Top HR Tech & Future of Work Investors 2026

The best workplaces are designed to unlock and amplify human potential. We invest in next-generation work technologies across infrastructure, intelligence, automation, experience, and compliance — backing founders rebuilding how work is built, run, and scaled globally.

Ecosystem-driven VC investing in AI solutions for the world's most complex markets — health, wealth, and work — leveraging a Fortune 500 executive network, broker relationships, and health plan connections to accelerate commercial outcomes for portfolio companies.

Emerge invests at pre-seed and seed in Human Capital Development companies: AI-enabled products that help people learn, navigate careers, and do productive work more effectively. The firm frames HCD as a $4T global market and focuses on three segments: Learn (personalized learning at scale), Navigate (AI-assisted career transitions, hiring, and talent matching), and Work (tools that fuse work and learning, improve information access, and enable higher-level work).

We invest in who you are, not just what you do. We back visionaries and game-changers with character and global ambition. We partner long-term with founders, providing capital, operational support, and deep conviction in their vision.

TheVentureCity is an early-stage venture capital fund working alongside tech founders redefining fundamental industries. Managing over $150M, the fund leads Seed and Series A rounds of $2.5M to $4M across the United States, Europe and Latin America. We invest in companies across fintech, healthtech and mobility & logistics, where proprietary data, AI and automation are core to building defensible products.

We invest in ambitious early-stage founders building category-defining companies. Our Alpha network of 2,000+ founders and operators provides unique sourcing and strategic support for scaling emerging enterprises.

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. Fund III (Sep 2026) marks a strategic evolution beyond traditional edtech to a broader focus on companies expanding human capability — AI-augmented learning, productivity platforms in high-stakes settings (healthcare, education, infrastructure, cybersecurity, climate), and managed labour platforms for the AI age.

We invest in innovative European companies that will scale to become global category leaders. Our focus is on companies solving education and work challenges through technology and human capital investment. We believe the best outcomes come from mission-driven entrepreneurs building sustainable solutions.

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

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.

Stage 2 Capital is the first VC fund backed by 1,000+ GTM executives. Using a two-person pod model (traditional VC + GTM operator), the firm helps B2B software companies scale through go-to-market expertise and access to a curated executive LP network.

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

Independent global investment platform backing capital-efficient, high-growth technology companies across Europe and North America. Multi-stage, multi-strategy approach from venture to pre-IPO. Transatlantic local teams provide unique advantage in bridging European and US growth.

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.

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.

Funding the future of AI, Cloud, and Work: backing Early Conviction Companies (seed-Series B, $1-5M) in compelling emerging markets, and Growth Partners deepening strategic relationships with Atlassian.

Backing entrepreneurs with Italian roots and global ambitions: Italy's first founder-backed VC, investing Pre-Seed to Series A in companies with an Italian DNA, born in Italy, expanding into Italy, or founded by Italians anywhere in the world.

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.

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

The UK's vocational skills gap requires venture-backed technology, not just policy or grant funding; solving skills problems at scale can be both commercially sustainable and socially impactful.

Companies that focus on sustainable and financial returns will outperform profit-led companies, and technology drives accelerated impact. We back tech4good founders building digital ventures across climate, energy, health, and future-of-work that combine measurable impact with strong financial performance.

We invest in proven, scalable companies where impact is embedded in the core of the business, applying the same growth metrics and discipline as commercial venture capital because lasting impact comes from building resilient, high-performing companies.

We seek mission-driven founders and teams leveraging breakthrough innovations in technology for the benefit of people and planet, with a primary focus on companies with female CEOs or women in senior C-level roles.

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.

Back ambitious, technical founders solving real business problems with software and AI. We prefer to be a meaningful part of the first capital raised and provide hands-on support as operating partners. Great companies can be built anywhere, not just tech hubs. Pre-seed is where company DNA gets formed and represents the most fun and foundational stage of a company.

Early-stage B2B software across Europe; bullish on the AI application layer. We stand by our founders and talk straight.

We invest in European mid-market B2B SaaS and AI leaders, deploying capital, deep operational expertise and strategic M&A support to help regional software leaders become European champions.

Backs founding teams at the angel, pre-seed, and seed stages across Europe with fast, founder-friendly checks (~EUR 125K) and at least a year of hands-on coaching, focusing on AI, fintech, and deep tech.

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.

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

We lead Seed rounds of EUR 0.5m-5m and follow on up to EUR 12m or above. We are comfortable with the imperfection of startups, investing early in brilliant people and products and caring more about the potential of massive scale than minimizing early-stage risk. We invest in what we know and love: AI/Deeptech and SaaS in the B2B space, sourced from the SEE region and diaspora.

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.

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

Updata partners with capital-efficient B2B software and AI-driven companies outside the Bay Area, pairing growth capital with hands-on operating support from a team of former software operators.

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.

Founders for Founders: the best deals go to a founder's best friends. Back founders from a 200+ founder-LP community via warm referrals.

Invest in leading, fast-growing AI-powered enterprise software companies solving critical pain points with defensible advantages in large markets, providing flexible growth capital (primary, secondary, or both) plus operational, M&A, and capital-raising support.

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

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

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

Companies succeed because of the people who build them. We connect exceptional enterprise operators with early-stage founders to create a flywheel of aligned incentives, leveraging 200+ active operator LPs with 5,000+ collective years of building, scaling, and leading successful tech companies.

Growth-stage partner for European scale-ups, primarily AI-enabled opportunities across fintech, energy tech, future of work and security, with Buy & Build and go-to-market support.

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.

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

AI-native B2B software companies building workflow applications where defensibility comes from data access, integrations, governance, and distribution — not the underlying model. The fund treats AI as an execution layer, not a feature. Every investment enters a 100-day production phase to de-risk execution before institutional fundraising.

Bridge LatAm talent to Silicon Valley by writing first checks for LatAm founders at the idea and pre-seed stage, with hands-on support and US fund introductions.

Haatch backs UK founders early in B2B software, fintech, and vertical SaaS when the business solves a deep operational pain and can be scaled with disciplined go-to-market execution.

European early-stage fund backing founders building durable technology businesses across deep tech, SaaS, AI, energy transition, digital finance, and healthcare.

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.

We look for world class teams solving big problems in the future of work: how people find work, how organizations find and manage talent, and how work gets executed.

Identify innovators capturing shifts in technology and behavior that reshape their industries, and empower mission-driven teams toward market-leading scale through a partnership-driven, long-term growth-equity approach.

We partner with B2B companies at the inflection point from startup to expansion, providing life-cycle capital and a value-add platform to help entrepreneurs build enduring, great growth companies.

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

Back innovative CEE companies with measurable social or environmental impact and scalable business models, aligned with the UN SDGs and SFDR.

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.

Financial services represents the largest venture opportunity with disproportionately small VC allocation. We invest in companies reinventing financial services with operator teams combining domain expertise and execution excellence.

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.

Back European founders turning science into industrial-scale companies across three topics: Resilience in Energy & Resources, Future of Computing, and Frontiers in Health & Bio. Wants to be the first institutional partner.

Education is the most powerful driver of human potential. We invest in mission-driven teams building transformative education companies that deliver measurable outcomes and expand access globally.

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.

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.

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

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

Back ambitious 'go-all-in' founders building defensible B2B software at pre-seed and seed, and support them intensively through the journey to Series A. Focus on AI, infrastructure, health, TechBio, open source, and marketplaces.

Emergence invests in early-stage B2B software companies that will define the next era of enterprise technology. Founded in 2003 as the original cloud/SaaS-focused VC firm, they have pioneered investing through technology transitions: horizontal SaaS (Salesforce, Zoom), vertical SaaS (Veeva, Doximity), and now AI-native services — companies that sell outcomes rather than software, powered by AI that compounds competitive advantage over time.

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.

Early-stage, sector-agnostic, founders-first partner to tech-driven founders building disruptive product companies out of India.

PeakSpan invests exclusively in Applied AI B2B software scale-ups at $3M–$50M+ ARR, providing growth equity combined with hands-on operational platform support (500+ expert community, proprietary technology tools, proven playbooks) to help founders scale with discipline and achieve optimal risk-adjusted exits.

Early-stage fund powered by The Motley Fool's brand, investing approach, and communities; independent decisions with outside LPs plus operating-company resources.

Juvo invests in technology-enabled solutions that improve accessibility, affordability, and delivery of learning and workforce development at scale. We believe empowered entrepreneurs create innovative solutions to unlock learning potential and improve access, quality, and outcomes for all people.

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

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

We back rebels who challenge the status quo and reshape financial systems through technology. The best fintech founders see structural inefficiencies before others and have the conviction to build something fundamentally better. We partner with them not just with capital, but with hands-on operational expertise, regulatory fluency, and deep financial services networks.

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.

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

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.

Technology that creates opportunity for the entire workforce through skills development, new work models, and portable benefits—excluding automation-first themes. We invest in companies that help humans adapt and thrive through economic transitions, with focus on rural and middle-skill America.

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.

Fund and found the future of cloud: pre-seed and seed B2B enterprise SaaS, backed with a founder and operator perspective and hands-on go-to-market help.

Serial entrepreneurs backing founders with ownership mentality, an international mindset and ambition to build €300M+ companies, in disruptive tech-driven businesses from Pre-Seed to Series A+, staying as partner into the next round.

We invest in early-stage AI-driven startups founded by top technical talent from MIT, Harvard, and Boston ecosystem. We believe transformative AI innovation is emerging from university-affiliated founders backed by comprehensive operational support, mentorship, and access to world-class networks.

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

Backs companies re-imagining, re-inventing and re-wiring the financial ecosystem, providing growth capital plus decades of operating and scaling expertise across payments, banking and lending, insurance and benefits, asset management and capital markets, and data and business services.

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

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

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.

Multi-stage fund backing CEE and CEE-diaspora tech founders with global ambitions, AI-first, defensible products and a path to EUR 50M+ ARR.

Partner with and accelerate early growth winners with an Israeli nexus, investing Seed through Series B where founders show extreme founder-market fit and a credible path to defensibility as AI lowers barriers to replication.

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.

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.

Early-stage purpose-driven technology startups with initial revenue and global ambitions, CEE+ focus, led by humble, AI-first founders.

Back exceptional European B2B technology companies with a working product, early customers and ambitious founders, using staged entry tickets and larger follow-ons.

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

We invest in purpose driven founders changing our life, health and wellbeing for the better, across digital health, well-being, prevention and care, B2B and B2C.

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

All you need is a Unique Insight. Frst backs exceptional, ambitious founders on Day One, often before there is a product, team, or incorporated company, evaluating opportunities through Ambition, Vision, and Execution.

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.

Helpful investors in marketplace and SaaS businesses founded by operators who grew Yelp from zero to $1B revenue through IPO

Companies grow best with the right partners alongside them. Andera Partners provides capital and hands-on operational support (acquisitions strategy, digitalisation, CSR, networking, internationalisation, human capital, operational improvement, financing) across six specialised strategies spanning life sciences, green infrastructure, SME/mid-cap growth capital, and mezzanine financing.

We help founders build breakout companies. We partner with ambitious and curious early-stage founders who want to learn and grow as leaders.

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.

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

Backing founders with exceptional vision and mission-driven impact across Finland and the Baltics, prioritizing founder character over polished business plans - asking 'Why us?' and 'Why now?'

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

Outlier founders and ideas shape the future of humanity. We back ambitious founders building category-defining companies that create significant impact while generating returns that support non-profit and educational causes.

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.

Partner with relentless founders through their most defining stages of growth, using an in-house Research team to underwrite and support commerce-infrastructure and AI-native technology companies.

Praetura backs ambitious northern founders building software, health, life sciences, fintech, cybersecurity, robotics, and other high-growth businesses where operator support and regional conviction matter. The firm positions itself as a more-than-money investor and emphasizes practical support from experienced operators, not just capital.

We partner with founders building the next generation of mission-critical enterprise software, teams harnessing AI across the stack, and builders reinventing how finance moves, is managed, and creates opportunity.

The most valuable companies of our time will be the ones solving humanity's biggest problems across planetary health, human health, and economic health. We back exceptional founders building breakthrough solutions that create both financial returns and positive impact.

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

We back European platforms of tomorrow that democratize market access and enhance efficiency through the power of network effects. Platforms create value by connecting multiple stakeholders in sustainable, long-term businesses.

Backs exceptional founders from pre-idea phase through seed. Fund IV ($185M) introduces Pre-Seed 2.0 with flexible check sizes ($50K-$2M), dedicated Founders-in-Residence program (including university track), and no forced fundraising timeline.

Software++ — mission-critical enterprise technology companies with differentiated tech and multi-layered monetization strategies beyond standard SaaS licensing. Seeks proprietary data, network effects, and workflow lock-in.

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

Back resilient founders building category-defining companies. Leverage Korea's cultural wave for global expansion. When others say 'no', we find the 'yes'.

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

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

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.

Arthur Ventures leads growth investments in capital-efficient B2B software companies across every region of the US and Canada, with a deliberate focus outside Silicon Valley, backing founders after product-market fit but before large institutional rounds.

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.

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.

We accelerate the first financing rounds of promising digital entrepreneurs in Belgium and neighbouring countries, leading pre-seed rounds and co-leading or following at seed, with a fast and transparent decision process and the capacity to double down in later rounds.

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.

Backs founders building software that replaces legacy workflows in financial services, infrastructure, logistics, healthcare, and other operationally complex markets. The firm consistently favors products with strong automation, data, and integration moats.

Patient Capital. True Resources. Big Impacts. S3 backs visionary founders building in Business Software and Healthcare Technology. Unique single-LP structure (a multi-billion dollar philanthropic family office) enables patient, flexible investing unconstrained by traditional VC fundraising cycles. Founded in Texas in 2005 — the largest and longest-serving VC native to Texas.

Partnering with category-defining technology founders at critical inflection points (typically Series B, $10M ARR) through IPO and beyond. ICONIQ brings an unparalleled network of 300+ tech executive families, an 80-person dedicated venture team, and 'uncommon care' service model. AI is now a core focus with $3B+ invested in AI in 2025.

Ventech backs founders who reimagine society with global technology visions — particularly AI-native vertical applications, industrial software, digital health, cybersecurity, and sovereignty plays across Europe. With 26 years of European VC experience, they are long-term conviction partners from Seed to exit, offering board-level support and international network access.

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.

The real estate industry is analogue, antiquated, and carbon-intensive; today's technology isn't yet sufficient to make the built world fit for future generations, so we back founders building the digital and sustainable built world of tomorrow, from construction to cities to the future of work.

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. As of mid-2026, the firm is evolving beyond its strict pre-seed-only definition — removing the previous hard $20M valuation cap and ~$4M round size limits to see the full landscape of the best new companies being created, whether rounds are called pre-seed or seed and whether founders are first-time or repeat. The firm still prioritizes early entry points but now evaluates a broader range of early-stage opportunities.

In an era of technological upheaval, obsession beats playbooks, ambition beats size, and conviction beats consensus. Visionaries backs founders who run toward the fire and connects them with a curated cadre of operator-LPs and industrial-family entrepreneurs who have already built at scale.

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.

Partner with extraordinary founders building the next generation of iconic Latin American technology companies. Invest in any tech-enabled sector where innovation can drive significant disruption. Bring not just capital but deep operational expertise as former MercadoLibre executives and entrepreneurs.

One of Japan's most active VC firms and the venture capital arm of SBI Holdings, managing JPY 841.4 billion in cumulative fund commitments. Focused on concentrated investments in growth sectors including AI/blockchain, fintech, biotech/life sciences, and clean energy globally. Mission to cultivate key industries for the 21st century, serving as Japan's bridge to global technology ecosystems.

Sixth Street Growth provides flexible, patient capital to mid- and late-stage technology companies, pairing growth equity and bespoke credit solutions with deep operating expertise through its 'More Than Capital' platform. Focus areas include enterprise SaaS, fintech/payments, healthcare IT, cybersecurity, and data infrastructure.

We are former operators and engineers who back innovative growth-stage entrepreneurs in infrastructure software, cloud services, CxO software, and vertical software, with flexible capital (primary growth equity, secondary liquidity, or M&A financing) shaped around what the company actually needs.

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.

The biggest returns come from solving the greatest challenges. The next generation of trillion-euro companies will be built by solving the world's hardest problems across energy, industry and healthcare.

Founders from Australia/NZ, Israel, and Southeast Asia will shape the future of global technology. We prioritize people above all else, backing entrepreneurs with compelling visions who assemble talented, mission-driven teams to tackle large, important problems, and back them repeatedly over time.

Back ambitious UK founders reimagining industries, screening for credibility, execution, and vision. Deploys EIS/VCT tax-advantaged capital into deeptech, fintech, and energy transition companies, with a broader appetite for hardware, industrial, and SaaS businesses.

Back technical founders building critical infrastructure for foundational industries. Pair growth-stage capital with deep regulatory expertise and government/industry connectivity to create defensible advantages in overlooked, essential sectors.

Back founders with grit, industry insights, and strong engineering cultures to build amazing software that disrupts incumbents. Deliberately invest in unsexy industries and antiquated markets (warehousing, real estate, specialty pharmacy, agriculture) that others overlook, where nimble startups can create tremendous value.

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.

Investing in the modern economy through AI-driven business solutions, software-driven hardware, sustainable agriculture, and supply chain technology in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada, being the first institutional partner in a founder's journey.

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 back exceptional founders and management teams building defensible, market-leading software businesses in high-growth categories, sourced in part through our proprietary PULSE data platform, and support them with a dedicated value-creation team.

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

Backing transformative founders building exceptional companies across all sectors

Empower ambitious founders with capital, expertise, and network to build and scale transformative ventures, prioritizing startups that advance Saudi Vision 2030 and can localize frontier technology in the Kingdom.

Balderton Capital backs European-founded technology companies with visionary founders building transformative businesses. The firm combines patient capital, operational expertise, and founder support to enable European entrepreneurs to build world-class companies.

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

Sierra believes enterprise software is being fundamentally transformed by cloud computing and AI. They invest in technical founders building the next generation of enterprise solutions that deliver superior ROI through better efficiency, automation, and capability. The firm particularly focuses on infrastructure, security, healthcare innovation, and emerging deep tech.

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

Invest in exceptional new-frontier technology companies that bring liquidity and efficiency to antiquated industries.

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

Strategic CVC investing in startups driving the future of data, technology, and financial services—aligned with Capital One's business imperatives. More than half of portfolio investments lead to commercial partnerships with Capital One.

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.

High-growth companies creating a healthier, smarter, and cleaner future; cross-sector impact investing across climate, health, supply chain, education, employment, and government workflows.

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.

Long-term venture partnerships built on depth of thought, conviction, and dimensional thinking. We back founders with diverse lived experiences who are building transformative companies. We operate as a team sport—you don't work with individual partners, you work with Acrew. We invest in emotional intelligence, operational support, and the long arc of building meaningful companies.

Enterprise technology is the sole focus. Patient capital with an evergreen model — Salesforce is the sole LP with no fund lifecycle pressure, enabling investing across market cycles. AI is the defining platform shift of our era: from model infrastructure to AI applications to robotics and agents. Strategic value beyond capital: unmatched access to the Salesforce enterprise ecosystem and Fortune 500 network for customer introductions, early product feedback, and go-to-market acceleration.

Riverwood partners with Proven Growth technology companies — businesses with demonstrated business models and positive unit economics — providing $25M–$250M+ to help them scale globally. Their Scalability Playbook supports companies navigating strategic and operational inflection points. Current focus on AI-powered enterprise software as a generational catalyst.

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

Space has a unique role in addressing the world's most pressing problems and represents a $trillion investment opportunity. We back visionary entrepreneurs transforming science fiction into science fact using space technology and space-based data to solve challenges in sustainability, connectivity, and digitalization at global scale.

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.

Durable, successful financial services businesses are built on strong foundations of unit economics. We apply Capital One's data-driven approach to identifying and scaling fintech companies globally. With 250+ combined years of operational experience building, scaling, and exiting fintech companies, we provide hands-on advisory and strategic partnership beyond capital, serving as consigliere to our portfolio companies.

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

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

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

Immigrants are strongly underrepresented in venture capital despite founding or co-founding 55% of America's billion-dollar startups. Immigration and entrepreneurship are parallel one-way journeys. We back exceptional immigrant founders because their success is not priced into the market.

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 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.

Highland Europe backs exceptional teams in Europe and Israel building the next generation of technology leaders, focusing on product-led software and consumer companies with organic growth, clear product-market fit, and capital discipline.

Investing in tomorrow's needs—promoting financial inclusion and social security for underserved communities through early-stage fintech, insurtech, and Islamic fintech. We enhance entrepreneurs' capacity to build sustainable, adaptable businesses and provide market access support, ESG mentoring, and operational advisory alongside capital.

Pre-seed fund investing in technical founders building developer-facing tools and infrastructure. Focused on curiosity, velocity of learning, and rapid building. Believe the world is shaped by unique insights at the intersection of art/culture and math/science.

Back outlier B2B founders who see around corners and intimately understand customer pain points, investing at the pre-Series A stage to bridge the gap between seed and Series A — especially in underserved non-coastal markets like the Southeast US.

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

Visionary entrepreneurs building evidence-based, mission-driven solutions can simultaneously address critical gaps in education and employment while delivering superior risk-adjusted returns. Positive social impact drives market-rate returns.

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.

Bold B2B software entrepreneurs at Pre-Seed and Seed stages building transformational vertical AI applications, enterprise software, infrastructure, security, and fintech. Underscore employs an 'open-source' investing model sharing economics with their Core Community of operator-advisors who provide portfolio companies with world-class expertise at no cost.

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

Origin Ventures invests in bold founders leading humanity into the fifth economic era—the Artificial Intelligence Economy. AI is fundamentally transforming how we live, work, and play through infrastructure, software, applications, and services that drive productivity and enable autonomous systems. The firm is an early believer in extraordinary people with deep domain expertise who challenge norms and redefine economies.

Storm Ventures backs early-stage B2B enterprise software companies with a focus on AI-native applications, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure. They employ a 'paddling to surfing' growth methodology and have deep expertise in taking companies from inception to $100M+ ARR. Their philosophy: 'the interface layer will disappear. The infrastructure layer will compound.'

Access Bridge Ventures backs exceptional leaders in MENAP, aiming to be the first institutional investor and lead rounds, pairing capital with regional network access, governance support, and operational experience.

Artificial intelligence will reshape every industry. We partner with technical founders building the next generation of AI applications, infrastructure, and tools across every layer of the AI stack.

Capital and operational expertise to accelerate innovation, with a structural mandate to build the venture and growth-equity ecosystem of Southern Italy across digital, deep tech, medtech, industrial, and technology-transfer opportunities.

We invest in emerging and current category leaders in software, artificial intelligence, and data businesses with proven value propositions, deep customer advocacy, scalable operating leverage, and resilient recurring revenue.

Asymmetric invests in exceptional founders disrupting legacy industries through Vertical Software, Healthcare IT & Services, and SMB Consolidations (rollups). The firm targets 20% ownership as lead, writing $2-10M checks from Pre-seed through Series A. Founded by former PE investors and operators who provide deep operational, strategic, and financial partnership beyond capital.

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

Redstone is a European specialist VC platform that backs early-stage companies across DeepTech, Industrial, Energy & Infrastructure, FinTech, Health, Social Impact, Blue Economy, and Venture Debt. It combines thematic conviction, data-driven sourcing, and a hands-on operating style.

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

Back ambitious European B2B software and AI founders at Pre-Seed to Series A and help them become category leaders, with focus on vertical and SMB SaaS, AI agents, industrial software and cybersecurity.

A growth accelerator for ambitious French companies built on a frank, direct and rapid entrepreneur-investor relationship, backing founders through start-up to pre-IPO growth phases with resilience and collective intelligence.

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

Disruptive innovation in work and education fuels human achievement. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs who are business builders, deep domain experts, and capital efficient thinkers. We believe in long-term relationships over transactional investing, often partnering with founders across multiple ventures.

Technology is the 'new West' — Westbound invests financial and social capital into visionary, values-aligned founders to build a virtuous cycle of wealth and opportunity, with an explicit mission to close the racial wealth gap.

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

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.

Back electric founders with an uncontrollable passion for creating disruptive companies. Invest globally, particularly strong in US and Latin America. Combine capital with operational support through venture studio model, helping build groundbreaking companies from inception through scale.

Backing experienced founders with deep domain conviction at the earliest stages. Fund genuine 'venture moments' — discrete inflection points where new capital validates novel hypotheses. Reject the factory model of venture; focus on capital efficiency and sound businesses.

Sky9 backs technical founders building category-defining companies across AI, consumer internet, fintech, deep tech, and biotech. The firm uses a cross-border platform and direct partner involvement to help companies scale from the earliest stages into international growth.

Magma Partners backs the best founders solving Latin America's biggest problems with scalable technology businesses. The firm wants companies that can expand across large regional markets, not just niche local products.

Seed-stage Enterprise AI and intelligent software investor partnering with ambitious founders at the earliest stages. Distinctive Silicon Valley + India model: backing Indian-origin founding teams building for global enterprise markets. Hands-on support for product-market fit, GTM strategy, and scaling — 4 of 5 backed companies achieve strong PMF.

Identify and partner with visionary entrepreneurs building category-creating companies that unlock entirely new addressable markets. Focus on 'silent suffering' where customers tolerate suboptimal solutions. Use AI, data, and behavioral science to identify non-obvious market opportunities and founder-market fit.

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

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

We provide capital and strategic partnership to faith-driven technology founders in the U.S. and Southeast Asia who are building companies with defensible moats and thriving cultures, seeking top financial returns alongside human flourishing.

If you invest in tech, you should use technology to do it. Blue Moon operates like a fintech company using proprietary AI/ML across all operations — sourcing 8,000+ deals/year, vetting with ML algorithms analyzing 53 personality traits, and supporting founders with AI tools. They seek exceptional B2B/Enterprise founders building in Infrastructure, Cloud, DevTools, AI, SaaS, Cybersecurity, and B2B Fintech.

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

We back B2B software and software-driven hardware founders and pair capital with hands-on, customized sales and marketing support delivered by our in-house sales trainers.

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.

Back founders who turn new technology into measurable business results, focused on Vertical AI and Embedded Finance, with capital-efficient models and fast ROI.

Fund IV ($100M, closed March 2026) backs AI-native companies at pre-seed, seed, and Series A -- founders using AI to transform how people learn, connect, transact, work, and live, where AI is the product rather than a feature layer, building on Corazon's prior behavioral-insight consumer thesis (OkCupid, ShopRunner, Match).

We invest in underdigitized verticals — backing founders with deep industry experience who are building digital solutions for analog industries. Focus on Vertical AI, Recommerce, and Marketplace models in the physical economy. Operator-first: all three founding partners are former founders.

Unlock the full human potential of marginalized and underserved populations through education technology. Invest in solutions that combine the joy of preschool, collaborative experimentation of hackathons, and deep exploration of doctoral programs. Market-based solutions delivering financial returns and social impact.

Exceptional companies come from founders with the courage to follow their own path and defy conventional wisdom. We invest in the first few months of a startup's life in emerging markets where financial inclusion remains unsolved. We take pride in being the first institutional capital, lead 80% of our investments, and bring operational experience and patience to founder partnerships.

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

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

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

Sectors, markets, and trends change, but the founder never stops mattering. Enzo backs technical founders in Southern Europe (and beyond) before the world knows their name, providing capital and network from the first check through IPO.

Disciplined, Africa-focused seed investing backing exceptional founding teams solving real African problems with technology-enabled solutions demonstrating strong unit economics, capital efficiency, and ability to scale across emerging markets. Emphasis on founder quality, fundamental unit economics, sufficient capital for 18-24 month runway, and reasonable entry valuations.

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

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.

Backs market-creating, nonconsumption-solving painkiller businesses across Africa's infrastructural gaps. Focus on AI market creation, fintech, cleantech, and trade formalization with meaningful early-stage stakes through Series A. Emphasizes context-driven operational support alongside capital.

Israel's leading pre-seed platform, backing first-time Israeli founders tapping into non-traditional industries. Invests $150K for 7.5% equity per company (up to $500K in the Digital Health track), paired with a 10-week intensive bootcamp and a 300+ person mentor network.

Back exceptional teams with diverse leadership solving hard problems, leveraging a 1,000+ operator network to provide strategic advantage beyond capital.

Mission-driven European tech companies with a sustainable approach deliver better returns and resilience. Ventures backs early growth; Andromeda backs profitable climate and sustainable-tech growth companies.

Early-stage investor in enterprise AI and complex B2B software backing hard-to-build, easy-to-scale products. We provide M&A coaching from former Google and Microsoft M&A heads who led 100+ technology acquisitions.

People, not money, build game-changing companies. Real backs Canadian, industry-agnostic, tech-enabled founders from pre-seed, taking a systems-level view of ventures correlated with profit and aligned with societal and planetary flourishing.

Invests in category-defining enterprise (B2B) and marketplace companies led by visionary entrepreneurs, sector agnostic with focus themes in applied AI, logistics and supply chain, vertical solutions, infrastructure and productivity, and sustainability and energy. About 80% of investments are in the Super South, with Atlanta as home.

Sector and technology agnostic; backs exceptional founders building companies in large markets with a competitive advantage and tailwinds, evaluated on the '5 T's': Team, TAM, Traction, Timing, Terms.

Early-stage B2B tech startups tied to Rhône-Alpes or Suisse Romande, focused on Fintech, Insurtech, Web3, B2B SaaS and AI-native products, backed as an active operating partner after accelerator support.

Group of founders, operators, and ecosystem builders investing in the next generation of Latin American startups. Sector-agnostic, founder-first approach with an 8-day decision commitment and deep operator network across the LATAM ecosystem.

We invest in industry-shifting startups led by best-in-class multicultural founders. We partner with the next generation of Asian Pacific operators turned founders and welcome investors advancing culture and heritage through an affinity-based, returns-driven model.

SFC backs high-potential UK startups at the first equity stage, using SEIS/EIS funds and an angel syndicate to diversify risk while providing hands-on support, introductions, and follow-on fundraising help. The firm is broad rather than narrow, but its public materials consistently point to innovation-heavy UK sectors with strong technical founder density.

Invest in top-notch founders with global ambitions building technology that solves real problems, with a B2B SaaS focus, and support them with resources and advice in a partnership approach.

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