Series A investors
Firms that report investing at series a — 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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Kenneth B. Sawyer
Saints Capital is an investment firm that provides liquidity to investors within private companies. The firm formed its first secondary fund in 2000 and has since provided liquidity to general partners and their limited partners in both venture capital and private equity, founders and early employees of venture-backed companies, and financial institutions. The firm makes structured deals that may include loans, deferred payments and upside sharing. The team has experience and knowledge in industries that include business services, telecom equipment, aerospace, cleantech, and security. The four types of sellers that Saints Capital serves are founders and early employees, general partners of venture capital and private equity funds, financial institutions with illiquid securities, and limited partners of old venture capital funds. The firm is located in San Francisco, California.
Blackstone Group
Mr. Jonathan Gray serves as a Global Head of Real Estate at The Blackstone Group. He is also a Board Member at Blackstone Mortgage Trust. Since joining Blackstone in 1992, Mr. Gray has led the privatization of eleven public real estate companies valued at more than $100 billion including Extended Stay America, Wyndham International, Carr America, Equity Office Properties and Hilton Hotels. Mr. Gray previously worked in the Corporate Advisory Services group and the Private Equity group at Blackstone. Mr. Gray received a BS in Economics from the Wharton School, as well as a BA in English from the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He currently serves as a board member of the Pension Real Estate Association, Harlem Village Academies and Trinity School. He is also an Angel Investor.
FirstMark Capital
Mr. Matt Turck serves as Managing Director at FirstMark Capital. He invests across a broad range of enterprise and consumer startups. Prior to FirstMark, he was a Managing Director at Bloomberg Ventures, the investment and incubation arm of Bloomberg LP, which he helped start. Previously, Matt was the co-founder of TripleHop Technologies, a venture-backed enterprise search software startup that was acquired by Oracle. Matt is passionate about building communities, and organizes two large monthly events, Data Driven NYC (which focuses on data-driven startups and Big Data) and Hardwired NYC (which focuses on the Internet of Things, 3D printing, and wearable computing). Matt graduated from Sciences-Po Paris and holds a master of laws (LL.M.) from Yale Law School. He also serves as Member of Investment Committee at Digital Currency Group. He serves as a Board Member at frame.ai.
H Venture Partners
We invest all over North America in companies that have $0-$50MM in revenue, with initial investments that range from $500K-$5MM. What we look for: Experienced management teams, specifically at least one of the following: domain expertise, channel expertise, stage expertise, previous exits. Balanced teams with complementary skill sets. Purpose-driven brands. Platform brands looking to dominate an entire category or show up in multiple categories. Superior product performance. A pipeline of product and business model innovation. Solving a real problem in a $1Bn+ category. Competitive unit economics at scale. Quality co-investors: good partners that are experienced in this stage, category, or channel. Deal terms that make sense. We underwrite deals for a minimum 50% IRR, which means that there’s typically a pathway to the value of the company doubling in the next 12-24 months.
Fusion Fund
Fusion Fund backs early-stage entrepreneurs building forward-thinking companies with technical and data advantages in their business models. We are actively looking for companies in the industrial, enterprise, and healthcare application spaces and for founders with direct experience and expertise in those areas. We have invested all across the United States and target companies who are at pre-seed, seed, and Series A. The DNA of the firm is rooted in the team’s technical and entrepreneurial background. As former technical operators who have previously started, ran, and sold companies, we know what it takes to build successful enterprises and how to overcome challenges specific to those building technology businesses. Fusion Fund is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.
Clearstone Venture Partners
Mr. William Quigley serves as Managing Director at Clearstone Venture Partners. He focuses on Clearstone's communications investments. He is a Board Member in AOptix. His areas of investment interest include broadband wireless enabling technologies, operational support systems and communications service innovators. Mr. Quigley joined Clearstone Venture Partners from Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds, where he focused on early-stage communications companies targeting the software, equipment and service sectors. At MAVF, he was responsible for investments in Integrated Chipware, a real time embedded OS developer, Wisor Telecom, an OSS vendor to the CLEC and ISP industry and NexTone Communications. Prior to MAVF, he spent six years in a variety of operational roles at The Walt Disney Company and was a Senior Consultant with Arthur Andersen's Financial Services Group.
A4Cb
Our mission is to provide the capital, coaching, and connections entrepreneurs need to grow great businesses that create jobs and wealth in their communities. As a nonprofit located on Chicago’s West Side, A4CB prioritizes Black, Hispanic/Latinx, women, and low-income entrepreneurs throughout the Chicagoland area and beyond. We offer loans between $500 and $100,000 to early, emerging, and established businesses at fair prices. In addition, we provide free coaching to anyone who wants to start or grow a business, and we connect entrepreneurs to trusted partners that can help further. We are different from other lenders: we do not use credit scores and do not judge the value of your personal assets. Instead, we evaluate how well you have managed your debts over the past two years and how much cash you have available to make monthly loan payments to us.
GingerBread Capital
At GingerBread Capital, we invest in the next generation of women founders and entrepreneurs leading high-growth businesses. We help women-led businesses gain access to the knowledge, networks, and capital they need to build and scale successful enterprises, and we encourage other women to do the same. What we’re looking for: Quality founders: visionary, dynamic founders with exceptional execution skills who possess high conviction, passion and drive differentiated business model: a great concept, and an irresistible business model that clearly demonstrates a true need, an identifiable market and a competitive advantage technology-enabled: automation, AI and data analytics propel the brand, revenues and customer satisfaction scalability: a go-to-market approach that builds customers today and has the potential to be much, much larger in the future.
Gjdc
Frmed in 1967, Greater Jamaica Development Corporation is one of the nation’s first community development corporations. Since then, GJDC has become a model for economic transformation. GJDC encourages responsible private and public investment in Jamaica, Queens to enhance the quality of life for the residents and workers of Jamaica. We pride ourselves on our local focus, data-driven approach, high-impact programs and crosssector collaborations - all leading to the revitalization of our storied community. Southeast Queens Capital Access is a revolving loan fund within the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation that invests in community businesses to create community jobs within new and existing businesses located in Southeast Queens. There are two loan types: term loans between $10,000 and $300,000 and lines of credit between $10,000 and - $25,000.
Dubilier & Company
Dubilier & Company is a Stamford, Connecticut based private investment firm that seeks to invest in all stages of a company’s life-cycle, from venture capital to acquisition. The firm specializes in investing in areas such as entrepreneurial or family-owned businesses in which the shareholders are seeking liquidity, acquisition or growth capital infusions in companies looking to accelerate growth, non-core divisions of corporations that no longer meet the strategic goals of the parent company, undervalued or under performing enterprises with the opportunity to effect change, strategic or financial partnerships with others who bring additional skills or expertise to the company. It primarily focuses on businesses in the consumer products, e-commerce, online marketing, information technology systems and services, and media and publishing industries.
Emmelineventures
Founded in 2022 with offices in Los Angeles and Phoenix, Emmeline Ventures is a female-founded early-stage fund with a team of investors steadfastly committed to investing in ambitious female founders building businesses that are helping women, in particular, manage their health, build their wealth, and live in a cleaner, safer world. The team is led by three female General Partners, all from diverse backgrounds, who bring 30+ years of investing and operating experience to the fund. We’re bridging the funding gap for female founders and unlocking this asset class for more female investors. Our LP base is 80% senior executive women, 60% of them first-time VC investors. It’s a vibrant and collaborative base of investors eager to bring ‘all of their currency’ (capital, expertise, network access, advisor support, etc.) to every founder we invest in.
Glasswing Ventures
We partner with founders to help them assemble powerhouse teams, acquire first customers, and secure the right foundation to launch and accelerate their startups to their full potential. In working with our founders, we view ourselves as extensions to their team and are always ready to tackle hard problems together. As fellow entrepreneurs, we understand that it takes heart, mind, and incredible grit to change the game. We are a tightly knit team, differentiated by our depth of expertise and unwavering commitment to diversity of background, gender, and perspectives. From our core team to our exceptional entrepreneurs and world-renowned advisors, we think deeply, consider openly, and act decisively to embrace the potential of what’s next. And together, we power a platform that transforms early-stage innovation into generation-defining businesses.
The Westly Group
Mr. Mike Jackson serves as Partner at The Westly Group. Prior to joining, he was founder and CEO of Village Green Energy, a retailer of renewable electricity production to households and businesses. Previously, he managed research in India and China at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University, where he wrote on the impact of global coal, oil, and natural gas markets on energy choices in the developing world. In addition to his work in energy, Mr. Jackson chairs an internal board for Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California, where he leads efforts to bring young professionals into the charity as volunteers and future donors. Mr. Jackson holds a master’s degree in Energy Engineering and a bachelor’s degree in Biology and Earth Systems, all from Stanford University. He serves as a Board Observer at RapidSOS.
Social Capital
Mr. Thomas Layton serves as a Board Partner at Social Capital. He was Chief Executive Officer of Metaweb Technologies since June 2007. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of OpenTable from 2001 to June 4, 2007. He co-founded MAPLight. He co-founded CitySearch and served as its President and Chief Operating Officer from November 1995 to June 1999. He also serves as a Board Member at Doxo. He served at Score Learning as the Chief Financial Officer from April 1994 to October 1995 and as its President and Chief Operating Officer from March 1995 to October 1995. He served as a Vice President and General Manager of MicroFinancial and from 1986 to 1988, he served as a Consultant at Boston Consulting Group. He holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a BS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Eastlink Capital
Mr. Steven Xi is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Eastlink Capital. He is formerly a Regional Director of Riverwood Capital. At Riverwood, he has focused on investments in internet, software/IT services and digital media in China. Prior to joining Riverwood, Steven was a Managing Director at The Hina Group Fund I, where he focused on expansion-stage investments in the technology and digital media space. Before joining Hina, Steven co-founded and managed an ecommerce start-up with locations in the Silicon Valley and Beijing. Prior to his entrepreneurial experience, Steven spent six and half years in investment banking and principal investment, in both New York and Hong Kong. Steven started his investment banking career with CSFB in New York and served as the head of China Investment Banking for Kleinwort Benson in Hong Kong.
Learn Capital
Mr. Elliott Bisnow is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Summit. He serves as Venture Partner at Learn Capital. He represents Summit within the general partnership. As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Summit, Elliott oversees their annual gatherings, which Forbes called "The Davos of Generation Y," and President Clinton called "A gift to the United States and the world." Elliott is the Co-Founder of The Get Well Soon Tour, which brings world famous musicians to perform in hospitals for sick children. Elliott serves as a Founding Board Member of the United Nations Foundation's Global Entrepreneurs Council. Elliott is also the Co-Founder of Bisnow Media Corporation with his dad, Mark, which is the largest publisher of commercial real estate news in America and one of the largest business conference producers in America.
Seraph Group
Mr. Tuff Yen serves as President at Seraph Group. He is also a board member of iSpionage. He spent his career as a scientist and a professional investor. He worked as a venture capitalist with Hambrecht & Quist's venture fund ("HQAP") in San Francisco as well as Chemical Bank’s venture arm in New York City. During this period, he worked on investments in a broad range of businesses including industrial manufacturing, distribution, entertainment, publishing, information technology, Internet, medical and life sciences. Prior to joining the VC community, he was a bioengineer with Genentech and worked at Amgen, two leading biotechnology pioneers. He received his masters in business administration from the Yale School of Management and his bachelor degree in Arts in microbiology and immunology from the University of California Berkeley.
Wrule
The W Fund is interested in funding founders who are creating technology products for the masses and recognize that consumers are made up of diverse people - women, LGBTQ, and people of different races, ethnicities, ages, nationalities, locations, and socioeconomic backgrounds. At least 70% of our investments will be in women-led startups. Of that 70%, at least half will go to women who also come from another traditionally underrepresented demographic in the startup space. The remaining 30% must have one of more of the following features: Founder from a traditionally underestimated group, such as race, ethnicity, LGBTQ+ socioeconomic background, nationality, age, or location. Solution focused specifically on increasing diversity, equity and inclusion. Solution focused on serving traditionally underserved customer groups
Gregory O'Shea
TWV Capital Management, LLC (TWV Capital) is an independent, Dallas-based private equity firm that provides growth capital through innovative capital solutions to private companies in a way that allows owners and management to maintain majority ownership and control. In addition to providing capital, TWV Capital brings an experienced team of industry and functional experts, entrepreneurs, and seasoned professionals who serve as trusted advisors and resources for portfolio companies. Through the Texas Women Ventures family of funds, TWV Capital has more than $20 million under management dedicated to investing in high growth companies located in Texas and the Greater Southwest. TWV Capital invests in growing companies with revenues between $10 million and $100 million, seeking both capital and a team of trusted advisors.
True Wealth Ventures
True Wealth Ventures invests in women-led companies with healthy or sustainability impacts at the core of their value propositions. Formed in 2015 by Founding General Partner Sara Brand, True Wealth Ventures, with General Partner Kerry Rupp, is an Austin-headquartered venture capital firm that invests exclusively in women-led companies. True Wealth Ventures investment thesis is women-led companies perform better financially, yet remain an untapped market. We like to be the first institutional investors at an early stage (usually Series Seed) with first checks up to $1M, and we often take a board seat. We generally reserve the majority of our investment capital for follow-on investments. We look for companies where the founders see an acquisition exit opportunity within 5 years at a valuation of $100 million or more.
Tiller Partners
Mr. Csaba Konkoly is the Founder and serves as General Partner at Tiller Partners. He served as the President at IdeaList Industries. He manages The IdeaLists business and growth strategy. As a serial entrepreneur and active angel investor, Csaba has helped to build several successful ventures (CWOC, GATKO, Croesus) in New York, London, Singapore, Budapest and Los Angeles. Prior to founding Tiller, he was Partner and Co-CIO at the global macro hedge fund Commonwealth Opportunity Capital where he focused on asset allocation and risk management. Before that, he was co-founder of GATKO Partners, a global, top-down equity hedge fund with offices in London and Singapore. He holds an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Budapest and attended the MBA Program at the New York University Stern School of Business.
Blackhorn Ventures
Mr. Philip O'Connor serves as Managing Partner at Blackhorn Ventures. He led the company from early prototyping and seed financing, to securing a large strategic partner for an in-field pilot treatment plant. For the past five years Philip has been an investor and advisor focusing on water technology, energy, and bioscience. Philip's interest in early stage ventures started with his appreciation for the natural world. This grew with his first job out of college, working at The Biomimicry Institute in Montana, which helped team engineers with biologists to create the next generation of clean technologies. Philip has a diverse educational background, which includes studies in America, England, Switzerland, China, and New Zealand, and an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School.
Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company that designs and markets wireless telecommunications products. The company specializes in integrated circuits, networking, wireless power and display technology. It also supplies system software based on code division multiple access, orthogonal frequency division multiple access and other technologies for use in voice and data communications and networking. Qualcomm also offers products for implementation of small cells, wireless operators and data centers. It was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. The company has a strategy of accelerating its mobile technology services segment into robust new opportunities so that it can be well positioned to lead by delivering integrated semiconductor services.
Ludlow Ventures
Mr. Jonathon Triest is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Ludlow Ventures. In 2011, he was awarded the Crain's Detroit Business award for 20 in their 20's. That same year, he co-founded Funded by Night, a vehicle to help internet startups launch and get discovered. Previously, he served as creative director for New York's Discovery Productions. In 2005 he launched the Atlanta-based Triest Group, a mid-level advertising firm. In addition to his role at Ludlow, he is a mentor at The Brandery and a board member of The Trico Foundation, and Venture for America. previously creative director for New Yorks Discovery Productions. In 2005 he launched Triest Group, a mid-level advertising firm. He sits on the Board of the Trico Foundation and the Board of Investors for Venture for America.
Marc L. Andreessen
Mr. Marc Andreessen is a Co-Founder & serves as a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people and one of the few to establish multiple billion-dollar companies. Marc co-created the highly influential Mosaic Internet browser and cofounded Netscape, which later sold to AOL for $4.2 billion. He also cofounded Loudcloud, which as Opsware sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He serves on the board of the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Anki, Bracket Computing, Dialpad, Honor, Lytro, Mori, OpenGov, and Samsara. He is also on the board of Facebook and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.
Inovia Capital
Mr. Geoff Judge serves as a Partner at iNovia Capital. He is also the Board Member at Collective. He serves as an Advisor at Transactis. A co-founder of 24/7 Media, he guided the company to a public offering in August 1998. 24/7 was later acquired by WPP in 2007 for $649MM. He was at iMarket prior, where he was the CMO. He spent 9 years at American Express in the Card Division in several roles including VP and GM, Travel & Corp. Insurance Group. He was an investor in IndustryBrains (sold to Marchex), on the Board of Fetchback (sold to GSI), Oggifinogi (sold to Collective) and current board member of Global Cash Access (NYSE: GCA). He's a founding board member of Children for Children, and a Trustee for the Sacred Heart School in Manhattan for 6 years. He served as Advisor at ClickFacts.
Brick & Mortar Ventures
Mr. Darren Bechtel is the Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Brick & Mortar Ventures. He brings over 7 years of engineering, product and architectural design, and construction management professional experience to the Brick & Mortar team, as well as over 8 years of venture investing as the founder and managing director of South Park Ventures. Darren is a Stanford-trained engineer and MBA who remains closely connected to the young Stanford entrepreneurial community as the founder and developer of Soma CoLab, a San Francisco-based co-working and incubator space for Stanford alumni. Darren is involved in the boards of six startup companies and serves as a technology innovation advisor to the Bechtel Group, a global leader in engineering, construction, and project management.
Mindshiftcapital
Mindshift Capital is global, women-run venture firm investing in amazing women-led companies solving big problems with sophisticated solutions. Mindshift partners take an active, collaborative role in the growth of portfolio companies with focus on successful exit pathways. Mindshift Capital is focused on post-seed early-stage companies in the U.S., Europe and Middle East. Through a global network, Mindshiftidentifies companies with scalable technology, exceptional leadership and high growth potential. We invest with a gender lens, ensuring diversity of thought while narrowing the funding gap for female-led ventures. Mindshift Capital is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.
Techstars DC JP Morgan
Techstars Washington DC Powered by J.P. Morgan focuses on startups that can benefit from tapping into the unique strengths of DC’s innovation and startup ecosystem including our tech talent and diversity, and being a national and global center for policy making. Sector focuses include: health and wellness, education, finance, government and civic engagement, cybersecurity, and more. Open to founders of all backgrounds, the program is designed to provide equitable access to funding and support for Black, Hispanic and Latino, Indigenous American and Pacific Islander entrepreneurs. Through game-changing investment and community partnerships, together we will take steps towards dismantling institutional, structural, and systematic barriers that often limit opportunities.
Techstars Oakland JP Morgan
Techstars Washington DC Powered by J.P. Morgan focuses on startups that can benefit from tapping into the unique strengths of DC’s innovation and startup ecosystem including our tech talent and diversity, and being a national and global center for policy making. Sector focuses include: health and wellness, education, finance, government and civic engagement, cybersecurity, and more. Open to founders of all backgrounds, the program is designed to provide equitable access to funding and support for Black, Hispanic and Latino, Indigenous American and Pacific Islander entrepreneurs. Through game-changing investment and community partnerships, together we will take steps towards dismantling institutional, structural, and systematic barriers that often limit opportunities.
Ulu Ventures
Ulu Ventures is a seed-stage venture firm investing primarily in enterprise IT, smart data and the opportunities created by Stanford and broader Silicon Valley tech ecosystems. Ulu seeks to invest in diverse founder teams with deep insights and big ideas using a straightforward sequence of information gathering, risk assessment, and due diligence to advance prospects through our pipeline. Adhering to a principled, repeatable decision-making process helps reduce cognitive bias in our investment decisions and makes Ulu’s founders among the most diverse in the industry. In all phases of our data-driven, decision analysis process, we seek to be transparent to entrepreneurs and limited partners. Our approach and point of view make Ulu Ventures unique among venture firms.
LBBW Venture Capital GmbH
LBBW VC founded in 1998 as an independent subsidiary of the Landesbank Baden Wuerttenberg, LBBW Venture invests in early and late growth stages of companies. Apart from long term financial support for its portfolio companies, the team offers special commercial support by active introductions to LBBW’s fast corporate client network, pitch sessions with potential commercial clients or direct applications within the bank itself. They have a broad successful international investment track record and growth support experience given their investments in over 60 companies. Their team members backed companies in Europe, Israel and the US and gained deep expertise across various industrial sectors. Their teams track record counts 2 IPO's, 1 unicorn and multiple trade sales.
Worklife
The first VC firm designed for the new era of builders and creators. We’re operators with a deep network of creators, we’re developer evangelists, product designers and engineers. We’re backed by the founders of Cameo, Spotify, Twitch, Zoom and platforms built for builders, creators, and individual contributors. Our advisors include Arianna Huffington, Michael Ovitz, Sophia Amoruso, Eric Yuan and other disruptors across all industries. We help technical teams with the not so technical stuff. You’re never too early. We meet founders early, typically before they leave their last thing. We don’t wait for a lead investor, we introduce you to them. We look for emerging trends. We typically find them on Discord, Reddit, and sometimes Animal Crossing. We create community.
Belle Capital USA
We look for capital efficient companies with a unique product or service filling an urgent market need. We target the digital/mobile/internet (IT), technology-enabled products and services, life sciences/medical devices/health IT (digital health), and cleantech market sectors. Companies seeking our capital must have at least one female founder or C-level exec, and/or be willing to recruit top female talent to the C-suite and Board of Directors. We prefer teams with strong domain expertise and proven commercialization and entrepreneurial experience. We are active investors who believe our human capital is as valuable as our financial capital. We seek bold enterprises that welcome our expertise and insight, and that seek to leverage our leadership and experience.
Lauren A. Flanagan
We look for capital efficient companies with a unique product or service filling an urgent market need. We target the digital/mobile/internet (IT), technology-enabled products and services, life sciences/medical devices/health IT (digital health), and cleantech market sectors. Companies seeking our capital must have at least one female founder or C-level exec, and/or be willing to recruit top female talent to the C-suite and Board of Directors. We prefer teams with strong domain expertise and proven commercialization and entrepreneurial experience. We are active investors who believe our human capital is as valuable as our financial capital. We seek bold enterprises that welcome our expertise and insight, and that seek to leverage our leadership and experience.
f7 Ventures
f7 is a pre-seed/seed fund originally founded as an angel fund by 7 ex-Facebook female leaders and formally launched in early 2019. GPs, Kelly Graziadei and Joanna Lee Shevelenko, have since raised a $50M institutional fund I and have made 32 investments since April 2021. They have a tremendous network and have been investing in founders from high growth tech companies including Okta, LinkedIn, Uber, Facebook, Instagram, Salesforce, Airbnb, Lyft & Apple. Joanna, was one of the first 100 employees at Facebook and built multiple operations and growth teams for 10 years at FB followed by COO roles at series B and C companies. Kelly brings years of experience building GTM teams at the hallmark companies of Web2 including > 7 years from the early days at Facebook.
Visiblehands
Visible Hands is a venture capital firm that funds and empowers exceptional underrepresented founders launching high-growth startups. Our firm’s investment strategy capitalizes on a “talent arbitrage.” We believe capital markets are inefficient: talented founders are sidelined at the earliest stage, where institutional funding opportunities are lacking most for underrepresented founders. We source founders at scale through our proprietary accelerator programs, where we de-risk and add value through intensive portfolio support. At pre-seed, our timing allows us to buy these companies at a discount before product market fit and other metrics are priced in. Visible Hands is sector agnostic. Our top industries are B2B Saas, creator tools, and digital health.
Haystack
Mr. Semil Shah serves as General Partner at Haystack. He is a mobile technology expert with experience helping build mobile products for Rexly (LiveNation), IFTTT, and currently Swell Radio. Semil is also an investor in 24 early-stage technology companies including: Instacart, Hired, Paddle8, HelloSign, Coin, among others. He holds deep VC consulting experience as a full-time EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and through previous formal engagements with DFJ, General Catalyst, GGV, Kleiner Perkins, Trinity Ventures. Semil is also the most frequent, consistent, outside columnist at TechCrunch for nearly three years. Finally, he's an active public speaker and creator of a widely-read industry blog - Haywire - and video interview series (over 80 episodes).
CRV
Mr. Rafael Corrales serves as General Partner at Charles River Ventures. He brings operating and founding CEO experience from the world of early stage startups. He has led CRV's investments in Amino as well as two currently stealth companies. He also sourced CRV's investments in companies like PillPack and Airtable. Before becoming an investing partner, he became a personal shareholder in the very first round of five startups: Instacart, Blockchain, Luxe, Webflow, and Clearbit. Prior to CRV, he was the founding CEO of LearnBoost, a company which was acquired by WordPress as the largest of their first 12 acquisitions. His team's open source libraries have cumulatively been downloaded over 160 million times and helped popularize Node.JS
Science
Mr. Peter Pham is a Co-Founder of Science. Peter is a passionate entrepreneur with roots in Southern California starting his career with 8 years in the enterprise hardware and software space. Having success in building companies ranging from solid state storage to SAS businesses Peter then focused his time in the consumer internet space. At Photobucket he was the 5th employee and was responsible for driving growth to 61M users and leading its $300M acquisition in 2007 to Fox Interactive Media, a division of News Corporation. Peter then turned his energy in helping people save money as CEO of BillShrink from inception to their 1st Million users in a little over a year. BillShrink became TruAxis which was acquired by MasterCard in 2012.
Camelback Ventures
The Camelback Fellowship: Our flagship program works to support early stage social impact entrepreneurs in three tracks: Education, Conscious Tech, and Local Economies. We provide coaching, capital, connections, community, and curriculum to underrepresented entrepreneurs. Capital Collaborative: We believe it takes a village; we aim to improve the overall funding environment, thereby exponentially increasing the opportunities for all entrepreneurs of color and women. Our goal is to encourage investors to take the steps necessary to identify, fund, and support entrepreneurs of color from all walks of life. We will co-create this Fellowship with an advisory council of investors who will help us craft a meaningful for their community.
Clayton Associates
Clayton Associates is a venture capital and angel group firm which operates as a subsidiary of Aviv Financing. It specializes in seed, early stage and later stage investments. The firm operates under the platforms of Bullpen Ventures, FCA Venture Partners and Rolling Hills Ventures where Bullpen Ventures provides incubation services, FCA Venture Partners manages the venture capital investments and Rolling Hills Ventures is associated with the angel investments. The firm as a whole seeks to invest in companies operating in the information technology, healthcare, mobile app development, software and digital media sectors. It was founded in 1996 and is based in Brentwood, Tennessee with an additional office in Nashville, Tennessee.
Mountainbizworks
Where traditional banks see risk, we see massive opportunities. For over 30 years, Mountain BizWorks has been saying yes to entrepreneurs, whose financing needs have often been overlooked and underfunded. Supporting Western North Carolina’s small businesses get the capital they need to start, grow, and thrive is our passion. Mountain BizWorks believes in the power of local entrepreneurs to create a vibrant local economy. While traditional banks often see start-up and early-stage businesses as too risky, we see them as Western North Carolina’s future. Mountain BizWorks specializes in providing financing to help Western North Carolina small businesses launch and expand, by offering non-traditional loans from $1,000 to $250,000.
GCVC (Green Cow Venture Capital)
Green Cow Venture Capital [GCVC] is an early-stage venture fund based in San Francisco and New York City. Green Cow Venture Capital invests at the seed and Series A stage into dynamic founders that combine unparalleled drive, talent, and diverse perspective to solve problems around scarcity and inefficiency in global markets, particularly leveraging technologies like AI, ML and robotics. While we like our founders to be tackling global market problems, we currently require them to have an entity domiciled in the United States (typically Delaware C-Corp). Green Cow Venture Capital is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.
Ainventures
AIN Ventures is a pre-seed and seed stage fund that invests at the intersection of dual-use and deeptech, particularly the areas of healthcare, sustainability and space technology. Additionally, AIN invests in veteran-led startups (industry agnostic). The companies that we invest in are building technologies that make the U.S. safer, operate efficiently all while also having a strong commercial use case. We are a diverse team of veterans, entrepreneurs, technologists, operators and finance professionals that have come together to invest in world class entrepreneurs. Our military backgrounds helps us assess whether or not entrepreneurs have the leadership, determination and grit necessary to make a company successful.
Exponential Creativity
We’re an early-stage venture capital fund investing in startups that invent technology to maximize humanity’s creative potential. As society shifts from a paradigm of consumption to a paradigm of creation, Silicon Valley remains stubbornly focused on the commodification of content. By contrast, we see a historic moment for value creation in human-centered creativity platforms. Our investment thesis is focused on customers, markets, and use cases. Within that niche, however, we are able to invest across a wide range of industries and regions. Exponential Creativity 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.
Alaskagrowth
AGC provides a diverse range of small business loan options and is excited to learn about new opportunities of any size, within the loan size range of $500,000 to $10 million. AGC offers the following loan types: long-term working capital to support growth; acquisition or change of control; equipment or real estate purchase; and debt refinance. Through its over 20-year history, Alaska Growth Capital has expanded into markets that have demonstrated a need for a lender that can act quickly and provide capital for companies that may have a hard time obtaining, or are not yet ready for, traditional bank financing. AGC is currently doing business in Alaska, Montana, Hawaii, Idaho, Washington, Colorado, and Wyoming.
IP Group
IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and create value out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.