Top Marketing & Adtech Investors 2026

Pressure-test the coherence between a market problem, a product solution, and a viable sales path. Look for an underlying market shift and people who can lead the journey, distinguishing durable growth drivers from one-off effects.

Back exceptional founders at the earliest stages of their ventures in the future of commerce. We invest in ambitious, passionate, gritty, disruptive founders reshaping how products are discovered, purchased, and experienced.

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.

Back UK pre-seed and seed founders building at the intersection of media, entertainment and AI across the content and data value chain, as an engaged first-cheque lead.

Invest in disruptive deep tech and science companies transforming global industries, bridging the capital gap for early-stage entrepreneurs with a capital-efficient model spanning seed option-bets through growth-equity leads.

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.

We take an entrepreneurial approach to investing, backing Europe's emerging tech leaders with solid commercial traction and a clear sense of direction, favoring sustainable growth over unicorn-style hype.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

New school tech for old school industries: back founders with conviction bringing AI, SaaS, cyber, robotics, and compliance technology to traditionally analog or legacy sectors, at pre-seed and seed.

Founders investing in, and supporting, founders - we back operators executing on real problems in sizable markets, disrupting how things are done, and stay hands-on as operational advisors through the company's life.

e2vc backs global-from-day-one, early-stage founders from Turkey, CEE, and the Baltics, investing Pre-Seed through Series A across gaming, AI/ML, health tech, developer tools/infrastructure, fintech, and enterprise software. The firm emphasizes founder community ("the Tribe"), hands-on support, and a NextGen program that invests in and mentors high-school-age founders.

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 invest in early-stage consumer and B2B technologies that meaningfully enhance personal and professional lives. We back application-layer software with consumer-grade UX that people actually use every day. Our focus: Wellbeing (health & vitality, life optimization, community & social) and Productivity (intelligent workflows, creative enablement, professional augmentation).

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

iAngels is a gateway for global accredited investors to access Israel's tech ecosystem, applying a data-driven, proprietary diligence process (including a founder leadership/psychological assessment) across sectors, with an Investment Committee requiring unanimous GP approval.

Back ambitious founders building disruptive early-stage technology companies. We provide not just capital but access to OMERS' multi-asset institutional platform. Our permanent pension backing gives us patient, long-duration capital unconstrained by traditional 10-year fund cycles.

More than 80% of UK venture capital is concentrated in London and the South East. PXN backs high-growth founders in the North of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland with capital (£200K-£8M) plus hands-on, "more than money" operational support.

We invest 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.

First-check VC backing Baltic founders (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) at inception and pre-seed stages, with a strong focus on AI-first software. Backs founders who don't fit traditional VC criteria—no FAANG background or Ivy League degree required. Seeks undervalued talent before mainstream investor recognition.

Back innovative, capital-efficient UK technology companies from pre-seed through Series A via SEIS/EIS tax-efficient structures. Portfolio companies should reach £10M ARR within 3 years and £20M within 5 years, targeting at least 5x returns for investors. Active investor model leveraging entrepreneurial, finance, and marketing expertise.

We draw startups that transform society with imagination and technology into a spiral of growth, focusing on vast market opportunities (industry transformation, DeepTech, industry-agnostic advanced technology) paired with strong management teams.

Blumberg Capital backs visionary teams as early and growth stage investors, active board members, and hands-on advisors. They invest in transformative technology companies across enterprise software, cybersecurity, fintech, healthcare tech, and AI with particular strength in the US-Israel technology corridor.

Edison Partners is a growth equity firm that backs capital-efficient, high-growth fintech, healthcare IT, and vertical SaaS/AI companies located outside Silicon Valley, pairing capital with an operator-driven value creation platform (Edison Edge) to help management teams scale.

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.

Identifies inflection points through proprietary Discovery Engine and backs founders who see opportunities others miss. Focuses on AI-driven transformation of B2B software and financial services, with deep technical due diligence analyzing 250+ data points.

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.

Madrona invests in people and ideas for the long run — backing visionary founders building transformational technology companies, with deep focus on applied AI across domain-specific applications, AI infrastructure, developer tools, enterprise software, and AI-enabled biotech. The firm serves as an active, full-stack partner providing capital plus recruiting, business development, and customer introductions.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 partner with founder-led, capital-efficient technology and healthcare companies that have already proven the model - greater than $10M in revenue, 20%+ growth, and breakeven or profitable - and help them scale further through collaborative, long-term partnership rather than a fixed playbook.

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?'

DTCP is a multi-strategy sector specialist with €4.5bn AUM across digital infrastructure (data centers, mobile towers, fiber networks), enterprise SaaS (Series B+, $3M-$100M ARR, $5M-$50M checks), and European defence/dual-use technology. Founded in 2015 from Deutsche Telekom's M&A office; anchor LPs include Deutsche Telekom and SoftBank. Uses proprietary Flightpath data model (40+ SaaS KPIs) for Growth investments.

Summit Partners backs category-leading companies in Technology, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Growth Products & Services, investing $10M-$500M per company to power profitable growth. They take minority or majority positions as active board partners backed by the Peak Performance Group operational team.

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

We invest in 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.

Great companies can emerge from unexpected places. ASV backs visionary B2B SaaS founders building in America's emerging tech hubs — markets overlooked by coastal VCs — pairing conviction and capital with mentorship, governance, and network access.

Flashpoint invests in founders across their full journey via venture growth, growth debt, and secondary capital, focused on high-growth Series A tech companies originating from Europe, Israel, and MENA, acting as a patient, long-term partner rather than a transactional check-writer.

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.

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.

The Pacific Northwest produces enduring, category-defining companies, and experienced operators are uniquely valuable partners to the next generation of founders. Trilogy partners with ambitious founders from Seed through scale, primarily investing its own capital.

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

Specialist growth partner for rapidly growing, bootstrapped software and AI companies with capital availability rather than capital necessity. Respectfully partners with founder-led businesses on their path to category leadership, providing primary growth capital, founder liquidity, and operational support.

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

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

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.

Software will transform as AI-native applications unlock value in unstructured data (emails, contracts) that traditional software has sidelined. We back founders building the next generation of vertical operating systems, AI-native applications, and embedded finance solutions.

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.

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.

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.

IMM backs innovative entrepreneurs across multiple stages with a single platform spanning venture capital, growth equity, infrastructure, and secondary capital. The firm emphasizes partnership, long-term value creation, and operational support, especially where capital, scale, and governance complexity all matter.

Early-stage investment fund focused on tech innovation, actively investing in companies and technology to create a more sustainable world. Champions women of color entrepreneurs by investing in their ventures and empowering them to create generational wealth.

Partner with bold, technical entrepreneurs attacking growth markets with proprietary products where technology builds durable barriers over time. Every partner is a former entrepreneur; if we can't add value beyond cash, we won't invest.

The future belongs to those who build. JSV convenes and connects the next generation of AI-native founders, drawing on its all-partner team of former founders and operators to back software and marketplace companies from seed through growth.

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.

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

Backing entrepreneurs on a mission to build great companies: innovative software-based technology companies from the Nordics that can become sector leaders while driving transformation toward a long-term sustainable society.

Back early-stage founders building the next paradigm in emerging technologies. We operate like a product studio—contributing code, designing token economics, and providing hands-on partnership rather than just capital.

Saama backs passionate, decisive founders building disruptive companies across Indian consumer tech, D2C brands, enterprise software, and financial services, providing capital plus long-term operating partnership.

We back exceptional founders and management teams in DACH, CEE, and Nordic Europe, combining growth capital with hands-on strategic support to scale technology companies into Pan-European, North American, and Asian markets.

Community-powered VC backing European software-first founders that unify fragmented markets, digitize and automate Europe, and defend its sovereignty.

Backing uniquely Indian products at the intersection of smartphone, big data, and design, serving large underserved Indian markets in food, water, housing, healthcare, education, and finance. Looks for founders with EQ, IQ and IndiaQ.

UX is the new defensibility. As AI commoditizes the cost of building software, the competitive moat shifts to user experience and human-AI interaction design. FoundersEdge backs experienced, multi-time founders building AI-native software for legacy industries.

We invest when we identify real technological differentiation - proprietary models, novel applications of existing AI, or unique data advantages that create sustainable competitive moats - backing founders who can turn breakthrough AI innovation into market-defining, enterprise-adopted companies.

Partnering with entrepreneurs to transform their ideas into world-changing companies, concentrating on cybersecurity, enterprise/cloud software, consumer (incl. e-commerce), and healthcare (medtech, biotech, IT-enabled services), typically leading Series A/B rounds and taking board seats.

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.

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.

Oktogon Ventures backs high-growth technology startups from Central and Eastern Europe, especially teams with global ambition and enough traction to show the product is already working. The firm is explicit about wanting technology-heavy B2B SaaS companies, early revenue, and founders who are willing to partner with a minority investor that adds mentoring, sales, hiring, and fundraising support. Its portfolio and public positioning show a preference for practical, revenue-oriented execution over speculative, pre-product narratives.

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.

As founder-operators, we see returns in relationships. We back ambitious founders with exceptional vision at the earliest stages with capital, mentorship, and network access.

EPIC Ventures backs early-stage technology companies building in the information economy, with a focus on enterprise SaaS, healthcare technology, cybersecurity, and future of work. The firm believes the best way to build lasting companies is through genuine partnership with founders — providing capital, strategic guidance, operational expertise, and deep network access. Founded in 1994, EPIC helped build the Utah tech ecosystem and continues to be the foundational VC of the Mountain West.

Patient and intelligent capital for rapidly scaling entrepreneurial companies with a transatlantic footprint. US funds target Midwest Series A+ companies with ARR >$3M; UK funds target Series A/B companies with £1M+ revenue. Hands-on operational support through the Beringea Scale-Up Academy and transatlantic network.

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.

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 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.

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.

Dawn backs category-leading B2B software companies across fintech, cybersecurity, data/AI infrastructure, insurance tech, HR tech, and regtech, acting as a long-term operating partner rather than passive capital.

Great products change the world. We fund the people who build them. The Product Alpha Effect™ uses signals from 600,000 product leaders to identify outlier companies at the Discovery Stage before the market recognizes them.

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.

Backing Indian founders who go 'All In' on their company, sourced and supported by a community of 150+ founders and operator-angels; sector-agnostic pre-seed/seed capital plus fast decision-making.

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

We back people first: founders with unique, hard-to-assess attributes and outlier potential, determined through many open and candid conversations. Secondarily, we look for large ($500M+), fragmented, fast-growing markets with low customer satisfaction and the right timing.

The identity of the founders is the most important part of any investment. Glilot backs founders with first-hand technical, operational, or industry knowledge of a large, urgent problem, technical depth that holds up as markets evolve, and evidence that enterprise buyers will change existing process or priority to adopt the product.

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.

Latin America has exceptional founding talent capable of building world-class, globally competitive companies. Founders face specific challenges including talent scarcity and limited access to experienced capital. We provide not just capital but active operational support including talent recruitment, people strategy, and strategic guidance.

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

ION Crossover Partners was founded to capitalize on the growing opportunity to invest in private Israeli technology companies at global scale, collaborating with founders who have growth aspirations and businesses primed to capitalize on an untapped growth opportunity, and supporting management teams in scaling the business toward an eventual IPO or outright sale.

Back focused founders solving real problems in markets they understand deeply, with clarity, discipline, and drive. Seek companies with motivated teams, strong product vision, scalable business models, and large addressable markets.

CEE founders (Polish, Ukrainian, Romanian, etc.) are building the next generation of global software companies. We partner with experienced operators who combine deep industry expertise with serial entrepreneurship. Geographic arbitrage: exceptional technical talent in CEE with lower burn rates, global ambition. We provide early capital plus connections to Silicon Valley for follow-on funding (80% of portfolio follow-ons from SV/Europe/Asia). Goal: $500M+ exits in 8-10 years.

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.

Investment rigour at all stages, backing ambitious entrepreneurs across Software, AI, Fintech, and Consumer Internet with active, hands-on support beyond capital - ongoing advice, connections, introductions, partnerships, and mentorship.

Backing seed-stage, tech- and data-driven B2B software companies across Europe with global ambition. Focus on Agility Drivers (verticalized, consumerized, XaaS solutions) and Seductive Solutions with genuine product-market fit. Invest in AI-first and AI-enabled businesses as well as frontier tech (BioIT, Space, DLT, Quantum Computing).

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.

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

Back outlier founders who break the rules, mold, glass, cycle, and internet — wherever they are. True generalist fund focused on pre-seed and seed across US and Canada, with emphasis on underserved markets (PNW, TX, Canada). Founder quality above all else.

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.

Norte is a pure-follower fund built by and for founders, believing in the power of goodwill and genuine relationships in a founder-built ecosystem. They co-invest in very first rounds of Brazilian and Latam companies with high visibility, operating more like a club of entrepreneurs than traditional VC. Core conviction: networks over geniuses, continuous work over overnight success, ecosystem value over fund stake size.

Run Ventures backs founders building the emerging agentic-enterprise software stack: runtime security and governance for autonomous AI agents, predictive/probabilistic intelligence layers built on proprietary data (especially in legal), and physical-world sensing and safety intelligence for robotics and industrial automation. The firm leads Series A rounds with a hands-on, embedded partnership style and deliberately targets founders building outside the traditional Silicon Valley/NYC/Boston corridor, in rising hubs like Austin, Denver, Atlanta, and its own Salt Lake City base.

Invest in founders building radically different technology companies with unique business models or distribution strategies. Focus on high-velocity founders who are maniacs on a mission.

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.

Every industry will be transformed by software. Tola practices hypothesis-based investing targeting the 'enterprise scaffolding' of AI — domain-specific models, AI/ML tooling, AI SaaS applications, AI governance, and AI security — rather than foundational AI infrastructure. They back companies driving long-term, transformational change in large markets.

Passion Capital backs outstanding European founders building in AI, FinTech, and Enterprise Risk, investing at the pre-seed and seed stage—often before revenue or product exist. Europe's first operator-led VC fund, pioneering Plain English term sheets. Writes initial cheques of £400K–£500K as the founders' first institutional investor.

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.

Advancing healthcare through investment, information, and philanthropy - investing across the capital structure and company lifecycle in therapeutics, medical devices, healthcare services, diagnostics, and digital health, with an internal R&D engine (3DC) that originates and incubates companies directly.

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.

We invest in founders solving problems for the 99% through automation of the Real Economy. The largest sectors (food, logistics, retail, operations, finance, healthcare) are underautomated compared to tech. We partner with mission-aligned founders and donate 50% of profits to scholarships for underrepresented students in tech.

Operator-led growth equity firm investing in demand-driven companies in Supply Chain & Logistics, Retail Tech/CPG, and Marketing Technology. Partners with founders who have proven product-market fit and are ready to scale with hands-on operational support from the NewRoad team's 300+ years of combined operating experience.

Proven scaled operators are uniquely positioned to help hyper-growth companies reach the next level. We invest right after product-market fit (Series A-B) and focus on scaling go-to-market and building world-class companies. Inspired by Bill Campbell's coaching philosophy, we provide intensive operational support without taking board seats.

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

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.

Scale founders faster by pairing seed capital with hands-on operating experience (Apple, Amazon, Red Hat, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan) to help build teams, allocate capital, avoid premature scaling, and open relationships needed to scale from 0-1 to enterprise.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

AI Eats Software. Over the next decade, virtually every bit of software will be replaced by artificial intelligence. We invest in founders and entrepreneurs who understand the transformational power of AI and are building solutions that reshape how we live, work, and play.

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

Battery Ventures operates as a stage-agnostic firm backing technology-driven category leaders across all growth stages from seed to buyout. The firm believes the best tech investments span the entire founder journey, and they practice collaborative, research-focused investing with embedded operational support through their Portfolio Services platform. They seek technical founders with deep domain expertise and experienced operators building in four core sectors: Application Software, Infrastructure Software, Consumer, and Industrial Tech + Life Science Tools.

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.

Back B2B software founders solving real problems in sales, go-to-market, product, growth, and fundraising. We bring operational expertise from both founder and investor perspectives.

Back Latam's most promising early-stage software startups, with a growing focus on AI-native companies that own proprietary data assets, touch payment flows, and benefit from network effects.

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

Vitruvian backs ambitious entrepreneurs and management teams building higher-growth, asset-light businesses (“Dynamic Situations”) across cybersecurity, healthcare, fintech, e-commerce, and enterprise software, providing growth or buyout capital between €40m-€600m+ for companies valued €75m-€4bn+.

Backing builders of the future of interactive entertainment. We invest across games, content, platforms, and ecosystem technologies with conviction that visionary founders are driving transformation in how we play, watch, create, and live.

Data-driven early-stage growth SaaS investor backing cash-efficient, resourceful founders with $2M-$30M ARR. Metrics-first evaluation, no warm intro required, single-partner model for speed and transparency.

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.

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 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.

Exceptional technology companies can be built anywhere—US, Israel, or Europe. We partner with experienced founders to provide capital, US market expertise, and global networks to help them scale internationally.

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

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.

TheGP deploys experienced builders alongside capital to help founders achieve product-market fit faster. The firm's 25+ full-time builders—engineers, recruiters, designers, sales leaders—embed in portfolio companies for an average of nine months, earning equity grants tied to milestone delivery. This 'sweat equity' model creates deeper alignment than capital-only VC and is applied across Formation ($1-5M) and Breakout ($5-15M+) stages.

AI technologies are increasingly running the enterprise, making trust critical to scale. We invest in the companies that create that trust and the founders who scale them, with a leading focus on Infrastructure Intelligence — software that gives asset-heavy industries (energy, real estate, logistics, agriculture) the ability to sense, model, and act on their environment in real time.

Data and AI-native startups disrupting industries. Solo capitalist model allows fast decisions (days not weeks) and founder-first partnership. Focus on founders building real solutions to specific problems with proprietary data advantages.

Play Ventures invests early in the most promising game studios, consumer apps with gaming mechanics, and the B2B infrastructure powering the gaming ecosystem. They believe gaming is the dominant entertainment medium ($200B+) and 'playable apps' represent a massive $80B+ opportunity.

AI is the most consequential technology platform shift of our lifetimes. We back outlier founders building AI-native applications at the application layer, where AI is central to why the product exists, not a bolt-on feature.

Backing transformative founders building exceptional companies across all sectors

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 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.

Backs 'The Audacious Entrepreneur' as a generalist, multi-stage Indian VC, sourcing untapped white-space opportunities across SaaS, consumer, fintech, healthtech, agritech, climatetech and deeptech, with a fast-turnaround Sonic seed program and growing focus on AI, spacetech, defencetech and quantum.

Partners to enduring businesses for tomorrow's India. We back founders building category-leading companies across consumer, financial services, and technology, bringing the entire firm to every investment rather than a single partner.

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

The best ideas don't come from a screen—they're born offline in the real world. We invest in founders who build differently, prioritizing how they build as much as what they build. We believe original thinking, human-centric innovation, and founder wellness are prerequisites for building great companies.

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

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

Signal before traction. We identify early, non-obvious signals that explosive growth is possible in companies with exceptional founders, capital-efficient business models, and very large markets. We invest alongside repeat entrepreneurs who provide hands-on operational support.

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 fund history in the making, bridging the gap between your vision and a lasting global reality. IRIS backs technical, industry-fluent founders building category-defining enterprise, AI/data, fintech, security, and logistics companies from seed through growth.

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

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

Invest in innovative technology companies that can achieve significant market share in large, growing markets and grow independent of market conditions. Partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to build sustainable, profitable businesses that transform industry segments.

Back daring founders in their first chapters with first-check capital and access to a community of 200+ world-class founders and operators who can provide mentorship, introductions, and strategic guidance.

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

Backing outlier founders with global ambition building differentiated products in big markets, with a high helpfulness-to-cheque-size ratio rather than leading with capital size.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

European B2B software firm at the 'Series A to B gap' — backing founders who have found product-market fit and need capital plus operational support to scale. Family-office funded, sector-agnostic within B2B software with a lean toward infrastructure, data platforms, and AI-native products.

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.

Play Ventures invests globally at pre-seed to Series A in game studios, playable consumer apps, and B2B/AI infrastructure and services that help games and consumer apps acquire, retain, and monetize users.

We invest before consensus forms. We invest at the earliest stages in science-driven companies solving the world's most consequential problems. Focus areas: Advanced Materials (metamaterials to programmable matter), Photonics & Quantum (computation, sensing and communication at the limits of physics), Synthetic Biology (living systems as engineered platforms for medicine, food, materials and clean energy), Robotics & Automation (embodied intelligence for factory floor, farm, and places humans cannot go), The Space Economy (new frontier economy as cost per kilogram to orbit drops), and Alternative Data (new data forms to enhance AI and robotics). The firm combines primary first-check investing with direct secondaries access.

Back 'crazy dreamers' — founders with exceptional tenacity, ambition, and vision who are building transformative companies. BASS serves as the 'bassist' providing foundational support: capital, operational resources, global cloud credits, and talent. Focus on AI software, physical AI, and fashion & beauty in 2025.

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.

Back exceptional founding teams from premier Indian academic institutions (IIT, IIM) building scalable, technology-led businesses. Leverage the global alumni network for deal sourcing and post-investment support via the THRIVE platform.

CincyTech partners with innovative founders solving the world's most complex challenges across life sciences, digital health, and technology-enabled markets, providing early capital and hands-on support to help ideas become venture-worthy companies, primarily across Southwest Ohio and the Midwest.

Great entrepreneurs build great businesses. We provide expansion capital, deep operating experience, and an expansive network to established, rapidly growing, founder-led companies in software, tech-enabled services, and healthcare across the Southeast and Texas, without taking control of the business.

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.

Partner with exceptional teams building transformative technology companies across all stages

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

Business is truly global: exceptional entrepreneurs building strong, category-defining companies at highly advantageous valuations can be found anywhere, and a federated network of local accelerators can help them scale internationally.

The most ambitious B2B SaaS, AI, and Cloud Infrastructure founders at pre-seed and seed stages will build the next generation of category-defining companies. We combine technical depth, operational expertise, and capital to help founders scale across Europe and into the US market.

Patient, pragmatic investing in 'Hedgehog' founders building enduring, capital-efficient businesses. First institutional investor philosophy with multi-decade holding periods and a strong focus on unit economics over growth at all costs. Caps funds below $1B to maintain discipline and alignment.

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

The best early-stage B2B SaaS companies need hands-on go-to-market support from proven leaders who have scaled at Salesforce, Snowflake, LinkedIn, Okta, and similar platforms. We combine capital with a network of 350+ GTM leaders who provide playbooks, hiring, and customer relationships that accelerate growth from product-market fit to scale.

Geek Ventures invests in bold, innovative, and brilliant immigrant entrepreneurs, pursuing high scalability and large total addressable markets (TAM) of $10 billion or more.

Partner with exceptional founders at the earliest stages, leveraging deep operator experience to help lay foundations for successful companies.

N49P partners with visionary Canadian founders to transform markets at inception, pre-seed, and early seed stages. They back founders who prioritize speed and execution over traditional credentials, with clear vision and the ability to recruit exceptional teams.

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

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

P101 is a multi-stage venture capital firm partnering with exceptional, purpose-driven founders from seed to early growth, providing capital, network, and long-term hands-on support to help build businesses that matter.

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.

5Y Capital seeks out, supports, and inspires lonely entrepreneurs, providing support from spirit to all business operations, believing that when founders others see as crazy are trusted, the world becomes a different place.

Iberian-first, opportunity-led early-stage investor. Backs pre-seed and seed startups with founders or core team based in Portugal or Spain, across AI & software, consumer goods, and sustainability tech, often as the first professional investor in the company.

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.

We invest in founders with super high potential who aim to solve meaningful problems using leading-edge technology. We help founders turn finance and operations into a strategic asset through quantitative frameworks that accelerate product-market fit and scalability. Fundamentals-driven and hands-on from day one.

Accelerate financial services and commerce innovation by investing in companies that bring transformative solutions to market faster. We leverage PayPal's deep payments expertise, global brand, and 426+ million user network to help portfolio companies scale rapidly.

Human-scale venture capital focused on early-stage enterprise software. Partner with great teams in love with big problems at the inflection point of customer validation, providing smart money, storytelling support, and the right connections through a network of 20+ accomplished Northeast entrepreneurs.

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.

Built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs — NCV invests thematically in Next Coast markets (Austin, Midwest, Mountain West) at the Seed/Series A inflection point. They back glass-eating founders building category-defining companies in large markets, providing capital plus hands-on company building support via their 150+ expert network.

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.

Enterprise AI is a collection of category-defining verticals, not a single wave. Neon backs India-built B2B SaaS founders early as their first institutional check and acts as a GTM partner, delivering warm US customer introductions to help portfolio companies reach $10M ARR within 3-5 years.

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

Backing the builders rewiring finance: B2B, service-enabled SaaS and software companies selling into banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions, paired with a strategic network of ~100 banks representing $1.3T in combined assets.

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.

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.

Back a small, concentrated group of early-stage founders from 'Dynamic Europe' (Central and Eastern Europe and Turkey) who build global from day one, providing disproportionate time, attention, and follow-on support (90%+ of portfolio gets a second check).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thematic-driven investor backing ambitious founders building for big outcomes across critical domains. Core conviction: defensible businesses create competitive advantages by transforming data challenges and market opportunities into sustainable value. We Go Deep, Not Wide. Focus on AI (defensible AI turns data challenges into advantages), Consumer (vision and strategy to break through attention economy), and Defense Tech (modern solutions for global stability). Active operational partnership beyond capital provision.

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.

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.

Network-powered startups connecting people and businesses through software tools and platforms

Back founder-operators with deep industry experience and prior successful exits. Invest from position of operational insight rather than pure financial engineering. Focus on companies showing early traction and founder-market fit across consumer, fintech, enterprise software, and automation.

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

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

The next generation of category-defining software will be built by technical founders at the earliest stage, with AI infrastructure, developer workflows, and security primitives as core battlegrounds. Vermilion wants to be the first meaningful yes for teams that can ship quickly and learn from customers immediately.

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

Capital F invests in technology for the $15 Trillion female economy. We are operators who invest, not VCs—capitalizing on 50 years of combined C-level operating experience to back top founders building in Health, AI, and Digital Commerce with B2B SaaS and B2C technology.

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.

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.'

Anabel Paksoy actively looks to invest in early-stage startups at Day 0, providing hands-on support tailored to the founder's unique needs. She focuses on founders who are passionate about solving specific problems, and investments are made quickly to take advantage of timely opportunities.

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.

Two distinct investment strategies with one singular focus: building the brands and technologies shaping the future of consumer. VMG Consumer backs growth-stage consumer brands anchoring modern life; VMG Technology takes meaningful minority positions in B2B software serving the consumer, retail, and manufacturing ecosystem.

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.

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

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.

The best tech investors are operating the most successful companies in their industry. Fjor’s partners are top-tier operating founders who bring authentic pattern recognition from daily product use and are often early customers and design partners for the startups they back. We back outlier founders in AI, enterprise software, and fintech who are revolutionizing legacy industries and reshaping global financial markets.

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.

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.

Highly analytical, data-driven Israeli technology companies with at least $10M in annualized revenue, scaling toward global category leadership, primarily in the US market.

Sports, lifestyle, and gaming represent the next generation of consumer spending and time allocation. We partner with founders who challenge traditional definitions and build sustainable, scaled consumer businesses.

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

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.

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

Rosecliff's Frontier Technology Thesis focuses on AI, aerospace, defense, energy resilience, and space infrastructure.

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.

Yellow Rocks! builds global bridges through billion-dollar talent, investing in fast-growing early-stage tech companies founded by talented entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world, aimed at global markets with potential to skyrocket in the next 5-8 years. Investing in AI since 2017.

AI is enabling the next 20-year venture supercycle in deep science and engineering. Odyssey backs Europe's most ambitious founders building at the intersection of AI and fundamental science — companies that can reshape energy, health, manufacturing, and materials at trillion-dollar scale. The firm bridges Europe and the US, helping European founders achieve global dominance from day one.

Drive mass adoption of crypto and Web3 through investments in companies with strong tokenomics and utility design. Leverage ecosystem of 3,000+ LPs and 25,000+ gaming community to provide portfolio companies instant network effects and user acquisition.

BGV backs hands-on, cross-border enterprise AI startups operating under the Enterprise 5.0 framework — companies that combine intelligent machines with human ingenuity to drive leapfrog productivity improvements. They focus on vertical AI (industry-specific, proprietary data) and horizontal agentic platforms (cross-functional automation), with a strong preference for immigrant founders pursuing US go-to-market strategies from France, Israel, and India.

Blockchain technology represents a fundamental transformation of financial infrastructure. We invest exclusively in digital assets and blockchain companies to provide full-spectrum exposure to this emerging asset class. Technical founders building core infrastructure that others depend on will create significant value. As of May 2026, Pantera identifies AI and blockchain convergence, including agentic finance, machine-native money, and AI-agent payment and orchestration infrastructure, as a major research focus and growing area for incremental research time and investment dollars.

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

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.

AJVC is a sector-agnostic pre-seed fund investing in Indian founders at the earliest stage - paper plan, prototype, or pre-incorporation - using standard terms (₹1.5 crore for 9%) and a fast, data-driven, low-friction evaluation process.

Early capital for tech founders at the earliest, riskiest moment - when it's just you, your co-founder, and a problem worth solving. Built by operators (Henchman, Intuo) who took companies from first line of code to acquisition and are now investing from the other side of the cap table.

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.

Exceptional early-stage founders deserve capital and operational support from inception. DTC and eCommerce enablement represent sustainable, defensible markets with significant TAM expansion. The best risk/reward is in pre-seed and seed when most institutional capital is inactive.

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.

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.

Invest extremely early, but only into teams capable of competing globally from day one, prioritizing talent, clarity of thinking, execution ability, and ambition.

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

Illuminate backs B2B/enterprise software founders building platforms and applications that leverage data and AI to quickly drive meaningful ROI, positioning itself as a startup's first institutional investor between angel capital and traditional VC.

Back founder-operators with prior venture-scale exits solving hard technical problems in non-obvious, regulated deep-technical verticals including AI infrastructure, blockchain, biotech, and communications infrastructure. Co-invest alongside quality partners to maintain flexibility and focus on deep operational support and strategic value-add.

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.

Argon leads or co-leads pre-seed rounds in Intelligent Industry Solutions: vertical software platforms that combine industry insight with deep tech, machine learning, and data to improve productivity, efficiency, and enterprise value.

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.

Breakthrough startups are designed futures, not lottery tickets. We back extraordinary founders with breakthrough insights before the world believes. We are co-conspirators, not just investors.

Mission-critical B2B software where AI is an advantage, backed at Series A with product in market, strong revenue growth and defensible economics.

Legal technology sits at the center of every business transaction and the $1 trillion legal services industry is undergoing the kind of systemic transformation fintech and healthtech experienced a decade earlier. We back founders building AI, workflow automation, analytics, hiring, and security tools for the legal ecosystem.

Theme-specific venture capital and private equity across the seed-to-mature spectrum, backing Saudi technology-driven businesses aligned with Vision 2030 economic diversification, plus a parallel credit advisory practice spanning sukuk and private credit for mid-market corporates.

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

In this time of radical change, we back the best technical founders solving system-level problems. We invest early in the people reinventing work, life, and play for the AI era.

Patient, collaborative, and disciplined capital for builders who think in decades. Aims to be the first institutional partner to entrepreneurs building large, ethically strong companies.

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

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.

Investing in the future of commerce, AI, and labor. We believe our biggest asset is knocking down doors for our founders — leveraging our network of 50+ Fortune 500 CEOs and tech executives as LPs to open customer relationships, accelerate go-to-market, and support talent acquisition.

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

Reducing friction in commerce transactions through infrastructure, vertical AI solving boring complex problems, and next-generation marketplaces with proprietary AI moats. We back founders removing friction from how the world gets things done.

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.

Seed and early-stage technology companies with strong focus on Bitcoin ecosystem and gaming. We invest as a group of serial entrepreneurs who actively partner with world-class teams to build global category winners. Bitcoin is TCP/IP for realtime value transport on the Internet.

The best founders want to be backed by other founders. Smaller funds run by founders perform best at pre-seed/seed stage. We operate as a decentralized fund-of-micro-funds empowering founder-GPs across global regions.

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

Back exceptional founders early, globally. Self-funded model enables founder-first alignment, rapid deployment, and direct support. We believe the best companies come from the best founders, regardless of background or current stage.

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.

We back teams solving society's biggest problems through leading-edge, tech-at-the-core companies with significant valuation potential, treating portfolio companies as customers with long-term, hands-on partnership.

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.

Arbor Ventures is a fintech-only fund partnering with entrepreneurs globally to shape a smarter financial future. They invest across payments, cyber, insurance, regtech, AI/ML, marketplaces, capital markets, and blockchain — taking an expansive view of fintech across geographies with no place considered too far.

We back SaaS and AI founders with early evidence of product-market fit ($400K-$2M ARR), pairing capital with hands-on operating experience in go-to-market, fundraising, product, tech, and hiring.

Rockstart backs purpose-driven founders across AgriFood, Energy, and Emerging Tech, providing early capital, a structured Startup Support Package, and follow-on co-investment through Series B to help startups drive regenerative and sustainable change at scale.

Founders are the core stakeholder. Nuwa backs founder-led businesses across MENA, Turkey, and Pakistan and pairs capital with the Nuwa Network of entrepreneurs and Operating Partners for hands-on support.

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

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.

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).

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.

Advisory-focused seed fund supporting founders in creating lasting foundations for their vision. We combine capital with deep operational guidance through embedded advisors covering hiring, company culture, fundraising, product, and technical leadership. Founder-market fit and learning orientation are essential.

Make human and technological potential actual. Eudemian invests in early-stage US software startups with demonstrated product-market fit and breakout traction, backed by mission-driven founders who tackle large markets solving vexing pain points. Rooted in the Greek philosophy of Eudaimonia, the firm believes in actualizing potential through long-term founder partnerships.

It's less about the vertical and all about the people. During the 0-to-1 phase, founder quality and execution matter more than sector background, so Yellow backs bold, globally ambitious European founders with Day Zero capital.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Southern California's original seed-stage venture capital fund, focused on capital-efficient technology startups with differentiated competitive advantages targeting large, addressable and growing markets outside the Bay Area. Active, hands-on management with emphasis on venture fundamentals and disciplined investment strategy.

The future of e-commerce and digital marketing is built on specialized technology solutions that empower brands. We back founders who understand marketing and commerce deeply, providing capital plus direct access to thousands of brand customers for validation.

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.

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.

Back exceptional founders — primarily from Israel — building transformative companies in cybersecurity, fintech, AI, digital health, and deep tech. Offer true partnership beyond capital: hands-on guidance, global network access (Softbank, Fujitsu, NTT, Vodafone), and unwavering support from first check through exit. Invest across both early and growth stages via two parallel fund families.

We invest as close to the first check as possible in founders building consumer brands, PropTech solutions, and Future of Work tools. We maintain deep relationships with founders, provide operational support, and leverage our extensive network to drive introductions and capital.

Backing companies making a dent in the universe. We prioritize obsessively passionate founding teams and ambition over any specific industry vertical, powered by a 120+ member community of tech operators who source deal flow and support portfolio companies.

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.

Partner with passionate entrepreneurs building companies that change the way we live, work, play, or learn. We're operator-first investors who provide capital, strategic guidance, and operational mentorship alongside network and investor connections.

Bridge US and global technology startups with more than 40 leading Asian multinational corporations, validating strategic partner intent pre-investment to accelerate go-to-market and drive follow-on co-investment.

Support amazing founders building transformative companies in fintech, AI/ML, and marketplaces using quantitative rigor and domain expertise. The 8-factor leveraged-finance framework identifies founders and businesses with top-quartile return potential.

Conviction in enterprise software moving from SaaS to AI, deep tech, robotics, and industrial tech — the intelligent and physical layers where CEE's technical talent runs deepest and the path to global scale is clearest.

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.

Scrappy entrepreneurs building lasting businesses with well-designed products. We work side-by-side with founders who demonstrate intellectual honesty and personal integrity. We emphasize long-term value creation in the LA startup ecosystem.

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.

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.

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.

Specialized, community-driven funds indexed into proven networks (Y Combinator, CTOs and VPs of Engineering) to deliver diversification, domain expertise and direct founder impact.