The startup investor directory
Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with visionary entrepreneurs to build successful technology companies that empower people and change the world. The firm was founded in 1991 and has since invested in over 200 companies across a wide range of sectors and industries. Blumberg Capital focuses on Seed & Series A rounds and provides entrepreneurs with capital, mentorship, and resources to help grow their businesses. The firm also offers a variety of services such as consumer surveys, data analysis, and AI-powered deep learning vision systems to help their portfolio companies succeed.
Invests at idea/inception stage before pre-seed—often pre-company—focused exclusively on developer-first enterprise infrastructure, acting as a cofounder-like partner and running programs that train early founders in bottoms-up growth.
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.
Late-stage investor leveraging Mary Meeker–style multi-hundred-page macro research and a small, senior operator/growth partnership to scale proven product-market-fit internet and software companies for global expansion and IPO readiness.
Seed-stage AI-powered B2B investor in companies with $300K–$1M+ ARR that leads ~95% of rounds with double-digit ownership, spends 20–30 hours hands-on initially, and achieves ~80–85% Series A graduation.
Bonsai Venture Capital is a Spanish VC firm that invests in internet companies with a strong mobile focus and global ambition. They invest between 250,000€ and 2,500,000€ per company, with equity stakes of 10% to 25%, in early-stage and growth stages. They prioritize entrepreneurs with a complete commitment to their ventures, a solid team, management skills, and good synergy with their VC model. They invest in high-growth sectors such as classifieds, e-health, games, payments, security, travel, and more, and have a flexible exit criteria determined by the potential upside of the portfolio company in harmony with the entrepreneur. Portfolio includes Glovo, Gigas, Paack, Wallapop.
Invests in startups and emerging funds in education and workforce tech, exclusively backing underrepresented founders, writing $50K–$250K checks and offering 20+ years' education‑tech expertise with a practice‑coach founder approach.
Zen Ventures is an online platform that enables users to learn and explore different technologies, like software engineering, web development, and data science. The platform offers a range of courses, tutorials, and projects that are designed to help users develop their skills and knowledge in the field. Additionally, users can network with like-minded individuals, get advice from industry professionals, and take part in events that can help them stay on top of the latest trends and innovations.
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.
Leads pre-seed sci‑fi/deep‑tech rounds with a standardized $500k check for sub-$1M raises at $3M–$7M valuations, offering early crypto and VR accelerator expertise.
Boot Ventures is a startup studio and seed stage venture capital company based in Brussels that focuses on solving real-world problems with technology. The company helps ambitious entrepreneurs build successful businesses by providing access to capital, expertise, and a network of industry contacts. Boot Ventures works with entrepreneurs to develop ideas, build teams, acquire customers, and reach their next milestone. They invest in early-stage companies and provides support to help them reach their full potential. Boot Ventures also provides mentorship, workshops, and resources to help entrepreneurs develop their businesses. They believe in the power of collaboration and strive to create an environment that encourages creativity, innovation, and growth.
Operator-led investors with deep telecom and infrastructure experience (including a Helium co-founder), highly specialized in Algorand and DePIN via multiple dedicated funds, including a recent $100M DePIN fund.
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.
Seed-stage fund founded by Boston entrepreneurs formalizing a long-standing angel/entrepreneur network, known for early conviction in unproven categories and public, humility-focused storytelling content.
Veteran VC and mountain guide-led firm focused on Colorado and the Mid-Atlantic, offering hands-on pre-investment partnership and local sourcing expertise while prioritizing realized exits over paper markups.
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 and earliest-stage investor taking smaller stakes, focused on consumer and consumer-social companies, offering high-conviction collaborative support via a lean partner-only team where founders deal directly with decision-makers.
Invests from napkin-stage through IPO using an evergreen own-capital model for patient, flexible long-term support; active early-stage investor (~180 deals) focused on deep bio and frontier software/crypto.
Brand Capital International (BCI) is the corporate venture capital arm of the Times Group, a leading media company in India. BCI provides venture capital and other financial services to startups and emerging companies, with a focus on investing in companies in the world's fastest-growing economy. The company also provides strategic advice and assistance to startups, helping them to identify opportunities and optimize their growth potential. BCI also offers services such as corporate strategy, market intelligence, and risk management. Additionally, BCI has a portfolio of innovative case studies, demonstrating the value of its investments.
Seed-stage, consumer-product investor focused on tangible goods rather than software, targeting sustainable $250M–$750M outcome brands and offering hands-on People/Product/Pipeline support emphasizing supply chain, margins, design and marketing.
Brandenburg Kapital is a venture capital and growth fund based in Brandenburg, Germany. It provides venture capital and know-how to startups and companies in the region, helping them to grow and succeed. Its portfolio companies have access to its expertise and network, as well as access to capital for investments. Brandenburg Kapital also offers advisory services for new and existing companies, as well as guidance in the areas of venture capital and growth. The fund is open to companies from all sectors and its investments range from seed and early stage investments to growth and late-stage investments.
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.
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.
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