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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Enterprise startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Salesforce Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Matrix Partners | Early Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
True Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Palo Alto, California, United States, North America | ||
Lerer Hippeau | Early Stage Venture, Seed | New York, New York, United States, North America | ||
Alchemist Accelerator | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | San Francisco, California, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Enterprise Seed investors in United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Enterprise Investors & Funds (United States)
Salesforce Ventures
Salesforce Ventures helps enterprising founders build companies that reinvent the way the world works. Since 2009, we’ve invested in and partnered with more than 400 of the world’s most tenacious enterprise software companies from seed to IPO, including Airtable, Databricks, DocuSign, Guild Education, Hopin, monday.com, nCino, Snowflake, Snyk, Stripe, Tanium, and Zoom. Salesforce Ventures leverages our decades of expertise in the cloud and our long-term relationships with key decision-makers at thousands of businesses around the world to give our portfolio companies an unfair advantage, help them build credibility, and accelerate growth.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Matrix Partners
We work with product people from day one to help you win. We’re a team of builders who lead pre-seed through Series A rounds. Recent Matrix investments include Fivetran, Canva, Side, Afterpay, Markforged, CTRL-Labs, Oculus, Zendesk, Hubspot, Apollo GraphQL, Flock Safety, GOAT, Postmates, Acacia Communications, and Sila.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Computer Vision, Consumer, Enterprise, FinTech, Internet
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True Ventures
True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. True provides seed and Series A financing to entrepreneurs in today’s growing markets. True Venture’s investment team, including its twelve partners plus special advisors and operations staff, represents the largest and most experienced team dedicated solely to the early stage ecosystem. True was awarded Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association in 2018.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Lerer Hippeau
Lerer Hippeau helps early-stage founders with the capital and tools they need to build ideas into category-defining companies. Lerer Hippeau invests across all sectors, backing founders with product vision, customer insight, and a keen instinct for brand building. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, United States. Lerer Hippeau has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer, Enterprise Software, Venture Capital
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Alchemist Accelerator
Alchemist is a venture-backed accelerator focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). CB Insights rated Alchemist the top accelerator in 2016 based on median funding rates of its grads (YC was #2). The accelerator’s primary screening criteria is on teams, with primacy placed on having distinctive technical co-founders. The organization provides seed investment into companies it admits (typically $36K), and provides founders a structured path to traction, fundraising, mentorship, and community over the course of a 6 month program. Our backers include many of the top corporate and VC funds in the Valley — including Khosla Ventures, DFJ, Cisco, GE, next47(Siemens), and Salesforce, among others. The accelerator seeds around 75 enterprise-monetizing ventures / year. Notable alumni include LaunchDarkly, Rigetti Quantum Computing, mPharma, Matternet, and Mightyhive.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, B2B, Enterprise Software, Medical, Software
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Spark Capital
Spark Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in the consumer, commerce, FinTech, software, frontier, and media sectors. It was founded in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer Software, Enterprise, FinTech, Hardware, Online Games
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DCVC
DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost. Deep Tech is a potent approach to this challenge that enables more for less – now and for this century. The transformative companies in their portfolio combine the latest advances in science and technology with unique compute and algorithmic advantage, reducing CAPEX and OPEX.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software, Venture Capital
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Crosslink Capital
Crosslink, founded in 1989, is a premier early-stage venture capital firm with over $1.3B in assets. Crosslink partners with founders that are market disrupters and category creators, typically at the Seed-Series A stage, across highly dynamic enterprise and consumer technology sectors. Over its history, Crosslink has had the opportunity to partner with defining companies such as Bleacher Report (acquired by TWX), BuildingConnected (acquired by ADSK), Chime, Coupa (COUP), DataStax, Molekule, Omniture (acquired by ADBE), Personal Capital (acquired by Empower Retirement), Postmates (acquired by UBER), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Verodin (acquired by FEYE), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone) and Weave.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, IT Infrastructure
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Omidyar Network
Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Since 2004, they have worked with their partners to create opportunities for people to tap that potential, enabling them to improve their lives and make powerful contributions to their communities. They support, scale, and champion the work of their partners in order to maximize social impact. As a philanthropic investment firm, they make both investments and grants, identifying like-minded organizations that they support, help scale, and collaborate with to help realize their full potential. Their efforts are organized around two investment initiatives Access to Capital, and Media, Markets and Transparency.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Grant, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Redwood City, California, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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FirstMark
FirstMark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City. The firm’s mission is to partner with exceptional entrepreneurs who are changing the world by solving meaningful problems. It has built a deeply engaged community among the extraordinary teams in its network to spread ideas and opportunities. The company is privileged to work alongside the founders of remarkable businesses like Pinterest, Shopify, Riot Games, Airbnb, Upwork and dozens more.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Consumer, Enterprise, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
StartX is a 501(c)(3) Stanford-affiliated nonprofit in Silicon Valley that runs one of the world’s top startup accelerator programs. Its mission is to advance the development of the best entrepreneurs through experiential education and peer learning. Since launching in 2010, it has supported more than 450 companies and 1000 entrepreneurs, from early to pre-IPO stage, working across a wide spectrum of industries. StartX and StartX Med, dedicated to medical and biotechnology innovation, provide founders with access to a powerful network of entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and industry partners, along with office space and a variety of other resources. Based in Palo Alto, the accelerator also operates StartX-QB3 Labs and the Stanford-StartX Fund. We are funded by Stanford University, Stanford Health Care, Microsoft, Steelcase, Hyundai, Oriza Ventures, Nissan, Panasonic, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Analog Devices, Silicon Valley Bank, Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, and many others. For more information, visit startx.com The company is associated investment vehicle, the Stanford-StartX Fund is a partnership between StartX, Stanford University and Stanford Health Care. It can invest only in StartX companies who raise qualified rounds of venture capital using objective criteria; it is founder opt-in.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Big Data, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Computer Vision, Consumer Software, Education, Enterprise Software, Finance, Hardware, Internet, Internet of Things, Medical Device, Non Profit, Venture Capital
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Forum Ventures
Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders, through pre-seed and seed-stage funding, high touch programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community. Forum For Founders, our pre-seed program, provides founders with $100k in funding and 15 intense weeks of talks, events, mentorship and 1:1 guidance focused on go to market and fundraising. Forum Seed, our seed fund, backs exceptional SaaS startups at the seed-stage both from within and outside of our pre-seed program. With over 250 portfolio companies, Forum founders have gone on to raise from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncork Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Canaan, Bowery Capital, Susa Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, SV Angel, True Ventures and many more. Learn more at www.forumvc.com
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, Enterprise Software, SaaS
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M12 – Microsoft’s Venture Fund
M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, invests in early-stage enterprise software companies with a focus on business applications, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity & identity, data & AI, developer tools, healthcare & life sciences, and vanguard technologies. Since 2016, M12 has invested in over 100 companies, helping startups accelerate growth with unparalleled access to Microsoft. With offices in San Francisco, Seattle, London, Tel Aviv, and Bengaluru, M12 has the team and resources to support entrepreneurs globally. M12 is a return-driven fund investing independently of Microsoft’s business units and technology offerings.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Storm Ventures
Storm Ventures is a $600m (TAM) VC firm 100% focused solely on early-stage enterprise investments. We’ve been founders ourselves, of enterprise companies including Airespace (acquired by Cisco) and EchoSign (acquired by Adobe). We’ve had to go without pay as CEOs ourselves to make payroll. We’ve gone from $0 to $100m in ARR and lived all the stages in between. We’ve here to help, and add some strategic capital and insights. And not be in the way when we’re not needed.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Dell Technologies Capital
Dell Technologies Capital is the investment arm for Dell Technologies. We’ve invested in over 100 companies that push the envelope on digital technology for enterprises and consumers. We are a team of world-class investors who help our companies succeed. We focus on early-stage investments with passionate founders. Our companies gain unique access to the go-to-market capabilities of Dell Technologies. For more information visit www.delltechcapital.com
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise, Financial Services, Software, Venture Capital
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SAP.iO
SAP.iO is SAP’s strategic business unit to incubate, accelerate and scale startup innovation and explore new business models for SAP. Since 2017, SAP.iO has helped 300+ external startups and internal ventures both start and scale their businesses while enabling thousands of SAP customers to access innovation.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, Business Development, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software, Venture Capital
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Rev1 Ventures
Rev1 Ventures is an investor startup studio that combines capital and strategic services to help startups scale and corporates innovate. Based in the Midwest, and in a top city for scaling startups, Rev1 aligns innovators and founders with corporate and research partners to access customers and markets, helping entrepreneurs build great companies. With a proven track record of identifying, guiding, and investing in high potential startups, Rev1 helps companies solve real problems for markets in need of real solutions. Rev1 has $100MM+ in capital under management, providing a capital continuum from corporate and community partners, as well as Ohio Third Frontier. Rev1 has been named among the Most Active VCs in the Great Lakes Region for the past three years in a row according to PitchBook. For more information, visit www.rev1ventures.com.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States, North America
Industries: 3D Printing, Biopharma, Enterprise Software, Health Diagnostics, Information Technology, Insurance, InsurTech, Life Science, Robotics, Software
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Lightbank
Lightbank VC is a $380M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k – $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr (NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social (NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Clearcover, Extend and Expel.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: EdTech, Enterprise Software, FinTech, Human Resources, Internet, Local, Mobile, Small and Medium Businesses
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Hyde Park Venture Partners
Hyde Park Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on high-growth, mid-continent technology startups. We seek companies with an exceptional founding team and fast-growth potential, looking to raise a first or second round of capital. With offices in Chicago and Indianapolis, our team is tenacious, responsive, and committed to adding value to each investment.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Boldstart Ventures
Before you build your team, before you write your first line of code, before you even take your first check—that’s when boldstart gets to work. We collaborate with technical founders well before company creation, lead pre-product rounds at inception, and rally our developer-first and SaaS network to help turn bold ideas into category-creating iconic companies. We’ve been in the trenches with Snyk, Blockdaemon, Kustomer, BigID, Superhuman (and so many more) from day one. The investment firm was founded in 2010 by Ed Sim and is headquartered in New York, New York, United States.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Cryptocurrency, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, IT Infrastructure, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Primary Venture Partners
Primary Venture Partners is a seed-stage venture firm focused on transformative, NYC-based startups. Managed by co-founders and General Partners Ben Sun and Brad Svrluga, Primary serves as the first call for its portfolio companies, dedicating significant resources to best position its companies for the journey from Seed to Series A and beyond. From the Primary Expert Network, a network of over 200 seasoned technology operators and functional experts, to a Talent Program headed by NYC Tech recruiting veterans, in addition to Financial Advisory, Market Development and Content Marketing support, Primary helps its founders solve their biggest tactical problems and build world-class teams from the ground up. To date, Primary’s successes include seed investments in Jet.com, Ticketfly, TxVia and Coupang, and it counts some of New York’s most promising startups – including Slice, Ollie, Latch and Vestwell – among its portfolio.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Finance, Venture Capital
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EXPERT DOJO
Expert DOJO is the most active international early-stage startup accelerator in Southern California. We invest $100,000 in each of our startups and help them get traction and scale faster than they could ever do by themselves. Since 2018, we have invested in over 80 startups to accelerate their growth. What makes us special is our focus on building visionary companies. If you can visualize your unicorn, you have a higher probability of achieving its full potential. That’s where Expert DOJO comes in. We invest in pre-seed and seed companies ready to scale quickly. Most of our startups are minority and female founded technology companies. However, we remain industry agnostic and invest in founders from all over the world and from diverse backgrounds.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise, Financial Services, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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CVP Management
CVP Management is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, startup, early Series A, and early stage investments. It does not invest in life sciences, medical devices and energy production companies as well as businesses that require $5 million to $10 million of upfront capital before validating the concept. CVP Management seeks to invest in beta, working prototype, and go-to-market stages. It prefers to invest in Information Technology infrastructure with focus on software application, internet, digital media, digital marketing, vertical SAAS, cloud, embedded software, mobile, financial service technologies, and cutting-edge information technology ventures. CVP Management invests in companies based in the Northeast corridor with a concentration on Boston, New York and Toronto. It typically invests between 0.1 million and $1 million and for Seed and Series A rounds it invests between $1 million and $3.5 million. CVP Management invests in companies with enterprise value of $5 million. It prefers to have a seat on the company’s board of directors in its portfolio companies. CVP Management prefers to invest in preferred stock. It began operation on June 1, 1998, with its headquarters in Cambridge in Massachusetts with an additional office in Boston, Massachusetts.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Advertising, Enterprise, Information Technology, Mobile, SaaS, Security
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Verizon Ventures
Verizon Ventures seeks and invests in promising entrepreneurial companies who are tackling some of today’s biggest technological challenges for Verizon’s consumer and enterprise customers. Over the last decade Verizon Ventures has invested in more than forty companies covering a range of industries, technologies and market segments. Verizon Ventures offers support to its portfolio companies with technology and product development, market planning and sales, and access to the networks and platforms of Verizon Communications. Combining the power of experienced investment professionals with a focused venture development team, Verizon Ventures connects innovators with strategic and financial resources that advance their businesses.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise, Hardware, Media and Entertainment
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M25
M25 is a Chicago-based Midwest-focused venture capital firm run by Victor Gutwein and Mike Asem. Since the firm’s inception in 2015, M25 has invested in 90+ early-stage tech startups in over 24 cities across 11 states in the Midwest. M25’s objective, analytical model and collaborative, forward-thinking approach creates a large portfolio spanning several industries across the entire region, allowing them to establish M25 as a key node in Midwest startup ecosystem.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer, Enterprise, Enterprise Software, Finance, Venture Capital
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CincyTech
CincyTech helps to identify and transform innovation into venture-worthy, transformational human health and technology companies, primarily in southwest Ohio. Our team provides advice and capital to entrepreneurs, helps research institutions commercialize technology through startups, and catalyzes investment from individuals and institutions into regional companies. One of the most active seed funds in the Midwest, CincyTech is supported by Ohio Third Frontier, more than two dozen foundations, corporations, municipalities and individuals as well as founding partners, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, the University of Cincinnati, and the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Health Care, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Amino Capital
AMINO Capital is an early stage venture firm based in Palo Alto, focused on investments in big data and data driven technologies. To date, Amino has funded over 200 companies mostly in seed, and Series A, including 22 successful exits, 12 unicorns, including Chime Bank, Webflow, Rippling, Weee, Headspin, Grail (acquired by Illumina), OmiseGo, DFINITY (launched with $45B market cap), Turing and Mobike (acquired by Maituan), and industry leading fast growing startups, such as Wyze, Avail MedSystems, Instawork, Orbeus (acquired by Amazon), Ozlo (acquired by Facebook), GrokStyle(acquired by Facebook), Assemblage (acquired by Cisco), Woomoo (acquired by Priceline), Contastic (acquired by Sugar CRM), Evertoon (Acquired by Niantic | PokemonGo), Yiqixie (Acquired by Kuaishou), Dataform (acquired by Google), Voyage (acquired by Cruise) and et al. We are also early backers of next generation blockchain protocol since 2014, and led the seed and A round of String Labs, which incubated one the most anticipated public chain, DFINITY (aka ICP). We participated in investment of OASIS, 0x, OmiseGo, which later became known as the first blockchain unicorn in 2017.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud Data Services, Enterprise Software
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Point72 Ventures
Point72 Ventures is a global venture capital firm led by a diverse set of domain experts with the capital to lead rounds through all stages of company growth. We invest primarily in Fintech, AI/ML, and Enterprise technologies. As an independent arm of Point72, the global asset management firm led by Steven Cohen, Point72 Ventures offers well-informed insights into the global economy. Point72 Ventures has offices in New York City, Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Stamford, Connecticut.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, FinTech
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Amazon Alexa Fund
The Amazon Alexa Fund is Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, frontier tech, voice, robotics, and digital health across consumer and enterprise. We invest in early- to growth-stage companies globally. To learn more, visit us at alexafund.com.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Electronics, Consumer Software, Enterprise Software, FinTech, Hardware, Health Care, Information Technology, Internet of Things, Software
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R/GA Ventures
In 2013, we launched the first R/GA Accelerator out of our New York office—going beyond financial capital to provide founders with access to R/GA’s award-winning talent and robust client network. Today, we’re building on our history of startup acceleration with a new global model that takes a unique and multidimensional approach to corporate innovation. We’re building an innovation platform to help industry leaders disrupt business as usual—connecting them with the groundbreaking technologies and emerging players that can unlock new opportunities. At R/GA Ventures, we go beyond financial capital to connect early- and growth-stage startups with our world-class creative talent, industry-leading clients and innovative program partners. Our flexible financing terms support companies at all stages of funding and growth. We invest in each of our program companies at current valuations. We match each of our startups with the right experts across our global network, providing consulting, strategy, design, copywriting, business development, brand transformation and more. We make introductions that create value not only for our startups, but for our partners and clients—fostering an innovation exchange that makes way for pilots, partnerships and integrations.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Blockchain, Enterprise, Infrastructure, Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Pet, Sports
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Capital Innovators
The Capital Innovators Accelerator Program provides $50,000 in seed funding, project-based mentorship from a seasoned pool of knowledgeable entrepreneurs, stellar perks, networking, and follow-on funding opportunities over the course of 12 weeks in addition to seed and Series A investments ranging from $250K to $1MM.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer Goods, Enterprise, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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PJC
PJC is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in, supporting, and building relationships with entrepreneurs who are creating the future. The firm has invested in over 100 companies across North America including notable companies like Expensify, Nest, BlockFi, GetWell Network and Nexamp. PJC was founded in 2001 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Consumer, Enterprise, FinTech, InsurTech, Venture Capital
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Expansion Venture Capital
Expansion Venture Capital, is a venture capital firm focused in early and growth stage companies. Located in New York City, EVC was founded by brothers, Joseph and Ryan Melohn. EVC’s team is comprised of entrepreneurs. Fifteen years of combined experience has enabled EVC to help build great companies across the US. As entrepreneurs, “we have been in their shoes and speak the same language”. We pride ourselves on being available for our teams of entrepreneurs 24/7. We work side by side with them, providing intellectual capital and assistance in any way we can. From mentorship to business development, raising capital, getting the right press, are some of the ways “we work for you”. When one of our founders have a question we want to be the first place they turn. Their success is our success! We are founder friendly! “Entrepreneurs, not VCs, build great companies”
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Consumer, Enterprise, Financial Services, FinTech, InsurTech, Real Estate, Robotics
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Reach Capital
Reach supports entrepreneurs that develops technology solutions for challenges across early childhood, K-12, higher education, and workforce reskilling and upskilling. They invest in early-stage tech tools, applications, content, and services to improve educational opportunities for all learners. The Fund also acts as a catalyst, inspiring and enabling traditional and non-traditional investors to provide capital to the fast-growing ed-tech market.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer Software, EdTech, Enterprise Software, Financial Services
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Longworth Venture Partners
Longworth Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that has led investments in some innovative and successful technology companies. Our fund size and investment strategy allow us to put the right amount of money to work at the right time — whether an initial seed-stage investment (e.g., $250,000) or a larger growth round (e.g., $4 million). We have the resources to help you through the entire lifecycle of your company. When we invest in a company, we work closely with the executive team as board members and active advisors. To us, that means helping you succeed without getting in the way. It also means committing time and resources when you need support. From introductions to customer prospects, to recruiting team members, to help with strategy, we strive to have a meaningful impact on the success of your business.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer, Enterprise
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AlphaLab
AlphaLab is a nationally ranked startup accelerator founded in 2008 and based in Pittsburgh, PA. As a charter member of the Global Accelerator Network (GAN) and one of the first ten accelerator programs worldwide, AlphaLab has invested in and worked with 113 companies – including 12 companies that have been acquired. The AlphaLab network consists of the top entrepreneurs, investors and mentors in the Pittsburgh region and beyond. Our proven track record in helping to launch high-growth startup companies includes NoWait (acquired by Yelp), Jazz, Black Locus (acquired by Home Depot), Shoefitr (acquired by Amazon), and The Zebra. AlphaLab is also part of Innovation Works, an early-stage seed fund that has invested over $50M in over 160 companies that have collectively raised over $1.3B. These include ModCloth, 4Moms, Civic Science, Mobile Technologies (acquired by Facebook), and ShowClix.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, B2C, Enterprise, FinTech, Life Science, Marketing, Mobile, Retail Technology, Software, Virtual Reality
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Matchstick Ventures
Matchstick Ventures helps startups by investing at the seed and early-stage. The firm invests in early-stage software companies in rapidly growing yet under-served startup ecosystems. Matchstick Ventures was founded in 2015 by Natty Zola and Ryan Broshar and is based in Boulder, Colorado, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States, North America
Industries: Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, Retail Technology
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Braemar Energy Ventures
While energy has been a key to global development since the dawn of the electronic age, the beginning of the new century has seen a tremendous surge in the technology advancements, market activity and the strategic importance of energy around the world. While many companies and investors have sought to take advantage of the tremendous opportunity today’s energy industry presents, the unique market issues, scientific contributions and complex web of interrelationships require a specialized expertise. Braemar Energy Ventures was formed in 2002 to create a venture capital firm with that expertise. Focused exclusively on technology and communications opportunities in the energy sector, Braemar Energy Ventures has both the industry and operating knowledge to select promising young companies, bring them into the larger energy world and guide them to reach their full potential. The firm’s four principals have a long history of successful investments, as well as experience financing and operating companies in the energy sector. Together, they have been responsible for investing in almost 40 energy technology companies, including early stage companies which have grown to become some of the most successful in the sector. Braemar Energy Ventures works with management teams who are skilled in their industry but who can benefit from Braemar’s assistance with strategic direction and financing issues. Having worked with many early stage companies, the Braemar Energy Ventures principals understand the challenges that many young companies face and provide invaluable counsel to their portfolio companies on longer-term issues, allowing management to focus on daily operations.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: CleanTech, Energy, Enterprise Software, Venture Capital
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High Alpha
High Alpha, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a B2B SaaS venture studio. High Alpha Studio conceives, launches, and scales B2B SaaS companies by providing a blend of studio services, including design, finance, talent, marketing, brand, and go-to-market. High Alpha Capital invests in High Alpha Studio companies and emerging B2B SaaS companies. The combination of High Alpha Studio and High Alpha Capital represents a new model for entrepreneurship — the venture studio model — that seeks to help companies reduce friction, increase velocity, and achieve enterprise scale.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Finance, SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
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Trilogy Equity Partners
Formed in 2006, Trilogy Equity Partners (http://www.trilogyequity.com) is an early stage venture firm based in Bellevue, Washington that is led by former entrepreneurs and operators. The firm’s roots include the formation and leadership of some of the largest mobile operators in the United States as well as other global technology and wireless companies. Trilogy takes a hands-on approach to investing, with a closely held evergreen fund that aligns investments with the objective of building great companies over time.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Services
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Idealab
Idealab is a technology incubator that provides resources to allow start-ups to rapidly introduce innovative products and services. The company’s mission is to challenge the status quo, to be bold, and to tackle big ideas. Idealab provides the first round of capital, recruits a CEO and team, and then works with the company to quickly ramp up its business.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Pasadena, California, United States, North America
Industries: Education, Enterprise Software, Finance, Social Media Marketing, Software
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Robin Hood Ventures
Robin Hood Ventures is a group of angel investors, focused on early-stage, high-growth companies in the Greater Philadelphia region. We help entrepreneurs build great companies, providing capital, mentoring, expertise and connections to help companies reach their potential. Robin Hood generally invests $250k to $500k, and collaborates with angels, institutions and VCs in our network. We invest as a single entity in businesses we know and understand, in a way that gets deals done. Since 1999, we have invested in over 45 companies in industries including software, medical devices, biotech, internet and financial technology.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software
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Maryland Venture Fund
The Maryland Venture Fund, started in 1994, is a $110M early-stage, evergreen venture capital fund dedicated to funding and growing the next generation of exceptional businesses based in Maryland. The Fund makes direct investments in technology and life science companies and indirect investments in venture capital funds.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Grant, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Columbia, Maryland, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Biotechnology, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Health Diagnostics, Information Technology, Life Science
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Techammer
Over 80 angel investments since 2008, including 13 exits: – Aardvark (acquired by Google) – CardSpring (acquired by Twitter) – DataPad (acquired by Cloudera) – Endaga (acquired by Facebook) – Genome Compiler (acquired by Twist Bioscience) – Kaggle (acquired by Google) – Lex Machina (acquired by Lexis Nexis) – Locu (acquired by GoDaddy) – Lookflow (acquired by Yahoo!) – Misfit (acquired by Fossil) – RentJuice (acquired by Zillow) – RockMelt (acquired by Yahoo!) – Statwing (acquired by Qualtrics) See AngelList: https://angel.co/techammer
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Enterprise Software, Venture Capital
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Heavybit
Heavybit is the leading investor in developer-first startups that turn visions into movements, products into platforms, and contributors into communities. Our partnership, team, and community of technical founders and 600+ domain experts have an unequaled track record of nurturing developer-first startups.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cloud Infrastructure, Developer APIs, Developer Platform, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Infrastructure, Software, Venture Capital
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SaaS Ventures
We are enterprise software experts. We look to co-invest with strong leads, bringing our network of coinvestors and next round investors as well as enterprise software expertise to add value. We see ourselves as partners who can fill out a round quickly and be a positive influence, and non-competitive as we don’t lead or take significant stakes in our portfolio companies. We generally write a small check into rounds of $750k-$3M that are mostly full, being low pain-in-the-ass to entrepreneurs compared to relatively high value add. Having been entrepreneurs, we know that’s the most important part. While we’ll invest anywhere in the US, we love “second tier markets” that can still support major exits but attract relatively less venture funding: Chicago, Toronto, DC, Baltimore, Atlanta, etc etc!
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS, Software
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Flint Capital
Flint Capital is an international venture capital fund investing across the US, Europe, and Israel with offices in Palo Alto, Boston, and Tel Aviv. It invests in promising entrepreneurs and technology ventures with global ambitions. Its unique global positioning enables them to support Israeli and European ventures on both sides of the ocean, as they expand into the US market. This Bridge strategy, as well as its broad network of entrepreneurs, industry experts, and investment funds, provides them with access to high-quality investment opportunities.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Cyber Security, Enterprise Software, Internet of Things
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Impact Engine
Impact Engine is a venture capital and private equity investment firm focused on growing companies that generate positive outcomes in education, health, economic empowerment, and environmental sustainability.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: EdTech, Energy Efficiency, Enterprise Software, Health Care, Impact Investing, Information Technology
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Triangle Peak Partners
Triangle Peak Partners conducts private investments in companies where it can work with management and help create value. The firm has a deep background in venture capital and private equity investing in private and public technology, energy, and alternative energy companies. Triangle Peak focuses on Series B through PIPE stage deals.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Impact Investing, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Cue Ball
Cue Ball is a Boston-based venture and early growth equity firm focused on recurring revenue platforms in business information services, digital media, and specialty consumer opportunities. The firm is built on a human capital centric philosophy: the belief that enduring value creation is all about the people. The people in their partnership and investor membership base share a fundamental belief that their collective intelligence can yield value creation opportunities. The partnership brings together operators with track records for leading companies in the consumer and media sectors. This experience includes running the largest information media company in the world and founding some Internet and consumer businesses. Cue Ball is further bolstered by a unique brain trust (The Cue Ball Collective) of industry and though business leaders – all of whom are investors in their fund.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Data Services, Enterprise Software
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Kinetic Ventures
Kinetic Ventures is a leading venture capital investor in high growth, industry defining communications, information and power/clean technology companies. For over two decades they have partnered with outstanding entrepreneurs to build world-class enterprises. Kinetic is gratified to be partners with many remarkable entrepreneurs in the creation of industry defining companies like Ciena, VerticalOne, Corvis, Cerent, Peace Software, Broadware, APX, Calix, Altierre and SmartSynch. Kinetic Ventures VIII, capitalized by corporate pension, endowment and family office investors primarily invests in early stage companies. They also selectively invest in seed and growth stage opportunities. Areas of focus for the fund include: – Communications. Solutions that bring greater speed, functionality, usability or accessibility to voice, data and video networks. – Information Technology. Solutions that deliver greater efficiency, collaboration, security and functionality to users. – Power/Clean Technology. Solutions for the power and related industries that take advantage of the ongoing and rapid evolution in communications, information and energy technologies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Mobile, Venture Capital
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vSpring Capital
vSpring Capital and Signal Peak Ventures, both based in Salt Lake City, are combining as equal partners in a new investment firm that, effective immediately, will operate under the Signal Peak Ventures name, both companies announced Tuesday. No money was exchanged. vSpring is a traditional early-stage venture capital firm with over $350 million of committed capital under management. Specifically, they target information technology and life sciences companies headquartered in the Intermountain West region. They look for companies with the potential to transform their markets and create lasting value. Their primary areas of focus include enterprise software, networking and communications, security software, Internet, mobile computing, drug discovery, drug delivery, diagnostics, and medical devices, all markets where the firm has deep experience. Their strategy is to be the first investor in these companies and to provide a level of operational assistance that creates additional value. They take a labor-intensive, service-oriented approach by making early introductions to key customers and strategic partners and helping to recruit top executives and co-investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Cervin
Cervin Ventures is a seed and early stage venture firm, focusing solely on opportunities in the B2B software space
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Seven Peaks Ventures
Seven Peaks Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on data-driven enterprise software, digital health technologies, ML/AI, IoT, and cloud-based solutions. Seven Peaks Ventures is located in Oregon and was founded by Dino Vendetti in 2013.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Bend, Oregon, United States, North America
Industries: Advertising Platforms, Business Development, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Health Care, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Sputnik ATX
Sputnik ATX is a venture capital fund and startup accelerator that funds early-stage maker-founders. It combines capital with training and experience to help startups win and grow. Its investment portfolio ranges in the industry from revolutionary podcasting analytics to cat care. These are the startups and founders they believe are solving real problems, who have the potential to create tons of consumer surplus for their customers. Their VC fund primarily invests in the accelerator program alumni, but they have been known to make exceptions. The accelerator program has two cohorts each year, with each company in the cohort receiving between $100-$500k in investment via the Sputnik ATX SAFE note. Sputnik ATX was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Austin, Texas, United States, North America
Industries: Beauty, Enterprise, Fashion, Gaming, IT Management, Mobile, Oil and Gas, Pet, Retail, Social
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Spider Capital
Spider Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in seed-stage investments. The firm targets investments in technology-driven enterprise cloud software companies. The firm focuses on investments in United States, Canada, and Israel. The firm seeks to lead or co-lead seed round investments. The firm also provides follow-on funding by co-investing with other funds. The company was founded by Michael Neril in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Brick & Mortar Ventures
Focused exclusively on venture capital opportunities in “technology for the built world,” Brick & Mortar Ventures identifies, backs, and enables emerging companies developing innovative software and hardware solutions for the industries of real estate, hospitality, and construction. Its hyper-focused mandate allows Brick & Mortar to continuously develop industry expertise and relationships across these three large and growing verticals and build value to its portfolio by taking a hands-on, active role as an investor and partner to its companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Construction, Enterprise, Facility Management, Hardware, Software, Venture Capital
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Illuminate Ventures
Illuminate’s focus is on finding, funding and accelerating great founders in the B2B/Enterprise cloud and mobile computing space. They focus on companies building SaaS applications as well as solutions that leverage data and mobility to improve business results. They seek innovative ideas led by talented teams – frequently bringing together diverse perspectives that marry “creative destruction” with new technologies to solve old problems in new ways. Illuminate is typically a startup’s first institutional investor, but can also be a fit for an established company seeking its first equity financing. Their sweet spot is Series Seed rounds – filling the gap between angel capital and larger funding rounds of traditional VCs. When the timing is right, they collaborate with the best large-scale firms for the next round of financing, but they love lean start-ups that preserve flexibility in their early years. With three funds under management, Illuminate has been an early investor and board member in deep technology platforms like BrightEdge Technologies (SEO market leader), SaaS applications like Xactly Corporation (NYSE: XTLY) and early market innovators like Influitive (customer advocacy).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Oakland, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Mobile, SaaS
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Xfund
Xfund is the early-stage venture firm designed to back lateral thinkers. Partnering with Harvard University and others of the world’s preeminent universities, Xfund looks beyond the stereotypical technical pedigrees to seek out extraordinary people who are being systemically ignored by traditional venture capital: technically-gifted liberal arts entrepreneurs. We believe it’s our responsibility to help these unconventional, high potential founders align their ambition and passion with opportunity we help them create, to build the sort of ground-breaking companies that can create a better tomorrow. Xfund has offices in Palo Alto, California, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more about Xfund, please visit http://www.xfund.com.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
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Work-Bench
Work-Bench is an enterprise venture capital firm based in New York City. The firm provides $3M – $6M Seed and Seed II rounds in enterprise SaaS startups. They focused on supporting early-stage startups on all things go-to-market and have built a dynamic enterprise tech community.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
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Group 11
Group 11 invests in revolutionary software companies that redrawing the landscape of the financial services industry. As FinTech continues to gain momentum and to disrupt the traditional industry value chain, Group 11 has positioned itself as a partner of choice to provide capital and guidance to entrepreneurs that are creating the world’s next generation of financial services industry leaders.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Payments
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Jumpstart Ventures
JumpStart Ventures is an investment fund built to partner with entrepreneurs solving problems that need intelligent innovation and ambitious solutions.The fund invests in founders with humble invincibility and purposeful creativity launching companies that positively impact the world around them.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Enterprise Software, Financial Services
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Mesa Ventures
MESA Ventures is a Seed and Series A venture fund focused on e-commerce, advertising, media, enterprise software, and mobile technologies. The Fund co-invests between $50,000 and $250,000 alongside established early stage venture firms. We actively support talented entrepreneurs building big businesses. To do that, we invest social capital that we believe valuable as financial capital. This comes from tapping into the team’s global network of media, entertainment and technology relationships to provide investor introductions, executive team hiring, business development, client & advertiser introductions, and marketing support. The Fund’s goal is to help its portfolio companies whenever and wherever it can.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Advertising, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Mobile
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i2E
i2E is a private not-for-profit Oklahoma corporation that invests in technology-based entrepreneurs and companies. 2E receives state support from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology and is an integral part of Oklahoma’s Innovation Model. It was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Venture Capital, Wellness
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BootstrapLabs
BootstrapLabs is a leading Silicon Valley based venture capital firm focused on Applied Artificial Intelligence, and the first VC firm to focus solely on AI since 2015 – with over 30 investments in AI first companies and today investing from the 3rd AI focused seed fund ($115M).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Glasswing Ventures
Glasswing Ventures is an early-stage VC firm investing in the next generation of AI and frontier technology startups enabling the rise of the intelligent enterprise. The firm is laser-focused on funding exceptional entrepreneurs who are leading the AI revolution, capitalizing on the intellectual might and talent from the premier academic institutions on the East Coast, and fostering growth for its ecosystem. Glasswing Ventures funds visionary entrepreneurs harnessing the power of AI and frontier technologies to transform markets and revolutionize industries. Glasswing Ventures was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Stages: Seed, Venture
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Enterprise, Venture Capital
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Hillsven Capital
Hillsven is a seed capital venture firm focused primarily on Silicon Valley and Israeli startups. Nothing is publicly known about the organization other than this [announcement](http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/28/bleacher-report-hunkers-down-with-35-million-more/). If you have more information, please update this profile.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Finance, Venture Capital
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Tola Capital
Founded in 2010 by ex-software operators, Tola Capital is a venture capital firm that believes in the power of software and data to transform the way the world works. Our diverse team provides hands-on engagement to founders who build solutions with the potential for long-term, transformational change. We invest globally across multiple stages and exclusively target companies led by exceptional talent who are building essential software for enterprise customers.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Zeno Ventures
Zeno Ventures invests in early stage technology enabled companies addressing consumer and enterprise markets. Zeno Ventures likes to back exceptional entrepreneurs before their businesses have scaled and often even before their business models are formed. Zeno Ventures seeks to partner with talented and passionate founders solving difficult problems that were illuminated by their personal experience.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer, Enterprise, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Elysium Venture Capital
Elysium Venture Capital is an investment management group focused on global technology opportunities. Utilizing a wide range of industry experience, the firm seeks partnerships with exceptional management teams to commercialize innovative technologies, accelerate growth and create long term value across the world.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, PaaS, Venture Capital
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Amidzad Partners
Amidzad is a seed and early-stage investment firm focused on investing in emerging growth companies on the West Coast. They have over 50 years of combined entrepreneurial experience in building profitable, global enterprises from the ground up and over 25 years of combined investing experience in successful information technology and life science companies. They are seed and early-stage investors with access to an extensive network of resources. Over the years, they have assembled a world-class network of serial entrepreneurs, strategic investors, and industry leaders who actively assist their portfolio as Entrepreneur Partners and Advisors. They partner with entrepreneurs and leverage the resources of their strong network to build successful companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Redwood City, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Enterprise Software, Social Media
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Stonehenge Capital
Stonehenge Capital is a national specialty finance company, with expertise in private equity, tax credit, and structured finance. Since 1990, Stonehenge’s principals have provided long-term capital to privately held businesses throughout the country. Stonehenge was formed in 1999 by former principals of Banc One Capital Markets, the venture capital and investment banking subsidiary of Bank One Corporation. Stonehenge currently manages several distinct private equity and mezzanine investment funds with over $500 million in capital through its offices in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States, North America
Industries: Biotechnology, Enterprise Software, Finance
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First Star Ventures
First Star partners with entrepreneurs solving real-world problems using data and machine learning, focusing on applications of frontier technologies such as AI, computational biotech, connected sensors, AR/VR, and blockchain. We believe in investing with conviction in visionary, technical founders inventing the future. Drawing on our experience and network of strategic partners across industries and regions, we help startups think big and grow fast.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Enterprise, Machine Learning, Venture Capital
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UpVentures Capital
UpVentures Capital is an early-stage investor that makes minority investments in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies. It prefers to invest in companies from the software and technology sectors. The firm invests in early-stage technology companies, primarily in Upstate NY but also NY metro, Silicon Valley, and other locations where its relationships extend to help entrepreneurs start and grow companies. UpVentures Capital was established in 2014 and is headquartered in Little Falls, New York.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Little Falls, New York, United States, North America
Industries: CleanTech, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, FinTech, Gaming, Internet of Things, Wearables
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G20 Ventures
G20 Ventures provides early traction capital for East Coast enterprise tech startups, backed by the power and expertise of 20 of the Northeast’s most accomplished entrepreneurs. We look for great teams in love with big problems. Our focus is generally on early-stage, East Coast, and enterprise software, especially virtual infrastructure and cloud-based solutions. We prefer technology risk to market risk, and won’t generally invest in 100% consumer-facing businesses. We get that great teams are built over time, but typically look for a core team (at least 2 people) that includes a technologist with experience building solutions similar to the one being proposed, and a business person who really understands the buyer and how to reach them. We like to see a product in market, and some early customer validation. Our sweet spot investment is $2-5 million in Series A. We reserve capital for every earlier stage deal we do, meaning we want to be with you all the way.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer, Enterprise, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Bonsal Capital
Bonsal Capital is a mission-driven partnership investing primarily in the Capital Region in technology enabled services in education and workforce. The firm was founded in 1999 by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) cofounder Frank A. Bonsal, Jr and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North America
Industries: EdTech, Education, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Appian Ventures
[Appian Ventures](http://www.appianvc.com) invests in software and technologies that exploit network connectivity to improve business performance.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Denver, Colorado, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Brightstone Venture Capital
Brightstone Venture Capital (BVC) has a 30 year history of building successful technology and life-science companies. We love to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs with a unique vision of how to solve a huge problem in a large and growing market, and help them “dream big” and achieve their vision.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, North America
Industries: Augmented Reality, Biotechnology, Data Storage, Enterprise Software, FinTech, Health Diagnostics, Life Science, Medical Device, Semiconductor
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Center for Innovative Technology
In 2005, CIT celebrated 20 years of creating technology-based companies and strategies for innovation. From its original mission to enhance the research and technology transfer activities of Virginia universities, CIT has moved its focus toward the new technologies, entrepreneurs and technology companies that make innovation happen. Today, CIT’s operating structure consists of service lines that enable it to respond quickly and efficiently to new opportunities with government and private sector clients. The service lines – CIT Entrepreneur, CIT R&D, CIT Broadband and CIT Connect – establish a clear identity that allows us to meet their goals and close innovation gaps.
Stages: Seed
Location: Herndon, Virginia, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Health Care, Information Services, Information Technology, Medical, Non Profit
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The Startup Factory
The Startup Factory is an early stage venture fund that provides entrepreneurs capital and mentorship on steroids, including 3-day boot camps and a three month program customized for early stage startup companies. In the accelerator program, startups exchange 7.5% equity for$50,000 in seed capital, coaching, and access to its network of active angels, veteran startup founders, and experienced technology experts. Companies that successfully complete the accelerator are eligible for follow on funding.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Durham, North Carolina, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, Database, Enterprise Software
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York IE
York IE™ is a vertically integrated strategic growth and investment firm helping reshape the way companies are built, scaled and monetized. Through Fuel™, its SaaS platform for market and competitive intelligence, hands-on advisory services and selective early stage B2B SaaS investments, York IE supports ambitious entrepreneurs, operators and investors on their quest to scale startups and disrupt markets.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Flywheel Ventures
Flywheel Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on information technology and physical sciences ventures in the Southwest/Rockies region. Flywheel’s goal is to be the premier early-stage technology venture capital firm in the Southwest/Rockies region and a catalyst for its emergence as a world-class technology center.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Darling Ventures
Darling Ventures is your partner from Day 1. We lead pre-seed rounds of software businesses, investing throughout North America with first checks up to $750K. Then we get to work on your successful go-to-market. Our firm partners before others muster up their conviction. We make concentrated investments and seek to be the most active and thoughtful investor throughout your Seed phase as your startup finds its footing. We’ve specialized our post-investment support to developing your effective go-to-market strategy. From defining value proposition to the right business model and pitch collateral, we spend the time and deploy our bench of GTM operators to make your market entry a success. While doing so, we value strong integrity, humility and those who hold themselves up to their own highest standards.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Construction, Enterprise Software, FinTech, Industrial, Information Technology, Software
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Adobe Ventures
Adobe Ventures is [Adobe’s](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adobe-systems) investment arm. Adobe Ventures aims to invest approximately $100 million between 2008-2011 in companies leveraging Adobe platform technologies, particularly those delivering applications based on Adobe® Integrated Runtime (AIRâ„¢).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Jose, California, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Events, Venture Capital
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Billiken Angels Network
The Billiken Angels Network (BAN) was part of the Entrepreneurship Program of the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University. Announced in 2007, it started operating in September 2008 with twenty angels ready to fund suitable opportunities, and a $1,000,000 sidecar co-investment fund made available by the University from its endowment. It closed in September 2017, having made 34 investments in 20 companies. The Billiken Angels’ tag line was “…the deals that make a difference” and that is the goal of the BAN – to identify and invest funds and expertise in those businesses that can make a difference in the economy of the St. Louis region, and in the lives of the people living in the region and elsewhere. The BAN considered businesses at any stage (seed, start-up, existing, growing, etc.) and in any industry (retail, wholesale, manufacturing, service, financial, internet, high-tech, etc.). BAN invested in firms in the St. Louis region, and only considered firms outside of the region when the firm has SLU DNA (firms owned by current or former SLU students, current or retired SLU faculty and staff, or firms using intellectual property licensed from SLU). Membership was open to accredited investors only. All BAN members had a strong commitment to help develop entrepreneurship through education at Saint Louis University in addition to investment.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, Biotechnology, Enterprise Software, Fitness, Health Care, Internet, Medical Device, Mobile, Pharmaceutical
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Trellis Partners
Trellis Partners serves entrepreneurs by providing venture capital and team-based support that enable them to build information technology businesses. It was founded in 1997 by Cassio Spina. Trellis Partners is based in Cedar Creek, Texas.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cedar Creek, Texas, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Impact America Fund
Impact America Fund is an investment firm that is catalyzing the economic liberation of underserved communities in America. They see tremendous creativity, drive, skill, resilience, and opportunity in communities and sectors that are traditionally overlooked and undervalued. They invest in businesses with “inherent impact,” whereby the design of their business models and products creates shared value for their consumers, workers, suppliers, investors, and other key stakeholders. They back entrepreneurs whose lived experiences deepen both their impact-orientation and understanding of the structural problems they are solving.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Oakland, California, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise, Financial Services, Small and Medium Businesses, Venture Capital
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Innovating Capital
Innovating Capital is a family-office backed technology fund specializing in investing in start-ups, early stage, and growth stage companies. It invests in disruptive sectors and cutting-edge technologies with a focus on enterprise industry verticals such as infrastructure, financial technologies, cybersecurity, life sciences, and insurance technologies.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Cyber Security, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, InsurTech, Life Science, Neuroscience, Robotics
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Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago runs two programs that invests in UChicago-affiliated teams: the Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC) program and the Polsky Center Accelerator Program. For more information and details on how to apply, please visit: http://chicagonvc.com or http://polskycenter.com/accelerator/
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Association, Education, Enterprise Software, Non Profit, Private Social Networking, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Network
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Windcrest Partners
Windcrest Partners is a venture capital firm that offers private equity investment services to firms in the energy, network, games, healthcare administration, and internet technology industries. It was founded in 1967 and is based in New York.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Karlani Capital
Karlani Capital is an operating fund started by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. We love creating new ideas that change lives for the better, creating wealth for our entrepreneurs and their employees, and creating new products that democratize humanity through better access or simpler ways to do things. And we really love being part of the communities we serve. We love life, period. While we take our work very seriously, we don’t take ourselves very seriously. When it really comes down to it, we believe: • Our calling is improving lives by what we do. • Integrity is in our DNA. • Opportunity exists everywhere; we just have to find it. • If it doesn’t sell, we don’t do it. • Life is better when you’re laughing, through both happiness and sadness. We’re looking for like-minded people who want to go on this journey with us, with plenty of joy, laughter and occasional tears along the way, enriching humanity through what we do. Value Proposition Karlani Capital has one main objective: to enable the growth and success of ideas that are original, interesting and useful to people. At the core, Karlani is an operating fund lead by a group of master operators with the expertise to help grow companies from 1 to 1,000+ employees, as well as from $1 to over a billion dollars in valuation, and even assist you into taking your company into the public markets. As your partner, our goal is to add exceptional value with every investment we make. But that’s not all. We want you enjoy the sheer exhilaration of being an entrepreneur. As seasoned entrepreneurs, we know how emotionally and mentally draining building your business can be. Chances are that the pain points you are experiencing in your start up are things we’ve already been through; and we’re happy to advise you through them. Our vast, combined expertise (which includes, though is not limited to, entrepreneurship, technology, finance, adtech, enterprise software, sales execution, HR, operations, product development, eCommerce, digital marketing, branding, mobile tech, and retail) can help you attain the true potential of your idea or product. We will support your growth by helping you define your business’ strategy and future direction for successful growth. Our singular objective is to help you execute; not to add reporting requirements. Our portfolio companies have told us they love the discipline we help bring, and that we enable them to thrive both financially and as a workplace of choice. We have a strong value system that aims to enrich humanity through what we do, which is reflected in our portfolio of partner companies.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Industries: E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Finance, Marketing, Mobile, Product Management, Sales, Venture Capital
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Race Capital
Race Capital is an early stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Race Capital is focused on enterprise computing including: data infrastructure, collaboration, open source, privacy, security, automation, and fintech Infrastructure.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Privacy, Venture Capital
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GRA Venture Fund, LLC
The GRA Venture Fund, LLC is a private investment fund helping to finance promising companies emerging from Georgia’s universities. The Fund makes seed, early-stage, and mid-stage investments in companies originating from GRA Ventures, the commercialization arm of the Georgia Research Alliance. Fund investors are the State of Georgia, private individuals, corporations and foundations.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Mobile, Venture Capital
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Goldcrest Investments
Goldcrest Investments, L.P. manages investments across a host of asset classes, including hedge funds, venture funds, fixed income, and direct investments in companies. Only a select number of potential investments make it through our extensive due diligence process. Goldcrest Investments will, at times, allow a limited number of partners to invest their capital side-by-side with Goldcrest. For example, Goldcrest Investments FB, Ltd. is a partnership we formed with other investors to purchase shares of a privately-held company.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Dallas, Texas, United States, North America
Industries: Analytics, Enterprise Software, Venture Capital
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Grand Ventures
Grand Ventures is an early stage venture fund investing in seed stage B2B SaaS companies in emerging regions of the US and Canada focused on Supply Chain, Fintech, DevOps, and Digital Health. We have invested in some of the fastest growing companies in North America alongside some of the most prestigious venture funds. We pride ourselves on supporting great entrepreneurs from inception through rapid growth to maturity and helping out at each stage of the journey.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Venture Capital, Supply Chain, Fintech, DevOps, HealthcareIT
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Fourth Realm
Fourth Real invests at the intersection of bits and atoms, looking for founder-problem fit, step-functioning changes, and markets being pushed to evolve by massive tailwinds.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise, FinTech, Venture Capital
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CoFound Partners
CoFound Partners is an early-stage venture firm that helps founders build a repeatable sales motion. The company was founded in 2019 by Jordan Wan and is headquartered in New York, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, Enterprise Software, IaaS, PaaS, Venture Capital
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Harpoon
Harpoon is an early-stage venture capital. It was formed in 2018 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Diego, California, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Tech Square Ventures
Tech Square Ventures is an Atlanta-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in enterprise, marketplace and platform, and tech enabled service companies. We are a team of founders, operators, and investors that partner with visionary entrepreneurs to help them with what they need most – access to markets and customers. Our platform is built on a strategic network of innovation ecosystem, corporate, and university relationships that help founders inform and accelerate go-to-market strategies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States, North America
Industries: Developer Platform, Enterprise, Information Technology, Internet of Things, Logistics, Marketplace, Venture Capital
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