Investors in United States

FusionX Ventures is an early-stage investment fund focused on helping companies build the next generation of cloud-enabled Smart Machines. The investment theme focuses on startups with products that fuse hardware, software and cloud (IoT) that include a recurring revenue stream. The firm help companies reduce execution risk by combining go-to-market experience and advisor network with design, manufacturing, and program management. The firm has a partnership with D&K Engineering, who specializes in class-leading product realization.

The Duchossois Group is a privately held, family-owned company with holdings in the consumer products, technology and service sectors. The firm seeks to build its companies by providing management support, capital resources and a long-term commitment to growth in value. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Elmhurst, Illinois. It seeks to acquire other companies that make access control equipment, various tools needed by the manufacturing industries and other products that are required by the automation markets.

Airlie Group is an investment advisor based in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm provides its services to pooled investment vehicles. Airlie Opportunity Capital Management (AOCM), an investment advisor and its affiliates make up the Airlie Group. The group serve as the investment advisers to a diverse group of funds and managed accounts, investing in high yield, bank debt, mezzanine securities and private equity. The assets of the firm are managed by the executive management team.

Provider of professional, interdisciplinary work space and support to entrepreneurs working in emerging technologies, and a pioneering resource for new tech, new hardware, and new manufacturing in New York City. The company provides facilities designed to support entrepreneurs working in emerging technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence and connected devices. The company offers design, prototyping and new manufacturing technologies for advanced robotics, nanotechnology, physical computing and the built environment.

Volta Global is a private investment firm with investment activities in venture capital, private equity, real estate and public markets. The investment philosophy of the firm is guided by its permanent capital base. It primarily seeks to invest across a variety of industries and throughout the entire capital structure of a company. The firm actively invest across stages of the typical venture capital fundraising cycle from seed through series A, B and C financing rounds. It was established in 2015 and is based in Miami, Florida.

HEDCO provides small business clientele with access to capital needs that would be otherwise un-met or under-served. We also provide hope and opportunity for people to realize their dream businesses, create financial freedom and contribute to their communities through job creations and needed services. HEDCO is not just a lending institution, we care about you, your dream and your business. HEDCO offers small business and non-profit organizations flexible and affordable loan options that fit their needs: Amounts up to $150,000.

Park City Angels (PCA) is the largest and most active angel investment group in Utah. We are a group of accredited investors based in Utah's Wasatch Back who provide early-stage capital for high growth companies in Utah and the surrounding Mountain West Area.Our investors make their own investment decisions and are not guided by restrictive limited partner agreements. We often invest in companies that are overlooked by venture capital. Our members gladly provide mentorship, connections, and industry expertise to entrepreneurs.

SteelSky Ventures invests in companies that improve access, care and outcomes in women’s health. Our focused thesis is driven by the belief that women’s healthcare is a global market opportunity, in the nascent stage, that is primed for exponential growth driven by technological and business model innovation in established and new categories. We invest across the spectrum of women’s health in consumer health, digital health, new healthcare delivery models, ePharmacy and retail therapeutics, with 16 portfolio companies to date.

Battle Born Venture is a venture capital program, overseen by the Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development under the auspices of the US Treasury's State Small Business Credit Initiative. Battle Born makes equity and equity-like investments in early stage, high-growth Nevadan enterprises in the aerospace and defense, agriculture, energy, healthcare, information technology, logistics and operations, manufacturing, mining, tourism, gaming and water sectors. The firm was founded in 2013 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Panoramic Ventures opens new doors for founders, giving more entrepreneurs access to capital to build leading tech companies. We are building on our decades of experience as founders and investors to support underserved geographies and overlooked founders. “Minority founders and minority influencers have a competitive advantage and so if investors are overlooking that, they’re really overlooking the people that are going to drive the next generation of technology growth,” says angel investor and Managing Partner Paul Judge.

Solidarity Microfinance provides a supportive and collaborative environment empowering low-income individuals to grow their small businesses and take the first steps towards creating a financially stable future for their families. We provide the tools to help people become small business owners through loans, training, and savings services. Our program and services are based on a high level of trust, respect, and integrity. Solidarity Microfinance is a program of Iowa Community Capital, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization.

The Ballast Fund is a Edwards, Colorado based venture capital firm. The firm invests in selected opportunities across an array of asset classes, including early stage start-up, private equity and public equities. It invests primarily in early stage or start-up information technology, software (Ballast Venture Fund), clean energy and water related companies where Ballast Fund partners can play role in helping grow, finance and guide the entity. Ballast Venture Fund (BVF) is the early-stage investment arm of The Ballast Fund.

VentureClash is managed by Connecticut Innovations, which provides ongoing support for early-stage technology companies, grants that support innovation and collaboration, and connections to its well-established network of partners and professionals. It is a global business competition which also includes access to a critical network of customers, investors, mentors and talent. It aims to speed digital health, fin-tech, insure-tech and IoT innovations to market by awarding capital to the most promising early-stage companies.

Acorn Innovestments is an angel investment and real estate management firm. The company's investment focus is on start-ups and early stage companies with special attention given to manufacturing, environmental technology and advanced materials, in addition to other areas in which we can contribute strong strategic value. The company's real estate focus is primarily industrial in nature and is centered on helping property owners through property development, owner representation during construction, and property management.

E²JDJ is an early stage venture capital fund based in New Orleans, LA. The fund invests in talented founders who are creating novel technology or science solutions focused on food and agriculture across the value chain that improve the quality, resilience and sustainability of the food system. E²JDJ focuses on scalable, high growth and early-stage businesses that promote human health, lower global energy consumption, reduce the environmental impact of the industry, and leverage technology to materially impact productivity.

Mr. Raj Kulkarni serves as a Software industry entrepreneur and executive with broad experience in various aspects of software business. Direct experience in working with early stage companies from startup through M&A. Active angel investor and advisor to startupsSpecialties:Strategic business planning, venture capital relationships, technology platform development including off-shoring, business and financial accountability, and corporate leadership. He serves as Advisor and Board Member AppwoRx (Mobile Health Solutions).

Gray Matters Capital an impact investing firm which actively invests in sustainable, replicable business models that benefit underserved populations in developing countries. It places major emphasis on co-creating value with partners: social businesses, entrepreneurs, and other impact investors. It operates for -profit models that alleviate poverty, promote the dignity of human rights, and enhance the quality of education for low-income communities around the world. It was founded in 2006 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Hopi Credit Association is a Community Development Financial Institution located on the Hopi Reservation in Northeast Arizona, which aims to enhance the quality of life by providing lending, financial education and training opportunities for Hopi Senom to become informed consumers. There are four types of loans offered through the Credit Association, including personal, business, home construction/improvement, and mobile home. Hopi Credit Association also provides financial and business education development services.

Imagen Capital Partners, based in Seattle, Washington and Park City, Utah, is a venture capital fund focused on investing in early-stage technology companies and businesses. The firm seeks to invest predominantly in seed and series A rounds across the technology spectrum. Its team of entrepreneurs has a track record in building entrepreneurial companies and seeks to leverage this industry knowledge to work with entrepreneurs who seek to innovate, challenge and fundamentally change the dynamics of new and existing markets.

The Nebraska Enterprise Fund supports underserved communities by providing micro and small businesses with access to training, technical assistance and capital. Today, NEF provides loan capital to businesses and programs across Nebraska. In addition to offering direct loans to businesses from $5,000 to $150,000, NEF collaborates with other lending programs or financial institutions when gap financing is needed. NEF offers Business Acumen Training a 5 week program. NEF has staff in Omaha, Oakland, North Platte and Norfolk.

Mr. Jonathan Shambroom is a veteran operator and serial entrepreneur. He has over 20 years of experience in Bay Area consumer tech startups building products, teams, and managing companies. His eight companies include five exits and span a variety of industries: Travel (Switchfly, ZOZI), Social (Ning, Tagged, Evite), Video (Crackle), and Events (When.com). Jonathan has also started his own energy bar company (ZEGO) and is an active angel investor and advisor. Jonathan received his BA in English from Connecticut College.

Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 in San Francisco, with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive. We do this by crowdfunding loans and unlocking capital for the underserved, improving the quality and cost of financial services, and addressing the underlying barriers to financial access around the world. Through Kiva’s work, students can pay for tuition, women can start businesses, farmers are able to invest in equipment, and families can afford needed emergency care.

NYU Summer Launchpad is a 10-week startup accelerator program launched every year and is based in New York, New York. It is an intensive program that guides startup ventures through the very difficult stage of early customer development. It provides startup teams with resources, personalized instruction, guidance, and connections to increase the likelihood of success. Participating teams learn about lean startup principles using techniques for testing hypotheses and experimentation as they develop their business models.

Trinity Capital Investment is a provider of venture loans and equipment leases to early, expansion and later stage technology companies. The firm works closely with venture capital firms, technology banks and their respective portfolio companies to provide insightful and competitive venture debt financing services to address the client's specific needs. It specializes in the areas of senior venture loans, subordinated term debt, equipment lease line of credit, fixed asset financing and refinancing existing venture debt.

Mr. Doug Maine serves as Advisor at AnchorFree. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of IBM and before that as the Chief Financial Officer of MCI. At IBM he became founding general manager of IBM.com in 2000, and general manager of the consumer products industry division in 2003 and retired in 2005. He is currently a Limited Partner with the Wall Street firm of Brown Brothers Harriman and serves on the board of directors of three public and three private companies including software companies BroadSoft and Telarix.

Mr. Sam Zaid is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Getaround. He is a 2008 Microsoft Code Award winner, an E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year 2009, a Google Scholarship recipient and alumni of the Singularity University Graduate Studies Program in artificial intelligence and robotics. He is an active member of the technology community, and a co-founder of Fresh Founders, a club for young technology entrepreneurs. He holds a degree in Engineering Physics with First-Class Distinction from Queen's University.

For more than 40 years, our mission has been to support business owners through loans and business technical assistance in South Dakota. We continue this tradition today with affordable business financing. Statewide South Dakota lender; finance new and existing businesses; real estate, equipment, inventory and working capital. Terms and conditions: Loan amounts typically range from $500-$250,000. The term is based on collateral. Inquire about current interest rates. Will partner with a bank to provide joint financing.

InnoBridge Capital Management was an investment firm that focused on post-angel rounds, seed stage deals and preferred to invest in companies that are ready to shift from product prototype stage and into potential customer engagement stage. The firm preferred to invest in emerging technology companies that leverage the innovation in the United States with outsourced implementations in countries such as China and India, and can potentially develop, produce, and reach $1M - $3M in revenue or break-even within 2-3 years.

BrightPath Capital Partners is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm focused on companies providing sustainable solutions with social impact. It seeks to generate positive environmental, social and community impact. The firm seeks to invests in the clean technology, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, healthy food and wellness sectors. The firm primarily focuses on late-stage venture and growth stage companies based in the United States. It was founded in 2010 and based in Oakland, California.

Springbank is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City. We invest in the infrastructure serving the long-overlooked needs of women and working families. It’s a $1 trillion opportunity hiding in plain sight. The companies and founders we back are building the tools, products, and services that define the future of inclusive work, the new care economy, and the next wave of financial progress for families. Investments include Dandi, Guaranteed, Daivergent, Little Otter, Carefull, Wellthy and more.

Terra Accelerator is a food and agriculture technology accelerator, launched by Rabobank Group and RocketSpace in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. It offers an eight week curriculum program and San Francisco RocketSpace campus with an access to a commercial kitchen for the startups. Additionally, it focuses on the food e-commerce, food science, biological and biochemicals, irrigation and water, B2B solutions, soil and crop technology, precision engineering and decision support technology segments.

Aperture Venture Capital is a seed stage venture firm that invests in startups leveraging financial innovation to help people and businesses thrive. We believe financial innovation will pave the way to a more inclusive economy. Backed by global powerhouse partners we’re building one of the most impactful portfolios in venture capital. Through a unique engagement model with our LPs, Aperture portfolio companies have access to the resources and capabilities that can supercharge their growth and ultimate outcomes.

Kolohala Ventures, founded in 2006, is an early-stage venture capital firm committed to investing in Hawaii companies. It believes that Hawaii is extremely well positioned to become the "green lab of the Pacific." Hawaii has strategic advantages in specific sectors: Renewable Energy, Life and Ocean, IT, Media/Film, and Kolohala is positioned to exploit these advantages. Hawaii's economy, environment, public policy, and investment community are converging to create a promising new hot spot for "green" investing.

RareBreed Ventures is a pre-seed fund that invests in exceptional founders outside of large tech ecosystems, earlier than everyone else. Unlike other pre-seed funds, RareBreed takes a concentrated portfolio approach by writing checks of up to $250K as the first or one of the first investors. We feel that some entrepreneurs are building products and serving communities that many traditional VCs do not understand - or are not willing to understand. This leads to many missed opportunities to fund great companies.

DukeGEN is one of the top organizations supporting entrepreneurship on Duke's campus.Started in 2008, they run over 30 events a year including the Elevator Pitch Competition, the Duke Start-Up Challenge, the DukeGEN Startup Speaker Series (formerly Entrepreneurship Education Series), the DukeGEN Start-Up Showcase Events, and the multi-city DukeGEN Networking Events. DukeGEN has over 6,000 members from Duke's entrepreneurial community and supports students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and friends of Duke.

Townsend Ventures is a privately held investment company primarily investing in emerging technologies that focus on the energy sector. The firm is actively engaged in developing technologies and products related to maximizing energy efficiency for use in advanced fuel efficient vehicles, smart grid energy management applications, and the power electronics industry. It also maintains their own real estate portfolio - a diverse mix of office, warehouse, industrial, research, institutional and healthcare space.

Mr. Ott Kaukver serves as Vice President of Engineering at Twilio. Mr. Kaukver also serves as an Advisor for various companies. Previously he served as the Head of Engineering of Core Technology at Skype, where he built the engineering team from scratch to 300 members in just three years. Prior to this he served as the General Manager of Software Development at Helmes. He received his MBA in general management from INSEAD and his BA in international business administration from the Estonian Business School.

Pontaq is a Cross Border Innovation Fund investing in early stage technology businesses across UK, India, USA and Canada. Pontaq specializes in cross pollination of technology between these geographies and beyond, unlocking significant value for both its investee companies and its investors. Pontaq is headquartered in the UK and has been operational since 2015. Pontaq is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.

Troy Capital Partners is a new venture and strategic opportunities fund investing in emerging companies primarily in Southern California, co-investing with top venture capital firms. It specializes in seed, early stage and later stage venture investments. TCP prefers to invest in companies operating in the entertainment, technology, aerospace, engineering, social media, mobile, textile and gaming sectors. The firm is based in Santa Monica, California and has an additional office in Los Angeles, California.

The BREW is a mentor-driven seed accelerator focused on startups that address global challenges in freshwater. The fund will be selecting six early stage water technology startups to participate in a 6-month accelerator program, which is designed to accelerate commercialization of products or services by providing a network of mentors, investors, and an entrepreneurial training program. Each startup that is selected will receive a grant of $50,000 and placement in the state of the art Global Water Center.

Entrepreneurs and Queen City Angels work together to create and scale thriving businesses. To achieve goals. To realize dreams. Queen City Angels’ investors are Greater Cincinnati business leaders including former CEOs and founders of successful companies. These men and women are eager to provide expertise, mentoring and coaching as well as funding to emerging companies. Their guidance includes assistance with business development, strategic planning, raising capital and building strong management teams.

Chartline Capital Partners is a minority equity investor committed to helping boards, investors, and management teams realize the full potential value of venture-backed companies. The firm invests in digital health, digital industrials, retail analytics, communications infrastructure and food supply chain sectors. The firm does not invest in the real estate, B2C, social, fintech, material science and therapeutic sectors. The firm is a spin-out of yet2Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of yet2.

At Gateway Capital, we aim to be the preferred investment partner to young startups by making venture capital as simple and transparent as possible. At Gateway Capital, we understand that it can be difficult for entrepreneurs to execute on great ideas without capital, including human capital. Which is why we invest at the earliest of stages. The intent is to assist entrepreneurs with achieving early traction by providing pre-seed or seed capital, as well as access to much-needed resources and networks.

Lean Launch Ventures (LLV) was founded with the mission to create and deliver an accelerator curriculum for entrepreneurs based on the Lean LaunchPad methodology developed by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf.LLV is developing a range of programs for mentoring and investing in early stage startups and advising large enterprises on innovation.LLV is also the vehicle through which the principals are raising and managing capital to make investments in the companies that will be accelerated through LLV initiatives.

New Silk Route Partners is an private equity and growth capital firm which focuses on financing companies based in Asia and the Middle East. The firm seeks to invest in the consumer and financial services, specialty retail, education, infrastructure, logistics, telecommunication, media, manufacturing, e-commerce, engineering, information technology, medical devices, restaurant chains, food and beverages, manufacturing, renewable energy sectors. It was founded in 2006 and is based in New York, New York.

With 82% of Americans living in cities, and two-thirds of the world’s population urbanizing by 2050, there is a growing number of challenges facing urban dwellers. The Urban Innovation Fund invests in startups enhancing the livability, sustainability, and economic vitality of our cities. We invest in the following verticals: transportation, energy and water, real estate tech, the future of work and edtech, business services and fintech, health and public safety, govtech and civic tech, and food systems