Transportation investors
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.
Ex-founder deeptech fund making $250K–$2M first checks into non-consensus moonshots in compute, defense, smart planet, humantech—prioritizing multi‑billion step‑changes and free‑world resilience, replying with blunt feedback within five working days.
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.
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.
Early-stage technical frontier specialist that co-invests with top global funds, led by ex-senior Microsoft strategy executives offering deep platform strategy and M&A expertise and a strong early-unicorn track record.
Early-stage aerospace and defense fund focused on technically validated, revenue-generating (often bootstrapped) startups, offering shared beyond visual line of sight testing via state-funded urban low-altitude radar.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Targets concept-stage software-plus-physical goods startups, acting as a hands-on product partner with experienced hardware engineers, a million-dollar prototyping shop, and direct help on design, manufacturing and fundraising.
Solo-GP Celestine Schnugg treats founders as scientist-protagonists, focuses on frontier genomics, machine intelligence, new chemistries and space, underwrites high technical/market risk, frequently backs underrepresented leaders, and convenes secret meetups.
Seed-stage, ultra-focused vertical B2B SaaS fund with small-fund, hands-on approach, an in-house Growth and Talent team on revenue/sales, and a Startup Sales platform (podcast, playbooks, published methodologies).
Seed-stage investor in food tech, health tech, and supply-chain/commerce software that leverages Minnesota Fortune 500 relationships for customer pilots and partnerships, offering food-tech expertise and Google startup-program leadership.
Long 20-year horizon investor requiring portfolio tech to avoid ≥500M tons CO2 annually by 2050, offering former ARPA‑E scientists' technical expertise and policy/advocacy/deployment ecosystem to validate ambitious climate hardware.
Focuses on companies addressing needs arising from massive demographic changes, differentiated by its thematic expertise in demographic-driven markets.
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.
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.
Operator-led, software-first climate-tech investor focusing on energy, AI, automation and robotics, helping founders craft consumer-grade storytelling and go-to-market to position companies as acquisition targets in an expected M&A boom.
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.
SPACE structure blending profit-sharing with equity lets Black founders buy back equity as they return multiples, targets Black entrepreneur cities, and returns capital by year three through profitability.
Data-obsessed, focused on infrastructure for complex, regulated or fragmented systems across continents, pairing a small core team with a deep sector-specific advisor network (CEOs, ex-Nike/Uber, founders) and embedding sustainability.
Backs companies partnering with government, combining ex-White House and policy leaders with former EPA administrators and mayors to give direct access to decision-makers and policy intelligence via Political Capital.
Early-stage and continuity backer that enters as a first check, leveraging deep cleantech cycles experience and multidisciplinary underwriting to support technically complex hardware-plus-software climate founders through valley of death.
Targets companies addressing labor shortages in manufacturing, construction, logistics, and food production; cutting healthcare costs from aging and chronic disease; and enabling sustainable food production for growing populations.
Led by MassRobotics co-founder Fady Saad, the fund leverages deep robotics ecosystem ties, access to founders, corporates and talent, and offers playbooks, conferences and business-model rigor for robotics founders.
Early-stage investor, advisory firm, and venture studio that leverages frontier-market research for governments and institutions to guide investments, favoring augmentation of informal agent-based networks over pure-play digital models.
Backs speculative science fiction technologies like artificial wombs, de‑extinction and brain‑computer interfaces, leveraging Draper University, entrepreneur hostels and a TV pitch show to shepherd founders into its pipeline.
Category specialist for B2B supply chain and mobility, leveraging Chattanooga logistics roots, a Future of Supply Chain podcast, and operator-founder partners who provide hands-on help to concentrated logistics companies.
Early-stage space VC focused on multi-planetary tech and in-space manufacturing (protein crystallization, artificial retinas), applying Wall Street cash-flow/intrinsic-value discipline and building structured space accelerators for startups.
Targets Pre-Seed/Seed for women, minorities and veterans and early-stage local/regional/global startups, prioritizing underrepresented founders with a 50/50 gender split and 100% minority co-founder representation.
Earliest-stage Indiana startups receive hands-on assistance from a team of experienced operators.
Invests seed–pre‑IPO (and venture debt), giving founders direct access to utility operator decision‑makers and internal research mapping pain points and co‑designing customer‑backed theses for hardware‑heavy grid and industrial decarbonization.
An NYC accelerator with broader venture activity, offering intensive Manhattan cohorts (≈1% acceptance), 1,000+ mentors, daily in-person mentor/investor access, and ERA Global U.S. market support.
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.
Acts as an institutional co-founder: originating ideas, building products and pairing CEOs, run by repeat founders (Garrett Camp, Naveen Selvadurai) offering hands-on, small-class, full-stack help from ideation to go-to-market.
Early-stage, accelerator-rooted investor targeting non-coastal hubs (Austin, Boulder, Denver, Chicago, Des Moines, Kansas City) providing hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves support and local offices.
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.
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.
Early-stage pre-seed fund with an accelerator and an AI-focused venture studio that co-creates startups, offering follow-on support and people-heavy (~40 team, five Partners, three MDs) embedded founder help.
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.
Global firm investing pre-seed to Series B in climate, health, and inclusive capitalism; led by exited founders, runs an in-house venture builder with well-known founders and AI-driven scouting.
Early-stage investor combining AI-driven software, sustainability tech, and consumer brands as co-equal focus areas, offering a dedicated internal team plus a ~500-founder portfolio network with high-visibility exits.
Permanent, flexible single-family-office co-investor focused on frontier/new-space and adjacent deeptech, offering lean, hands-on partnership, top investor syndicate access, and philanthropic-to-institutional space ecosystem connectivity via founder Ryan Kriser.
Leads early rounds for technically intense AI teams tackling physical-world, regulated domains (wastewater epidemiology, precision agriculture, industrial robotics), bringing founders first‑hand experience commercializing hard AI products.
Pre-seed-focused theme syndicate with a high-conviction, low-volume approach, accessible Pitch US! Typeform and two-meeting decision process, proprietary fundraising software, and 74% follow-on rate.
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.
Early-stage investor focused on startups shaping the Future of Commerce.
Solo-GP firm led by Tinder co‑founder Justin Mateen backing underestimated founders with something to prove, unusually active in Latin America and Africa and in space‑adjacent and consumer platform bets.
Lead investor in seed-stage B2B companies digitizing legacy industries.
Invests in consumer internet and SMB tech at breakout growth, uniquely embracing regulation-heavy markets and using deep transaction-level data analysis globally to underwrite 5–10+ year customer durability.
Champion of founders others dismiss, offering unusually devoted partner support—tattooed partners and niche-event participation—intimate dinners, home-baked cookies, tough-love feedback, and Jewish-values, chaotic-good guidance on contentious frontier bets.
Leads deep-tech, hardware-heavy climate investments across cutting emissions, carbon removal, and time-buying solutions, backing nonprofit research and offering in-house scientific expertise plus hands-on technical, hiring, and regulatory support.