E-commerce investors
Targets unsexy, antiquated markets (warehousing, real estate, adult incontinence), avoids crypto/VR/drones, and runs alumni-focused Founders Programs (Palantir, Rippling, Amazon) plus a Quit-by-Christmas support program.
Crypto-native operators who architect token-first networks through token design, governance, and community bootstrapping, helping founders build sustainable token economies from day one and backing 100+ on-chain projects.
3TS Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Helsinki, Finland. Founded in 1998, the firm specializes in growth capital investments in European technology companies. The firm focuses on investments in software, hardware, networking, digital media, and internet-related companies. 3TS Capital Partners also provides advisory services, such as corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital.
NY headquarters plus offices in Accra, Cairo and Nairobi combine global capital-market access with local operator proximity; ex-Bridgewater/Morgan Stanley founders and repeat backer of Africa's B2B e-commerce leaders.
4F Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Costa Mesa, California. The firm invests in early-stage technology companies that are focused on scaling their businesses and achieving significant growth. 4F Ventures is focused on both the US and international markets, and has experience working with companies in a variety of industries, including software, hardware, telecommunications, and consumer goods. 4F Ventures also offers additional services, such as mentorship and access to capital, to help the companies it invests in succeed.
A Los Angeles-based venture fund and startup studio where Spencer Rascoff directly incubates proptech and future-of-living startups, offering media-driven exposure, co-creation expertise, and public-market/SPAC experience.
Growth-stage investor in fintech/financial infrastructure and logistics/supply-chain foundational systems, offering strategic intelligence from former heads of state and national security leaders plus policy and compliance expertise.
Leads seed, doubles down at Series A, and incubates startups; an unusually operator-heavy founding team (Eventbrite founder, ex-Uber finance head, ex-Coatue investor) offers hands-on operational, finance, and growth support.
Seed-stage fund founded by Ramtin Naimi whose boom-bust-resurgence background runs an institutionalized super-angel network that orchestrates targeted introductions to top multi-stage funds, boosting Series A graduation.
A climate-focused agrifood fund evolved from corporate-backed to institutional VC, offering founders rare food-policy and regulatory expertise through partner Sam Kass.
Multi-stage investor (including later-stage) run by five long-time partners, offering founders a 600+ person community of operators and executives that co-develops theses, supports companies, and advocates for systemic diversity.
Acronym VC is a venture capital firm that specializes in early stage investments in high-growth potential startups. They provide funding and resources to help these startups reach their potential and accelerate their growth. They also provide mentoring, advice and other resources to help entrepreneurs realize their goals. Acronym VC has a global reach, with offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Seed/early-stage AI-native business software investor making ~7 new investments yearly, originated the Diversity Rider to include underrepresented investors, and pursues fewer-bets, deeper relationships; 60% reach Series B/C.
Strategic bridge between Hollywood and creator platforms, leveraging Shari Redstone’s Paramount Global lineage and ex-AOL/News Corp leaders to secure introductions to C-suite media, telecom, and tech partners.
Pre-seed specialist backing pre-traction, pre-formation founders with $500k–$1M+ checks, issuing founder-name term sheets and running a Founder-in-Residence (including university) to ideate and form companies.
Focuses on impactful companies aiming to positively transform the world's food system.
All Iron Ventures is a venture capital firm that was established in 2017. They specialize in early stage investments in technology companies in the United States and Europe. They aim to provide capital and expertise to help entrepreneurs build their companies. All Iron Ventures is based in San Francisco, California and has investments in a wide range of industries, including healthcare, financial technology, and consumer products. They focus on helping companies with innovative ideas grow and become successful.
Generates operator-generated concepts and recruits elite CEOs, offers codified ideation and structured focus groups, physician GPs with check-writing authority for healthcare, plus 70+ in-house engineers across Montreal and Bogotá.
The Verksamt.se portal is run by Tillvxtverket (The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth) and is the gateway to starting a business in Sweden. The portal provides resources and information on topics such as business registration, taxation, labor law and financing. It also provides links to relevant government agencies and other organizations that can help entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses. Furthermore, the portal provides an online business coach, a business plan template and a business plan calculator, allowing entrepreneurs to easily create a business plan that is tailored to their needs.
Founder GPs who speak a founder's language run formal 90-day Field Study research sprints to pre-identify opportunities and connect startups to off-balance-sheet institutional real-estate capital and facilities.
Pre-seed investor writing the first institutional check, operating a Venice entrepreneurial campus where founders and investors co-work, with Hollywood-connected mentors offering direct access to celebrity, media and brand networks.
Led by Tricia Black (Facebook’s first VP of Sales, 7th employee), focused on commerce, care and connectivity, runs an Investor Fellows program and targets founders who build growth flywheels.
Leads mega-rounds for frontier-tech visions; provides a 150+ person platform (recruiting, marketing, technical); doubles as a media company producing podcasts and research, and pursues aggressive crypto and illiquid-asset investments.
Invests at day zero—pre-idea/pre-team—running 8–10 week residencies across 30+ cities that screen tens of thousands, match co-founders and pressure-test teams before investing.
Atlas Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. They invest in early stage technology companies across a variety of industries including software, hardware, AI, and healthcare. Their portfolio companies include companies such as Taboola, Cloudflare, monday.com, and many others. Atlas Ventures focuses on helping their portfolio companies reach their full potential by providing them with resources, advice, and guidance. They also have a team of experienced entrepreneurs who work with the founders to help them with the development and growth of their businesses.
Co-led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, offers B2B startups structured access to BCG consultants and corporate clients and helps expand across the US and Asia.
Founded by Arlan Hamilton while homeless, it requires one founder be a woman, person of color, or LGBTQ, treats capital allocation as activism, and argues underestimated founders are mispriced assets create alpha.
Bailador Technology Investments is an Australian-based investment company that specializes in the IT and media sectors. It is focused on making investments in innovative internet-related businesses and providing capital and support to help them grow and succeed. The company provides a range of services to help investee companies realize their potential, including providing strategic advice, access to financing and expertise in technology, marketing, operations and business development. Bailador also provides shareholders with regular updates on its portfolio performance, as well as reporting on financial and other important business developments.
Invests at pre-seed and seed with concentrated mid-six-figure checks; founder-built collective for consumer brands, commerce and consumer tech, with Brian Lee sharing playbooks and hands-on founder experience.
A founder-focused investor targeting culturally resonant tech and aspirational consumer companies, bridging elite venture ecosystems and historically excluded communities through mentorship and access for non-traditional talent.
Pre-seed-focused lead firm operating as a collective product-studio of creative technologists with hardware/frontier-tech experience, deeply building companies via recruiting, product strategy, early culture and pattern recognition for physical‑digital startups.
BCVP is a strategic advisory and equity investment firm focused on preclinical and clinical development of biopharmaceuticals and medical devices. The firm provides advice to clients on product development, regulatory strategy, corporate finance and strategic partnering, among other areas. BCVP also provides equity investments to support the development of innovative products and technologies.
Partner-led, technology-over-ego firm that publicly shares memos, quantified roadmaps and its anti-portfolio, and offers apprenticeship mentorship plus early AI/developer-platform foresight.
Pre-seed investor focused on India, led by a solo GP with operator and startup-studio experience, dual Pune–San Francisco HQ, 200+ portfolio companies and intentionally small-and-early focus.
Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV) is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. They work with companies in cloud technologies; virtual and augmented reality; artificial intelligence (AI); the internet of things (IoT); robotics; autonomous vehicles; and other emerging technologies. They focus on helping startups bring their ideas to life, providing them with the resources, support, and network they need to succeed. BGV\u2019s investments range from seed to series A and B. They also provide mentorship, advice, and connections to their portfolio companies.
Pure non-dilutive term loans (no warrants) for B2B SaaS at $1M–$10M ARR; favors capital-efficient small, boring vertical SaaS and shares revenue-financing models and underwriting tools.
Invests very early (seed, $1–3M) with a solo GP enabling rapid decisions, leveraging an operator-heavy LP network for sourcing and delivering data-driven diagnostics plus structured playbooks to find PMF.
Longstanding crypto track record and relationships, plus a pioneering tokenized, tradable LP structure that pays on-chain dividends via security tokens.
Blue 9 Capital is a New York City based private equity firm that specializes in investments in small and middle market companies. They have a portfolio of 30 companies and have invested in tech-enabled, consumer-facing businesses across a variety of industries. Their investments range from seed and early-stage to growth-stage companies, and they provide capital, resources, and expertise to help their portfolio companies succeed.
Seed investor making repeatable first institutional checks ($100K–$500K) into pre-vetted, capital-efficient tech-enabled startups (biotech to industrial AI) via a proprietary curated deal network and Wall Street finance discipline.
Former senior operators act as de facto cofounders and interim CEOs/CTOs/CMOs/CFOs, running a studio that provides day-to-day product, engineering, growth, finance and marketing support and a $43M+ follow-on fund.
Led by a solo GP, an early institutional investor that uses a learn-first networking approach—deep founder/category diligence—with bi-regional Columbus–Boulder presence focused on consumer, fashion, health/wellness, and brand+tech SaaS/IoT
Writes ten $300k–$500k checks annually to founders who relocate to a Chattanooga founder outpost, living there until $1M annual revenue, with always-on, portfolio-run operational support.
Brightspark is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in early-stage startups and technology companies. They offer a wide range of services for their portfolio companies, including strategic consulting, access to capital, and introductions to potential partners. The team at Brightspark has extensive experience in the startup and tech space, and works to provide a unique perspective on helping startups grow and succeed. They also provide summaries of the investment opportunities on their website, so that potential investors can quickly assess the potential of any given venture.
Full-stack creative agency acting as lead creative partner for U.S. consumer brands, providing naming, packaging, advertising and go-to-market systems driven by a proprietary cultural-insights engine and product-culture fit frameworks.
Focuses on companies addressing needs arising from massive demographic changes, differentiated by its thematic expertise in demographic-driven markets.
Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund is a joint venture capital fund between AfricInvest and Cathay Innovation, launched in 2019. The fund focuses on supporting startups and ventures in Africa that are looking to scale their businesses across the African continent and beyond. The fund has already made a number of investments in promising companies, including fintech, health-tech, mobility, logistics, and e-commerce. The fund is managed by a team of experienced venture capitalists, who provide experience and resources to help these startups grow. The fund is also partnered with a number of other investors and institutions, providing additional capital and resources.
Invests from early-stage through M&A, pairing startups with 20+ Fortune 500 partners for active product co-development, commercial partnerships, and PE-backed support across regulated sectors like healthcare, finance, and energy.
Seed-stage investor (initial $250k–$1M) from a single-family-office corporate VC that can scale within the same round up to $10M, sector-agnostic, and offers hands-on mental and emotional support to founders.
Product-first team of former heads of product (Tinder, Stripe, Instagram) focusing on UX-friendly crypto, writing $500K–$2M checks and offering a formal Founder Experience post-investment organization.
Chocolate Up is an online website and store that specializes in selling handcrafted chocolates made with premium, quality ingredients. The site provides customers with a wide variety of unique chocolates and confections that are sure to please. The store also offers a selection of vegan and gluten-free chocolates, as well as custom gift boxes and hampers. Chocolate Up has an extensive selection of products and provides customers with an easy and convenient shopping experience. Customers can purchase chocolates from the website or from the store, located in Sydney, Australia. Chocolate Up also offers a loyalty program, which allows customers to earn rewards for shopping with them.
Seed and early-stage lead/co-lead investor backing experienced teams in education, safety & care, and environment/climate, offering Goldman-level analytical rigor and explicit, quantified impact theses.
Clearco is a suite of performance financing products and services for founders in all stages of their journey. They provide early-stage founders with access to capital and the support they need to succeed. They have a suite of tools designed to help founders from idea to exit, including fundraising, investor relations, and liquidity options. They also have a community of founders, mentors, investors, advisors, and industry experts to help founders succeed. Clearco's mission is to make performance financing accessible to innovative companies and to empower founders to succeed.
Earliest-stage investor targeting female founders in the friend-and-family gap, backing female scout-investors sourced via journalists and influencers, plus a remote 2024 cybersecurity accelerator creating a proprietary security startup pipeline.
Mandated to deploy 75% to Black- and Hispanic-owned, 75% to Chicago's South/West Sides, and 50% to women-founded food & beverage companies, offering operating support via a ~50-person restaurant team.
Pre-seed and seed investor run by three active founders, placing top women operators on cap tables to provide hands-on marketing, revenue, ops, product and engineering support without dilution.
Invests across public and private tech via an AI-native crossover platform that uses proprietary social and alternative-data research to inform deals, offers fund access ($50K min) and entertainment ties.
Invests at the pre-venture stage, applies a proprietary Villain Test to avoid future-harmful giants, offers rapid small grants to de-risk climate ideas, and backs culture-shaping consumer brands.
Early-stage, thesis-driven investor that seeds multiple theme-aligned startups with small, non-lead checks, then scales in winners while providing a dense B2B network of banks, retailers, insurers and payment partners.
CompanyFirst is a leading provider of comprehensive financial and business solutions. They offer a range of services, including financial and banking services, data analysis, business intelligence, and consulting services. They specialize in helping businesses make informed decisions and develop successful strategies. They offer comprehensive and integrated services that are tailored to the needs of their clients. Their team provides expertise in banking, data analysis, business intelligence, and consulting services, so their clients can make optimal decisions and achieve their goals.