Top Developer Tools & Infrastructure + HR Tech & Future of Work Investors 2026

Stage 2 Capital is the first VC fund backed by 1,000+ GTM executives. Using a two-person pod model (traditional VC + GTM operator), the firm helps B2B software companies scale through go-to-market expertise and access to a curated executive LP network.

The future of work belongs to individuals and small teams with creative autonomy, distributed locations, and multiple revenue streams. We invest in tools that enable this future and back founders who embody it.

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.'

Backing transformative founders building exceptional companies across all sectors

Data-driven early-stage growth SaaS investor backing cash-efficient, resourceful founders with $2M-$30M ARR. Metrics-first evaluation, no warm intro required, single-partner model for speed and transparency.

We invest in purposeful people on their way to building legendary companies. Using proprietary AI-driven sourcing, we identify frontier technology that multiplies human potential across AI Economy, Productivity Tools, Future of Work, and Fintech sectors.

Riverwood partners with Proven Growth technology companies — businesses with demonstrated business models and positive unit economics — providing $25M–$250M+ to help them scale globally. Their Scalability Playbook supports companies navigating strategic and operational inflection points. Current focus on AI-powered enterprise software as a generational catalyst.

Finding the next puzzle piece in the crypto space. Puzzle Ventures helps early-stage blockchain startups grow and reshape the future of Web3 through strategic capital, infrastructure expertise, and deep crypto ecosystem connections.

Sixth Street Growth provides flexible, patient capital to mid- and late-stage technology companies, pairing growth equity and bespoke credit solutions with deep operating expertise through its 'More Than Capital' platform. Focus areas include enterprise SaaS, fintech/payments, healthcare IT, cybersecurity, and data infrastructure.

Every industry will be transformed by software. Tola practices hypothesis-based investing targeting the 'enterprise scaffolding' of AI — domain-specific models, AI/ML tooling, AI SaaS applications, AI governance, and AI security — rather than foundational AI infrastructure. They back companies driving long-term, transformational change in large markets.

Disruptive innovation in work and education fuels human achievement. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs who are business builders, deep domain experts, and capital efficient thinkers. We believe in long-term relationships over transactional investing, often partnering with founders across multiple ventures.

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.

ServiceNow Ventures invests in AI-first enterprise companies that can extend the ServiceNow platform, accelerate enterprise digital transformation, and advance the potential of AI across workflows. The firm seeks visionary founders building at the intersection of AI, automation, and enterprise software.

Market avalanches—invisible but compounding structural shifts driven by demographic and technological change. Invest in technologies transforming how people learn, earn, and own.

DVC invests in visionary founders building next-generation B2B SaaS and infrastructure companies at the intersection of AI, cloud, and enterprise software. Operating as a cross-border US-India fund, DVC backs companies in AI/MLOps, CloudOps, cybersecurity, fintech, and data infrastructure — providing not just capital but also go-to-market strategy, business development, executive recruiting, and follow-on syndication through the DVC Advantage program.

GSV Ventures invests across the full spectrum of learning (Pre-K to Gray) at the intersection of education and technology. The firm believes the learning and workforce development sector is a $7+ trillion opportunity, and that artificial intelligence will fundamentally reshape education. GSV focuses on companies that address real market needs at scale, operate sustainable business models, and attract visionary founders.

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.

Patient Capital. True Resources. Big Impacts. S3 backs visionary founders building in Business Software and Healthcare Technology. Unique single-LP structure (a multi-billion dollar philanthropic family office) enables patient, flexible investing unconstrained by traditional VC fundraising cycles. Founded in Texas in 2005 — the largest and longest-serving VC native to Texas.

Education is the most powerful driver of human potential. We invest in mission-driven teams building transformative education companies that deliver measurable outcomes and expand access globally.

The next decade will be defined by the addition of machine intelligence to software. Scale backs 'Cognitive Apps' — AI-powered applications that augment manual work and enable data-driven predictions — partnering with founders who can transition from founder-led to scalable go-to-market, accompanying them from Series A through IPO.

Dawn backs category-leading B2B software companies across fintech, cybersecurity, data/AI infrastructure, insurance tech, HR tech, and regtech, acting as a long-term operating partner rather than passive capital.

Support first and second generation immigrant founders building unicorn-grade companies. Value-add investor providing capital plus deep network connections to customers, partners, strategic advisors, and founder networks.

Emergence invests in early-stage B2B software companies that will define the next era of enterprise technology. Founded in 2003 as the original cloud/SaaS-focused VC firm, they have pioneered investing through technology transitions: horizontal SaaS (Salesforce, Zoom), vertical SaaS (Veeva, Doximity), and now AI-native services — companies that sell outcomes rather than software, powered by AI that compounds competitive advantage over time.

Stripes invests in companies with exceptional products for consumers and businesses, acting as an of-service growth partner. Product-market fit is the prerequisite; Stripes provides the operational muscle — go-to-market, talent, network, and capital markets support — to scale from product-led growth to market-leading brand.

Back founders with an athlete-like commitment to the long game across Health (longevity, fertility, performance), Future of Work (AI-native productivity, developer tools), and Global Mobility (immigration, cross-border infrastructure). Invest at pre-seed when post-money valuations are under $10M.

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.

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.

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

Partner with visionary European founders at seed and Series A, leveraging the team's own operator experience and a network of 150+ international co-investors. Sector agnostic (excluding life sciences and crypto) with ~50 companies per fund. Strong focus on capital efficiency, unit economics, and realistic paths to profitability. Co-investor by default; will lead when it adds value.

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 identify exceptional operators with proven track records at scale (ex-Facebook, Google, Stripe) and catalyze their transition into founders. Periods of rapid societal behavior change spur dramatic innovation. We invest in the future of work and consumer utility, providing not just capital but operational expertise, network access, and proven playbooks from building at Facebook/Meta scale.

Human-scale venture capital focused on early-stage enterprise software. Partner with great teams in love with big problems at the inflection point of customer validation, providing smart money, storytelling support, and the right connections through a network of 20+ accomplished Northeast entrepreneurs.

Highland Europe backs exceptional teams in Europe and Israel building the next generation of technology leaders, focusing on product-led software and consumer companies with organic growth, clear product-market fit, and capital discipline.

Founders investing in founders. Boston Seed invests at pre-seed and seed stages in audacious founders building meaningful technology across consumer, B2B SaaS, gaming, sports, AI, and cloud infrastructure. Known for early conviction in unproven categories (e.g., daily fantasy sports via DraftKings in 2012). Emphasizes transparent, humble storytelling about venture realities. All GPs are ex-founders/CEOs with exits, bringing authentic founder empathy.

We back founders building commercially successful businesses that expand economic mobility in America. We invest where capitalism's incentives align with social benefit, embedding mobility impact in core product, not as an afterthought.

The best way to find and support AI companies is to be one ourselves. We back independent thinkers building real systems before consensus forms, partnering as radical learning partners from day one.

Back electric founders with an uncontrollable passion for creating disruptive companies. Invest globally, particularly strong in US and Latin America. Combine capital with operational support through venture studio model, helping build groundbreaking companies from inception through scale.

Back mission-driven founders addressing significant global challenges through leading-edge technology. Provide flexible and patient capital, leveraging our time, resources, and networks to support portfolio company success. Focus on founders with authentic social and environmental missions alongside commercial viability.

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.

Help founders build companies of which they can be proud. We invest in mission-driven founders solving large, urgent problems using technology to create substantive change. Capital is necessary but not sufficient—sweat, reputation, and accountability are our core commitments.

To steward capital with discipline and conviction, investing in innovative enterprises that create enduring value. Backs founders building technology solutions for Saudi Arabia's digital transformation, converting early traction into resilient growth through disciplined capital paired with operational expertise.

Non-dilutive growth capital for B2B software companies. Alternative to venture capital focused on sustainable, capital-efficient growth that preserves founder equity and optionality. Fills gap between traditional bank lending and venture financing.

Partner with founders building generational software companies. We provide capital, operational support, and genuine partnership. Focus on technology-driven solutions addressing large and growing markets. Invest across enterprise and consumer software, with depth in AI-native software, fintech, infrastructure, security, vertical SaaS, healthcare, and future of work.

Back founders with grit, industry insights, and strong engineering cultures to build amazing software that disrupts incumbents. Deliberately invest in unsexy industries and antiquated markets (warehousing, real estate, specialty pharmacy, agriculture) that others overlook, where nimble startups can create tremendous value.

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.

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.

Invest in the future of software built on AI. We partner with technical founders to provide capital, unfair shortcuts, and operational support to accelerate their learning and help them reach their potential. We position ourselves as the first institutional investor for v0.9 stage founders.

Companyon backs a small number of capital-efficient, founder-led B2B software companies at the seed-to-Series-A transition and pairs capital with hands-on GTM, talent, and fundraising support.

AI is accelerating company growth curves so dramatically that traditional, slow, adversarial Series A processes no longer fit the best AI-era companies. Standard Capital leads Series A rounds exclusively for post-product-market-fit companies raising to scale, not to search, offering standardized founder-friendly terms and peer support from operator-investors.

Identifies inflection points through proprietary Discovery Engine and backs founders who see opportunities others miss. Focuses on AI-driven transformation of B2B software and financial services, with deep technical due diligence analyzing 250+ data points.

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.

Technology is the 'new West' — Westbound invests financial and social capital into visionary, values-aligned founders to build a virtuous cycle of wealth and opportunity, with an explicit mission to close the racial wealth gap.

u.ventures backs local entrepreneurs who dare to build exciting global ventures. The firm focuses on early-stage technology startups with world-class founding teams from Ukraine and Eastern Europe with global market ambitions, scalable products, and competitive advantages.

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.

Applied AI is a talent and language equalizer that will drive a multi-trillion dollar opportunity across the Global South. We back founders building scalable, profitable businesses that touch the lives of hundreds of millions of underserved consumers and SMEs across India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

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.

Invest in pre-seed and seed-stage startups where the ecosystem or community around the product is the core competitive moat. Best companies build worlds through bottom-up communities and compelling narratives. We provide capital, strategic advice, narrative development, and leverage our network to help founders succeed.

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.

We back the companies of tomorrow before it's obvious. We combine early-stage European investing with a permanent San Francisco presence to help founders build category-defining global companies. We invest in ambitious technical founders who deeply understand industry transformation.

Backs 'gritty founders' solving real operating problems. Focuses on 'Global Indian' founders — Indian diaspora in the US or India-based founders building for global markets — with an 'India Supply to Global Demand' thesis. Seeks non-incremental startups with strong competitive differentiation and category leadership potential.

The hardest thing in seed is finding product-market fit. We help you find it. If you already have product-market fit, we will help you scale. We partner with exceptionally ambitious founders for the long run and provide capital combined with operational expertise through our 100+ member Product Council.

The best investment opportunities emerge at the intersection of innovation and scale. We invest across the full lifecycle from seed to public markets, focusing on technology companies that will transform sectors globally with particular conviction in AI-enabled platforms and infrastructure.

Truly great companies are built by founders, not investors. Coral operates as an 'Ecosystem VC,' providing capital, talent, and insights on a Hands-if basis, and backs technical founders solving hard, humanity-scale problems, with a particular bet on Japan's structural advantages in robotics, energy, and advanced manufacturing.

Inception-stage VC backing experienced founders building B2B autonomous agentic AI from day zero. Leverages Salesforce alumni network to provide portfolio companies with enterprise distribution and operational support.

Exceptional founder-led B2B technology businesses exist outside traditional coastal venture and PE systems. We back gritty founders who think differently and approach sustainable, balanced growth without venture-style moonshot pressure or traditional PE playbooks.

Early-stage technology companies solving hard business problems with SaaS, cloud, mobile, and disruptive technologies. We back technical founders with domain expertise and market understanding across diverse sectors.

Early-stage venture capital for IT and Biotech companies in Colorado Front Range and Mid-Atlantic. Focus on experienced founding teams solving important problems with potential for significant financial returns. Patient capital approach with operational support and deep regional networks.

Robinhood Ventures exists to open access to private markets historically reserved for institutions and wealthy individuals. Through publicly-traded closed-end funds (RVI, and RVII in registration), retail investors gain exposure to a concentrated portfolio of Frontier Companies -- private, growth- and late-stage businesses operating at the cutting edge of AI, fintech, aerospace, and enterprise software -- without accreditation or net-worth requirements.

Latino founders represent an underserved but exceptionally talented segment of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. We invest in visionary founders who combine bold ideas with execution excellence to build scalable, high-impact businesses that create both economic and social value. We believe institutional capital paired with strategic partnership from Fortune 100 executives and operating experts can unlock the full potential of Latino-led innovation.

Visionary founders, with hustle, heart and humility, who see the world not as it is, but as it could be. Sector-agnostic, high-conviction, low-volume pre-seed investing across the UK and Europe.

Exceptional talent and disruptive ideas know no borders. We invest in emerging innovation hubs where competition is low, valuations are favorable, and founders are capital-efficient. We focus on three transformative themes: Future of Work (hybrid/remote, upskilling, AI automation), Future of Care (healthcare access, value-based care, longevity tech), and Emerging Tech (AI agents, cybersecurity, clean tech). We provide not just capital but operational, sales, policy, and strategic expertise to accelerate growth.

Backing the best founders, not just the best-connected. We assess founders on their qualities, not CV or past experience. We focus on founders building solutions for climate equity, economic empowerment, and healthy ageing.

Underestimated founders are systematically mispriced assets that create alpha rather than requiring concessionary returns. We invest in the very best founders who identify as women, people of color, or LGBTQ, treating capital allocation as activism.

We target leading technology companies with sustainable differentiation and attractive unit economics, backing durable competitive moats such as network effects, proprietary data, and switching costs, and holding positions through full market cycles from late-stage private financing into public markets.

Partner with extraordinary founders building the next generation of iconic Latin American technology companies. Invest in any tech-enabled sector where innovation can drive significant disruption. Bring not just capital but deep operational expertise as former MercadoLibre executives and entrepreneurs.

We build category-defining companies through a combination of design, product, operations, and capital. We identify market gaps, pair brilliant founders with Expa's studio resources, and help them build companies that reshape entire industries.

Revaia champions sustainable leaders in technology and innovation, partnering with mission-driven, growth-stage founders who bridge private growth financing through to public markets, with sustainability and governance built into the business rather than bolted on.

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.

Mucker Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology companies from pre-seed through Series B. We partner closely with founders building scalable businesses, often providing a company’s first institutional check and continuing to support them through later stages. Mucker has offices in Venice, California, Austin, and Toronto, and primarily invests across the United States and Canada, with the ability to back exceptional founders in other markets.

AI-enabled companies building essential systems households depend on—across health, wealth, and climate resilience. Backs founders with earned secrets and lived proximity to the problems they solve, particularly serving the 99% in underserved communities.

Elevate Ventures partners with innovation-driven founders to provide strategic capital, mentorship, and ecosystem access. Founded by a former founder (Governor Mitch Daniels), the firm believes the best founders exhibit grit, creativity, and coachability. They invest across all sectors and geographies but maintain primary focus on Indiana and Great Lakes Region entrepreneurs building cross-sector innovations.

Highly analytical, data-driven Israeli technology companies with at least $10M in annualized revenue, scaling toward global category leadership, primarily in the US market.

Product-obsessed investing in consumer tech, prosumer software, and SMB applications. We back founders based on product quality and user value, not credentials or background.

Entrepreneurs by heart, investors by choice: 3VC partners with regional talent across DACH, CEE, the Baltics, and Southern Europe showing early signs of product-market fit and customer love, and helps them become global category leaders.

Specialist growth partner for rapidly growing, bootstrapped software and AI companies with capital availability rather than capital necessity. Respectfully partners with founder-led businesses on their path to category leadership, providing primary growth capital, founder liquidity, and operational support.

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.

Category creating companies with few to no competitors, defensible business models, and unit economics that are starting to work. Invest across all technology sectors except healthcare. Require 50x return potential. Primary value-add is helping raise Series A from the best possible investor.

Partner with exceptional founders to build rocketships, focusing on enterprise, B2B, and fintech categories, with capital, strategic insight, and network access.

Software founders need more than capital to scale successfully. Insight Partners combines investment capital with hands-on operational expertise, embedded teams, and network access to accelerate company growth across all stages.

Global venture capital that invests where talent is abundant but capital and opportunity are not. 500 Global backs technology founders with global ambitions across underinvested, fast-growing markets using Silicon Valley expertise combined with deep local knowledge. Core belief: The best founders and innovation emerge globally, not just Silicon Valley.

Empowering entrepreneurs to reimagine the way we live and work by investing in daring technology companies challenging the status quo with permanent capital, lifelong sparring partnership from pre-seed through IPO and beyond.

In AI, the team is the only thing that compounds. Models change monthly and defensibility stories written before the first customer are guesses in a suit; what's legible early is how fast a team learns. We underwrite ambition, agency, and rate of learning.

Great startups can be built anywhere. We believe in founder-centric investing with operational support from a team of successful founders. We serve undernetworked geographic regions.

Praetura backs ambitious northern founders building software, health, life sciences, fintech, cybersecurity, robotics, and other high-growth businesses where operator support and regional conviction matter. The firm positions itself as a more-than-money investor and emphasizes practical support from experienced operators, not just capital.

Operator-led fund investing in ambitious founders building transformative AI applications. We partner with technical founders who understand AI/ML deeply and are solving real customer problems with capital efficiency. Great product is always the best marketing.

Latin America is at its 'Fairchild Semiconductor moment' — full of raw talent and underestimated ambition. NuMundo backs overlooked LatAm founders who lack traditional VC credentials but demonstrate deep market insight, resilience, and execution ability. The firm bridges Silicon Valley networks with LatAm founders from inception through IPO.

Innovation requires more than capital—it demands insight, dedication, and pioneering visionaries. We partner with execution-capable founders building differentiated solutions to large industry problems. We provide hands-on operational support, strategic guidance, and deep founder networks to accelerate success.