Seed investors
Firms that report investing at 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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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.
TA Ventures
TA Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, backing companies in Europe and North America at seed and Series A, alongside high-profile co-investors, across a wide range of tech sectors. We offer proactive support and a broad international network to our portfolio companies. By supporting with the set-up of R&D centers in Ukraine and Europe, we help our portfolio companies grow and stay competitive. TA Ventures is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.
Buckhill Capital LP
Buckhill Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct and fund of fund investing. Within direct investing, we invest in middle market, turnaround, emerging growth and late venture stages. We invest in industry consolidation, recapitalization, buyout, growth capital transactions typically ranging from $5M-$100M. Within fund of fund investing, we invest in various PE/VC funds, mezzanine funds, turn around funds, real estate funds, hedge funds and secondary investing. We have invested in over eighty companies and twenty funds.
HubSpot Ventures
Mr. Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer at HubSpot. He also serves as Mentor at Rough Draft Ventures. Prior to HubSpot, he was founder and CEO of Pyramid Digital Solutions. Prior to Pyramid Digital Solutions, he held a number of technology management and development positions. He also runs OnStartups.com. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Alabama and an M.S. in the Management of Technology from MIT. He is author of a book entitled Inbound Marketing, Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs.
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.
REES Capital
REES Capital is an angel investment and advising firm headquartered in Sandy, Utah. The firm specializes in start up and growth capital investments. It provides services across a broad range of business functions, including leadership training; product and market assessment; marketing, sales and public relations strategy; financial modeling; organizational structuring; strategic planning; acquisition and exit strategy; and other key areas. They do not pursue any investments related to medical devices, life science and/or pharmaceutical companies.
Newark Venture Partners
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.
Red Bike Capital
Red Bike Capital is a Latino and woman-led early stage VC fund based in New York that invests in verticals that are primed for disruption and growth. We invest in US-based SAAS, Health & Wellness, and Fintech. We are founders ourselves, have 30+ years of experience with an authentic connection to the startup ecosystem and a strong track record in asset management, including founding and scaling a Y Combinator-backed startup to $100M in revenue, deploying $2B in assets, and sourcing deals via relationships with top founders and accelerators.
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.
Panacea Capital Advisors
Panacea Capital Advisors is a venture capital firm which serves as the sole source of capital, leads an early stage round or co-invests along with other professional investors. It assists with fund raising activities by providing structuring and valuation expertise and by identifying, introducing and vetting a portion of the other professional investors in the capital structure. The firm focuses primarily on earlier stage companies that have a commercially available product. It was founded in 2011 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.
FusionX Ventures
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.
F50
F50 is a venture capital syndication platform focused on finding and funding the companies graduating from the seed stage and moving into their high growth stage. It prefers to invest in companies based in western region of the United States, but is capable of investing globally too. It primarily seeks to invest in the hardware, services, communications, life sciences, material sciences, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, robotics and software sectors. The firm was founded in 2014 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
New Lab
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.
GSV Labs
GSVlabs is a campus of innovation focused on accelerating high-growth, high-impact verticals in the areas of edtech, sustainability, big data and mobility. Utilizing GSVlabs resources, founders and entrepreneurs join a global network of ecosystem partners, including corporations, international agencies, mentors, universities, investors, thought leaders and non-profits. From its Silicon Valley campus, GSVlabs houses startups, provides acceleration programs and hosts events. GSVlabs is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
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.
Gray Matters Capital
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.
Imagen Capital Partners
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.
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.
Innobridge Capital Management
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.
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.
Aperture Venture Capital
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
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.
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.
Dan Rose
Dan Rose is an entrepreneur and angel investor from Palo Alto, California. Dan is the Vice President of Partnerships for Facebook. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for REDF. Prior to that, he was associated with Amazon, serving in various designations over a period of 7 years. He seeks to invest in consumer internet, information technology, cloud computing, PaaS, SaaS, enterprise software, mobile, entertainment, food and beverages and media based companies operating in the Silicon Valley.
William Michael Clark
MicroVenture Marketplace is a venture capital firm that prefers to invest in companies operating in the biotechnology, business products and services, computers and peripherals, consumer products and services, education, environment, electronics, financial services, healthcare, internet, information technology, media and entertainment, medical devices and equipment, retail and distribution, semiconductors, software and telecommunication sectors. The firm was established in 2009 and is based in Austin, Texas.
The BREW
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.
37 Angels
37 Angels is a community of 90+ angel investors with a mission to activate investors through local and global investor trainings. Our main goals are to achieve gender parity and to increase diversity in angel investing. Many of our members are former entrepreneurs who understand the highs and lows of business-building. As such, we are committed to transparency in communication and providing advice grounded in empathy. We primarily invest in early-stage startups and we are sector and geography agnostic.
Gwaycapital
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
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.
Hillcrest Venture Partners
Hillcrest Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that takes a methodical approach to investing in seed to growth stage technology companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies developing technologies in the communications infrastructure, enterprise applications, financial technology, information technology infrastructure, life Science research tools and wireless industries. The firm was founded in 2008 and is based in Glendale, California with an additional office in San Jose, California.
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.
Redpoint Ventures
Redpoint Ventures is a Menlo Park, California based venture capital firm and was founded in 1999. The firm specializes in early, seed and growth stage investments. The firm focuses on investments in companies within new distribution platforms, next generation media, media distribution business, infrastructure technologies for data processing, enterprise software, cloud and mobile sectors. Redpoint Ventures uses data science capabilities to help find startups to review and to conduct due diligence.
Metavallon VC
A venture capital firm based in Athens, Greece, Metavallon is interested in early stage technology startups with a mission to combine tech, talent and resolve. Initially launched in 2011, since 2017 they have evolved to Metavallon VC. Apart from funding, Metavallon offers hands-on support in areas such as guidance and mentoring, alliances and partnerships, training, talent acquisition, coaching, and networking. They are also able to provide office space in Athens, Greece, on a case by case basis.
2B-Community
2B-Community is an impact venture capital fund that invests in high growth, mission-driven businesses. 2B-Community was founded in 2016 by Yoel Cheshin (Chairman and Anchor LP) and Shahar Botzer (Managing Partner), who were later joined by Eli Arkin and Judith Adler. At 2B-Community, we take a lead role in building early-stage companies, helping them establish robust scalable business models and position themselves for future funding. We invest in strong leadership teams and empower them to buil
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