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Brightventures

New York, US

Bright Ventures Fund I invests up to $1M each in Pre Seed and Seed-stage venture in fin-tech, digital health and the future of work. Our expertise is Inclusive Innovation: identifying and scaling ventures that have inclusion as a market-winning competitive advantage.Bright Ventures’ fund is supported by a broader platform launched in 2014. The Bright Ventures Platform is an Inclusive Innovation Strategy Group, which delivers executive coaching, strategic advisory services, and training programs for founders, investors and operators globally. It is the premiere partner for leveraging inclusion as a competitive advantage in the innovation economy. Bright Ventures Fund I applies a thematic focus on inclusion using our proprietary Inclusive Innovation framework to invest in the teams and companies in fintech, digital health, and the future of work. Ventures in this category have innovative leaders, teams, and products that drive alpha in markets with massive TAM, serve overlooked consumers and win institutional partners. We use our proven expertise in sourcing, scaling and evaluating inclusive ventures to see early signals that others miss.

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Pittsburgh, US

http://btn.vc/ is a seed-stage venture platform targeting first-quartile returns by leading investments nationally in high-impact software companies (i.e., with potential for multi-$100m exits). Favored sectors include edtech, fintech, healthtech, climate change, and culture-based markets. We are very intentional about broadening access to capital markets: all our founder/CEOs are diverse (75% Black, 75% Women, others Latinx, Asian). Our partners have decades of venture experience managing multiple funds, building companies worth over $19b. Our fund team is largely diverse (85% Black, 60% Women). We are generally first institutional investors in our companies, leading/co-leading seed rounds of about $2m-$3m at valuations in the $5m-$15m range. Companies should run on this capital for 18-24 months, generating about $1m in revenue. We’ll then help them secure up-round follow-on financing to fuel growth from our network of over 100 co-investors (over $4b to date).

Aligned Partners

Los Altos, US

We are a team of venture capitalists who are obsessively focused on alignment with founders. Everything we do at Aligned Partners centers around enabling great outcomes for our founders and investors. To do so, we have crafted an investment approach that uniquely serves the needs of capital-efficient companies. In particular, we believe that: - Aligning the interests of founders and investors works better for everyone. When we’re all pulling the oars in the same direction, we can accomplish great things with fewer obstacles. - Higher efficiency yields higher returns. Entrepreneurship is, at its essence, about resourcefulness. Companies that achieve their goals in a resource-efficient manner provide high value to their founders and investors alike. - Sustainable growth is a side effect of creating real value for customers. Great companies deeply understand their customers and offer them exceptional, targeted value propositions.

Ansa

New York, US

Ansa is a New York-based venture capital fund on a mission to empower operators as they scale their businesses from early venture to early growth. Building on our past experiences as partners to market-defining companies such as Coinbase, CrowdStrike, EverlyHealth, FanDuel, Kindbody, Ro (Dadi), and Peloton, we are committed to investing in new markets and distribution models across software and internet. As a firm, we’ve built an authentically diverse team - formerly of Google, TCV, Glossier, Silversmith, M33, The Chernin Group, Lead Edge, and KKR - who share strong cultural values centered around community, collaboration, and thesis-driven investing. We operate as a true partnership and make a small number of high-conviction, thesis-driven investments each year, primarily investing $5-30M into Series A and B businesses. Our ambition is to be your most aligned, impactful partner. Find out more at http://ansa.co/.

Newark Venture Partners

Newark, US

Mr. Thomas Wisniewski serves as a Managing Partner at Newark Venture Partners. He is a veteran of the NYC-area venture and accelerator scene. He previously founded RosePaul Ventures which has a portfolio of 20+ tech start-ups and investments in notable venture funds such as Greycroft Ventures, ff Venture Capital, ER Accelerator. Notable investments include Pond5, LiveLOOK (acquired by Oracle), Kanvas (acquired by AOL). Tom has an MBA from Dartmouth and a BA in Physics from Clark University. He also serves as Board Member at New York Angels.

Signet Healthcare Partners

New York, US

We invest in commercial-stage healthcare companies that are revenue generating or preparing for commercial launch. We focus primarily on the pharmaceutical and medical devices sectors. Signet is an active investor and partners closely with management teams to support growth and build successful businesses. During our 25-year history, we have developed a strong reputation and track record of successful investments. We have raised funds with total capital commitments of over $600 million and have