Venture capital firms
Every venture capital firm in the register, with stage focus, sector focus, cheque range and headquarters.
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Workday Ventures
Mike Frandsen is vice president at Workday and oversees product management, quality assurance and product delivery. Prior to joining Workday, he was CEO at Potenco, a green energy startup. Before Potenco, Mike was CEO at TradePoint Solutions, a provider of SaaS-based retail promotion management applications. He led TradePoint from delivery of a successful product prototype to the sale of the company to DemandTec in 2006. Preceding TradePoint, he was at PeopleSoft for seven years in various leadership roles, including vice president and general manager of supply chain management. He began his career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) specializing in software strategy, product planning, development and customer support. He holds a bachelor of science degree in business from the University of Colorado. He is also certified in planning and inventory management and resource management by the American Production and Inventory Control Society.
Versatile VC
Versatile Venture Capital backs early-stage companies which help investors generate alpha and succeed. For example, we’re investors (via prior funds) in alternative data, investment research, back-office tech, marketplaces for private companies, and salestech to help gather assets. Our typical check size is $200,000 to $1,000,000. We lead rounds and will also co-invest. We are an aggressive user of technology internally to manage the firm and make better investments. We manage PEVCtech, a community for family offices, private equity funds, and VCs focused on using technology and analytics to make better investments in private companies. We also manage Founders’ Next Move, a community for founders researching their next move: launching a new company; angel investing/becoming a VC; scouting for investments; buying a company; joining boards; consulting; participating in expert networks; serving as an interim executive; or just getting a job.
Plainsightcapital
Plain Sight Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund, invests in pre-seed to seed-stage B2B SaaS companies with at least one underrepresented founder. We look for Product-Led companies that focus on providing value to customers as quickly as possible by eliminating long, complicated sales processes. Furthermore, these companies use product-led growth strategies to scale horizontally across industries. In addition, Plain Sight Capital enables success by helping early-stage companies to validate that they are solving the right problem, for the right people, with the right solution. Equity serves as the foundation of everything we do. We are committed to the success of our founders, investors, and the larger community we operate in. Likewise, our unwavering commitment to our stakeholders drives us. We believe the best stories are told through results and work every day to tell our story of success through the results that we produce.
Fairhaven Capital
Mr. Paul Ciriello is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Fairhaven Capital Partners. He founded TD Capital Ventures in 2001. His past investments include: iPhrase (acq NYSE: IBM), Softricity (acq NASDAQ: MSFT), Cloakware (acq JSE: NPN), SiGe Semiconductor (acq NASDAQ: SWKS) and Third Screen Media (acq NYSE: TWX). Paul’s current investments include: Springpad in Cambridge, MA and YottaMark in Redwood City, CA. Previously, Paul was an executive at Fidelity Investments in Boston where he was the President of Fidelity Interactive, Founder and President of Proxy Edge, Inc. (acq: ADP), President of The Water Street Project and President of Fidelity Capital Technology. Earlier, Paul was a Senior Policy Advisor at the US EPA, and a US Presidential Management Intern. He earned an MPA from Northeastern University, where he was a University Fellow and a US Public Research Fellow. Paul received a BA in Political Science from SUNY at Buffalo.
Aligned Partners
We are a team of venture capitalists who are obsessively focused on alignment with founders. Everything we do at Aligned Partners centers around enabling great outcomes for our founders and investors. To do so, we have crafted an investment approach that uniquely serves the needs of capital-efficient companies. In particular, we believe that: - Aligning the interests of founders and investors works better for everyone. When we’re all pulling the oars in the same direction, we can accomplish great things with fewer obstacles. - Higher efficiency yields higher returns. Entrepreneurship is, at its essence, about resourcefulness. Companies that achieve their goals in a resource-efficient manner provide high value to their founders and investors alike. - Sustainable growth is a side effect of creating real value for customers. Great companies deeply understand their customers and offer them exceptional, targeted value propositions.
Leap Global Partners
Founded in 2018, LEAP Global Partners is a LatinX led VC that partners with underrepresented founders challenging the status quo in Fintech, Commerce, and SaaS. We focus on the LatinX markets given secular growth opportunities that are often overlooked by traditional VCs. Our team is uniquely positioned to partner withing our target markets given our domain expertise and extensive network. This unique cross-border network of investors and co-investors we have established differentiates us with our founders, which in turn enables us to win some attractive, highly competitive investment opportunities. As discussed below, we leverage our network to add significant value in the areas of recruiting, international expansion, and fundraising - all critical elements of an early-stage startup’s journey. We are committed to invest in underrepresented founders in our key sectors. This includes ethnic minorities and/or female founder
Ansa
Ansa is a New York-based venture capital fund on a mission to empower operators as they scale their businesses from early venture to early growth. Building on our past experiences as partners to market-defining companies such as Coinbase, CrowdStrike, EverlyHealth, FanDuel, Kindbody, Ro (Dadi), and Peloton, we are committed to investing in new markets and distribution models across software and internet. As a firm, we’ve built an authentically diverse team - formerly of Google, TCV, Glossier, Silversmith, M33, The Chernin Group, Lead Edge, and KKR - who share strong cultural values centered around community, collaboration, and thesis-driven investing. We operate as a true partnership and make a small number of high-conviction, thesis-driven investments each year, primarily investing $5-30M into Series A and B businesses. Our ambition is to be your most aligned, impactful partner. Find out more at http://ansa.co/.
Luminari Capital
Mr. Edgar Bronfman serves as Senior Advisor and Special Limited Partner at Luminari Capital. He serves as Managing Partner at Accretive. He is the Director at IAC/Interactivecorp. He also serves as Chairman at BIM. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), one of the world's largest music companies and home to a collection of the best-known record labels in the music industry (2004-2012). He also serves as Chairman at Endeavor Global. In 2004, Mr. Bronfman led a private investment group in its acquisition of WMG from Time Warner and, in 2005, led the company's initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Bronfman currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Endeavor Global, an international non-profit development organization and serves as General Partner at Accretive, a venture capital firm specializing in the business process outsourcing area.
NOEMIS Ventures
NOEMIS Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in FinTech, marketplaces, and AI/ML. The pilot fund invested in 10 companies funded solely by the GP for the proof of concept fund. The pilot fund had 2 exits including Trigger acquired by Circle and Gitlinks acquired by Infor. Some of the first breakout winning companies, where NOEMIS was among the earliest seed investors, are Squire (marketplace / fintech) Series D, Petal (fintech) Series D, and Markable (AI) Series A+. The pilot fund (2016) is marked at a MOIC of 5.4x with a DPI of 0.3x placing the performance in the top decile according to Cambridge data. NOEMIS completed the raise of its $25 million first institutional fund in January of 2022. We have been investing out of the new fund since January of 2021 (2021 vintage) and have made 19 investments thus far (target is 25 companies) with 14 companies having already raised up-rounds.
TMV
We make investments that reflect the way the world actually looks. As a female-led fund with a portfolio that’s 65% women- and minority-owned, TMV represents an opportunity for a more inclusive society and culture. We are committed to investing in diverse companies because it’s simply good business. We pledge to put more capitalistic power into the hands of women and people who are BIPOC (Black, indigenous, and people of color). Our terrain: Purpose-driven founders reimagining. The way we work: We invest in companies that help both workers and entrepreneurs cultivate talent. Logistics and mobility: We invest in companies creating transparency and efficiency around global trade and movement. Sustainable solutions: We invest in the circular economy. The Care Economy: We invest in companies broadening access to care. Fintech: We invest in companies enabling equal access and education in finance.
Illuminate Ventures
Illuminate’s focus is on finding, funding and accelerating great founders in the B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile computing space. We focus on companies building SaaS applications as well as solutions that leverage data and mobility to improve business results. We seek innovative ideas led by talented teams - frequently bringing together diverse perspectives that marry “creative destruction” with new technologies to solve old problems in new ways. Illuminate is typically a startup’s first institutional investor, but can also be a fit for an established company seeking its first equity financing. Our sweet spot is series seed rounds - filling the gap between angel capital and larger funding rounds of traditional VCs. When the timing is right, we collaborate with the best large-scale firms for the next round of financing, but we love lean startups that preserve flexibility in their early years.
XG Ventures
Mr. Pietro Dova is a Co-Founding Partner at XG Ventures. He was Corporate Controller and Finance Director at Google from 2001 to 2007. He was partly responsible for the Google IPO and roadshow, and directed Google's operational and transactional accounting responsibilities worldwide. Immediately prior to joining Google, Pietro was CFO of Employeeservice.com. From 1996 to 1999, Pietro was VP Finance of Quote.com, an early online pioneer providing financial news and stock information to active investors. Pietro began his career in technology in 1988 at Oracle Corporation and held various executive finance positions through 1992. From 1993 to 1996 Pietro headed Fulcrum Technologies' European finance operations based in Paris, France. Pietro received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London and his Masters in Management from M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management.
Romulus Capital
Mr. Neil Chheda is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Romulus Capital. He is an entrepreneur. He has a passion for building product and teams. He focuses on investments in internet, mobile, and healthcare companies. Before Romulus, Neil was a product manager at Zynga. He built products features for Farmville, which has since reached tens of millions of users and become one of the most successful internet products in history. Prior to Zynga, he founded and successfully sold a healthcare company that designs new anesthesiology service solutions to outpatient centers. Neil founded and managed a boutique private equity firm to invest in niche healthcare markets. He has also spent time at McKinsey & Company and Kleiner Perkins, where he focused in healthcare and technology industries. Neil received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Political Science from Yale University.
Cowboy Ventures
Mr. Noah Lichtenstein serves as Venture Partner at Cowboy Ventures. He has been helping build start ups in Silicon Valley for nearly a decade, and is passionate about turning ideas into products and businesses that customers love. Prior to joining Cowboy, Noah was a founding member of HomeRun, a leading social commerce platform that reached over 100 million consumers at its peak (acquired by Rearden Commerce). Noah built and managed the sales infrastructure, led strategic partnerships with AT&T, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, and helped develop the company's B2B commerce platform. Before HomeRun, Noah led consumer business development at the Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto (MON)), was the Co-Founder & President of Annuvia, and served as a wildland firefighter in rural Oregon. He attended Stanford University and serves on the Board of Directors for the United Way of the Bay Area.
Divergent Capital
Divergent Capital is a $30M pre-seed fund backing founders commercializing deeply technical and scientific innovations. We were launched by two experienced investors and operators, Lucy Wang and Katie Shea. Lucy is a Machine Learning scientist by training. She has spent her career building tech and product at the earliest stage and investing in deep tech + science founders. Katie is a sales and marketing expert. She spent her career launching and helping startups commercialize and backing founders with unique business model innovations across industries. Our strategy is to lead rounds with conviction and build a concentrated portfolio of companies using tech and science innovations to solve real world problems across manufacturing & industrial, life science & healthcare, consumer, and next-gen services. Our average check size is $500K - $1M, investing in about 8 companies a year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
O'Leary Ventures
Mr. Kevin O'Leary serves as Chairman of the Board at IQzone. Mr. Kevin O'Leary serves as Chairman at O'Leary Ventures. He is chairman of O'Leary Funds. Previously, Kevin founded and was president of SoftKey Software (later called The Learning Company), a global educational software company that was acquired for $4.2 billion. In 2003 Mr. O'Leary Co-Founded Storage Now, a Canadian developer of climate controlled storage facilities for technology and pharmaceutical companies. He co-hosts Report on Business Television’s SqueezePlay, a program that has developed a cult following among financial professionals and smart investors with its pull-no-punches look at the good, the bad and the ugly on Bay and Wall Streets. Kevin also hosts O’Leary Live, a call-in show where he shares his market moves with fellow investors.
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.
Darling Ventures
Mr. Daniel Darling is the Founder and serves as Managing Director at Darling Ventures. He has more than 7 years of background in product and market strategy for mobile and adtech companies in the US, Australia and Japan. Daniel started his career in digital advertising and moved progressively into mobile product development before launching Darling Ventures in 2013. He has founded companies, grown startups to acquisition and led product innovation at public technology corporations. He is a specialist in business strategy and bringing products to market for mobile technology companies. Daniel has a degree in Economics and Social Sciences form The University of Sydney as well as executive education from both Berkeley HAAS and Stanford GSB. He doesn't wear khaki VC pants.
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.
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.
Mission Ventures (US)
Mr. David Ryan serves as Founding Managing Partner at Mission Ventures. He has venture capital experience focusing on early-stage information technology and service companies. Prior to Mission Ventures, beginning in 1983, he served as General Partner of Copley Venture Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investing in information technology, business services and healthcare. Prior to Copley, Mr. Ryan held positions in strategic planning, business development and plant modernization with Medusa Corp, a Midwest-based manufacturer of industrial materials. He is board member of Nirvanix. He holds a Bachelor's degree from Northeastern University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University.
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.
The Explorer Group
The Explorer Group seeks to utilize the concept of “exponential organizations” and provide seed, growth capital and services to businesses with outsized potential in view of maximizing the rate of return to investors. The fund is managed by a Silicon Valley-based CEO, a Bay Area executive search firm partner and benefits from the advisory services of John H.N. Fisher, a founding partner of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Paul Matteucci, a General Partner at USVP. The investment strategy aims at investing in companies with ultra-large markets, competitive advantage and the potential for growth into billion dollar companies. The fund represents an opportunity to access a top tier deal flow and participate in the world’s most advanced technology projects.
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.
Essential Capital
Essential Capital is a global venture investor and an early backer of industry-transforming businesses. For over a decade we’ve partnered with some of the world’s leading entrepreneurs and invested close to $500M in companies like Delivery Hero, Domo, Dataminr, Lyft, Plated, Perfect Day, and Tradeshift, among many others. Our current climate-related agenda focuses on investments in the “materials transition” space. We back companies that decarbonize key supply chains and tackle ethical and environmental challenges facing the current society and future generations. Operating out of a $130M dedicated capital pool, we are an active supporter of companies we back, and tend to lead at early stages rather than follow in late-stage rounds.
Todd & Rahul Capital
Hi there! We’re Todd Goldberg (Founded Eventjoy; Acquired by Ticketmaster) and Rahul Vohra (Founded Superhuman and Rapportive; Acquired by LinkedIn). We're YC alums who enjoy supporting ambitious founders and have been co-investing together as angels for nearly a decade. We write $300k-$500k checks into early-stage startups and make decisions quickly. To date, we’ve invested over $50M into 120+ startups. When we invest, we help with finding product/market fit, supercharging your go-to-market, and raising your next round from the best investors. Founders also tend to ask for our help at strategic inflection points. We’re backed by 150+ world-class founders, operators, and investors. They help support and evangelize our companies too.