All Funds

Afore has $300M in AUM across 3 funds and 75+ portfolio companies - almost everyone was pre-traction, pre-revenue, and “pre-obvious” when Afore invested. They are focused on helping companies accelerate their trajectory by taking them straight to Series A as quickly as possible (the majority of Afore portfolio companies jump from a $1M raise to a $5 - 10M raise in 12 - 18 months).

Backs entrepreneurs shifting the future of aerospace.

Invests in technical founders building the next generation of applications, tools, and platforms for developers, data teams, ML engineers, and everything in between.

$15M fund driving growth by leveraging proprietary marketing channels and increasing consumer awareness.

New fund with a goal to help humanity become a net positive to nature by backing early-stage companies that are using disruptive deep tech to upend the unit economics of established industries

LA-based early-stage fund backing the next-rising technologies, products, and services that delight consumers and transform commerce

Invests in female-led companies working on the biggest areas of the consumer economy.

Steve Anderson's solo GP fund built to address the gap between individual investors and institutional venture capitalists. Baseline invested in more than 100 companies, with founders and investors alike exiting profitably from over 50.

$300M AUM fund that leads pre-seed and seed rounds in fintech companies globally. They take a pretty broad view on fintech, and many vertical SaaS and marketplace businesses fit in their purview too. They genuinely believe that our companies make the world better; fintech is a great way to improve people's lives.

Invests in deeply technical, under-networked founders trying to build their companies

Boost VC is an early-stage venture capital firm with $200m AUM in San Mateo, CA founded by Adam Draper & Brayton Williams. They invest in startups accelerating the Sci-Fi Future and are typically raising $2M or less.

Backs ambitious early-stage companies, setting the stage for emerging technologies since 2004. CRCM has invested in over 200+ companies resulting in 6 IPOs and 18 acquisitions - with more on the way. Their 2004 and 2012 vintage funds were ranked 4th and 1st respectively in Preqin Top Performing Early Stage VC Funds.

Early-stage VC fund reducing the racial wealth gap through investments in Black and Latinx founders

Invests in preseed, seed (through City Spark Investments), and Series A (through City Light Investments) companies where there is a direct relationship between financial outcomes and measurable social impact.

Fund led by Sarah Kunst investing in the future of fintech, consumer, and enterprise.

Climate Capital is an early-stage climate tech VC with over 250+ portfolios across various sectors working on decarbonizing the global economy.

Their due diligence process starts with a few calls with the team, then a review of the deck and data room. It takes 2-4 weeks from first call to sign and wire.
They do not engage until after the lead is in place.

Climate Capital has a slack community of with our 250+ founders to share knowledge and resource. They also have a bunch of discounts through builtfirst and other vendors on software tools. They have a blog series to help promote our companies

$12.5M fund that backs early stage companies with capital and expertise from active founders and operators

Colle's mission is to identify and back teams that not only demonstrate intellect and passion but are also agile in their thinking and execution. They seek organizations that operate with a clear focus on sustainability in every dimension: business practices, unit economics, and environmental impact.

Using their unique model and leveraging their long-term investor base, Congruent partners with entrepreneurs to build companies addressing climate and sustainability challenges. Congruent’s unique model and long-term investor base allow them to invest early and provide ongoing support to teams enabling them to move the needle on critical sustainability challenges.

Invests in technically defensible or science-led businesses (quick litmus test: 12+ months of defensibility) solving a real problem for the end user / individual / consumer.

AI-focused venture capital firm purpose-built for Software 3.0 founded by Sarah Guo.

Interested in companies addressing labor shortages in manufacturing, construction, logistics, and food production; controlling spiraling healthcare costs stemming from aging and chronic disease; and feeding the world sustainably with continued population and standard of living growth.

Early-stage venture capital firm that backs customer-obsessed companies and spearheads their communications.

Investing in Black, Latinx, and Indigenous founders at the early stage. Debut Capital helps their founders in product, tech stack strategy, and team structure

Partners with entrepreneurs in building long-term, sustainable businesses.

VC fund unapologetically investing in women, underrepresented founders (particularly of African descent) and underserved POC markets, backing bold ideas and business models that harness the power of technology to deliver value to mass markets.

Multi-stage venture fund led by Laurene Powell Jobs and focused on accelerating the growth of companies positively impacting the world

Invests in entrepreneurs creating commercially successful companies that advance economic mobility and increase opportunity in America.

Focused on technologies for the global real estate industry.

Partners with creative and passionate entrepreneurs aspiring to transform the business of healthcare.

$150M technology-focused venture fund based in Los Altos, California making investments in early-stage startups across software, life science, and deep tech.

$175M early-stage fund focused on consumer technology and the consumerization of enterprise technology.

Founded in 1995. They are 26 years and 10 flagship funds strong, with over $6B assets under management, 31 IPOs, and 80+ acquisitions.

Venture capital firm that backs up outlier founders at the earliest stages.

Heavybit is an early-stage venture capital firm and the premiere investor in developer-first startups. Since 2013, they’ve worked with numerous Pre-Seed to Series A companies that have redefined how teams build, deploy, secure, and scale mission-critical software.

Heavybit offers team-based structured support and a platform tailored to your specific needs that incorporates their unique partnership, an active community of 600+ domain specific advisors, and fellow Heavybit startup founders.

To learn more: https://www.heavybit.com/faq

Homebrew is a seed-stage fund that provides operational expertise for entrepreneurs building the bottom-up economy. They invest in mission-driven founders who embrace big – big ideas, big impact, big risk.

Seed-stage investment firm focused on exceptional founders building machine intelligence and data companies.

Exclusively focused on AI, employing a builder's mindset. Innospark is a curious, rigorous, and thoughtful partner, investing their own capital.

Early-stage fund investing in the Future of Commerce

Focused on technologies that extend the boundaries of human performance

K9 Ventures believe that extraordinary things are possible when great teams come together around technology. They prefer to be the first institutional / professional capital for the companies they invest in. They also prefer to lead investment rounds and take board seats. To provide sufficient attention to each portfolio company, K9 only invests in 4-6 companies per year.

Generalist fund that partners with entrepreneurs who have grand ambitions and gives them the advantage needed to win big.

Led by accomplished investor Chris Sacca, Lowercarbon Capital funds research and invests in technologies that reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere.

Provides strategic counsel and operational expertise to help founders grow their companies.

Backs visionary deep tech entrepreneurs aiming to transform large industries.

Global VC firm focusing on inception and early-stage investing in tech.

First Latinx-founded VC on the East Coast founded by experienced Boston-based operators. The fund is diversity-focused with 75% of investments in founders of color, women, and immigrants.

High-touch Venture Capital firm based in Los Angeles, CA. The team believes that (1) hardware can be brought to market more frugally than in the past and that (2) Los Angeles has the expertise and best resources to support founders who play in the physical world.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Austin and Nashville, Mucker is investing in markets that are underfunded relative to Silicon Valley.

Invests in startups with at least one immigrant founder.

Investment firm that believes the power in venture capital is concentrated among a homogenous group.

Led by the founders of Flatiron Health (acquired by Roche). They prefer to invest alongside a lead VC check (and if there's no lead yet, they'll help the founder find one).

Venture capital firm investing in exceptional new-frontier technology companies.

VC fund partnering with entrepreneurs since 2013 to address climate change.

Web3/fintech venture fund investing as early as we can.

QED is the premier VC in the fintech space. They are operators well regarded for our expertise, engagement, and empathy. QED invests in businesses that disrupt and empower.

Over the past 28 years, RRE has become one of NYC’s oldest, largest, and most active venture capital firms. They have $2.5B AUM across 10 funds and 400+ portfolio companies. The firm recently raised their $250M Fund VIII.

Supports entrepreneurs that develops technology solutions for challenges in education from early childhood to the future of work

An early-stage VC firm led by a team with operating and investing experience looking to enable the future of the Metaverse and develop frontier tech to better the world!

SF-based hard tech seed fund managing $300M+ AUM. As engineers themselves, they specialize in leading initial funding for founders tackling new technical opportunities. With a selective few new deals a year and 2/3 of their funds in reserve, they are committed to being a long-term partner, supporting each funding round and bridging any gaps in between.

Founded by the tennis legend Serena Williams as an investment vehicle to empower historically overlooked people and markets.

Soma Capital seeks to back brilliant, scrappy founders that are driven to push humanity forward.

Early-stage venture capital firm investing at the two forces radically transforming the food economy: climate and culture.

Builds and invests in technologies that help move people and goods cleaner, faster, safer, and at lower cost - on the ground, in the air, on the sea, and in space. They partner with the boldest entrepreneurs and largest companies in the world to help achieve our mission of Transforming the Moving World.

Investing in crypto networks & platforms building The Ownership Economy

Manifesto-driven venture fund investing in disruptive companies with a global impact.

No project is too early for Wing. They invest early, before it's obvious, often before product or revenue. They also put substantial capital and strategic resources into each company throughout its lifecycle.

Your go-to Seed investor in the trenches supporting you to close enterprise deals and scale your go-to-market effort with our unmatched New York City hustle.

A $400M AUM global investment organization with a singular mission: to accelerate the combination of real estate and technology, improving our collective quality of life, work, and community.

Invests in entrepreneurs and teams who have demonstrated a passion to achieve the impossible, usually in impossibly little time and on ridiculously limited resources.

Led by former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and former Twitter COO Adam Bain. Venture and advisory firm helping founders go from building a product to building a company.

First check fund backing dropouts, renegade students, and deep tech scientists before anyone else.

No buzzwords. No hype. They invest in founders using software to solve real 🌎 problems. 1984 is drawn to founders with grit, industry insights, and strong engineering culture. They invest via SAFE or equity, and can lead or participate.

Believes that learning, and labor—also known as EdTech and the Future of Work—are the next horizon in changing the world.

Invests in founders who don't fit the mold - those entrepreneurs who ascribe to our "Third Culture" principles because of their unique life experiences. They are global by design but admit they could add the most value if for example, you are an ex-US company with tangible plans for a US launch.

Invests $500K checks in deep tech companies, and companies applying known technical solutions (SaaS platforms, marketplaces, mobile apps etc) to laggard markets.

SF-based seed investor. They are way pavers for founders, making vital connections for fundraising, talent, customers and advice. They are dot connectors, counting the world’s most visionary investors, founders and industry leaders as our allies. They are first movers, operating at the speed of our founders and matching the creative hustle required to achieve unimaginable goals.

Based in TX and designed to lead seed rounds for B2B SaaS companies outside of Silicon Valley. They prefer to back companies that can get to market with very little capital and those they believe they can best help founders once they start to grow.

An investment platform that partners with courageous entrepreneurs to build category-creating companies. Their cognitively diverse team helps founders understand latent demand, unlock new markets, and scale businesses that change our world–for the better.

Seed-stage venture firm started in 2016 with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Dilutes alongside founders, helping find smart capital for every stage of company growth. The firm has invested in over 100 seed-stage technology companies which now represents an aggregate market capitalization of $22.8B.

Anthem Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in Southern California investments. They are active investors that almost always lead/co-lead and take a board seat. They look at under-the-radar opportunities and stay away from areas we think are crowded.

SF-based VC firm built by pioneers within TechBio to invest at the intersection of technology and biology and healthcare. 

Investing in defensible businesses at the early stage.

Atento Capital is an early-stage investment firm focused on unlocking unsung potential. They identify high-potential ideas and individuals and then invest the early-stage funding and human capital needed to take ventures from 0-1 and 1-10.
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By bringing together founders, partners, and investors, they are transforming the heartland into the nation’s most equitable tech hub while generating real returns.

Their due diligence process takes 3-4 weeks, starting with a review of cap table, financials, legal docs, etc, and finishes with an in-person visit at the end to meet team in person.

Atento provides office space support, free recruiting services, fundraising support and connections for later rounds.

Atlas Venture creates and invests in biotech startup companies with seed and early stage venture investments

Actively seeks out companies led by women and minority founders. Authentic likes to give full attention to their portfolio companies and only backs 4-6 founders each year.

Loves companies that transform how people learn, earn and own. They have a keen eye for founders who know why they care -- because that's an unstoppable force.

Early-stage fund focused on improving the way we live and the way we work

Beta Boom invests instartups building the future for women and ethnic minority consumers, workers, and business owners.

The best and only way to get on Beta Boom's radar is to fill out their 3-minute intake form.

Their diligence process takes 6-8 weeks:
1. 3-minute intake form
2. Initial diligence call
3. Data room review
4. Subsequent diligence call(s)
5. Collaboration week
6. Final diligence

They also provide weekly or daily support from Beta Boom's growth team to help portfolio companies refine product-market fit, go to market, and sales operations.

Blackhorn Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies using breakthroughs in engineering and science, coupled with the infrastructure of the Information Revolution, to redefine resource productivity.

Billions of people are moving toward a higher standard of living, and global consumption is rapidly depleting Earth’s resource capacity. We are in a unique period of history that will be defined by investment in resource-efficient technologies. This is what we do.

Led by Ben Ling, previously a GP at Khosla Ventures. Their aim is to help their founders find product market fit then help them scale.

Bloomberg's early-stage venture fund investing in startups focusing on machine learning.

Engages founders working on the frontiers of science and technology with the potential to solve some of the most pressing challenges we face in the world today.

Day one partner for developer first, SaaS, & crypto infrastructure founders.

BrandProject’s team has partnered with seed-stage founders, supporting their efforts to build world-class brands. They have tremendous respect for the founders we have partnered with and take great pride in watching them succeed.

Invests in creative bioscience companies harnessing the power of cells and computation to scale solutions in human health and sustainability.

VC fund founded by Josh Buckley.

Invests in companies that address the needs of a world undergoing massive demographic changes.

Mission-driven VC firm with $835M AUM, leading investments in transformative companies building in future-tech.

Invests globally and has offices in California, Israel, India, and China.