Top Gaming Investors 2026

Veteran game developers investing in teams making games. We invest in talented development teams early (pre-revenue, pre-product) and provide operational support, strategic guidance, and access to Nordic gaming network. We celebrate both wins and failures as learning iterations toward long-term success.

Backing builders of the future of interactive entertainment. We invest across games, content, platforms, and ecosystem technologies with conviction that visionary founders are driving transformation in how we play, watch, create, and live.

Gaming is the fastest-growing consumer trend globally. We provide capital combined with deep industry expertise, strategic relationships, and operational support to help founders build the next generation of gaming companies.

Building a diverse and inclusive community of talented, experienced, creative independent game developers. We support indie teams with capital, operational expertise, and community resources to help them create great games and achieve sustainable success.

Build the very best teams in the world at making games, give them the resources and support they need, and then get out of their way. We invest in creative, independent studios and game tech teams striving to make truly great games that are played by millions of people for years to come. We provide capital, operational expertise, community access, and partner support while respecting complete founder autonomy and creative control.

Tencent invests in gaming studios and platforms that will drive the future of interactive entertainment. We provide capital, publishing expertise, and global distribution access while preserving studio independence and creative autonomy. We believe the best games come from empowered teams, and our role is to enable their success through resources and strategic guidance.

BITKRAFT invests in Synthetic Reality—the convergence of physical and digital worlds. We back gaming studios, interactive media platforms, and emerging technology (Web3, AI, AR/VR) that will define how humans experience entertainment and social connection in the future.

We leverage 130 years of entertainment heritage to identify gaming companies with strong IP and cross-media adaptation potential. We invest in developers and studios building franchises, providing publishing support, distribution, and opportunities for anime/film adaptation. We add value through media mix expansion, not just capital.

Play Ventures invests globally at pre-seed to Series A in game studios, playable consumer apps, and B2B/AI infrastructure and services that help games and consumer apps acquire, retain, and monetize users.

Backs AI-native entrepreneurs building the next generation of interactive entertainment. Partners with founders from pre-seed through Series A in a $263B global industry where AI is rewriting the economics. Team brings 70+ years of operator experience and $10B+ in lifetime revenue spanning every major gaming platform transition.

The gaming industry requires dedicated capital that understands both the creative and commercial challenges of building game companies. ForsVC backs the full gaming ecosystem — studios, technology platforms, publishers, and services — with hands-on operational support through their FORSight program.

Gaming is the largest entertainment medium. We back exceptional gaming founders and operators with capital, strategic support, and deep industry expertise.

We invest exclusively in game studios and gaming companies. We back founders with proven shipping track records, combine data-driven decision-making with artistic sensibility, and provide patient capital through the long cycles of game development. We believe games are the future of entertainment and will support the next generation of global gaming leaders.

Play Ventures invests early in the most promising game studios, consumer apps with gaming mechanics, and the B2B infrastructure powering the gaming ecosystem. They believe gaming is the dominant entertainment medium ($200B+) and 'playable apps' represent a massive $80B+ opportunity.

Competitive Entertainment — any form of recreation where winning matters. We invest at the software layer in sports betting, fantasy sports, gaming, esports, social sports venues, and fan engagement technology. We believe the most economically and experientially desirable place to build technology is where people lean forward and become enraptured in competition.

Velo Partners is a specialist gaming and gambling VC that invests across the full spectrum of the global gaming ecosystem — mobile, online, land-based, real-money, social, B2B, and B2C. They back companies with strong early traction and clear unit economics, providing hands-on governance and operational support. Through RNG Foundry, they also incubate early-stage iGaming content studios.

HIRO Capital is a founder-led VC firm investing in the Superabundant future of Humanity. We invest from Series A to Scale Up. We are optimists and futurists. We believe that Europe can and should be a global leader in the next phase of human evolution, enabled by technology. We know that people's creativity, ambition and entrepreneurship will build better human societies. Investment themes: AI · Infrastructure · Robotics (frontier models, world simulators, embodied AI, agentic infrastructure); Defence · Space · Sovereignty (dual-use platforms, the space economy, autonomy and European defence capacity); Sports · Augmentation · Longevity (performance data, AI healthspan, neurotech, the augmented athlete); Spatial · Simulation · Games (real-time engines, immersive computing, the next interactive media stack).

To steward capital with discipline and conviction, investing in innovative enterprises that create enduring value. Backs founders building technology solutions for Saudi Arabia's digital transformation, converting early traction into resilient growth through disciplined capital paired with operational expertise.

Founder-first mobile games fund that pairs capital with hands-on operating support in hiring, user acquisition, and monetization; backs disciplined, execution-focused teams over strategy decks.

B2B software and technology providers facilitating the digital migration of the real-money gaming industry. Bettor Capital backs the picks-and-shovels software supply chain powering sports betting, online casino, lottery, and iGaming operators — without competing with B2C operators.

We empower builders and creators with capital and deep operational expertise. Gaming is undergoing fundamental transformation at the intersection of AI, creator empowerment, and infrastructure evolution. We partner with technical founders building innovative games, creator tools, and gaming infrastructure.

Seed and early-stage technology companies with strong focus on Bitcoin ecosystem and gaming. We invest as a group of serial entrepreneurs who actively partner with world-class teams to build global category winners. Bitcoin is TCP/IP for realtime value transport on the Internet.

Sports, lifestyle, and gaming represent the next generation of consumer spending and time allocation. We partner with founders who challenge traditional definitions and build sustainable, scaled consumer businesses.

MTG is an international mobile gaming group that owns and operates gaming studios with popular global IPs across casual and midcore genres, supports portfolio company growth through shared commercial technology and tools, and participates in gaming industry consolidation through accretive M&A.

Bitcoin is the TCP/IP for real-time value transport on the Internet. We invest in seed-stage teams building the next generation of games, consumer products, and infrastructure on Bitcoin.

Konvoy invests in thesis-driven companies building the future of interactive entertainment, critical infrastructure, and deep tech. We combine deep gaming expertise with cross-sector innovation vision to identify platforms and technologies shaping the future.

Raine invests at the intersection of Sports, Content, Music, and Gaming — sectors they believe will compound from globalization and secular technology shifts. Their integrated merchant bank model combines proprietary deal flow from advisory relationships with deep sector expertise and a global network, allowing them to add unique strategic value as investors.

The future belongs to those who invest in it. Hartmann Capital is the institutional gateway to early-stage frontier tech — backing founders at the intersection of Generative AI, Brain-Computer Interfaces, XR & Spatial Computing, Programmable Biology, and Robotics. We identify innovations as they prepare to cross the chasm into mainstream adoption.

Seed and early-stage technology companies with strong focus on Bitcoin ecosystem and gaming. We invest as a group of serial entrepreneurs who actively partner with world-class teams to build global category winners. Bitcoin is TCP/IP for realtime value transport on the Internet.

Drive mass adoption of crypto and Web3 through investments in companies with strong tokenomics and utility design. Leverage ecosystem of 3,000+ LPs and 25,000+ gaming community to provide portfolio companies instant network effects and user acquisition.

The next decade will be defined by founders building intuitive, automated, taste-driven, and deeply personal consumer applications. We leverage gaming insights and community mechanics to back category-defining founders across wellness, media, education, commerce, and social. Gaming-native generation expects automation, personalization, and authentic community—we invest in founders who understand these mechanics.

From Gaming for Gaming - back pre-seed and seed founders building mobile, cross-platform, and AI-enhanced gaming and apps experiences, backed by an operator network of 35+ gaming industry veterans.

We empower tomorrow's game changers with capital, expertise, and networks. As gaming industry veterans, we provide first institutional checks to passionate founders building the future of gaming.

India's $30B+ gaming and interactive media market represents the world's most significant venture opportunity. We back category-defining founders building sustainable, innovative gaming companies in India.

Yolo backs truly outstanding operators disrupting norms in iGaming, fintech, and crypto. The firm leverages a decade of operational experience building world-class iGaming products to invest with deep domain expertise.

Post-seed financing for people and companies that have found product-market fit but are overlooked for no good reason — wrong pedigree, wrong geography, wrong sector, or outside the traditional network.

Strategic minority stakes in experienced game development studios with differentiated IP and AAA development talent. Emphasis on publishing partnerships, exclusive distribution rights, and leveraging NetEase's platform to monetize diverse game portfolios across international markets.

Multi-stage permanent capital vehicle backing 'outsiders obsessed with the overlooked' — idiosyncratic founders who don't fit the traditional SV mold, building companies in interactive content, social, gaming, and adjacent technology. Invest globally in a small, concentrated number of the most ambitious founders in the interactive space each year.

GFR Fund invests in pre-seed to Series A companies building emerging digitally-native communities in gaming, entertainment, and consumer tech. They seek founders who deeply understand community-building, whether they have a product with an existing community or are in early stages of building one. Strong focus on execution, founder-market fit, and capital efficiency.

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

Support disruptive web3 and blockchain companies with operational expertise and tokenomics guidance

We back the founders shaping how the world will play. Interactive entertainment is becoming the default way people spend time, money and attention. Chimera writes first cheques into the founders building the infrastructure underneath it: the monetisation, distribution and retention layers every consumer product depends on. Four arenas: infrastructure layer, games & studios, interactive media, consumer technology.

e2vc backs global-from-day-one, early-stage founders from Turkey, CEE, and the Baltics, investing Pre-Seed through Series A across gaming, AI/ML, health tech, developer tools/infrastructure, fintech, and enterprise software. The firm emphasizes founder community ("the Tribe"), hands-on support, and a NextGen program that invests in and mentors high-school-age founders.

Helping Founders do the Impossible: partnering with relentless founders in consumer and consumer-adjacent spaces, leveraging a unique LP network of iconic brands across sports, media, and entertainment.

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.

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

Invest in game industry-leading content, platforms, and technology, backing operators with track records at major gaming franchises and studios.

VR and AR are transformative technologies. We invest in early-stage companies creating novel experiences, content, and enabling infrastructure. We bring deep operational expertise from building FarmVille, Unreal Engine, Gears of War, and leading HTC's VR initiative.

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.

The Games Fund invests in early-stage game developers, gaming technologies, and services founded by industry veterans. We believe in founder-centric support: ambition, original IP, passion combined with proper resources. We move fast, speak the same language as developers, and provide capital plus experience and connections, not hands-on operational interference.

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.

We invest in early-stage Web3 companies that are building the future of decentralized finance, gaming, and blockchain infrastructure. Our motto is 'Founders First' - we partner with builders who have technical depth and a clear vision of solving real problems in crypto. We provide not just capital but also strategic access to our 100M+ user base, exchange infrastructure, and operational 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.

Gaming-born technologies—GPUs, real-time rendering, virtual economies—now power AI, spatial computing, and blockchain. We invest in the foundational infrastructure enabling the convergence of digital and physical worlds.

Blockchain technology represents a fundamental transformation of financial infrastructure. We invest exclusively in digital assets and blockchain companies to provide full-spectrum exposure to this emerging asset class. Technical founders building core infrastructure that others depend on will create significant value. As of May 2026, Pantera identifies AI and blockchain convergence, including agentic finance, machine-native money, and AI-agent payment and orchestration infrastructure, as a major research focus and growing area for incremental research time and investment dollars.

Actively champion founders and entrepreneurs, fostering a culture where startups thrive, while serving as the bridge to Sony that drives deeper engagements through technical expertise and network access. Focused on DeepTech, Entertainment, EnterpriseTech, Fintech/DLT, ClimateTech, and Location-Based Entertainment.

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.

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

Corporate venture arm of MIXI, Inc. investing primarily in Indian startups within Digital Entertainment, Lifestyle, and Sports, guided by MIXI's philosophy of "Connection with meaning" and pairing capital with strategic access to MIXI's gaming and entertainment operating expertise.

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

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

The $1T+ media, entertainment, and sports industries are experiencing fundamental disruption. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs building category-defining companies that transform how people consume, create, and engage with entertainment and sports.

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

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.

Passion-driven, technical teams are uniquely positioned to capture emerging opportunities at the intersection of gaming, sports technology, and fintech. We partner with founders who combine technical depth with genuine passion for their domain and deep understanding of their user communities. User engagement is the critical lever across all three sectors—not vanity metrics like downloads, but active, monetizing users drive platform value.

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology will fundamentally restructure global financial systems. We invest in category-defining protocols and companies that reshape trillion-dollar markets through permissionless finance, technical innovation, and new economic paradigms enabled by blockchain. Particular focus on execution layers, DeFi infrastructure, stablecoins, payments, and emerging categories like DePIN, FHE, and crypto-AI intersection.

LGV backs early-stage and growth-stage innovators with the strategic strength of LG Group's global resources. The fund invests in companies that stand to gain exceptional value from partnerships with LG's manufacturing, display, chemical, and energy business units, with a strong focus on AI, biotech, cleantech, and advanced materials.

We empower exceptional founders in gaming (Play) and enterprise technology (Work) from early stage to exit. Through stable capital, an established network, deep expertise, and integrated founder office infrastructure, we provide flexible capital structures and strategic partnership to drive founder success.

CEE founders (Polish, Ukrainian, Romanian, etc.) are building the next generation of global software companies. We partner with experienced operators who combine deep industry expertise with serial entrepreneurship. Geographic arbitrage: exceptional technical talent in CEE with lower burn rates, global ambition. We provide early capital plus connections to Silicon Valley for follow-on funding (80% of portfolio follow-ons from SV/Europe/Asia). Goal: $500M+ exits in 8-10 years.

World-class founders building generational brands in enterprise software, consumer internet, fintech, and AI. We offer unparalleled brand-building and media expertise drawn from decades operating multi-billion-dollar global franchises at Disney and beyond.

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

We back founders who see around corners: sharp insight, the ambition to build something important, and the discipline to turn that insight into an enduring company, applying early conviction, operator support, and patient capital across the US-Southeastern Europe-Asia Pacific corridor.

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.

Generalist Nordic pre-seed and seed fund backing obsessed, transparent founders with hands-on operational support, leaning B2B SaaS, data, AI and fintech.

Support early-stage founders solving real problems through technology with conviction-driven, low-volume approach. Emphasize companies addressing fundamental shifts in software economics as LLMs drive creation costs to zero. Partner deeply with founders combining institutional investing expertise with hands-on operational mentorship.

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.

Solana Ventures accelerates Solana blockchain growth by providing capital and infrastructure partnership to the most promising crypto ecosystem teams. We invest as both financial and operational partners, co-designing game economies, DeFi protocols, and infrastructure solutions.

T-Accelerate backs visionary founders in gaming, consumer tech, AI, and the creator economy who are redefining how people connect, create, and immerse themselves in digital worlds. The firm focuses on India and Southeast Asia and emphasizes long-term co-building relationships.

Crypto represents a long-term technological transformation rearchitecting global commerce. We back the boldest builders from seed through scale, combining deep regulatory expertise with institutional reach to help founders navigate policy uncertainty and drive adoption.

Partner with elite, early-stage teams building differentiated and defensible technology. Provide Most Value Per dollar on founders' cap tables through capital and operational support.

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

Crypto represents a once-in-a-generation platform shift that will fundamentally transform financial services, gaming, energy, and many other sectors through decentralized infrastructure. We partner with founders building sustainable crypto foundations from day one.

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.

Backing extraordinary founders in national security, AI, and consumer/entertainment, with a generalist early-stage approach spanning D2C brands, fintech, gaming/crypto, and defense hard-tech.

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.

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

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.

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.

Transformative innovation in crypto emerges from disciplined investment in cutting-edge infrastructure, protocols, and financial applications. We partner with founders advancing the digital asset economy alongside deep operational support through Galaxy's institutional infrastructure.

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

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

Point72 Ventures backs ambitious founders building for big outcomes across critical domains. Going deep, not wide—the firm focuses on specialized investment theses in AI, Consumer, and Defense Tech, bringing deep sector insights, partnership, and hands-on support from seed to pre-IPO.

Inception-stage partner to ambitious founders building advanced technologies, from deep tech and AI for science to AI infrastructure and vertical AI, before the product or customers exist.

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.

Entrepreneurs by heart, investors by choice: 3VC partners with regional talent across DACH, CEE, the Baltics, and Southern Europe showing early signs of product-market fit and customer love, and helps them become global category leaders.

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.

We are operators funding operators. We provide capital from our own personal wealth (no outside LPs) and offer hands-on operational advisory rather than board control. We believe the best venture support comes from those who have built and scaled companies themselves.

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

Back founder-operators with deep industry experience and prior successful exits. Invest from position of operational insight rather than pure financial engineering. Focus on companies showing early traction and founder-market fit across consumer, fintech, enterprise software, and automation.

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.

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.

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.

Back outlier founders with unconventional ambition and deep-rooted urgency operating outside conventional wisdom. We believe the best companies are built by rare entrepreneurs who can filter out 95% of typical VC advice and construct exceptional talent and culture.

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.

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

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.

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.

We back disruptive founders building category-defining companies. Our approach is founder-first, long-term, and deeply operational. We take the longest view in the room, operate with excellence and integrity, stay curious at the bleeding edge, and invest heavily in building community.

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.

The best companies often start as just a concept. We invest in founders with conviction before consensus, providing capital and operational support from day one.

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

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.

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

Blockchain technology will fundamentally transform how value is transferred globally, particularly in emerging markets and underbanked regions. FPV focuses on decentralized technologies that enable financial inclusion and cross-border value transfer where traditional infrastructure is limited.

Breakthroughs at the convergence of technology, science, and humanity improve how we live, work, and experience the world. We invest in transformative technologies for human performance and wellbeing.

Crypto-native operators architecting token-first networks through deep cryptoeconomic design, governance innovation, and sustainable token economies. 1kx supports builders across infrastructure, middleware, and consumer applications, focusing on projects that advance the decentralized future. The fund partners with founders to scale transformative blockchain projects while maintaining alignment through long-term capital commitment and deep technical expertise.

Backing the builders of the next layer of computing across AI infrastructure, defense, biotech, and American dynamism. Former 'Software is Eating the World' thesis evolved to 'AI is Eating Software'. Partners with technical founders building foundation models, cloud systems, and infrastructure for the AI era.

The community-powered VC of the New Nordics. We invest in globally ambitious, impact-aware founders building companies that will solve the world's most pressing challenges. Superior financial returns come from responsible, impact-conscious investing that balances pure financial returns with positive social and environmental impact.

Advisory-focused seed fund supporting founders in creating lasting foundations for their vision. We combine capital with deep operational guidance through embedded advisors covering hiring, company culture, fundraising, product, and technical leadership. Founder-market fit and learning orientation are essential.

We back product-driven founders building generational companies. We led product, design, and engineering teams at the internet's most iconic companies and have built products for billions of users. Now we bring that operator expertise to support founders obsessed with product excellence and user experience.

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

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.

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

We're entering the augmentative era—a paradigm shift where digital technology feels more human by dissolving barriers between real and digital worlds. AI and AR/VR hit critical inflection points in 2023. We back extraordinary technical teams building market-viable solutions in gaming, consumer, and infrastructure.

We back exceptional founders aligned with creating more economic freedom. We believe the next era of crypto innovation will be driven by scaling solutions, DeFi primitives, consumer applications, and AI-native infrastructure on blockchain.

We back crypto-native founders building the next generation of valuable blockchain networks and applications. We were early believers in DeFi and continue to identify emerging opportunities at the intersection of cryptography, protocol design, and real-world utility.

AI Eats Software. Over the next decade, virtually every bit of software will be replaced by artificial intelligence. We invest in founders and entrepreneurs who understand the transformational power of AI and are building solutions that reshape how we live, work, and play.

We partner with best-in-class entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading companies at the intersection of media, entertainment, technology, and web3. Our distinctive value comes from facilitating strategic connections between portfolio companies and major media conglomerates, distribution platforms, and Fortune 500 media executives.

5Y Capital seeks out, supports, and inspires lonely entrepreneurs, providing support from spirit to all business operations, believing that when founders others see as crazy are trusted, the world becomes a different place.

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.

Empower extraordinary founders across AI/ML, big data, cloud, healthcare technology, IoT, marketplaces, SaaS/enterprise, blockchain, and robotics; currently focused on how agentic AI shifts value capture from seat-based software to outcome-based pricing for completed work.

iAngels is a gateway for global accredited investors to access Israel's tech ecosystem, applying a data-driven, proprietary diligence process (including a founder leadership/psychological assessment) across sectors, with an Investment Committee requiring unanimous GP approval.

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

Back ambitious founders building disruptive early-stage technology companies. We provide not just capital but access to OMERS' multi-asset institutional platform. Our permanent pension backing gives us patient, long-duration capital unconstrained by traditional 10-year fund cycles.

We invest in technical breakthroughs that overcome the world's greatest challenges. We partner at inception with technically brilliant dreamers who see past impossible to inevitable. We evaluate scientific opportunities through both commercial potential and human impact lenses.

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

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

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

Back a small, concentrated group of early-stage founders from 'Dynamic Europe' (Central and Eastern Europe and Turkey) who build global from day one, providing disproportionate time, attention, and follow-on support (90%+ of portfolio gets a second check).

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

Toyota's early-stage venture arm backing deep tech and climate tech founders in AI, robotics, computing, aerospace, mobility, energy and carbon capture.

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

We invest €100k to €15M in entrepreneurs with the capacity to create differentiated technology-based products and services, backing the crazy, contrarians, and outliers from pre-seed to Series B across Southern Europe and Latin America.

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

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.

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

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.

Thematic-driven investor backing ambitious founders building for big outcomes across critical domains. Core conviction: defensible businesses create competitive advantages by transforming data challenges and market opportunities into sustainable value. We Go Deep, Not Wide. Focus on AI (defensible AI turns data challenges into advantages), Consumer (vision and strategy to break through attention economy), and Defense Tech (modern solutions for global stability). Active operational partnership beyond capital provision.

Next-generation gaming companies that reshape the industry through innovative game design, platform technologies, or monetization models. We back founding teams with proven gaming expertise or demonstrated ability to apply gaming principles to new domains. Focus on indie studios capturing player passion through authentic design, community-driven development, and innovative monetization.

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

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

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.

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.

The future belongs to those who build. JSV convenes and connects the next generation of AI-native founders, drawing on its all-partner team of former founders and operators to back software and marketplace companies from seed through growth.

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

Build and invest in category-defining companies at the earliest stages (incubation to pre-seed), leveraging Tower Research Capital's 25+ years of trading infrastructure expertise and technical depth to help founders succeed.

Top-performing SaaS venture fund that identifies exceptional founding talent at the earliest stages and takes an active role in their growth — particularly in scaling go-to-market and sales teams. Prioritizes founding team potential over traction or revenue metrics.

Backing transformative founders building exceptional companies across all sectors

Founders investing in founders. Boston Seed invests at pre-seed and seed stages in audacious founders building meaningful technology across consumer, B2B SaaS, gaming, sports, AI, and cloud infrastructure. Known for early conviction in unproven categories (e.g., daily fantasy sports via DraftKings in 2012). Emphasizes transparent, humble storytelling about venture realities. All GPs are ex-founders/CEOs with exits, bringing authentic founder empathy.

Substance over hype — backing experienced entrepreneurs building revenue-first enterprise software. Character and alignment over technology or market size. The Ridge Revenue Network (100+ Fortune 500 CXOs) provides customer introductions directly committed in term sheets.

Bitcoin is a fixed-supply, neutral monetary network that civilization is being rebuilt on. Fulgur funds teams building the infrastructure, applications, and financial services layer of the Bitcoin and Lightning Network economy.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

In this time of radical change, we back the best technical founders solving system-level problems. We invest early in the people reinventing work, life, and play for the AI era.

Rosecliff's Frontier Technology Thesis focuses on AI, aerospace, defense, energy resilience, and space infrastructure.

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.

At Capital Eleven we build great companies, strong leaders, superior outcomes, and a thriving economy in Idaho and beyond, through high-trust relationships and relentless innovation. We operate companies, invest in early-stage venture capital, partner with operators on acquiring and growing businesses, and offer M&A advisory services.

Research-driven web3 investor backing contrarian crypto infrastructure, DeFi, GameFi, AI x crypto, prediction-market, and protocol opportunities where mechanism design and quantitative modeling can create durable network effects.

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

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.

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.

Investing, building and working with exceptional creators and makers. Thematic approach focused on frontier technologies including AI/ML, gaming, and decentralization.

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

Creator Ventures partners with AI-native consumer companies and the software/infrastructure supporting them.

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).

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.

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.

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

Nordic-focused VC providing global access and local support for the region's most daring tech pioneers. We back transformative companies across gaming, AI, software infrastructure, and emerging technologies with founders who have global ambitions and shipping experience.

AI represents a fundamental platform shift, reshaping how companies build products, scale and compete. Reduced innovation costs and advanced tooling enable small Nordic teams to challenge incumbents rapidly. Back founders who believe in paradigm-shifting breakthroughs requiring tectonic shifts in technology or market dynamics. Focus on Nordic early-stage companies with strong software components and at least one technical co-founder.

We back teams solving society's biggest problems through leading-edge, tech-at-the-core companies with significant valuation potential, treating portfolio companies as customers with long-term, hands-on partnership.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Crypto will revolutionize the existing financial system. We partner with exceptional founders building the next generation of financial services, leveraging permanent capital and DCG's ecosystem to support founders long-term without fund cycle pressures.

Bridge US and global technology startups with more than 40 leading Asian multinational corporations, validating strategic partner intent pre-investment to accelerate go-to-market and drive follow-on co-investment.

Conviction in enterprise software moving from SaaS to AI, deep tech, robotics, and industrial tech — the intelligent and physical layers where CEE's technical talent runs deepest and the path to global scale is clearest.

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.

Specialized, community-driven funds indexed into proven networks (Y Combinator, CTOs and VPs of Engineering) to deliver diversification, domain expertise and direct founder impact.

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