerator that backs founders from Day One with hands-on support, unfiltered advice, and a global network. It identifies and invests in early-stage technology teams tackling large, global markets, providing immediate access to smart capital and a lifelong community to accelerate growth. Seedcamp supports portfolio companies across fintech, AI, space manufacturing and other sectors, with a track record that includes notable companies such as Wise, Revolut, Sorare and Synthesia, among hundreds of startups benefiting from its ecosystem.

Innovation Capital is a Sofia-based Bulgarian venture capital firm that provides equity and quasi-equity funding to high-potential startups and scale-ups. It concentrates on sectors including enterprise software, e-commerce, healthcare, financial services, education, automotive, transport, logistics, cybersecurity, entertainment, and travel, seeking disruptive, scalable business models. The firm aims to help portfolio companies grow and to establish connections with international partners and innovation leaders, supporting their development through professional management and strategic collaboration. By focusing on local startups with global potential, Innovation Capital seeks to foster growth in the Bulgarian tech ecosystem and facilitate integration with international markets.

Alchemist Accelerator is a seed-stage enterprise-focused startup accelerator founded in 2012 and based in California. It runs a six-month program that selects technically strong founding teams and provides mentorship, structured coaching, fundraising support, and seed investment of tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for notes. Backers include Cisco Systems, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Khosla Ventures, SAP Ventures and US Venture Partners, offering access to a broad mentor network and corporate partners. The program concentrates on business-to-business software and hardware aimed at enterprise customers, helping startups accelerate product development, customer traction, and fundraising.

100X.VC is a venture capital firm based in Mumbai, India, focused on seed and early-stage investments in Indian startups. It differentiates itself by using India SAFE Notes to simplify funding terms and by emphasizing founder-friendly, fast decisions and active involvement beyond capital. The firm provides mentoring, strategic guidance, and access to a broad network of co-investors, corporations, and investment bankers, supporting portfolio companies through subsequent funding rounds and scale. As part of its value proposition, 100X.VC positions itself as a coaching partner to founders, offering ongoing advisory support, and fostering a community through investor and founder hubs. The firm operates as a SEBI-registered investment adviser, underscoring its compliance and professional approach to early-stage entrepreneurship. Through its portfolio, it aims to accelerate growth across sectors such as fintech, cybersecurity, and consumer goods, while prioritizing founder relationships and long-term value creation.

Pear VC is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 in San Francisco that concentrates on pre-seed and seed-stage technology investments. The firm provides comprehensive support to its portfolio companies, including in-house recruiting, talent acquisition, go-to-market strategy, fundraising assistance, and PR and marketing programs, with tailored founder-focused playbooks and investor introductions. Pear emphasizes long-term partnerships with founders and seeks to build strong networks through initiatives such as Pear Garage. Its investment scope covers artificial intelligence, software as a service, enterprise technology, healthcare, biotechnology, climate technology, fintech, and consumer sectors, among others. Historically, Pear has seeded notable startups early, highlighting its role in helping exceptional founders shape the future of technology.

Outlier Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on Web3, crypto, and blockchain infrastructure, established in 2014. It operates Base Camp, a virtual accelerator launched in 2019, which has drawn thousands of applications and supports seed-stage startups. The firm has backed a portfolio of more than 220 projects and helped raise over $350 million in seed funding. Its investments span DeFi, NFTs, and blockchain infrastructure with an emphasis on emergent metaverse use cases, and it collaborates with leading protocols such as Aptos, Filecoin/IPFS, Polygon, and Polkadot, alongside advisory offerings for later-stage teams. Outlier Ventures promotes an open stack of technologies contributing to Web3 and envisions an Open Metaverse where user data and digital wealth are sovereign. It is recognized as one of the most active Web3 investors by deal volume.

Precursor Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that makes early-stage investments in pre-seed and seed rounds across North America. It focuses on B2B and B2C software, AI and hardware, with activity in consumer, enterprise, fintech, education, digital health, marketplaces and related sectors. The firm prefers to invest in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and Toronto, though it considers other geographies and has a broader U.S., Canadian, and Mexican footprint. Typical checks range from about $0.1 million to $0.25 million. Since its founding in 2015, Precursor Ventures has backed hundreds of teams and emphasizes investing in people over products, aiming to form long-term partnerships with founders. The firm highlights founder-first support and a team with deep operating and domain expertise to help portfolio companies scale.

Kaleo Ventures is a Dallas-based venture capital firm investing in technology startups across Africa, with a focus on faith-aligned pre-seed and seed-stage companies. It maintains an office in Lagos and supports a portfolio of more than 90 companies, aiming to fund more than 40 startups each year. The firm provides mentorship and access to peer networks in African and U.S. tech ecosystems and leverages relationships with U.S. and European venture partners to help portfolio companies raise additional capital. Its approach emphasizes building strong cultures grounded in excellence and customer impact.

Founders Factory Africa is an accelerator and startup investor based in Johannesburg, South Africa, founded in 2018. It incubates and funds technology startups across health, energy, fintech and education, with a focus on scale, technology and impact in Africa. The firm typically invests equity in exchange for intellectual property and provides about £150,000 in seed funding plus twelve months of operational support, aiming to help founders develop ideas, build ventures, and accelerate growth through hands-on assistance and access to its network.

Big Idea Ventures is a global venture capital firm and accelerator operator focused on food technology and the bioeconomy. It provides capital, mentorship, and access to in‑house food scientists, test kitchens, and a broad network of advisors to startups through accelerators in New York City, Paris, and Singapore, and through university collaborations that translate cutting‑edge research into commercial ventures. The firm funds and accelerates companies developing alternative proteins, plant‑based ingredients, cell‑based meats, and related food, agriculture, health and sustainability technologies, with a portfolio spanning the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania. Backed by corporate and government partners, it aims to bridge research and commercialization and to scale breakthrough solutions by connecting entrepreneurs with industry networks, partners, and resources to build global innovation ecosystems.

1337 Ventures is a Malaysia-based venture capital firm and startup ecosystem builder focusing on early-stage technology solutions, social enterprises, and commerce in Southeast Asia. It operates the Alpha Startups Accelerator to help idea and MVP-stage startups launch, validate, and grow, and offers Leet Academy for education and Leet Capital, an equity crowdfunding platform, to support fundraising for startups and SMEs. The company provides services for corporates seeking innovation and operates a broader investor network including venture capital, angel investors, and equity crowdfunding. Based in Kuala Lumpur, it aims to expand across Southeast Asia, supporting portfolio companies with mentorship, resources, and programs to scale from idea to significant value in under 10 months.

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. The firm provides capital and strategic guidance to early-stage and growth-stage technology companies, often entering at the idea or formation stage and maintaining involvement as companies scale. It concentrates on a limited number of portfolio companies at a time and emphasizes long-term partnerships, collaboration among its internal teams and founders, and support in areas such as product development, company building, and market expansion. Its sector focus includes information technology, healthcare, manufacturing, mobile, nanotechnology, financial services, internet, energy, media and retail, with a global reach across the technology ecosystem.

2048 Ventures is a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs technology startups across the United States and Canada, including cities such as New York, Boston, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Austin, Atlanta and Nashville. The firm follows a thesis-driven approach focused on artificial intelligence, fintech, cybersecurity, hardware, health technology and other deep tech sectors, seeking durable data moats and long-term value. It typically leads pre-seed and seed rounds, investing from hundreds of thousands up to several million dollars, and supports portfolio companies through the fundraising process to help close subsequent rounds. 2048 Ventures emphasizes a founder-friendly, efficient investment process and has backed over 200 startups since its inception, with investments spanning Seed to Series B across the US and Canada.

Accelerating Asia is an accelerator and early-stage venture firm based in Singapore that runs programs for startups and investors, focusing on pre-Series A ventures across Southeast and South Asia. It provides capital, mentorship, and partnerships to accelerate growth, investing up to US$250,000 in pre-Series A startups. The firm supports a diverse portfolio across sectors such as ed-tech, SaaS, logistics, big data, HR tech, ad tech, travel tech, ag-tech, and fintech, with operations spanning 19 markets and more than 25 verticals. Portfolio companies have posted average monthly revenue over US$542,000 and 27.26% annualised revenue growth, having raised over US$174 million in investment to date.

Innovation Works is a Pittsburgh-based venture capital firm and regional technology-support organization that funds seed-stage technology companies in Southwestern Pennsylvania. It provides capital, mentorship, and programmatic resources to startups in robotics, hardware, software, and life sciences, and operates accelerators and programs such as AlphaLab, the Robotics Factory, the Seed Fund, and Manufacturing Assistance to advance prototypes to production. As the Ben Franklin Technology Partner for Southwestern Pennsylvania, supported by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, it connects founders with capital, expertise, and a broad regional network to help companies grow faster. Throughout its history, Innovation Works has nurtured hundreds of startups and aided portfolio firms in raising substantial follow-on funding and achieving exits, underscoring its role as a leading early-stage investor and ecosystem builder in the region.

Afore Capital is a San Francisco based venture capital firm that specializes in pre-seed investments in technology companies across the United States. It emphasizes product-led founders in the earliest stages, often when ideas are still conceptual, and uses its background in product management and institutional investing to support growth and future fundraising. The firm provides more than capital by offering strategic guidance, product expertise, and a founders-in-residence program to help teams develop their vision, de-risk early ideas, and move toward traction. Through hands-on partnership, Afore aims to accelerate product-driven progress and position portfolio companies for subsequent funding rounds.

Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 with offices in London and Berlin. It focuses on early-stage technology startups in Europe, investing approximately $200,000-250,000 in pre-seed to seed rounds. The firm partners with founders from the outset without taking a leading role or joining boards, and supports portfolio companies through its community of over 900 founders and a team of experienced partners providing help with investor relations, problem-solving, and strategic decision-making. The company is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Sunstone Management is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in California that invests in technology and services companies across the United States, with a focus on early-stage and growth capital opportunities. The firm supports portfolio companies through resources and strategic partnerships to foster entrepreneurship and ecosystem development, particularly in Southern California. It operates as a private investment firm targeting technology-driven ventures and collaborates with regional networks to advance founders and communities.

APX is a Berlin-based venture capital firm and accelerator that invests in early-stage startups across Europe. The firm is supported by prominent partners Axel Springer and Porsche, focusing on companies with scalable digital business models and global ambitions. Since its inception in 2018, APX has made over 60 investments in startups from 20 different countries, collaborating with more than 100 co-investors. The firm seeks out dynamic founding teams and sustainable business ideas, aiming to foster innovation and growth in various sectors. Currently, APX maintains a portfolio of 15 investments and continues to explore opportunities with inspiring entrepreneurs.

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate focused on supporting LGBTQ founders and inclusive leadership by investing across stages and partnering with other venture firms to back diverse, high-potential companies. It maintains a global portfolio of 130+ companies and has deployed tens of millions in capital to date. The organization actively helps portfolio companies identify and recruit diverse talent for C-suite and board roles and cultivates a worldwide network of investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a commitment to positive social change through business.

Blockchain Founders Fund is a Singapore-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on blockchain, Web3, metaverse, gaming, DeFi, and NFTs. It invests in top-tier startups globally and runs a go-to-market oriented venture program that provides end-to-end support from ideation to scaling. The firm emphasizes a founder-first approach and offers venture-building services, strategic guidance, and resources to help portfolio companies grow and navigate disruptive trends across technology and digital assets.

NFX is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that specializes in pre-seed and seed-stage investments across software and related technology sectors. The firm pursues a founder-centric approach, aiming to improve the early-stage experience with software-enabled processes and to share growth techniques that leverage network effects. Beyond funding, NFX cultivates a founder community and offers resources intended to help entrepreneurs, scientists, and managers transition into leadership roles and scale their companies. Through its investments and ecosystem, NFX seeks to back ambitious founders and help bring bold, technology-driven ventures to market.

Better Angle is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups in Europe, founded in 2023 and based in Courbevoie, France. It targets Pre-Seed and Seed rounds, typically providing initial checks around €100,000 with potential follow-on investments up to €200,000. The firm emphasizes founder conviction and operates a collaborative network of founders, operators, and investors to share startup knowledge. It actively co-invests with other funds to support a diverse portfolio across sectors and stages.