36 VC firms investing in security & cybersecurity and edtech at the Pre-Seed stage.
F4 Fund tracks 36 VC firms that actively invest in security & cybersecurity + edtech at the Pre-Seed stage, with check sizes ranging from $6K – $150M (median: $1.6M – $1.6M). As of June 2026, and 94% 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 | ▶ Honeystone VC We are reinventing venture capital by bringing academic know-how and research to our investment process and portfolio companies. Evidence-based decision making combined with hands-on operational support creates differentiation for early-stage founders. | $250K – $3M | 38 | Leads | Active | — | — |
| 2 | ▶ K9 Ventures Extraordinary things are possible when great teams come together around technology. K9 invests at the pre-seed stage with founders, betting on vision and execution. Money is a commodity; reputation and time are the currencies that matter. We provide not just capital but active operational support, hands-on mentorship, and board governance. Palo Alto | $250K – $750K | 48 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 3 | ▶ Chingona Ventures Investing in the next generation of badass founders. The firm identifies founders whose backgrounds uniquely position them to create transformative businesses in rapidly growing markets that are often overlooked by mainstream venture capital. Focus on the 'Chingona Factor': market fluency, lived experience, and sheer will. Chicago | $250K – $2M | 39 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 4 | ▶ Contour Venture Partners Invest in innovative technology companies that can achieve significant market share in large, growing markets and grow independent of market conditions. Partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to build sustainable, profitable businesses that transform industry segments. New York | $500K – $2M | 25 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 5 | ▶ Wing Venture Capital The AI-first transformation of business will be as big as digital, mobile, and cloud combined. We invest in companies building the AI-first technology stack: data foundations, AI tools, autonomous applications, and product-led growth companies that accelerate adoption. Founders building at any layer of this stack can reach goals and uncover opportunities previously unattainable. Palo Alto | $200K – $20M | 36 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 6 | ▶ 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 |
| 7 | ▶ Beta Boom Pattern-breaking founders solving real problems generate breakthrough solutions. We believe the best companies come from overlooked founders outside Silicon Valley, regardless of pedigree or traditional markers of success. Salt Lake City, Utah | $150K – $500K | 27 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 8 | ▶ Manta Ray Back mission-driven founders addressing significant global challenges through leading-edge technology. Provide flexible and patient capital, leveraging our time, resources, and networks to support portfolio company success. Focus on founders with authentic social and environmental missions alongside commercial viability. London | $250K – $3M | 55 | Both | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 9 | ▶ Point Nine Invest in the future of software built on AI. We partner with technical founders to provide capital, unfair shortcuts, and operational support to accelerate their learning and help them reach their potential. We position ourselves as the first institutional investor for v0.9 stage founders. Berlin | $1M – $10M | 36 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Req'd |
| 10 | ▶ Inspired Capital Partners Venture capital is the most powerful economic engine the world has ever seen. We back audacious founders solving humanity's hardest challenges through category-creating innovations. We embrace big risks and reject short-termism, committing to 15+ year partnerships with founders who have long-term vision and relentless determination. New York | $500K – $20M | 62 | Leads | Active | ~2 mo | Req'd |
| 11 | ▶ Homebrew Help founders build companies of which they can be proud. We invest in mission-driven founders solving large, urgent problems using technology to create substantive change. Capital is necessary but not sufficient—sweat, reputation, and accountability are our core commitments. San Francisco | $100K – $500K | 26 | Both | Active | ~1 wk | Req'd |
| 12 | ▶ Drive Capital World-class technology companies can be built anywhere. Greatness is in our backyard. We invest in market-defining companies across the Driveway region (Hudson River to Rocky Mountains), partnering with founders from idea to IPO. Build where your talent is. Build where your customers are. Build where you're strongest. Columbus | $500K – $150M | 33 | Leads | Active | ~2 mo | Open |
| 13 | ▶ 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 |
| 14 | ▶ Bloomberg Beta We invest in companies that make business work better, backed by a commitment to understanding profound changes in how business operates. We seek founders with the potential to build extraordinary, outlier companies through transparency, founder-first principles, and patient capital from our investor Bloomberg L.P. San Francisco | $250K – $2M | 24 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 15 | ▶ u.ventures u.ventures backs local entrepreneurs who dare to build exciting global ventures. The firm focuses on early-stage technology startups with world-class founding teams from Ukraine and Eastern Europe with global market ambitions, scalable products, and competitive advantages. Chicago | $200K – $2M | 24 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 16 | ▶ AI Fund Builds AI companies from inception alongside recruited CEOs, acting as an AI R&D studio that sources ideas with large corporates to deliver agentic-AI ventures with built-in customers and traction. Fund II focused on application and software infrastructure layers with emphasis on enterprise adoption and agent protocols. San Francisco | $500K – $3M | 23 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 17 | ▶ OpenAI Startup Fund New and powerful AI systems will give rise to transformative startups. We back exceptional engineers, designers, researchers, and product builders using AI to solve critical problems in healthcare, law, education, energy, sciences, and enterprise. We provide capital, operational support, talent expertise, and conviction follow-on investing. San Francisco | $1M – $5M | 15 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 18 | ▶ Next Play Ventures Coach and invest in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations. Combines financial investment with active leadership coaching and organizational development using LinkedIn's proven playbook. Believes great companies are built by great leaders who manage compassionately and combine doing well with doing good. Menlo Park | $100K – $5M | 26 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 19 | ▶ Array Ventures Every visionary startup deserves the right support to flourish. Array Ventures provides comprehensive end-to-end support through three phases: Plan (inception), Build (implementation), and Scale Up (growth). They combine equity investments with extensive consulting services to identify innovative startups with breakthrough ideas and help them achieve their full potential. Kolkata | $6K – $60K | 14 | Both | Active | ~2 mo | Open |
| 20 | ▶ Icehouse Ventures Back exceptional Kiwi founders building globally transformative companies, from day one to IPO. New Zealand founders represent a significantly undervalued asset class, and Icehouse provides capital plus an ecosystem of 3,000+ investors and deep operational support. Auckland | $100K – $10M | 41 | Leads | Active | ~2 mo | Open |
| 21 | ▶ Concrete Rose Capital We invest financial and social capital into exceptional ventures led by visionary, values-aligned teams. Technology is the 'new West' - we seek to broaden opportunities by partnering with pioneering founders to bring entire communities along on their journey of reimagining the world. San Francisco | $100K – $5M | 47 | Both | Active | ~2 mo | Open |
| 22 | ▶ Outsiders Fund Technological innovation is unevenly distributed. The hottest, most visible sectors attract talent and capital, while overlooked industries hide massive value creation opportunities. We back unconventional founders disrupting unglamorous, technology-inefficient, long-standing industries. New York | $500K – $8M | 34 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 23 | ▶ Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) NYC has tremendous entrepreneurial talent but lacked a structured environment for early-stage founders. ERA provides capital, intense mentorship, and network access to help founders build market-leading companies. Every sector deserves innovation. New York | $150K – $150K | 39 | Leads | Active | ~2 mo | Open |
| 24 | ▶ Boro Capital Invest in scalable, capital-efficient tech and tech-enabled startups at the Seed stage led by exceptional founders. We identify companies showing early traction that can achieve significant scale with disciplined capital deployment. New York | $100K – $500K | 32 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 25 | ▶ White Star Capital Technology companies are becoming intertwined with the global economy more so than ever before. The most compelling founders build businesses through a broader world view. White Star Capital backs globally ambitious entrepreneurs at Series A, B, and Seed stages across North America, Europe, and Asia, helping them scale internationally through deep local presence on three continents. London | $1M – $25M | 41 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 26 | ▶ Expa We build category-defining companies through a combination of design, product, operations, and capital. We identify market gaps, pair brilliant founders with Expa's studio resources, and help them build companies that reshape entire industries. San Francisco | $500K – $5M | 60 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
| 27 | ▶ 500 Global Global venture capital that invests where talent is abundant but capital and opportunity are not. 500 Global backs technology founders with global ambitions across underinvested, fast-growing markets using Silicon Valley expertise combined with deep local knowledge. Core belief: The best founders and innovation emerge globally, not just Silicon Valley. San Francisco | $100K – $1M | 16 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 28 | ▶ The Fund The best people to invest in startups are people who have built startups. We identify exceptional founders in geographies outside traditional venture hubs, building locally-run pre-seed funds with community-powered decision making. New York | $50K – $250K | 16 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 29 | ▶ Vibe Capital Investing in the picks and shovels of volatility caused by convergent forces (AI, Web3, Deep Science) intersecting with demographic shifts and climate change. We seek to create venture-scale returns by backing bold founders building more equitable, beneficial, transparent, and accessible structures. New York | $250K – $500K | 22 | Both | Active | ~2 mo | Open |
| 30 | ▶ Mucker Capital Venture capital should be accessible to exceptional entrepreneurs anywhere. Great companies can be built outside Silicon Valley with the right capital, operational expertise, and network support. Santa Monica | $100K – $15M | 21 | Leads | Active | ~2 mo | Open |
| 31 | ▶ Elevate Ventures Elevate Ventures partners with innovation-driven founders to provide strategic capital, mentorship, and ecosystem access. Founded by a former founder (Governor Mitch Daniels), the firm believes the best founders exhibit grit, creativity, and coachability. They invest across all sectors and geographies but maintain primary focus on Indiana and Great Lakes Region entrepreneurs building cross-sector innovations. Indianapolis | $20K – $2M | 28 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 32 | ▶ Alpine Ventures Product-obsessed investing in consumer tech, prosumer software, and SMB applications. We back founders based on product quality and user value, not credentials or background. San Francisco | $500K – $5M | 13 | Leads | Active | — | — |
| 33 | ▶ Kaedan Capital Entrepreneur-centric private investment firm backing Israeli-related seed to early-stage ventures across diverse technology areas. Patient partners who allow founders to build global tech companies at their own pace. Tel Aviv | $250K – $1.5M | 21 | — | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 34 | ▶ Stout Street Capital Great startups can be built anywhere. We believe in founder-centric investing with operational support from a team of successful founders. We serve undernetworked geographic regions. Denver | $100K – $500K | 26 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 35 | ▶ TheoryForge Operator-led fund investing in ambitious founders building transformative AI applications. We partner with technical founders who understand AI/ML deeply and are solving real customer problems with capital efficiency. Great product is always the best marketing. | $200K – $500K | 38 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 36 | ▶ Zero Shot Fund Investing in the Post-AGI World. Back founders building essential infrastructure, automation, robotics, energy, education, AI security, and biology applications in a world shaped by AI. The fund leverages deep OpenAI insider knowledge to identify where the market is wrong about AI's trajectory. San Francisco | $500K – $3M | 2 | Follows | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
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F4 Fund tracks 36 VC firms that actively invest in security & cybersecurity + edtech at the Pre-Seed 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 pre-seed security & cybersecurity + edtech investors is $1.6M – $1.6M, with a full range from $6K – $150M. The distribution breaks down as: 9 firms in the <$500K range, 3 firms in the $500K-$1M range, 9 firms in the $1M-$2M range, 6 firms in the $2M-$5M range, 4 firms in the $5M-$10M range, 5 firms in the $10M+ range.
Among the 36 firms tracked, 94% lead or co-lead rounds, and 3% 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 pre-seed security & cybersecurity + edtech investors combine domain expertise with an active portfolio in the space. Among these firms, 21% prefer warm introductions, and the average firm has 32 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.