F4 Champions · Season 1
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36 VC firms investing in enterprise software and robotics & automation at the Growth stage.
F4 Fund tracks 36 VC firms that actively invest in enterprise software + robotics & automation at the Growth stage, with check sizes ranging from $100K – $100000M (median: $20M – $20M). As of July 2026, and 92% lead or co-lead rounds. Rankings are based on F4's proprietary analysis of 1,544+ researched VC firms, scored by data completeness, portfolio depth, investment recency, and stage alignment.
| # | Firm | Check Size | Portfolio | Leads? | Activity | Decision | Intro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ▶ Uncork Capital 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. | $1.5M – $3M | 200 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 2 | ▶ Anti Fund The future is forged at the intersection of tech and culture. The best founders are 'anti' by definition—their companies must be highly disruptive to the status quo. While capital is a commodity, attention is not. Anti Fund uniquely wields cultural relevance to source founders and accelerate growth. Miami | $100K – $3M | 19 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 3 | ▶ Sony 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. | $2M – $20M | 203 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 4 | ▶ Point72 Ventures Point72 Ventures backs ambitious founders building for big outcomes across critical domains. Going deep, not wide—the firm focuses on specialized investment theses in AI, Consumer, and Defense Tech, bringing deep sector insights, partnership, and hands-on support from seed to pre-IPO. New York | $250K – $50M | 204 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 5 | ▶ Initialized Capital 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. San Francisco | $250K – $2M | 185 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 6 | ▶ Energy Impact Partners Technology and capital solutions for the global energy transition. We partner with entrepreneurs to build and scale innovative companies that power a better energy future, supported by collaborations with utilities and industrial incumbents. New York | $2M – $20M | 26 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Req'd |
| 7 | ▶ CapitalG Partner with remarkable growth-stage leaders to accelerate their journey from startup to scale-up through capital, operational expertise, and Google advisory access. Focus on transformational companies making the step change into growth. | $50M – $200M | 45 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 8 | ▶ Activant Capital Partner with relentless founders through their most defining stages of growth, using an in-house Research team to underwrite and support commerce-infrastructure and AI-native technology companies. Greenwich, CT | $15M – $60M | 118 | Both | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 9 | ▶ Digital Transformation Capital Partners DTCP is a multi-strategy sector specialist with €4.5bn AUM across digital infrastructure (data centers, mobile towers, fiber networks), enterprise SaaS (Series B+, $3M-$100M ARR, $5M-$50M checks), and European defence/dual-use technology. Founded in 2015 from Deutsche Telekom's M&A office; anchor LPs include Deutsche Telekom and SoftBank. Uses proprietary Flightpath data model (40+ SaaS KPIs) for Growth investments. Hamburg | $5M – $50M | 40 | Leads | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 10 | ▶ Geodesic Capital We invest in multi-stage, globally minded founders and help them succeed in the critical Japanese market. Geodesic bridges Silicon Valley and Japan, providing both financial capital and an unmatched operational platform — including the annual Geodesic Forum, a dedicated Japan team, and deep LP relationships with major Japanese corporations — to accelerate portfolio company growth into Japan and Asia. Silicon Valley | $5M – $50M | 75 | Both | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 11 | ▶ Georgian Georgian invests in market-leading B2B software companies across the AI technology stack—from infrastructure and developer tools to enterprise applications and cybersecurity. They pair growth-stage capital with an in-house AI Lab of 20+ ML engineers who embed with portfolio companies post-investment. Toronto | $20M – $75M | 27 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 12 | ▶ Partners Resolute Invest in people and products that leverage technological breakthroughs or superior user experience to radically change the status quo. Focus on structurally sound, strategically defensible business models that create and capture new markets. True partnership approach: value-add extends beyond capital to include strategic guidance, operational expertise, and network introductions. | $250K – $8M | 57 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 13 | ▶ Centre Street Partners Partner with technical operators and SMB owners to execute technology-led middle-market buyouts. Capture outsized economic value from AI at the ownership layer of services providers rather than pure-play tech. New York | $5M – $50M | 24 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Req'd |
| 14 | ▶ Lerer Hippeau As founder-operators, we see returns in relationships. We back ambitious founders with exceptional vision at the earliest stages with capital, mentorship, and network access. | $100K – $1M | 73 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 15 | ▶ SoftBank Vision Fund Supporting a full-stack AI technology ecosystem — from hardware (semiconductors and compute) to infrastructure (software enabling AI deployment) to applications (consumer and enterprise AI). Provides 'freedom-level capital' to help founders build market-leading companies at unprecedented scale. London | $100M – $10000M | 37 | Both | Active | 3+ mo | Open |
| 16 | ▶ Eight Roads Back ambitious technology and healthcare founders in Asia, Europe, and Israel, providing not just capital but access to a global ecosystem spanning 350+ portfolio companies across four continents. Fidelity backing allows more flexible and focused support than typical VC. London | $5M – $50M | 26 | Both | Active | ~2 mo | N/A |
| 17 | ▶ Alumni Ventures We democratize venture capital by providing individual accredited investors with professional-grade access to elite venture opportunities. We leverage our massive 850,000+ community network and 11,000+ investors to create unique value for founders, sourcing and diligencing deals alongside top-tier VCs (a16z, Sequoia, Khosla) without leading rounds. Our network is our competitive advantage—it compounds value for all stakeholders. Manchester, NH | $250K – $5M | 58 | Follows | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 18 | ▶ NVIDIA Expand the AI ecosystem by backing technology visionaries solving complex problems to reshape our world. Focus on game changers and market makers in AI, robotics, biotech, autonomous vehicles, and applied AI. Leverage NVIDIA's unique position as GPU infrastructure leader to identify and support companies that will drive adoption of NVIDIA technology. | $20M – $100000M | 37 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 19 | ▶ Kleiner Perkins Partner with exceptional founders building transformative technology companies from inception to IPO and beyond. Our moral compass is serving humanity with technology and capital. We provide not just capital but operational support, network access, and board participation to maximize the potential of founders' ideas and make history. Menlo Park | $100K – $150M | 27 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 20 | ▶ Caffeinated Capital Support founders pursuing their life's work with an alternative to the hype cycle: the luxury of long-term thinking. We support founders building category-defining companies across all sectors that will last for lifetimes. San Francisco | $1M – $5M | 18 | Leads | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 21 | ▶ Mubadala 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. Abu Dhabi | $5M – $5000M | 46 | Both | Active | ~2 mo | Req'd |
| 22 | ▶ Avenir Growth Capital Avenir invests from a first-principles view of inevitable market shifts, concentrating capital in category-defining companies that are early in their growth curves and led by world-class operators. New York | $300K – $5M | 30 | Leads | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 23 | ▶ Shunwei Capital With the aid of capital and experience, partner with entrepreneurs building deep-tech, smart-manufacturing, and internet-driven consumption businesses to transform their ideas into world-leading enterprises. Beijing | $11M – $29M | 30 | Both | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 24 | ▶ SpeedInvest 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. Vienna | $250K – $30M | 49 | Leads | Active | N/A | Open |
| 25 | ▶ Strike Capital Multi-stage venture capital firm backing transformative technology companies in enterprise software, fintech, and supply chain/logistics technology. We provide capital and strategic support to scale-stage companies with strong product-market fit, facilitating top-down customer introductions within Fortune 500 and multinational organizations. We partner with founders from growth through public markets. | $5M – $30M | 5 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 26 | ▶ Andreessen Horowitz 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. Menlo Park | $1M – $200M | 48 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 27 | ▶ Foundry Group We invest in startups and venture funds, creating a symbiotic network that propels innovation. Our approach is characterized by long-term thinking and a 'give first' philosophy. Boulder, Colorado | $500K – $10M | 26 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Req'd |
| 28 | ▶ Redalpine Redalpine backs companies at the convergence of software and science — where rigorous engineering meets scientific breakthroughs. Half the team are scientists, half are operators, enabling them to engage deeply with highly technical founders and support them hands-on from day one through to exit. Primary focus areas: frontier science and biotech, digital health, AI and automation, fintech, synthetic biology, and climate tech. Zug | $500K – $5M | 40 | Leads | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 29 | ▶ Menlo Ventures Menlo invests in transformative technology companies at multiple stages of early growth. We provide capital, operational expertise, and hands-on support to help founders build scalable businesses that change how we live and work. San Francisco | $500K – $20M | 21 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 30 | ▶ Banner VC Accelerating the GDP of America by investing in early-stage private companies revolutionizing critical industries — aerospace, AI infrastructure, hardware, autonomous robotics, and healthcare. Banner VC backs American industrial reindustrialization with founders building foundational infrastructure for the economy. Austin | $5M – $50M | 6 | Leads | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 31 | ▶ CDP Venture Capital CDP Venture Capital is a national venture platform that combines direct investing, fund-of-funds activity, accelerators, and technology transfer to strengthen Italy's innovation economy in strategic sectors. Rome | $250K – $10M | 14 | Both | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 32 | ▶ HongShan Back transformative entrepreneurs building category-defining companies across technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors, from seed to buyout. Partner with founders throughout the full company lifecycle with capital, operational support, and the network built over 20 years of China and global investing. Hong Kong | $500K – $2000M | 20 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Req'd |
| 33 | ▶ Bessemer Venture Partners We partner with entrepreneurs from their early days through every stage of growth, focusing on innovative solutions in technology, healthcare, and financial services. Redwood City, California | $5.8M – $34.3M | 6 | N/A | 2mo | N/A | N/A |
| 34 | ▶ Gaingels 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. New York | $200K – $500K | 29 | Follows | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 35 | ▶ Evolution Venture Capital Partners 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. New York | $500K – $6M | 28 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
| 36 | ▶ British Business Bank As the UK's state-owned economic development bank, British Business Bank exists to improve smaller and scaling businesses' access to finance and to support the transition to net zero, deploying public capital as a fund-of-funds, co-investor, and direct equity investor to fill gaps the private market leaves unfilled. Sheffield, UK | $12.5M – $50M | 7 | Both | Active | N/A | N/A |
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F4 Fund tracks 36 VC firms that actively invest in enterprise software + robotics & automation at the Growth stage. These firms are ranked using a composite score that weighs data completeness (30%), portfolio depth (30%), investment recency (25%), and stage alignment (15%).
Based on F4's analysis, the median check size for growth enterprise software + robotics & automation investors is $20M – $20M, with a full range from $100K – $100000M. The distribution breaks down as: 1 firms in the <$500K range, 1 firms in the $500K-$1M range, 2 firms in the $1M-$2M range, 7 firms in the $2M-$5M range, 2 firms in the $5M-$10M range, 23 firms in the $10M+ range.
Among the 36 firms tracked, 92% lead or co-lead rounds, and 6% typically follow. Founders seeking a lead investor should filter for firms marked "Leads" or "Both" in the rankings table above. Lead investors typically set deal terms and anchor the round.
The best growth enterprise software + robotics & automation investors combine domain expertise with an active portfolio in the space. Among these firms, 38% prefer warm introductions, and the average firm has 53 portfolio companies. Look for firms whose check size matches your raise, whose stage preference aligns with yours, and who have a track record of supporting companies in your sector through multiple growth phases.
Firm profiles are continuously updated through F4's research pipeline, which combines LLM-powered web research, portfolio analysis, and transcript extraction. The ranking data refreshes every 12 hours. Editorial analysis is reviewed weekly. Individual firm profiles are re-researched on a 30-day cycle or when new information surfaces.