Top Developer Tools & Infrastructure + Legal & Regtech Investors 2026

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.

The best companies often start as just a concept. We invest in founders with conviction before consensus, providing capital and operational support from day one.

B2B software is the highest-impact playing field. We invest exclusively in AI-powered B2B software companies at seed stage with strong founder teams, $300K-$1M+ ARR, and urgent business needs. By maintaining a high-conviction, low-volume model (10-12 investments/year), we allocate 20-30 hours of hands-on support per company in the first month. Our partners have deep operating experience: Mark has 20+ years in B2B investing, Brett has 15+ years at Salesforce, and Jim is a trusted advisor to founders. We lead ~95% of rounds, take board seats, and stay involved through follow-on rounds, achieving 4x higher Series A graduation rates than industry average.

Backing builders of the future of interactive entertainment. We invest across games, content, platforms, and ecosystem technologies with conviction that visionary founders are driving transformation in how we play, watch, create, and live.

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.

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.

Intentional, sustainable, and helpful relationship building drives signal through noise. We use data, research, and relationship networks to make thesis-driven conviction investments in emerging market fintech and payment infrastructure.

European B2B software firm at the 'Series A to B gap' — backing founders who have found product-market fit and need capital plus operational support to scale. Family-office funded, sector-agnostic within B2B software with a lean toward infrastructure, data platforms, and AI-native products.

Data, cloud, and hardware advances will create unprecedented opportunities for great companies to be built. We invest in founders with big ideas and deep tech who are building infrastructure and value chains around data. Great people are the key to company success. We provide operational expertise, strategic guidance, and access to networks of mentors and international partners, particularly in China and Asia-Pacific.

Operator-led growth investor backing high-growth B2B technology companies driving digitization in fintech, data, and AI-driven technologies, especially proprietary data, regulated workflows, and infrastructure layers that AI agents need to call into.

Bringing applied AI to legacy, historically under-digitized industries — healthcare operations, supply chain, insurance, and compliance — by combining venture capital with in-house product, engineering, and AI build-out (studio model), early-stage checks (Ventures), and control-stake modernization buyouts (Propel).

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.

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.

Independent global investment platform backing capital-efficient, high-growth technology companies across Europe and North America. Multi-stage, multi-strategy approach from venture to pre-IPO. Transatlantic local teams provide unique advantage in bridging European and US growth.

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.

Backing Europe's biggest outliers from day one. We combine institutional investor access with personalized operational support, keeping founder ownership low and value high. Solo GP fund providing mentorship alongside capital.

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.

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.

Back force-of-nature founders at pre-seed and seed stages building B2B software companies. Primary value-add is hands-on recruiting (150+ candidate sourcing per role) and GTM development—not board seats or traditional governance.

Partner with exceptional teams building transformative technology companies across all stages

Depth Ventures backs exceptional AI founders who combine technical depth with sharp insight into a real market shift. The firm leverages deep operational experience founding and scaling AI unicorns to provide hands-on support from day one — a 'low-ego, high-conviction partnership.'

We invest in top founders everywhere building the next generation of technology companies. We provide capital, operational expertise, and a truly global platform to scale with hands-on support through specialized teams.

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.

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.

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

Exceptional founders create disproportionate outcomes. We identify entrepreneurs pulling the future forward through fundamental innovation and exceptional execution. Rather than chasing sector trends, we partner with high-signal founders solving enduring problems across any category.

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.

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.

Backing seed-stage, tech- and data-driven B2B software companies across Europe with global ambition. Focus on Agility Drivers (verticalized, consumerized, XaaS solutions) and Seductive Solutions with genuine product-market fit. Invest in AI-first and AI-enabled businesses as well as frontier tech (BioIT, Space, DLT, Quantum Computing).

Ambitious founders solving fundamental problems across major industries. The next generation of transformational companies will be built on modern AI, secure infrastructure, and efficient commerce. We partner with technical founders with operator experience and compelling narratives.

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.

The South is emerging as a center of gravity for venture capital, not a satellite region. We back B2B AI and SaaS founders solving real problems with clear ROI, creating a Community of Courage where capital aligns with conviction.

Depth-first venture investing through mastery in specific domains. We partner with bold builders challenging industry conventions, backing founders with technical depth and conviction to build enduring $1B+ companies. Complete immersion creates enduring companies.

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.

Inertia invests in AI-native companies built to become core infrastructure for legacy industries, especially platforms operating in regulated, context-heavy, and physical-world workflows where durable data, compliance, audit trails, or embodied operations create compounding advantages.

Back exceptional entrepreneurs building enduring companies that defy expectations. Value authenticity and tenacity to turn daring ideas into lasting impact. One life-altering investment can lead to industry-wide transformation.

N49P partners with visionary Canadian founders to transform markets at inception, pre-seed, and early seed stages. They back founders who prioritize speed and execution over traditional credentials, with clear vision and the ability to recruit exceptional teams.

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.

Beginnings matter. We work with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an 'imagine if.' We look for compelling and contrarian insights into how the world works—what do you understand about a market that others miss? Our role is to accelerate the path from idea to product-market fit through embedded partnership.

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.

We partner with visionaries building enduring moats in deeptech and gaming. We invest up to $12M from inception to Seed. We restore the original essence of venture capital - working directly with bold entrepreneurs to tackle the world's toughest challenges through breakthrough physical technologies and novel gaming experiences.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Invest in hyper-growth consumer and technology businesses with enduring customer relationships. Back founders challenging the status quo through digital transformation. Focus on companies with strong unit economics, loyal customer bases, and defensible competitive advantages in complex, regulation-heavy markets.

Founder-first early-stage investing that combines capital with founder resilience, operating support, and capital-efficient company building for durable, profitable outcomes.

We invest in the earliest pre-seed startups led by founders outside typical networks, selling into large and growing markets, with unique approaches or insights. We focus on under-networked, execution-focused founders—introverted technologists, industry veterans, and heads-down operators—who create outsized value through systematic sourcing and deep technical partnership.

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.

Patient, collaborative, and disciplined capital for builders who think in decades. Aims to be the first institutional partner to entrepreneurs building large, ethically strong companies.

NYC has tremendous entrepreneurial talent but lacked a structured environment for early-stage founders. ERA provides capital, intense mentorship, and network access to help founders build market-leading companies. Every sector deserves innovation.

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.

Invest in technical storytellers—founders with deep technical depth, exceptional communication skills, and strong execution velocity. Fund innovation in traditionally overlooked industries (Clipboard Companies) by applying modern technology while respecting domain expertise.

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.

Repeat founders have an unfair advantage. We specialize in supporting experienced operators launching their next venture with operational partnership, patient capital, and optimized founder networks.

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.

FT Ventures is a strategic investor working with ambitious founders who want to shape the future of the world's information industry, investing in high-growth companies operating in media, data, intelligence, and technology, with preference for recurring-revenue B2B businesses with proven product-market fit.

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.

Global industry is undergoing its most profound technology transformation in over a century. Calibrate backs visionary founders scaling proven deep tech — AI, computer vision, robotics, automation — to transform major sectors including manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, agriculture, and enterprise services. They invest in companies generating early recurring revenues and ready to scale, seeking market-ready deep tech with large-scale applicability.

First-check investors to exceptional founders building category-defining companies and to emerging venture funds reshaping the industry. Formation-stage specialists operating as partners from inception, not simply deploying capital.

Back the brightest early-stage founders under 30. We provide capital, mentorship, and network access to accelerate ambitious young entrepreneurs who graduate from our League of Innovators program or demonstrate exceptional founder quality.

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.

Data and technology combined with sector expertise and operational support unlock unfair advantages for early-stage startups. We build venture capital like a tech company.

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.

Cherry backs ambitious, resourceful, resilient founders with a novel insight ("anomaly") and a coherent, feasible path to an underexplored shared need ("the red thread"), investing industry-curiously across Europe often before product or revenue exist.

At the intersection of generational talent and transformative artificial intelligence. Evantic backs exceptional founders building AI-first B2B software, infrastructure, and platform businesses with the potential to become global market leaders.

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.

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.

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.

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.