Best Pre-Seed Healthcare & Digital Health Investors 2026

Rock Health Capital invests in remarkable entrepreneurs working at the intersection of healthcare and technology to make healthcare massively better for every human being. We combine deep healthcare expertise with venture capital discipline and leverage the Rock Health platform to provide portfolio companies with market insights, community access, and strategic support.

CVS Health Ventures invests in healthcare innovators that make care simpler, more accessible, and more affordable. The fund leverages CVS Health's national footprint — 9,000+ pharmacies, MinuteClinics, Aetna, and Oak Street Health — as a strategic distribution channel and operating partner for portfolio companies. Key focus areas: tech-enabled clinical workflows, disruptive care models, whole-person health, and consumer-centric experiences.

Fostering breakthrough innovation in healthcare: Asabys invests in highly innovative and transformative biopharma, medtech, and digital health technologies, partnering hands-on with portfolio companies from inception to growth to translate disruptive science into patient impact.

Using innovation to fix health inequities: partnering with founders building technology and service solutions that expand access to high-quality healthcare for underserved populations (Medicaid/dual-eligible seniors, rural communities, school-age youth) across primary care, mental health, kidney care, palliative care, and maternity health.

Backs early-stage AgeTech, senior-care, digital-health, and technology-enabled services companies transforming the aging journey, using a senior-care operator and LP network to help with distribution, diligence, product feedback, talent, and go-to-market.

We invest exclusively in early-stage digital health companies leveraging technology, data, and digital therapeutics to solve healthcare inefficiencies. Our focus is on data-driven solutions that generate competitive insights and enhance patient outcomes.

Back transformational healthcare companies at pre-seed through Series A that leverage technology to improve patient outcomes, healthcare operations, or clinical delivery. Partner with founders who understand both healthcare workflows and technology innovation deeply.

Healthcare's future will be defined by the convergence of technology innovation, consumer preferences, and industry transformation. We partner with entrepreneurs who combine deep healthcare domain expertise with technical excellence to build category-defining companies.

We help turn the best ideas in healthcare into category-defining companies. The best healthcare companies emerge from disciplined partnerships with visionary founders combining technical expertise with healthcare domain knowledge.

Inflect Health invests in visionary entrepreneurs building category-defining solutions to transform healthcare. Unlike traditional VCs, Inflect's success metric balances financial returns with health outcomes improvement. We back founders with clear vision, diverse teams, and passion for healthcare transformation. Our physician-led partnership brings 45+ years of healthcare operational expertise and direct access to 8,000+ clinicians, enabling hands-on partnership from design through go-to-market.

Healthcare innovation is a team sport. We identify promising healthcare technologies early in their life cycle and invest much more than capital to help our teams become world-class enterprises. We provide clinical expertise, operational guidance, and network access from a team of practicing physicians and healthcare operators.

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

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

Only invest where we have a true unfair advantage. Partner with founders in healthcare, data+AI, and cybersecurity to build category-defining powerhouses. We deliver value far beyond capital through deep domain expertise and extensive networks.

Investing in healthcare data companies tackling the biggest problems in cancer care — from early detection to patient navigation to data access and AI-powered treatment optimization. The U.S. oncology system is fragmented, expensive, and filled with barriers to evidence-based care. We fund the technologies that fix this.

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.

Bringing applied AI to legacy, historically under-digitized industries — healthcare operations, supply chain, insurance, and compliance — by combining venture capital with in-house product, engineering, and AI build-out (studio model), early-stage checks (Ventures), and control-stake modernization buyouts (Propel).

Elite technical founders solving critical healthcare problems at the earliest stages create transformative solutions. We partner with founders who deeply understand healthcare inefficiencies and modern technology, providing capital, strategic guidance, and operational support.

The best health-tech companies are built by founders who have previously started and scaled healthcare companies and understand the operational complexity of healthcare delivery. We partner with repeat founders solving real healthcare problems with direct impact on patient outcomes, especially for underserved populations. Our 22 venture partners and 114 investor network provide unmatched access to healthcare system leaders, policymakers, and go-to-market expertise.

Back healthcare disruptors—entrepreneurs who recognize how the industry is transforming and want to make meaningful impact. Focus on health-tech innovation excluding bio-pharma drug discovery. Leverage unique network of healthcare-industry insiders as limited partners.

Clave partners with universities, hospitals, and research centers to turn Spanish scientific research into investable companies (tech transfer) in health, food, and industrial technology, while also backing established industrial SMEs and renewable energy infrastructure.

Fund visionary entrepreneurs solving humanity's most intractable, long-horizon science and engineering problems, taking a poly-solution approach that backs many independent bets on the same hard problem (especially Alzheimer's disease and depression) rather than a single best guess, judged on both societal and financial impact.

Oak HC/FT partners with founders driving structural change in healthcare and financial services. They believe the most durable companies in the AI era will combine AI velocity with genuine understanding of how these industries work — including their regulatory, distribution, and trust dynamics. Interested in horizontal platforms that can penetrate and win in these complex, regulated sectors.

Healthcare is a multi-agent system whose historical limits on information and coordination can now be removed by AI; Redesign co-founds and builds next-generation healthcare companies from scratch, backing exceptional founders at the earliest stage and applying an internal AI knowledge graph (Atlas) plus marquee institutional partnerships through exit.

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.

Breakthrough healthcare innovations must serve women and underrepresented populations. AI-driven healthcare solutions unlock new markets and address systemic health inequities. Women's health is severely underfunded and represents major opportunity to drive both returns and health impact.

Enable and accelerate the development and commercialization of market-shaping innovations that are between, beyond, or disruptive to current ZEISS Strategic Business Units. As a strategic Deep Tech investor, ZEISS Ventures targets pre-Series A / Series A start-ups with interlinked software and hardware systems and scalable B2B business models, concentrated in MedTech & Life Sciences, Photonics & Optics/Semiconductor, and Industrial Technology.

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.

Transform technological breakthroughs from Belgian universities, research institutes, and hospitals into sustainable businesses, backing both university/knowledge-partner spin-offs and independent start-ups with structured R&D collaborations.

We partner with commercial-stage enterprise software and fintech companies tackling healthcare's largest problems, combining our investment team's clinical and operating expertise with an operator network to support portfolio companies through exit.

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.

Backing wildly ambitious founders using breakthrough technology (AI, data science, neuroscience, biotech) to build multi-billion-dollar companies that improve human health/wellness and planetary health/infrastructure.

The best healthcare solutions emerge from teams that deeply understand real-world clinical challenges. We embed 650+ clinicians as partners in deal sourcing, diligence, and portfolio support. Unlike traditional VCs, we connect founders with authentic practitioners who understand unglamorous but deeply human healthcare problems.

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.

Funds founders elevating brain and mental health through neuroscience, frontier technologies, psychedelic medicine, precision neuroscience, neurotechnology, AI-enabled diagnosis and treatment, novel CNS therapeutics, digital health, and related modalities.

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.

Deep health emerges at the convergence of advances in biology, chemistry, AI/ML, robotics, and clinical medicine. We back visionary founders addressing root causes of chronic disease across three domains: biology within us (biotech platforms), environment around us (environmental/chemical health), and systems that care for us (healthcare delivery innovation).

Former operators who scaled cybersecurity companies from inception to exit back founders building the next generation of cybersecurity companies, with AI as an increasing driving force across the portfolio, plus selective healthtech investments where the firm's operator value-add translates across domains.

Invest pre-seed and seed in technical teams tackling root-cause cost challenges in healthcare and Main Street productivity — the two sectors most critical to American economic resilience and most underserved by traditional VC. Enter post first customer, pre-PMF, and provide hands-on operator support to accelerate distribution and prepare for Series A.

Back early-stage entrepreneurs shaping the industries that run the world, with deep domain expertise across AI & Automation, Health & Bio, and Logistics & Maritime, and true operating partnership beyond capital.

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

Backing scalable, tech-driven startups that address real social and environmental challenges, with explicit 2-3 impact KPIs set per company alongside financial metrics.

Backing the most ambitious, mission-driven founders at pre-seed, in health, climate and energy, and economic drivers. Pre-consensus by design. We lead, co-lead, or anchor with a real check for the stage ($500K-$1M typical, up to $2M in Fund III), and help founders build out the rest of their round. We are currently investing out of Fund III (opened Jan 2026). 60 companies backed across 3 funds. Intentionally small and always on call — a single partner who reads every email and every deck, makes every decision, and strives to be founders' first call, for the good and the bad. No warm intro required — we read everything, and we answer quickly, even when the answer is no.

WRF Capital funds the commercialization of cutting-edge technology spinouts from Washington research institutions, often as the first institutional money in, using licensing revenue earned from UW technology to seed the next generation of local founders.

Science-backed sleep solutions will dominate the market. We invest in innovative solutions across all sectors aimed at improving sleep, applying advanced sleep science to support portfolio companies.

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.

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

Auxxo backs the strongest pre-seed and seed stage female-(co-)founded startups across Europe, driving equitable representation of women as founders and investors in venture capital.

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

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

Great physical products, protected by strong IP and built by design-literate founders, can generate outsized returns while solving real consumer, health, and environmental problems. Every deal is structured to be SEIS/EIS eligible.

Sarsia invests in technologies that can improve quality of life, society, and reduce negative impact on nature, connecting scientific solutions with competent capital across life sciences and technology/energy/sustainability.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

Investing in great people using breakthrough science and advanced engineering to create transformative impact across the future of food, health, and the environment. Long-term, active partner providing capital, expertise, and networks rather than passive investment.

Frontier technology companies transforming legacy industries in the US Midcontinent. We back experienced technical founders from energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and logistics sectors who leverage deep domain expertise to build high-growth B2B tech companies. Capital efficiency and exponential productivity improvement are key filters.

Science-driven venture capital focused on breakthrough healthcare innovations. Deep scientific rigor in diligence with mechanism-of-action understanding, proof-of-concept validation, and extensive KOL/clinician engagement. Backed by Zambon Group pharmaceutical expertise.

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.

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

Backing new ideas, clear vision, and an obsessive pursuit of change. Triple Point Ventures partners with exceptional early-stage founders across fintech, health, climate, and data & AI, aiming to meet founders early, move quickly, and lead pre-seed and seed rounds.

The first venture capital fund to invest purely in the mother as consumer: mothers control 85% of U.S. household spending ($2.4T annually) and are an underpriced, underserved segment in venture.

We help bold, creative, and humble founders build great companies by providing hands-on operational support, strategic guidance, and valuable ecosystem connections. We specialize in fintech, insurtech, digital health, and enterprise software where we can add deep value beyond capital.

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.

We invest in founders with global ambitions creating products that meet tomorrow's internet users' needs through demographic change. Focus on aging & longevity, spending power of women, and the new majority (majority-minority shift).

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

NVP backs early-stage founders using vertical AI and enterprise software to modernize under-digitized legacy industries, especially healthcare, industrials, financial services, workforce management, commerce enablement, legal workflows, and sales and marketing operations.

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

Back disruptive technology innovation early and support it with a deep value-creation team through supply chain, talent, ESG, and follow-on financing help, applying Hillhouse's long-term fundamentals-driven research process to early-stage investing.

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

We empower alumni of Dutch universities to become world-changing entrepreneurs, backing founders with capital, knowledge, and a high-trust community to build the companies of the future in critical sectors, strengthening a competitive and sovereign Netherlands.

Frontier technology will underpin the next generation of globally significant companies. We back IP-rich, deep tech founders advancing intelligence, reinventing energy, accelerating computation, decoding biology, and building resilience — categories where traditional venture playbooks don't apply.

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.

An opportunistic, generalist fund that co-invests alongside top-tier VCs in startups featured on The Pitch podcast. Built-in dealflow from 30M+ downloads and 600K+ newsletter subscribers; the fund's edge is access to a constant, pre-vetted pipeline of founders who apply to pitch on the show.

Early-stage founders face mounting pressure to show revenue legibility before Series A, but seed-stage cap tables lack operating expertise in go-to-market. CoFound embeds that GTM expertise directly, working hands-on with founders on GTM iteration, product-market fit, and building a repeatable sales motion.

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.

People make all the difference. We invest in great people building great businesses. Partnership-driven investments where we serve as true partners for the long term, not just financial backers. Our core belief is in 'paying it forward' - building lasting relationships with entrepreneurs.

The wise development of transformative technologies: AI that defends and enhances human flourishing, agency, and resilience, paired with frontier mental health technology including psychedelic medicine and neuromodulation.

Innovation in healthcare comes from all corners, particularly from founders with lived experience of healthcare inequities. We flip the traditional adoption model by backing diverse founders solving challenges at the intersection of digital health and social determinants of health. Helping marginalized populations first is both socially responsible and strategically sound.

Story invests in the building blocks of automated systems across three interconnected layers: sensory systems (data capture), data processing (organization and structure), and machine intelligence (applications and decision-making). We believe the most impactful problems require the most innovative solutions, and we partner with founders pursuing audacious, challenging businesses because that's what it takes to create lasting impact.

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.

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.

Redalpine backs companies at the convergence of software and science — where rigorous engineering meets scientific breakthroughs. Half the team are scientists, half are operators, enabling them to engage deeply with highly technical founders and support them hands-on from day one through to exit. Primary focus areas: frontier science and biotech, digital health, AI and automation, fintech, synthetic biology, and climate tech.

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.

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.

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.

Investing in customer-obsessed founders redefining everyday experiences. We back founders at the earliest stage (pre-product/pre-revenue) with conviction, capital, and deep operational support including marketing, customer acquisition, and technology infrastructure.

Deep tech unlocks new and ground-breaking pathways to solve fundamental societal challenges. We back technical founders with unique, defendable IP addressing large markets, providing hands-on, long-term capital across the full company lifecycle.

Backing transformative founders building exceptional companies across all sectors

First women-led VC investing in underrepresented founders solving underserved problems in undercapitalized geographies. We capitalize on three biggest arbitrage opportunities: diversity of founders, geographic expansion beyond Silicon Valley, and problems with meaningful social impact. We back exceptional teams in consumer tech, digital health, and future of work sectors.

Backs founders who are chasing after their life cause and building companies with global ambition, screening on Character, Competency, and Chemistry rather than a fixed sector thesis. Commits at least 70% of the fund to WA-founded or WA-operated companies.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Seed capital is the foundational layer in building enduring companies. We back bold, gritty founders applying AI and machine intelligence to solve the world's toughest challenges in enterprise and industrial sectors. By end of decade, software + hardware + AI will drive ubiquitous automation in every industry. We partner with visionary founders tackling hard technical problems in regulated, complex domains.

We provide essential early-stage capital and hands-on, entrepreneur-to-entrepreneur support to B2B software ventures in the Southeast US, seeking to be the first institutional investor on the cap table.

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

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.

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.

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 ambitious founders from Central and Eastern Europe and the diaspora building large-market, 10x-better products, favoring high-risk/high-upside bets over safer, modest-return opportunities, grounded in market data rather than intuition.

The capital before your story. We back experienced and repeat founders building Frontier Enterprise infrastructure — critical software solutions born from hands-dirty experience at top companies. We invest meaningful capital ($750K-$2M) as the first institutional check in pre-seed and seed rounds.

Civilization Ventures backs exceptional scientific founders—particularly PhDs and postdocs from elite institutions—building essential innovations in health tech and biology. We believe the best breakthroughs come from disruptive science combined with founder determination. We provide 'mentor capital': not just capital, but active operational guidance, scientific rigor, and access to our network of Fellows, Advisors, and portfolio founders.

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.

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.

We back bold visionary leaders building innovative solutions across diverse sectors, with particular focus on AI applications, digital health, and enterprise software. We provide capital, operational mentorship, and network access to ensure long-term success.

The greatest driver of venture returns is founders strengthened by struggle. We invest in rare talent building generational tech companies, regardless of pedigree or geographic origin.

Invest in and provide business-development support to startups building next-generation technology, bridging Japanese and global markets by combining Digital Garage's startup network with Daiwa Securities Group's capital and financial infrastructure.

The Tulane University alumni network is an underleveraged pipeline of entrepreneurial and technical talent; channeling capital into Tulane-connected founders builds venture returns while rebuilding Louisiana's startup ecosystem.

Technical founders with data and technology advantages can build transformational businesses that redefine industries. We partner with experienced founders who combine technical depth with operational excellence and benefit from access to an elite network of Fortune 1000 executives and technical experts.

Originator of China's "hard tech" (硬科技) investment category: back deep, long-R&D-cycle science and engineering breakthroughs out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences network and top universities, from lab/PI stage through IPO, combining capital with an incubation platform and post-investment services.

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.

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.

Investing at the intersection of Invention & Culture. We back founders building category-defining consumer companies where technology breakthroughs meet emerging human behavior. We see inflection points before they're consensus by tracking both emerging technology capabilities and emerging consumer demands.

Great companies aren't born, they're made. XYZ invests in early-stage founders with exceptional execution capability, deep domain expertise, or lived experience insights. They specialize in helping founders navigate the earliest stages by providing capital plus strategic operational support.

Ukraine's tech ecosystem has already produced a dozen-plus unicorns; its world-class technologists continue solving major global problems at speed. We bring global capital, a top-tier expert network, and hands-on mentorship to the region's most promising founders to help them win in the US market.

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

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

World-class founders at their earliest stages matter more than the stage of the business itself. We back sector-agnostic, high-ambition founders from pre-product through early revenue with candid advice, hands-on support, and a network of 1,200+ operators.

We back underdogs that traditional VC has overlooked for too long. Founders with grit, capital efficiency, and non-traditional backgrounds who demonstrate exceptional execution capability and product-market fit.

The next generation of significant technology companies will be built by Black and diverse founders who have historically been locked out of access to venture capital. We back exceptional Black and diverse-led teams building scalable technology solutions, combining financial capital with intellectual and social capital from the Black Tech Nation ecosystem.

NEA partners with ambitious founders at every stage of company building, from pre-seed through IPO. They invest at the intersection of technology and healthcare, believing the most transformational innovation occurs where deep domain expertise meets world-class technical founders. NEA serves as both capital provider and active operator.

Capital is a commodity, connections are currency. We back early-stage B2B founders with capital plus a network of 1,500+ venture partners, top founders, and innovation executives, and stay hands-on from first check through growth.

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.

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.

Back founders building things the world hasn't seen yet, at the moment before the crowd believes. Combine capital with extraordinary operational support through largest Portfolio Impact team at any NYC seed investor. Focus on technical founders solving real problems with clear product-market fit signals.

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

Partner with spiky founders building category-defining companies using novel technological approaches. Focus on AI-driven innovation across alternative architectures, custom software, research assistants, TechBio, infrastructure, and enterprise applications. Provide capital, operational support, strategic guidance, and network access for founders with unique insights and deep technical expertise.

We invest in mission-critical infrastructure serving women and working families. Many essential systems have been dismissed as too complex or too human to solve, but technology and AI advances make transformation possible. This is a $1 trillion opportunity and generational economic growth driver.

Seizing the North of England's innovation opportunity by investing in science and technology startups with strong intellectual property solving global problems. Partners with the four Northern Arc universities (Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool) and the broader North of England ecosystem. Philosophy: profit with purpose — backing visionary founders with exceptional teams, breakthrough technology, and business models that deliver both financial returns and societal impact.

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.

Great Oaks partners with ambitious founders at the earliest stage of company building, focused on supporting founders building enduring businesses across the United States, with the majority of time spent on Software, Healthcare, Financial Services, Marketplaces, and Enterprise.

All-in on Texas: LiveOak partners with exceptional Texas-based founders building tech and tech-enabled service companies, engaging actively across the full lifecycle from Pre-seed through Series B and beyond.

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

A Founders for Founders VC firm led by entrepreneurs who have built and scaled their own companies, backing pre-seed and seed founders across B2B SaaS, marketplaces, gaming/consumer apps, and D2C products, with hands-on mentorship and a bridge between the Adria/CEE region and Silicon Valley.

We seed high-growth startups with unstoppable drive in healthcare, fintech, and logistics. Founder does not have a stereotype—it is about drive, character, and conviction. We provide capital, operational support, and genuine partnership.

Partner with visionary founders to build category-defining companies in healthcare, enterprise software, fintech/insurtech, and deep technology. Provide deep operational support, board participation, and access to domain expert network. Focus on companies solving problems in regulated or data-rich industries. Leverage Allianz's unique vantage point on risk, data, and regulation to identify opportunities at intersection of innovation and regulatory necessity.

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

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

Back founders tackling society's largest problems, with a focus on climate, health, and inclusive finance.

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.

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

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.

Elkstone backs exceptional Irish (and increasingly all-island) entrepreneurs with the vision, passion and grit to build category-defining global companies, layering private-client and institutional capital into EIIS-qualifying early-stage venture funds.

We are serial founders turned venture capitalists. We invest in market leaders building soon-to-be massive tech companies. Our approach focuses on long-term success, not short-term gains. We roll up our sleeves, get creative, lead with empathy, and have fun along the way.

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.

We invest at the intersection of health, wealth, and privacy. The next generation of financial infrastructure, healthcare, and data security solutions will emerge from early-stage startups addressing this convergence. We partner with founders and leverage corporate LP relationships for distribution and go-to-market.

Intentional, thesis-driven early-stage investing in fintech, digital health, and AI. Focus on category-defining companies solving real customer problems with founders who understand their domain deeply. Emphasis on go-to-market strategy and execution discipline.

HTGF backs ambitious tech founders at pre-seed and seed stage to build international market leaders. As Europe's most active early-stage investor and a public-private multi-stage platform, it invests across Industrial/Climate/Deep Tech, Life Sciences/Chemistry, and Digital Tech with a mandatory German nexus. HTGF combines capital, deep technical expertise, and a vast network spanning German industry, science institutions, and the European VC ecosystem. The fund also supports companies through growth rounds via its Opportunity Fund (up to 30M EUR per company).

Partner with mission-oriented founders working on transformational ideas that use science and technology to improve human health and better humanity in lasting ways. We seek founders who bring deep technical expertise and commitment to solving complex scientific and healthcare challenges.

Invest in people over product at the earliest stage of the entrepreneurial journey. Write the first institutional check for the most promising software and hardware companies. Focus on long-term relationships with founders.

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.

IBB Ventures backs Berlin-based founders building consumer, healthcare, industrial, and software companies that can scale from the city into broader markets. The firm favors practical innovation with a clear path to market launch and durable long-term value creation.

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.

A full stack investor for a complex world, backing tech disruptors with performance, values and care. Elaia partners with ambitious, technical founders from inception to leadership across two dedicated strategies: Digital Venture (B2B SaaS, AI, fintech, adtech, e-commerce) and DeepTech Seed (energy, aerospace, robotics, biotech, semiconductors), sourcing heavily from research institutions and lab spinouts.

b2venture backs outlier entrepreneurs at the earliest stages across Europe, leveraging a multi-generational community of founder-turned-angel-investors to provide capital, expertise, and network access from seed through IPO.

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.

Support the realization of start-ups' dreams by sharing the aspirations of entrepreneurs, establishing trust as a capital partner, and assisting throughout all growth stages — from seed to IPO. MUCAP invests across all industry types and stages with particular depth in life sciences (dedicated department) and new industrial fields requiring patient capital.

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.

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

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.

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

We invest in startups and venture funds, creating a symbiotic network that propels innovation. Our approach is characterized by long-term thinking and a 'give first' philosophy.

Kakao Ventures finds the 'one reason' a startup will succeed — the single differentiating capability that makes a mission inevitable — and provides capital and co-pilot support to help that potential bloom. They focus on mission-driven founders in deep tech, ICT services, digital healthcare, and gaming at seed and pre-Series A stages.

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.

Advanced therapies—cell and gene therapy, RNA-based therapy, targeted therapies (ADCs), radiopharmaceuticals, and the microbiome—represent the next frontier in medicine. 4BIO partners with visionary biotech founders and serves as a therapeutic navigator, guiding breakthrough technologies from scientific innovation to life-changing therapies for patients with high unmet medical needs.

J2 Ventures invests in early-stage companies developing technologies that advance both U.S. national security and commercial markets. The firm backs founders whose innovations strengthen national security while improving safety, health, and connectivity for everyday life. J2-backed companies receive capital plus deep expertise across government, defense, science, healthcare, and finance — and on average raise $2 in non-dilutive funding for every $1 J2 invests.

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.

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 back founders who combine emotional intelligence with business acumen and are on a mission to solve problems they deeply care about. We're often the first institutional check and provide mentorship, community, and long-term partnership support.

Founders are the key to realizing a startup's potential; capital is the key to realizing a scaleup's potential. We back disruptors delivering a 10x value proposition to large markets, from pre-seed through growth.

Back passionate technology entrepreneurs building in Los Angeles with early capital, operational mentorship, and access to a network of 120+ experienced operators and executives. Focus on pre-seed stage with hands-on support through multiple fundraising rounds.

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.

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

We partner with entrepreneurs who transcend the constraints of space and time, seeing beyond the obvious to chart new frontiers, enable new capabilities, and create new markets.

Back ambitious operators-turned-founders at the earliest stages of company formation. We invest in teams with deep domain expertise building SaaS, fintech, digital health, and AI solutions. Our 1,000+ operator network provides significant value-add beyond capital.

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.

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.

Europe's next generation of climate, resilience and deep-tech companies is being starved at the earliest, riskiest stage; a heavyweight operator network combined with a pre-seed fund closes that gap.

TEN13 is a network-driven VC that curates vetted early-stage deals for a 500+ member syndicate of operators, investors, and founders, sourcing and diligencing rounds while letting members select which deals to join.

Early-stage companies leveraging frontier technologies (AI, gene editing, synthetic biology, advanced diagnostics) to transform human health, cure disease, and strengthen global resilience. Data-driven, engineering-first approaches combined with cellular biology create transformative healthcare companies. Focus on companies that solve problems affecting everyday people globally with platform potential across multiple indications and therapeutic pathways.

Backing exceptional people at the very start of their journey. We support founders from inception to scale through our global residency programs, providing capital, mentorship, and access to a network of 1,500+ companies across six continents.

Reshape the Nasdaq by investing in venture capital's biggest blind spots. Back exceptional founders historically overlooked by traditional VC due to demographic factors or non-traditional backgrounds. Leverage proprietary Female Founders Alliance (5,000+ members) as deal flow engine to surface underestimated founders across multiple archetypes.

Partner with elite founders building transformational technologies that create lasting economic and societal value. Focus on Smart Enterprise across five sectors: Logistics, Life Sciences, Healthcare, IT Infrastructure, and Government/Defense. Invest in platforms that enable human experts to solve non-linear problems through data integration and network effects.

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

Kae positions itself as the first institutional capital into a company, partnering with founders early to build scalable, technology-driven businesses. Sector-agnostic by mandate, with current public emphasis on consumer, fintech, deeptech, B2B/B2C AI, intelligent automation, cybersecurity, and defence/aerospace.

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.

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

Partner with exceptional founders building from 0 to 1, with focus on AI applications, developer tools, SaaS, and healthcare. Believe in founders who have succeeded once or have deep domain expertise.

Fintech's intersection with AI, healthcare, commerce, and other industries, backed by an embedded growth, finance, and talent operating platform (formerly Fiat Growth) rather than capital alone.

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.

The entrepreneurial journey from zero to one is isolating and difficult. By becoming an extension of portfolio founders' teams, we can build the next generation of successful B2B SaaS companies. We invest in founders first, companies second. Technology should be human-centered, founder-first, and focused on solving real market problems.

We invest in founders with deep technical expertise and a specific vision of the future. As former founders and company builders ourselves, we provide not just capital but steady partnership through early stages. We are contrarians who invest with conviction.

Backing frontier, technically ambitious founders solving civilization-scale problems in energy, biology, maritime logistics, defense, and human performance rather than incremental software.

Thesis-driven early-stage venture capital firm investing in visionary founders building transformative technologies in Vertical AI, Deep Tech, Healthcare, and Biotech. Focus on companies built on defensible data moats and novel technological breakthroughs solving fundamental problems. Emphasis on long-term value creation and partnership from day zero. Rapid decision-making (10-15 business days) combined with hands-on operational support. NPS score of 100 from portfolio founders.

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.

We specialize in consumer. We invest under the premise that value creation comes through identifying where consumer behavior is changing, especially before it's obvious. We are obsessed with observing how people live, work, learn, play, eat, and stay well. Often, we look at how technology and consumer centricity are disrupting archaic industries. We back the brave & curious, leaning into the non-obvious ideas that edit entire industries or create new categories.

We are tech pioneers, investors, and entrepreneurs. We build and invest in transformative companies for the present and future. Active early-stage investor providing capital combined with operational expertise and hands-on partnership.

Co-found and build breakthrough life sciences and deep-science companies with university researchers. Follow science to create revolutionary technologies that prevent, detect, and cure disease. Patient capital from concept stage through commercialization.

Exceptional founders with strong conviction deserve capital, mentorship, and partnership from day one. We back category-defining companies at the earliest stages.

The best companies rarely look like the best companies at the start. We back overlooked Nordic B2B companies -- early, technical, regional, or simply unfashionable -- across Medtech, Resilience Tech, and Business Software before they become obvious.

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.

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.

Partner with entrepreneurs breaking trail in their industry, putting customers first and solving meaningful problems. Focus on founder-led, mission-driven companies combining customer-centric products with operational excellence. Strong emphasis on consumer products, lifestyle brands, and tech-enabled enterprises.

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.

Celesta invests in brilliance at the forefront of science and engineering, targeting companies that enable mass adoption of emerging tech, radically improve health outcomes, and transform large industries. Focus on platforms enabling emerging tech adoption, bioconvergence innovations (high-tech + biotech), and technologies disrupting legacy industries with deep tech.

Delta backs Ireland's most relentless founders from first cheque to scale, with a partner-led model where every founder works directly with a General Partner throughout the company's life, and a focus on capital-optimising foundations early on.

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

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.

Phoenix Court partners with exceptional founders from pre-seed through public markets and beyond. The firm operates as a multi-stage, multi-fund group — LocalGlobe (seed), Latitude (growth), Solar (late-stage), and Basecamp (emerging managers) — built on the conviction that the best companies grow big not just in private markets but across their full lifecycle. Founded on purpose: 10% of profits and 2% of carry go to Phoenix Court Works, which is transitioning to the single largest shareholder in the firm.

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.

Consumer tech is chronically undervalued. Community sits at the center of the best consumer businesses. Hobart backs founders building deeper connections, enabling everyday consumers to achieve more, and reimagining how people move and travel — prioritizing subscription and marketplace models with community-driven network effects.

The founder is the wedge—category comes after. We invest at the event horizon, in what's very early and unexpected. Uncommon people, ideas, and technologies where new markets and movements are on the brink of inevitable. We move fast, write lead checks, and stay out of founders' way.

Investible backs the visionaries advancing humanity through technology, investing at Pre-Seed through Series A alongside Club Investible, its global syndicate of 250+ investors, and activating its network to help founders scale.

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.

We back deep-tech and IP-led startups when the world still calls them too early, at the edge where science becomes engineering. We chase inevitability, not hype.

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.

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.

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

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.

We support entrepreneurs offering technology-based solutions with global scale potential, with a stated focus (though not exclusive) on Fintech, SaaS, and Biotech, and an emerging emphasis on AI-native startups given the pace of AI disruption.

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?'

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.

World-class technology companies can be built anywhere. Greatness is in our backyard. We invest in market-defining companies across the Driveway region (Hudson River to Rocky Mountains), partnering with founders from idea to IPO. Build where your talent is. Build where your customers are. Build where you're strongest.

Technological innovation is unevenly distributed. The hottest, most visible sectors attract talent and capital, while overlooked industries hide massive value creation opportunities. We back unconventional founders disrupting unglamorous, technology-inefficient, long-standing industries.

Technology is reshaping the human capacity to learn, work, and adapt. Brighteye backs the 'HumanOS' — systems helping people continuously learn, perform, and evolve. As software becomes more intelligent and autonomous, it multiplies the value of human skills and knowledge. Category-defining companies will harness technology to redefine human capability. Target: European companies with global ambition and €100M+ revenue potential in large underserved markets.

Building European technological resilience through critical infrastructure innovation. We back early-stage founders building the next generation of critical infrastructure - emerging and disruptive technologies (EDT) across defense, space, fintech, Industry 4.0, and energy.

Back exceptional entrepreneurs building enduring companies that defy expectations. Value authenticity and tenacity to turn daring ideas into lasting impact. One life-altering investment can lead to industry-wide transformation.

Mana Ventures backs technologies that redefine industries and founders that shape the future, concentrating on deep tech and frontier AI: robotics and autonomy, space and defense, AI compute infrastructure and semiconductors, biotech and healthcare AI, and energy/advanced materials.

We believe in the disruptive nature of science- and technology-driven innovation. We focus on cross-industry and interdisciplinary projects to discover innovations at the nexus of technology domains where capital-efficient solutions can unlock significant value.

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.

We invest in the future of fintech: core financial technologies, fintech extended into other industries as an enablement layer, and companies using emerging technology to revolutionize financial services.

Intentional, sustainable, and helpful relationship building drives signal through noise. We use data, research, and relationship networks to make thesis-driven conviction investments in emerging market fintech and payment infrastructure.

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

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.

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.

We invest at day zero, before product or revenue, helping founders get the fundamentals right before everything compounds, across consumer tech, consumer upgrade, and consumer AI.

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

Investing in women of color entrepreneurs transforms families, communities, and the economy. We are the first institutional capital in, providing integrated support including capital, mentorship, and connections.

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

The South is emerging as a center of gravity for venture capital, not a satellite region. We back B2B AI and SaaS founders solving real problems with clear ROI, creating a Community of Courage where capital aligns with conviction.

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.

India is at a historic convergence of consumer install base, digital infrastructure (Aadhaar/UPI/Jan Dhan), quality talent, and enterprise market growth. 3one4 backs mission-driven founders building pre-consensus transformative companies for the new Indian economy with deep operational involvement and research-led conviction.

Partners with US university students building startups at the earliest stage. Uses a behavioral engagement metric to identify high-potential founders before they have a fundable idea. Believes the best ideas look initially like bad ideas, and that talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not. Focuses on non-traditional university hubs.

Cintrifuse Capital catalyzes Cincinnati's startup ecosystem by providing critical early-stage venture capital to local founders who face greater obstacles than coastal peers. The firm combines direct pre-seed/seed investments (including the Venture Velocity cohort program) with a fund-of-funds strategy investing in national VCs with Midwest alignment, creating a dual engine for ecosystem development and financial returns.

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

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.

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

We invest in early-stage Polish deep tech startups with a clear technological edge—solving hard problems through software-driven or hardware-enabled solutions. Defensible technology, early validation, and resilient founders are non-negotiables. A deeptech project without real customers becomes a research project.

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

Backs exceptional founders in the US, Japan, and South Korea who can become category definers, providing cross-border positioning support and long-term, high-touch partnership.

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.

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

We back mission-driven founders building breakthrough technologies to solve humanitys most complex, large-scale challenges. Like an iceberg, the most valuable invention is frequently invisible; we look past surface-level applications for deep, foundational innovation.

Back global-minded founders with cross-cultural perspectives and lived experience solving structural healthcare inequities. We invest at the intersection of clinical expertise and technical execution, deploying human capital, financial capital, and cultural capital to support founders building solutions that improve patient outcomes, lower costs, enhance patient and provider experience.

Partner with exceptional founders to build generational companies that define the world's most critical industries. We provide not just capital but assemble teams of the highest caliber through our 5,000+ member builder community and deep operational expertise.

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.

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.

Extraordinary founders from non-obvious backgrounds, those without traditional pedigree, from underrepresented groups, or based outside major venture metros, are systematically overlooked despite having the brilliance, vision, and build/sell ability of top early-stage teams. We level the playing field with capital, zero-to-one operating expertise, and a global network.

Beta Boom is a pre-seed and seed fund that leads investments in tenacious, original founders solving complex problems in enterprise, healthcare, cybersecurity, and future of work. We love solutions that automate complicated workflows with agentic AI and simplify them with great user experience design. We also gravitate towards founders based outside Silicon Valley and bring unique experiences and perspectives, along with an unstoppable drive. For our part, we lead almost exclusively with big checks and high conviction. Rather than a spray-and-pray investment approach, we bet on a concentrated portfolio, so each of our portfolio companies can get unparalleled support on their journey rather than feeling like a number. Our weekly 1-hour-long collaboration sessions with founders are legendary, and our founder references speak for themselves.

Early investors and long-term partners. We back exceptional founders solving real problems across sectors. When you hit a bump in the road, we're there solving problems alongside you with operational expertise and network leverage.

Back technical teams working on breakthrough products. We invest in seed stage companies that demonstrate technical differentiation - meaning technical or product-level superiority is a major reason for future success. We pursue investments from application layer (AI/ML) through software infrastructure to hardware layers (semiconductors, photonics).

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

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.

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.

Connect innovative startups to 550+ corporate partners who have real business problems to solve. Our platform creates a flywheel of pilots, enterprise customers, and follow-on capital for founders who value long-term partnership and have credible paths to $100M+ ARR.

Coach and invest in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations. Combines financial investment with active leadership coaching and organizational development using LinkedIn's proven playbook. Believes great companies are built by great leaders who manage compassionately and combine doing well with doing good.

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.

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

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.

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

Building the future of healthy and active humanity. Wildwood builds and invests in early-stage consumer technology companies at the intersection of the outdoor and wellness economies, addressing America's health and wellness crisis for greater physical, mental, social and spiritual wellbeing.

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.

We back belief-driven founders at the earliest stage with a clear understanding of their first winnable chapter. We combine capital with hands-on operational support to de-risk and accelerate ventures. Often the first institutional investors.

The Maghreb produces world-class scientific and engineering talent that lacks a bridge to global capital, strategic customers, and later-stage co-investors. MEDIN backs the person and the science before a market fully exists, then bridges founders to Europe and Silicon Valley.

We back the boldest, most ambitious founders that seem unlikely to succeed, investing our own capital with no fund clock so we can remain invested indefinitely.

First institutional VC fund exclusively founded by former corporate VC leaders. Bridges traditional VC and corporate VC through Counter Club (750+ CVCs, $320B deployed). Invests in B2B SaaS solving nontrivial problems in large markets, providing founders with direct access to enterprise customers, strategic partners, and capital through the CVC network.

We invest at the earliest stages and partner with exceptional entrepreneurs from idea to IPO. We stay small by design to remain aligned with founders. We're sector-agnostic, conviction-driven, capital-efficient, and believe in founder/market fit and intrinsic value over hype.

Hilariously early pre-seed/seed investing. We back hustlers at concept stage—fast, scrappy, first-principles founders who act before market consensus.

The strongest early-stage companies emerge from founders with deep domain expertise who have access to capital, community, and operational support. Grand Central Tech provides the infrastructure; Company Ventures provides the capital. We back founders committed to category-defining businesses in any sector.

Brings private equity rigor to early-stage venture with a Capital + Talent + Growth model. Invests in Vertical SaaS, AI, Cybersecurity, and Health Tech from Pre-Seed to Series A, combining capital with in-house executive search (Roo Search, 23,000+ candidates, 600+ placements) and operational playbooks (Roo Growth). Targets companies bridging MVP to scale.

Data and technology combined with sector expertise and operational support unlock unfair advantages for early-stage startups. We build venture capital like a tech company.

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.

Technical founders backing technical founders. We back deep technical teams solving existential problems and capturing tremendous opportunity in essential industries like healthcare, logistics, real estate, and manufacturing.

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.

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.

Young student founders with ambitious vision and strong execution ability can build transformational companies. Providing accessible capital plus institutional support at the earliest stage unlocks value that might otherwise remain invisible to traditional VC. University students represent a unique cohort—bright, ambitious, and unconstrained by traditional career paths.

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

The next era of value is built on atoms, not apps. We back founders who start in the laboratory — those with genuine scientific breakthroughs, from semiconductors to biotech, robotics to drug discovery. We provide patient capital for the long development cycles that breakthrough science demands.

S20 backs pre-seed founders in People and Planet verticals (EdTech, Digital Health, Future of Work, Energy transition) across Central Europe and the Baltics, targeting 30x+ returns through either globally-ambitious tech-driven teams or execution-driven regional champions.

Lead pre-seed and seed rounds in Canadian B2B software and AI-enabled vertical workflow companies with an initial product in market, early product-market-fit signals, and ambition to scale across North America or globally.

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

Support ambitious founders with the 'X Factor' – the insight and drive to build billion-dollar companies. Particularly focused on female founders and mixed-gender teams who have been historically underrepresented in VC.

We back founders with compounding talent, a fast clock speed, and the conviction to make bold, insight-driven bets, and support them with a Collective of senior operators who open doors, make introductions, and help close key hires and customers.

Evidence-based, multi-stage investing in healthcare, life sciences, and planetary health. RA Capital pairs deep scientific diligence (via proprietary TechAtlas platform) with flexible multi-stage capital—from NewCo incubation through public markets—to support breakthrough companies from inception through commercialization. The firm's core belief is that rigorous landscape research and scientific depth consistently identify winners before the market recognizes them.

Investing in human potential by backing pre-seed and seed startups building toward an inclusive economy. The fund prioritizes founders who embed inclusion into their business model fabric — seeking early signal that the company is building a future that works for all of us together. Approximately 85% of portfolio companies have diverse founders.

Invest in companies reimagining backbone sectors of the 21st century economy. Three focus areas: Food Technology (post-farmgate through foodservice), Digital Health & SaaS (democratizing quality care), and Enterprise SaaS (supply chain, commerce, core systems). Leverage Minnesota's unique ecosystem of Fortune 500 companies, medical innovation legacy, and deep industry networks.

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.

Building transformational companies requires more than capital—it demands deep operational expertise, consistent partnership, and genuine commitment to founders' success. Costanoa backs visionaries solving big, hard problems across data infrastructure, applied AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and national security. The firm centers on the 'missing middle' of early-stage investing: providing unusually intensive, hands-on support to founder teams during their most critical growth phases.

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.

J12 backs technical founders early across two theses: Enablers (data infrastructure, developer tools, MLOps, and compute efficiency powering AI) and Applications (domain-specific AI products that reinvent mission-critical B2B workflows using predictive ML, computer vision, speech/multimodal, generative, and agentic systems).

We back early-stage govtech founders building across the public-sector stack, from citizen services to critical infrastructure protection, combining strategy, capital, and deep government sales expertise to help founders build scalable foundations, accelerate growth, and reach meaningful exits.

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

Team8 systematically identifies large, structural problems in cybersecurity, software infrastructure, fintech, and digital health, then either builds companies from scratch (venture creation) or backs founders already attacking those problems (venture capital), pairing capital with a 900+ person village of domain experts.

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.

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

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.

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.

We invest in ideas and people first, then help build products. We believe connections are power and leverage an extensive network to support founders. We are founder-focused and work as trusted partners at the earliest stages.

Boreal invests in capital-efficient Canadian B2B technology companies with early product-market fit, partnering with founders to build scalable go-to-market engines. The firm focuses on sectors systematically overlooked by larger funds: vertical SaaS & AI, industrial tech, fintech, digital health, and manufacturing. With Fund II, Boreal will not cover medtech and will not take scientific or pure R&D risks. Provides more formalized GTM support via JD Saint-Martin's operational expertise. Targets 15 investments from Fund II, 90% at seed stage with $1.5M-$3M initial cheques.

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.

Empowering visionary entrepreneurs to build unique solutions that reshape how Indians live, work, consume, and transact. Kalaari backs potential over pedigree — first-time founders welcome — focusing on tech-driven Indian market opportunities from Pre-Seed through Series A.

We invest in companies intentionally closing gaps in wealth, health, and skills through our Inclusive Investing™ framework. Exceptional founders and transformative opportunities exist far beyond traditional VC hubs; we target overlooked founders building category-leading businesses with systemic impact.

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

Invest in exceptional people, not just ideas. Identify future tech leaders while still in college and support them through every stage of entrepreneurial journey. Build diverse, inclusive communities that create self-reinforcing network effects and generate outsized returns.

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

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).

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

Serve industry, contribute to society, repay the nation through professional capability. Act as an industry integrator and innovation driver across advanced manufacturing, IT, new materials/new energy, life sciences, and tech-driven consumption, pairing capital with operational and industrial-resource support.

Keen runs two parallel thesis-driven programs: backing AI software that makes Europe's SMEs radically more productive (Technology for SMEs), and backing commercial, software-enabled, dual-use defence and security technology built for multi-country European scale (Defence). Both theses are shaped through recurring 'thesis sprints' and a 'time first, money later' approach to founder relationships.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

The next wave of category-defining technology companies will be built from Southeast Europe, starting in Bulgaria. Vitosha backs execution-driven founders building global-from-day-one products, prioritizing team conviction over the idea itself.

Main Sequence backs deep tech founders solving humanity-scale problems, especially companies connected to publicly funded research and spinouts that can turn breakthrough science into global businesses.

The best B2B SaaS companies are built by founders who deeply understand their customers' pain points. Many struggle to efficiently complete fundraising because traditional VCs create redundant diligence friction. By being founder-friendly and leveraging collaborative diligence, we access better deals and help founders move faster.

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.

Geographic alpha — backing founders who replicate proven global business models in new geographies with strong local adaptation. The innovation supply chain now moves globally; AI accelerates replication cycles from years to months. Focus on 'camel startups' with real product-market fit and sustainable growth.

We invest in non-obvious founders with deep founder-market fit. Like a professional cycling leadout team, we protect and position founders while leveraging a curated network of operators from Apple, Stripe, and Nvidia to provide unusually broad support from day one. Over 85% of our portfolio is led by women or underrepresented minorities.

Corporate-advantage seed investing. We identify promising AI and deep tech startups early, then leverage our hundreds of relationships with corporate venture capital arms to de-risk investments, accelerate time to exit, and create curated dealflow where both founders and corporates benefit from strategic alignment.

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

The greatest returns come from the most overlooked markets where businesses outperform because they create value. We invest in early-stage technology companies that unlock wealth and health for the mass market — in massively regulated, operationally complex sectors that are broken and overdue for reinvention: financial services, healthcare, real estate, insurance, and work.

Australians and New Zealanders have a disproportionate capacity to build category-defining startups given the region's risk-taking, underdog culture; a pay-it-forward mentorship model, where alumni founders mentor the next cohort, compounds returns for founders and investors over time.

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.

Human-driven, community-powered, tech-augmented investing that backs real scientific, societal, and environmental shifts rather than trend-chasing or algorithmic sourcing.

AI-driven productivity and consumption gains could add up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030. We back domain-specific, globally disruptive early-stage startups where AI is structurally core to the product, not a bolt-on feature.

Spark Capital backs transformative products built by creators with genuine vision and technical depth. We believe that the best way to evaluate a founding team is not through credentials or market analysis, but by experiencing their product firsthand. Product comes first, and everything else follows.

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

Partner with exceptional founders building breakthrough, regionally-scalable companies across MENA, generating financial returns while creating social impact (job creation, women's empowerment) and accelerating the regional tech ecosystem.

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

Find and accelerate early-stage Latin American startups with defensible technology through a large-scale scouting program (Discovery-A), pairing capital with hands-on mentoring and a bridge to US Series A financing.

Diverse industry experience enables superior pattern recognition about which founders can succeed. Operational support from founders-turned-investors is more valuable than just capital. Markets have seasons - breakthrough companies can emerge from unexpected places.

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.

ISAI identifies capital-efficient French tech startups early—often as the first VC—backing SaaS and marketplace models with progressive ambition, blue ocean positioning, and category-leader potential. Increasingly an AI-focused investor using it as an enabling lens across all verticals. Their edge: a community of 500+ tech entrepreneur-LPs who open doors, advise, and validate.

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.

It's time for 'Asia to Global' — Asia2G backs Korean and Asian technical founders in deep-tech, enterprise, and infrastructure categories, and helps them expand into the US through GTM strategy, fundraising support, executive recruitment, and product-market fit expertise.

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