27 VC firms investing in consumer apps & social and developer tools & infrastructure at the Growth stage.
F4 Fund tracks 27 VC firms that actively invest in consumer apps & social + developer tools & infrastructure at the Growth stage, with check sizes ranging from $100K – $500M (median: $25.3M – $25.3M). As of June 2026, and 96% lead or co-lead rounds. Rankings are based on F4's proprietary analysis of 1,358+ researched VC firms, scored by data completeness, portfolio depth, investment recency, and stage alignment.
| # | Firm | Check Size | Portfolio | Leads? | Activity | Decision | Intro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ▶ Index Ventures We invest in who you are, not just what you do. We back visionaries and game-changers with character and global ambition. We partner long-term with founders, providing capital, operational support, and deep conviction in their vision. San Francisco | $500K – $50M | 370 | Leads | Active | — | Req'd |
| 2 | ▶ Uncork Capital We back bold founders at the earliest stages with capital and deep operational support. High-conviction, long-term partnerships with founders solving real problems. Founder-market fit above all else. Speed, transparency, and staying committed through difficult times. | $1.5M – $3M | 197 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 3 | ▶ Red Swan Ventures Thematic-driven investor backing ambitious founders building for big outcomes across critical domains. Core conviction: defensible businesses create competitive advantages by transforming data challenges and market opportunities into sustainable value. We Go Deep, Not Wide. Focus on AI (defensible AI turns data challenges into advantages), Consumer (vision and strategy to break through attention economy), and Defense Tech (modern solutions for global stability). Active operational partnership beyond capital provision. | $250K – $100M | 65 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 4 | ▶ Point72 Ventures Point72 Ventures backs ambitious founders building for big outcomes across critical domains. Going deep, not wide—the firm focuses on specialized investment theses in AI, Consumer, and Defense Tech, bringing deep sector insights, partnership, and hands-on support from seed to pre-IPO. New York | $250K – $50M | 203 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 5 | ▶ Initialized Capital Passion and vision matter more than pedigree. We seek founders with grit, audacity, and a spark of rebellion—regardless of background. We invest early, before success is inevitable, and support founders from 0-to-1 through Series A. San Francisco | $250K – $2M | 185 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 6 | ▶ Partners Resolute Invest in people and products that leverage technological breakthroughs or superior user experience to radically change the status quo. Focus on structurally sound, strategically defensible business models that create and capture new markets. True partnership approach: value-add extends beyond capital to include strategic guidance, operational expertise, and network introductions. | $250K – $8M | 54 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 7 | ▶ Makers Fund Backing builders of the future of interactive entertainment. We invest across games, content, platforms, and ecosystem technologies with conviction that visionary founders are driving transformation in how we play, watch, create, and live. | $500K – $5M | 158 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 8 | ▶ AVP Independent global investment platform backing capital-efficient, high-growth technology companies across Europe and North America. Multi-stage, multi-strategy approach from venture to pre-IPO. Transatlantic local teams provide unique advantage in bridging European and US growth. Paris | $1M – $150M | 63 | Leads | Active | — | Open |
| 9 | ▶ 137 Ventures 137 Ventures provides structured liquidity — equity loans against shareholder stakes, direct secondary purchases, and anchoring company-organized tender offers — to the founders, executives, and early employees of category-defining private technology companies. The firm supports generational companies through decade-long private lifecycles with flexible, founder-friendly capital structures. San Francisco | $25M – $150M | 56 | Both | Active | — | — |
| 10 | ▶ Bond We identify and scale proven product-market-fit technology companies for global expansion and IPO readiness. Our partnership combines world-class macro research analysis with hands-on operational expertise from experienced technology leaders who have built and scaled billion-dollar companies. San Francisco | $1M – $50M | 42 | Leads | Active | ~2 mo | Open |
| 11 | ▶ AirTree Ventures Big things start small. We invest at seed stage and see potential where others don't. We believe in your vision for your company's future, not as it exists today. We think in decades, not days, committing to walk the entire journey with founders to build iconic companies. We share Antipodean ingenuity with the world. Sydney | $250K – $20M | 64 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 12 | ▶ Thrive Capital Back great founders building category-defining companies, regardless of stage. We provide patient capital, hands-on operational support, and deep network access to enable breakout success. New York | $500K – $50M | 22 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 13 | ▶ Greylock Your first partner. Over 80% of investments are first checks. We partner with exceptional founders at inception stages, providing patient capital and deep partnership. Menlo Park | $300K – $10M | 16 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
| 14 | ▶ GV (Google Ventures) GV backs innovative founders moving the world forward, operating on long time horizons and dealing in decades, not rounds. Since 2023, GV has accelerated its focus on AI-native companies across infrastructure, applications, healthcare, and developer tools — with approximately 80% of new European investments now in AI. San Francisco | $500K – $50M | 30 | Both | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 15 | ▶ Greycroft Partnering with brilliant founders to upend the status quo by investing in AI-driven software, sustainability technologies, and innovative consumer brands. We believe AI will dominate software over the next decade, and we seek to support founders reimagining industries across all three sectors. New York | $2M – $100M | 48 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 16 | ▶ Kleiner Perkins Partner with exceptional founders building transformative technology companies from inception to IPO and beyond. Our moral compass is serving humanity with technology and capital. We provide not just capital but operational support, network access, and board participation to maximize the potential of founders' ideas and make history. Menlo Park | $100K – $150M | 27 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 17 | ▶ K5 Global K5 Global backs category-defining companies from inception to IPO. The firm leverages exceptional networks across media, entertainment, politics, finance, and technology to provide strategic value beyond capital. We believe the best companies are built by founders who can access world-class talent, capital, and strategic relationships. Los Angeles | $1M – $3M | 34 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 18 | ▶ WndrCo WndrCo positions itself as 'the founders behind the founders,' combining strategic capital with deep operational involvement. Unlike traditional VCs, partners take formal operating roles (interim CEO, CFO, CPO) within portfolio companies. This approach leverages the co-founders' proven track record: Sujay Jaswa scaled Dropbox from $18M to $10B as Business Founder/CFO, and Jeffrey Katzenberg transformed Disney Studios and built DreamWorks. The firm invests across all stages through three strategies: Build (acquiring underappreciated tech companies), Venture (leading post-PMF rounds), and Seed (very early checks). Focus areas are Future of Work, Cybersecurity, Developer Infrastructure, and Consumer Technology, with increasing emphasis on AI applications. Beverly Hills, California | $100K – $10M | 32 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 19 | ▶ Zeev Ventures Solo GP model combining angel investing speed with VC-scale checks. Backs non-traditional founders solving their own problems. Rejects process-heavy VC bureaucracy in favor of speed, decisiveness, and founder-first engagement. Palo Alto | $20M – $50M | 21 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
| 20 | ▶ Andreessen Horowitz Backing the builders of the next layer of computing across AI infrastructure, defense, biotech, and American dynamism. Former 'Software is Eating the World' thesis evolved to 'AI is Eating Software'. Partners with technical founders building foundation models, cloud systems, and infrastructure for the AI era. Menlo Park | $1M – $200M | 48 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 21 | ▶ Left Lane Capital Invest in hyper-growth consumer and technology businesses with enduring customer relationships. Back founders challenging the status quo through digital transformation. Focus on companies with strong unit economics, loyal customer bases, and defensible competitive advantages in complex, regulation-heavy markets. Brooklyn | $5M – $50M | 42 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 22 | ▶ Battery Ventures Battery Ventures operates as a stage-agnostic firm backing technology-driven category leaders across all growth stages from seed to buyout. The firm believes the best tech investments span the entire founder journey, and they practice collaborative, research-focused investing with embedded operational support through their Portfolio Services platform. They seek technical founders with deep domain expertise and experienced operators building in four core sectors: Application Software, Infrastructure Software, Consumer, and Industrial Tech + Life Science Tools. Boston | $1M – $500M | 23 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 23 | ▶ Coatue The best investment opportunities emerge at the intersection of innovation and scale. We invest across the full lifecycle from seed to public markets, focusing on technology companies that will transform sectors globally with particular conviction in AI-enabled platforms and infrastructure. New York | $1M – $100M | 30 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 24 | ▶ Tiger Global Management Leading global companies that leverage technological innovation across public and private markets. Proven founders (especially ex-Googlers, AWS, Stripe) with large TAMs (billions+), product-led growth, and global ambitions. Conviction-based investing post-2022 correction emphasizing quality over quantity. New York | $1M – $100M | 21 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Req'd |
| 25 | ▶ Insight Partners Software founders need more than capital to scale successfully. Insight Partners combines investment capital with hands-on operational expertise, embedded teams, and network access to accelerate company growth across all stages. New York | $10M – $350M | 28 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 26 | ▶ Gaingels Equity of access and representation in venture capital delivers positive returns. Diverse and underrepresented (including LGBTQ+) leaders of high-growth companies deserve capital access. When these founders succeed, they influence ecosystems and open doors for historically excluded groups. New York | $200K – $500K | 29 | Follows | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 27 | ▶ Evolution Venture Capital Partners Culture-Tech companies that disrupt and define how we live, work, play, and interact with the world every day. We invest in passionate founders building transformative products that change cultural behaviors. New York | $500K – $6M | 28 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
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F4 Fund tracks 27 VC firms that actively invest in consumer apps & social + developer tools & infrastructure at the Growth stage. These firms are ranked using a composite score that weighs data completeness (30%), portfolio depth (30%), investment recency (25%), and stage alignment (15%).
Based on F4's analysis, the median check size for growth consumer apps & social + developer tools & infrastructure investors is $25.3M – $25.3M, with a full range from $100K – $500M. The distribution breaks down as: 1 firms in the <$500K range, 1 firms in the $1M-$2M range, 5 firms in the $2M-$5M range, 2 firms in the $5M-$10M range, 18 firms in the $10M+ range.
Among the 27 firms tracked, 96% lead or co-lead rounds, and 4% typically follow. Founders seeking a lead investor should filter for firms marked "Leads" or "Both" in the rankings table above. Lead investors typically set deal terms and anchor the round.
The best growth consumer apps & social + developer tools & infrastructure investors combine domain expertise with an active portfolio in the space. Among these firms, 27% prefer warm introductions, and the average firm has 72 portfolio companies. Look for firms whose check size matches your raise, whose stage preference aligns with yours, and who have a track record of supporting companies in your sector through multiple growth phases.
Firm profiles are continuously updated through F4's research pipeline, which combines LLM-powered web research, portfolio analysis, and transcript extraction. The ranking data refreshes every 12 hours. Editorial analysis is reviewed weekly. Individual firm profiles are re-researched on a 30-day cycle or when new information surfaces.