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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i.Lab at UVA
i.Lab at UVA is an incubator which supports the development and growth of seed and early-stage business ventures by providing funding, office space, legal, accounting service, mentorship, networking and access to investors. The firm was founded by the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.
1440 Accelerator
1440 Accelerator is an accelerator based in Nashville, Tennessee. The program is set to begin in September and will consist of an intensive 14-week process designed to accelerate the growth of up to 10 startups in the publishing industry. It will be launched by Ingram Content Group, which is a subsidiary of Nashville-based Ingram Industries.
AZ Digital Farm
AZ Digital Farm focuses investments on early stage technology companies in mobile commerce, mobile payment, online education, and digital signage sectors and acquisitions which compliment portfolio investments. In 2010 Robert Alpert formed AZ Digital Farm with Scott Hines and Mike Chadwick to underwrite technology start-ups and acquisitions.
Angel Street Capital
Angel Street Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. The firm invests in early stage companies operating in the internet radio, digital advertising system, audience data, analytic, local digital media, ad exchange, content management system, music management, distribution, social media and mobile sectors.
Claremont Creek Ventures
Claremont Creek Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in seed and early stage investments. The firm prefers to invest in companies operating in the energy technology, digital healthcare, financial technology, clean technology, e-commerce and life science sectors. The firm was founded in 2005 and is based in Oakland, California.
HTwenty Capital (formerly H20 Capital Innovation)
SubQ AI is building a new class of large language models powered by a subquadratic architecture that enables massively larger context windows, faster inference, and lower compute costs. Its flagship model, SubQ, is designed to process millions of tokens in a single pass, unlocking use cases across coding, search, and enterprise AI workflows.
Arkansas Institutional Fund (AIF)
The Arkansas Institutional Fund (AIF) works to build the state economy by increasing access to venture capital for innovative Arkansas businesses. Established in 2005, the AIF program is expected to result in over $420 million of equity, near equity, and debt capital for Arkansas businesses through its first and second rounds of investment.
Milestone Equities
Milestone Equities was an early-stage venture capital firm located in Austin, Texas. It provided entrepreneurs with capital financial and operational know-how. The firm mainly invested in the high-tech companies across numerous sectors, including software, communications, internet services and information technology. It was founded in 2000.
Village88 TechLab
Village88 tech lab is a high-tech startup accelerator that offers funding and engineering resources to help entrepreneurs. The firm works with up to five start-ups at a time, providing $10,000-$200,000 worth of engineering resources to build the product over a period of 3-6 months. It is based in Seattle, Washington and was founded in 2011.
10K Ventures
We are constantly inspired by relentless founders tackling big problems globally — intellectually curious about searching for massive opportunities driven by emerging technologies. That's why we decided to professionalize our investing side hustle via 10K Ventures: investing our own capital and time to back founders, funds, and businesses.
Charles Beeler
Rally Ventures is an early stage venture capital investment firm that prefers to invest in entrepreneurs and early stage startup companies. The firm focuses on investing in the cloud technology, business technology, infrastructure, software, mobile and security sectors. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)
Creative Destruction Lab helps innovators transition from science projects to high-growth companies. Its focus is as a seed-stage program with the goal of helping companies go through the transition phase from pre-seed to seed-stage funding. Thalmic Labs, Nymi, Charge Spot and Pet Bot are some examples of the companies that CDL works with.
Free Ventures
Free Ventures is a startup launchpad for Berkeley students, providing resources and a framework to build ideas for products or services into companies. It provides students with the right resources, motivation, workspace and mentoring programs to help them build better businesses. It was formed in 2012 and is based in Berkeley, California.
Goldfinch Investments (Private) Limited
Goldfinch Investments is an Investment & Advisory firm providing general corporate advisory, multi-industry business incubation and strategic development consulting services, as well as deployment of start-up and early-stage capital with a focus on Aquaculture, Sustainable Animal Feed Ingredients, and targeted Low Climate-impact Solutions.
LaunchCyte
LaunchCyte is a venture capital firm that specializes in incubation, seed, and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in life science technology with a focus on molecular tools and high-throughput systems for drug discovery and clinical diagnostics and industrials. It was founded in 2000 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Riverfront Ventures
Riverfront Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in companies in southwestern Pennsylvania. RFV seeks to invest in the information technology, life sciences, medical devices, healthcare IT, advanced electronics, robotics, energy, advanced materials, mobile applications and other technology-oriented companies.
True Growth Capital
Direct Investments We only invest at the earliest possible stage: at or before company foundation (“idea” or “angel” investment). We often lead investments or invest solo, but are equally happy to co-invest. Our initial ticket range is 100-500k EUR, with seven-digit follow-on capacity. We invest through a dedicated, committed fund vehicle.
Alabama Futures Fund
The Alabama Futures Fund (AFF) is a seed and early-stage venture capital fund focused on supporting and growing entrepreneurial activity and economic development in Alabama. The firm seeks to be the first significant investment in early-stage companies that can reach attainable milestones leading to series A financing within 12-24 months.
Houghton Street Ventures
We invest in London School of Economics entrepreneurs. We focus on investing in the best of the alumni, students and faculty of the London School of Economics and Political Science. LSE entrepreneurs have collectively raised over $30bn in venture capital, and they are just getting started. We are here to support them on their journey. […]
Jonomi Ventures
Jonomi Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets particularly Middle East, Africa and Asia. We focus on identifying and partnering with entrepreneurs and innovators with a view to building disruptive growth companies. We invest in companies where we can play an active role to drive funding beyond funding.
NewDo Venture
NewDo Venture is a venture capital firm headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut and was founded in 2015. The firm specializes in seed, early stage and later stage investments. It seeks to invest in the technology, business service, cloud computing, enterprise software, consumer service, SaaS, e-commerce, mobile and network device sectors.
Koan Capital Corp.
Koan AgTech Fund Canada’s Dedicated AgTech Rolling Fund: Investing in Impactful Early-stage AgTech Startups Purpose Backing early stage start-ups that are creating solutions in agriculture that improve agriculture and the environment, increasing productivity and overall value of food products. Learn More We cannot solve our problems with
Youngstown Business Incubator
Youngstown Business Incubator was an incubator which helped accelerate technology enabled businesses by providing a wide range of services such as internet access, telephony, video conferencing connections, learning labs, promotional equipments, conference rooms and parking. The firm was founded in 1995 and was based in Youngstown, Ohio.
Cornitatus Pty Ltd
Cornitatus Pty Ltd (ACN 653 259 191) (Cornitatus) is a small boutique style investment company looking out for opportunities in helping start up companies with unique ideas. Located in Western Australia, our objective is to help you get your project off the ground by providing investment in your project and participate as a stakeholder.
New Horizons Venture Capital
New Horizons Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that prefers to invest in early stage start-up companies based in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The firm seeks to invest in the software applications and service, enabling technology and tool, communication infrastructure and wireless application and service sectors.
Small World Group
Small World Group is an incubator that seeks to invest in the clean technology, manufacturing, mobile, security, life sciences, healthcare, energy, environment, agriculture, communications and information technology industries. The firm was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Singapore.
Target Technology Incubator
The Target Technology Incubator ,located Orono, Maine was developed in 2002 by the Bangor Target Area Development Corporation in partnership with the University of Maine, the state of Maine and the town of Orono. The firm offers workshops and seminars, business planning, coaching, office space and training services to startup companies.
ah! Ventures Fund
ah! Ventures Angel Fund shall focus on investments in Early stage, Pre-Series A Start-ups with GLOCAL ambitions. We are a SEBI registered Category I AIF-VCF-Angel Fund with a target corpus of ₹ 100 crore (~USD 14 million) and a green shoe option of up to ₹ 50 crore (~USD 6 million). The Fund aims to invest ₹ 3-5 crores in each Start-up.
ABRT-Mangrove CEO Camp
ABRT-Mangrove CEO Camp is an accelerator that provides ten weeks of intensive work in Saint Petersburg and the Silicon Valley for Chief Executive Officer and founder of information technology companies from Russia, CIS countries and Europe. The result will be an increase in sales, new customers and partners in the international market.
Angeli Parvi
Angeli parvi is a group of industry leaders who mentor Dartmouth entrepreneurs by guiding development of business plans and strategies. The group also provides a link to the venture capital community so that new entrepreneurs can secure funding to support prototype development, market testing and analysis, and travel for presentations.
Inman Incubator
Inman Incubator is the launchpad for innovative real estate companies, technology start-ups, brokerages, agents, service providers and mortgage lenders. The incubator provides yearlong mentoring, $100,000 of in-kind promotion and valuable connections and resources for promising companies, brokers and agents in the real estate industry.
Sukuma Ventures
Our VC model adapts to the unique challenges and opportunities in Africa. Simultaneously, our accelerator program tailors support to the specific needs of early-stage startups focussed on fintech for everyday practical use. We actively engage with local ecosystems, communities, and work to understand the nuances that drive innovations.
Structure Fund
Structure Fund is a venture capital firm focused on investing in seed to institutional stage start-ups within the technology, media and real estate sectors. Additionally the firm seeks to provide strategic advisory, operational consulting, fundraising guidance, deal negotiation, business development and executive recruitment services.
idealab ny
Idealab Arizona is a startup studio, focused on the earliest stages of a company's creation— from idea to establishing product market fit. We look for big problems in the world to solve. We then co-found companies with extraordinary entrepreneurs to turn the most impactful and commercially promising solutions into thriving businesses.
Athenian Venture Partners
Athenian Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the information technology, healthcare and digital health sectors. The firm prefers to invest in early stage companies based in the Midwest, Southeast and Southern California. It provides support, strategic guidance and assist each business throughout its life cycle.
Jado Investments
Jado Investments is a family office focused on seed and early stage equity investments in innovative business ideas. The firm prefers to invest in companies operating in the internet and digital media, mobile, life science, industrial technologies and real estate sectors. It was founded in 2010 and is based in Dana Point, California.
Startup Basecamp
Financing the Industrial Renaissance with Legacy 🌍 The capital markets platform built for Family Offices seeking to invest in equity and infrastructure opportunities alongside leading US & EU funds. Our mission is to help families build lasting legacies—by accessing curated investments that align global returns with long-term impact.
Xandex Investments
Xandex Investments is an investment arm of Xandex which operates as a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and seed investments. It prefers to invest in companies based in Bay Area and San Francisco operating in the medical products and digital service sectors. It was founded in 2005 and is based in Petaluma, California.
makesense SEED
Trop nombreux sont les projets qui rencontrent des difficultés à construire leurs fonds propres, c’est pourquoi makesense se positionne sur la phase de pré amorçage et d’amorçage afin de financer des projets visionnaires qui s’attaquent à des problèmes pressants et qui ont pour ambition d’avoir un impact significatif sur la société.
Harvard innovation lab
Harvard innovation lab is an incubator that provides co-working space, private workshops, industry roundtables, mentorship and private events. The firm has a venture incubation program of 12 week designed to help students make progress on their entrepreneurial ventures. It was founded in 2011 and is based in Allston, Massachusetts.
RedWave Ventures
Redwave Venture Partners is a private investment firm empowering founders through our unparalleled network. We provide added-value capital across four domains of sports, tech, entertainment and consumer good companies. Fueling the growth of innovation, we are dedicated in investing and empowering tomorrow's game changing companies.
VentureWell
VentureWell is a non-profit accelerator headquartered in Hadley, Massachusetts. The firm supports the creation of new ventures from an emerging generation of science and technology inventors and supports the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems. It currently invests in startups that have completed its E-Team training program.
Angel Dough Ventures
Angel Dough Ventures is an accelerator based in New York. The firm works with start-ups and early-stage companies in the consumer products and services, e-commerce and web apps, online media and marketing, social mobile commerce, natural and organic products, health and beauty products, overseas sourcing and manufacturing sectors.
Fresh Source Capital
Established in 2013, Fresh Source Capital is a Cambridge, Massachusetts based equity investment firm focused on the sustainable food and agriculture. The firm provides alternative financing options, including debt and royalty instruments, as well as traditional equity to growth-stage companies with a focus on the Northeast region.
TTV Capital
TTV Capital is a venture capital firm which invests in technology-enabled financial services businesses that serve the varied needs of the financial services sector and the consumers of financial products. Within this industry, the firm prefers to invest in the banking, payments, capital markets, data analytics and security areas.
Unreasonable Capital
Unreasonable Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Boulder, Colorado that specializes exclusively in emerging markets focused on issues related to endemic poverty: working in the healthcare, education, clean-energy, and financial inclusion, innovations in agriculture and artisan-driven fashion. It was founded in 2016.
100K Ventures
100K Ventures is a for-profit accelerator group that will invest in early-stage companies who receive a high assessment from the 100K Ideas pipeline. 100K Ideas provides a helping hand in business development to anyone regardless of their prior experience or background, while ranking the business viability throughout the process.
Cyclotron Road Berkeley
Our program empowers entrepreneurial scientists to take their innovation to impact by offering them knowledge, resources, and connections through a world-class fellowship. Fellows have launched companies across sectors like AI, energy, biomanufacturing, and critical materials that drive innovation and address societal challenges.