Top EdTech Investors 2026

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.

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.

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

We invest in innovative European companies that will scale to become global category leaders. Our focus is on companies solving education and work challenges through technology and human capital investment. We believe the best outcomes come from mission-driven entrepreneurs building sustainable solutions.

Emerge invests at pre-seed and seed in Human Capital Development companies: AI-enabled products that help people learn, navigate careers, and do productive work more effectively. The firm frames HCD as a $4T global market and focuses on three segments: Learn (personalized learning at scale), Navigate (AI-assisted career transitions, hiring, and talent matching), and Work (tools that fuse work and learning, improve information access, and enable higher-level work).

Unlock the full human potential of marginalized and underserved populations through education technology. Invest in solutions that combine the joy of preschool, collaborative experimentation of hackathons, and deep exploration of doctoral programs. Market-based solutions delivering financial returns and social impact.

Visionary entrepreneurs building evidence-based, mission-driven solutions can simultaneously address critical gaps in education and employment while delivering superior risk-adjusted returns. Positive social impact drives market-rate returns.

The UK's vocational skills gap requires venture-backed technology, not just policy or grant funding; solving skills problems at scale can be both commercially sustainable and socially impactful.

Patient, founder-aligned capital focused on education and workforce technology. Invest in scalable business models that transcend traditional educational distribution. Emphasis on founders with shared values around education impact and societal benefit.

Impact capital can address structural problems in America's $1 trillion education and workforce system. With 6 in 10 Americans holding less than bachelor's degrees and 40% of recent grads underemployed, we partner with founders removing barriers across the learner journey - from equitable access through career success.

Learning is the foundation of a thriving society. We back and build ventures that help humans reach their highest potential through innovative education and workforce development solutions.

Juvo invests in technology-enabled solutions that improve accessibility, affordability, and delivery of learning and workforce development at scale. We believe empowered entrepreneurs create innovative solutions to unlock learning potential and improve access, quality, and outcomes for all people.

We back exceptional founders who elevate human potential and ignite purpose across learning, health, and work. When people are equipped to grow their skills, nurture relationships, be healthy, and find meaning in what they do, communities thrive.

Education is a long-term investment. We support founders building sustainable, impactful businesses in US PreK-12 that prioritize instructional equity over hypergrowth. We provide capital, operational expertise, and founder mentorship through a revenue-based financing model that maximizes founder flexibility and independence.

Education technology companies that are capital-efficient, impact-focused, and solving K12's hardest challenges can be scaled sustainably with patient capital and operational support. We partner with founders who combine entrepreneurial vision with deep K12 expertise.

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

We invest in founders reimagining education and human capital development globally. We are first believers in unconventional education models and invest particularly in early childhood, frontier markets, and founders with deep education domain expertise.

Malpani Ventures funds frugal innovation in India, backing founders who run their company as a business rather than a startup, with patient capital prioritizing cash flow, customers, and capital efficiency over blitz-scaling.

Backing scalable, tech-driven startups that address real social and environmental challenges, with explicit 2-3 impact KPIs set per company alongside financial metrics.

Backs founders who are chasing after their life cause and building companies with global ambition, screening on Character, Competency, and Chemistry rather than a fixed sector thesis. Commits at least 70% of the fund to WA-founded or WA-operated companies.

Back founders from day one with founder-focused support across fundraising, growth, product, and international expansion. We believe diverse founding teams and global thinking drive exceptional returns.

Enduring performance comes from a shared structure beneath apparent diversity: tailor-made equity, debt, and hybrid structures across specialized platforms, aligning interests between investors, teams, and companies at every stage of growth.

We back founders of consumer and consumerized enterprise startups that disrupt large and growing markets, starting from use cases, user flows, and unaddressed problems rather than top-down theses.

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.

Support the next leaders in EdTech and Future of Work at the earliest stages with small, meaningful checks ($50K-$250K) paired with intensive founder support, community, and resources. Invest in technology that augments human capability rather than replaces it. Focus on founders with mission alignment, problem clarity, and commitment to sustainable business building.

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.

Transformative learning solutions are critical for human resilience and capability building. We invest in teams combining pedagogical understanding with innovative product design and effective distribution across the entire learning lifecycle from early childhood to corporate training.

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.

Partnering with category-defining technology founders at critical inflection points (typically Series B, $10M ARR) through IPO and beyond. ICONIQ brings an unparalleled network of 300+ tech executive families, an 80-person dedicated venture team, and 'uncommon care' service model. AI is now a core focus with $3B+ invested in AI in 2025.

The Pacific Northwest produces enduring, category-defining companies, and experienced operators are uniquely valuable partners to the next generation of founders. Trilogy partners with ambitious founders from Seed through scale, primarily investing its own capital.

We invest in high-potential companies in enterprise software, fintech, and AI. NewView specializes in flexible capital (primary, secondary, or hybrid), providing liquidity to early investors and operational support to help companies realize scale, drawing on deep venture-secondaries expertise (500+ secondary transactions since 2018).

Venture capital can achieve both financial returns and positive social impact. Founders with lived experience in underrepresented communities identify rapidly-scalable solutions others overlook. Diversity and inclusive business practices drive superior returns and competitive advantage.

A Founders for Founders VC firm led by entrepreneurs who have built and scaled their own companies, backing pre-seed and seed founders across B2B SaaS, marketplaces, gaming/consumer apps, and D2C products, with hands-on mentorship and a bridge between the Adria/CEE region and Silicon Valley.

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

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

S20 backs pre-seed founders in People and Planet verticals (EdTech, Digital Health, Future of Work, Energy transition) across Central Europe and the Baltics, targeting 30x+ returns through either globally-ambitious tech-driven teams or execution-driven regional champions.

Kalos backs founders building at the intersection of AI/automation/robotics and rapid demographic change — specifically in workforce, care, and education. They seek founders with unique market experience and systems-level thinking who can drive structural change in undercapitalized but critical 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.

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

Back extraordinary leadership teams—founders exceptional at building and exiting businesses with leadership styles that military-trained partners can uniquely mentor, support, and supercharge. Particular conviction in military veteran founders (30%+ of AUM) who demonstrate proven track record, drive, mission-orientation, teamwork, strategic excellence, growth mindset, and integrity.

Fund economic resilience of underserved entrepreneurial households through early-growth capital in businesses where impact and commercial performance are structurally aligned. Invest in companies democratizing access to essential products and services across financial inclusion, education, healthcare, agri-supply chains, and MSME solutions.

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 seek mission-driven founders and teams leveraging breakthrough innovations in technology for the benefit of people and planet, with a primary focus on companies with female CEOs or women in senior C-level roles.

An opportunistic, generalist fund that co-invests alongside top-tier VCs in startups featured on The Pitch podcast. Built-in dealflow from 30M+ downloads and 600K+ newsletter subscribers; the fund's edge is access to a constant, pre-vetted pipeline of founders who apply to pitch on the show.

Evaluate risk objectively, confront fear rather than avoid it, and prepare in advance for shifts in the capital markets; back technology-oriented startups with defensible barriers, global scalability, independence from conglomerate patronage, and exponential growth potential.

Day 0 venture capital applied by a deep operator. Better Capital invests at the earliest stage where ambiguity is highest and operator judgment adds the most value. Solo GP model keeps conviction high and enables deep engagement with 20-25 companies at critical inflection points.

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

Find and accelerate early-stage Latin American startups with defensible technology through a large-scale scouting program (Discovery-A), pairing capital with hands-on mentoring and a bridge to US Series A financing.

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

World-class technology companies can be built anywhere. Greatness is in our backyard. We invest in market-defining companies across the Driveway region (Hudson River to Rocky Mountains), partnering with founders from idea to IPO. Build where your talent is. Build where your customers are. Build where you're strongest.

Companies grow best with the right partners alongside them. Andera Partners provides capital and hands-on operational support (acquisitions strategy, digitalisation, CSR, networking, internationalisation, human capital, operational improvement, financing) across six specialised strategies spanning life sciences, green infrastructure, SME/mid-cap growth capital, and mezzanine financing.

P101 is a multi-stage venture capital firm partnering with exceptional, purpose-driven founders from seed to early growth, providing capital, network, and long-term hands-on support to help build businesses that matter.

Backing uniquely Indian products at the intersection of smartphone, big data, and design, serving large underserved Indian markets in food, water, housing, healthcare, education, and finance. Looks for founders with EQ, IQ and IndiaQ.

Backing founders who use technology to remove friction in consumption, productivity, and financial access for the ~400M Indians beyond the top 50M most startups have historically targeted.

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

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.

Technology that creates opportunity for the entire workforce through skills development, new work models, and portable benefits—excluding automation-first themes. We invest in companies that help humans adapt and thrive through economic transitions, with focus on rural and middle-skill America.

First-cheque, pre-seed-focused investor backing exceptional, sector-agnostic founders solving big problems, offering trust, speed, and candid support rather than cheerleading.

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

Backing IP-led innovation in science, engineering, and technology that can create durable, defensible value. Evaluates team drive, TAM scalability, and technology defensibility. Provides patient financing suited to hardware-adjacent, R&D-heavy businesses.

India's only sector-differentiated pre-seed fund backing bold entrepreneurs and seasoned operators building transformative companies from India for the world, across FinTech, AI/SaaS, HealthTech, Media/Gaming, and Consumer Tech.

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.

Empower ambitious founders with capital, expertise, and network to build and scale transformative ventures, prioritizing startups that advance Saudi Vision 2030 and can localize frontier technology in the Kingdom.

Backs 'The Audacious Entrepreneur' as a generalist, multi-stage Indian VC, sourcing untapped white-space opportunities across SaaS, consumer, fintech, healthtech, agritech, climatetech and deeptech, with a fast-turnaround Sonic seed program and growing focus on AI, spacetech, defencetech and quantum.

The best workplaces are designed to unlock and amplify human potential. We invest in next-generation work technologies across infrastructure, intelligence, automation, experience, and compliance — backing founders rebuilding how work is built, run, and scaled globally.

Signal before traction. We identify early, non-obvious signals that explosive growth is possible in companies with exceptional founders, capital-efficient business models, and very large markets. We invest alongside repeat entrepreneurs who provide hands-on operational support.

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

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

Flashpoint invests in founders across their full journey via venture growth, growth debt, and secondary capital, focused on high-growth Series A tech companies originating from Europe, Israel, and MENA, acting as a patient, long-term partner rather than a transactional check-writer.

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 in traditionally overlooked and untapped consumer technology opportunities across the future of how we care, play, and live. Demographic shifts (aging population, female wealth, cultural diversity) create massive new markets. We don't chase hype—we invest in what should exist.

We invest at day zero, before product or revenue, helping founders get the fundamentals right before everything compounds, across consumer tech, consumer upgrade, and consumer AI.

Gaja Capital partners with India's mid-market entrepreneurs to build sector leaders. They invest at Series C and beyond — when product-market fit is proven — and provide active operational support (IPO prep, governance, senior hiring, strategic expansion) to accelerate the path from INR 100 crore to INR 1,000 crore in revenue. Key sectors: Education, BFSI, Consumer, Employment/HR, and Software.

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

We invest in who you are, not just what you do. We back visionaries and game-changers with character and global ambition. We partner long-term with founders, providing capital, operational support, and deep conviction in their vision.

Emerson Collective invests in entrepreneurs and innovators driven by purpose, seeking consequential companies that deliver both generational impact and venture-scale returns. The firm targets sectors where biggest market opportunities meet meaningful impact levers: energy & environment, digital health, fintech, education, work, and media.

Back exceptional Kiwi founders building globally transformative companies, from day one to IPO. New Zealand founders represent a significantly undervalued asset class, and Icehouse provides capital plus an ecosystem of 3,000+ investors and deep operational support.

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.

We back bold founders at the earliest stages with capital and deep operational support. High-conviction, long-term partnerships with founders solving real problems. Founder-market fit above all else. Speed, transparency, and staying committed through difficult times.

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

We back European platforms of tomorrow that democratize market access and enhance efficiency through the power of network effects. Platforms create value by connecting multiple stakeholders in sustainable, long-term businesses.

Back exceptional founding teams from premier Indian academic institutions (IIT, IIM) building scalable, technology-led businesses. Leverage the global alumni network for deal sourcing and post-investment support via the THRIVE platform.

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.

Back innovative, capital-efficient UK technology companies from pre-seed through Series A via SEIS/EIS tax-efficient structures. Portfolio companies should reach £10M ARR within 3 years and £20M within 5 years, targeting at least 5x returns for investors. Active investor model leveraging entrepreneurial, finance, and marketing expertise.

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

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

Big things start small. We invest at seed stage and see potential where others don't. We believe in your vision for your company's future, not as it exists today. We think in decades, not days, committing to walk the entire journey with founders to build iconic companies. We share Antipodean ingenuity with the world.

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.

TEN13 is a network-driven VC that curates vetted early-stage deals for a 500+ member syndicate of operators, investors, and founders, sourcing and diligencing rounds while letting members select which deals to join.

Arthur Ventures leads growth investments in capital-efficient B2B software companies across every region of the US and Canada, with a deliberate focus outside Silicon Valley, backing founders after product-market fit but before large institutional rounds.

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

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.

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

Patient, pragmatic investing in 'Hedgehog' founders building enduring, capital-efficient businesses. First institutional investor philosophy with multi-decade holding periods and a strong focus on unit economics over growth at all costs. Caps funds below $1B to maintain discipline and alignment.

Passion and vision matter more than pedigree. We seek founders with grit, audacity, and a spark of rebellion—regardless of background. We invest early, before success is inevitable, and support founders from 0-to-1 through Series A.

We invest in emerging and current category leaders in software, artificial intelligence, and data businesses with proven value propositions, deep customer advocacy, scalable operating leverage, and resilient recurring revenue.

PeakSpan invests exclusively in Applied AI B2B software scale-ups at $3M–$50M+ ARR, providing growth equity combined with hands-on operational platform support (500+ expert community, proprietary technology tools, proven playbooks) to help founders scale with discipline and achieve optimal risk-adjusted exits.

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. As of mid-2026, the firm is evolving beyond its strict pre-seed-only definition — removing the previous hard $20M valuation cap and ~$4M round size limits to see the full landscape of the best new companies being created, whether rounds are called pre-seed or seed and whether founders are first-time or repeat. The firm still prioritizes early entry points but now evaluates a broader range of early-stage opportunities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Invest in talent: execution-focused teams building defensible B2B SaaS, especially AI and digitalization, with a clear link to the Spanish market.

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.

Founders from Australia/NZ, Israel, and Southeast Asia will shape the future of global technology. We prioritize people above all else, backing entrepreneurs with compelling visions who assemble talented, mission-driven teams to tackle large, important problems, and back them repeatedly over time.

We invest in founders with super high potential who aim to solve meaningful problems using leading-edge technology. We help founders turn finance and operations into a strategic asset through quantitative frameworks that accelerate product-market fit and scalability. Fundamentals-driven and hands-on from day one.

Enterprise technology is the sole focus. Patient capital with an evergreen model — Salesforce is the sole LP with no fund lifecycle pressure, enabling investing across market cycles. AI is the defining platform shift of our era: from model infrastructure to AI applications to robotics and agents. Strategic value beyond capital: unmatched access to the Salesforce enterprise ecosystem and Fortune 500 network for customer introductions, early product feedback, and go-to-market acceleration.

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

Yellow Rocks! builds global bridges through billion-dollar talent, investing in fast-growing early-stage tech companies founded by talented entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world, aimed at global markets with potential to skyrocket in the next 5-8 years. Investing in AI since 2017.

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.

Catalyzing systemic change through investments in inclusive education, healthcare accessibility, and climate solutions linked to social mobility. Investment capital as a tool for systemic change when deployed with intentionality around expanding accessibility, reducing costs of essential services, breaking down geographic barriers, and building sustainable systems. Unique commitment to 10% profits-to-nonprofits creating a virtuous cycle of impact.

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

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

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

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

Backs Southeast Asian founders with strong business fundamentals and sizable market opportunities, applying a first-principles investing approach and pairing every portfolio company with an operating partner.

We back exceptional founders and empower them with design to improve the world, investing in early-stage tech companies that use design to improve health, sustainability, and prosperity for all people.

Mubadala partners with world-class companies and institutions to drive transformational growth across strategic sectors and geographies. We believe in long-term value creation through patient capital, operational expertise, and global partnerships aligned with Abu Dhabi's economic diversification.

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.

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.

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

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

Identify major platform shifts and back founders at early stages with conviction. Invest early, move with conviction, and stay hands-on. Beyond capital, provide narrative crafting, marketing momentum, and customer introductions. The AI fund thesis: foundation model companies are defining the category and possess transformative potential across enterprise and consumer.

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

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

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

Partner with exceptional teams building transformative technology companies across all stages

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

Helpful investors in marketplace and SaaS businesses founded by operators who grew Yelp from zero to $1B revenue through IPO

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.

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

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

Early growth, long-term investors. BII invests directly off Bertelsmann's balance sheet as an evergreen, sector-agnostic fund, backing Indian founders building durable sectoral champions with patient, long-horizon capital and hands-on support.

Proven scaled operators are uniquely positioned to help hyper-growth companies reach the next level. We invest right after product-market fit (Series A-B) and focus on scaling go-to-market and building world-class companies. Inspired by Bill Campbell's coaching philosophy, we provide intensive operational support without taking board seats.

137 Ventures provides structured liquidity — equity loans against shareholder stakes, direct secondary purchases, and anchoring company-organized tender offers — to the founders, executives, and early employees of category-defining private technology companies. The firm supports generational companies through decade-long private lifecycles with flexible, founder-friendly capital structures.

Backing transformative founders building exceptional companies across all sectors

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

We back Dollar-DNA founders: execution-oriented leaders who base decisions on data, building painkillers rather than vitamins, with strong founder-market fit.

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.

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

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.

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

Ambitious founders building venture-scale companies need capital, mentorship, community, and media visibility. We provide all four through integrated programs, funds, and our media platform.

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.

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.

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

Mission-driven companies solve big problems at scale while building durable competitive advantages. We back founders leveraging science & technology to build the Better Economy where people and planet thrive.

Atinum Investment identifies and invests in companies solving fundamental problems through technology innovation and market disruption. The firm specializes in growth-stage startups and paradigm-shifting companies across diverse sectors.

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.

Fund IV ($100M, closed March 2026) backs AI-native companies at pre-seed, seed, and Series A -- founders using AI to transform how people learn, connect, transact, work, and live, where AI is the product rather than a feature layer, building on Corazon's prior behavioral-insight consumer thesis (OkCupid, ShopRunner, Match).

We are second believers in the magically weird. We back founders at concept stage who are building unconventional solutions with bold personalities that challenge the status quo. We provide capital, community, and genuine support—acting as a bubbe to our founders.

Close the funding gap for women-led ventures at early and growth stages. Investing in women is an economic opportunity, good for business, and the right thing to do. Build a portfolio of diverse founders and industries.

We provide essential early-stage capital and hands-on, entrepreneur-to-entrepreneur support to B2B software ventures in the Southeast US, seeking to be the first institutional investor on the cap table.

Seed-stage funding is critical to a thriving entrepreneurship ecosystem. Supporting mission-driven entrepreneurs—particularly underrepresented founders—is paramount. We provide capital plus mentorship, networks, and operational guidance from our education and venture experience.

We invest in uncommon founders creating visionary technologies that make work more human. We partner with trailblazers who have proven they can overcome obstacles and defy conventions, prioritizing people because of their innate belief in humanity's ability to build a better future of work and learning.

Access Bridge Ventures backs exceptional leaders in MENAP, aiming to be the first institutional investor and lead rounds, pairing capital with regional network access, governance support, and operational experience.

Tech-enabled businesses built for and by people in marginalized communities create new frameworks of ownership and opportunity. Traditional VCs miss billion-dollar markets in overlooked communities.

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.

A growth accelerator for ambitious French companies built on a frank, direct and rapid entrepreneur-investor relationship, backing founders through start-up to pre-IPO growth phases with resilience and collective intelligence.

Venture capital for mission-driven teams building disruptive, scalable deep tech out of India, providing early institutional capital plus strategic access to insights and networks.

Australians and New Zealanders have a disproportionate capacity to build category-defining startups given the region's risk-taking, underdog culture; a pay-it-forward mentorship model, where alumni founders mentor the next cohort, compounds returns for founders and investors over time.

We back the fixers: founders solving broken customer experiences through disruptive, technology-enabled B2B and B2C products, primarily leveraging software.

We back SaaS and AI founders with early evidence of product-market fit ($400K-$2M ARR), pairing capital with hands-on operating experience in go-to-market, fundraising, product, tech, and hiring.

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.

Back great founders building category-defining technology companies at the earliest stages, especially those tackling complex business problems in ways once considered too hard to scale. Increasingly focused on AI-enabled companies unlocking previously impractical markets.

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

Mission-critical B2B software where AI is an advantage, backed at Series A with product in market, strong revenue growth and defensible economics.

Where innovation, strategy, and opportunity come together: VMS combines capital with hands-on operational support (technology development, legal/IP, marketing, and Saudi market-entry strategy) to help ambitious entrepreneurs, especially from Egypt/MENA, scale into Saudi Arabia.

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.

Extraordinary things are possible when great teams come together around technology. K9 invests at the pre-seed stage with founders, betting on vision and execution. Money is a commodity; reputation and time are the currencies that matter. We provide not just capital but active operational support, hands-on mentorship, and board governance.

Exceptional companies and talented founders exist everywhere, not just coastal venture hubs. We invest in sector-agnostic but growth-oriented software companies in underserved startup ecosystems. We combine strong brand, vast network, and deep operational experience with startup hustle to invest in authentic, transparent leaders building capital-efficient software products.

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

We back bold entrepreneurs who think big and are committed to becoming the next major tech players. We invest from pre-seed to series A with strong operational support, focusing on technology-driven solutions across AI, climate tech, fintech, SaaS, and impact-driven sectors.

Europe's go-to fund for ambitious founders building the next era of computing — one that is more intelligent, more spatial and more human. We invest in Robotics, Physical AI and Spatial Computing, at the convergence of frontier technologies. We invest in vertical and industrial applications, as well as at the infrastructure and 'picks & shovels' layer. The next era of computing will be more intelligent, more spatial and more human. We back founders at the convergence of Spatial Computing, XR, AI, Gaming, 3D and Robotics.

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.

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.

Long-term value is built by companies that help humans live healthier, happier lives. We take a single-bottom-line approach, believing behavior change at scale is the most important lever for fighting climate change and driving global sustainability.

Women entrepreneurs deserve equal access to venture capital and strategic support. We partner with women-led companies building the future of education and work, providing first-institutional capital, board-level mentorship, and access to a 9,000+ member community.

Consumer-only investor backing founder-led, mission-driven brands with a distinct point of view, high customer engagement and global ambition.

Accelerate the international expansion of African innovation-driven businesses by providing Knowledge, Networks and Funding to high-growth B2B technology companies with strong IP, recurring revenue, and clear global expansion potential.

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

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

Identify outlier early-stage Indian founders and back them with capital plus hands-on acceleration (mentorship, sector anchors, governance coaching, and a global demo day) to compound a portfolio of category leaders and future unicorns, emulating the Y Combinator model for India.

Patient capital for mission-driven innovation. We believe addressing major UK social and environmental challenges requires technology innovation funded with multi-decade horizons. Backed by National Lottery endowment, enabling long-term patient capital fundamentally different from traditional VC.

Diversity is profitable. Seed-stage investing generates best venture returns. We find and fund diverse founder teams that other VCs overlook, using decision analysis and rigorous frameworks instead of pattern-matching to make capital allocation decisions.

Latin American and LatinX founders are systematically underserved by global venture. Fintech will be the transformational category for the region given large unbanked populations and fragmented financial infrastructure. Pygma backs pre-seed fintech and B2B SaaS founders with Latin roots through an accelerator-first, invest-later model.

We invest in the future of commerce by backing early-stage companies in vertical commerce, physical retail technology, and commerce infrastructure. We provide operational support alongside capital, working in the trenches with founders to build 100-year companies.

The entrepreneurs' community VC backing Spain's most ambitious founders at pre-seed. Industry agnostic; invests in founders, not projects.