Top Food & Beverage Investors 2026

Operationally-focused food and beverage growth equity, pairing capital with an in-house operating team (channel strategy, ERP, COGS, co-manufacturing, commercialization, regulatory) to accelerate visionary CPG, food, and beverage companies, plus a smaller food tech sleeve in fermentation and cellular agriculture.

Democratize healthy living for all humans by backing culture-led, better-for-you consumer brands in food and beverage, beauty and personal care, pet, and wellness, then actively building them with hands-on operational support across strategy, sales, marketing, creative, and eCommerce.

Revolutionize the food system and improve both planetary and human health by backing audacious entrepreneurs working at the intersection of food, agriculture, climate, and health.

Partner with premier, high-growth consumer companies across omni-channel retail/e-commerce, restaurants, branded consumer packaged products, and food & beverage, providing long-term growth capital as brands scale. A substantial share of fund capital comes from the general partners' own money.

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

We believe we are living through a once-in-a-generation shift in how people live, eat, and care for themselves. GroundForce Capital delivers capital, operating expertise, and a powerful network to founders and operators building breakout companies in health and wellness.

The way we nourish ourselves defines our future. We invest in rare founders disrupting the food system for better economic and ecological outcomes across the entire food value chain—from agriculture and inputs through food production, ingredients, consumer brands, and food service. We seek to partner with ambitious, resourceful founders who combine strong execution capability with deep commitment to positive impact.

Solving the world's biggest challenges by supporting the world's best entrepreneurs in food and agriculture. Focus on sustainable, scalable solutions to global food security through innovation in alternative proteins, ingredients, and food technology.

Health and wellness is one of the most important pillars of the global economy. The $61 trillion global consumer economy is undergoing a seismic shift toward trusted, high-quality products with proven efficacy. We partner with entrepreneurs to advance healthier living through capital, strategic resources, and enduring support grounded in continuous learning in nutrition, biology, and psychology.

Kitchen Fund fuels authentic restaurant and food brands that are changing how we eat. We seek purpose-driven, mission-led concepts with strong operational DNA that can scale nationally while maintaining distinctive identity. We provide not just capital but deep industry expertise, strategic guidance, and operational partnership from founders who have scaled iconic American restaurant franchises.

Explicitly structured to eliminate animals from food supply chain. Invests in innovative early-stage companies across food, beverage, and biotech driving healthier, humane, sustainable future. Optimizes for impact on animal numbers alongside commercial success.

ECP Growth partners with growth-stage consumer and consumer-adjacent B2B businesses across the consumer value chain, focused on resilient categories tied to mobility, energy/resource efficiency, and health & wellness, backing companies with more than $10M in revenue and a clear path to profitability.

Building and investing in enduring services platforms and iconic consumer brands, combining family office values and private equity sophistication with an entrepreneurial spirit and permanent capital base.

We invest in fast-growing early-stage consumer businesses with purpose-driven brands and innovative technologies. Strong brands have long-term competitive advantages, and we look for businesses that are building communities of fanatical customers.

For three decades SPC has invested exclusively in consumer staples businesses in food & beverage and health & wellness, partnering with founders and families as their first institutional capital and applying a repeatable operating playbook, deep benchmarking, and a consumer-executive talent network to drive value creation.

Two distinct investment strategies with one singular focus: building the brands and technologies shaping the future of consumer. VMG Consumer backs growth-stage consumer brands anchoring modern life; VMG Technology takes meaningful minority positions in B2B software serving the consumer, retail, and manufacturing ecosystem.

A pre-seed venture fund dedicated exclusively to CPG. We back the next generation of high-growth consumer brands — food & beverage, beauty, wellness, and pet — at the stage before anyone else is paying attention. All founders welcome.

First-cheque, high-engagement investor backing India's next generation of disruptive consumer brands from the idea stage, using a concentrated portfolio approach and deep founder partnership through scale.

Investing with purpose, investing in progress: back startups strategically aligned to dsm-firmenich's Perfumery & Beauty, Taste Texture & Health, and Health Nutrition & Care business units, pairing capital with the parent company's scientific, technological and commercial resources.

Sonoma Brands Capital partners with bold, innovative founders building the world's next enduring consumer brands across physical and digital retail, making minority and control growth-equity investments in consumer businesses generating at least $5 million in sales, with a focus on omnichannel expansion, retail distribution, and digital acceleration.

Back authentic founders building next-generation consumer brands across food, wellness, personal care, and pet. Combine early-stage capital with hands-on operational partnership and domain expertise to build enduring consumer brands and drive long-term value creation.

ACG provides minority growth equity to the most promising emerging consumer and retail brands — food & beverage, beauty, personal care, pet, apparel, and restaurants — with $5-50M+ in revenue that have the potential to become category leaders. They are collaborative partners who put brand first, enabling founders to maintain decision-making and economic upside.

An avid believer in the Indian consumer story, backing D2C brands across food & beverage, personal care, beauty, wellness, and lifestyle goods with differentiated products and strong repeat-purchase economics, leveraging the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group's manufacturing, distribution, and retail relationships.

Encore partners with founders and management teams at established, profitable consumer products, food, beverage, and manufacturing/distribution companies ($10M-$150M revenue), bringing operating expertise and industry relationships to accelerate growth.

Building iconic Indian consumer brands that create enduring value, on the belief that doing well and doing good are deeply connected ("The Fireside Way").

Investing in mission-driven founders who identify real customer needs with innovative, sustainable business models, across Consumption, Wellbeing, and Productivity — backed by patient, family-office capital and a Mittelstand/industrial network.

The agrifood value chain has reached a tipping point where incremental change is not enough; systemic disruption and regeneration of the food and agriculture system is required to restore human, planetary, and economic health.

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

Back founders building category-defining consumer brands, platforms, and fintech businesses in India, offering hands-on operating support from founders who have built, scaled, and exited companies themselves (BharatPe, Foodpanda, Simsim/Google).

The empowered consumer is driving a consumer renaissance at the intersection of commerce and influence. Silas invests as both founders and investors, providing growth and venture capital to emerging-growth consumer brands with a clear path to profitability.

Global venture capital firm investing in lifestyle consumer brands and technology companies that positively disrupt large and growing markets. Great investments require deep industry expertise, hands-on operational support, and access to strategic partners.

Great consumer brands are built by complementary founding teams who can ruthlessly prioritize; as operators who scaled innocent from a market stall to a global brand, JamJar backs and supports Europe's next generation of major consumer brands.

We invest in deep tech for food - solving the hard underlying problems in food and farming with new technology built on scientific discovery and solid engineering.

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

Saama backs passionate, decisive founders building disruptive companies across Indian consumer tech, D2C brands, enterprise software, and financial services, providing capital plus long-term operating partnership.

Sandbox Studios backs celebrity and culturally-native consumer companies that turn attention into durable businesses, increasingly at the intersection of culture, distribution, commerce, community, AI, and supply-chain infrastructure.

We partner with visionary founders to accelerate, incubate, and scale consumer brands. Our team of experienced operators provides not just capital but hands-on guidance in strategy, product, growth, finance, and team development to help founders build world-class digital consumer brands.

Galvanize invests at the intersection of energy innovation, resilience, and intelligence, backing the 'New Economy' companies essential to electrification, rising power demand, industrial modernization, and digitization -- from pre-seed food/agriculture/ocean/forestry ventures (Ponderosa) through growth-stage energy transition and AI-infrastructure companies (Venture & Growth).

We invest before your success strikes other investors as inevitable — comfortable backing pre-revenue, ground-up building, and ready to lead with our full first cheque rather than piggy-backing on others' conviction.

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

Supply Change Capital invests at the intersection of food, climate, and culture. We back early-stage technology transforming the food supply chain's foundational infrastructure - from supply chain resilience and logistics to health/nutrition innovation and labor automation. We believe the global food system ($10T industry) is least modernized sector globally, requiring urgent technological transformation to address climate impact (1/3 of GHG emissions), health crises (50%+ with diet-related chronic disease), and labor equity. We invest with dual lenses: climate impact (emissions reduction, soil health, biodiversity) and culture (supporting diverse founders who deliver 30% higher returns despite underinvestment). As former operators, we partner with founders not just with capital but operational expertise, impact metrics frameworks, and access to extensive advisor network of industry veterans.

The most remarkable consumer businesses are built by founders who embrace creativity on the path to financial success. We use culture-centric research, strategic consulting, and creative services to identify and scale category-defining brands.

Dedicated to advancing Canadian agriculture, Verdex invests in the entrepreneurs, technologies, and businesses shaping the future of food and agriculture, providing patient capital suited to agriculture's seasonal cycles and long validation timelines.

Partner of choice for category-disrupting consumer brands: we provide capital and value-add operating support to help passionate founders and management teams maximize the potential of brands modern consumers want and love.

Places people gather are valuable, under-capitalized assets. EMERGING builds operating capability, data, and standards to transform experiential hospitality and restaurant businesses into durable, investable assets, and now backs the AI/automation intelligence layer beneath them via Experience Fund XPR.

Deal flow starts in the room, not the cold inbox. F&F backs founders it already knows from Founders & Funders events, investing where its involvement can directly move revenue, customers, or relationships.

Investing in AI-powered companies that transform how consumers and businesses operate. Torch backs both the consumer-facing brand layer and the AI infrastructure enabling next-generation experiences, with particular depth in health & wellness, fintech, and consumer commerce.

Pentland Ventures invests in exciting and uplifting brands that help people live healthier and more sustainable lives, drawing on Pentland Group's operating heritage in athletic, outdoor, and consumer brands (Speedo, Berghaus, Endura, Mitre) and its majority stake in JD Sports Fashion plc.

Biology is the next frontier of technology. BABEL believes early-stage consumer biotech can solve macro problems (food security, climate, health) while delivering outsized returns. The best outcomes come from diverse, science-credentialed founder teams with deep domain expertise and commitment to sustainability and impact.

Beauty and wellness founders with differentiated brands, strong operational discipline, and proven consumer traction deserve access to patient capital combined with deep industry expertise. The next generation of successful beauty companies will be built by founders who balance creative brand vision with rigorous operational execution.

Science identifies entrenched markets and societal shifts and invests in disruptive companies with new ideas and highly focused teams. We combine venture capital with a studio model, providing operational expertise, predictive strategy, and shared services to help founders build category-defining consumer brands and technology companies.

We invest in businesses in established markets with solid fundamentals, genuine customer demand, and a clear exit path, across Tech-Enabled Services, Vertical Software, and Mittelstand Transformation, with a focus on the DACH region.

Sustainability is becoming central to consumer and business decision-making. We partner with management teams building environmentally sound, resource-efficient businesses that deliver returns to all stakeholders while benefiting the environment.

The world's leading consumer growth investor, partnering with founder- and family-led consumer brands across food & beverage, beauty, apparel, wellness, and retail, from growth-stage minority checks through full buyouts.

Decarbonization is a value driver. We invest in climate solutions that are economically competitive and can scale to 100Mt+ CO2e savings annually using our proprietary Climate Performance Potential methodology.

Habitat Partners backs early-stage companies where exceptional brand equity meets strong business fundamentals. Born from Red Antler's brand expertise, the firm asks: 'Why does this company need to exist in the world, and what emotional resonance does it create?' They invest in consumer brands (CPG, beauty, food/beverage) and B2B software tools serving the startup and retail ecosystem, leveraging Red Antler's branding platform as a key value-add for portfolio companies.

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.

Building next-generation food and agriculture technology companies that commercialize solutions for sustainable production, equitable distribution, and healthy consumption. Partners with strategic investors to drive systemic impact in food systems.

The global food system drives roughly a third of greenhouse gas emissions while a third of food produced is wasted and 800 million people go hungry. We back ambitious foodtech and agritech founders reinventing the food system end-to-end, from producer to consumer, who can deploy intelligent, high-impact solutions at scale.

BeyondSeed acts as a growth catalyst, not just a check-writer, for early-stage India-based D2C and consumer startups moving from Seed to Series A, pairing capital with mentorship, structured growth programming (BeyondXcelerate), and network access; it is now extending this model to the Middle East via a dedicated GIFT City fund.

Systematically back clinically rigorous, behaviorally grounded wellbeing startups tackling stigmatized areas—alcohol use disorder, menopause, mental health—using stigma as an investing edge and insisting on consumer-grade UX. Solve the Wellness Gap: the quantifiable delta that has grown as GDP per capita increased while physical and mental health stagnated.

Invested at the seams of sector transition. S2G identifies opportunities at critical intersections of food & agriculture, oceans, and energy. The firm backs market-based solutions that deliver both economic returns and systems-level change across interconnected, commodity-driven, policy-sensitive sectors. S2G explicitly rejects siloed investing, instead seeking companies operating within Resource Efficiency, Mass Digitalization, Agile Supply Chains, and Conscious Customer themes.

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.

Anterra backs companies that make the food system safer, more sustainable, and more resilient by combining biotechnology and digital solutions across the full value chain.

Iconic consumer brands are built by visionary founders combining creative vision with digital-first distribution. We partner with purpose-driven entrepreneurs early, leveraging deep expertise in brand building, customer relationships, and global expansion to scale culture-defining businesses.

Investing at the intersection of for-profit and for-good. Companies that make the world better AND deliver strong financial returns. The Villain Test ensures both impact and profit alignment.

Cibus Enterprise backs disruptive technology companies transforming the future of food and agriculture, partnering with ambitious teams with early commercial traction and clear product-market fit, positioned to deliver both outsized returns and meaningful impact.

Synthetic biology and life sciences are engineering disciplines. The world's greatest challenges in human and planetary health will be solved by scientists and engineers using biology as a tool. We fund the earliest-stage founders with breakthrough ideas and provide wet lab infrastructure, capital, and long-term partnership.

Combine capital with a dedicated ~15-person shared-services operating team to create, accelerate, and scale 'better-for-you' consumer brands across food & beverage, wellness, beauty, and pet categories.

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

Support founders who walk the extra mile, who think beyond borders and boundaries, backing innovative ideas seeking global growth from India.

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.

Invest in and back innovative, technology-driven companies solving real-world problems, targeting large markets, led by founders focused on execution and excellence, using a risk-mitigated, high-return strategy backed by a large mentor and expert investor pool.

Female founders and mixed-gender teams are building the next generation of innovative, enduring consumer brands. We provide growth equity capital, operational expertise, and strategic partnership to support founders rethinking both what consumer products are and how they are built.

Kinship Ventures backs 'TAM creators' — founders inventing new markets rather than competing in existing ones. Operating a two-pronged strategy: early conviction bets in category-defining founders and growth acceleration for companies approaching scale. From first check to IPO, they back founders who shape culture and build enduring companies.

Quantitative data and machine learning can identify high-potential consumer brands more effectively than traditional VC methods. CircleUp uses proprietary Helio platform to analyze billions of data points and remove human bias from investment decisions.

Growth capital for the next AgriFood system — backing founders reshaping how the world eats, lives, and sustains itself, with active board involvement and operator-level support.

We partner selectively, care deeply, and strive for excellence across sectors, helping founders leverage our decades of experience, extensive network, and valuable insights to build scalable and sustainable businesses in India.

Early-stage, operator-led firm investing in next-generation consumer platforms, products, and services. We combine fintech, entertainment, and Wall Street expertise to provide hands-on operational support beyond capital.

Complex health problems require multidisciplinary teams combining deep technical, financial, and domain expertise. We invest in breakthrough science and technology-enabled solutions across human and animal health.

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

Do well by doing good: invest in scalable companies providing essential goods and services to underserved populations in Africa, delivering both competitive financial returns and measurable social impact. African inclusive-growth businesses demonstrate resilience and provide huge commercial opportunities.

Back challengers disrupting large consumer categories in India. Sixth Sense looks for founders who can turn consumer insight, brand strength, and distribution execution into category leadership.

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.

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.

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.

We invest before investing: writing the first institutional check into founder-led teams building technology-driven, sustainable businesses that address real, structural problems across DeepTech, GreenTech, Digital Health, and FinTech.

Investing in consumer brands and technology where culture creates the moat. We back founders who know how to tell good stories and convert cultural relevance into durable commercial advantage.

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.

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.

Progress in food, agriculture, and human health lags other sectors due to structural constraints. We invest in deep technologies that remove these bottlenecks at scale—whether AI, biology, robotics, or materials science. We're not intimidated by threats to the status quo.

Sugar Capital invests at the intersection of technology and commerce in software-like consumer businesses with subscription/habitual purchase models. We seek founders with genuine problem conviction and complementary co-founder pairs (business+operations, creative+technical). Our approach: seed-stage checks ($1.5M-$2M), deliberate follow-ons for ownership accumulation, and operational support grounded in our POPSUGAR success.

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.

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

Technology is the biggest lever to decarbonise the economy. Grok solves the climate capital stack by backing early-stage climate tech founders (Venture) and following them with non-dilutive structured financing at scale (Infrastructure), with selective Lighthouse positions in system-change companies like AGL. Patient, flexible capital from a private family office enables them to move faster and stay longer than institutional VCs.

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 invest in underrepresented outperformers: first- and second-generation migrant founders, women in male-dominated industries, and founders from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, who we believe disproportionately possess the resilience, work ethic, and ability to inspire that predict founder success.

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.

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.

The circular economy—where products are designed, manufactured, sold, refurbished, and recycled in closed loops—represents the future of sustainable economic value creation. We invest across R&D to commercial scale in foundational materials industries, providing not just capital but integrated support through our innovation center research and operating group execution.

A venture capital firm for the Creative Class operating at the intersection of technology and creativity. Felix backs passionate founders building products and brands that shape culture and move the world forward — across 'new ways of living' (consumer) and 'new ways of working' (enterprise/B2B). They seek companies with global ambition that can conquer both EU and US markets.

Building a healthier, more efficient, and more resilient food system by backing entrepreneurs who apply science and technology to the agrifood industry's most pressing challenges, bridging Italy's established food industry with breakthrough AgriFoodTech innovation.

We invest in founders with laser-focused ambition to define technology across AI and deep tech. No stage is too early. Our role is to be their first call, fiercest champion and long-term partner from idea to impact.

Brands and technologies reshaping culture. Align invests in early-stage consumer brands with strong brand equity and unit economics, and in frontier technologies (AI/robotics, clean energy, defense) transforming how people live and work. First-check conviction investor with meaningful follow-on capital and co-investment access.

Alkemi backs bold, governance-aligned founders building scalable Indian healthcare and wellness companies with validated product-market fit, providing long-term partnership capital and hands-on operator support to accelerate market-leading companies.

Consumer-obsessed venture capital firm that identifies cultural narratives and consumer behavior shifts before they become mainstream. Invests in brands that listen to consumers and challenge the status quo. Focus areas: End of Excess, Mental Health, Cannabis Stigma, Off Devices, Financial Health, Food Fight. Concentrated investment strategy with deep brand-building support.

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.

GO CAPITAL finances sustainable, responsible innovation rooted in the territories, backing high-growth companies in digital, health, cleantech, industry, and the maritime/blue economy across western and national France.

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.

Software is eating the world, but we're eating hard tech. We are the scientific founder's partner, providing capital and co-creation to help academic researchers translate deep science into commercial hard-tech companies.

Profit is the result of doing the right thing, every day. Convent backs founder-led, commercially proven companies with sustainability at the core of their strategy, supporting the transition from a linear to a circular economy in agriculture, food, materials, and water.

Close the gap between early-stage funding and durable Series B+ outcomes in India by pairing growth-stage capital with structural operating support (CXO Genie, Founders Genie) for founders solving large, structurally underserved Indian problems.

Place matters. Exceptional founders who deliberately build in rural communities create stronger, more resilient companies. We provide first-check capital to founders with vision, grit, and roots—because we believe culture-aligned companies outperform.

BGF provides patient, minority growth capital to ambitious SMEs and deep tech/life sciences startups across the UK and Ireland. Founded to address the SME funding gap, BGF never takes controlling stakes, provides long-term support without fixed exit deadlines, and offers portfolio access to its talent network, operating specialists, and community platform.

Women-led companies outperform male-led peers financially while using less capital. True Wealth Ventures combines gender-lens investing with impact focus, exclusively backing women-led companies improving environmental and/or human health. This unlocks superior returns while creating measurable social impact.

Climate restoration through identification and scaling of 'n of 1' technology opportunities combining innovative tech, viable business models, and visionary leadership. Focus on achieving $1B+ valuations in <10 years with 'scale and speed' mentality.

LvlUp backs founders across every stage, geography, and industry, using a large distributed network of associates and scouts to source and support a very high volume of small checks, paired with accelerator and mentorship infrastructure.

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.

Leaps by Bayer invests in teams pursuing fundamental breakthroughs in life science targeting ten huge challenges across health and agriculture — from curing genetic diseases and cancer to transforming sustainable farming. They seek paradigm-shifting biotechnologies that move medicine from treating symptoms to curing or preventing diseases, and transform agriculture to nourish a growing population while restoring the planet.

Piton Capital backs online businesses with network effects, especially marketplace, platform, and exchange-like products where scale creates a stronger moat.

We draw startups that transform society with imagination and technology into a spiral of growth, focusing on vast market opportunities (industry transformation, DeepTech, industry-agnostic advanced technology) paired with strong management teams.

Partner with passionate entrepreneurs building enduring, tech-enabled businesses in India. Be the first institutional investor and provide patient capital with long fund cycles, supporting companies from seed to pre-IPO.

Entrepreneurs will change the trajectory of climate change. We build ventures from pre-team/pre-idea founders with the potential to mitigate at least 10 million tonnes of CO2e annually at scale.

Permanent balance-sheet investor backing highly defensible, category-defining, mission-driven companies solving the world's biggest problems. Focus on founders transforming legacy industries with emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Transformative businesses are co-created by a tribe combining financial, social, and intellectual capital; we back India-rooted founders with global ambition who have reached product-market fit and show a path to profitable revenue.

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.

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

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.

The dedicated partner for entrepreneurs and investors building long-term value: patient growth capital plus deep sector expertise and a global operating platform for category-leading, capital-efficient businesses at an inflection point.

Resilient, Efficient, Clean, Affordable, Secure: emerging technologies can transform how the world produces, powers, and consumes without sacrificing current standards of living, especially technologies nearing price parity with incumbents and strengthening secure, resilient supply chains.

We back exceptional AI-native founders, industry agnostic, at pre-seed and seed, and build alongside them from day one as Co-founder Capital: a fund raised entirely from entrepreneurs whose mentor network stays hands-on with every portfolio company.

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.

We back engineering-first founders building IP-driven, manufacturing-led businesses across advanced manufacturing, automation, energy, space, and defence, investing post-validation to help them scale production capability.

Investing in technological innovation to drive value creation with social impact, combining a VC lens on growth potential and industry trends with a growth investor's risk discipline. Sources opportunities in healthcare, AI & technology, consumer, and enterprise solutions, with a strong bias toward scientist-entrepreneur-led hard tech.

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.

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

Partnering with brilliant founders to upend the status quo by investing in AI-driven software, sustainability technologies, and innovative consumer brands. We believe AI will dominate software over the next decade, and we seek to support founders reimagining industries across all three sectors.

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.

Back big-dreaming European founders building century-defining businesses, leveraging the Benetton family's industrial network for strategic support and patient capital.

Congruent partners with audacious founders building transformative companies that solve climate challenges through innovation in atoms (hardware), bits (software), and business models. We leverage decades of climate tech expertise to support early-stage entrepreneurs creating solutions that do more with less.

Passion Capital backs outstanding European founders building in AI, FinTech, and Enterprise Risk, investing at the pre-seed and seed stage—often before revenue or product exist. Europe's first operator-led VC fund, pioneering Plain English term sheets. Writes initial cheques of £400K–£500K as the founders' first institutional investor.

Back category-leading consumer, media, and technology platforms in Greater China, and increasingly frontier AI and strategic-materials companies with defensible, hard-to-replicate supply chains.

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.

Mérieux Equity Partners is a leading European healthcare-specialized investment firm, powered by Institut Mérieux, investing in companies with ambitious growth projects and products or services transformative for health. It supports development and growth from business launch to large-scale deployment through capital investment and tailor-made, sector-expert support.

Patient and intelligent capital for rapidly scaling entrepreneurial companies with a transatlantic footprint. US funds target Midwest Series A+ companies with ARR >$3M; UK funds target Series A/B companies with £1M+ revenue. Hands-on operational support through the Beringea Scale-Up Academy and transatlantic network.

Nurture inspiring, globally-ambitious technology ideas through their critical early stage, financially and professionally, drawing on an international team's expertise in entrepreneurship, M&A, media/marketing, and operations, plus a network of experienced mentors.

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.

Build lifestyle e-commerce ecosystems in Europe, Latin America, and India by investing in food delivery, fintech, classifieds, consumer services, and AI. Partner with entrepreneurs to help them become global success stories, leveraging Prosus's operational expertise, ecosystem synergies, and global network.

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.

The $12 trillion food and agriculture industries still rely on centuries-old methods. We back disruptive science and technology to modernize the food system—from biotech and sensors to automation and software—to feed 10 billion people by 2050 while preserving nature and nurturing humankind.

Founders first: back people over markets, enter early, and stay with entrepreneurs through every phase, drawing on a team composed largely of former founders and operators.

Innovation is essential to solving climate change while maintaining prosperity. Superior performance and affordability are prerequisites for global scale. We provide patient capital and technical expertise to help breakthrough climate technologies achieve commercial viability.

First-check VC backing Baltic founders (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) at inception and pre-seed stages, with a strong focus on AI-first software. Backs founders who don't fit traditional VC criteria—no FAANG background or Ivy League degree required. Seeks undervalued talent before mainstream investor recognition.

Creative technologists at the frontiers of technology and design create transformative companies. The true art of building lies in setting the right culture and early-stage environment for meaningful companies to begin, grow, scale, and endure.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

More than 80% of UK venture capital is concentrated in London and the South East. PXN backs high-growth founders in the North of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland with capital (£200K-£8M) plus hands-on, "more than money" operational support.

The era of transformational science is here. Life sciences and industrial markets are being reshaped by founders who move fast and build at the intersection of biology, chemistry, computation, and AI. This is a step-change in how science becomes solutions. We back bold founders who go beyond solving technical problems to redefine entire markets.

By 2050 the world needs to remove 5-10 billion tonnes of CO2e per year, a ~4,000x expansion of current carbon removal capacity. Counteract backs founders across every CDR pathway (DAC, mineralization, biomass, ocean, soil, MRV) rather than betting on one technology, prioritizing catalytic scale, novel science, self-sustaining economics, and regenerative co-benefits.

The combination of purpose and profit amplifies performance. The next generation of extraordinary companies will harness technology to solve system-critical problems that fundamentally improve the lives of people and the longevity of the planet, across Health and Wellbeing, Economic Empowerment, and Sustainable Planet.

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.

Australia's first and only specialist agrifood tech VC, backing early-stage founders solving practical problems for Australian and comparable farming conditions to accelerate a resilient, regenerative agri-food future.

Backs early-stage companies building groundbreaking exponential technologies that can transform societies and help countries achieve higher levels of economic progress, bridging US deep-tech deal flow with a large Southeast Asian corporate and family-office LP network.

Backs insurgent consumer brands in India and Southeast Asia with patient capital, brand discipline, and hands-on operating support.

Apply revolutionary biotechnology to replace industrial inputs with biology-based alternatives, transforming how the world manufactures chemicals, materials, foods, and medicines. Synthetic biology is a $25T opportunity spanning industrial inputs, food & agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and specialized applications.

Mercia backs ambitious UK founders with early traction in software and AI, consumer, deep tech, and life sciences, and pairs capital with practical support through a long-term partnership.

Leverage the confluence of consumption, financial inclusion and technology across emerging low- and middle-income populations to build sustainable, scalable businesses that benefit investors and society.

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.

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

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.

Exceptional founders from overlooked backgrounds (women, people of color, LGBTQ+) can build unicorns if given capital, support, and belief at the earliest stage. We invest before institutional bias catches up, capturing outsized returns while advancing founder diversity.

Theme-specific venture capital and private equity across the seed-to-mature spectrum, backing Saudi technology-driven businesses aligned with Vision 2030 economic diversification, plus a parallel credit advisory practice spanning sukuk and private credit for mid-market corporates.

It matters not only which companies get started, but who starts them. EF identifies exceptional individual talent before a company, co-founder, or idea exists, and builds the company from Day Zero through cohort-based co-founder matching, an equity-free grant phase, and up to $250K in formation capital (via SAFE) once a team passes its Investment Committee.

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

Technology without commercialization is just expensive science. FORWARD.one backs performance-driven European industrial technology founders obsessed with commercial execution, providing capital plus unfiltered operating feedback to build category leaders.

Amex Ventures backs companies that transform the everyday through digital solutions enhancing business and consumer interactions, with a mandate to find startups that can strengthen American Express's Consumer Card Membership value proposition and create commercialization opportunities across the Amex business.

Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd) is a state-owned investment company that helps Finland's most promising companies grow bigger. Tesi invests on market terms as a minority co-investor alongside private capital in Finnish startups, scale-ups, and industrial projects, as well as in VC and PE funds. Its mandate is both financial returns and economic impact — driving growth, jobs, and renewal in the Finnish economy.

The best ideas don't come from a screen—they're born offline in the real world. We invest in founders who build differently, prioritizing how they build as much as what they build. We believe original thinking, human-centric innovation, and founder wellness are prerequisites for building great companies.

Pathbreaker invests in specialized engineering and product leaders solving critical global problems through emerging technologies (hardware and software). The fund believes AI, robotics, and computer vision will transform traditional industries over the coming decades. Pathbreaker focuses on companies tackling $100B+ problems at inception and pre-seed stages.

The adverbs matter just as much as the verbs — how you build is as important as what you build. Exceptional people and character transform ideas into industry-shaping companies. We back extraordinary founders at pre-seed and seed who have unique insight into their market and the operational excellence to build in the right way.

Driving positive, lasting change in food and agriculture creates exceptional financial outcomes. Impact and return aren't trade-offs—they're intertwined. Both are essential. We invest in technologies and companies addressing human health, planetary well-being, responsible production, and climate solutions.

Backing entrepreneurs on a mission to build great companies: innovative software-based technology companies from the Nordics that can become sector leaders while driving transformation toward a long-term sustainable society.

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

Intelligence is coming into the physical world through AI and robotics applied to atoms rather than bits. We back capex-heavy, long-horizon bets in hard-to-abate decarbonization sectors and hardware-heavy industrial systems that many traditional early-stage funds avoid.

Women founders represent an overlooked asset class that delivers superior returns. Women-founded companies earn 26% more for investors, yet receive only 2% of venture funding. We invest exclusively in women-founded companies, providing capital, network access, and operational support to drive transformative change.

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.

We invest in mission-driven companies that dare to tackle impossible challenges, striving to transform industries and create lasting societal impact. We seek founders with audacity to dream big, resilience to persevere, and potential to build forever companies that shape human history.

Exceptional founders can build profitable businesses while solving urgent environmental challenges. We provide capital plus deep operational expertise in sales, talent, and fundraising. Focus on transition from finite to infinite sources of energy, food, water, and products.

Invest in early-stage companies using disruptive deep tech to upend unit economics of established industries while delivering climate-positive outcomes. Focus on undercapitalized climate verticals (water, agriculture, robotics, materials, energy) where deep tech can achieve 2.5-3x unit economics improvement paired with environmental benefits.

Broad-spectrum deep-tech and technology investor with particular conviction in AI, climate tech, and healthcare, pairing capital with hands-on operational support and open-innovation partnerships between startups and major Japanese corporations.

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

We back deeply technical founders solving hard problems with innovative technologies. Combining capital with go-to-market expertise and structured fellowships, we partner with founders who have authentic personal connections to their problems and bring novel technological approaches to market.

Back stellar founders building iconic businesses in India, with a focus on technology and tech-enabled sectors. 60% of investments are at the idea/inception stage. Conviction-led, always lead their investments, prioritize real growth alongside valuations.

NextView helps entrepreneurs build companies of consequence. We lead rounds for pre-traction companies leveraging software to solve mass-market human problems. We operate as equal partners with deep experience, acting decisively and empowering founders.

Patient, founder-friendly capital for mission-driven companies in natural foods, CPG, and outdoor/active lifestyle. We partner with visionary founders building sustainable companies that make a positive impact on people and planet. Our long-term investment horizon and operational expertise enable us to be true partners in building enduring brands.

Entrepreneurship × Exponential Growth. We back visionary founders solving systemic inefficiencies across the food and agriculture value chain. Our co-founders combine operational expertise (Providence growth equity, White House service, corporate law) with deep commitment to founder success.

We discover, fund, and help scale emerging cult consumer brands: products with fanatical, identity-driven followings, backed with growth capital and operational support across beauty, food & beverage, homecare, pet, and wellness.

Exceptional talent and innovation exist beyond coastal venture capital hubs. We partner with mission-driven entrepreneurs to build companies of impact, utility, and value in the Rocky Mountain region. Technical founders with regional commitment and proven execution ability are our ideal partners.

Invest from first principles and commit deeply to founders. TQ rejects thematic investing and backs exceptional founding teams with unique, compelling market visions — category creators rather than incremental improvers. They target companies that have raised less than $1.5M, positioning them as one of the first institutional checks.

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.

We partner with visionary, founder-led consumer brands generating $1M-$10M in revenue, providing early-stage capital plus hands-on operational, marketing, e-commerce, and downstream-capital support to accelerate growth.

Great entrepreneurs build great businesses. We provide expansion capital, deep operating experience, and an expansive network to established, rapidly growing, founder-led companies in software, tech-enabled services, and healthcare across the Southeast and Texas, without taking control of the business.

Backs ambitious tech founders from pre-seed to Series A through EIS/SEIS tax-efficient fund structures in the UK. Focus on Vertical AI, AI-enabled software, and FinTech 2.0. Founded by serial entrepreneur Mark Pearson, the firm brings operational expertise as entrepreneurs who have built and exited companies.

We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life. We focus on AI-native founders building companies with strong founder-product fit, aligned on mission and meaning, seeking creative freedom and psychological safety. Great companies are built by diverse teams supported and empowered to be maximally creative.

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.

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.

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

Deep tech startups at the edge of what is possible solve critical human and planetary health problems. SOSV backs founders combining scientific rigor with entrepreneurial grit, providing not just capital but access to specialized labs, manufacturing, and global expertise networks.

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.

Disruptive ideas supercharged: back seed-stage deep tech and hardware (including hardware-interfacing software) companies in the Nordics and Baltics that deliver social or environmental impact, getting involved before revenue and pushing portfolio companies to revenue within six months.

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 invest in people and give them freedom and support needed to execute their vision. We rely on data to measure, manage and monetize. We encourage bold ideas which are true, firm, confident, strong and resilient. We praise agility - the key to success in a competitive environment. We invest in early-stage companies operating with clear focus on sustainability in every dimension: business practices, unit economics and environmental impact.

We invest in science- and mission-driven founders building deep tech that transforms large industries for good, across Applied Science & Digital Transformation and Climate & Ocean Tech.

Back 'crazy dreamers' — founders with exceptional tenacity, ambition, and vision who are building transformative companies. BASS serves as the 'bassist' providing foundational support: capital, operational resources, global cloud credits, and talent. Focus on AI software, physical AI, and fashion & beauty in 2025.

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

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.

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.

Invest in disruptive deep tech and science companies transforming global industries, bridging the capital gap for early-stage entrepreneurs with a capital-efficient model spanning seed option-bets through growth-equity leads.

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.

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

Operator-led firm running two funds: Digital (Pre-Seed/Seed, €0.5M-€3M initial) backing enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, AI/DevTools and fintech automation founders from beta to global blue-chip accounts; and Greentech Industry (Series A/B, €3M-€10M initial) financing the first industrial plants (FOAK) of European cleantech and deep-tech companies bridging pilot to commercial scale.

Founders backed by entrepreneurs. ZAKA bridges North American and CEE startup ecosystems, investing pre-seed to seed in Health & Biotech and Industrial Tech. The firm deploys institutional capital while leveraging operator networks to help European founders scale globally.

EPIC Ventures backs early-stage technology companies building in the information economy, with a focus on enterprise SaaS, healthcare technology, cybersecurity, and future of work. The firm believes the best way to build lasting companies is through genuine partnership with founders — providing capital, strategic guidance, operational expertise, and deep network access. Founded in 1994, EPIC helped build the Utah tech ecosystem and continues to be the foundational VC of the Mountain West.

Frontier Tech fund focusing on startups that apply advanced technologies to solve Real Problems. Three core verticals: AI Software & Applications, AI Hardware & Embodied Intelligence, and AI for Science & Manufacturing. 'See them as ourselves' — we succeed when our founders succeed.

Backing founders and teams building lasting companies across TMT, healthcare, consumer & entertainment, and advanced manufacturing/clean tech, with a multi-decade time horizon and a bridge role between China and global capital markets.

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.

We invest in hard tech and hard sectors—companies building solutions to difficult, underexplored problems that others won't. Unlocking society's potential depends on founders willing to build what others won't. We're hyper curious, drawn to difficult and underexplored areas.

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

We believe in the transformative power of individuals to drive systemic change and shape a more sustainable future. We champion visionary pre-seed/seed founders addressing humanity's most critical challenges over the next 30 years, regardless of sector or geography.

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

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

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.

Upstate New York can be the region for high-growth startup success. We provide mentorship, capital, and connections to fuel innovation, job creation, and regional economic growth. Founders aligned with community impact, job creation, and solving regional challenges are ideal.

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.

Demea Sustainable Investment backs startups, SMEs, mid-caps, and infrastructure projects driving the ecological and agricultural transition, across agriculture, agri-food, energy, environment, sustainable solutions, and green industry, with capital ranging from venture and growth equity through buyout, infrastructure, mezzanine, and private debt.

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

Backing technical founders pre-pitch deck. Helen invests in engineers with technical depth, high learning rates, commercial instincts, and track records of pursuing ambitious long-term bets — before consensus forms around them.

Back early-stage technology and brands that will shape pop culture — tools that help artists and brands find, engage, and monetize fans — using the Crush Music artist roster (Miley Cyrus, Green Day, Sia, Lorde, Weezer, Fall Out Boy) as live distribution and validation.

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.

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.

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

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.

Gender-diverse teams produce superior returns on equity. We fund exceptional women-led startups where women hold meaningful operating C-suite roles and own substantial equity. Research shows companies with diverse female leadership are 39% more likely to be above-average profitable, 30% more likely to outperform, and 20% more likely to improve business outcomes.

Backing transformative founders building exceptional companies across all sectors

Make no little plans. Support revolutionary (not evolutionary) ideas that transform industries and benefit society. We partner with entrepreneurs solving massively multi-disciplinary problems at the intersection of AI, data, biotech, and deep tech. Our style of in-the-trenches venture capital doesn't scale—we make fewer than 10 investments per year so we have time to roll up our sleeves with every team we back.

Canadians have built over $1 trillion in enterprise value globally, yet were initially backed by US VC not Canadian investors. We back founders with Canadian roots—regardless of where they build—because exceptional talent from Canada represents a sustainable, quantifiable selection edge.

Ascend backs the most active pre-seed founders in the Pacific Northwest building SaaS 3.0 (vertical AI agents), Gen AI 2.0 (fast-follower infrastructure), and Frontier AI (AI applied to the physical world). Seattle has one in four of the U.S.'s AI engineers — Ascend captures that alpha as the first institutional check.

Quantitative, data-driven investing at the Pre-VC stage. We invest in capital-efficient technology startups with $5K–$30K+ MRR at $1.5M–$4M valuations. Fast decisions (one week), no gatekeepers, no BS.

Patient, operator-led capital behind promising India-first consumer businesses, built for Indian consumers rather than adapted from Western models.

Disciplined, sector-focused investing that develops proprietary investment themes ahead of the market, then partners with exceptional Indian entrepreneurs to help them navigate sustainable, category-leading growth.

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

Backing innovators, outliers, creators, pioneers, and trailblazers pushing the boundaries of science and technology to solve the world's greatest challenges, with an 'all gas no brakes' commitment to founders once invested.

Investing in breakthrough deep technologies that address humanity's greatest challenges. We allocate ~80% to climate solutions (carbon-negative materials, renewable energy, climate adaptation) and ~20% to frontier tech (aerospace, robotics, advanced materials, biotech). We operate as a venture-and-philanthropy platform backed by the Fukutake family, blending profit-seeking with impact objectives.

Talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not. We invest in early-stage companies led by founders whose lived experiences are their competitive advantage. We believe the best products are aligned with the values of the communities they serve.

Southern European entrepreneurs (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian) possess exceptional engineering talent and are forced to have an international mindset from day one due to limited local markets. Indico backs the most globally promising companies from these ecosystems across enterprise SaaS, AI, deep tech, fintech, healthtech, spacetech, and the ocean/blue economy.

Partner with passionate consumer brand founders who have achieved post-traction revenue validation ($500K-$10M), providing both capital and hands-on operational support to accelerate growth

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.

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).

The longevity economy is a massive addressable market. Companies transforming quality of life for aging adults will be highly profitable and impactful. Experienced founders over 50 solve aging problems better because they understand them firsthand.

Exceptional entrepreneurs and innovative business ideas exist everywhere, not just traditional tech hubs. TVF invests in companies solving real problems in underserved regions, particularly the Colorado Plateau.

The most enduring companies are created by founders willing to commercialize real science and scale real systems. We focus on hard tech at the intersection of computation and physical sciences—aerospace, biotech, energy, materials—where technical execution is the moat.

Growth equity investment in early-stage natural and organic food and beverage companies. BIGR leverages 70+ years of combined industry expertise, unparalleled distribution relationships through Presence Marketing (largest independent natural foods broker), and hands-on operational support to maximize growth potential.

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.

Investing where biology and technology converge, backing category-defying founders whose work blurs the line between life sciences and technology.

Invest in companies addressing fundamental societal needs. Provide Talent/Capital/Attention platform via in-house content and advisory network. Mission-driven investments with specialized expertise in healthcare, climate, robotics, and deep tech.

We back entrepreneurs obsessed with solving big problems using capital-efficient technology. We focus on early-stage tech startups in North America and Western Europe building game-changing B2B software across fintech, logistics, proptech, HR tech, legal tech, and cybersecurity.

Climate is the biggest challenge of our lifetime and the greatest business opportunity of the coming decades. We back visionaries accelerating climate innovation that will reshape our global economy for the betterment of people and planet. The most successful companies are born from a vision for a better future and the ability of that vision to create large, lasting positive impact. We invest in frontier technologies addressing climate across seven sectors: Built Environment, Carbon Management, Compute, Energy, Food & Agriculture, Manufacturing & Industrials, and Mobility. The best ideas come from everywhere—we operate where many venture firms can't or won't.

Deeptech Labs is the catalyst for deep tech success: it backs seed-stage startups where a novel underlying technology is fundamental to the business, and embeds each cohort in a network of entrepreneurs, researchers, and corporate partners to prepare them for a strong Series A.

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.

Automotive Ventures backs seed-stage founders across the mobility stack, from vehicle connectivity and autonomy to decarbonization, auto commerce, smart cities, and dealership technology, pairing capital with deep automotive-industry relationships and operational expertise.

Uncovering potential through collective conviction. Quorum engineers a system for selecting early-stage startups that leverages the discernment of domain experts via Specialist Limited Partners (SLPs) who earn carry on deals they source or evaluate. This creates specialist-level conviction across generalist domains.

We invest in founder-owned, capital-efficient businesses that aspire to lead their markets, keeping business human through transparent, genuine partnership.

The best founders want to be backed by other founders. Smaller funds run by founders perform best at pre-seed/seed stage. We operate as a decentralized fund-of-micro-funds empowering founder-GPs across global regions.

Fund companies that help people live longer and live better through science and technology. We support exceptional technical founders solving real health and happiness problems with scientific rigor and consumer appeal. Our data-driven methodology and proprietary ML platform identify outsize return potential in complex early-stage companies.

Women receive only 2% of venture capital despite female-founded startups delivering 2x return per dollar vs. all-male teams. The Helm invests in game-changing, undervalued companies at seed stage founded by women, providing not just capital but operational support and ecosystem access.

Partner with exceptional founders to build rocketships, focusing on enterprise, B2B, and fintech categories, with capital, strategic insight, and network access.

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.

Back technical founders bringing AI to the physical world — manufacturing, logistics, construction, defence, energy, and infrastructure. Bridge the gap between AI pilots and production-deployed systems generating enterprise revenue.

Build, expand, and capture opportunity in open markets and permissionless technology by being deep, hands-on users of the crypto ecosystems Nascent backs, combining venture-style early investing with a liquid trading strategy.

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

Technology can have a highly disruptive impact on society. We back founders on the forefront of innovation with clear vision towards positive change, leveraging domain expertise to ensure value creation. Founder-first approach with operational support.

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.

Identifying culturally resonant, consumer-focused companies with differentiated products and founder teams that will capture global attention. We invest across technology, consumer behavior, entertainment, and culture—seeking to spot emerging trends before they reach mainstream awareness. We operate as a partnership combining rigorous deal selection with exceptional founder support, creative marketing, and deep understanding of consumer psychology.

Reducing friction in commerce transactions through infrastructure, vertical AI solving boring complex problems, and next-generation marketplaces with proprietary AI moats. We back founders removing friction from how the world gets things done.

Women-led startups are systematically underfunded relative to their performance, creating a durable arbitrage opportunity. Scale backs founding teams with at least one woman co-founder holding equal equity and C-suite decision-making power, prioritizing Care Tech, Climate Tech, Consumer Tech, and AI-driven businesses.

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

By entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs — backing bold founders creating societal value through AI-native vertical software, momentum-driven market shifts, and Japanese founders scaling to the US. Operates both as a direct investor and as a venture builder co-creating startups from scratch.

Support innovative, research-originated solutions for a better agrifood system, combining capital with hands-on venture-building and technical incubation for Italian university spinouts and deep-tech agrifood founders.

Purpose and Profit are inextricably linked. We invest in middle-market and growth consumer companies that have earned customer trust and loyalty, demonstrate a commitment to all stakeholders, and are led by management teams empowering positive purpose and performance.

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

Sustainable Ventures backs early-stage climate tech founders with venture-scale potential, providing SEIS/EIS-qualifying capital alongside an intensive 12-month accelerator programme of 1:1 operational support, grant-writing, and R&D tax credit assistance.

We invest in people who will transform the physical world. Near frontier technology solving climate change, disease, armed conflict, poverty, and existential risks. Technical founders building capital-intensive, long-horizon companies.

Invest in emerging consumer brands that enrich the human experience. Partner with founders who understand authentic storytelling, disciplined capital deployment, and efficient unit economics. Look for brands positioned at the blurry edge—adjacent to massive incumbents but serving underserved customer demand.

Top-tier venture capital returns alongside meaningful social, environmental, and economic impact — the Double Bottom Line — with no tradeoff. DBL invests in mission-driven founders across clean energy, agriculture, nature-based solutions, health, economic opportunity, mobility, and the space/Earth nexus.

ACF Investors co-invests alongside experienced syndicates of sector-smart angel investors to fund and scale early-stage UK businesses across most sectors, aligning capital, sharing due diligence, and providing ongoing post-investment support.

We invest as close to the first check as possible in founders building consumer brands, PropTech solutions, and Future of Work tools. We maintain deep relationships with founders, provide operational support, and leverage our extensive network to drive introductions and capital.

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.

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.

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.

Seed and pre-seed VC for applied-AI founders. We help teams land first customers, get live, staff deployments, and build durable customer success motions.

Stripes invests in companies with exceptional products for consumers and businesses, acting as an of-service growth partner. Product-market fit is the prerequisite; Stripes provides the operational muscle — go-to-market, talent, network, and capital markets support — to scale from product-led growth to market-leading brand.

A down-to-earth VC with sky-high ambitions, backing Europe's earliest-stage founders with concrete, pragmatic, hands-on support from pre-seed through Series A.

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

Backing underestimated ventures that overdeliver. Bridge invests in overlooked categories underserved by innovation — vertical software, marketplaces, and consumer brands — backing experienced founders with deep domain expertise building capital-efficient companies.

Back early-stage founders building the next paradigm in emerging technologies. We operate like a product studio—contributing code, designing token economics, and providing hands-on partnership rather than just capital.

Backing companies making a dent in the universe. We prioritize obsessively passionate founding teams and ambition over any specific industry vertical, powered by a 120+ member community of tech operators who source deal flow and support portfolio companies.

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

Illuminate backs B2B/enterprise software founders building platforms and applications that leverage data and AI to quickly drive meaningful ROI, positioning itself as a startup's first institutional investor between angel capital and traditional VC.

Catalyze innovation and impact by supporting early-stage startups and nonprofits building solutions for a more inclusive and sustainable future. Four focus areas: Environment, Health & Wellbeing, Economic Empowerment, and Education & Human Capital.

Where capital becomes culture. Dreamers VC bridges established Japanese corporate investors with early-stage US companies by combining entertainment, sports, and technology expertise. The fund leverages celebrity networks, entertainment channels, and Japanese corporate partnerships to amplify storytelling and enable cross-cultural market expansion.

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.

Great entrepreneurship exists everywhere—not just in traditional tech hubs. We invest in high-potential early-stage founders with a focus on underrepresented geographies (Midwest, Latin America) and demographics (women, minorities, immigrants). Beyond capital, we provide strategic guidance, ecosystem connections, and relocation support through our Tulsa-based infrastructure.

Back exceptional founders at the earliest stages of their ventures in the future of commerce. We invest in ambitious, passionate, gritty, disruptive founders reshaping how products are discovered, purchased, and experienced.

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.

Invest in early-stage, scalable ventures with exceptional founders building emerging technology across Digital Health, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Agriculture, and Energy, digitally transforming industries core to the strengths of our Green Bay Packers and Microsoft partners and the Midwest region.

Women of color are exceptional, resilient founders systematically underinvested in by traditional venture capital. By providing capital, operational support, and public advocacy, Fearless Fund generates competitive returns while advancing economic inclusion and addressing critical market inefficiencies.

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

Back exceptional founders — primarily from Israel — building transformative companies in cybersecurity, fintech, AI, digital health, and deep tech. Offer true partnership beyond capital: hands-on guidance, global network access (Softbank, Fujitsu, NTT, Vodafone), and unwavering support from first check through exit. Invest across both early and growth stages via two parallel fund families.

Third Nature invests in entrepreneurs building businesses that work in partnership with nature to address interconnected earth systems challenges. We believe that silver bullets and singular investments can't solve urgent planetary challenges—instead, we back founders whose uncompromising vision transforms entire markets and sectors for planetary regeneration.

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.

Early-stage venture capital for IT and Biotech companies in Colorado Front Range and Mid-Atlantic. Focus on experienced founding teams solving important problems with potential for significant financial returns. Patient capital approach with operational support and deep regional networks.

Former operators investing in disruptive, branded growth and venture-stage consumer products and specialty retail/restaurant businesses, pairing capital with hands-on operating help in brand strategy, sourcing, distribution, and working capital planning.

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.

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

Global environmental challenges cannot be solved by established mega-corporations alone, but rather require breakthrough innovation from a diverse set of new companies. We combine venture capital with integrated storytelling and media to create culture-defining content around climate solutions and sustainable technology adoption.

Ag Startup Engine serves as the bridge between early-stage agricultural entrepreneurs and an investor base composed entirely of industry operators, backing problem-centric, gritty founders solving significant, well-defined problems across the agriculture value chain, from seed to consumption, with a Midwest emphasis.

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.

We back founders before the world notices. Early-stage capital for founders building category-defining companies, backed by an operator-led team of repeat founders bringing product instinct, go-to-market expertise, and real operating experience.

Support unconventional, bold founder-led companies solving real problems at the earliest stages. We provide capital, operational mentorship, and resources to pre-revenue and pre-seed startups that traditional investors overlook.

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