Venture capital firms

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.

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.

Emil Capital Partners

Venture CapitalUnited States

Emil Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in small to mid-sized private companies in the food & beverage, consumer applications, digital media, ondemand or e-commerce, and beauty and apparel industries serving markets in North America and Europe. Emerging products and services that impact consumer lifestyles and wellness, including health, education and communication, as well as certain premium or gourmet food categories are considered specific growth areas suitable for investment. The firm was founded in 2009 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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.

The Sequel Fund is a early-stage seed fund that invests in young companies raising their first round of institutional capital. The fund welcomes companies from most industries including entertainment, manufacturing, food and beverage, health services, financial services, technology, entertainment, manufacturing, and consumer non-durables. Sequel Fund does not invest in FDA-regulated products. The fund invests in companies in Kentucky and lower Indiana. They require prospective companies to graduate from an Accelerator Program or to secure a lead investor on reasonable terms.

The Sequel Fund

Venture CapitalUnited States

The Sequel Fund is a early-stage seed fund that invests in young companies raising their first round of institutional capital. The fund welcomes companies from most industries including entertainment, manufacturing, food and beverage, health services, financial services, technology, entertainment, manufacturing, and consumer non-durables. Sequel Fund does not invest in FDA-regulated products. The fund invests in companies in Kentucky and lower Indiana. They require prospective companies to graduate from an Accelerator Program or to secure a lead investor on reasonable terms.

aic@36inc

Venture CapitalRaipur, India

The first and the most important thing, also the hardest, on the path towards launching your own start-up, is to come up with an idea that works. Any start-up which aspires to get their ideas into reality or existing business to scale with access to ace mentoring and a plethora of services, this is what 36Inc is. We as a business incubator and accelerator help start-ups and already existing companies to develop by providing services such as fund support, management, mentorship, co-working space, technological assistance or everything that is required for a business to grow.

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.

Alphaimpact8

Venture Capital

We are a venture capital firm fighting minority wealth inequality by investing in and supporting the best diverse founders, startups and ideas. Through investing, we solve systemic problems while creating wealth in underrepresented communities and atypical returns for our investors. Seven years ago we founded Alpha Impact 8, with the mission to generate atypical returns by empowering technology creators to disrupt the fintech and future of work sectors. Today, we have delivered amazing returns to our fund investors. Diversity creates top 1% returns. Invest in diversity.

Woodside O'Brien

Venture CapitalUnited States

Woodside O’Brien invests in entrepreneurs who commercialize big ideas that matter – ideas that reimagine the world as more efficient, clear and connected. The firm currently offers investors a pledge fund comprised of disruptive technology companies poised for explosive growth and a co-investment fund that invests alongside a prominent angel group. It invests in disruptive technology companies that bring efficency, clarity and connectivity to the markets. The firm advises and assists each portfolio company with operations, business development, recruiting and financing.

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.

Opus8

Private Equity, Venture CapitalMclean, United States

Opus8 is a private investment firm that provides high-level strategy and business advisory services to clients. The company makes investments in small buyouts and in opportunistic angel investment situations in the areas of Business Services, B2B New Media and E-commerce, Datacenter and cloud technologies and services. Their investment portfolio currently includes investments in companies in the following industries: Information Technology, Consumer Products, Financial Services, Business Process Outsourcing, Health Care and Information Services and Publishing.

University of Pennsylvania Endowment

Private Equity, Venture CapitalPhiladelphia, United States

University of Pennsylvania manages an endowment which is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The fund provides annual funding for the strategic initiatives of the university. The office of trust administration administers the university's endowments and other restricted gifts to ensure their use is compliant with donor wishes or relevant laws. The trust administration is responsible for the creation of new funds for operating gifts, capital gifts, endowments and agency funds to meet donor requests. The endowment fund is administered by the board of directors.

T5 Capital

Venture CapitalUnited States

T5 Capital is an investment arm of Triple Five Corp which specializes in venture capital and private equity investments. It focuses on investing in early stage disruptive technology companies, control investments and buyouts of companies. It invests in the hospitality, development, high technology sectors, real estate, banking and financial services, retail, multimedia, bio-tech, internet, telecommunications, wireless, cable, computer software, e-commerce, fiber, networking and semiconductors. It is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada and was founded in 2011.

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.

WFD Ventures

Private Equity, Venture CapitalSpain

WFD Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in medical device and healthcare technology companies. The firm invests in ventures at any stage and also provides assistance with prototype development, intellectual property and licensing strategies, clinical trials, regulatory filings (510(k), PMA and drug/device combinations), system and physician economics, reimbursement, distribution strategies and sales management. It actively invests in therapeutic, diagnostic or drug delivery technologies companies at any stage of their investment cycle.

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.

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.

SineWave Ventures

Venture CapitalUnited States

SineWave Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia. The firm was founded in 2014 and focuses on investing in companies in the enterprise tech, systems tech, service platforms, education, financial services and preventative health sectors. It provides a unique platform approach to venture and growth capital investing that brings together public sector entities, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and strategic corporate partners for the purpose of accelerating company growth, enhancing value, and maximizing investor returns.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vistaequitypartners

Venture CapitalAustin, United States

By providing technology expertise, operational guidance and capital for sustainable growth, we empower organizations across all industries to stay ahead in the digital economy. We support the diverse communities in which we live and work - it’s core to who we are. Through investing in job training, increasing access to education and supporting the arts, we are proud stewards of a variety of organizations, and we are committed to creating opportunities for all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, gender or sexual orientation.

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.

MITA Ventures

Venture CapitalMexico

MITA Ventures is an early stage fund focused on emerging opportunities within and outside of the US. It's US investment thesis focuses on growth companies expanding into Latin America where MITA leverages its deep networks to connect to the regions IT/Telecom/ Finance infrastructure. For Latin American companies, primarily Mexican companies, MITA invests in talent that has gone under the radar of US VCs because of their limited geographic reach. MITA's investment team is located in Mexico City, Puerto Vallarta and San Francisco.

SteelSky Ventures

Venture CapitalAtlanta, United States

SteelSky Ventures invests in companies that improve access, care and outcomes in women’s health. Our focused thesis is driven by the belief that women’s healthcare is a global market opportunity, in the nascent stage, that is primed for exponential growth driven by technological and business model innovation in established and new categories. We invest across the spectrum of women’s health in consumer health, digital health, new healthcare delivery models, ePharmacy and retail therapeutics, with 16 portfolio companies to date.

Battle Born Venture

Venture CapitalUnited States

Battle Born Venture is a venture capital program, overseen by the Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development under the auspices of the US Treasury's State Small Business Credit Initiative. Battle Born makes equity and equity-like investments in early stage, high-growth Nevadan enterprises in the aerospace and defense, agriculture, energy, healthcare, information technology, logistics and operations, manufacturing, mining, tourism, gaming and water sectors. The firm was founded in 2013 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

E²JDJ

Venture CapitalSan Francisco (SF / Bay Area), United States

E²JDJ is an early stage venture capital fund based in New Orleans, LA. The fund invests in talented founders who are creating novel technology or science solutions focused on food and agriculture across the value chain that improve the quality, resilience and sustainability of the food system. E²JDJ focuses on scalable, high growth and early-stage businesses that promote human health, lower global energy consumption, reduce the environmental impact of the industry, and leverage technology to materially impact productivity.

Gray Matters Capital

Venture CapitalNairobi, United States

Gray Matters Capital an impact investing firm which actively invests in sustainable, replicable business models that benefit underserved populations in developing countries. It places major emphasis on co-creating value with partners: social businesses, entrepreneurs, and other impact investors. It operates for -profit models that alleviate poverty, promote the dignity of human rights, and enhance the quality of education for low-income communities around the world. It was founded in 2006 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Imagen Capital Partners, based in Seattle, Washington and Park City, Utah, is a venture capital fund focused on investing in early-stage technology companies and businesses. The firm seeks to invest predominantly in seed and series A rounds across the technology spectrum. Its team of entrepreneurs has a track record in building entrepreneurial companies and seeks to leverage this industry knowledge to work with entrepreneurs who seek to innovate, challenge and fundamentally change the dynamics of new and existing markets.

Innobridge Capital Management

Venture CapitalUnited States

InnoBridge Capital Management was an investment firm that focused on post-angel rounds, seed stage deals and preferred to invest in companies that are ready to shift from product prototype stage and into potential customer engagement stage. The firm preferred to invest in emerging technology companies that leverage the innovation in the United States with outsourced implementations in countries such as China and India, and can potentially develop, produce, and reach $1M - $3M in revenue or break-even within 2-3 years.

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Venture CapitalCiudad Autonoma De Buenos, Argentina

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koev brothers

Venture CapitalManassas, United States

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BrightPath Capital Partners

Venture CapitalUnited States

BrightPath Capital Partners is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm focused on companies providing sustainable solutions with social impact. It seeks to generate positive environmental, social and community impact. The firm seeks to invests in the clean technology, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, healthy food and wellness sectors. The firm primarily focuses on late-stage venture and growth stage companies based in the United States. It was founded in 2010 and based in Oakland, California.

Springbank

Private Equity, Venture CapitalNew, United States

Springbank is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City. We invest in the infrastructure serving the long-overlooked needs of women and working families. It’s a $1 trillion opportunity hiding in plain sight. The companies and founders we back are building the tools, products, and services that define the future of inclusive work, the new care economy, and the next wave of financial progress for families. Investments include Dandi, Guaranteed, Daivergent, Little Otter, Carefull, Wellthy and more.