Best Seed Logistics & Supply Chain + Manufacturing & Industrial Investors 2026

Significant opportunities exist in modernizing legacy supply chain and manufacturing processes through software, automation, and AI. We back founders who deeply understand industrial operations and can build technology that makes supply chains more efficient, transparent, and automated.

We invest in technology companies that reshape foundational industries – real estate, commerce, manufacturing, energy, logistics, and agriculture. Founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, we bring operational guidance, strategic insights from proprietary Field Studies research, and downstream capital access. We believe the startup journey is better together, providing hands-on support to exceptional founders building enduring companies.

Dynamo invests in bold, relentless founders reimagining the industrial economy—the foundational systems that make, move, and monetize the world's goods. Rather than chasing hype cycles, they focus on sectors where digitization is overdue and operational expertise is critical. They believe the best supply chain companies come from founders with deep domain expertise and validated customer discovery.

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

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

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

The $12 trillion built environment sector is ripe for digital transformation. Suffolk Technologies deploys capital, resources, and networks to help founders scale technologies in construction, architecture, engineering, real estate, and infrastructure. Uniquely positioned as the venture arm of Suffolk Construction, they provide operational test beds, jobsite access, and deep domain expertise that pure financial investors cannot.

Specialized climate tech VC focused on decarbonizing heavy incumbent industries (mining, manufacturing, heavy transport). Invests in digital and light hardware solutions that help extract minerals faster, cheaper, and more sustainably. Co-founders bring deep mining operational expertise from Newmont and AngloGold Ashanti.

Accelerate the global energy transition by investing in companies that unlock economic-led transformation of the energy economy. Focus on solutions winning on unsubsidized economics with proven technology and strong teams.

Builders first. We back experienced operators who understand business fundamentals and the pain points of scaling software companies. We invest at inception stage with 100+ operator LPs providing talent, customers, and capital beyond the check.

Root Ventures is composed entirely of practicing engineers and hardware hackers who explicitly underwrite 'engineering risk' in technically challenging areas like robotics, developer tools, and manufacturing tech that many generalist funds avoid. They provide capital, operational support, and serve as an 'invisible employee' to technical founding teams.

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.

Back incredible founders with strong domain knowledge tackling real, durable problems with high growth potential in large and growing markets. Specialty in B2B software and automation for legacy industries — financial services, manufacturing, insurance.

Earth Foundry backs founders transforming critical industries, including energy, mobility, waste, water, agriculture, and infrastructure, using hardware, software, services, and material science innovations.

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

Back badass founders redefining core industries. Seed-stage investors in construction, supply chain, manufacturing, energy, and frontier tech. Value founder resilience, domain expertise, and operational rigor. Provide capital plus network access, customer introductions, and GTM mentorship.

Early-stage founders using AI and frontier technology to reinvent enterprise and security markets. We seek technical founders who deeply understand their problem domain, have operating experience at scale, and are committed to responsible AI development. We provide not just capital but hands-on operational support through our Building Partners model.

Invest in pre-seed and seed stage climate tech companies leveraging hard science and novel engineering to create a global economy more closely aligned with the earth's ecology. Focus on undercapitalized climate verticals (water, built environment, alternative materials) that will become major focus areas for larger institutions 2-4 years from now. Support technical founders transitioning from research to commercialization with business scaling expertise.

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.

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

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

Digital transformation is essential for legacy industrial sectors to solve critical challenges: labor shortages, material inflation, supply chain fragility, and infrastructure modernization. We partner with world-class founders building innovative solutions across manufacturing, construction, transport/logistics, and alternative energy.

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

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.

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.

Backs inception-stage technical founders across Europe and Israel building solutions for hard markets including AI infrastructure, space/aerospace, advanced manufacturing, energy, biology, and other deep-tech verticals.

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

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

Global industry is undergoing its most profound technology transformation in over a century. Calibrate backs visionary founders scaling proven deep tech — AI, computer vision, robotics, automation — to transform major sectors including manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, agriculture, and enterprise services. They invest in companies generating early recurring revenues and ready to scale, seeking market-ready deep tech with large-scale applicability.

Food production requires technological innovation to address labor shortages, food waste, supply chain inefficiencies, and automation needs. We back founders building hardware, software, and hybrid solutions that solve structural problems in the food value chain—not consumer apps.

Pax Technica: The next era of American global leadership will emerge from physical-world technological superiority — reinventing defense, energy, manufacturing, aerospace, and critical infrastructure. Backs mission-driven founders tackling the hardest industrial-scale problems.

Tech-enabled businesses built for and by people in marginalized communities create new frameworks of ownership and opportunity. Traditional VCs miss billion-dollar markets in overlooked communities.

Foundational industries (manufacturing, logistics, defense, energy) have been neglected for decades. Tech founders can unlock trillions in value by applying software, AI, automation, and cloud infrastructure to transform these sectors. This is the largest venture opportunity: tripling the Industrials market cap from $3.7T to $55T by 2050.

Partner with visionary founders building category-defining frontier technologies that address humanity's most pressing problems. We invest in deep tech, hardware, and climate solutions emerging from technical communities like SpaceX, focusing on founders with big ambitions, not incremental ideas.

Industry 4.0 thesis: transformation and decarbonization of industrial economy requires unprecedented digital infrastructure. Convergence of AI and industrial policy creates opportunity to digitize/decarbonize physical asset base while improving resource efficiency and national security.

Bringing physical-world operations online through 'the new supply chain.' Wischoff backs founders digitizing logistics, fintech infrastructure, manufacturing, and construction. Portfolio chemistry—companies becoming customers of each other. Solo GP with hands-on operational guidance, founder amplification, and regulated-market expertise.

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.

Backs DeepTech startups at the intersection of AI/ML, materials science, advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, optics, electronics, robotics, and blockchain — driving sustainable operational transformation across six thematics: transportation & logistics, energy & water, food & agriculture, fashion & beauty, precision medicine & aging, and retail & e-commerce. Requires commercial traction (min $1M revenue, 50%+ gross margins) and a minimum 10% ownership stake.

Modernize critical industries through deep technology. We are dedicated to backing ambitious, technically sophisticated founders solving hard problems in traditionally underserved sectors. We provide capital, operational guidance, board partnership, and network access—supporting companies from pre-seed through growth stages.

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

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.

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

Conviction-based seed investing in ambitious founders applying technology—especially AI—to solve the world's hardest problems for every American. Operator-led with deep hands-on support across sales, engineering hiring, and Series A positioning.

Amplify founder impact through capital paired with deep expertise in government market access, federal R&D funding capture, and government contracting strategy. Focus on dual-use technologies addressing national security, defense, energy, and infrastructure challenges.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Emerging hardware founders are overlooked by traditional VC. By combining capital with hands-on manufacturing expertise, infrastructure access, and operational support, we unlock value for founders building tech you can touch.

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

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.

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

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

Exceptional founders applying unique talents and backgrounds to produce disruptive and differentiated products and services. Minimum $500K ARR at entry. Generalist across AI, B2B SaaS, logistics, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing.

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