Best Pre-Seed Security & Cybersecurity Investors 2026

Cybersecurity needs constant innovation to stay ahead of adversaries. SYN invests in transformational (not incremental) solutions that significantly reduce technology risk — from the earliest stages through Series B — leveraging a team of former Fortune 500 CISOs, CEOs, and founders with 400+ combined years of security experience.

Auriga backs founders who don't just adapt to change, they drive it - funding the revolutions shaping cybersecurity today and anticipating tomorrow's threats, to build a safer, more trusted and resilient digital world.

Cyberstarts is the day-one partner for industry-defining cybersecurity companies. Founded by Gili Raanan (CAPTCHA inventor, former Sequoia GP), the firm combines deep operator expertise, a 60+ CISO network, and the proprietary 'Sunrise' validation process to identify and back the most exceptional cybersecurity founders at pre-concept/seed stage. Exclusively cybersecurity, no exceptions.

Cybersecurity is fundamental to maintaining our way of life and is essential for global commerce. We empower founders to create cybersecurity technologies that make our world more secure. As the original venture capital firm focused exclusively on cybersecurity, we invest globally and are stage-agnostic.

Every enterprise needs a technological advantage to survive. We invest in early-stage cybersecurity and data technologies essential to enterprise survival, not nice-to-have features.

The UK's cyber ecosystem is one of the country's greatest untapped strengths. Osney Capital provides specialist capital to back the next wave of UK cyber founders and build globally significant cybersecurity companies. They combine deep cybersecurity domain expertise, venture experience (125+ seed investments), and fund structuring knowledge.

Early-stage founders with innovative solutions in cybersecurity, healthcare technology, and physical security can be accelerated to scale with the right capital, strategic customer introductions, and operational guidance. Companies demonstrating early product-market fit through revenue, pilots, or design partnerships represent the best investment opportunities.

Backing audacious founders building transformational, field-proven solutions that enhance resilience, strengthen security, and save lives in an increasingly volatile world, with focus on robotics, communications, sensors and components, and autonomous systems.

Security technology is a necessity independent of economic cycles. We back technical experts who have seen over the horizon as security practitioners across commercial, military, or intelligence sectors. We invest in entrepreneurs who are on a mission to secure our freedom.

Team8 systematically identifies large, structural problems in cybersecurity, software infrastructure, fintech, and digital health, then either builds companies from scratch (venture creation) or backs founders already attacking those problems (venture capital), pairing capital with a 900+ person village of domain experts.

Former operators who scaled cybersecurity companies from inception to exit back founders building the next generation of cybersecurity companies, with AI as an increasing driving force across the portfolio, plus selective healthtech investments where the firm's operator value-add translates across domains.

Gula Tech Adventures invests in startups solving critical cybersecurity and national security problems, with a focus on founders who combine deep technical expertise, business acumen, and mission alignment. Rather than a traditional VC, Gula Tech operates as a self-funded, impact-focused family office enabling long-term patient capital. The firm evaluates opportunities equally on three dimensions: the problem being solved, deal fundamentals, and team quality. Ron and Cyndi's success building Tenable enables hands-on mentorship, technical due diligence, and access to government and critical infrastructure networks.

The capital before your story. We back experienced and repeat founders building Frontier Enterprise infrastructure — critical software solutions born from hands-dirty experience at top companies. We invest meaningful capital ($750K-$2M) as the first institutional check in pre-seed and seed rounds.

Invest in technology businesses with venture-pace growth potential, high margins, recurring revenue, and sustainable competitive advantage. Back exceptional founders who harbor passion to build great companies and are magnets for talent. Commit time, energy, network and hard work to portfolio company success, not just capital.

The best B2B SaaS companies are built by founders who deeply understand their customers' pain points. Many struggle to efficiently complete fundraising because traditional VCs create redundant diligence friction. By being founder-friendly and leveraging collaborative diligence, we access better deals and help founders move faster.

Harness innovation to strengthen democracies around the world by backing founders building world-class, disruptive technologies for national security, with a focus on early-stage deep tech from Ukraine and its allies.

We invest at the intersection of health, wealth, and privacy. The next generation of financial infrastructure, healthcare, and data security solutions will emerge from early-stage startups addressing this convergence. We partner with founders and leverage corporate LP relationships for distribution and go-to-market.

Building transformational companies requires more than capital—it demands deep operational expertise, consistent partnership, and genuine commitment to founders' success. Costanoa backs visionaries solving big, hard problems across data infrastructure, applied AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and national security. The firm centers on the 'missing middle' of early-stage investing: providing unusually intensive, hands-on support to founder teams during their most critical growth phases.

We help founders build breakout companies. We partner with ambitious and curious early-stage founders who want to learn and grow as leaders.

Europe ceded strategic ground in space, defence, and cyber; we back founders building critical defence, space, and cyber technology so Europe can regain control of its own future.

J2 Ventures invests in early-stage companies developing technologies that advance both U.S. national security and commercial markets. The firm backs founders whose innovations strengthen national security while improving safety, health, and connectivity for everyday life. J2-backed companies receive capital plus deep expertise across government, defense, science, healthcare, and finance — and on average raise $2 in non-dilutive funding for every $1 J2 invests.

Great relationships start with a beer, not a deck. We believe in building authentic human connections with founders from the earliest stages, providing hands-on support in team building, go-to-market strategy, and ideation beyond just capital.

Your first partner. Over 80% of investments are first checks. We partner with exceptional founders at inception stages, providing patient capital and deep partnership.

Lean into AI-native cloud innovation at the earliest stages by building a curated community of CIO, CTO, and CISO operators, then back founders building AI-native software infrastructure at the intersection of engineering, IT, and security.

Early-stage founders using AI and frontier technology to reinvent enterprise and security markets. We seek technical founders who deeply understand their problem domain, have operating experience at scale, and are committed to responsible AI development. We provide not just capital but hands-on operational support through our Building Partners model.

Cybersecurity is a permanent, growing category. Successful cyber investing requires deep domain expertise combined with operational experience. We partner with founders as true operating partners, not just capital providers. Category creators and cyber pioneers with differentiated approaches.

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.

Iron Wolf Capital backs exceptional technical founders building globally relevant deep tech and defence companies from the Baltic Sea Region and diaspora. The firm treats regional technical depth, capital efficiency, and category-specific expertise as the core source of advantage.

Breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination — deep tech with the potential to create new product categories. We bring company-building skills and operating expertise to help founders find product-market fit.

Technology will define geopolitics. We invest in the Freedom Stack—foundational technologies critical to American national security and technological leadership. We partner with mission-driven founders building capabilities essential to American prosperity and strategic advantage.

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.

TheGP deploys experienced builders alongside capital to help founders achieve product-market fit faster. The firm's 25+ full-time builders—engineers, recruiters, designers, sales leaders—embed in portfolio companies for an average of nine months, earning equity grants tied to milestone delivery. This 'sweat equity' model creates deeper alignment than capital-only VC and is applied across Formation ($1-5M) and Breakout ($5-15M+) stages.

Israeli engineers have a distinct competitive advantage in building deep infrastructure products. We partner with technical founders from day one to transform excellence into category-defining companies. Data is the critical leverage point for enterprise AI.

Category-defining B2B software companies are built by founders with exceptional product instincts, technical depth, and execution discipline. We invest capital AND hands-on operational support to establish product-market fit, build GTM teams, and scale efficiently. We avoid trend-chasing and focus on sustainable, defensible businesses.

First-check VC backing Baltic founders (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) at inception and pre-seed stages, with a strong focus on AI-first software. Backs founders who don't fit traditional VC criteria—no FAANG background or Ivy League degree required. Seeks undervalued talent before mainstream investor recognition.

Technical founders building transformational infrastructure and AI companies in data, security, and enterprise tools. We provide capital, operational guidance, and network access to accelerate growth. The best companies are built by teams that deeply understand their domain and solve hard technical problems.

Space has a unique role in addressing the world's most pressing problems and represents a $trillion investment opportunity. We back visionary entrepreneurs transforming science fiction into science fact using space technology and space-based data to solve challenges in sustainability, connectivity, and digitalization at global scale.

We invest when we identify real technological differentiation - proprietary models, novel applications of existing AI, or unique data advantages that create sustainable competitive moats - backing founders who can turn breakthrough AI innovation into market-defining, enterprise-adopted companies.

We partner with entrepreneurs who transcend the constraints of space and time, seeing beyond the obvious to chart new frontiers, enable new capabilities, and create new markets.

Originator of China's "hard tech" (硬科技) investment category: back deep, long-R&D-cycle science and engineering breakthroughs out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences network and top universities, from lab/PI stage through IPO, combining capital with an incubation platform and post-investment services.

We partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs building product-first companies that redefine their categories. In the US, we focus on transformative AI and enterprise software. In India, we back digital-native businesses solving local market problems at scale.

Crypto represents a once-in-a-generation platform shift that will fundamentally transform financial services, gaming, energy, and many other sectors through decentralized infrastructure. We partner with founders building sustainable crypto foundations from day one.

The internet freed information. Crypto is freeing money. Blockchain technology represents the next evolution of financial infrastructure, and exceptional founders using non-consensus approaches to DeFi, infrastructure, and privacy will unlock significant value.

Keen runs two parallel thesis-driven programs: backing AI software that makes Europe's SMEs radically more productive (Technology for SMEs), and backing commercial, software-enabled, dual-use defence and security technology built for multi-country European scale (Defence). Both theses are shaped through recurring 'thesis sprints' and a 'time first, money later' approach to founder relationships.

First-check investor backing exceptional technical founders with a computational core on problems that are technically hard, commercially non-trivial or still unmapped.

Cota Capital invests in 'net new' technologies — visionary ideas that either were never before possible or solve problems that didn't exist before. Knowledge is the true capital. The firm backs early-stage enterprise technology companies where deep operational expertise, competitive intelligence, and network access can provide compounding advantage beyond the check.

Frontier technology will underpin the next generation of globally significant companies. We back IP-rich, deep tech founders advancing intelligence, reinventing energy, accelerating computation, decoding biology, and building resilience — categories where traditional venture playbooks don't apply.

Backing transformative founders building exceptional companies across all sectors

We invest in bold technical founders building the autonomous enterprise. Before you build your team, before you write your first line of code—that's when boldstart gets to work. We collaborate with technical founders at Inception, lead pre-product rounds, and help turn bold ideas into category-creating companies.

Back exceptional Israeli and American founders reshaping financial services through innovative fintech solutions. We provide not just capital but hands-on support, deep industry expertise, and extensive network connections.

AI-driven productivity and consumption gains could add up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030. We back domain-specific, globally disruptive early-stage startups where AI is structurally core to the product, not a bolt-on feature.

We back the boldest, most ambitious founders that seem unlikely to succeed, investing our own capital with no fund clock so we can remain invested indefinitely.

Back founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries. We invest directly in their growth to make them unbreakable. Founded on principle that luck isn't made, it's engineered. Founders are our customer, not LPs. We always vote shares with founders and provide 1% non-dilutive founder development capital alongside every first check.

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.

All-in on Texas: LiveOak partners with exceptional Texas-based founders building tech and tech-enabled service companies, engaging actively across the full lifecycle from Pre-seed through Series B and beyond.

It's time for 'Asia to Global' — Asia2G backs Korean and Asian technical founders in deep-tech, enterprise, and infrastructure categories, and helps them expand into the US through GTM strategy, fundraising support, executive recruitment, and product-market fit expertise.

AI companies are built differently. We back the world's best AI native founders and help them reshape our world for the better. We go wide on product and deep on GTM.

Back a small, concentrated group of early-stage founders from 'Dynamic Europe' (Central and Eastern Europe and Turkey) who build global from day one, providing disproportionate time, attention, and follow-on support (90%+ of portfolio gets a second check).

Restive backs pre-incorporation through pre-Series A founders building AI-native financial services (AiFi). It wants to be the first check and uses AI to unlock new growth, productivity, and innovation across financial services.

Partner with exceptional founders building generational and disruptive companies. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, Entrée invests from pre-seed to Series A in AI, deep tech, quantum computing, fintech, cybersecurity, and crypto. New $300M funds (Nov 2025) doubling down on vertical AI, quantum, and contrarian industries with low historical software spend.

Backing founders with exceptional vision and mission-driven impact across Finland and the Baltics, prioritizing founder character over polished business plans - asking 'Why us?' and 'Why now?'

MS&AD Ventures partners with visionary entrepreneurs to create innovative solutions across insurance, financial services, healthcare, and sustainability. Backed by the 5th largest global insurance conglomerate, they bring capital plus global distribution across 47 countries. They move fast (2-week decisions), focus on partnerships over ownership, and help companies scale internationally.

We invest in the future of fintech: core financial technologies, fintech extended into other industries as an enablement layer, and companies using emerging technology to revolutionize financial services.

Thesis-driven, sector-focused venture firm investing in FinTech, IT/Data Infrastructure, and vertical B2B SaaS. Partners with founders who want a trusted ally with real operating experience. Increasing focus on AI applications that solve measurable enterprise problems with real data advantages.

Israeli founders possess unique strengths in identifying and solving enterprise inefficiencies. Joule partners with these high-conviction teams to accelerate U.S. commercialization through relationships, operational support, and market validation—delivering tangible value beyond capital.

We are extremely early in translating powerful AI models into products that transform industries. Startups have the speed and unruliness to build transformative AI-native companies; big companies are too slow. There has never been a better time to start a startup.

Risk underpins the largest markets in the world (insurance, credit, security, financial infrastructure, $20T+ in annual activity). AI and real-time data are forcing these markets to be rebuilt from first principles. Overlook invests early in the systems that measure, manage, and transfer risk, and the infrastructure enabling safe deployment of AI and autonomous systems.

Great companies are built by exceptional founders at the earliest stages. We believe in leading rounds from day one and providing lasting partnership through good times and bad.

Build great companies by partnering with exceptional founders who deeply understand their markets. We provide not just capital but proven playbooks, talent networks, and operational expertise from our team of experienced operators.

Back visionary founders and high-potential technology startups with strategic capital and operational support across a family of Turkish VC investment funds, each with its own sector and stage thesis.

A long-range ambition machine for the great success stories of our time - backing Australian and New Zealand founders from first cheque to forever, across software, healthcare, robotics/automation, and AI/data networks.

We back founders who believe the purpose of life is to be briefly extraordinary. We invest at day zero when ideas haven't yet become innovations, seeking founders with superhuman grit, authentic vision, and the drive to create something lasting.

Network-powered startups connecting people and businesses through software tools and platforms

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.

Exceptional founders building unrivaled aerospace, defense, and national security companies. Silent Ventures takes a contrarian bet on defense tech at the earliest stages — concept, pre-seed, and seed — when most institutional capital is unavailable. The firm believes the next generation of great defense companies will be built by mission-driven startup founders combining private-sector speed with national security urgency.

Write the first check for founders still in school or just out, backing the builder before the idea or product is settled.

CMT Digital invests in early-stage blockchain and crypto projects that accelerate Web3 adoption. As one of the earliest institutional investors in the space, they combine venture discipline with deep regulatory expertise and operational support to help founders navigate complex compliance requirements while scaling globally.

Partners with technical founders to lead seed rounds in companies defining new categories in software infrastructure. Provides deep technical diligence and first-principles guidance alongside capital.

Back the next generation of crypto founders disrupting the status quo and creating entirely new markets. Invest in crypto-native builders with maniacal focus on solving real protocol, infrastructure, and application problems. Support founders with research, token model design, mechanism design guidance, and operational expertise across investing, engineering, and ecosystem development.

Operator-led firm running two funds: Digital (Pre-Seed/Seed, €0.5M-€3M initial) backing enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, AI/DevTools and fintech automation founders from beta to global blue-chip accounts; and Greentech Industry (Series A/B, €3M-€10M initial) financing the first industrial plants (FOAK) of European cleantech and deep-tech companies bridging pilot to commercial scale.

Fund visionary entrepreneurs solving humanity's most intractable, long-horizon science and engineering problems, taking a poly-solution approach that backs many independent bets on the same hard problem (especially Alzheimer's disease and depression) rather than a single best guess, judged on both societal and financial impact.

We partner with entrepreneurs building the platforms and infrastructure required for the future of retail, payments, banking and insurance. We invest in B2B commerce infrastructure that enables businesses to serve customers better. Rather than chasing consumer adoption, we build portfolios around the Commerce Continuum—interconnected solutions spanning retail, payments, banking and insurance.

EPIC Ventures backs early-stage technology companies building in the information economy, with a focus on enterprise SaaS, healthcare technology, cybersecurity, and future of work. The firm believes the best way to build lasting companies is through genuine partnership with founders — providing capital, strategic guidance, operational expertise, and deep network access. Founded in 1994, EPIC helped build the Utah tech ecosystem and continues to be the foundational VC of the Mountain West.

More than 80% of UK venture capital is concentrated in London and the South East. PXN backs high-growth founders in the North of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland with capital (£200K-£8M) plus hands-on, "more than money" operational support.

Connect innovative startups to 550+ corporate partners who have real business problems to solve. Our platform creates a flywheel of pilots, enterprise customers, and follow-on capital for founders who value long-term partnership and have credible paths to $100M+ ARR.

Mayfield invests in founders building iconic companies through AI-first innovation and human-AI collaboration. The firm believes the next wave of category-defining enterprises will leverage collaborative intelligence, where AI teammates augment and amplify human capability. Mayfield seeks deep tech founders with defensible innovation, clear market advantage, and the ability to scale globally.

We back founders with compounding talent, a fast clock speed, and the conviction to make bold, insight-driven bets, and support them with a Collective of senior operators who open doors, make introductions, and help close key hires and customers.

We invest in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society. We foster Sony's future businesses through strategic early-stage venture investments, seeking technologies with potential to transform industries while building synergies with Sony Group business units.

UVC Partners invests in European B2B tech startups across DeepTech, ClimateTech, Mobility, and Software/AI, from pre-seed up to Series A, leveraging the UnternehmerTUM ecosystem to help portfolio companies build sustainable category leadership.

Madrona invests in people and ideas for the long run — backing visionary founders building transformational technology companies, with deep focus on applied AI across domain-specific applications, AI infrastructure, developer tools, enterprise software, and AI-enabled biotech. The firm serves as an active, full-stack partner providing capital plus recruiting, business development, and customer introductions.

We invest in and partner with exceptional European entrepreneurs leading the global economy to a fully digital financial services future, spanning FinTech and adjacent digital solutions (AI, cyber, deep tech, quantum).

Only invest where we have a true unfair advantage. Partner with founders in healthcare, data+AI, and cybersecurity to build category-defining powerhouses. We deliver value far beyond capital through deep domain expertise and extensive networks.

Some of the next major global technology companies will be built in industrial technology, across connectivity and IoT, industrial intelligence and orchestration, and robotics and automation.

We invest in science- and mission-driven founders building deep tech that transforms large industries for good, across Applied Science & Digital Transformation and Climate & Ocean Tech.

e2vc backs global-from-day-one, early-stage founders from Turkey, CEE, and the Baltics, investing Pre-Seed through Series A across gaming, AI/ML, health tech, developer tools/infrastructure, fintech, and enterprise software. The firm emphasizes founder community ("the Tribe"), hands-on support, and a NextGen program that invests in and mentors high-school-age founders.

Companies combining access, efficiency, quality, and data-driven insights represent the next generation of market leaders. We invest in European pre-seed and seed companies revolutionizing work, security, finance, gaming, and health through data-powered innovation.

All you need is a Unique Insight. Frst backs exceptional, ambitious founders on Day One, often before there is a product, team, or incorporated company, evaluating opportunities through Ambition, Vision, and Execution.

Back notable founders with global ambitions using technology to transform industries. We partner with exceptional teams to scale from seed through IPO, providing capital, operational expertise, and network access.

M25 backs technical and operating founders building tech companies headquartered in the Greater Midwest, applying a rigorous scorecard (team, market, product, traction, exit & growth, funding, business plan) to reduce risk at the earliest stages while relying on an extensive regional network to syndicate rounds.

Some of the next major global technology companies will be built in industrial technology. RunwayVC backs the technology stack behind that transformation: connectivity and IoT that makes industrial data available, industrial intelligence and orchestration that turns data into decisions, and robotics and automation that brings decisions into the physical world.

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.

We back the technological platforms of tomorrow — the picks and shovels of Europe's reindustrialisation. High-conviction early-stage investor in frontier and dual-use technology from space and healthcare to industrial resilience, rooted in the Baltic Sea Region, backing founders from pre-seed to exit and beyond.

We invest in founders with laser-focused ambition to define technology across AI and deep tech. No stage is too early. Our role is to be their first call, fiercest champion and long-term partner from idea to impact.

Deep technology and hard tech company investing at inflection points. Partner with technical founders building infrastructure-level solutions for global scale. Founded 2010 on belief that next generation of transformative companies require deep technical expertise, not just capital.

Support founders building the next-generation infrastructure stack for the AI era. We back infra-first, engineering-led companies built for enterprises, with founder-market fit and execution speed.

Investible backs the visionaries advancing humanity through technology, investing at Pre-Seed through Series A alongside Club Investible, its global syndicate of 250+ investors, and activating its network to help founders scale.

Physics is the basis for industry transformations in energy, transportation, finance, healthcare, and aerospace. Quantonation invests in breakthrough technologies emerging from advances in physics and computing -- quantum computing, quantum sensing, quantum networks, deep physics, and advanced materials -- from pre-seed through Series A, with selective Series B follow-on.

Infrastructure companies compound value for years because they become embedded in the software stacks built on top of them. Invests almost exclusively in infrastructure software, both traditional and decentralized (crypto/DeFi), drawing on 20+ years of pattern recognition in the category.

Transformative national security solutions emerge from early-stage private-sector startups developing frontier technologies. IQT identifies, evaluates, and leverages innovations to accelerate government adoption while enhancing commercial success. As of May 2026, IQT is emphasizing mission investing through fewer larger bets in autonomy, contested logistics, critical infrastructure, and technologies that can move to mission use quickly.

Storm Ventures backs early-stage B2B enterprise software companies with a focus on AI-native applications, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure. They employ a 'paddling to surfing' growth methodology and have deep expertise in taking companies from inception to $100M+ ARR. Their philosophy: 'the interface layer will disappear. The infrastructure layer will compound.'

We are operators funding operators. We provide capital from our own personal wealth (no outside LPs) and offer hands-on operational advisory rather than board control. We believe the best venture support comes from those who have built and scaled companies themselves.

Bet the founder, win the future -- FUSE invests early in exceptional founders before obvious market validation, prioritizing founder quality over category focus, and backs them with a network of 300+ operators, executives, and founders.

Balderton Capital backs European-founded technology companies with visionary founders building transformative businesses. The firm combines patient capital, operational expertise, and founder support to enable European entrepreneurs to build world-class companies.

A full stack investor for a complex world, backing tech disruptors with performance, values and care. Elaia partners with ambitious, technical founders from inception to leadership across two dedicated strategies: Digital Venture (B2B SaaS, AI, fintech, adtech, e-commerce) and DeepTech Seed (energy, aerospace, robotics, biotech, semiconductors), sourcing heavily from research institutions and lab spinouts.

We lead Seed rounds of EUR 0.5m-5m and follow on up to EUR 12m or above. We are comfortable with the imperfection of startups, investing early in brilliant people and products and caring more about the potential of massive scale than minimizing early-stage risk. We invest in what we know and love: AI/Deeptech and SaaS in the B2B space, sourced from the SEE region and diaspora.

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.

Backs teams with defensible technical moats (data-driven software and/or patented hardware) that serve as building blocks of societal and economic infrastructure, focused on compute, industrial/energy transformation, and financial infrastructure in mission-critical, regulated markets.

Invest in and provide business-development support to startups building next-generation technology, bridging Japanese and global markets by combining Digital Garage's startup network with Daiwa Securities Group's capital and financial infrastructure.

We are serial founders turned venture capitalists. We invest in market leaders building soon-to-be massive tech companies. Our approach focuses on long-term success, not short-term gains. We roll up our sleeves, get creative, lead with empathy, and have fun along the way.

Building European technological resilience through critical infrastructure innovation. We back early-stage founders building the next generation of critical infrastructure - emerging and disruptive technologies (EDT) across defense, space, fintech, Industry 4.0, and energy.

Drive mass adoption of crypto and Web3 through investments in companies with strong tokenomics and utility design. Leverage ecosystem of 3,000+ LPs and 25,000+ gaming community to provide portfolio companies instant network effects and user acquisition.

Momenta backs software-defined industrial technologies that move industry from automation to autonomy, investing at the boundary where the physical world becomes digital across Physical AI, IIoT, edge intelligence, and secure compute. They partner long-term with founders and operators, using a network of corporate partners to help portfolio companies move from pilot to production.

Data and AI-native startups disrupting industries. Solo capitalist model allows fast decisions (days not weeks) and founder-first partnership. Focus on founders building real solutions to specific problems with proprietary data advantages.

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.

Invests in technical founders building modern infrastructure software across three pillars: cloud infrastructure, data/AI infrastructure, and cybersecurity. Targets the earliest stages — inception, pre-seed, and seed — often pre-product with just the founding team in place.

Gender-balanced founding teams outperform. We back companies founded or co-founded by women (30%+ women equity ownership at pre-seed) across Healthtech, Fintech, Sustainability, and Deep Tech, leading from pre-seed to Series A across France, Europe, and the US.

Bold, mission-driven technology entrepreneurs with uncompromising integrity deserve capital, resources, and partnership to build solutions that truly matter. As a founder-only capital firm, we align with entrepreneurs over institutional return requirements.

Back European technical founders building globally ambitious deeptech and critical technology companies at pre-seed and seed, with concentrated first-check conviction and Paris/San Francisco/Berlin support.

Pax Technica: The next era of American global leadership will emerge from physical-world technological superiority — reinventing defense, energy, manufacturing, aerospace, and critical infrastructure. Backs mission-driven founders tackling the hardest industrial-scale problems.

Full-lifecycle enterprise software investor focused on financial services. The best opportunities lie at the intersection of traditional financial institutions and modern technology. We back repeat founders with deep financial services expertise and technical capability to build transformative software solutions.

Bitcoin is a fixed-supply, neutral monetary network that civilization is being rebuilt on. Fulgur funds teams building the infrastructure, applications, and financial services layer of the Bitcoin and Lightning Network economy.

Community-driven VC led by active operators who simultaneously build and invest. Best support for founders comes from operators understanding current market challenges firsthand, not just history. Invest in category-defining technology companies.

We invest €100k to €15M in entrepreneurs with the capacity to create differentiated technology-based products and services, backing the crazy, contrarians, and outliers from pre-seed to Series B across Southern Europe and Latin America.

Sand Hill Angels backs seed-stage, high-tech companies with large and growing markets, well-defined problems, disruptive solutions, defensible technology, and strong teams with demonstrated ability to execute. The group leverages 145+ experienced angels to provide capital, mentorship, and network access across the Silicon Valley ecosystem.

Chalmers Ventures transforms breakthrough Chalmers University research into successful, impact-driven global companies, blending venture creation with venture investing under one roof.

Backing entrepreneurs on a mission to build great companies: innovative software-based technology companies from the Nordics that can become sector leaders while driving transformation toward a long-term sustainable society.

Passion Capital backs outstanding European founders building in AI, FinTech, and Enterprise Risk, investing at the pre-seed and seed stage—often before revenue or product exist. Europe's first operator-led VC fund, pioneering Plain English term sheets. Writes initial cheques of £400K–£500K as the founders' first institutional investor.

ex/ante backs founders building 'agentic technology' — tools that restore human agency by strengthening privacy, security, and information integrity. The fund counters surveillance capitalism and digital authoritarianism by investing in technology that gives individuals control over their data, assets, and information. Sectors: privacy-enhancing tech, cybersecurity/identity, information integrity, self-custody fintech, and agentic AI infrastructure.

Investing in the decarbonization and digitization of transportation, mobility, and energy — backing founders building across EVs, clean energy, autonomous vehicles, fleet software, vehicle cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing, and mobility marketplaces.

Back technically strong founders with a real market pull in a massive market, wherever they sit in the stack, as long as the team has a genuine link to Norway.

The best companies rarely look like the best companies at the start. We back overlooked Nordic B2B companies -- early, technical, regional, or simply unfashionable -- across Medtech, Resilience Tech, and Business Software before they become obvious.

Scalable, defensible innovation at the intersection of software, hardware, and intelligence. Champion founders driving the next wave of technological innovation across Cloud, Devices, Frontier, and Silicon domains. Breakthrough technologies emerge from convergence of multiple domains.

High-touch early-stage investing in technology founders building durable software and tech-enabled category leaders, with particular strength in SaaS and the Utah/Silicon Slopes ecosystem.

Investing in the modern economy through AI-driven business solutions, software-driven hardware, sustainable agriculture, and supply chain technology in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada, being the first institutional partner in a founder's journey.

Enterprise software companies leveraging modern agent infrastructure, open source, and AI to solve infrastructure and application challenges. Best companies come from technical founders with deep expertise in their domain. Mango Capital backs founders at inception before product-market fit, focused specifically on agent infrastructure and intelligent applications.

Lead early-stage rounds in European founders building tech and IP-driven companies, often at idea stage, before it works and before it is obvious.

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Belief backs young, deeply technical founders building AI, robotics, infrastructure, and other systems-level companies toward a future of abundance.

Low volume, high conviction early-stage investing in 10 thematic areas where vertical AI is reshaping regulated, complex industries: healthcare, fintech, capital markets, industrial operations, security, and government. Back strongly opinionated founders building category-defining companies with direct operator support from a team with deep fintech and growth scaling experience.

We invest in ambitious and determined teams that can one day become industry leaders, partnering with founders from the very beginning and supporting them throughout their growth with global operating experience.

Go-to-market is your moat. We back gritty, early, conviction-driven founders building the next generation of enterprise software with deep domain expertise and contrarian viewpoints. We work side-by-side with you from day one, providing hands-on GTM support, sales playbooks, and access to our NYC enterprise ecosystem.

We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life. We focus on AI-native founders building companies with strong founder-product fit, aligned on mission and meaning, seeking creative freedom and psychological safety. Great companies are built by diverse teams supported and empowered to be maximally creative.

Elkstone backs exceptional Irish (and increasingly all-island) entrepreneurs with the vision, passion and grit to build category-defining global companies, layering private-client and institutional capital into EIIS-qualifying early-stage venture funds.

Mission-driven founders building transformative companies. FPV backs missionaries, not mercenaries—founders with genuine conviction in solving hard problems and willingness to pursue 100-year visions. Focus on founders who are misunderstood initially but recognized as geniuses for changing the world. Founder service is their North Star—they aim to be the founder's first phone call with operational support from experienced partners.

The most ambitious B2B SaaS, AI, and Cloud Infrastructure founders at pre-seed and seed stages will build the next generation of category-defining companies. We combine technical depth, operational expertise, and capital to help founders scale across Europe and into the US market.

Artificial Intelligence will disrupt every industry. Flying Fish invests in companies where AI/ML serves as foundational technology across three pillars: Applied Intelligence (AI transforming enterprise workflows), Foundational AI & Infrastructure (core ML tooling and training), and Hard Sciences (AI accelerating biology, materials science, and drug discovery).

Blockchain technology will fundamentally transform how value is transferred globally, particularly in emerging markets and underbanked regions. FPV focuses on decentralized technologies that enable financial inclusion and cross-border value transfer where traditional infrastructure is limited.

Europe's first cheque fund: the first institutional investor for exceptional European (and European-origin) founders, helping them go from 0 to 1 and reach product-market fit, backed by anchor corporate relationships with Axel Springer and Porsche.

Technology startups can address major global challenges. We back early and seed-stage IndustryTech, DeepTech, and CleanTech founders in the DACH region and US with capital plus network access, industry expertise, and strategic partnerships, using an evergreen structure with no fixed fund-life timing pressure.

Europe can and should be the best place to live and innovate worldwide. With dense industrial supply chains and manufacturing expertise, Europe is positioned to lead in robotics and frontier tech. We invest in technical founders building obsessively on real problems with 10-15 investments per year at €200k-€400k checks.

We invest in founders leading their first institutional venture round. Our mission is to catalyze transformation in Latin America by partnering with the region's top entrepreneurs. Together, we create cycles of innovation, empowerment and change. We believe in long-term partnerships and hands-on support.

Public blockchains represent a paradigm shift in how we interact with money, financial services, and the internet. We invest in infrastructure and application companies building the future of monetary networks, programmable finance, and decentralized internet architecture.

Backing immigrant entrepreneurs building companies in Europe. Immigrants account for ~50% of US and ~40% of UK unicorns. NLV spots and supports this talent before the market catches up, investing unconditionally as the first check before lead VCs are in place.

Transformative innovation in crypto emerges from disciplined investment in cutting-edge infrastructure, protocols, and financial applications. We partner with founders advancing the digital asset economy alongside deep operational support through Galaxy's institutional infrastructure.

Partners at the earliest stage with companies building foundations for modern enterprises, critical industries, and the physical world - backing category-defining, N-of-1 companies that combine defensible technology with novel go-to-market approaches.

Business is truly global: exceptional entrepreneurs building strong, category-defining companies at highly advantageous valuations can be found anywhere, and a federated network of local accelerators can help them scale internationally.

Backing new ideas, clear vision, and an obsessive pursuit of change. Triple Point Ventures partners with exceptional early-stage founders across fintech, health, climate, and data & AI, aiming to meet founders early, move quickly, and lead pre-seed and seed rounds.

We back founders who combine emotional intelligence with business acumen and are on a mission to solve problems they deeply care about. We're often the first institutional check and provide mentorship, community, and long-term partnership support.

Inception-stage partner to ambitious founders building advanced technologies, from deep tech and AI for science to AI infrastructure and vertical AI, before the product or customers exist.

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.

Great companies aren't born, they're made. XYZ invests in early-stage founders with exceptional execution capability, deep domain expertise, or lived experience insights. They specialize in helping founders navigate the earliest stages by providing capital plus strategic operational support.

ISAI identifies capital-efficient French tech startups early—often as the first VC—backing SaaS and marketplace models with progressive ambition, blue ocean positioning, and category-leader potential. Increasingly an AI-focused investor using it as an enabling lens across all verticals. Their edge: a community of 500+ tech entrepreneur-LPs who open doors, advise, and validate.

Disruptive ideas supercharged: back seed-stage deep tech and hardware (including hardware-interfacing software) companies in the Nordics and Baltics that deliver social or environmental impact, getting involved before revenue and pushing portfolio companies to revenue within six months.

We accelerate the first financing rounds of promising digital entrepreneurs in Belgium and neighbouring countries, leading pre-seed rounds and co-leading or following at seed, with a fast and transparent decision process and the capacity to double down in later rounds.

Shine partners with creative, convincing, relentless entrepreneurs to build iconic businesses. They are lateralists - using non-linear logic to identify innovation at the intersections of technology, markets, and culture. The firm invests thematically in areas shaped by four trends: Great Expectations (demand for quality), Merging Digital/Physical (computing power), Reimagining Security (infrastructure/identity), and Reestablishing Meaning (community/belonging).

Exceptional companies come from exceptional people exploring exceptional problems. We support technical founders in the -1 to 0 phase with capital, community, and genuine operator mentorship.

Back ambitious 'go-all-in' founders building defensible B2B software at pre-seed and seed, and support them intensively through the journey to Series A. Focus on AI, infrastructure, health, TechBio, open source, and marketplaces.

Investing in 'Beautiful Software' — software where code architecture mirrors user intent so cleanly that complexity disappears. Backs founders with high 'motive force,' the internal drive that sustains motion through uncertainty. Believes beauty compounds: quality code attracts quality engineers, thoughtful design creates passionate users, and passionate users become evangelists.

Illuminate invests in companies solving mission-critical problems for financial institutions through fintech and enterprise software innovation. With deep access to tier-1 financial institution networks and specialized domain expertise, the firm creates unique value for portfolio companies through institutional customer access, operational guidance, and strategic partnerships.

Auxxo backs the strongest pre-seed and seed stage female-(co-)founded startups across Europe, driving equitable representation of women as founders and investors in venture capital.

Identify and invest in the world's top talent before they start a company. Build lifelong relationships through a proprietary university scout network at Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and other elite universities. Back exceptional founders within 1-3 years of graduation before they are widely recognized.

We invest in infrastructure companies before they exist. Technical founders building structural solutions that enable entire new categories of software. We don't try to be 'value add' - we only succeed if we make a genuine difference through deep technical partnership, founder development, and community building.

Morado invests in the 'data-fueled revolution' — backing systems builders who architect new operating systems for legacy industries. They focus on AI, data infrastructure, industrial IoT, robotics & autonomy, computer vision, and health tech at the seed stage.

Investing in founders building critical software that addresses the decay of Western infrastructure, institutions, and industrial base. Ravelin backs software-defined transformation of aerospace, defense, manufacturing, energy, and industrial sectors.

Top-performing SaaS venture fund that identifies exceptional founding talent at the earliest stages and takes an active role in their growth — particularly in scaling go-to-market and sales teams. Prioritizes founding team potential over traction or revenue metrics.

Back exceptional outlier founders with conviction and unwavering support. Kevin Hartz identified that over 20% of Fund II is invested in teenage founders—not as social experiment but as genuine thesis that exceptional outliers often emerge young. The firm provides operator-heavy partnership with deep expertise in founder psychology, financial operations, and growth scaling. They position themselves as guiding outliers from idea to IPO.

Pair Berkeley founders — alumni, faculty, students, affiliates — with unparalleled resources and they are unstoppable. We are community-first, not capital-first, built from the Cal ecosystem upward. We invest at inception stage based on where technology is actually going, informed by our network of world-class AI researchers, not market hype.

RRE backs visionary early-stage founders leveraging technological breakthroughs to reshape industries. Systematic focus on Physical AI (AI that touches atoms) and Decentralized AI (bridging web3 and AI infrastructure). Boutique model enables direct partnerships with founders vs. large portfolio strategies. 30+ years of multi-cycle experience.

Back B2B software founders solving real problems in sales, go-to-market, product, growth, and fundraising. We bring operational expertise from both founder and investor perspectives.

We support ambitious founders solving large problems through technology across all stages. Independent thinkers who challenge conventional wisdom are our ideal partners. We provide not just capital but operational expertise, global networks, and hands-on support from day one through scale.

Exceptional founders living in the future deserve operators who provide more than capital. We partner with founders on go-to-market, brand, storytelling, and team building.

Pre-seed fund investing in technical founders building developer-facing tools and infrastructure. Focused on curiosity, velocity of learning, and rapid building. Believe the world is shaped by unique insights at the intersection of art/culture and math/science.

Software will transform as AI-native applications unlock value in unstructured data (emails, contracts) that traditional software has sidelined. We back founders building the next generation of vertical operating systems, AI-native applications, and embedded finance solutions.

Early-stage founders face mounting pressure to show revenue legibility before Series A, but seed-stage cap tables lack operating expertise in go-to-market. CoFound embeds that GTM expertise directly, working hands-on with founders on GTM iteration, product-market fit, and building a repeatable sales motion.

Wave Ventures backs Europe's most exceptional Gen Z founders at the earliest stage — angel and pre-seed — in the Nordics and Baltics. We invest before other VCs identify these founders, leveraging a rotating team of top university students embedded in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Tallinn startup ecosystems. We believe the most impactful companies of the next generation will emerge from this region.

First institutional VC fund exclusively founded by former corporate VC leaders. Bridges traditional VC and corporate VC through Counter Club (750+ CVCs, $320B deployed). Invests in B2B SaaS solving nontrivial problems in large markets, providing founders with direct access to enterprise customers, strategic partners, and capital through the CVC network.

Crypto-native teams solving fundamental Web3 problems, partnering on- and off-chain at earliest stages. Technical excellence, ecosystem building, and long-term Internet transformation through decentralized technologies.

AI technologies are increasingly running the enterprise, making trust critical to scale. We invest in the companies that create that trust and the founders who scale them, with a leading focus on Infrastructure Intelligence — software that gives asset-heavy industries (energy, real estate, logistics, agriculture) the ability to sense, model, and act on their environment in real time.

Hilariously early pre-seed/seed investing. We back hustlers at concept stage—fast, scrappy, first-principles founders who act before market consensus.

Backing fearless founders building disruptive, IP-driven deep-tech, digitalization, and climate-tech solutions from India, for the world, at the earliest and highest-risk stages.

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.

The future belongs to those who invest in it. Hartmann Capital is the institutional gateway to early-stage frontier tech — backing founders at the intersection of Generative AI, Brain-Computer Interfaces, XR & Spatial Computing, Programmable Biology, and Robotics. We identify innovations as they prepare to cross the chasm into mainstream adoption.

We empower alumni of Dutch universities to become world-changing entrepreneurs, backing founders with capital, knowledge, and a high-trust community to build the companies of the future in critical sectors, strengthening a competitive and sovereign Netherlands.

We back visionary technology founders in the Nordic region driven by disruptive forces. Our thesis centers on three areas: New Experiences (gaming, new media, health tech), Platform Technologies (developer tools, infrastructure, fintech, IoT, machine intelligence), and Smarter Workplaces (productivity, developer tools, digital workplaces). As founders and operators ourselves, we bring hands-on operational mentorship to help mitigate risks and navigate building at scale.

Decentralization as autonomy: back technical founders building decentralized, user-owned systems that return sovereignty and economic agency to users, across open finance and decentralized AI.

Back early-stage founders transforming the physical enterprise: supply chain software, physical AI infrastructure and AI datacenter supply chain, where the partners have industry and technology depth.

We invest in foundational technologies that strengthen both commercial leadership and national security capabilities. We back technical founders building dual-use innovations at the intersection of Aerospace, Defense, and Deep Tech. Portfolio companies demonstrate strong technical validation and capital efficiency, often bootstrapping to meaningful revenue before institutional investment.

Oak HC/FT partners with founders driving structural change in healthcare and financial services. They believe the most durable companies in the AI era will combine AI velocity with genuine understanding of how these industries work — including their regulatory, distribution, and trust dynamics. Interested in horizontal platforms that can penetrate and win in these complex, regulated sectors.

Founders with military backgrounds and demonstrated grit combined with differentiated dual-use technology create exceptional venture opportunities. We focus on pre-seed and seed-stage companies solving meaningful problems that make the country and allies safer while having strong commercial applications.

Exceptional companies are built by founders with deep conviction, strong technical foundations, and the courage to tackle meaningful problems. Panache backs visionary founders from day one, providing capital alongside hands-on operational support and nationwide founder networks.

We back disruptive founders building category-defining companies. Our approach is founder-first, long-term, and deeply operational. We take the longest view in the room, operate with excellence and integrity, stay curious at the bleeding edge, and invest heavily in building community.

Rule30 uses a fully algorithmic decision engine to identify outlier founders at pre-seed and seed stages across Europe and North America. The fund removes human bias by analyzing founder experience, educational background, network evolution, and career trajectory — excluding names and photos. The algorithm ranks founders into top 10%, 3%, and 0.1% tiers. An index-style strategy of 75-85 bets targets ≥3x minimum returns with 97.5% confidence.

Clear invests in first-wave innovators in frontier technology — especially AI/ML, semiconductors, enterprise software, IT infrastructure, and security. We partner with magnetic founders tackling spectacular markets, providing seed capital, key connections, and company-building insights from operators who have built and scaled companies through IPOs.

Invest in breakthrough startups emerging from the world's leading research labs and innovation ecosystems, sourced through 150+ university partners.

Partner with elite founders building transformational technologies that create lasting economic and societal value. Focus on Smart Enterprise across five sectors: Logistics, Life Sciences, Healthcare, IT Infrastructure, and Government/Defense. Invest in platforms that enable human experts to solve non-linear problems through data integration and network effects.

Entourage backs and builds early-stage B2B SaaS and software companies, combining VC capital with venture studio and founder-operator support from zero to one and beyond.

Back disruptive entrepreneurs at the intersection of LatAm-specific problems and technical solutions. Leverage deep operational expertise from unicorn exits (Rappi, Kavak, iFood) to provide hands-on partnership from day one. Focus on cross-border commerce, fintech, SaaS, and marketplaces serving emerging markets.

Mana Ventures backs technologies that redefine industries and founders that shape the future, concentrating on deep tech and frontier AI: robotics and autonomy, space and defense, AI compute infrastructure and semiconductors, biotech and healthcare AI, and energy/advanced materials.

The next generation of category-defining software will be built by technical founders at the earliest stage, with AI infrastructure, developer workflows, and security primitives as core battlegrounds. Vermilion wants to be the first meaningful yes for teams that can ship quickly and learn from customers immediately.

Back ambitious founders from Central and Eastern Europe and the diaspora building large-market, 10x-better products, favoring high-risk/high-upside bets over safer, modest-return opportunities, grounded in market data rather than intuition.

We invest before investing: writing the first institutional check into founder-led teams building technology-driven, sustainable businesses that address real, structural problems across DeepTech, GreenTech, Digital Health, and FinTech.

The first investor for ambitious and relentless technology founders building transformative B2B companies. Kearny Jackson partners with founders at the moment of greatest conviction and product clarity, providing capital, strategic guidance, founder coaching, and access to deep networks.

Conviction-based seed investing in ambitious founders applying technology—especially AI—to solve the world's hardest problems for every American. Operator-led with deep hands-on support across sales, engineering hiring, and Series A positioning.

Velo Partners is a specialist gaming and gambling VC that invests across the full spectrum of the global gaming ecosystem — mobile, online, land-based, real-money, social, B2B, and B2C. They back companies with strong early traction and clear unit economics, providing hands-on governance and operational support. Through RNG Foundry, they also incubate early-stage iGaming content studios.

Partner with passionate entrepreneurs building companies that change the way we live, work, play, or learn. We're operator-first investors who provide capital, strategic guidance, and operational mentorship alongside network and investor connections.

Back African technology companies organising the offline online and digitizing key industries, where the problem is large, commercially solvable and technology is core.

Exceptional founders with strong conviction deserve capital, mentorship, and partnership from day one. We back category-defining companies at the earliest stages.

Back founder-operators with deep industry experience and prior successful exits. Invest from position of operational insight rather than pure financial engineering. Focus on companies showing early traction and founder-market fit across consumer, fintech, enterprise software, and automation.

We invest in underrepresented outperformers: first- and second-generation migrant founders, women in male-dominated industries, and founders from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, who we believe disproportionately possess the resilience, work ethic, and ability to inspire that predict founder success.

Invest in market-creating companies with exceptional founders and large addressable markets. Prioritize market size and dynamics, then evaluate product-market fit through personal usage test. Focus on founder quality and execution capability over other factors.

World-class founders at their earliest stages matter more than the stage of the business itself. We back sector-agnostic, high-ambition founders from pre-product through early revenue with candid advice, hands-on support, and a network of 1,200+ operators.

The future belongs to those who build. JSV convenes and connects the next generation of AI-native founders, drawing on its all-partner team of former founders and operators to back software and marketplace companies from seed through growth.

Backs ambitious tech founders from pre-seed to Series A through EIS/SEIS tax-efficient fund structures in the UK. Focus on Vertical AI, AI-enabled software, and FinTech 2.0. Founded by serial entrepreneur Mark Pearson, the firm brings operational expertise as entrepreneurs who have built and exited companies.

Identifying culturally resonant, consumer-focused companies with differentiated products and founder teams that will capture global attention. We invest across technology, consumer behavior, entertainment, and culture—seeking to spot emerging trends before they reach mainstream awareness. We operate as a partnership combining rigorous deal selection with exceptional founder support, creative marketing, and deep understanding of consumer psychology.

Backs founding teams at the angel, pre-seed, and seed stages across Europe with fast, founder-friendly checks (~EUR 125K) and at least a year of hands-on coaching, focusing on AI, fintech, and deep tech.

NEA partners with ambitious founders at every stage of company building, from pre-seed through IPO. They invest at the intersection of technology and healthcare, believing the most transformational innovation occurs where deep domain expertise meets world-class technical founders. NEA serves as both capital provider and active operator.

Build, expand, and capture opportunity in open markets and permissionless technology by being deep, hands-on users of the crypto ecosystems Nascent backs, combining venture-style early investing with a liquid trading strategy.

Motivate backs incredible founders with strong domain knowledge tackling real, durable problems in large and growing markets, with Fund III now centered on early-stage fintech defined broadly as exchanges of value, transfer of risk, and allocation of resources across industries. The firm emphasizes AI, new rails, regulatory tailwinds, regulatory infrastructure, financial workflows, proprietary data moats, and network effects.

Mercury backs disruptive AI and Blockchain-enabled startups outside Silicon Valley, with a focus on capital-efficient founders in the Central US reimagining core industries including fintech, enterprise software, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and logistics through their five investment themes: Work, Build, Journeys, Data, and Power.

Technology is reshaping the human capacity to learn, work, and adapt. Brighteye backs the 'HumanOS' — systems helping people continuously learn, perform, and evolve. As software becomes more intelligent and autonomous, it multiplies the value of human skills and knowledge. Category-defining companies will harness technology to redefine human capability. Target: European companies with global ambition and €100M+ revenue potential in large underserved markets.

Backs globally ambitious technology companies from pre-seed and seed through selected growth rounds using specialist EMEA sector teams and a platform model for capital, customers, talent, follow-on investors, and operational support.

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.

First institutional check for technical, AI-native builders at inception. We exclusively back AI native builders with speed and conviction — obsessing over the most asymmetric opportunities in AI.

We invest in people and give them freedom and support needed to execute their vision. We rely on data to measure, manage and monetize. We encourage bold ideas which are true, firm, confident, strong and resilient. We praise agility - the key to success in a competitive environment. We invest in early-stage companies operating with clear focus on sustainability in every dimension: business practices, unit economics and environmental impact.

Concentrated capital for founders building what comes next. Amity leads at the earliest stages, investing in only 3-5 companies per year to provide deep partnership and meaningful support. 20% of their early-stage investments have reached $1B+ valuations (7 of 35 since 2016).

Seed-stage Enterprise AI and intelligent software investor partnering with ambitious founders at the earliest stages. Distinctive Silicon Valley + India model: backing Indian-origin founding teams building for global enterprise markets. Hands-on support for product-market fit, GTM strategy, and scaling — 4 of 5 backed companies achieve strong PMF.

Partner with ambitious founders building category-winning companies. We believe great founders who understand execution, customer obsession, and operational excellence can build transformative companies. We provide capital, operational guidance, network access, and strategic partnership—not just funding.

We back the foundational layers of progress. Developer platforms that accelerate creation. Robot operating systems that make autonomy real. Simulation engines training the next generation of AI. Formal verification securing billions in value. Foundational systems that quietly compound—built by founders who see elegance in complexity and possibility in constraints.

Back early-stage founders building the next paradigm in emerging technologies. We operate like a product studio—contributing code, designing token economics, and providing hands-on partnership rather than just capital.

AI Eats Software. Over the next decade, virtually every bit of software will be replaced by artificial intelligence. We invest in founders and entrepreneurs who understand the transformational power of AI and are building solutions that reshape how we live, work, and play.

Back UK pre-seed and seed founders building at the intersection of media, entertainment and AI across the content and data value chain, as an engaged first-cheque lead.

Founders are the key to realizing a startup's potential; capital is the key to realizing a scaleup's potential. We back disruptors delivering a 10x value proposition to large markets, from pre-seed through growth.

Seed capital is the foundational layer in building enduring companies. We back bold, gritty founders applying AI and machine intelligence to solve the world's toughest challenges in enterprise and industrial sectors. By end of decade, software + hardware + AI will drive ubiquitous automation in every industry. We partner with visionary founders tackling hard technical problems in regulated, complex domains.

Serious founders building must-have technology for mission-critical industries. We focus on B2B software companies digitizing legacy industries and transforming established workflows. Specializing in seed-stage, where hands-on operational support, sales acceleration, and capital strategy matter most.

Back ambitious DeepTech founders tackling complex problems to advance daily lives across the world. Focus on People, Product, and Potential — investing in large, mature industries (space, manufacturing, mobility, health, energy) that need foundational technology transformations. Physical AI is a core conviction: hardware and software systems that act in the physical world. Invest early (Pre-Seed/Seed) and stay long-term through IPOs and acquisitions.

Invest pre-seed and seed in technical teams tackling root-cause cost challenges in healthcare and Main Street productivity — the two sectors most critical to American economic resilience and most underserved by traditional VC. Enter post first customer, pre-PMF, and provide hands-on operator support to accelerate distribution and prepare for Series A.

Mission-driven entrepreneurs and industry influencers can responsibly harness technology to build a more fair and inclusive financial system that serves unbanked and underserved populations.

OVO Fund invests in founders at the 'negative one to zero' stage — before customers or fully-formed narratives exist. They back people over ideas, providing conviction and guidance beyond capital to help founders define or create their categories.

Bold B2B software entrepreneurs at Pre-Seed and Seed stages building transformational vertical AI applications, enterprise software, infrastructure, security, and fintech. Underscore employs an 'open-source' investing model sharing economics with their Core Community of operator-advisors who provide portfolio companies with world-class expertise at no cost.

Early-stage business technology companies are strongest when unified within a thriving ecosystem. We invest in companies changing how the world does business through AI/ML, cybersecurity, fintech, and SaaS+ (vertical SaaS platforms layering embedded fintech to multiply revenue).

Financial innovation drives transformation toward equitable, inclusive financial systems. We back fintech companies expanding access to financial services for underserved consumers and businesses in emerging markets. Impact and returns are complementary, not conflicting.

Partner with ambitious founders building category-winning companies. We believe great founders who understand execution, customer obsession, and operational excellence can build transformative companies. We provide capital, operational guidance, network access, and strategic partnership—not just funding.

Backing Indian founders who go 'All In' on their company, sourced and supported by a community of 150+ founders and operator-angels; sector-agnostic pre-seed/seed capital plus fast decision-making.

Frontier Tech fund focusing on startups that apply advanced technologies to solve Real Problems. Three core verticals: AI Software & Applications, AI Hardware & Embodied Intelligence, and AI for Science & Manufacturing. 'See them as ourselves' — we succeed when our founders succeed.

The next wave of category-defining technology companies will be built from Southeast Europe, starting in Bulgaria. Vitosha backs execution-driven founders building global-from-day-one products, prioritizing team conviction over the idea itself.

Back exceptional founders building transformational B2B companies in AI, enterprise software, cybersecurity, and clean technology. The Myriad Model combines capital with a curated ecosystem of 30+ Fortune 500 executives who accelerate commercial traction through introductions, POCs, and commercial contracts.

Blockchain technology will reshape how value is transferred, stored, and transacted globally. Best companies built by crypto-native founders deeply committed to long-term vision. We invest across entire crypto stack: DeFi, infrastructure, consumer apps, gaming, identity.

Legal technology sits at the center of every business transaction and the $1 trillion legal services industry is undergoing the kind of systemic transformation fintech and healthtech experienced a decade earlier. We back founders building AI, workflow automation, analytics, hiring, and security tools for the legal ecosystem.

Digital innovation across four themes (AI, Blockchain, Computing Infrastructure, Big Data) will define the next generation of transformative companies.

Global investors in transformative technologies — backing bold founders building enduring businesses across sectors and stages. Combines deep fundamental research with active partnership. Fund III ($50M, Dec 2024) is focused on early-stage AI, particularly AI infrastructure, open-source LLMs, and AI-native applications.

Backing experienced founders with deep domain conviction at the earliest stages. Fund genuine 'venture moments' — discrete inflection points where new capital validates novel hypotheses. Reject the factory model of venture; focus on capital efficiency and sound businesses.

The future of cities will be shaped by entrepreneurs who can navigate complex regulatory environments. We provide seed capital and regulatory/policy expertise to startups enhancing the livability, sustainability, and economic vitality of cities.

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology will fundamentally restructure global financial systems. We invest in category-defining protocols and companies that reshape trillion-dollar markets through permissionless finance, technical innovation, and new economic paradigms enabled by blockchain. Particular focus on execution layers, DeFi infrastructure, stablecoins, payments, and emerging categories like DePIN, FHE, and crypto-AI intersection.

The $12 trillion built environment sector is ripe for digital transformation. Suffolk Technologies deploys capital, resources, and networks to help founders scale technologies in construction, architecture, engineering, real estate, and infrastructure. Uniquely positioned as the venture arm of Suffolk Construction, they provide operational test beds, jobsite access, and deep domain expertise that pure financial investors cannot.

We back founders building the future of B2B technology. From Latin America to the world, we invest early and partner with founders and companies for the long term. Our core purpose is to support founders and companies through founder-aligned partnerships forged in trust.

We invest in technically sophisticated founding teams solving breakthrough problems in deep-tech. We believe the next generation of transformational companies will be built by scientists and engineers with deep domain expertise tackling problems at the frontier of AI, cybersecurity, quantum, robotics, space, synthetic biology, and bioengineering. We provide patient capital and technical partnership to help these teams achieve escape velocity.

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.

The best technical founders in security, data, and infrastructure are moving faster than traditional venture can handle. MTF is a purpose-built fund with a curated Technical GTM Community to help founders go from prototype to PMF at speed. Solo GP. Fast decisions. Hands-on from Day 0.

We partner selectively, care deeply, and strive for excellence across sectors, helping founders leverage our decades of experience, extensive network, and valuable insights to build scalable and sustainable businesses in India.

It matters not only which companies get started, but who starts them. EF identifies exceptional individual talent before a company, co-founder, or idea exists, and builds the company from Day Zero through cohort-based co-founder matching, an equity-free grant phase, and up to $250K in formation capital (via SAFE) once a team passes its Investment Committee.

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.

We combine world-class AI analytics with industry-leading networks to identify exceptional companies and make rapid investment decisions. Great companies, regardless of sector or geography.

We help bold, creative, and humble founders build great companies by providing hands-on operational support, strategic guidance, and valuable ecosystem connections. We specialize in fintech, insurtech, digital health, and enterprise software where we can add deep value beyond capital.

Corporate-advantage seed investing. We identify promising AI and deep tech startups early, then leverage our hundreds of relationships with corporate venture capital arms to de-risk investments, accelerate time to exit, and create curated dealflow where both founders and corporates benefit from strategic alignment.

We back bold, ambitious, and resilient founders driving breakthrough innovations in HealthTech, CleanTech, and AgriFoodTech. Female-led and gender-mixed teams deliver superior returns and drive meaningful impact. Over five decades of combined experience navigating financial cycles enables us to partner authentically with founders, providing not just capital but strategic guidance and operational support.

Back ambitious, technical founders solving real business problems with software and AI. We prefer to be a meaningful part of the first capital raised and provide hands-on support as operating partners. Great companies can be built anywhere, not just tech hubs. Pre-seed is where company DNA gets formed and represents the most fun and foundational stage of a company.

Argon leads or co-leads pre-seed rounds in Intelligent Industry Solutions: vertical software platforms that combine industry insight with deep tech, machine learning, and data to improve productivity, efficiency, and enterprise value.

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.

Support visionary founders building transformative technologies across blockchain, AI, and biotechnology. Provide capital, technical resources, and access to Binance's 300M+ user base and infrastructure. Partner for long-term value creation with founder-centric approach.

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.

Invest in exceptional new-frontier technology companies that bring liquidity and efficiency to antiquated industries.

The greatest driver of venture returns is founders strengthened by struggle. We invest in rare talent building generational tech companies, regardless of pedigree or geographic origin.

Backs inception-stage technical founders across Europe and Israel building solutions for hard markets including AI infrastructure, space/aerospace, advanced manufacturing, energy, biology, and other deep-tech verticals.

Trucks funds entrepreneurs building the future of transportation across three mandates: decarbonized, safer, and more accessible. They back seed/pre-seed companies across autonomous vehicles, EVs, aviation, micromobility, aerospace, maritime, and logistics — any transportation sector at the frontier.

We back mission-driven founders building breakthrough technologies to solve humanitys most complex, large-scale challenges. Like an iceberg, the most valuable invention is frequently invisible; we look past surface-level applications for deep, foundational innovation.

We are a stage-agnostic venture capital firm investing in exceptional founders building the companies that shape our world.

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.

Empowering visionary entrepreneurs to build unique solutions that reshape how Indians live, work, consume, and transact. Kalaari backs potential over pedigree — first-time founders welcome — focusing on tech-driven Indian market opportunities from Pre-Seed through Series A.

Formation invests at the 'Formation Stage' — before formal company creation, when founders are still discovering the idea and building conviction. They prioritize long-term relationships (10+ year journeys) over transactional investments, and reject the financialization of early-stage VC. First check in, not just another check in the round.

Delta backs Ireland's most relentless founders from first cheque to scale, with a partner-led model where every founder works directly with a General Partner throughout the company's life, and a focus on capital-optimising foundations early on.

We partner with high-integrity, problem-obsessed, wildly interesting founders at early stage. We are long-term investors, backing founders at inception and continuing to invest until IPO. We have a single mandate: to help fledgling companies navigate the challenges of building generational businesses. Rather than being a traditional write-a-check fund, we provide full-stack partnership: capital, operational support, strategic introductions, recruiting, business development, and fundraising support.

Technology can have a highly disruptive impact on society. We back founders on the forefront of innovation with clear vision towards positive change, leveraging domain expertise to ensure value creation. Founder-first approach with operational support.

The next generation of transformative work applications will be powered by AI. We seek to back founders building unique, innovative AI-powered tools that reshape how people collaborate, create, and manage information. Strategic integration with Dropbox ecosystem amplifies value.

We back product-driven founders building generational companies. We led product, design, and engineering teams at the internet's most iconic companies and have built products for billions of users. Now we bring that operator expertise to support founders obsessed with product excellence and user experience.

Founders who intentionally pick hard problems outperform. The founders we back don't shrink in the face of a tough challenge, and it's this courage that is the root of outperformance. Picking hard problems attracts exceptional early talent and the most ambitious capital partners. We back technically ambitious founders at inception — before markets are well-defined or consensus has formed.

Israel's leading pre-seed platform, backing first-time Israeli founders tapping into non-traditional industries. Invests $150K for 7.5% equity per company (up to $500K in the Digital Health track), paired with a 10-week intensive bootcamp and a 300+ person mentor network.

AI and technological breakthroughs are driving a major cycle of transformation; entrepreneurship is the force that turns that shift into concrete, global opportunities. We back AI-first founders across the transatlantic corridor with hands-on, operator-led support.

Research-driven frontier technology investment firm that builds and invests in crypto, AI, robotics, and other new frontiers from the earliest stages. Paradigm remains deeply technical and research-led, collaborating on papers, code, product, and business strategy with ambitious builders.

Apply AI and data science to identify and invest in N-of-1 companies with 10-100x potential. Back founders who expand individual freedom and decentralize power. Invest in companies that embody principles from the Bill of Rights (voice, fair process, proportionality, user power) and Bitcoin whitepaper (trust-minimized, verifiable, aligned incentives, open access).

Back exceptional technical founders building crypto-native and AI-native companies as early as possible, sometimes before a product exists, via a fixed $500K SAFE and an intensive 10-week accelerator.

Back founders of early-stage companies that use digitization and data science to make industries more efficient, aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with a network-driven approach.

We back B2B software and software-driven hardware founders and pair capital with hands-on, customized sales and marketing support delivered by our in-house sales trainers.

Build and invest in category-defining companies at the earliest stages (incubation to pre-seed), leveraging Tower Research Capital's 25+ years of trading infrastructure expertise and technical depth to help founders succeed.

Back outlier B2B founders who see around corners and intimately understand customer pain points, investing at the pre-Series A stage to bridge the gap between seed and Series A — especially in underserved non-coastal markets like the Southeast US.

India Accelerator backs founders across five thematic verticals (Robotics & Unmanned Systems & Space, Energy/Mobility/Connectivity, Singularity/GenAI, Impact & Energy, and Healthcare), pairing acceleration infrastructure (mentorship, corporate partnerships, physical spaces) with direct capital via its Finvolve investment platform across accelerator, seed, and growth funds.

We're a different type of venture firm. We wake up every morning and ask ourselves how we can help our portfolio companies move the needle. From in-the-weeds to twenty thousand feet, we are partners at every level. We serve as an extension of founder headcount, sitting in portfolio company Slack channels, maintaining weekly calls, and proactively helping with hiring and customer introductions.

Backing technical founders pre-pitch deck. Helen invests in engineers with technical depth, high learning rates, commercial instincts, and track records of pursuing ambitious long-term bets — before consensus forms around them.

Backing founders solving America's defining challenges in deep tech, defense, and space to restore and sustain American technological and industrial competitiveness.

We back entrepreneurs obsessed with solving big problems using capital-efficient technology. We focus on early-stage tech startups in North America and Western Europe building game-changing B2B software across fintech, logistics, proptech, HR tech, legal tech, and cybersecurity.

Ascend backs the most active pre-seed founders in the Pacific Northwest building SaaS 3.0 (vertical AI agents), Gen AI 2.0 (fast-follower infrastructure), and Frontier AI (AI applied to the physical world). Seattle has one in four of the U.S.'s AI engineers — Ascend captures that alpha as the first institutional check.

First-check crypto fund backing founders at inception stage — before the idea is obvious to everyone. Invests in both tokens and equity globally, with conviction that the best crypto companies are built to export value beyond the crypto echo chamber.

Space-based technologies — GPS, GEOINT, and SatCom — are the invisible backbone of the global economy. Space Capital invests at the intersection of space technology and global markets, backing founders building the infrastructure, distribution platforms, and applications that will generate the next wave of trillion-dollar outcomes.

We provide capital and strategic partnership to faith-driven technology founders in the U.S. and Southeast Asia who are building companies with defensible moats and thriving cultures, seeking top financial returns alongside human flourishing.

We back underdogs that traditional VC has overlooked for too long. Founders with grit, capital efficiency, and non-traditional backgrounds who demonstrate exceptional execution capability and product-market fit.

Enterprise AI is a collection of category-defining verticals, not a single wave. Neon backs India-built B2B SaaS founders early as their first institutional check and acts as a GTM partner, delivering warm US customer introductions to help portfolio companies reach $10M ARR within 3-5 years.

The best founders want to be backed by other founders. Smaller funds run by founders perform best at pre-seed/seed stage. We operate as a decentralized fund-of-micro-funds empowering founder-GPs across global regions.

We invest in relentlessly resourceful founders solving real problems. Capital is just the beginning - we provide connected access to 400+ founders, operators, and luminary investors from the world's greatest tech companies. We invest at Day 0, pre-revenue, across sectors and geographies.

Back ambitious and unique technology startups as early as possible — ideally from day one. High volume, small checks (~€200-250K), primarily European pre-seed and seed. No board seats, no round leadership. Value-add through a 900+ founder community.

Investing in the people and solutions creating the data-driven economy. Founded by data scientists and entrepreneurs for data-focused founders. Focus on AI-powered business, ML tech stack advancement, engineering/infrastructure evolution, and responsible data management.

AI represents a fundamental platform shift, reshaping how companies build products, scale and compete. Reduced innovation costs and advanced tooling enable small Nordic teams to challenge incumbents rapidly. Back founders who believe in paradigm-shifting breakthroughs requiring tectonic shifts in technology or market dynamics. Focus on Nordic early-stage companies with strong software components and at least one technical co-founder.

Breakthrough startups are designed futures, not lottery tickets. We back extraordinary founders with breakthrough insights before the world believes. We are co-conspirators, not just investors.

First-check investor in the most ambitious founders from angel to pre-IPO, backing pre-product/market-fit teams before the answers are clear; Fund VI focuses on AI-native companies.

We address racial inequality in the United States by investing in overlooked visionaries of color and companies tackling racial disparities in health, wealth, education, and justice. Fair-chance hiring is core to our approach.

Partner with visionary founders to build category-defining companies in healthcare, enterprise software, fintech/insurtech, and deep technology. Provide deep operational support, board participation, and access to domain expert network. Focus on companies solving problems in regulated or data-rich industries. Leverage Allianz's unique vantage point on risk, data, and regulation to identify opportunities at intersection of innovation and regulatory necessity.

We invest $250K+ into 'irrationally intense' founder CEOs and their teams. We believe early-stage companies need more than capital—they need operational mentorship, people operations expertise, and founder coaching. We provide comprehensive CEO feedback through a proprietary CEO 360 process, on-demand office hours, and real-time support via Slack and WhatsApp DMs.

Ubiquity Ventures invests in 'software beyond the screen' — B2B technology companies that apply AI and software to physical problems and systems. The three pillars are Smart Hardware (devices that sense and change the physical world), Machine Learning (AI for industries historically less penetrated by software), and Platforms (developer tools, security, and perception technologies for non-traditional computing). Check size: $1-2M seed, equal follow-on reserves for Series A.

Invest in the future of insurance across all product lines, adjacent vertical markets and enabling technologies, combining carrier perspective with startup experience.

Greater understanding leads to greater transformation. We partner with technical founders solving critical problems in enterprise software, fintech, infrastructure, and applied AI. First-principles thinking and operator-first approach to value creation.

Invest with conviction in visionary, technical founders inventing the future with frontier computing technology. Focus on computing×real-world startups (techbio, climate, robotics, industrial infrastructure). Enforce strict rebuildability bar—won't invest if 3-5 Google engineers could recreate product in 3-12 months. Position against SaaS/consumer playbook; future venture outliers will be very different.

BITKRAFT invests in Synthetic Reality—the convergence of physical and digital worlds. We back gaming studios, interactive media platforms, and emerging technology (Web3, AI, AR/VR) that will define how humans experience entertainment and social connection in the future.

Investing in the future of commerce, AI, and labor. We believe our biggest asset is knocking down doors for our founders — leveraging our network of 50+ Fortune 500 CEOs and tech executives as LPs to open customer relationships, accelerate go-to-market, and support talent acquisition.

The greatest returns come from the most overlooked markets where businesses outperform because they create value. We invest in early-stage technology companies that unlock wealth and health for the mass market — in massively regulated, operationally complex sectors that are broken and overdue for reinvention: financial services, healthcare, real estate, insurance, and work.

We create AI impact, not hype. As operators backing operators, we help bring new companies and technologies to life. We are AI builders and practitioners with two decades of experience building through every AI hype cycle, not tourists observing from the sidelines.

Founders building the possibly impossible deserve capital plus marketing support. Great technology combined with exceptional storytelling and narrative development creates world-changing moonshots. We provide both the capital and the story-telling expertise to help founders achieve escape velocity.

Disciplined, Africa-focused seed investing backing exceptional founding teams solving real African problems with technology-enabled solutions demonstrating strong unit economics, capital efficiency, and ability to scale across emerging markets. Emphasis on founder quality, fundamental unit economics, sufficient capital for 18-24 month runway, and reasonable entry valuations.

We invest in paradigm shifters—truly disruptive technologies that change our perspective of the world. We believe in missionary founders committed to their vision, and we focus on business-team-idea-timing fit, not just product-market fit. We target transformative companies across defense, climate, fintech, legal tech, and emerging domains.

Volt Capital is a New York based venture firm that invests in category-defining technologies underpinning the machine economy, open source ai, infra and physical ai at the earliest stages. The team’s investment team are former founders and operators who take a founder-first approach to investing. Volt Capital backs pre-seed and seed companies with checks from $500k to $3m.

Backing highly technical founding teams building globally relevant software and deeptech products, with a focus on MENA-originated founders. Not afraid to back moonshots.

Where capital becomes culture. Dreamers VC bridges established Japanese corporate investors with early-stage US companies by combining entertainment, sports, and technology expertise. The fund leverages celebrity networks, entertainment channels, and Japanese corporate partnerships to amplify storytelling and enable cross-cultural market expansion.

Back exceptional founders — primarily from Israel — building transformative companies in cybersecurity, fintech, AI, digital health, and deep tech. Offer true partnership beyond capital: hands-on guidance, global network access (Softbank, Fujitsu, NTT, Vodafone), and unwavering support from first check through exit. Invest across both early and growth stages via two parallel fund families.

A down-to-earth VC with sky-high ambitions, backing Europe's earliest-stage founders with concrete, pragmatic, hands-on support from pre-seed through Series A.

Backing good ideas with capital and competence - combining financial backing with active ownership, extensive networks and experienced operating support to be founders' first VC check from concept through Series A.

The Blockchain is a generational technology shift that will unlock massive new industries and categories of business. We back founders with visions as big and bold as the Blockchain itself, investing in the early rounds of the largest blockchain outcomes.

MH Ventures backs the convergence of cryptography, composability, and community-owned networks, aiming to shape the architecture of economic sovereignty by helping decentralized systems launch, scale, and endure.

Horizon backs independent, technical, product-obsessed founders with extraordinary ambition pursuing genuine disruption, without a fixed sub-sector playbook or credential bar. Founders 'can't be too green.'

Crypto will revolutionize the existing financial system. We partner with exceptional founders building the next generation of financial services, leveraging permanent capital and DCG's ecosystem to support founders long-term without fund cycle pressures.

People, not money, build game-changing companies. Real backs Canadian, industry-agnostic, tech-enabled founders from pre-seed, taking a systems-level view of ventures correlated with profit and aligned with societal and planetary flourishing.