Funds that lead Series A

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

Founded in 2002, +ND invests in disruptive technologies across the life, physical, and data sciences. The fund's core belief is that scientific disciplines will continue to converge and that some of the biggest breakthroughs will be based on this convergence.

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.

Targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed and early stages in the mobile, enterprise software, and web sectors. They look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise, and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.

Collaborating with fearless and gifted entrepreneurs who are creating enterprises that will usher in Africa's technological future

Aims to support early-stage companies that are working to solve important healthcare needs via cutting-edge breakthroughs in medicine and science.

Investing in technical founders at the earliest stages solving the biggest challenges facing our world.

Joint venture between 25madison, LifePoint Health and Apollo Global Management based in Nashville and NYC. The fund is incubating and investing in digital health companies in partnership with a large health system

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere.

Access Venture Partners is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies in Colorado & the Mountain West.

Their due diligence process starts with three (3) diligence meetings, then customer interview, investor interview if there are current investors, and ends with one (1) presentation to entire investment committee.

Access throws our resources, 100+ combined years of operating & investing expertise, their deep networks and connections, and every ounce of our emotional energy behind their founders' success.

Invests in companies creating fundamental change in food and agriculture in order to address large-scale problems in human and environmental health.

VC firm that provides investable assets for diverse angel investors to fund tomorrow's companies.

Venture capital fund focused on early-stage companies servicing the advanced air mobility (AAM) industry and synergistic markets Strategic team of partners and advisors from commercial aviation, defense, cargo, and other air mobility-centric industries

Backs entrepreneurs shifting the future of aerospace.

AirTree is a venture capital firm with a mission to back the most ambitious Australian and Kiwi founders, building the iconic technology companies of tomorrow. They are right by a founder's side, right from the start, often investing pre-product and pre-revenue to support startups from the earliest stages of their journey.

AirTree helps portfolio companies shortcut company-building firsts with one of the most comprehensive and scaled platform offerings in the region. This includes talent, operator networks, executive forums, peer community as well as playbooks, benchmarking and resources.

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.

Altimeter is a leading technology-focused investment firm built by founders for founders. Their mission is to help visionary entrepreneurs build iconic companies, disrupt markets and improve lives through all stages of growth. Altimeter manages a variety of venture and public funds and serves as an expert long-term partner to companies as they enter the public markets.

Founded by Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang, AME Cloud Ventures invests in seed to later-stage tech companies that build infrastructure and value chains around data.

Backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

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.

Anthemis Group is a global platform that cultivates change in the financial system by investing in, growing, and sustaining businesses.

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

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.

Invests in seed to growth-stage startups that uses tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.

World's largest Black-led venture capital fund focusing on automation of the largest sectors of the Real Economy. They believe positive impact is key to profit and give back by donating 50% of our gain to create scholarships for underrepresented students.

Global, technology-focused investment firm with offices in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. They practice a collaborative, research-focused style of investing and regularly make early, growth, and buyout investments in the same tech sector.

Focuses on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, infrastructure, and enterprise software.

With more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth. Bessemer’s global portfolio has included Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr and Toast and has more than $20 billion of assets under management.

Early-stage investment platform founded by e-sport pioneers to fund promising gaming, esports, and interactive media enterprises.

Crypto fund with $1.8B AUM and 125 investments in different crypto companies, across different stages, countries, and asset types.

Invests in high-potential Information Technology and Biotechnology companies located at the Colorado Front Range and the Mid-Atlantic region

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.

Break Trail partners with entrepreneurs who are breaking trail in their industry, putting the customer first, and solving meaningful problems.

C4 Ventures is a European venture fund founded by Pascal Cagni (ex-VP & GM of Apple EMEIA) with the aim to help founders across all stages to navigate and scale-up in the complex European business landscape.

Founded in 1987, Canaan is a long-time early-stage investor currently investing out of their 12th Fund ($800M).

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

Cervin is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on building enduring enterprise-technology companies. The company’s partners actively work with early-stage founders and product visionaries todesign, build and bring disruptive technologies to market in order to change how the world works.

Cervin also recently launched a Platform Services team to provide recruiting, marketing advisory and business development services to portfolio companies.

CircleUp invests in innovative, early-stage consumer brands with a modern scaleable approach to growth markets. They fund companies with revenue of $1M $20M, raising $1M $10M in growth equity.

Seeks seed, early-stage, and private equity deals focused on emerging restaurants, beverages, services, and technologies designed for foodservice and hospitality channels.

Launched in 2015 as technology investing arm within Clocktower Group, Clocktower Technology Ventures partners with phenomenal entrepreneurs who have the vision and drive to reinvent financial services, investing from the earliest seeds of startup life to businesses scaling for growth.

Privately owned hedge fund founded in 1999 investing across different sectors.

Invests on web3 companies at the seed, venture, and liquid stages.

invest in entrepreneurs committed to the virtuous application of technology to meet the generational challenges facing the US, from decarbonizing our economy to re-energizing American cities, and are the most likely to build category-defining and winning companies.

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 founders building technology to transform the foundational industries that provide us with the food we eat, the products we need, and the critical services – like transportation and delivery.

New York-based VC firm founded in 2005 to invest in NYC-focused, early-stage companies that provide innovative software solutions.

$50M fund combining human expertise and machine intelligence to back and build the AI revolution.

Backs entrepreneurs who are a lot like them: hungry, thoughtful, tenacious, and looking to solve big problems. They specialize in enterprise and fintech, and that focus has given them experience and expertise to be exceptionally helpful to founders building in those markets.

Bay Area-based early-stage lead investor in consumer and enterprise-focused founders across North America currently investing out of our ninth early-stage fund ($350M).

Founded by the co-founder of Tencent to invest in early-stage software companies.

Invests in solutions to complex problems in human and animal health.

Invests in early and growth stage companies using tech and data to transform behavioral health, personalized medicine, data analytics, digital therapeutics, microbiome, and frontier tech.

Invests in companies that are transforming the future of risk across Insurtech, Fintech and Health & Benefits.

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.

ECMC Group's $250M Education Impact Fund invests in impact-driven, financially scalable ventures and funds that are focused on postsecondary education and workforce development.

invests across all segments of the education / learning market: corporate learning and HR (talent management, recruitment), lifelong learning, edutainment, higher education, secondary education, K12 education largest European Edtech fund (€190m AUM) investing from Seed to Series B

An investment firm focused on companies optimizing energy consumption and improving sustainable energy generation. Adds value by bringing the best companies, buying power, and vision in the industry to bear on the emerging energy landscape. Energy Impact Partners has a collaborative strategic investment approach, which the team pioneered very successfully at GE.   

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

Invests in healthcare and technology in the US and Europe Funded in 1946 and have over $2T in assets managed.

Healthcare-focused VC fund with offices in Nashville, TN and Charlotte, NC that invests in digital health and technology-enabled healthcare services companies at the seed stage.  For its second fund, FCA will invest in 15 companies raising their first round of funding. They prefer to lead rounds and take board seats.

Invests in fast-growing, revenue-stage Software, Marketplace, and eCommerce companies that are driving innovation across the consumer ecosystem.

Specialized B2B Fintech & Insurtech fund based in the US & UK with $1.3bn in assets under management. Backs teams from all stages with 100+ portfolio companies.

New York-based venture capital fund founded in 2012 to back creators with a hunger to reimagine the way money flows through the world.

Invests in technology that creates opportunity, driving social and economic mobility.

NYC-Focused VC that accelerates startup founders with access, top-tier talent, & largest community in venture.

Corporate VC of the Fitch Group. makes equity investments in innovative and emerging technology companies in the rapidly evolving financial services industry to help accelerate their commercial growth.

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

SF-based venture capital firm investing in science and technology companies solving difficult problems. The firm invests at all stages across a wide variety of sectors. Founders Fund pursues a founder-friendly investment strategy, providing maximum support with minimum interference.

Foundry is a unique offering in the venture capital market with a symbiotic network that propels innovation.

Founded in 2007, their firm manages more than $3 billion for our limited partners, and has invested in hundreds of companies and dozens of venture funds.

Focused on accelerating the growth of high-potential healthcare enterprises through value-added partnerships. Frist Cressey Invests in technology and service businesses with viable solutions that improve quality of care, system integration, patient outcomes, and population health and wellbeing.

Backs early stage companies with technological and data advantages in industrial, enterprise, and healthcare applications

Supports seed and early-stage investments in trailblazing, purpose-driven entrepreneurs with unique ideas that have the potential to reinvent entire industries.

Focused on interactive content and technology companies

We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.

Global venture capital firm focused on multi-stage, sector-focused investments. Recognizing that the talent to build great companies can come from anywhere, the firm invests in founders building category-leading companies around the world. Founded in 2000 with roots in Singapore and Silicon Valley, GGV has expanded with additional offices in San Francisco, Shanghai, and Beijing.

Early-stage VC firm investing in the next generation of AI and frontier technology startups enabling the rise of the intelligent enterprise. The firm is laser-focused on funding exceptional entrepreneurs who are leading the AI revolution, capitalizing on the intellectual might and talent from the premier academic institutions on the East Coast, and fostering growth for its ecosystem.

Investing in Southeast Asian companies in the early and growth stages since 2011.

Early-stage venture capital firm founded by entrepreneurs and operators who've built companies cumulatively worth $300 billion. GreatPoint's mission is to partner with entrepreneurs solving big problems across enterprise, healthcare, bio-tech, and food. In order to have time to fight in the trenches with every team they back, they make fewer than 10 new investments per year.

VC firm founded in 2012 that makes concentrated, long-term investments in technology-enabled businesses globally.

Invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer, crypto, and enterprise software companies across all stages.

Female-led, multi-stage venture capital firm investing in the $7+ trillion education technology sector across "Pre-K to Gray."

Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV originated as an independent venture capital firm for innovative founders. With Alphabet as their sole limited partner, they focus all our energy on meeting and supporting founders at the earliest stages of company-building.

Harbinger works exclusively with early-stage consumer brands that are led by exceptional female founders or mixed-gender founder founding teams, and incentivizes collaboration amongst its portfolio companies by giving each entrepreneur an equity stake in the portfolio.

Headline is a global venture capital firm investing in rising founders across B2B and B2C, with teams on the ground in 7 cities around the world. Since its founding in 1998, Headline has worked alongside founders with global aspirations from Silicon Valley to São Paulo, Beijing to Berlin.

They are actively on the ground across continents, seeing local trends up close, searching for top founders, and bringing them our world of resources. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth – connecting entrepreneurs to each other, to customers, and to insights from distant markets – to help them become a global success.

Global multistage technology-focused venture capital fund based out of New York that helps ambitious founders build massive, enduring businesses. They support entrepreneurs by providing them with long-term-focused capital from idea to IPO. HOF also helps them structure transformational partnerships with enterprises in its LP network.

A venture firm for builders. The firm has $1.5B in total capital committed and has built a community of over 5,000 incredible, driven, ambitious builders.

invests in early-stage companies relevant to large financial institutions either today or in the future. backed by JPM, Barclays, S&P, Citi, Deustche Boerse and Jefferies, among others. helps founders in their enterprise sales go-to-market through timed introductions to decision-makers rather than gatekeepers. invests in everything from the voluntary carbon markets to crypto infrastructure to cybersecurity to core capital markets infrastructure Offices in London, New York, and Singapore.

Founded in 2017 to fund exciting entrepreneurs in the consumer landscape.

Fund based in London, San Francisco and Geneva, helping entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into transformative international businesses. Index covers every investment stage, from earliest seed through to explosive growth.

Early-stage venture capital firm supporting world-class entrepreneurs building at the intersection of Real Estate, Finance, and Technology.

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

For over  25 years, Insight Partners has helped over 600 companies turn their vision into reality. They invest and support founders from seed until the later stages.

Ironspring Ventures is a sector-focused venture capital fund investing in digital industrial innovation. They partner with world-class founders and teams who are revolutionizing the way we design, build, distribute, and operate in the physical world.

Invests in scalable, high-growth technology companies with large addressable markets and strong competitive advantages.

Focused on technologies that extend the boundaries of human performance

Kairos is a portfolio of brands that focuses on making life simpler and more affordable for our generation.

Broadly, a venture we back offers one or more of the factors: 1. Significant technology or business model innovation 2. “Black Swan” ideas with significant upside or a significantly better mousetrap 3. Large markets, either existing or newly enabled by the innovation at hand 4. Short innovation cycles 5. Upfront risk

Investor in food technology and emerging restaurant brands, globally.

Investing in early-stage frontier technology companies.

Kleiner Perkins was founded in the 1970s by Tom Perkins and Eugene Kleiner. The firm is focused on early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies.

VC fund firm focused exclusively on funding entrepreneurs with a vision for better and smarter learning.

Fund that spun out of Insight Partners to invest in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses that are fundamental to the human condition and spirit – where customers maintain a long-term relationship with the product, platform, or service.

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

Listen is a venture capital firm that invests in consumer obsessed entrepreneurs building brands at the tipping point of behavior shifts. They sit at the intersection of capital strategy, creativity, and the consumer mindset.

Partners with companies and founders trying to change the world, who want to upend paradigms, not just chase incremental progress. Over the past two decades, Lux has expanded from their New York City roots to Silicon Valley, and built a $4 billion AUM firm of more than 30 full-time professionals, with a wide spectrum of technical backgrounds and the versatility to invest at any stage.

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.

Morgan Creek Capital Management, LLC is a SEC-registered investment adviser providing investment management services to institutions and wealthy families. We provide a customized investment solution to clients in need of a targeted investment program, as well as discretionary strategies to assist clients in building investment programs based on theUniversity Endowment Model. We provide Asset Allocation, Manager Selection, and Portfolio Construction.

Venture capital fund that invests in early-stage companies and helps them avoid traditional roadblocks on their path to hyper-growth.

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

Invests in what the world needs.

Impact investor providing financial, knowledge, and network capital to innovative enterprises that are changing the world for good.

Global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare

Founded in 2015, Next Frontier partners with mission-driven entrepreneurs to build Rocky Mountain technology companies of impact, utility, and value

The Firm is backed by a well-diversified pool of investors, endowments, foundations, and executives from the world’s top technology and financial firms, who join us in recognizing the region’s extraordinary growth in technology deal flow. They are currently investing out of their fourth fund.

Founded in 2006, Nexus was one of the first India-US venture funds started by successful entrepreneurs in enterprise technology and consumer internet.

Early-stage venture capital fund partnering with founders from Seed to Growth. Across Europe and the US. In September 2022, Northzone raised €1bn to invest from Seed to Growth.  Has offices in London, Stockholm, and NYC

Offers entrepreneurs a broad range of services to help them build their businesses at every stage of growth. They realize that one size does not fit all when it comes to today’s operational challenges. Norwest's mantra is "All of what you need and none of what you don’t".

Venture capital and advisory firm that focuses on the fintech sector.

Early stage venture capital firm focused on equity investments in companies with dramatic growth potential, primarily in technology and highly-scalable services businesses

Venture arm of OpenAI. Also runs Converge: a highly selective, five-week program for exceptional engineers, designers, researchers, and product builders using AI to reimagine products and industries.

Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the Digital Native economy.

Their team has lived scaling businesses as founders, operators, and engineers. With Partners in all four continental U.S. time zones, Origin Ventures is close to great founders, wherever they are located.

Led by Austin McChord (founder of Datto; $1.3B exit, IPO, then $6.2B take-private) and Teddy Seem (ex-General Catalyst, Bridgewater, Resonance Technologies), Outsiders fund is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on identifying opportunities where technology will disrupt traditional, incumbent industries. They do NOT invest in AR/VR, Crypto, or Blockchain.

Led by Steven A Cohen, an investor with 30+ years of experience. Point72 ventures wants to invest in founders who are passionate, knowledgeable, differentiated, and all-in.

Presight Capital is a venture capital firm investing in the most ambitious founders across sectors, stages, and geographies

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.

$500M Growth equity fund (Series A/B) based in NYC Investor Operator model Focus on capital efficient businesses

Relay Ventures is an early stage venture fund. They are founded in 2008 and are currently investing out of their Fund V.

REMUS invests in the underdogs. the contrarians. the resilient. They want to write the untold stories that rewire prevailing ways of thinking and doing.

An edtech and workforce training fund investing in early-stage companies.

Global investment organization with one single, relentless mission: to change the world of finance.

Robo Global Ventures invests in deep tech and applied automation technology across Robotics, Healthcare and Artificial Intelligence.

Rock Health Capital invests in remarkable entrepreneurs working at the intersection of healthcare and technology.

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.

Making the world a better, safer place by investing in frontier and dual-use technologies built by veterans, intelligence leaders, and premier research labs.

Early-stage impact investment fund focused on Better-For-You Food, Beverage, Food Tech, and Ag Tech

Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.

Shine is a $435M VC furm that partners with relentless, creative, convincing entrepreneurs from the early stages of company, protocol, and network building. They look for three core qualities in founders: relentlessness, creativity, and conviction.

VC fund founded in 2018, investing in early-stage companies and breakout companies. They provide value add by providing proprietary talent and introducing their founders to relevant industry experts.

VC Firm with a permanent, evergreen capital base investing in early-stage healthcare companies with line of sight to $1mm+ of ARR. They have a concentrated portfolio and a 20+ year track record of top-decile performance. Sopris prefers to be a first-check investor with the capacity to follow on.

Invests in products we love, people, crazy, dreams, design, details, brains, reality, unreality, reinvention, new markets, weird stuff, guts, independence, hustle, distinction, art, humanness, idealists, oddities, optimism, communities, creation, surprises, technologists with the heart of an artist, each other.

the first Nordic venture capital company focused on the learning sector. invests in teams transforming early childhood, K12, higher, secondary, and vocational education as well as corporate and lifelong learning. geographical home field in Europe, but also selectively do investments outside the region. invests from seed to international growth phase with single investments up to €5m. Looking for founders that can deliver better learning outcomes, increased access, improved process efficiency, or actionable insight from data Edtech Specialist VC from Finland, portfolio of 15 early-stage companies from Australia to Finland, from Spain to Germany.

VC firm supporting the world's best health tech founders.

Multi-stage investment firm that focuses on consumer businesses.

Aims to generate world-class investment returns over the long term in a way that makes our partners and portfolio companies proud, as they build a unique, global investment platform.

Toba Capital is an early-stage investment firm committed to helping create incredible technology companies. They look for businesses capable of long-term growth and teams with the potential to fundamentally shift markets for the common good.

Tribeca works with NY companies seeking Series A funding. They work closely with industry leaders and the community to build and grow the NY Tech ecosystem. Tribeca is selective and only invests in 5-6 companies per year.

Early-stage venture capital firm based in NYC, focused on investing in technology startups operating in highly-regulated markets.

Two Sigma Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in companies run by highly driven people.

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth-capital, late stage, and startup financing.

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

Early-stage climate tech fund focusing on electricity, mobility, buildings, and embodied carbon.

Waverley Capital is a US-based venture capital firm focused on investing in and helping build category-defining companies in the $1T+ global media, entertainment and sports ecosystem.

They have a pretty straightforward due diligence--Series of meetings with investment team, diligence / data requests, reference calls, and a decision.

They support founders in numerous ways, whether or not we are the largest check, a formal board member, or even a lead investor.

Our team has decades of experience both investing and operating in the media, entertainment and sports sectors which brings a wealth of knowledge to help founders building in those spaces.

Moreover, as our LP base is primarily comprised of current and former C-level executives and board members of the world's largest media & technology companies, we leverage this 'extended team' to bring differentiated advantage for our founders. This can include pre-investment diligence, board membership, founder mentorship, strategic investment, and BD / M&A collaborations.

NYC-based healthtech VC firm investing across medical technologies and digital health

Oren Zeev's solo GP fund built with the idea of combining the best of both the VC and angel investing worlds.

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.

IVP grows breakout companies into enduring market leaders.

They are engaged VC partners, but their guidance is focused on when and where it counts. It’s about expertise in moments that matter, answering your call as a counselor and confidant. It’s about bolstering the functions that make or break a business to ensure we make yours a success. It’s about being your compass on the winding path to market leadership. And about celebrating the milestones along the way.

While IVP's investment track record is four decades strong, their focus is on the horizon. From emerging to enduring market leadership, they look out so you can look ahead. Undaunted.