Pre-seed investors
Firms that report investing at pre-seed — with the sector focus, cheque range and headquarters currently held for each. A firm spanning several stages appears on each hub it answers.
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BlueRun Ventures
Mr. Jonathan Ebinger serves as General Partner at BlueRun Ventures. He was also a Board Member at SaveUp. He focuses on communications, social commerce, and mobility opportunities. He also serves as Board Member at Coupa and Kabbage. His experiences include Vice President of Marketing at Qwest Communications, and senior level positions at Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions and MCI Communications. In addition, Jonathan founded and successfully exited Simply Savings, an Internet shopping service. He received his M.B.A. from Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, and holds a B.S. in Finance from Virginia Tech.
Yukon Capital Services Private Limited
Yukon Capital is an investment banking firm operating across geographies utilizing its offices in Singapore, Delhi, Mumbai, & Dubai. Yukon's Team has a strong record of raising more than USD 500 million annually across its offices globally. Yukon is considered sector and stage agnostic as they are managing Buy-side & sell- side mandates in consumer, healthcare, technology, media, logistics, & real estate. Yukon is helping ventures achieving their financing rounds from seed to IPO documentation. Core Services: 1- Venture Capital & Private equity Financial advisory services & fundraising 2- Cross Border M&A 3- Management Consulting Services.
Harvard Business Alumni Angels of Greater New York
Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater NY is an angel group that prefers to invest in seed and early stage companies based in the New York. The firm seeks to invest in the biotechnology, business product, clean technology, computer, peripheral, electronic, financial services, healthcare services, industrial, energy, internet, information technology service, marketing, advertising, media, entertainment, medical device, equipment, mobile, nanotechnology, networking, equipment, semiconductors, software, telecommunication, consumer product, education, fashion, real estate and legal sectors. Ii also provides mentorship service.
GE | OMD Incubator
Launched in the summer of 2011, the GE|OMD Incubator is an intensive 10-week program, inviting 16 of the brightest young entrepreneurs from select universities to work in New York City. The GE | OMD Incubator is focused on developing the next generation of founders to build companies from idea to launch.Located in the heart of Manhattan, the GE | OMD Incubator provides a space where accepted applicants will develop their ideas, learn from industry mentors and become entrenched in New York Citys startup scene. Additionallyparticipants will learn and meet with key marketing and advertising executives to help build their companies.
Zahn Center
The Zahn Innovation Center incubates and nurtures entrepreneurial initiatives at the City College of New York, providing students, faculty and staff with the tools they need to transform their ideas into sustainable ventures. They offer support for both technology-enabled startups and social impact ventures. Their goal is to train the next generation of entrepreneurs with the skills they need to succeed in their venture, a skill set that is increasingly valued and necessary in their modern economy. They also aim to contribute meaningful innovation and job creation to the local community, New York City and beyond.
Brook Venture Partners
Brook Venture Partners is a Wakefield, Massachusetts based private equity firm. The firm prefers to invest in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It focuses on information technology business, which includes healthcare IT systems for both hospital and private practice environments, business productivity software and data intensive businesses in fields such as CRM, business intelligence and IT security. Additionally, the firm's industry focus includes tech-enabled service businesses, including data driven marketing services, loyalty marketing and other IT intensive service businesses.
SenaHill Partners
SenaHill Partners through its subsidiaries; SenaHill Investment Group and SenaHill Advisors, provides two complementary services of principal investing and investment banking. SenaHill Investment Group invests in early stage ventures that are using technology to disrupt and improve the one trillion dollar financial services marketplace. SenaHill Advisors comprises of a group of senior level executives with advisory and operating experience who have founded, scaled, raised capital, purchased, integrated and sold financial and technology businesses. The firm was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.
The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship
Founded in 1987 in Revolution Mill, formerly a Cone Mills factory building, The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship, Inc. is a private non-profit corporation. Our mission is to enhance economic development in Greensboro and the surrounding area. To accomplish this, the NCFE operates a business incubator located in the heart of Greensboro.The incubator is designed to support non-retail, new or emerging businesses. The Center provides modestly priced office and light manufacturing space along with shared support services such as business counseling, a receptionist, copier, fax, mail boxes, and data entry.
Timberline Venture Partners
Timberline Venture Partners is a venture capital firm which specializes in early stage and start-up investments. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in the United States, operating in the biotechnology, business and consumer products, computer hardware, financial services, healthcare, IT services, industrial and energy products, media and entertainment, medical equipment, networking, retailing and distribution, semiconductors, software, telecommunications and real estate sectors. The firm is based in Woodland, Washington with additional offices in Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, Washington.
Velocity Equity Partners
Velocity Equity Partners is a venture capital firm investing in early stage companies primarily in the northeast region of United States. The firm seeks to invest in the enterprise software, communications infrastructure, wireless applications, niche vertical software applications, silicon and hardware technology, sensors, process control and applications of technologies to manufacturing processes and industrial products sectors. The firm was founded in 2000 by the merging of the two venture investment groups Velocity Capital and Corning Technology Ventures. The firm is located in Boston, Massachusetts.
Sports Innovation Lab
Sports Innovation Lab is a Boston-based athlete-driven business accelerator and also market research and advisory firm which uses data analysis to reveal stories that helps global partnerships among startups, investment capital firms and corporate influencers. The firm derives additional insights from a various network of international advisors across various industries and through strong partnerships with universities. It was founded in January 2017 and organizes, evaluates and recommends sports technology products and services that will power the future of sports innovation.
Sprint Accelerator
Sprint Accelerator is a three-month, immersive, mentorship-driven startup accelerator program based in Kansas City, Missouri. The program specializes in technology startups with a focus on the mobile and health sector including enterprise, big data, and mobile including wearable technology, patient care, animal health, wellness, health data, mobile diagnosis, sensor-driven devices and networks, socially enabled products focused on achieving personal goals, health tools interacting with mobile cameras, medication schedule apps, mobile apps that can diagnose, and big data tools.
Windward Ventures
Windward Ventures specializes in early stage companies but it does not invest in seed stage companies. The main focus of investment lies on industries such as information technology, communication and telecommunication, electronics, broadband technologies, optoelectronics, semiconductors, systems engineering, software, Internet infrastructure, data storage, and medical devices sectors. The firm invests in private companies based in Southern California from Santa Barbara to San Diego. The firm typically takes minority stake with board representation in its portfolio companies.
Mark Crane
The Sequel Fund is a early-stage seed fund that invests in young companies raising their first round of institutional capital. The fund welcomes companies from most industries including entertainment, manufacturing, food and beverage, health services, financial services, technology, entertainment, manufacturing, and consumer non-durables. Sequel Fund does not invest in FDA-regulated products. The fund invests in companies in Kentucky and lower Indiana. They require prospective companies to graduate from an Accelerator Program or to secure a lead investor on reasonable terms.
Founders Factory
Founders Factory NY is built for operators, by operators. In addition to funding startups, we roll up our sleeves to help our portfolio teams with everything spanning from product design to strategic scale opportunities. We’re always on the lookout for amazing hands-on operators who can join us in making a big impact on our portfolio companies. Work with our team and partners to go further, faster. We invest $100k and provide 6 months of bespoke operational support. We structure the deal as a SAFE and take 4%-7% equity, depending on the startup’s current valuation.
founders factory new york
Founders Factory NY is built for operators, by operators. In addition to funding startups, we roll up our sleeves to help our portfolio teams with everything spanning from product design to strategic scale opportunities. We’re always on the lookout for amazing hands-on operators who can join us in making a big impact on our portfolio companies. Work with our team and partners to go further, faster. We invest $100k and provide 6 months of bespoke operational support. We structure the deal as a SAFE and take 4%-7% equity, depending on the startup’s current valuation.
Buko Ventures
We are an impact focused venture capital firm actively deploying out of Fund I. Our founders have started airlines and insurance carriers, built companies that went on to have valuations over $1B and go public, and we've also run a top 99.6% fund globally (public equities, frontier markets). Seasoned operators and seasoned fund managers we've just entered VC as an asset class, and are excited to deploy capital backing strong founders in rapidly digitizing economies. Each of our investments has to show positive benefit to society and the people they are serving.
LAB353
LAB353 Accelerator is looking for the best and brightest leaders with big ideas in the Mobile, Cloud and IoT space. They will select 10 companies to join the Lab353 Accelerator programme. This is a unique opportunity for tech firms to establish or scale their operations in Europe and beyond. Companies in the programme will get access to top technology leaders and mentors from Silicon Valley and Ireland, access to markets and the chance to raise capital. Their goal is to help these top innovators achieve their dreams of turning the next big idea into reality.
T5 Capital
T5 Capital is an investment arm of Triple Five Corp which specializes in venture capital and private equity investments. It focuses on investing in early stage disruptive technology companies, control investments and buyouts of companies. It invests in the hospitality, development, high technology sectors, real estate, banking and financial services, retail, multimedia, bio-tech, internet, telecommunications, wireless, cable, computer software, e-commerce, fiber, networking and semiconductors. It is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada and was founded in 2011.
Designer Fund
The Designer Fund is an seed and early stage venture capital firm that primarily invests in startups co-founded by designers and build and educate through its professional development program named Bridge, that connects designers with startups and its community in San Francisco. It also organizes educational events, like the Designer Fair and Women in Design and content such as the Designer Founders book and infographic to distribute for public good and design students worldwide. The firm was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Day One Ventures
Day One Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs customer-obsessed companies and spearheads their communications. This enables the Day One team to become actively involved in its portfolio companies and play a real, tangible role in helping them grow. The firm invests across industries from pre-seed to seed, and occasionally Series A, and invests between $100k and $5 million. Day One Ventures was founded by Masha Drokova, who is an angel investor, entrepreneur, communications executive, and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree.
Armory Square Ventures
Armory Square Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage investments. It provides the first round of institutional capital for companies targeting the largest industries across New York State and northeast region in the United States. It prefers to invest in companies operating in the web, healthcare, education technology, fintech, energy software, mobile and technology-enabled service sectors. The firm was founded in 2014 and is based in Syracuse, New York with an additional office in New York, New York.
Battle Born Venture
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.
Acorn Innovestments
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
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.
AngelSpark
### AngelSpark is a community of builders, investors, executives, and other good humans supporting founders around the world. We invest from $100K and lead larger syndicates in exceptional founders at the earliest stages to help them launch new ideas, create new companies, go to market, and win first customers. ### We gather our entire investor community for monthly pitch nights. Founders selected to pitch will have an opportunity to tell us about their business, answer questions, and receive an answer on the _same day_.
NYU Summer Launchpad
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
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.
Terra Accelerator
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.
Robert J Robinson
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.
Duke Global Entrepreneurship Network
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.
RareBreed Ventures
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.
Lean Launch Ventures
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.
Urban Innovation Fund
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
Sunbridge Partners
SunBridge Partners is a venture capital firm that prefers to invest in early stage information technology enabled start up companies. It focuses to invest in the communication, manufacturing, material, semiconductor, component, equipment, cloud computing, wireless communications, e-commerce, open source, linux, clean technologies, enterprise software, digital media, business services, hardware, mobile, displays, aerospace, power, big data, internet systems, sensors, security and retail system sectors.
Thunderbird Angel Network
The Thunderbird Angel Network is an angel group founded in 2010 and headquartered in Glendale, Arizona. It primarily focuses on startup companies operating in the biotechnology, business Products, clean technology, computers and peripherals, consumer products, education, electronics, financial services, gaming, healthcare services, industrial energy, internet, web services, IT services, media and entertainment, networking and equipment, retailing, distribution, software and telecommunication sectors.
Brain Robotics Capital
Established in 2016, Brain Robotics Capital is a venture capital firm with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Santa Clara, California. It supports scientist-entrepreneurs across the board, building businesses based on groundbreaking scientific advances on the areas where it has technical expertise and business experience. The firm works with a number of incubators, accelerators, technology transfer offices, associations and corporations to bring radical science and technology into the economy.
Pivotal BioVentures
Pivotal bioVenture Partners is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California that invests in early stage biotechnology companies. Pivotal's philosophy is to go early and ground-breaking, with a focus on preclinical or pre-proof of concept therapeutics, from discovery through to phase 1 of clinical development and will be centered on life sciences in the United States and Europe. It was established in 2017 and was created by the Nan Fung Group, a Chinese property developer in Hong Kong.
Angelwise
Angelwise is een durfkapitaalfonds, gevestigd in België. Angelwise richt zich er vooral op om startups en jonge bedrijven maximaal te ondersteunen om ze naar een volgende fase in hun groei te begeleiden. De jarenlange ervaring van het team en de samenwerking met business angels zullen hierbij belangrijke en positieve factoren zijn. We zijn niet enkel op zoek naar de volgende unicorn, maar willen ook bouwen aan een ecosysteem van bedrijven dat de digitale transformatie van de maatschappij mee kan
Capital-A (Manjushree Capital Advisors)
Capital-A is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in manufacturing, deep tech, and climate. We back founders building from the ground up — from advanced hardware to other patient-capital businesses that demand conviction and time. Now deploying from its $50 million Fund II (Category II AIF), Capital-A combines a private-equity mindset with venture agility, partnering closely with founders to scale sustainably through deep operational expertise, industry networks, and a long-term commitm
CloudTree Ventures
CloudTree teams with the founders building the fundamental infrastructure that drives interactive experiences in leading-edge gaming, esports, AR/VR, and XR technologies. We believe “Interactive Entertainment” is a driving force of innovation in hardware, software, and media as the demand for innovative and intuitive experiences pushes the boundaries of existing technology. The proliferation of connected devices and mass digital media consumption has established a base of ‘always-on’ consumers w
EVIG Alfa
Fundusz CARLSON ASI EVIG Alfa został utworzony we współpracy z Carlson Ventures International LTD w celu inwestowania w projekty technologiczne na wczesnym etapie rozwoju, ukierunkowane na realizację prac badawczo-rozwojowych z potencjałem globalnej komercjalizacji. Carlson ASI EVIG Alfa Koncentruje się na kluczowych dla nowoczesnej gospodarki opartej na wiedzy branżach, ze szczególnym naciskiem na zagadnienia wykorzystujące elementy sztucznej inteligencji (AI) w takich branżach jak: FinTech , M
Fizzy Ventures
Fizzy Ventures partners with startups, corporations, and venture studios to turn bold ideas into transformative realities. At Fizzy Ventures, we believe in the power of creativity paired with strategic insight. We work alongside founders, corporate venture teams, and innovation leaders, offering a blend of operational, strategic, and financial support that accelerates progress and scales impactful solutions. Our experience bridges the gap between early-stage startup agility and corporate venture
Indo-Arab Angel Network
Indo-Arab Angels network is a common platform for Indo-Arab Startups & Investors for equal opportunity to invest in an excellent founding team and highly scalable business ideas from India and Arab countries. We are providing a great opportunity to raise early stage venture fund from most exciting investors of both countries and opportunity to expand your business globally. We promise our investors for a very curated strategically aligned startups, brilliant founders team and very highly scalabl
Longfield Invest GmbH
Als familiengeführte Beteiligungsgesellschaft investieren wir in Start-ups und junge Unternehmen mit marktverändernden Geschäftsmodellen. Wir legen ausdrücklich Wert auf Partner*innen mit unternehmerischer Denkweise, nachhaltigem Geschäftsethos und Freude an einer offenen, zielgerichteten Feedback- und Coachingkultur. Bei Interesse Ihrerseits an einem Kennenlernen und einer Vorstellung Ihres Vorhabens, freuen wir uns auf Ihre Kontaktaufnahme mit einer kurzen Übersicht zu Ihrer Geschäftsidee und
Mass Medical Angels
MA2 provides early stage funding to companies looking to raise between $250K to $3MM. Depending on the size of the investment, MA2 is willing to provide all or part of a round. We are willing to work closely with other angel groups or venture funds to ensure that the round is closed and a company adequately capitalized. We are looking for companies that are extremely capital efficient and where our funds will lead to significant step-ups in valuation (in part to avoid unfavorable future funding
Orange Corners Cairo
Entrepreneurship for a better world Orange Corners is an initiative of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs that provides young entrepreneurs across Africa, Asia and the Middle East with training, mentorship, network, funding and facilities to start and scale their businesses. We support innovative solutions to local challenges, that contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Together with our local and international partners, we support and strengthen local entrepreneurial ecosy
Slojo Investments LLC
Slojo Investments LLC is a non-registered, family investment entity. We are actively seeking new opportunities in fast growing, early stage companies. We seek to bridge the funding gap between start-up and institutional capital. Our investments provide capital but more importantly mentorship and advice to support the continued success of the entrepreneurs of fast growing companies. We consider opportunities across the United States, but have a focus in the Midwest. We do not manage outside capit