Best Pre-Seed Healthcare & Digital Health + Climate & Clean Energy Investors 2026

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.

Partner with ambitious founders building category-winning companies. We believe great founders who understand execution, customer obsession, and operational excellence can build transformative companies. We provide capital, operational guidance, network access, and strategic partnership—not just funding.

Backing the most ambitious mission-driven founders building software and software-driven companies during the earliest days of company building. We seek non-consensus opportunities that solve today's biggest challenges across health, climate, and empowerment.

AI-enabled companies building essential systems households depend on—across health, wealth, and climate resilience. Backs founders with earned secrets and lived proximity to the problems they solve, particularly serving the 99% in underserved communities.

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

Tech for good - using technology to tackle big social and environmental problems while building commercially successful, scalable businesses. Purpose-driven value is not a trend but a paradigm shift.

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.

Reshape venture capital by operating as true partners to founders. We seek founders with clarity of thought, a deep chip on their shoulder, and obsessive focus on solving problems they can't unsee. We provide not just capital but hands-on partnership, strategic guidance, and operator networks to guide breakthrough companies through product-market fit.

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.

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.

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.

Partner with ambitious founders building category-winning companies. We believe great founders who understand execution, customer obsession, and operational excellence can build transformative companies. We provide capital, operational guidance, network access, and strategic partnership—not just funding.

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.

Healthcare systems and climate-impacted industries are in generational transformation. We partner with mission-driven founders building enabling technologies—data, AI, software infrastructure—to accelerate this transition. Purpose and profit are inextricably linked.

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.

Invest with conviction in visionary, technical founders inventing the future with frontier computing technology. Focus on computing×real-world startups (techbio, climate, robotics, industrial infrastructure). Enforce strict rebuildability bar—won't invest if 3-5 Google engineers could recreate product in 3-12 months. Position against SaaS/consumer playbook; future venture outliers will be very different.

Back remarkable teams building startups at the intersection of Sustainability and Social Good, using the UN SDGs as guideposts. The firm's 'impact moat' framework holds that mission alignment creates durable competitive advantage, making impact and venture returns mutually reinforcing rather than exclusive.

The biggest companies of the century will be built solving the world's most pressing problems. We champion ambitious founders using technology to reshape civilization around climate, health, and inclusive capitalism.

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.

We invest $250K+ into 'irrationally intense' founder CEOs and their teams. We believe early-stage companies need more than capital—they need operational mentorship, people operations expertise, and founder coaching. We provide comprehensive CEO feedback through a proprietary CEO 360 process, on-demand office hours, and real-time support via Slack and WhatsApp DMs.

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.

Early-stage innovation from founders backed by seasoned operators. We invest in disruptive technologies solving real problems at the intersection of scientific breakthroughs and practical execution. Our founders get patient capital, hands-on mentorship from 100+ years of combined experience, and access to our network for strategic growth.

By seeking entrepreneurs and funds who leverage modest resources to produce outsized returns, Lightship finds and develops remarkable talent while catalyzing emerging ecosystems. Impact and profit are simultaneously achievable.

Founders with military backgrounds and demonstrated grit combined with differentiated dual-use technology create exceptional venture opportunities. We focus on pre-seed and seed-stage companies solving meaningful problems that make the country and allies safer while having strong commercial applications.

Backing dynamically developing enterprises with global aspirations at seed and early stage across Internet/SaaS, IoT/Hardware, Renewable Energy Sources, and Life Science (MedTech/BioTech). 4-14 year investment horizon with a patient capital approach through multiple fund vehicles.

Invest in science-led consumer companies using a rigorous '12+ months to replicate' defensibility test. We back founders creating genuine technological moats by applying rigorous science to solve real consumer problems, with special focus on underrepresented founders (80% of portfolio).

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

Back domain experts and technical founders building specialized AI solutions that solve real, specific industry problems. We pair deep technical AI foundations with industry knowledge to avoid commoditized horizontal tools.

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.

MS&AD Ventures partners with visionary entrepreneurs to create innovative solutions across insurance, financial services, healthcare, and sustainability. Backed by the 5th largest global insurance conglomerate, they bring capital plus global distribution across 47 countries. They move fast (2-week decisions), focus on partnerships over ownership, and help companies scale internationally.

Wave Ventures backs Europe's most exceptional Gen Z founders at the earliest stage — angel and pre-seed — in the Nordics and Baltics. We invest before other VCs identify these founders, leveraging a rotating team of top university students embedded in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Tallinn startup ecosystems. We believe the most impactful companies of the next generation will emerge from this region.

Back nerds and pioneers tackling tough problems that matter across European tech. Support founders building hard-to-build but essential products. Real partners for expert founders.

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.

Founders with genuine conviction solving important problems, backed by unfair advantages and exceptional drive. We provide capital, operational expertise, and access to 100+ world-class startup operators. Our value is in the people on your cap table and the hands-on support—not just the checks.

Early-stage Latin American entrepreneurs solving critical healthcare, environmental, and societal challenges using science and technology. We provide capital, Silicon Valley networks, and operational expertise to build transformational companies.

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.

We back bold, ambitious, and resilient founders driving breakthrough innovations in HealthTech, CleanTech, and AgriFoodTech. Female-led and gender-mixed teams deliver superior returns and drive meaningful impact. Over five decades of combined experience navigating financial cycles enables us to partner authentically with founders, providing not just capital but strategic guidance and operational support.

First institutional check for technical founders building the future of B2B software. We provide capital and hands-on platform support at the pre-seed stage.

We are long-term business partners to founders. We operate as an investment partnership focused on founders building category-defining African technology companies, with tight founder-investor-LP alignment and deep operational support.

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

Eka backs founders creating positive system change across three consumer-led mega trends: Life (access and affordability in essentials), Health (reactive to preventative healthcare), and Sustainability (decarbonization in consumer industries). The firm holds that impact and financial returns reinforce rather than oppose each other.

Montage Ventures aims to support radical thinkers who are bringing new ideas and platforms to foster change within the financial services, commerce and health sectors, leveraging AI as a key transformative agent.

We back MIT founders building deep-tech companies with defensible science or engineering advantages. We support the transition from researcher to founder, providing both capital ($500K-$5M) and operational support through the MIT ecosystem.

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

The biggest constraint for early-stage companies is not capital—it's building a world-class team. We provide capital plus measurable talent sourcing, recruitment excellence, and team-building advisory. We have proven ability to reach candidates not reachable by recruiters or founders, and commit to specific hiring targets for each portfolio company.

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.

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.

Entrepreneurship is one of the most powerful engines for impact and value creation. Back founders with purpose, grit, and urgency building consequential companies solving significant problems in healthcare, fintech, and industrials. Lead first checks, stay in trenches, and scale together.

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

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.

Founders who intentionally pick hard problems outperform. The founders we back don't shrink in the face of a tough challenge, and it's this courage that is the root of outperformance. Picking hard problems attracts exceptional early talent and the most ambitious capital partners. We back technically ambitious founders at inception — before markets are well-defined or consensus has formed.

We believe the greatest advancements of our lifetime will be the result of reprogramming chemistry and biology using creative technology platforms. We invest at the frontier of science, supporting founders re-architecting the world at a molecular level.

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.

Extraordinary companies are built by driven founders whose mission to improve the health of people and planet is inseparable from their product. We partner with technical founders building technology solutions to the world's most important challenges across climate, health, biotech, and enabling technologies.

Social impact companies are undervalued at the earliest stages when metrics are unclear. We invest very early in mission-driven founders tackling the world's hardest problems, supporting them until they're attractive to top-tier VCs. 12-15 exceptional entrepreneurs can solve the largest global challenges.

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.

Back force-of-nature founders at pre-seed and seed stages building B2B software companies. Primary value-add is hands-on recruiting (150+ candidate sourcing per role) and GTM development—not board seats or traditional governance.

We invest in co-founding teams from research labs solving the most pressing challenges in science and technology. The most important aspect of deep tech companies is the founding team—we invest in technical founders with entrepreneurial spirit, not just ideas. We provide patient capital, deep technical mentorship, and access to UC Berkeley's innovation ecosystem and corporate networks.

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

Backing 'Venture Scientists' — PhD-trained technical founders applying rigorous scientific methodology to build transformative companies from fundamental research. Focus on deep tech and life sciences areas that address climate change, resource scarcity, and healthcare accessibility. Targets university spinouts and science-led startups in areas that are difficult to diligence for generalist investors.

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.

Underrepresented founders from Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities represent the best underactivated market for technology venture capital. Generations of adversity have made these entrepreneurs particularly resilient and innovative. We provide capital, operational support, training, and networks to help these founders build transformational technology companies.

Back the most ambitious founders from Central and Eastern Europe at the very earliest stages — before product, before revenue. CEE is a world-class talent pool producing generational companies, and Credo's edge is local knowledge and 17+ years of founder relationships.

Support passionate founders forging the future. Invest in seed and early-stage companies with unique ideas that have potential to reinvent entire industries. Focus on frontier technologies that make the world better and don't prey on human frailty.

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.

Moonshot founders with differentiated industry expertise, outsized ambition, and demonstrated tenacity transform traditional industries. The best founders come from diverse backgrounds, not Silicon Valley networks. We back founders before they have product, customers, or revenue.

Invest in visionary founders from Latinx and diverse backgrounds building disruptive tech solutions. Capitalize on demographic trends and founder quality in systematically underestimated segments. Create alpha through early-mover advantage in overlooked founder networks.

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.

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

Shine partners with creative, convincing, relentless entrepreneurs to build iconic businesses. They are lateralists - using non-linear logic to identify innovation at the intersections of technology, markets, and culture. The firm invests thematically in areas shaped by four trends: Great Expectations (demand for quality), Merging Digital/Physical (computing power), Reimagining Security (infrastructure/identity), and Reestablishing Meaning (community/belonging).

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.

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.

User-owned technology empowered by distributed systems and cryptography enables people to reclaim control from intermediaries. We invest in systems that reduce reliance on centralized institutions and give users control, privacy, and access to global markets.

Partner with visionary founders to turn bold ambitions into world-changing breakthroughs in life sciences, technology, healthtech, and crypto. Distinctive 'technical-risk-yes, regulatory-risk-no' filter ensures clear pathways to success.

We identify exceptional operators with proven track records at scale (ex-Facebook, Google, Stripe) and catalyze their transition into founders. Periods of rapid societal behavior change spur dramatic innovation. We invest in the future of work and consumer utility, providing not just capital but operational expertise, network access, and proven playbooks from building at Facebook/Meta scale.

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

We back founders using technology to solve the world's biggest problems. We believe capitalism can be a force for good when companies are built to be both massively profitable AND create positive impact. The best entrepreneurs are determined, passionate, smart, creative, and can inspire thousands of talented people.

Great relationships start with a beer, not a deck. We believe in building authentic human connections with founders from the earliest stages, providing hands-on support in team building, go-to-market strategy, and ideation beyond just capital.

Frontier technologies and medical breakthroughs offer the best opportunities to address fundamental human and environmental challenges. Diversity of founder backgrounds drives innovation and superior returns. Founders with domain expertise, technical credentials, and distinctive visions solve the world's biggest problems.

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

We invest in secrets that become obvious with the benefit of hindsight. We back bold ideas and business models that harness technology to deliver value to mass markets, particularly for underrepresented founders and underserved markets.

Much of the world's software will be reimagined in the age of AI's compounding innovation cycle. We partner with the best founders across all verticals who are seizing this opportunity, with particular emphasis on healthcare transformation and AI applications.

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.

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.

Identify and invest in the world's top talent before they start a company. Build lifelong relationships through a proprietary university scout network at Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and other elite universities. Back exceptional founders within 1-3 years of graduation before they are widely recognized.

Back determined founders with uncommon insights solving the world's biggest problems through transformative deeptech. Focus on moonshots: multi-billion-dollar, step-change opportunities across Future Compute (quantum, alternative architectures), Defense & Dual-Use (aerospace, strategic tech), Smart Planet (robotics, climate, materials), and Humantech (AR/VR, interfaces). Frame investments through free-world resilience lens, prioritizing Western technological independence. Support founders through capital, operational guidance, technical expertise, and extensive networks.

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 ambitious and unique technology startups as early as possible — ideally from day one. High volume, small checks (~€200-250K), primarily European pre-seed and seed. No board seats, no round leadership. Value-add through a 900+ founder community.

Backing transformative startups with exceptional defensibility and civilization-level impact potential. Focus on technical complexity, defensible innovation, and companies solving large-scale problems. Quality over volume approach with selective, thesis-driven investing.

Digital transformation is everywhere except where it matters. The world's essential physical industries—manufacturing, supply chain, transportation, healthcare infrastructure, and energy—have failed to keep pace with technological innovation. These industries are ripe for transformation through digitization, automation, and physical AI. We partner with experienced operators and technical founders to rebuild critical infrastructure.

World-changing companies can be built anywhere. Partner with ambitious, underdog, diverse founders in underserved ecosystems. Founder-first relationships: we work for them. Capital + camaraderie + connections + community.

Founders closest to the problem—particularly those from historically overlooked communities—are best positioned to solve it. We invest at the intersection of innovation and inclusion in the building blocks of shared prosperity: economic mobility, healthcare access, and community infrastructure. Perspective and proximity are power.

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.

Mercury backs disruptive AI and Blockchain-enabled startups outside Silicon Valley, with a focus on capital-efficient founders in the Central US reimagining core industries including fintech, enterprise software, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and logistics through their five investment themes: Work, Build, Journeys, Data, and Power.

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.

Backs extraordinary pre-seed and seed technology founders, with hands-on technical, operational, finance, and leadership support delivered with a collaborative co-founder attitude.

Breakthrough technologies and materials that power every AI chip, quantum computer, robot, battery, solar panel, biotech solution, and space exploration tool. Back founders who move beyond conventional industry boundaries to build bedrock economic infrastructure.

Seed-stage embedded fintech startups that build financial resilience for Americans by improving income generation and expense management, risk mitigation and recovery, and asset and wealth building.

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

We democratize venture capital by providing individual accredited investors with professional-grade access to elite venture opportunities. We leverage our massive 850,000+ community network and 11,000+ investors to create unique value for founders, sourcing and diligencing deals alongside top-tier VCs (a16z, Sequoia, Khosla) without leading rounds. Our network is our competitive advantage—it compounds value for all stakeholders.

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.

Increase odds of success for product-obsessed founding teams on day zero. Invest in initially fringe markets that can become mainstream, large markets that feel broken, and science-fiction-like visions. Work with founders before market validation is obvious.

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.

Bespoke Capital for Enduring Impact. Gobi invests where capital alone is insufficient — requiring deep local relationships, sustained engagement, and informed judgment across Asia's diverse and complex markets. They focus on technology companies solving structural inefficiencies across underserved Asian markets, from fintech to deep tech to sustainable infrastructure.

Kupanda Capital creates and scales companies that have lasting impact. We focus on impactful businesses at the intersection of private, public, and nonprofit sectors, using human-centered design and data-driven decision-making. We believe impact entrepreneurs need more than capital—they need operational partners, market intelligence, and access to institutional networks.

Robotics represents a distinct, nuanced asset class requiring specialized operational insight. Physical AI breakthroughs are making once-theoretical use cases commercially viable. Investors need deep sector expertise to manage associated risks and unlock real value. Robotics is fundamentally different from software venture investing.

Humanizing deep tech by bringing advanced breakthrough technologies to where the people are and maximizing the value they generate for solving humanity's most critical crises. We invest in companies addressing climate, manufacturing labor shortages, healthcare costs, sustainable food production, and computing infrastructure.

Breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination — deep tech with the potential to create new product categories. We bring company-building skills and operating expertise to help founders find product-market fit.

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

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.

Venture capital is the most powerful economic engine the world has ever seen. We back audacious founders solving humanity's hardest challenges through category-creating innovations. We embrace big risks and reject short-termism, committing to 15+ year partnerships with founders who have long-term vision and relentless determination.

Architect a more equitable, sustainable and human-centered digital economy where technology and innovation work together in service of a better society. We deploy financial, human and intellectual capital in service of a better system, backing early-stage founders at intersections of industry, technology and society.

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.

Exceptional founders living in the future deserve operators who provide more than capital. We partner with founders on go-to-market, brand, storytelling, and team building.

Empower audacious founders who challenge norms and leverage technology to transform industries. We believe in first-time founders with scrappy outsider mentality and narrow niche focus. Silicon Valley expertise combined with deep emerging market knowledge across three continents.

Hard tech breakthroughs in the physical world will solve humanity's biggest challenges in climate, industrial automation, and human health. Founders with deep scientific expertise and engineering mindset can move at unparalleled speed when given access to fabrication infrastructure, global manufacturing partnerships, and hands-on mentorship.

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.

Digital transformation of the enterprise in Japan. Backs ambitious startups with a tech component aiming to scale both domestically and internationally. Fund VII focuses on AI/deep tech, energy transition, inbound tourism, and defense. Founded by recovering entrepreneurs who believe operator experience makes better investors.

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.

We invest in the Super Evolution—the convergence of ubiquitous sensors, advanced machine learning, cloud systems, robotics, 3D printing, and CRISPR. We partner with technical founders solving hard engineering and science problems to rethink large industries and tackle humanity's most pressing challenges.

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

Back passionate, emerging talent solving deep technology challenges. Support founders from napkin-stage through IPO with patient, flexible evergreen capital. Focus on biotechnology, frontier software, food innovation, longevity, and AI that maximize impact and potential.

We back entrepreneurs using computational approaches (AI, simulation) to solve trillion-dollar problems in climate, health, industrial transformation, and national security. Deep tech requires patient capital and scientific rigor.

Bold, visionary African founders solving Africa's biggest challenges represent global business opportunities. We combine capital, operational support, and community to build sustainable, continent-scale businesses.

Back Latin American founders with global ambitions who use technology and AI to solve hard, inefficient markets in fintech, commerce, human capital, health, smart cities, and related large regional opportunities.

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.

U.S. immigrants possess exceptional entrepreneurial talent and world-class skills but face systemic barriers through immigration constraints. By removing immigration obstacles and providing capital, operational support, and community resources, immigrant founders can build revolutionary companies and create lasting economic impact. We're the only VC with immigration attorneys as general partners to make this happen.

Back wild hearts with the wildest ideas from the very beginning. Invest in companies, not rounds — following exceptional founders from pre-seed through all subsequent stages. Focused on ANZ founders building globally ambitious companies across any sector.

Backs globally ambitious technology companies from pre-seed and seed through selected growth rounds using specialist EMEA sector teams and a platform model for capital, customers, talent, follow-on investors, and operational support.

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

Invest in Southern California's best founders earlier than anyone else. No idea is too early. We fund companies earlier than most VCs, providing not just capital but hands-on support and operational expertise. Our founder-first philosophy and No Ghosting Rule ensure responsive, engaged partnerships.

Pan-African fund solving the significant funding gap in Seed and pre-Series A investment. Backing ambitious African founders tackling critical continental challenges with operational support and investor network.

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.

AI-native companies where artificial intelligence is the core product and competitive moat, not just a feature. Three investment baskets: (1) AI infrastructure (vector databases, model serving, optimization), (2) vertical applications with 20%+ performance advantages, and (3) frontier research with clear commercialization paths.

Incubate Fund provides unwavering hands-on support to visionary entrepreneurs from the earliest stages. As Japan's leading seed-stage VC, they go beyond capital to provide operational support, founder counseling, talent recruitment, and business introductions. Core question: 'Does this action lead to impact?'

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

Exceptional founders backed at pre-seed and seed with both capital and hands-on operational support—talent, GTM, fundraising—build the most enduring companies. Pear is founder-first: founders-and-operators turned investors who have been in founders' shoes.

Back the quirky underdog pursuing seemingly impossible ideas. Frontier tech (aerospace, biotech, climate, robotics, crypto, AI, VR/AR) will create the next generation of legendary companies. Technical founders with deep domain expertise can solve the hardest problems in physics, chemistry, and computing.

Backing immigrant entrepreneurs building companies in Europe. Immigrants account for ~50% of US and ~40% of UK unicorns. NLV spots and supports this talent before the market catches up, investing unconditionally as the first check before lead VCs are in place.

Belgium-first network-driven VC backing the most ambitious Belgian-founded tech startups at Pre-Seed and Seed. Pools capital, expertise, and network from 120+ founders, operators, and investors to help early-stage Belgian companies scale globally.

We back the companies of tomorrow before it's obvious. We combine early-stage European investing with a permanent San Francisco presence to help founders build category-defining global companies. We invest in ambitious technical founders who deeply understand industry transformation.

We back dropouts, renegade students, and deep-tech scientists working on ideas that would appear in science fiction. We exist to prove that great founders don't need university degrees and are found in the oddest places. We invest at inception stage (R&D through Seed), providing capital, mentorship, community access, and operational support. People-first approach: it's more about the who than the what.

Back founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries. We invest directly in their growth to make them unbreakable. Founded on principle that luck isn't made, it's engineered. Founders are our customer, not LPs. We always vote shares with founders and provide 1% non-dilutive founder development capital alongside every first check.

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

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

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

We invest in paradigm shifters—truly disruptive technologies that change our perspective of the world. We believe in missionary founders committed to their vision, and we focus on business-team-idea-timing fit, not just product-market fit. We target transformative companies across defense, climate, fintech, legal tech, and emerging domains.

Extraordinary founders execute faster when isolated from distractions and provided intensive on-site support. We seek junkyard dogs with high agency, non-obvious vision, delusional optimism, and execution discipline. Category matters far less than founder quality.

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.

We help mission-driven pioneers win by harnessing the power of storytelling, art and culture. We back early-stage companies with customer obsession in their DNA and accelerate the mass adoption of technologies they create. Founders need more than capital—they need strategic support in building their narrative and leveraging media to accelerate adoption.

Champions exceptional founders to build lasting companies through experience, community, and capital. Generalist technology investor whose edge is network depth — Joe Montana's unmatched rolodex and 800+ portfolio company network enables introductions that most seed funds cannot provide.

We invest in the earliest pre-seed startups led by founders outside typical networks, selling into large and growing markets, with unique approaches or insights. We focus on under-networked, execution-focused founders—introverted technologists, industry veterans, and heads-down operators—who create outsized value through systematic sourcing and deep technical partnership.

Invest in scalable, capital-efficient tech and tech-enabled startups at the Seed stage led by exceptional founders. We identify companies showing early traction that can achieve significant scale with disciplined capital deployment.

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

RRE backs visionary early-stage founders leveraging technological breakthroughs to reshape industries. Systematic focus on Physical AI (AI that touches atoms) and Decentralized AI (bridging web3 and AI infrastructure). Boutique model enables direct partnerships with founders vs. large portfolio strategies. 30+ years of multi-cycle experience.

Real estate has been stagnant for 50 years despite massive innovation in other industries. Shifting demographics, transportation changes, and evolving preferences are forcing modernization. We back visionary entrepreneurs building solutions across construction, property management, residential finance, and retail that will improve quality of life, work, and community.

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 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.

First-check investors to exceptional founders building category-defining companies and to emerging venture funds reshaping the industry. Formation-stage specialists operating as partners from inception, not simply deploying capital.

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.

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

Innovative technology entrepreneurs exist globally, particularly in emerging markets, and deserve access to world-class mentorship, infrastructure, and Google's vast product ecosystem. We support founders who have proven product-market fit in their home markets and are ready to expand internationally.

Lightbank invests in disruptive technology companies led by great founders in dynamic markets with world-class products. The firm believes exceptional founders and opportunities exist everywhere, especially in overlooked geographies like the Midwest. We partner with early-stage founders and provide operator-heavy support beyond capital.

The only early-stage deep tech VC in CEE focusing on resilient technologies. We invest in founders building breakthrough technologies with proprietary IP in deep tech, MedTech, cleantech, autonomous vehicles/robotics, industrial, and resilient-tech. Technology must be genuinely unique and address real problems.

Backing exceptional, mission-driven entrepreneurs creating companies with Massively Transformative Purpose (MTP) that impact billions of people. We invest across the full innovation lifecycle, from early-stage frontier technology through scale to liquidity. We love companies and individuals that are different, fishing where others aren't, seeking opportunities where exceptional visionary entrepreneurs see novel paths to greatness.

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

Invest in bold, visionary founders building transformational businesses long before the world believes in them. We back founders solving impossible-seeming problems across frontier sectors: AI/robotics, crypto, biotech, aerospace, and unconventional ideas.

Investing in subject matter experts shaping the future of their industries. We lead with our values and build trust through action. We believe the best founders have deep industry expertise and need tireless operational support, not just capital. We partner with founders for the long term, staying engaged 24/7.

Invest in and scale technology businesses where artificial intelligence and data capabilities drive impact and market growth across Latin America. Latin Leap aims to help Spanish-speaking Latin America 'leapfrog' through technology investments tailored to emerging market needs, while also bridging international tech companies into the region.

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.

Entrepreneurs who work constructively with government to harness its unique strengths—scale, credibility, regulatory power, data, and funding—enjoy asymmetric advantages. 24% of venture-backed unicorns used government support. We partner with founders to unlock government as a growth lever.

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.

Gateway Capital partners with tenacious, resourceful founders building solutions to real-world problems in overlooked markets. We believe that financial returns and social returns are not mutually exclusive, and we invest where others hesitate - focusing on underestimated regions and low-to-moderate income communities.

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.

Exceptional talent and disruptive ideas know no borders. We invest in emerging innovation hubs where competition is low, valuations are favorable, and founders are capital-efficient. We focus on three transformative themes: Future of Work (hybrid/remote, upskilling, AI automation), Future of Care (healthcare access, value-based care, longevity tech), and Emerging Tech (AI agents, cybersecurity, clean tech). We provide not just capital but operational, sales, policy, and strategic expertise to accelerate growth.

Entrepreneurs, not VCs, build great companies. We invest early in great & passionate entrepreneurs and serve as long-term partners. Available 24/7 to help founders with mentorship, product-market fit, fundraising, business development, customer acquisition, talent sourcing, and strategic partnerships.

Sand Hill Angels backs seed-stage, high-tech companies with large and growing markets, well-defined problems, disruptive solutions, defensible technology, and strong teams with demonstrated ability to execute. The group leverages 145+ experienced angels to provide capital, mentorship, and network access across the Silicon Valley ecosystem.

We build category-defining companies through a combination of design, product, operations, and capital. We identify market gaps, pair brilliant founders with Expa's studio resources, and help them build companies that reshape entire industries.

Backing the best founders, not just the best-connected. We assess founders on their qualities, not CV or past experience. We focus on founders building solutions for climate equity, economic empowerment, and healthy ageing.

A majority of the data our brains analyze is visual. Therefore, the majority of the data AI will analyze will also be visual, spanning the light and electromagnetic spectrums across all sectors. We thrive on collaborating with deep technical teams who leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data.

By combining ideas, capital, and talent, we can scale entrepreneurship and build transformational companies. We source 800+ ideas internally, recruit co-founders, and provide day-one operational support in design, engineering, finance, and recruiting.

We connect innovative startups with 550+ corporate partners who have real business problems to solve. Our unique position in the ecosystem creates a flywheel of pilots, proofs-of-concept, enterprise customers, and follow-on capital. We back founders solving real market problems with credible corporate validation.

We empower visionary founders building transformative tech companies. We are thesis-driven partners to exceptional entrepreneurs creating long-term impact across FinTech, ClimateTech, and Global Tech sectors.

Empowering entrepreneurs to reimagine the way we live and work by investing in daring technology companies challenging the status quo with permanent capital, lifelong sparring partnership from pre-seed through IPO and beyond.

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

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

High-growth early-stage companies with disruptive innovation across diversified sectors. Particular focus on underserved communities and Rocky Mountain region. Platform approach with multiple themed funds for specialized strategies.

The smartest place you can invest your capital is in women. We bet on early-stage female-founded and female-led companies creating groundbreaking consumer and B2B software technologies that solve meaningful problems in families, healthcare, childcare, education, climate, and sustainability.

Elevate Ventures partners with innovation-driven founders to provide strategic capital, mentorship, and ecosystem access. Founded by a former founder (Governor Mitch Daniels), the firm believes the best founders exhibit grit, creativity, and coachability. They invest across all sectors and geographies but maintain primary focus on Indiana and Great Lakes Region entrepreneurs building cross-sector innovations.

The primary constraint for seed-stage, science-based entrepreneurs is access to experienced business judgment. CDL provides objective-based mentoring from accomplished entrepreneurs, angels, and scientists to help founders prioritize tasks and de-risk their businesses.

We are a stage-agnostic venture capital firm investing in exceptional founders building the companies that shape our world.

Serious founders building must-have technology for mission-critical industries. We focus on B2B software companies digitizing legacy industries and transforming established workflows. Specializing in seed-stage, where hands-on operational support, sales acceleration, and capital strategy matter most.

Rule30 uses a fully algorithmic decision engine to identify outlier founders at pre-seed and seed stages across Europe and North America. The fund removes human bias by analyzing founder experience, educational background, network evolution, and career trajectory — excluding names and photos. The algorithm ranks founders into top 10%, 3%, and 0.1% tiers. An index-style strategy of 75-85 bets targets ≥3x minimum returns with 97.5% confidence.

Great startups can be built anywhere. We believe in founder-centric investing with operational support from a team of successful founders. We serve undernetworked geographic regions.

Backs European pre-seed and seed founders building technologies for Energy, Industry, and Resilience, especially energy transition, industrial automation, practical AI for infrastructure, manufacturing, logistics, energy grids, and critical systems.

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.

MaC backs visionary founders building category-defining companies with deep understanding of cultural shifts, technological advancements, and emerging market trends. Founders must demonstrate authentic insight into why their problem needs solving now, combined with ability to see how the world is changing. Particular focus on founders paying attention to shifts others might miss.

Startups positioned as transformation partners with Fortune 500 corporates create the most impactful solutions. We believe the next generation of market leaders will emerge through collaborative innovation between startups and incumbent enterprises, supported by global expertise and capital.

We invest in preseed founders with unique insight into untapped markets across three pillars: Wealth, Health, and Resilience. We prioritize BIPOC, women, non-binary, and LGBTQ+ founders solving problems for overlooked end users, bringing accelerator-style guidance and critical network access alongside capital.

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.

Back the world's most ambitious and transformative entrepreneurs capable of building world-defining companies over 20+ years. Invest in founders with independent thought and first-principles vision to solve humanity's biggest problems across all sectors and geographies.

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.

Operator-led fund investing in ambitious founders building transformative AI applications. We partner with technical founders who understand AI/ML deeply and are solving real customer problems with capital efficiency. Great product is always the best marketing.

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

Great companies are built through boring magic — systematic, unglamorous work combining exceptional product design with operational excellence. We pair capital with hands-on product/design expertise and team-building support to help founders execute at venture scale.

IGC pioneered the Reverse VC™ model — starting with corporate demand rather than capital deployment. Their ReverseVision platform identifies what Global 5000 companies want to buy, then matches emerging tech founders to those demand signals. Investment flow: Demand → Commercialization → Valuation → Capital → Exit. This approach claims higher success rates, better deal terms, and reduced downside risk by replacing intuition with engineered outcomes.