Best Pre-Seed Manufacturing & Industrial Investors 2026

Innovation is essential to restoring the balance between nature and society. SHIFT backs European founders where environmental impact and financial returns reinforce each other.

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.

Material science and deep tech innovations drive outsized returns while solving urgent human problems. We back inception-stage founders turning lab breakthroughs into commercial products that make the world cleaner, more productive, and healthier.

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.

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.

The world is transitioning from finite fuels and brittle processes to one powered by efficiency, automation, and machine intelligence. We invest in frontier technologies that are cheaper and higher-performing than fossil alternatives, building the foundational infrastructure for durable economic growth and abundance at global scale.

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.

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

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.

Entrepreneurs will change the trajectory of climate change. We build ventures from pre-team/pre-idea founders with the potential to mitigate at least 10 million tonnes of CO2e annually at scale.

Back founders driving the transition of energy and industry and solving the impacts of climate change, with focus on the energy transition and climate resilience.

No need to choose between emissions impact and commercial impact. Virescent backs founders, technologies, and businesses that help achieve zero emissions and beyond — focusing on the largest, hardest-to-abate emissions sources across clean energy transition, mobility & smart cities, food & agriculture, and the circular economy. Invests in both deep tech hardware and software.

Investing in founders building critical software that addresses the decay of Western infrastructure, institutions, and industrial base. Ravelin backs software-defined transformation of aerospace, defense, manufacturing, energy, and industrial sectors.

Momenta backs software-defined industrial technologies that move industry from automation to autonomy, investing at the boundary where the physical world becomes digital across Physical AI, IIoT, edge intelligence, and secure compute. They partner long-term with founders and operators, using a network of corporate partners to help portfolio companies move from pilot to production.

India is uniquely positioned to lead a structural shift in global energy generation and consumption. We back engineering-led companies in the 'missing middle' - proven technical feasibility, early commercial traction, pre-PMF - across energy transition, industrial decarbonization, and (with Fund II) advanced manufacturing and semiconductors.

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

Invest at the intersection of bits and atoms to rebuild foundational industries - energy, manufacturing, materials, and infrastructure - for abundance, sustainability, and human flourishing.

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.

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?'

Backing ruthlessly iterative founders at pre-consensus stages. We invest in founders before the broader market recognizes the opportunity, focusing on individuals who demonstrate exceptional ability to iterate quickly, navigate complex challenges, and maintain unwavering dedication to their vision.

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.

Resilient, Efficient, Clean, Affordable, Secure: emerging technologies can transform how the world produces, powers, and consumes without sacrificing current standards of living, especially technologies nearing price parity with incumbents and strengthening secure, resilient supply chains.

Exceptional entrepreneurs and innovative business ideas exist everywhere, not just traditional tech hubs. TVF invests in companies solving real problems in underserved regions, particularly the Colorado Plateau.

Early-stage deep tech with a 15-year horizon, backing scientific and engineering breakthroughs with protectable IP and large industrial impact, with access to corporate partners and university incubators.

Making the physical world machine-readable. Humans bridge disconnected engineering systems, factories, supply chains, and infrastructure through experience and intuition; intelligent machines cannot. Omni invests in the technologies building the connected data foundation AI requires to operate in the physical world.

By 2050 the world needs to remove 5-10 billion tonnes of CO2e per year, a ~4,000x expansion of current carbon removal capacity. Counteract backs founders across every CDR pathway (DAC, mineralization, biomass, ocean, soil, MRV) rather than betting on one technology, prioritizing catalytic scale, novel science, self-sustaining economics, and regenerative co-benefits.

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.

Transformative national security solutions emerge from early-stage private-sector startups developing frontier technologies. IQT identifies, evaluates, and leverages innovations to accelerate government adoption while enhancing commercial success. As of May 2026, IQT is emphasizing mission investing through fewer larger bets in autonomy, contested logistics, critical infrastructure, and technologies that can move to mission use quickly.

Industrial sustainability hard tech where the sustainable solution is also economically superior — no green premium required. BetterWay backs non-software companies that change the economics of sustainability for legacy industry. Techno-economic analysis is the first filter; if the product cannot compete on price from day one, it is not fundable.

Backing transformative founders building exceptional companies across all sectors

Back extraordinary founders leading the transition of energy and industry while solving inevitable impacts of climate change. Invest in startups rewriting industries to be cleaner, more profitable, and more resilient through strategic capital and ecosystem engagement.

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.

Early-stage climate tech founders need more than capital—they need government relations expertise and regulatory navigation. We bridge venture capital with embedded public-sector strategy through Boundary Stone Partners, our government affairs firm co-founded by our team. We focus on sectors where policy is central: energy abundance, resilience, and clean industry transformation.

Founders need more than just capital—they need belief, community, and infrastructure to build great companies. We're the first believers in bold ideas at the earliest stages, providing campus access, daily support, and a community of exceptional builders.

Back founders upgrading the physical world across energy, buildings and infrastructure (Electrify, Automate, Fortify), early and before the market catches on.

Climate restoration through identification and scaling of 'n of 1' technology opportunities combining innovative tech, viable business models, and visionary leadership. Focus on achieving $1B+ valuations in <10 years with 'scale and speed' mentality.

Impact venture capital for resilient agrifood systems in India: digital value chains, emerging science-based technologies, inclusive rural fintech and sustainable consumer brands.

We help founders build a cleaner future by investing in disruptive, capital-light climate technologies that reshape how we produce and consume energy. Every investment must demonstrate potential to mitigate 2.5 gigatons of CO2 by 2050.

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.

Iron Wolf Capital backs exceptional technical founders building globally relevant deep tech and defence companies from the Baltic Sea Region and diaspora. The firm treats regional technical depth, capital efficiency, and category-specific expertise as the core source of advantage.

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.

Removing noise to see the signal: thematic, top-down research into structural demographic, technological, and policy shifts (Mega Trends), paired with founders who have true vitality. Signal Strength = Mega Trend x Founder Vitality.

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.

Back the physical foundation of the AI era at Pre-Seed to Series B: critical minerals, clean firm power for data centers, energy-efficient compute, and AI-native vertical applications for heavy industry, where companies win by being cheaper, better or faster than the status quo and deliver climate impact alongside competitive returns.

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.

We invest in mission-driven companies that dare to tackle impossible challenges, striving to transform industries and create lasting societal impact. We seek founders with audacity to dream big, resilience to persevere, and potential to build forever companies that shape human history.

Invest along the aquaculture and seafood value chain (next-generation farming, regenerative aquaculture, nutrition, enabling technology, health and genetics, alternative seafood) for competitive returns and healthier oceans.

8090 Industries backs technical founders building breakthrough zero-carbon and hard-tech innovations that offer a clear economic advantage over incumbent industrial processes, across decarbonization, nuclear/clean energy, geothermal, and advanced industrial manufacturing.

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.

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.

AP Ventures backs technically differentiated solutions across the hydrogen value chain, carbon capture and utilisation, and industrial decarbonisation, investing early and working closely with founders through commercialisation, industrial deployment and scale-up.

CDP Venture Capital is a national venture platform that combines direct investing, fund-of-funds activity, accelerators, and technology transfer to strengthen Italy's innovation economy in strategic sectors.

Angel-style follower checks from pre-seed to Series A in SaaS and marketplaces, originally climate tech and now applied AI in energy, manufacturing and construction.

UVC Partners invests in European B2B tech startups across DeepTech, ClimateTech, Mobility, and Software/AI, from pre-seed up to Series A, leveraging the UnternehmerTUM ecosystem to help portfolio companies build sustainable category leadership.

Technology startups can address major global challenges. We back early and seed-stage IndustryTech, DeepTech, and CleanTech founders in the DACH region and US with capital plus network access, industry expertise, and strategic partnerships, using an evergreen structure with no fixed fund-life timing pressure.

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.

Early investments in highly technical teams tackling complex B2B challenges, often before incorporation, backed by a network of about 90 German industrial family businesses.

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

We fundamentally reshape broken global systems by supporting founders who turn theory into action to build better world. Hardware-enabled solutions (80% portfolio) with software components solve transformative climate challenges in energy, infrastructure, transportation, water, and adaptation. We run toward hardware because less competition and less noise. Climate is about more than carbon—it's adaptation, resilience, and systems change.

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

Early-stage SaaS, marketplace and platform companies run by balanced, founder-market-fit teams; backed entirely by entrepreneurs.

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.

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.

Catalyse environmentally sustainable progress by backing visionary scientific founders whose technology can plausibly abate at least 0.5 gigatonnes of CO2e annually by 2050.

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.

Decarbonizing the global economy is the biggest economic opportunity since the Industrial Revolution. Invest $400-600K in seed-stage, low-capex companies in renewable energy, electrified transportation, the built environment and climate resiliency, where the team has deep domain experience.

Galvanize invests at the intersection of energy innovation, resilience, and intelligence, backing the 'New Economy' companies essential to electrification, rising power demand, industrial modernization, and digitization -- from pre-seed food/agriculture/ocean/forestry ventures (Ponderosa) through growth-stage energy transition and AI-infrastructure companies (Venture & Growth).

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.

Cherry backs ambitious, resourceful, resilient founders with a novel insight ("anomaly") and a coherent, feasible path to an underexplored shared need ("the red thread"), investing industry-curiously across Europe often before product or revenue exist.

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.

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.

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.

Back founders turning frontier science into industry-defining companies and using technology to create 10x efficiency in industrial and service sectors, investing alongside leading VCs.

Some of the next major global technology companies will be built in industrial technology, across connectivity and IoT, industrial intelligence and orchestration, and robotics and automation.

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.

The most valuable applications of AI-powered SaaS and robotics aren't in the spotlight; they're in the trenches, solving complex problems and delivering immediate, quantifiable ROI for enterprise customers in the 'dirty, dull, and dangerous' industries traditional venture capital overlooks.

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.

Some of the next major global technology companies will be built in industrial technology. RunwayVC backs the technology stack behind that transformation: connectivity and IoT that makes industrial data available, industrial intelligence and orchestration that turns data into decisions, and robotics and automation that brings decisions into the physical world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Deep tech startups at the edge of what is possible solve critical human and planetary health problems. SOSV backs founders combining scientific rigor with entrepreneurial grit, providing not just capital but access to specialized labs, manufacturing, and global expertise networks.

Adapting the built world for future generations. We back visionary entrepreneurs redefining construction, real estate, and infrastructure through productivity, sustainability, and urbanization technology, backed by a network of top-tier construction-sector corporate LPs.

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.

Investing in breakthrough deep technologies that address humanity's greatest challenges. We allocate ~80% to climate solutions (carbon-negative materials, renewable energy, climate adaptation) and ~20% to frontier tech (aerospace, robotics, advanced materials, biotech). We operate as a venture-and-philanthropy platform backed by the Fukutake family, blending profit-seeking with impact objectives.

Technology and capital solutions for the global energy transition. We partner with entrepreneurs to build and scale innovative companies that power a better energy future, supported by collaborations with utilities and industrial incumbents.

We back founders building the technology stack that runs Europe's industrial economy — from AI-native supply chains to autonomous production systems, investing along the full value chain of physical products.

Climate is the biggest challenge of our lifetime and the greatest business opportunity of the coming decades. We back visionaries accelerating climate innovation that will reshape our global economy for the betterment of people and planet. The most successful companies are born from a vision for a better future and the ability of that vision to create large, lasting positive impact. We invest in frontier technologies addressing climate across seven sectors: Built Environment, Carbon Management, Compute, Energy, Food & Agriculture, Manufacturing & Industrials, and Mobility. The best ideas come from everywhere—we operate where many venture firms can't or won't.

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.

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.

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 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.

We back founders of Indian origin building energy, industrial, resource-transition, and health technologies at pre-seed and seed, on the belief that innovations proven in India are scalable across the Global South. We evaluate opportunities on Mass (market size, team, problem acuity, timing) and Velocity (strategy, traction, customer validation, defensibility).

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.

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.

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.

Backing fearless founders building disruptive, IP-driven deep-tech, digitalization, and climate-tech solutions from India, for the world, at the earliest and highest-risk stages.

We invest in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society. We foster Sony's future businesses through strategic early-stage venture investments, seeking technologies with potential to transform industries while building synergies with Sony Group business units.

The next decade of AI moves into the physical economy, where labor is scarce and systems are fragile. Physical World backs Physical AI founders at pre-seed and seed across supply chain, labor, aerospace, energy, and resilience — markets shaped by chokepoints rather than trends.

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.

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

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.

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

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 back technically ambitious founders building tomorrow's most iconic companies in frontier sectors like AI, hardtech, robotics, healthcare, and fintech. We believe great companies come from founders willing to tackle complex problems that generalist funds avoid.

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.

Back founders in frontier tech, climate tech and AI-native software at the belief stage, before proof, with a tilt toward science-led, IP-driven companies in India.

Climate tech scales fastest when backed by corporate partnerships, not venture capital alone. We invest in B2B founders with breakthrough technology, sustainable unit economics, and clear paths to Fortune 500 adoption. Our unique advantage: direct access to 500+ Fortune 100 executives who can accelerate enterprise sales cycles from 18-24 months to 3-6 months.

The best companies will be built by technical founders - engineers, researchers, and scientists who have experienced a problem viscerally and are compelled to solve it. We invest in tools, platforms, and infrastructure for technical builders, and we partner with founders to help them evolve into leaders of generational companies.

Back exceptional technical founders building crypto-native and AI-native companies as early as possible, sometimes before a product exists, via a fixed $500K SAFE and an intensive 10-week accelerator.

The next two decades will see dramatic changes in mobility across ground, air, sea, and space. We invest in entrepreneurs building frontier technologies that make movement cleaner, faster, safer, and lower-cost, leveraging our extensive relationships with global companies.

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.

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 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.

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

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

Bet the founder, win the future -- FUSE invests early in exceptional founders before obvious market validation, prioritizing founder quality over category focus, and backs them with a network of 300+ operators, executives, and founders.

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.

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.

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.

Operator-led firm running two funds: Digital (Pre-Seed/Seed, €0.5M-€3M initial) backing enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, AI/DevTools and fintech automation founders from beta to global blue-chip accounts; and Greentech Industry (Series A/B, €3M-€10M initial) financing the first industrial plants (FOAK) of European cleantech and deep-tech companies bridging pilot to commercial scale.

Human progress is defined by manipulating energy and atoms over spacetime. Software and open networks governed by tokens will transform the infrastructure economy. Crucible backs founders building digital infrastructure foundations at the intersection of energy, compute, and crypto. The firm has evolved to embrace 'Capital Markets Maximalism' — the view that financial engineering, not just software, is the key to capturing value in industrial infrastructure — and 'Industrial Resilience,' investing across five layers: dispatch & optimization, verification & ground truth, financial infrastructure, materials & supply, and defense & infrastructure security. Crucible now deploys capital across the lifecycle from venture to credit to direct infrastructure ownership.

Deep tech for climate impact — backing breakthrough science and engineering where the physical economy must be reinvented. Targets companies with products that are better, faster, and cheaper than incumbents, not just marginally greener.

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

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

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.

Entourage backs and builds early-stage B2B SaaS and software companies, combining VC capital with venture studio and founder-operator support from zero to one and beyond.

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.

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.

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

Fund and build next-generation life sciences companies solving important healthcare needs through cutting-edge breakthroughs in medicine and science. Partner closely with management teams to maximize returns across all portfolio companies through hands-on operational support, strategic guidance, and access to networks of experienced life science leaders.

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.

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 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.

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.

Near-market climate technologies with proven economics, low capex, and clear paths to rapid deployment — solutions that win on cost, speed, and performance, not subsidies or green premiums. Each company must demonstrate potential to reduce 50M+ tons of CO₂e annually by 2050.

Technology will define geopolitics. We invest in the Freedom Stack—foundational technologies critical to American national security and technological leadership. We partner with mission-driven founders building capabilities essential to American prosperity and strategic advantage.

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.

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.

Back mission-driven founders addressing significant global challenges through leading-edge technology. Provide flexible and patient capital, leveraging our time, resources, and networks to support portfolio company success. Focus on founders with authentic social and environmental missions alongside commercial viability.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Find strong, ambitious founders working on what we believe to be game-changing technology, and put in the hard work to add value every step of the way. We invest in founders with robust information asymmetries developing core technology innovations with the potential to disrupt and redefine industries.

Demea Sustainable Investment backs startups, SMEs, mid-caps, and infrastructure projects driving the ecological and agricultural transition, across agriculture, agri-food, energy, environment, sustainable solutions, and green industry, with capital ranging from venture and growth equity through buyout, infrastructure, mezzanine, and private debt.

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.

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

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.

Canadians have built over $1 trillion in enterprise value globally, yet were initially backed by US VC not Canadian investors. We back founders with Canadian roots—regardless of where they build—because exceptional talent from Canada represents a sustainable, quantifiable selection edge.

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.

First-check capital for outsiders building the essential software that quietly runs the world: developer infrastructure, workflow intelligence and industrial software.

No single company can produce all the innovation required to serve real estate clients. JLL Spark invests in early-stage technology startups solving problems in commercial real estate, construction, and workplace management.

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

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.

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.

The most defensible companies are built on hard technology solving real problems at scale. We partner with technical founders leveraging deep domain expertise and the Tsinghua network to identify and nurture transformative innovations in deeptech, healthtech, and the data economy.

Belief backs young, deeply technical founders building AI, robotics, infrastructure, and other systems-level companies toward a future of abundance.

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.

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.

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.

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 vertical singularities in the project economy (construction, AEC, infrastructure, heavy supply chains) that own capacity and compound optionality.

Infrastructure is the critical layer for climate transition. Three pillars: (1) Energy Abundance - hyperscaling cheap clean energy for 2X grid capacity, (2) Physical Infrastructure - 100X energy storage and circular supply chains for robotics/autonomy, (3) Resilience & Adaptation - fortifying critical systems against climate disasters.

Close the pre-seed funding gap for health and life science, deep tech, and clean tech start-ups in Liverpool City Region, pairing small cheques with incubator and accelerator support.

We invest in hard tech and hard sectors—companies building solutions to difficult, underexplored problems that others won't. Unlocking society's potential depends on founders willing to build what others won't. We're hyper curious, drawn to difficult and underexplored areas.

Pathbreaker invests in specialized engineering and product leaders solving critical global problems through emerging technologies (hardware and software). The fund believes AI, robotics, and computer vision will transform traditional industries over the coming decades. Pathbreaker focuses on companies tackling $100B+ problems at inception and pre-seed stages.

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.

Cocoa is the founders' in-house VC: former institutional VCs writing fast, founder-aligned angel checks at pre-seed/seed, backing 'Killers with a Heart' - relentless, technically excellent founders paired with genuine EQ.

Accelerator-style VC backing very early-stage Indian startups with capital plus mentorship, sector anchors, D Day demo days and Prostar growth-stage investor access.

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.

Trucks funds entrepreneurs building the future of transportation across three mandates: decarbonized, safer, and more accessible. They back seed/pre-seed companies across autonomous vehicles, EVs, aviation, micromobility, aerospace, maritime, and logistics — any transportation sector at the frontier.

Congruent partners with audacious founders building transformative companies that solve climate challenges through innovation in atoms (hardware), bits (software), and business models. We leverage decades of climate tech expertise to support early-stage entrepreneurs creating solutions that do more with less.

Progress in food, agriculture, and human health lags other sectors due to structural constraints. We invest in deep technologies that remove these bottlenecks at scale—whether AI, biology, robotics, or materials science. We're not intimidated by threats to the status quo.

SNØCAP backs companies building the materials, molecules, and machines that power modern industry. We love businesses that create efficiency gains, reduce costs, reduce emissions, own IP, have scientific roots, show corporate interest, need engineering support, leverage ecosystems, and are raising their first institutional round.

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.

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

Automotive Ventures backs seed-stage founders across the mobility stack, from vehicle connectivity and autonomy to decarbonization, auto commerce, smart cities, and dealership technology, pairing capital with deep automotive-industry relationships and operational expertise.

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.

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.

Back deeptech entrepreneurs with deep technical expertise, integrity-driven vision, and complex problem-solving capabilities working at intersections of space, autonomous mobility, advanced materials, quantum computing, and climate technology. Use aerospace systems lens to identify dual-use deep-science technologies with extraordinary technical leadership and first-principles engineering expertise capable of unlocking entirely new economies.

AI is a milestone in data maturity progression, not a product category. Argonautic invests in founders building data-centric solutions across infrastructure (horizontal) and vertical markets. Multi-fund structure allows pre-seed to Series B deployment with unified thesis: recognizing verticals at different data adoption stages and deploying capital to those crossing inflection points into AI operationalization.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Invest in early-stage tech companies addressing world's largest market opportunities and solving humanity's biggest challenges. Leverage global distributed team to source, evaluate, and support transformational founders.

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.

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.

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.

Backed invests in Europe's generational founders building frontier technology companies that combine a real technical or conceptual breakthrough with global ambition. The firm sits at the intersection of venture capital and community, using events and long-term founder support to compound conviction and help companies move from seed to Series A and beyond.

Deep tech hardware companies in aerospace, defense, energy, robotics, and industrial manufacturing represent the next generation of durable, high-return ventures. The fund backs founders at the earliest stage — sometimes pre-incorporation — who are building hardware solutions to the world's most important problems, leveraging government contracts and non-dilutive funding alongside venture capital.

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

Technology is nothing unless paired with a clear investment strategy, adequate funding, a talented team, and an ecosystem of knowledge institutes, corporates, and mentors. DeepTechXL backs Dutch deep-tech startups building on key enabling technologies (advanced materials, digital tech, engineering & fabrication, nanotech, photonics, quantum) that address energy transition, security, health & care, and agriculture/water/food.

We invest in category-defining companies at Pre-Seed and Seed stages founded by entrepreneurs with authentic passion. Focus on founders working in climate, food, healthcare, AI automation, and frontier technologies. Philosophy: when the world says No, go toward the Yes as hard as you can.

Space-based technologies — GPS, GEOINT, and SatCom — are the invisible backbone of the global economy. Space Capital invests at the intersection of space technology and global markets, backing founders building the infrastructure, distribution platforms, and applications that will generate the next wave of trillion-dollar outcomes.

We invest in the future of commerce by backing early-stage companies in vertical commerce, physical retail technology, and commerce infrastructure. We provide operational support alongside capital, working in the trenches with founders to build 100-year companies.

High-performing founders exist outside the networks of traditional venture capital; homogeneous investor networks create overvalued bubbles, and backing overlooked founders outside major-city networks is both an impact story and an investment edge.

Gula Tech Adventures invests in startups solving critical cybersecurity and national security problems, with a focus on founders who combine deep technical expertise, business acumen, and mission alignment. Rather than a traditional VC, Gula Tech operates as a self-funded, impact-focused family office enabling long-term patient capital. The firm evaluates opportunities equally on three dimensions: the problem being solved, deal fundamentals, and team quality. Ron and Cyndi's success building Tenable enables hands-on mentorship, technical due diligence, and access to government and critical infrastructure networks.

Back pre-seed and seed climate technology companies that reinvent, reuse and build resilience across agriculture systems, food and supply chain, oceans and water, and forestry and land.

Emerging markets (ex China) hold 70% of the world's population and 30% of GDP but draw about 5% of venture capital. Seedstars backs B2B founders at pre-seed and seed building the digital infrastructure of these economies.

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.

We invest in relentlessly resourceful founders solving real problems. Capital is just the beginning - we provide connected access to 400+ founders, operators, and luminary investors from the world's greatest tech companies. We invest at Day 0, pre-revenue, across 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.

Catalytic capital for Chicago and Illinois: Pre-Seed anchor checks into regional founders plus $1M-$5M anchor checks into emerging fund managers, across ten sectors where Chicago has structural advantages.

Invest in early-stage, scalable ventures with exceptional founders building emerging technology across Digital Health, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Agriculture, and Energy, digitally transforming industries core to the strengths of our Green Bay Packers and Microsoft partners and the Midwest region.

Write the first checks into category-creating companies enabled by breakthroughs in biology, engineering and computation, accelerating the bioindustrial revolution.

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.

Great entrepreneurship exists everywhere—not just in traditional tech hubs. We invest in high-potential early-stage founders with a focus on underrepresented geographies (Midwest, Latin America) and demographics (women, minorities, immigrants). Beyond capital, we provide strategic guidance, ecosystem connections, and relocation support through our Tulsa-based infrastructure.

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.

Foresight-led early-stage climate investing at the seams of broken systems across electrons, atoms, flows and signals, governed by five doctrines: Proximity Inversion, Three Futures Test, Causal Parallax Underwriting, Bottleneck Backcasting and the Circulation Doctrine.

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

Identify outlier early-stage Indian founders and back them with capital plus hands-on acceleration (mentorship, sector anchors, governance coaching, and a global demo day) to compound a portfolio of category leaders and future unicorns, emulating the Y Combinator model for India.

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.