Top Fintech & Payments + EdTech Investors 2026

We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers to access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.

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.

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.

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.

We are reinventing venture capital by bringing academic know-how and research to our investment process and portfolio companies. Evidence-based decision making combined with hands-on operational support creates differentiation for early-stage founders.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Invest in innovative technology companies that can achieve significant market share in large, growing markets and grow independent of market conditions. Partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to build sustainable, profitable businesses that transform industry segments.

Financial services is ripe for fundamental disruption. We invest in visionary entrepreneurs building modern, customer-first financial solutions that leverage technology to make financial systems more efficient and accessible. The most disruptive fintech companies reimagine how financial services work at their core, not just digitize existing products.

Profit and purpose can form a virtuous cycle. We champion founders driving advanced energy, resource innovation, and economic opportunity. We believe that addressing humanity's biggest challenges requires innovative, scalable, profitable solutions. We help seed-stage startups bridge tech and deep-tech, venture and values-aligned investing.

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.

The AI-first transformation of business will be as big as digital, mobile, and cloud combined. We invest in companies building the AI-first technology stack: data foundations, AI tools, autonomous applications, and product-led growth companies that accelerate adoption. Founders building at any layer of this stack can reach goals and uncover opportunities previously unattainable.

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.

The next generation of breakout companies will be built by underestimated founders solving big problems for the 99%. Founders who intuitively understand their end users – because they've lived through the same broken systems – have a natural competitive advantage. BBG Ventures focuses on 'polycultural' founders: those who understand intersectional, multi-generational, and underserved markets. These founders will drive impactful and valuable companies through AI democratization.

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.

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

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.

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.

Great entrepreneurs exist everywhere. Women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and veteran founders have access to exceptional capital and mentorship. We combine venture funding with deep mentorship to unlock value in underserved founder populations.

Help founders succeed by combining capital ($120K-$250K), intensive mentorship (3-month program), and access to a powerful global network of 1,500+ mentors. We invest in founders at the earliest stage with conviction and vision, regardless of sector or geography. Our #GiveFirst philosophy drives us to help without expecting immediate return.

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.

Partners with exceptional founders building game-changing companies at the intersection of technology, industry, and culture. Focus on sectors where deep network and experience can bend the risk curve.

Pattern-breaking founders solving real problems generate breakthrough solutions. We believe the best companies come from overlooked founders outside Silicon Valley, regardless of pedigree or traditional markers of success.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Support visionary founders building transformative technologies across blockchain, AI, and biotechnology. Provide capital, technical resources, and access to Binance's 300M+ user base and infrastructure. Partner for long-term value creation with founder-centric approach.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Partner with passionate entrepreneurs building companies that change the way we live, work, play, or learn. We're operator-first investors who provide capital, strategic guidance, and operational mentorship alongside network and investor connections.

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.

Invest in deep science and disruptive technology companies that solve fundamental human problems—inequality, health, climate adaptation. We back founders with vision, instinct, and drive to scale impact.

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

Back technology that enhances human potential, not just fancy tech. Invest in passionate founders solving real market problems with human-centered impact. Focus on sustainable businesses contributing to economic transformation in Latin America and globally.

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.

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.

The next generation of significant technology companies will be built by Black founders and diverse entrepreneurs who have historically been locked out of access to venture capital. We back exceptional Black and diverse-led teams building scalable technology solutions, with the conviction that diverse teams drive innovation and create extraordinary returns.

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

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.

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.

Turning access into opportunity for founders, investors, and disruptive ideas by backing culturally resonant tech companies and founders who don't fit traditional Silicon Valley mold. Emphasis on showing up right way for founders, making bold bets, and committing fully from first check.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

WndrCo positions itself as 'the founders behind the founders,' combining strategic capital with deep operational involvement. Unlike traditional VCs, partners take formal operating roles (interim CEO, CFO, CPO) within portfolio companies. This approach leverages the co-founders' proven track record: Sujay Jaswa scaled Dropbox from $18M to $10B as Business Founder/CFO, and Jeffrey Katzenberg transformed Disney Studios and built DreamWorks. The firm invests across all stages through three strategies: Build (acquiring underappreciated tech companies), Venture (leading post-PMF rounds), and Seed (very early checks). Focus areas are Future of Work, Cybersecurity, Developer Infrastructure, and Consumer Technology, with increasing emphasis on AI applications.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Builds AI companies from inception alongside recruited CEOs, acting as an AI R&D studio that sources ideas with large corporates to deliver agentic-AI ventures with built-in customers and traction. Fund II focused on application and software infrastructure layers with emphasis on enterprise adoption and agent protocols.

Visionary founders are the true catalysts of transformation and progress. We partner with exceptional founders at the seed stage to help them build extraordinary companies through intensive operational support, structured tools, and candid guidance.

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.

We back exceptional teams leveraging Egypt's currency-driven cost advantage and local market expertise to build industry-defining companies that scale across MENA and Africa. We provide patient capital, operational support, and regional network access to first-time founders and technical teams.

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

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.

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.

Rewriting the VC rulebook to deliver high returns with high impact. We invest in founders building climate and social impact technologies with intentional, measurable, net-positive outcomes at meaningful scale.

Every visionary startup deserves the right support to flourish. Array Ventures provides comprehensive end-to-end support through three phases: Plan (inception), Build (implementation), and Scale Up (growth). They combine equity investments with extensive consulting services to identify innovative startups with breakthrough ideas and help them achieve their full potential.

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.

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.

Anabel Paksoy actively looks to invest in early-stage startups at Day 0, providing hands-on support tailored to the founder's unique needs. She focuses on founders who are passionate about solving specific problems, and investments are made quickly to take advantage of timely opportunities.

Soma invests in technical founders building innovative companies across all sectors. We believe in building deep friendships day 1 with brilliant superhumans pushing humanity forward. Our founder-first approach emphasizes non-dilutive capital, founder autonomy, and access to Fortune 500 networks for customer development.

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.

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

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.

We invest financial and social capital into exceptional ventures led by visionary, values-aligned teams. Technology is the 'new West' - we seek to broaden opportunities by partnering with pioneering founders to bring entire communities along on their journey of reimagining the world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We seek extraordinary founders building transformational products. Product-obsessed founders with deep market understanding, exceptional execution ability, and the drive to build lasting companies create the most value.

Co-found and fund vertical B2B AI software companies from day zero. FutureSight acts as institutional co-founder, providing capital, operating team (product/design/engineering), and a systematic 24-week company-building process. Thesis is that founders need active operational partnership, not just capital, and that rigorous validation (killing ~99% of ideas) produces better outcomes.

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.

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.

We partner with relentless founders who defy convention to change the future. Our four founder paradigms—purity of motivation, earned secret, obsessed problem solving, and non-consensus thinking—guide our investment decisions. We believe the best founders are intrinsically motivated to solve real problems, have deep domain expertise, relentlessly iterate to find better solutions, and have the courage to diverge from established paths.

All-Black GP team of active tech founders investing exclusively in early-stage Black-led companies. Address Series A funding gap through seed excellence, company preparation, and network leverage. Invest in founders with resilience, subject matter expertise, conviction, and coachability.

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.

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.

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.

Great founders exist outside coastal hubs. We invest in scalable businesses founded by exceptional entrepreneurs in the Rocky Mountain region and Austin.

Sidecut Ventures backs 'coachable superheroes' — founders tackling systemic challenges in economic mobility, digital health, climate, and education. The firm's 'coach first, capital second' philosophy involves a 30-day co-operating consulting engagement before writing a check, providing operational, marketing, and storytelling support alongside capital.

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.

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.

Overlooked founders—Black, Indigenous, Latina/o, people of color, and women—possess exceptional resilience, adaptability, and market insight, positioning them to deliver outstanding financial returns alongside meaningful social impact. These mature, experienced founders (10-15 years mainstream business experience, average age 47) consistently outperform traditional benchmarks through superior capital efficiency and sustainable growth.

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

We 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.

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.

The best people to invest in startups are people who have built startups. We identify exceptional founders in geographies outside traditional venture hubs, building locally-run pre-seed funds with community-powered decision making.

We partner with gritty and determined entrepreneurs leveraging emerging technologies to create or disrupt huge markets. We invest in people first, second, and third—founders with passion, obsession, and vision. Only partners with founders when we believe their company alone can return our entire fund or more.

We invest in people, not business scripts. We believe exceptional founders can come from anywhere. Our open video-pitch funnel replaces traditional warm intros with meritocratic founder access. We want to see and hear you—your passion, vision, and commitment matter more than a polished deck.

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.

Venture capital systematically overlooks innovation from Black, Brown, women, LGBTQ+, and disabled founders. We back high-potential underrepresented founders in the Midwest and South, addressing the geographic and demographic gaps in traditional coastal VC. The talent is here—between the coasts—and deserves institutional capital and ecosystem support.

We back founders everywhere-else outside traditional tech hubs. We believe exceptional talent, innovation, and business opportunities exist across all geographies. Through the GAN network of 100+ accelerators and studios worldwide, we provide capital, mentorship, and global connections for founders building scalable solutions.

Investing in the picks and shovels of volatility caused by convergent forces (AI, Web3, Deep Science) intersecting with demographic shifts and climate change. We seek to create venture-scale returns by backing bold founders building more equitable, beneficial, transparent, and accessible structures.

Vertical AI will create hundreds of billions of enterprise value over the next decade. We back domain-expert founders building purpose-built AI solutions for specific industries from Day Zero — pre-product, pre-traction, pre-everything.

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.

Venture capital should be accessible to exceptional entrepreneurs anywhere. Great companies can be built outside Silicon Valley with the right capital, operational expertise, and network support.

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

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.

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.

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.

DiverseCity Ventures backs tech-enabled, scalable companies with positive social, economic, or environmental impact, inclusive teams, and high potential for outsized returns. The firm believes that diverse perspectives are a competitive advantage and an alpha generator.