The startup investor directory
Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund that invests in seed to A-round startups in the United States. The fund focuses on early-stage companies in the software, internet, mobile, SaaS, IoT, and healthcare domains. They provide capital, mentorship, and support to founders with the goal of helping them to achieve success. They are committed to helping founders build and scale their businesses and create long-term value for their investors.
TSP Ventures is a venture capital and strategic advisory firm based in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 2019, the firm seeks to invest in early-stage companies and provides them with capital, strategic advice, and operational support. The firm focuses on enterprise software, healthcare and life sciences, finance and insurtech, energy and sustainability, and AI and robotics. It also provides access to a network of partners and investors who can help early-stage companies reach their full potential.
Seed-stage firm focused on deeptech, healthtech and data-economy; women- and minority-owned, founded by former Cisco/Juniper operators leveraging the Tsinghua network, with an Alpha Program (5%) and unicorn-track record.
Invests in early-stage startups in highly regulated industries, combining VC, political consulting, and equity-for-service regulatory execution under one umbrella so founders can pay equity for lobbying and regulatory work.
The Venture Collective is a venture firm based in New York, New York that invests in early-stage companies. Founded in 2019, the firm is backed by Fidelity Investments and EXOR and is on a mission to bridge the funding gap for underrepresented founders. The Venture Collective invests in a variety of industries, including technology, health care, consumer products, and financial services. The firm's portfolio includes 44 companies, including global unicorns and EMEA future unicorns.
Pre-seed and seed investors limiting portfolios to 25 core companies at 10–15% stakes, run personally by two partners who co‑led Mirror and K Health and act as hands-on partners.
Seed-stage, pre-launch investor making small, fast checks (often $0–500K), focused on open-source infrastructure and developer tooling, offering operator marketing and YC/Kickstarter experience.
Seed investor writing $500–750K first checks into data, AI, and software infrastructure for healthcare and climate sectors; Foundry partner providing meta-network co-investment access and support for women/BIPOC founders.
TwinklHive is an accelerator and investor type program created by Twinkl Educational and supported by the UK government. It offers seed funding of up to 1 million pounds and provides businesses with access to resources such as lesson plans, schemes of work, assessment, interactive activities, resource packs, PowerPoints, and teaching ideas. TwinklHive also offers services such as advertising and investor relations. The headquarters of the program are located in Sheffield, England.
Two Bridge Capital is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Irvington, New York. Founded in 2019, it has 11-50 employees and invests across five key verticals: data centers, cell towers, fiber networks, digital assets, and private equity. Its focus is on providing capital to entrepreneurs and companies in the technology sector, both public and private, in order to help them scale and reach their full potential. Two Bridge Capital also provides its clients with the necessary resources and expertise to succeed in the industry.
Originating from a quantitative hedge fund, they use quant models and embed data scientists, engineers, and researchers to tackle ML and data-pipeline challenges for AI, software infrastructure, and hardtech.
TX Group is a venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build businesses with lasting significance. They assist great entrepreneurs by providing capital and guidance to help them build innovative companies and grow their businesses. They are also actively investing in companies that are focused on developing and deploying critical climate solutions to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Additionally, they view philanthropy as an engine of innovation and invest in evidence-based solutions to solve issues in criminal justice, health, education, and public policy.
Tyche Partners is a HardTech focused VC firm that invests in early and early growth stage companies with disruptive technologies. The firm is based in Menlo Park, California and seeks to invest in software, hardware, 3D printing, robotics, and artificial intelligence. The firm has invested in 14 portfolio companies and is currently managing a 2021 vintage venture capital fund.
Focuses on enabling infrastructure for a scalable space economy (not tourism), integrating space, biotech, and human-performance technologies to enable long-duration interplanetary habitation.
UDHC is a venture capital firm focused on investing in blockchain-based projects and products with the potential to drive positive change in the world. The firm is led by a team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors and provides an array of services to its portfolio companies, from business strategy and fundraising to marketing and product development. UDHC also offers a range of financial instruments, from early-stage investments to ICOs, to help its portfolio companies reach their potential. UDHC seeks to invest in projects that have a potential for significant impact, whether that is through driving technological innovation, advancing social causes, or promoting economic development.
Ufi Ventures is a specialist investor in VocTech, investing in early-stage companies developing EdTech and other technologies that can help individuals and businesses improve their skills and gain employment. They focus on seed-stage investments of between \u00a3150k and \u00a31m, and provide a range of services to the companies they invest in, including mentorship, networking, and market intelligence. They also host events and workshops to support their portfolio companies and the EdTech ecosystem.
Ugly Duckling Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on providing early-stage funding to tech startups in the Nordic region. Founded in 2019, the firm is based in Stockholm and invests in software, hardware, and media/entertainment companies. Ugly Duckling Ventures provides the capital, know-how, and real-world application needed to help startups grow and succeed. They have a team of experienced venture capitalists and entrepreneurs who provide guidance, expertise, and resources to help startups succeed.
Ulixes Capital Partners is an Italian venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage startups and providing them with strategic support and financial resources. The firm focuses on investments in the technology, media, and entertainment sectors, with a particular focus on digital marketplaces, e-commerce, and fintech. Ulixes Capital Partners provides startups with access to an extensive network of partners and investors, as well as expertise in areas such as financial planning, market analysis, and corporate strategy. The firm also provides mentorship to its portfolio companies and helps them grow and scale their businesses.
Focuses on early-stage enterprise cloud and smart data companies.
Unbridled is a venture capital firm that works at the intersection of technology and healthcare. It was founded in 2019 with the mission to invest in and build companies that are transforming healthcare and the life sciences. Unbridled works with innovative entrepreneurs to build disruptive healthcare and life science companies. It specializes in early-stage investments and provides capital, strategic advice, and operational support to its portfolio companies. Unbridled also offers its portfolio companies access to a network of industry relationships, and leverages its experience in the healthcare and life sciences to help them achieve success.
Seed-stage micro-VC that stays small by design, offering unusually hands-on, bespoke one-on-one plans for each company instead of formulaic playbooks and refusing to pass declined founders.
Pre-seed, pre-product investors offering boutique accelerator-style support from two partners with a 25-year co-founding relationship and an Expedia exit, sourcing via trusted referrals and favoring belief-driven founders over traction.
Seed-focused, solo-GP, private-only VC using concentrated, deterministic investing, backed by founders/operators from UiPath/Telerik/Bitdefender, and actively supporting analytical, action-oriented Eastern European founders.
Underscore VC is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies with the potential to become category leaders. They focus on startups that are driving innovation in areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, and the internet of things. The firm provides capital, strategic direction, and operational support to help their portfolio companies grow and succeed. The team at Underscore VC are experienced entrepreneurs and investors who have a deep understanding of the startup ecosystem, and are passionate about helping founders build and scale their businesses.