Top E-commerce & Marketplaces + Healthcare & Digital Health Investors 2026

Consumer brands with founder-driven, product-driven companies and foundational growth strategies. Consumer infrastructure platforms enhancing supply chain, 3PL, inventory, analytics, and e-commerce. Creating a circular ecosystem where infrastructure and brand founders collaborate.

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.

People make all the difference. We invest in great people building great businesses. Partnership-driven investments where we serve as true partners for the long term, not just financial backers. Our core belief is in 'paying it forward' - building lasting relationships with entrepreneurs.

Investing at the intersection of Invention & Culture. We back founders building category-defining consumer companies where technology breakthroughs meet emerging human behavior. We see inflection points before they're consensus by tracking both emerging technology capabilities and emerging consumer demands.

Visionary founders building disruptive software businesses deserve capital and operational support from partners who understand building category-defining companies. We provide both.

We invest in diverse leadership teams with the ability to create flywheel effects of growth in new markets. We focus on three core areas: Commerce (identifiable brands with data-driven opportunities), Care (tech-enabled health and wellness innovations), and Connectivity (platforms enhancing information expression and distribution). We believe women are not underfunded but untapped, and we're positioned at an inflection point in venture to elevate women to C-suite leadership roles.

Invest in founders building radically different technology companies with unique business models or distribution strategies. Focus on high-velocity founders who are maniacs on a mission.

Backing transformative founders building exceptional companies across all sectors

We specialize in consumer. We invest under the premise that value creation comes through identifying where consumer behavior is changing, especially before it's obvious. We are obsessed with observing how people live, work, learn, play, eat, and stay well. Often, we look at how technology and consumer centricity are disrupting archaic industries. We back the brave & curious, leaning into the non-obvious ideas that edit entire industries or create new categories.

Category-defining products that disrupt industry verticals by changing consumer behaviors and creating new markets. We fund digital commerce and consumer fintech businesses that demonstrate obsessive attention to customer experience.

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.

Built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs — NCV invests thematically in Next Coast markets (Austin, Midwest, Mountain West) at the Seed/Series A inflection point. They back glass-eating founders building category-defining companies in large markets, providing capital plus hands-on company building support via their 150+ expert network.

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.

We support forward-thinking founders crafting brands for the modern consumer. We invest across beauty & wellness, commerce technology, and B2B/enterprise, leveraging Unilever's global distribution, brand-building capabilities, and consumer insights.

Invest in next-generation, values-led consumer brands at the critical first institutional capital round. Partner with authentic founders building conscientious consumer brands that align with cultural shifts toward wellness, transparency, and sustainability.

Application-layer AI and B2B marketplace businesses at Series A, focused on industries undergoing digitization and specialization. Conviction co-investors who do independent underwriting but never lead.

We back bold founders reshaping how we live, work, move, and connect. Our perspective is global. Our standard is excellence. Our purpose is to expand access, ownership, and opportunity at scale. We view the underfunding of women and founders of color as a market inefficiency.

Early-stage consumer startups leveraging technology to be cheaper and better, expanding market access. Back bold founders willing to take substantial personal risks and reshape categories. Focus on 99% economy democratizing access.

We invest in the future of food — backing game-changing early-stage ventures (Pre-Seed to Series A) that redefine how consumers achieve health and wellness across the entire food value chain: high-growth consumer brands, proprietary foodtech, next-gen commerce, and value-add digital technology. Fund III ($45M, 2024) emphasizes nutrition, sustainability, and digitization, with a thematic focus on food-as-medicine.

Democratizing health and wellness through disruptive consumer brands that combine purpose with profitability. Rocana backs authentic founders solving real wellness problems with products that deliver genuine health benefits while operating sustainably.

Partner with exceptional founders at the very inception of their entrepreneurial journey. Our proprietary data-driven technology identifies promising founders beyond immediate networks. We focus on teams with strong product sense and bottoms-up growth potential in data-driven software categories.

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.

By seeking entrepreneurs and funds who leverage modest resources to produce outsized returns, Lightship finds and develops remarkable talent while catalyzing emerging ecosystems. Impact and profit are simultaneously achievable.

The Mountain West can produce world-class companies. We back exceptional founders solving real problems with strong product-market understanding. We provide capital, strategic network, operational support, and patient capital through multiple iterations.

We invest in non-obvious founders with deep founder-market fit. Like a professional cycling leadout team, we protect and position founders while leveraging a curated network of operators from Apple, Stripe, and Nvidia to provide unusually broad support from day one. Over 85% of our portfolio is led by women or underrepresented minorities.

Invest in companies that leverage creator networks and new forms of customer acquisition. We partner with founders building for consumer audiences who can tap into distribution through content creators, community, and influencer relationships. Our unique advantage is structural ties to Night Media, giving portfolio companies access to some of the biggest creators on the internet.

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.

Asymmetric invests in exceptional founders disrupting legacy industries through Vertical Software, Healthcare IT & Services, and SMB Consolidations (rollups). The firm targets 20% ownership as lead, writing $2-10M checks from Pre-seed through Series A. Founded by former PE investors and operators who provide deep operational, strategic, and financial partnership beyond capital.

We identify and scale proven product-market-fit technology companies for global expansion and IPO readiness. Our partnership combines world-class macro research analysis with hands-on operational expertise from experienced technology leaders who have built and scaled billion-dollar companies.

The founder — the Captain — is the primary determinant of a startup's success. Captain Ventures backs intelligent fanatics with an earned, non-consensus insight riding a powerful technological or market tailwind. Generalist, seed-stage, US-focused.

Remedy Product Studio is an AI-native software development firm with a CVC arm; we partner with and selectively invest in the companies we help build. We embed alongside your team and measure success by your outcomes: time to market, ROI, and business impact. We aim to be the most incentive-aligned, least dilutive partner on your cap table. Our partners have raised over $1B, cut tech costs by 2.5x, and achieved multiple exits. Ask us about our AI Orchestration Pods.

Invest where generational fractures create outsized market opportunities. Focus on health, wealth, and upward mobility through backing diverse teams and women-led companies overlooked by mainstream VC. Partner with founders building for Gen Z and solving structural system failures.

Capital F invests in technology for the $15 Trillion female economy. We are operators who invest, not VCs—capitalizing on 50 years of combined C-level operating experience to back top founders building in Health, AI, and Digital Commerce with B2B SaaS and B2C technology.

Investing in the next generation of badass founders. The firm identifies founders whose backgrounds uniquely position them to create transformative businesses in rapidly growing markets that are often overlooked by mainstream venture capital. Focus on the 'Chingona Factor': market fluency, lived experience, and sheer will.

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.

Founder-centric VC backing bold, tech-enabled entrepreneurs transforming industries across Spanish-speaking Latin America. Invests from Seed through pre-IPO with deep operational support including networks, talent, and strategic partnerships. Uses proprietary data and AI to source and evaluate deals.

Exceptional founders exist everywhere, not just Silicon Valley. By backing underrepresented and overlooked founders solving real market problems outside major tech hubs, we access high-conviction founder pools and less competitive deal spaces, driving outsized returns while expanding venture capital access.

Founders with genuine conviction solving important problems, backed by unfair advantages and exceptional drive. We provide capital, operational expertise, and access to 100+ world-class startup operators. Our value is in the people on your cap table and the hands-on support—not just the checks.

Invest in people over product at the earliest stage of the entrepreneurial journey. Write the first institutional check for the most promising software and hardware companies. Focus on long-term relationships with founders.

We are long-term business partners to founders. We operate as an investment partnership focused on founders building category-defining African technology companies, with tight founder-investor-LP alignment and deep operational support.

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.

Montage Ventures aims to support radical thinkers who are bringing new ideas and platforms to foster change within the financial services, commerce and health sectors, leveraging AI as a key transformative agent.

Back underestimated founders with something to prove who are disrupting large markets. Emphasizes geographic arbitrage in emerging markets (Africa, LATAM, Asia) where founder quality is exceptional but capital access is limited.

Reshape the Nasdaq by investing in venture capital's biggest blind spots. Back exceptional founders historically overlooked by traditional VC due to demographic factors or non-traditional backgrounds. Leverage proprietary Female Founders Alliance (5,000+ members) as deal flow engine to surface underestimated founders across multiple archetypes.

Radically simplify complex, regulated categories while delivering consumer-grade experiences. Back cult brand consumer companies with intense customer affinity built through innovative products and values-driven models. Focus on direct-to-consumer, personalization, and marketplace models across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare.

Mantis invests opportunistically in Seed and Series A technology-enabled startups, leveraging deep social capital across tech, media, entertainment, and finance to provide unmatched GTM support. The firm is founder-obsessed and differentiates through celebrity network access, customer introductions, talent acquisition help, and brand amplification.

Identify and partner with visionary entrepreneurs building category-creating companies that unlock entirely new addressable markets. Focus on 'silent suffering' where customers tolerate suboptimal solutions. Use AI, data, and behavioral science to identify non-obvious market opportunities and founder-market fit.

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.

Back technology founders solving foundational and transformational problems across Africa and MENA. Focus on underserved markets with significant TAM. Support entrepreneurs demonstrating grit, creativity, growth mindset, and conviction. Combine global capital markets access with deep local operational expertise.

Fund technology companies built by an alpha pack of founders creating pathways to wealth, mobility, and long-term economic resilience. Focus on diverse and underrepresented founders solving big, hairy problems for families and businesses.

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.

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.

We partner with experienced, technical founders to build category-leading companies in Vertical AI, Fintech, and Healthcare. We believe go-to-market execution and distribution are the real momentum builders in today's market where technical barriers to entry have lowered. We provide specific, measurable value tied to revenue, particularly helping founders land their first enterprise customers.

Backing ambitious Baltic founders who can build global-scale businesses. We invest in teams with proven grit and determination. Our main investment criteria is team and whether they have the grit to succeed. We provide €100-750K in pre-seed and seed capital, hands-on support, and deep networks of founders, angels, and later-stage investors.

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).

Consumer investing requires a fundamentally new playbook built for an omni-channel world where technology, data, and brand storytelling are deeply intertwined. Coefficient identifies growth-stage consumer businesses in established categories undergoing structural change, using proprietary data and an annual Consumer Trends Report to find category-defining brands early. Strategy centers on backing brands positioned for strategic exits to major CPG acquirers.

The world is missing out on innovative companies by not investing more heavily in women and diverse entrepreneurs. We back the next generation of winners - founders with unreasonable standards, relentless conviction, and the drive to build generational companies. We're committed to changing the face of entrepreneurship and creating generational wealth for people of color and women.

Early-stage venture capital firm led by experienced CEO providing pre-seed and seed capital to technology-enabled startups, emphasizing leadership development, operational mentorship, and building sustainable companies from the ground up.

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.

We invest at the edge of large markets being transformed by technological and societal pressures. We seek companies that enable new behaviors and business models that incumbents cannot pursue, with strong network effects and broad access implications.

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.

Network effects are the #1 way to create defensibility in digital businesses. We invest in visionary founders building defensible businesses with network effects embedded in their core product.

We invest in secrets that become obvious with the benefit of hindsight. We back bold ideas and business models that harness technology to deliver value to mass markets, particularly for underrepresented founders and underserved markets.

We are day zero investors who dedicate ourselves to being the best partners at the earliest stage. We run a concentrated strategy and invest a majority of our capital in the initial round so we're the most aligned with founders for the long term. Our initial check size is typically $1.0-1.5m. We've seeded multiple companies that have reached billion dollar plus valuations.

We back founders who are innovating the products, services and software in our everyday lives. We believe that the entrepreneurs who have intimately felt the problem they are solving will create the things consumers want the most.

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.

Backing the brave & curious, leaning into the [non]obvious ideas that edit entire industries or create new categories. We put our time, energy and capital behind courageous founders solving hard technological problems. Platform-driven approach combining capital with operational support.

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.

We invest in industry-shifting startups led by best-in-class multicultural founders. We partner with the next generation of Asian Pacific operators turned founders and welcome investors advancing culture and heritage through an affinity-based, returns-driven model.

Africa's future prosperity depends on technological innovation across foundational sectors. Brilliant entrepreneurs applying technology to solve Africa's most pressing problems build world-class businesses while generating exceptional returns. Commercial rigor combined with social impact creates sustainable value.

Operator-led pre-seed VC for UK B2B SaaS and tech-enabled startups. Steve Caunce (ex-CEO AO.com, floated at $1.5B) and Shaz Sulaman invest before product or revenue model is defined, backing founder potential and fit over sector. Support is hands-on: sales strategy, financial forecasting, and GTM guidance from operators who have built and scaled real businesses.

Technologies that change and are changed by consumer behavior. We invest at the intersection of innovation and consumer behavior, providing not just capital but direct access to corporate partners (Mastercard, Estée Lauder, TJX), 370+ mentors, and retail distribution.

We are tech pioneers, investors, and entrepreneurs. We build and invest in transformative companies for the present and future. Active early-stage investor providing capital combined with operational expertise and hands-on partnership.

Investing in customer-obsessed founders redefining everyday experiences. We back founders at the earliest stage (pre-product/pre-revenue) with conviction, capital, and deep operational support including marketing, customer acquisition, and technology infrastructure.

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.

Backs extraordinary pre-seed and seed technology founders, with hands-on technical, operational, finance, and leadership support delivered with a collaborative co-founder attitude.

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.

Make human and technological potential actual. Eudemian invests in early-stage US software startups with demonstrated product-market fit and breakout traction, backed by mission-driven founders who tackle large markets solving vexing pain points. Rooted in the Greek philosophy of Eudaimonia, the firm believes in actualizing potential through long-term founder partnerships.

Bespoke Capital for Enduring Impact. Gobi invests where capital alone is insufficient — requiring deep local relationships, sustained engagement, and informed judgment across Asia's diverse and complex markets. They focus on technology companies solving structural inefficiencies across underserved Asian markets, from fintech to deep tech to sustainable infrastructure.

Kupanda Capital creates and scales companies that have lasting impact. We focus on impactful businesses at the intersection of private, public, and nonprofit sectors, using human-centered design and data-driven decision-making. We believe impact entrepreneurs need more than capital—they need operational partners, market intelligence, and access to institutional networks.

Kindred backs visionary and relentless founders building the future using technology and science at the earliest stages, often helping form companies before they exist. With Kindred Ventures IV and Kindred Selector II, the firm is emphasizing the novel intelligence frontier: AGI-capable models and harnesses that extend human capabilities, new AI-native consumer and enterprise experiences, physical AI, compute, infrastructure, energy, science, outer space, and inner space.

Building, not betting, with rebels transforming massive traditional industries through applied AI. Hands-on operational partnership combining capital with customer acquisition, team building, and strategic guidance.

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.

Partner with entrepreneurs breaking trail in their industry, putting customers first and solving meaningful problems. Focus on founder-led, mission-driven companies combining customer-centric products with operational excellence. Strong emphasis on consumer products, lifestyle brands, and tech-enabled enterprises.

Back founders building things the world hasn't seen yet, at the moment before the crowd believes. Combine capital with extraordinary operational support through largest Portfolio Impact team at any NYC seed investor. Focus on technical founders solving real problems with clear product-market fit signals.

Address the critical gender funding gap in African technology entrepreneurship by investing in exceptionally talented female founders and diverse founding teams building technology-enabled solutions for underserved African markets. Data shows female-founded companies deliver 2x revenue per dollar invested compared to male-founded peers.

Invest in tech and tech-enabled startups founded and led by Black and Latino entrepreneurs. We believe the best founders come from historically underinvested communities, and supporting them creates both tremendous returns and changes the narrative of entrepreneurial success.

We back outliers of the outliers - founders with unreasonable ambition who can filter out 95% of conventional VC advice. We seek category-defining companies aiming for $10B+ outcomes, not incremental improvements. Our conviction is deep, selective, and global. We don't meddle - we provide brutal honesty, talent upgrades, and capital for survival through near-death moments.

Empower audacious founders who challenge norms and leverage technology to transform industries. We believe in first-time founders with scrappy outsider mentality and narrow niche focus. Silicon Valley expertise combined with deep emerging market knowledge across three continents.

Invest in the smartest people, regardless of what they're building, especially if the idea sounds bad in the beginning. Focus on exceptional founders in overlooked markets and non-consensus businesses. Optimize for founder quality over sector fit.

Investing in women of color entrepreneurs transforms families, communities, and the economy. We are the first institutional capital in, providing integrated support including capital, mentorship, and connections.

Great companies can emerge from unexpected places. ASV backs visionary B2B SaaS founders building in America's emerging tech hubs — markets overlooked by coastal VCs — pairing conviction and capital with mentorship, governance, and network access.

Greatest opportunities come from serving unmet needs of the middle class in emerging markets. We bridge US and Latin American markets, providing institutional capital, intellectual capital flow, and geo arbitrage exit opportunities.

Invest in community-driven founders with bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and relentless determination ('ganas') building the future across US and Latin America. Target underestimated founders bringing cultural authenticity and inclusive leadership.

Bold, visionary African founders solving Africa's biggest challenges represent global business opportunities. We combine capital, operational support, and community to build sustainable, continent-scale businesses.

Back Latin American founders with global ambitions who use technology and AI to solve hard, inefficient markets in fintech, commerce, human capital, health, smart cities, and related large regional opportunities.

Disruptive businesses that eliminate intermediaries and compress value chains. We invest in entrepreneurs backed by entrepreneurs who understand the unique challenges of building. We look for innovative thinkers with proven track records and tremendous dedication, in large markets addressing significant customer needs.

New Zealand tech startups and creative companies have exceptional potential. We provide early-stage capital and operational support through our network of industry advisors to help exceptional founders achieve breakthrough results.

Support ambitious founders with the 'X Factor' – the insight and drive to build billion-dollar companies. Particularly focused on female founders and mixed-gender teams who have been historically underrepresented in VC.

Back purposeful entrepreneurs building scalable technology solutions for significant Latin American problems, with emphasis on inclusion, climate innovation, and business productivity while generating positive impact and strong returns.

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.

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.

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.

Invest in Southern California's best founders earlier than anyone else. No idea is too early. We fund companies earlier than most VCs, providing not just capital but hands-on support and operational expertise. Our founder-first philosophy and No Ghosting Rule ensure responsive, engaged partnerships.

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.

Pan-African fund solving the significant funding gap in Seed and pre-Series A investment. Backing ambitious African founders tackling critical continental challenges with operational support and investor network.

North Africa and Africa possess tremendous entrepreneurial talent. Strategic capital combined with operational expertise can unlock transformative solutions that reshape industries. We invest in founders solving region-critical problems.

We invest in the most promising entrepreneurs building the fastest-growing early-stage startups. We provide cross-border access by connecting founders to resources and networks across the world's most valuable and influential VC markets.

Back experienced IT and Fintech founders with early PMF signals and global ambition targeting TAMs >$1B. Emphasize cross-border scalability across EU, US, MENA, and Southeast Asia.

Marketplaces are the quintessential internet business model, creating the largest venture outcomes when they work. We believe marketplaces represent the winning business model across virtually every sector. When marketplaces unlock entirely new supply or enable connections that couldn't previously exist, they create enormous value. Our community of 2,800+ marketplace founders, combined with our operating expertise, positions us uniquely to spot breakout marketplaces early and help them scale.

We back the relentless - founders with exceptional drive, clear vision, and proven execution ability building ambitious category-defining companies.

Backs DeepTech startups at the intersection of AI/ML, materials science, advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, optics, electronics, robotics, and blockchain — driving sustainable operational transformation across six thematics: transportation & logistics, energy & water, food & agriculture, fashion & beauty, precision medicine & aging, and retail & e-commerce. Requires commercial traction (min $1M revenue, 50%+ gross margins) and a minimum 10% ownership stake.

Identify founders with the determination and resourcefulness to build world-changing companies. We believe exceptional founders can come from any background and at any stage of development. Our mission is to help founders be dramatically better shaped in 3 months than when they arrived.

Yonder invests in early-stage marketplaces that build new economies. We provide first institutional checks to marketplace founders with deep problem intimacy and operational experience. We combine capital with strategic introductions, operational coaching, and access to a network of 50+ marketplace operators and marketplace leaders.

Exceptional founders backed at pre-seed and seed with both capital and hands-on operational support—talent, GTM, fundraising—build the most enduring companies. Pear is founder-first: founders-and-operators turned investors who have been in founders' shoes.

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.

Gender diversity drives innovation and better financial returns. We invest in women-led startups building sustainable, profitable technology companies that solve strategic problems within Hearst's 360+ businesses while creating measurable impact on diversity in venture capital.

Cherryrock Capital backs underinvested entrepreneurs — specifically Black and Latine founders — building transformative software companies. They invest in the possible, seeking founders with domain expertise, compelling right-to-win stories, and products that generate measurable customer outcomes in structurally underserved markets.

Extraordinary founders execute faster when isolated from distractions and provided intensive on-site support. We seek junkyard dogs with high agency, non-obvious vision, delusional optimism, and execution discipline. Category matters far less than founder quality.

Backing exceptional people at the very start of their journey. We support founders from inception to scale through our global residency programs, providing capital, mentorship, and access to a network of 1,500+ companies across six continents.

Female founders build exceptional companies that outperform their male peers. We invest in category-defining female leaders with strong points of view who are reshaping their markets, backed by community and supported by a visible ecosystem.

Catalyze emerging tech ecosystems by backing role-model founders who create outsized value in their nations. We believe in tech unicorns that create millions of jobs and transform nations.

Partner with exceptional founders as their first institutional investor, backing capital-efficient businesses in consumer, commerce, and SaaS. Focus on talent-rich geographies in US and India. Look for clear founder vision, adaptability, and ability to attract high-performance teams.

Early-stage consumer technology — mobile, social, marketplaces, media, consumer health, and consumer fintech. Built by King.com founders to back ambitious consumer-native teams with engagement DNA.

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 seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value by providing lifetime support to companies from seed through late-stage equity and credit. We differentiate through deep Wall Street expertise, strategic LP networks, and innovative financing vehicles.

Invest in scalable, capital-efficient tech and tech-enabled startups at the Seed stage led by exceptional founders. We identify companies showing early traction that can achieve significant scale with disciplined capital deployment.

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.

Origins backs legendary consumer founders with an unfair advantage from pre-seed to series A. We combine venture capital with the power of celebrity and athlete influence, providing not just capital but access to 160M+ social media followers through our limited partners for user acquisition and brand amplification.

Overlooked Ventures invests in early-stage companies founded by historically overlooked and underrepresented founders (women, Black founders, immigrant founders, and other marginalized communities). The fund believes that diverse founding teams drive superior business outcomes and higher returns, yet systemic barriers prevent these founders from accessing capital at the same rates as privileged founders. We invest capital, provide operational support, and open our network to help overlooked founders succeed.

The next generation of consumer brands won't scale through paid acquisition — they'll scale through culture, community, and creators. STRUC Ventures backs founders achieving 'Behavior Market Fit [BMF]™': habitual user behavior driven by community and culture rather than paid media.

We invest in world-class founders solving significant problems. We prioritize founder quality, founder-problem fit, and values-aligned partnerships. We help exceptional founders become category leaders early, before they become obvious trends.

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.

We invest in founders with global ambitions creating products that meet tomorrow's internet users' needs through demographic change. Focus on aging & longevity, spending power of women, and the new majority (majority-minority shift).

Canaan invests in visionaries with transformative ideas across a 60/40 technology-to-healthcare split. The firm seeks early-stage companies with authentic founder passion, clear problem-solving value, and the potential to improve lives. Canaan runs a transparent, debate-driven partnership with deep operational expertise in healthcare regulation, biotech fundraising, and enterprise scaling.

Early-growth brands that India will obsess over tomorrow — technology-led consumer businesses where product is the champion and tech a catalyst. Lightbox takes concentrated bets in select entrepreneurs and partners beyond capital through deep operational involvement.

We invest in the technologies that are transforming our lives, now and into the future. Founded by a successful entrepreneur and former tech journalist, Supernode backs exceptional founders building innovative technology companies across all sectors, from pre-seed through Series A and beyond.

At the earliest stages, team > market > product > idea. Great founders find their way into large markets. Focus on unit economics and value capture alongside value creation. Strong emphasis on B2B managed marketplaces and India-first consumer/enterprise plays.

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.

Innovative technology entrepreneurs exist globally, particularly in emerging markets, and deserve access to world-class mentorship, infrastructure, and Google's vast product ecosystem. We support founders who have proven product-market fit in their home markets and are ready to expand internationally.

Exceptional teams can originate from any location. We provide more than capital and introductions. By leveraging our network we aim to empower entrepreneurs with the resources they need to have their best chance at success—even if we don't invest.

Lightbank invests in disruptive technology companies led by great founders in dynamic markets with world-class products. The firm believes exceptional founders and opportunities exist everywhere, especially in overlooked geographies like the Midwest. We partner with early-stage founders and provide operator-heavy support beyond capital.

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.

Best-in-class Black-led, high-growth companies represent a new asset class producing outsized returns. Black founders and their companies, historically overlooked and undercapitalized, represent a watershed investment opportunity.

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.

Investing in subject matter experts shaping the future of their industries. We lead with our values and build trust through action. We believe the best founders have deep industry expertise and need tireless operational support, not just capital. We partner with founders for the long term, staying engaged 24/7.

Invest in and scale technology businesses where artificial intelligence and data capabilities drive impact and market growth across Latin America. Latin Leap aims to help Spanish-speaking Latin America 'leapfrog' through technology investments tailored to emerging market needs, while also bridging international tech companies into the region.

We invest in companies organized around five concrete objectives: improving worldwide health and happiness, promoting resource sustainability, increasing human potential and productivity, increasing knowledge/empathy/connectedness, and disrupting industries that resist these goals. We operate as both investors and company-builders, providing operational expertise and hands-on support far beyond 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.

Member-driven regional angel investment fund focused on building the Northwest Arkansas entrepreneurial ecosystem. Tonic provides democratized access to early-stage deals for its members while co-investing with established VCs to support the most promising Arkansas-based startups.

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.

Entrepreneurs, not VCs, build great companies. We invest early in great & passionate entrepreneurs and serve as long-term partners. Available 24/7 to help founders with mentorship, product-market fit, fundraising, business development, customer acquisition, talent sourcing, and strategic partnerships.

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.

We invest at the earliest stages and partner with exceptional entrepreneurs from idea to IPO. We stay small by design to remain aligned with founders. We're sector-agnostic, conviction-driven, capital-efficient, and believe in founder/market fit and intrinsic value over hype.

Consumer technology has the power to measurably improve billions of lives across the globe. We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs building digital utilities that provide better access to housing, healthcare, food, financial services, transportation, education, and entertainment globally.

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.

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.

Invests in Seed and Series A rounds for tech-enabled consumer businesses at the intersection of culture and commerce, spanning media and entertainment, sports, gaming, health and wellness, and e-commerce and marketplaces.

By combining ideas, capital, and talent, we can scale entrepreneurship and build transformational companies. We source 800+ ideas internally, recruit co-founders, and provide day-one operational support in design, engineering, finance, and recruiting.

Back founders solving existential problems for small and medium-sized businesses in contracting, healthcare, hospitality, and other local industries. Focus on applied AI for service sectors and SMBs, backing founders with deep operational knowledge of the markets they serve.

We empower visionary founders building transformative tech companies. We are thesis-driven partners to exceptional entrepreneurs creating long-term impact across FinTech, ClimateTech, and Global Tech sectors.

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.

The smartest place you can invest your capital is in women. We bet on early-stage female-founded and female-led companies creating groundbreaking consumer and B2B software technologies that solve meaningful problems in families, healthcare, childcare, education, climate, and sustainability.

Lead pre-seed and seed rounds in Canadian B2B software and AI-enabled vertical workflow companies with an initial product in market, early product-market-fit signals, and ambition to scale across North America or globally.

Leading global companies that leverage technological innovation across public and private markets. Proven founders (especially ex-Googlers, AWS, Stripe) with large TAMs (billions+), product-led growth, and global ambitions. Conviction-based investing post-2022 correction emphasizing quality over quantity.

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.

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

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.

Outlier founders and ideas shape the future of humanity. We back ambitious founders building category-defining companies that create significant impact while generating returns that support non-profit and educational causes.

Entrepreneur-centric private investment firm backing Israeli-related seed to early-stage ventures across diverse technology areas. Patient partners who allow founders to build global tech companies at their own pace.

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.

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.

Backs European pre-seed and seed founders building technologies for Energy, Industry, and Resilience, especially energy transition, industrial automation, practical AI for infrastructure, manufacturing, logistics, energy grids, and critical systems.

Equity of access and representation in venture capital delivers positive returns. Diverse and underrepresented (including LGBTQ+) leaders of high-growth companies deserve capital access. When these founders succeed, they influence ecosystems and open doors for historically excluded groups.

MaC backs visionary founders building category-defining companies with deep understanding of cultural shifts, technological advancements, and emerging market trends. Founders must demonstrate authentic insight into why their problem needs solving now, combined with ability to see how the world is changing. Particular focus on founders paying attention to shifts others might miss.

Startups positioned as transformation partners with Fortune 500 corporates create the most impactful solutions. We believe the next generation of market leaders will emerge through collaborative innovation between startups and incumbent enterprises, supported by global expertise and capital.

We invest in preseed founders with unique insight into untapped markets across three pillars: Wealth, Health, and Resilience. We prioritize BIPOC, women, non-binary, and LGBTQ+ founders solving problems for overlooked end users, bringing accelerator-style guidance and critical network access alongside capital.

Culture-Tech companies that disrupt and define how we live, work, play, and interact with the world every day. We invest in passionate founders building transformative products that change cultural behaviors.

Leverage creator economy and influencer networks to add tangible value to early-stage companies. Invest in ambitious Gen Z founders building consumer products with high influencer marketing potential. Influencer partners actively support portfolio companies with marketing, business development, and strategic partnerships.

Democratize access to venture capital by building large syndicates of non-traditional LPs. Invest across all stages, sectors, and geographies based on founder quality and market conviction, not category restrictions. Enable 2,000+ diverse co-investors to participate alongside marquee firms like Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz while maintaining founder-friendly economics.

Invest in early-stage tech companies addressing world's largest market opportunities and solving humanity's biggest challenges. Leverage global distributed team to source, evaluate, and support transformational founders.

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.

Great companies are built through boring magic — systematic, unglamorous work combining exceptional product design with operational excellence. We pair capital with hands-on product/design expertise and team-building support to help founders execute at venture scale.