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Investors who actively back Retail startups across stages and geographies.
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1st Course Capital logo
1st Course Capital
United States

1CC.vc is a digital asset trading platform that provides users with access to a wide range of digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and tokens. The platform is designed to be user-friendly and features a variety of features, such as charting tools, real-time trading, margin trading, and advanced order types. Additionally, 1CC.vc also features a variety of educational resources to help users learn more about digital assets and trading. The platform is built on top of a secure and reliable infrastructure, and its services are available in both English and Chinese.

Series ASeedPre-SeedFood And BeverageMedtech
$25K – $200K
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25M Health
United States

Venture studio and fund that co‑incubates with LifePoint executives, giving startups direct access to a $50B+ health system for pilot deployment, real‑world validation, and underserved population focus.

Series ASeries BPre-SeedRetailTechnology
$500K – $1M
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30N Ventures
Brazil

30n is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage startups with a mission to create an equitable and sustainable future. They invest in a range of industries, including technology, media, health care, and finance, and are committed to creating long-term value for their portfolio companies. Their portfolio includes companies working on artificial intelligence, health tech, software, hardware, and more. The firm also provides resources to their portfolio companies such as mentorship, network access, and strategic advice. 30n has offices in San Francisco, New York, and London.

Series ASeedSeries BFood And BeverageRetail
$500K – $3M
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645 Ventures
United States

Early-stage partner for founders building iconic, industry-transforming companies, demonstrated by two new funds totaling $347M.

Series ARetailTechnology
$250K – $6M
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8VC
United States

Acts as a VC and venture studio—co-founds startups with 25–30% of capital, assembles top‑1% specialists, and builds national‑capability defense, industrials, and bio‑infrastructure companies with corporate partners.

Series ASeries BPre-SeedRetailFinance
$500K – $50M
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Able Partners
United States

Women-led VC systematically backs clinically rigorous, behaviorally grounded wellbeing startups tackling stigmatized areas—alcohol use disorder, menopause, mental health—using stigma as an investing edge and insisting on consumer-grade UX.

Series AAgricultureRetail
$500K – $3M
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Advancit Capital
United States

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.

EducationEntertainment
$500K – $5M
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Amplifyher Ventures
United States

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.

Series APre-SeedRetailTechnology
$100K – $300K
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Andreessen Horowitz
Asia-Pacific

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.

Series ASeries BAgricultureEducation
$500K – $100M
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BAM Ventures
United States

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.

Series APre-SeedEntertainmentRetail
$100K – $1M
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Banana Capital
United States

Internet-first fund investing globally from pre-seed to pre-IPO with small initial checks ($25k–$300k), leveraging the founder's social-media distribution, meme persona and The Peel podcast as proprietary sourcing and distribution.

Series APre-SeedEntertainmentRetail
$250K – $750K
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Bessemer Venture Partners
United States

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.

Series ASeries BEducationEntertainment
$500K – $100M
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BGV Benhamou Global Ventures
Israel

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.

SeedDevopsRetail
$250K – $5M
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BIGR Ventures
United States

Specialized growth-equity investor in natural and organic CPG offering founders privileged deal flow and distribution insight via Presence Marketing ties and 70+ years of sector-specific operating and deal experience.

Series ASeries BAgricultureRetail
$500K – $3M
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Black Star Fund
Africa

Black-led, with an all-Black founder portfolio across the US and Africa; over 70% of its $12M goes to Black women and it aims to build Black unicorns.

Series APre-SeedRetailTechnology
$50K – $1M
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BrandProject
Canada

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.

Series APre-SeedAgricultureRetail
$500K – $3M
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Bullish
United States

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.

Series APre-SeedAgricultureRetail
$500K – $1.5M
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Canaan Partners
United States

Deliberate 60/40 tech/healthcare split focused on de novo company formation, with a transparent debate-driven partner scoring system (1–4) and proven multi-generation continuity.

Series ARetailFinance
$1M – $20M
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Cathay Innovation
United States

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.

Series ASeries BEnergyRetail
$5M – $40M
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City Light Capital
United States

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.

Series AAgricultureEducation
$50K – $3M
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Cleo Capital
United States

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.

Pre-SeedRetailFinance
$500K – $1M
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Coatue
United States

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.

Series ASeries BEntertainmentRetail
$1M – $20M
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Collab Fund
United States

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.

Series AAgricultureEnergy
$500K – $1M
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Commerce Ventures
United States

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.

Series ASeries BPre-SeedRetailFinance
$100K – $5M
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CompanyFirst
United States

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.

Series ASeedSeries BFood And BeverageMobile
$50K – $500K
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Compass Digital Ventures
Canada

Compass Digital Ventures is the venture and growth capital arm of Compass Group based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They invest in companies in the food and hospitality, retail and consumer, and technology industries. Through their investments and incubator programs, they seek to help companies achieve their goals and grow. Compass Digital Ventures has a portfolio of investments in companies such as Blue Apron, DoorDash, and GrubHub. They also have an incubator program to help entrepreneurs develop their business ideas, as well as a venture fund to help finance those ideas.

Series ASeedPre-SeedFood And BeverageMedtech
$1M – $5M
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Conscience VC
United States

Solo-GP led by chemical engineer Ariana Thacker, investing in consumer-facing science companies (health, climate, life-quality) using a 12+ months-to-replicate defensibility test; ~80% portfolio led by underrepresented founders.

Pre-SeedRetail
$250K – $250K
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Correlation Ventures
United States

Analytics-driven co-investor making rapid decisions (days–two weeks) using a proprietary predictive model, writing small flexible checks ($100k–$4M) across 100+ companies only alongside leads, avoiding board seats or friction.

Series ASeries BGeneralistAgriculture
$100K – $4M
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Cowboy Ventures
United States

Seed-stage investor leveraging Aileen Lee's data-driven, category-shaping framework and a Mustang Fund structure that enables concentrated follow-on support for breakout companies.

Series APre-SeedRetailFinance
$500K – $3M
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Craft Ventures
United States

Led by repeat unicorn operators from the PayPal Mafia and iconic startups, they offer a metrics-driven B2B SaaS playbook and transparent investment framework with quantitative efficiency benchmarks founders can reverse-engineer.

Series ASeries BPre-SeedRetailTechnology
$50K – $50M
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Creandum
Europe

Early-stage seed and Series A European investor with a permanent San Francisco presence, a 1-in-6 unicorn hit rate, and Entrepreneurs-in-Residence who help founders craft category-defining product experiences and design.

Series ASeries BEnergyRetail
$200K – $10M
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Crossbeam Venture Partners
United States

Specializes in companies building on platforms like YouTube, Amazon and Shopify, offering asset-backed credit, non-dilutive financing and lending and origination expertise for creator revenue and platform cash flows.

Pre-SeedRetailE-commerce
$1M – $1.5M
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Define Ventures
United States

Runs a free AI Fellows program connecting founders to former Fortune 100 health CEOs, tailored go-to-market training, enduring partner mentorship, and network of payers, providers, employers, and life-science companies.

Series ARetailTechnology
$750K – $6M
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DH Ventures (Delivery Hero Ventures)
United Arab Emirates

Delivery Hero Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Berlin, Germany, founded in 2021. It focuses on investing in young startups in healthcare and digital industries. The firm provides capital and advice to support early-stage companies, helping them to develop and scale their products. Delivery Hero Ventures offers a range of services, from corporate development and fundraising to mentorship and growth strategy. They also provide support for mergers and acquisitions, licensing, and IPOs.

Series ASeedFood And BeverageMarketplace
$500K – $5M
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Dreamers VC
United States

Invests in early-stage U.S. startups, leveraging celebrity co-founders and Japan–U.S. corporate networks to perform diligence, amplify storytelling via entertainment and influencer channels, and bridge cross-cultural markets.

Series ASeries BRetailFinance
$500K – $5M
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Equal Ventures
United States

Seed investor focused exclusively on climate/energy, insurance, retail, and supply chain, using deep sector research and mapping, making concentrated ~$1.5M initial checks and publicly sharing learnings.

EnergyRetail
$2M – $2M
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f7 Ventures
United States

Founded by seven senior female operators from Facebook/Meta and top tech firms, they back the top 1% of operators transitioning into founders, using operator-sourced dealflow and decisions in days.

Series AEntertainmentRetail
$10K – $5M
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Fernbrook Capital Management
United States

Focuses on revenue-stage, fast-growing Software, Marketplace, and eCommerce companies driving innovation across the consumer ecosystem.

Series ASeries BMarketplaceRetail
$1M – $1M
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FirstMark
United States

Early-stage investor with a large NYC platform: 20,000+ Data Driven NYC members, Guilds tied to 80% of unicorns, founders' AI/data expertise, repeat-founder networks, and the 11-year MAD Landscape.

Series ASeries BRetailFinance
$250K – $10M
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Flare Capital Partners
United States

Co-creates and incubates healthcare startups with payers, providers and health systems—using partner data, workflows and distribution to pressure-test products and secure anchor-customer integration.

RetailTechnology
$1M – $10M
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Floodgate
United States

Pre-seed micro-VC focusing on non-consensus, inflection-driven pattern-breaking startups, offering small-check investing expertise and proprietary inflection-theory and pattern-breaker frameworks to evaluate ideas and pivots.

Pre-SeedEducationEntertainment
$500K – $5M
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Flucas Ventures
United States

Solo GP with an operator background (Summit Ventures COO) who invests across all stages and differentiates by democratizing access—inviting diverse co‑investors to participate alongside Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz.

Series ASeries BPre-SeedRetailFinance
$250K – $5M
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Footwork
United States

$175M early-stage investor specializing in consumer technology and the consumerization of enterprise technology.

Series ARetailTechnology
$250K – $10M
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Forerunner Ventures
United States

Early-stage consumer investor specializing in direct-to-consumer brands, offering rigorous financial-modeling and cohort/unit-economics analysis plus a track record of breakout wins like Warby Parker, Dollar Shave Club, Glossier, and Chime.

Pre-SeedEducationEntertainment
$250K – $15M
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Foundation Ventures
Africa

Seed-to-growth investor leveraging Egypt's currency-driven cost advantage and local tech talent as a testbed, plus access to the country's largest enterprise network for customer acquisition and distribution.

Pre-SeedRetailTechnology
$500K – $1M
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Founder Collective
United States

Seed-stage fund of former founders that keeps funds tiny and refuses large pro-rata, emphasizes extreme capital efficiency (3x/dollar) and backs non-obvious outliers early; portfolio: Uber, The Trade Desk, WHOOP.

RetailFinance
$500K – $5M
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Fuel Capital
United States

Supportive, founder-friendly investor that stands in the founder's corner rather than micromanaging operations.

Series APre-SeedRetailTechnology
$500K – $1M
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General Catalyst
Latin America

Builds companies from scratch via hatch heritage, operates transformation platforms for AI-enabled service roll-ups, offers non-dilutive revenue-share funding, and leads cross-border deals under an unscaling AI thesis.

Series ASeries BManufacturingRetail
$500K – $100M
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GGV Capital
United States

Built dual Silicon Valley–China practices with partners in Shanghai and Beijing who help founders localize products and go‑to‑market across borders; US arm split and no longer invests in China.

Series ASeries BEntertainmentRetail
$5M – $50M
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Gold House Ventures
United States

Tied to a nonprofit with profits reinvested into mission, it gives founders narrative, brand and distribution advantages via Hollywood/media infrastructure and a curated cultural power network for API founders.

Series APre-SeedGeneralistRetail
$100K – $1M
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Goodwater Capital
United States

Exclusive consumer-technology investor targeting products that act as everyday utilities, offering an in-house technical platform team (engineers, data scientists, growth) and a global U.S.–Asia, mission-driven focus.

Pre-SeedRetail
$50K – $10M
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Great Eagle Holdings
United Arab Emirates

Great Eagle Holdings Limited is a Hong Kong-based investment company that owns, develops, and manages multi-purpose properties across Asia, ranging from residential, office, retail, and hotel properties. The company was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1972, and has a market capitalization of HK$1.600b. Its portfolio of properties includes luxury residential projects in Hong Kong, shopping malls, and hotels. The company also has retail outlets in major cities across Asia.

Series ASeedSeries BFood And BeverageWeb3
$1M – $4M
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Great Oaks Venture Capital
United States

Seed-stage, nearly two-decade-old firm that writes small initial checks ($50k–$500k) as first investor to pre-traction founders, offering low-noise support and cross-sector expertise across consumer and infrastructure.

Series APre-SeedAgricultureRetail
$50K – $500K
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GSV Ventures
United States

Female-led, edtech-specialist VC with Pre-K-to-Gray learning thesis and AI-first requirement, offering summit-driven access to 15,000+ leaders, 500+ edtech CEOs, EdTech 150/200 visibility, and founder Michael Moe’s growth investing expertise.

Series ASeries BEducationRetail
$250K – $12M
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GV
United States

Financially driven, not strategic corporate VC; aggressively backs competitors; offers a large in‑house design/product studio with Design and Brand Sprints plus ML-driven opportunity scoring.

Series ASeries BRetailTechnology
$250K – $50M
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Halogen Ventures
United States

Early-stage investor specializing in female-founded consumer technology companies.

Series APre-SeedAgricultureEntertainment
$100K – $1M
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Imaginary Ventures
United States

Founded by Natalie Massenet and Nick Brown, the fund targets culture-defining digitally native consumer brands using a customer-wallet, consumer-journey lens, backing underrepresented founders and sustainable, Web3-enabled retail.

Series ASeries BPre-SeedAgricultureRetail
$100K – $10M
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Inflect Health
United States

Three-pronged platform—venture investing, Inflect Studio company-building, and Inflect Advisory consulting—validates solutions against live clinical workflows and leverages 8,000+ clinicians across 450+ locations.

Series ASeries BRetailTechnology
$150K – $500K
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Initialized Capital
United States

Seed-stage investor that behaves as an operator-heavy, extended founding team from 0→1—offering hands-on product, design, engineering, recruiting and go-to-market support and a track record of early unicorns.

Series ASeries BEnergyRetail
$1M – $5M
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Insight Partners
United States

With 25+ years and support for over 600 companies, they invest in and support founders from seed through later stages, helping turn founders' visions into reality.

Series ASeries BEducationRetail
$10M – $350M