Series A investors

Cleveland Avenue

Venture Capital

Founded by Don Thompson, the former President and CEO of McDonald’s Corporation, Cleveland Avenue is a Chicago-based venture capital firm that invests in lifestyle consumer brands and technology companies that positively disrupt large and growing markets. Launched in 2021, the CAST US Fund is a $70M initiative that will bridge the capital and resource gap impacting Black, Latinx, and women entrepreneurs in Chicago’s South and West Side neighborhoods. CAST US leverages the investment and entrepreneurial development expertise of Cleveland Avenue to support this historically underserved group of entrepreneurs.

The W Fund

Venture CapitalSeattle, United States

The W Fund is a venture capital firm based in Seattle, Washington and was founded in 2012. The firm seeks to invest in the technology-based companies with a focus on life sciences, software, information technology, engineering and clean technology sectors. It seeks to invest in companies spinning out from the University of Washington or one of Washington's other universities and research institutions, including Washington State University, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Biomed and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Elevate Capital

Venture CapitalHillsboro, United States

Elevate Capital is a Portland, OR based venture capital firm led by Managing Partner, Nitin Rai and General Partner, Kumar Sripadam. Elevate’s mission is to help close the $4 trillion wealth gap by catalyzing generational wealth creation for underserved entrepreneurs including women, BIPOC, LGBTQ, and veterans. To achieve our mission, Elevate provides access to seed capital, mentorship, and connections into networks that allow our portfolio companies to scale towards timely and meaningful exits. The Fund invests in the technology and healthcare sectors with check sizes that range between $100k to $1M.

Exposition

United States

Exposition Ventures invests in entrepreneurs who are at the early stages of building and scaling hardware and software companies that enable the digital transformation of the infrastructure of doing business. We are inspired by the Chicago Columbian Exposition that spurred the 2nd industrial revolution. We are lead investors who take a hands-on approach leveraging our extensive operating and investing experience as well as our industry partner program to accelerate innovation and growth. We help to build great businesses with powerful solutions that usher in a new century of industrial progress.

IBM Ventures

Corporate VCNew York City (NYC), United States

Mr. Karan Bajwa serves as a Managing Director, IBM India at International Business Machines. He had joined IBM last year as executive for strategy and transformation in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to this, he was managing director at Microsoft India. Bajwa will be responsible for all strategic and operational matters related to IBM India's sales, marketing, services and delivery operations in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Bajwa is also an angel investor and had backed hyperlocal services marketplace FindYahan, which was acquired by on-demand home services platform Zimmber last year.

Robert A. Claassen

Private Equity, Venture CapitalUnited States

Mr. Robert Claassen serves as Principal & Partner at Camp One Ventures. He was a member of the firm's corporate practice and capital markets practice group. He represents issuers, private and public corporations and investment banks in a variety of acquisition, finance derivatives and joint venture transactions. Mr. Claassen received his B.S. in mathematical economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1988 and his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1992, order of the coif. He is admitted to practice in New York and California. He is a Board Member of Terabit Radios.

Lava

United States

Women in LAVA is LAVA's second oldest community group (originally formed as a "special interest group" recently rebranded as an “affinity group”) and one of its most successful. Programs and events produced by the group are typically relevant in one of four ways: i) highlighting the success of successful women; ii) focusing on topics more relevant to women as a target customer demographic; iii) focusing on topics relevant to the unique experience of women in the professional setting; or iv) providing resources, education, mentorship or networking programs designed to help women entrepreneurs.

Peanut App

United States

StartHER challenges the biases in venture capital and provides access to the elusive “friends and family” round. For many founders, raising money from friends and family isn’t an option because their existing networks don’t have resources to offer such funds. StartHER aims to give everyone a fair chance by reshaping funding dynamics, providing access to professional networks and ultimately, becoming home to the new faces of entrepreneurship. If you’re an early stage, pre-seed business that strives to make a positive impact on society, healthcare or the environment, we want to hear from you.

Symantec Ventures

Corporate VCUnited States

Symantec is a provider of cyber security services. The company helps businesses, governments and people secure their data. It operates the business on a global civilian cyber intelligence threat network and track a number of threats across the internet from millions of mobile devices, endpoints and servers across the globe. Founded in 1982, Symantec has operations in more than 35 countries and principal office at Mountain View, California. The company's acquisitions are designed to enhance the features and functionality of existing products and extend the product leadership in core markets.

Okapi Ventures

Venture CapitalLaguna Beach, United States

Okapi Venture Capital is a venture capital firm based in Laguna Beach, California. The firm primarily seeks to invest in the seed and early-stage companies operating in the biotechnology, diagnostics, healthcare IT and services, material science, mobile, medical devices and software industries. It prefers to invest in seed and early-stage technology and life science based companies in California with a particular emphasis on Southern California startups in the greater Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego regions. It also provides management support to start-ups. It was founded in 2006.

Cake

Venture CapitalSan Francisco, United States

Cake Ventures is a venture capital fund investing in companies that are creating technology products that meet the needs of tomorrow’s internet users. Over the next several years, the biggest change to technology will not only be what, but who. We are thesis-driven generalists who invest across sectors into companies that reflect those changing demographics, including: an aging population, the increased spending power of women, and the shift to majority-minority. We invest in US & Canadian pre-seed and seed stage companies whose growth will be accelerated by these demographic changes.

Fluent Ventures

Venture CapitalSan Francisco, United States

Fluent Ventures is a next gen global venture capital fund. Our platform is backed by 50+ global founders and tech luminaries covering 6 continents. We are building on 40+ cumulative years of venture and founder experience as well as experience investing in 7 global unicorns. Some of the founders we have been fortunate enough to back and work with at current and/or previous firms include Chime (US), Kin (US), Zenbusiness (US), Sidecar Health (US), Kueski (LatAm), Clara (LatAm), Xepelin (Latam), Neon (Latam), Facily (Latam), Sabi (Africa), Ula (SEA), and FinAccel (SEA) and many others.

L Catterton

Private EquityBuenos Aires, United States

L Catterton is a private equity firm formed through the partnership of Catterton, LVMH and Groupe Arnault in 2016. The firm invests in all major consumer segments, including food and beverage, retail and restaurants, beauty and wellness, fashion and accessories, consumer products and services, consumer health and media and marketing services as well as real estate projects anchored by luxury retail. It primarily invests in companies based in the North America with a focus on United States, Latin America, Asia and Europe. It was founded in 1989 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Utah Angels

Angel NetworkUnited States

Utah Angels was a venture capital firm specializing in angel, seed, startups, growth and emerging stage investments. It makes follow on round of investments in its portfolio companies. It seeks to invest in high technology and life science companies with a focus upon biotechnology, clean technology computers and peripherals, education, electronics and instrumentation, industrial energy, internet and web services, marketing and advertising, media and entertainment, medical devices and equipment, mobile, nanotechnology, networking and equipment, software and telecommunication sectors.

XRC Ventures

AcceleratorVarious/Remote, United States

XRC Ventures is a New York City-based venture capital firm and startup accelerator focused on pre-Seed to Series A startups in the retail technology, consumer goods, and consumer healthtech sectors. Launched in 2015, XRC Ventures has invested in more than 130 startups. Notably, it was an early investor in: razor and personal care DTC brand Billie, tech-enabled resale service Recurate, and telemedicine solution MD Integrations. Follow XRC Ventures on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram at @XRCVentures, and learn more about the firm and its portfolio companies at http://xrcventures.com/.

Windward Ventures

Venture CapitalUnited States

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.

Debut Capital

Venture Capital

Debut Capital invests in Black, Latinx, and Indigenous founders, creating influential businesses that will shape our future into the revolutionary world it’s meant to be. Pilar and Bobak (co-founders of Debut Capital) met while working at Prolific Interactive, a strategy-led mobile agency. Their shared passion for building inclusive and diverse spaces led to them realizing how underfunded Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Founders are by VC firms. Seeing this as an opportunity, Debut Capital was born with the simple core values of good vibes, honesty, value, and partnership.

IQT

AcceleratorArlington County, United States

In-Q-Tel is a not-for-profit and venture capital firm that accelerates the development and delivery of cutting-edge technologies to U.S. government agencies that keeps the nation safe. The firm identifies and invest in venture-backed startups developing technologies that will provide ready-soon innovation vital to the IC mission. The firm focuses on investing in companies within the data analytics, infrastructure, communications, cyber and mobile security, data management, detection and analysis, materials and power, video and imaging, and information technology sectors.

Founders Factory

Accelerator, IncubatorLondon, United Kingdom

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.

EvoNexus

IncubatorVarious/Remote, United States

EvoNexus is a not-for-profit 501(c)6 organization founded in 2008, by Co-Founders Rory Moore and Vice Admiral Walter Davis USN (Ret.). Our unique incubation program attracts applications from early-stage technology ventures across the globe seeking to benefit from EvoNexus’ strategic advisors and capital connections. EvoNexus is financially supported by our corporate partners who are some of the largest multinational technology corporations in the world. Their financial and strategic support enables us to perpetuate our low-equity, not-for-profit incubation model.

EvoNexus is a not-for-profit 501(c)6 organization founded in 2008, by Co-Founders Rory Moore and Vice Admiral Walter Davis USN (Ret.). Our unique incubation program attracts applications from early-stage technology ventures across the globe seeking to benefit from EvoNexus’ strategic advisors and capital connections. EvoNexus is financially supported by our corporate partners who are some of the largest multinational technology corporations in the world. Their financial and strategic support enables us to perpetuate our low-equity, not-for-profit incubation model.

Jesse D. Johnson

Having spent years observing and working with startups and accelerator programs, we pride ourselves on being innovative in our approach. A few key areas that really make us stand out: Bootcamp Model: We've taken our highest value content, mentors, and partners and packaged them up to fit companies needs. Startups need access to content when it's relevant to them, not all at once. We plan to change and evolve the offering based on the needs of alumni and companies applying. Housing is included during each bootcamp for two founders. See our list of bootcamps below.

Buko Ventures

Venture Capital

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.

US Angel Investors is an investment group of accredited private equity (“angel”) investors across two chapters in Palo Alto, CA and Reno, NV, who provide counsel and capital to startup companies in a wide variety of industries. This group includes mostly former and current executives and entrepreneurs. US Angel Investors members look for high quality investment opportunities in technology, internet, new media, healthcare and medical devices, and packaged consumer goods. Other sectors with high growth opportunities will be considered on an opportunistic basis.

Capita3

Venture CapitalMinneapolis, United States

Capita3 is an early stage venture capital fund investing in women startup founders and the companies they’re building. We’re leading the next generation of venture capital by investing in the growth of the startup CEO alongside our investment in the growth of the company, and we’ll set a new standard for how VC-financed companies grow and exit. We’ve developed a game-changing program that helps women entrepreneurs grow into powerful leaders who can grow their companies to maximum value. It’s good for women, good for our investments, and good for the world.

TA Ventures

Venture CapitalKyiv, Ukraine

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

Private Equity, Venture CapitalSan Francisco, United States

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

Corporate VCCambridge, United States

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.

Indiegogo

San Francisco, United States

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Ledcmetro

United States

We are Empowered Women International (EWI), a program of the Latino Economic Development Center. Our mission is to provide entrepreneurship training, mentoring, market access and support services to help talented and high-potential women monetize their creative or cultural assets, artistic abilities, knowledge and skills, and become change-makers in their families, communities and the world for immigrant, refugee, low-income, and at-risk women. Business loans: We offer loans to qualified startups and existing businesses. Loans from $1,000 to $250,000.

Designer Fund

Venture CapitalSan Francisco, United States

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.

Sequoia Capital

Venture CapitalMenlo Park, United States

Mr. Omar Hamoui serves as Partner at Sequoia Capital. He also co-founded HerBabyShower. He is a Board Member at LIFX Labs, PicsArt, Clutter, Kiwi and Offermatic. He founded AdMob in January 2006 while in the MBA program at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he started and ran several companies in the mobile, Internet and computer software industries including Vertical Blue, GoPix and Fotochatter, a mobile to mobile image sharing network. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angelesl.

Dell

United States

We typically fund social enterprises that directly serve or impact children or youth from urban low-income communities in the areas of education, health, and family economic stability (including livelihoods and financial inclusion). These social enterprises may be structured as for-profit or nonprofit entities. The foundation only supports programs and organizations that fall within our key focus areas and align with our mission. Prioritizing those areas enables us to create opportunities for children and families to achieve their full potential.

REES Capital

AngelUnited States

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.

Oliver Nicklin

Micro VCUnited Kingdom

First Analysis is a venture capital and private equity firm that prefers to invest in companies operating in the healthcare productivity, information technology and outsourced broadband enabled businesses, clean-tech and infrastructure. It invested more than $750 million across 12 funds in three fund families since 1985. The firm helps established companies become profitable leaders in large markets, funding growth plans and working closely with management in areas including strategy, recruitment, sales and marketing, and corporate development.

Portland Incubator Experiment

AcceleratorUnited States

Portland Incubator Experiment, also known as PIE, is a very interesting case: throughout the years they have been an early-stage startup accelerator; a community hub and co-working space; a consultant for a global incubator and accelerator programs. They have now grown into a flourishing ecosystem that nurtures and mentors startups from all over the world, on a mission is to “build better founders”, sharing successes and failures to inspire and educate founders everywhere. They are even writing a book (called, “PIE Cookbook”) to that extent.

Newark Venture Partners

Venture CapitalNewark, United States

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

Venture CapitalNew York, United States

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.

Mathew Slade Farkash

AcceleratorNew York, United States

Blueprint Health invests time and $20K into 20 healthcare IT companies each year. The staff and mentors work intensively with the companies for three months to help them meet their individual business goals. Typically these goals include gaining customers, raising capital, building marketing and sales collateral and refining an investor pitch. But Blueprint Health doesn’t end after three months - they continue to help their alumni founders build and grow their companies and offer them additional resources that the community can provide.

Upslope Ventures

Private Equity, Venture CapitalDenver, United States

Formerly Galvanize Ventures, Upslope Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund that invests in startups across the country. We believe exceptional teams can originate from any location. We provide more than capital and introductions. By leveraging our network we aim to empower entrepreneurs with the resources they need to have their best chance at success - even if we don’t invest. Upslope VC is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.

Day One Ventures

Venture CapitalSan Francisco, United States

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.

Mainstventures

Canada

The Brandery is a nationally ranked accelerator that leverages the expertise of the Cincinnati region, namely with branding, marketing and design. In addition to an elite mentor network, startups are paired with world-class creative agencies and gain access to some of the biggest companies in the world, including Procter & Gamble and Kroger. The Brandery runs one 16-week accelerator program per year for five companies. The participating startups each receive $100K, a year of free office space and more than $200K in additional benefits.

Second Century Ventures

Corporate VCUnited States

Second Century Ventures (SCV) is a strategic investment fund that is verticalizing venture investing by launching its companies into the world's largest industries including real estate, financial services, banking, home services and insurance. SCV seeks investment opportunities in proven enterprises that will drive industry growth, enable new usage models and advance industry standards. SCV prefers SaaS companies generally focused on big data applications, digital media, fin tech and business services that can span multiple verticals.

Armory Square Ventures

Venture CapitalSyracuse, United States

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

Venture CapitalUnited States

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

Venture CapitalUnited States

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.

Foundersembassy

AcceleratorSan Francisco, Canada

Founders Embassy is elevating, inspiring and educating international and immigrant founders by offering them unprecedented access to Silicon Valley through its immersive, bootcamp-style acceleration programs, impactful events and thought leadership - all without any exchange of equity. To qualify for the program, it is not required for the startup to be based outside of the US. However, if the company is based in the US, they do require for one of the founders to be either an international citizen or an immigrant living in the US.