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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for FinTech startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Plug and Play Tech Center | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Sunnyvale, California, United States, North America | ||
Matrix Partners | Early Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Felicis Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Menlo Park, California, United States, North America | ||
Spark Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
FundersClub | Early Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America |
At SeedRound we track over 200,000 investors and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these firms. We use this directory of investors to highlight top employees, LP’s and funding organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top FinTech Seed investors in California. 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 FinTech Investors & Funds (California)
Plug and Play Tech Center
Plug and Play is a seed and early-stage investor focused on great teams leading emerging growth companies. Plug and Play runs 12 industry-specific accelerator programs twice a year, that acts as a platform for major corporations and high quality startups to connect and collaborate. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Plug and Play participates in Seed, Angel and Series A funding where they often co-invest with their strategic partners. Through years of experience and as part of their network, Plug and Play has put together a world-class network of serial entrepreneurs, strategic investors, and industry leaders who actively assist the firm with its successful and growing investment portfolio. SEED ROUND. Plug and Play participates in seed round investing through a program called Startup Camp. Startup Camp is a 10-week program based in Silicon Valley for top-notch entrepreneurs to work intensively on building out their business model. Select startups will refine their business models and prototypes with help from a combination of structured workshops, speaker series and mentorship sessions, as well as active coaching from their investment team. At the culmination of Startup Camp, founders will have crystalized their business plans and pitched their company to the venture capital community at EXPO Demo Day.” ANGEL ROUND Plug and Play makes angel round investments throughout the year, sourced from their monthly Plug and Play Angels (PAPA) sessions. They are partnered with local angel investors in Silicon Valley who participate in PAPA to find the most promising startups and best new technologies. SERIES A. Series A typical Series A round is in the range of $2 million to $10 million, and is intended to provide operating capital for the company for six months to two years. This round capitalizes the company as it develops its products, performs initial marketing and branding, acquires talent, and conducts other early-stage business operations. It is in this stage that Plug and Play will co-invest with over 180 venture capital partners. Plug and Play has helped grow market leaders such as PayPal, Danger, Google, DropBox, LendingClub, Zoosk, SoundHound, CreditSesame, Skytree, and has over 400 more early-stage startups in its portfolio.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States, North America
Industries: FinTech, InsurTech, Retail, Smart Cities
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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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Felicis Ventures
Felicis Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors and industries reinventing core markets, as well as those creating frontier technologies. Felicis currently manages over $2B in capital across 8 funds. The firm is an early backer of more than 40 companies valued at $1B+. More than 90 of its portfolio companies have been acquired or gone public since the firm was founded by Aydin Senkut in 2006.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cyber Security, FinTech, Impact Investing
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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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FundersClub
FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab. FundersClub is the world’s first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more; FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Funding Platform
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Highland Capital Partners
Founded in 1988, Highland Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm focused on putting the entrepreneur first. With offices in Silicon Valley, Boston and Shanghai, Highland has raised over $3 billion in committed capital and invested in more than 225 companies, resulting in category-defining businesses across consumer and enterprise technology. Investments include 2U, Ask Jeeves, Bromium, Gigamon, Leap Motion, LevelUp, Lycos, MapQuest, Nebula, QD Vision, Qihoo 360, Quattro Wireless, RentJuice, Rent the Runway, Starent Networks, Sybase, Violin Memory, VistaPrint and WePay. Highland also serves as a mentor for future entrepreneurs through Summer@Highland, a program that provides students and university-affiliated startups with the environment and resources to take their initiative to the next level.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Upfront Ventures
Upfront Ventures is proud to be an early investor and long-term partner to the most exciting founders and startups. Founded in 1996 in Los Angeles with investing professionals based in LA, San Francisco, and Paris, Upfront has backed standout teams across all technology sectors, including Ring (acq. by Amazon), TrueCar (NASDAQ: TRUE), Bird, Maker Studios (acq by Disney), GOAT, Apeel Sciences, thredUP, Invoca and Kyriba (acq by Bridgepoint). We invest about half of our capital in the fast-growing Southern California ecosystem, with the balance across the country as well as investments in Europe and Israel. Upfront Ventures is led by Managing Partners Yves Sisteron, Mark Suster, and Kara Nortman.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Cyber Security, Digital Media, FinTech
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GSR Ventures
GSR Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies developing AI-enabled enterprise software, consumer platforms, and healthcare technology. The firm backs entrepreneurs building disruptive businesses that have the potential to dominate multi-billion dollar markets. GSR Ventures currently manages about $3 billion across its funds.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Draper Associates
Draper Associates is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming companies. They invest globally, in great teams of people creating revolutionary companies in new media, gaming, SaaS, cloud, new finance, IOT, and mobile. Their portfolio companies disrupting markets in the tens of billions and are on a clear path to later rounds of fundraising. Draper Associates encourages entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness, to transform industries with new technologies, and to build platforms for extraordinary growth, jobs, and wealth creation. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA, USA.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Mateo, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Software, Venture Capital
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AltaIR Capital
AltaIR Capital manages funds that invest in the world’s most promising companies with disruptive ideas and great return potential. They invest in early and growth stage startup companies in various sectors. Its portfolio companies represent key players of the startup industry, top incubator graduates, and promising teams.
Stages: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: FinTech, InsurTech, Productivity Tools
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Maveron
Maveron is a consumer-only venture capital firm. Founded in 1998 by Dan Levitan and Howard Schultz, the firm has offices in San Francisco and Seattle. Maveron investments include Zulily, Allbirds, Common, August Home, eBay, Capella Education, General Assembly, and Trupanion. Maveron’s name was coined from the words “maverick” and “vision.” Maveron funds seed and Series A companies that empower consumers to live on their terms. Based in SF and Seattle and invest coast-to-coast. Maveron has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital, Virtual Reality
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Altos Ventures
Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, we currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. We have been the first and lead institutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. We invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. We look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Ulu Ventures
Ulu Ventures provides early-stage investments in enterprise SaaS, smart data, companies. A seed-stage venture firm focused primarily on enterprise IT, Ulu focuses on the market opportunity created by the Stanford and Silicon Valley communities. Ulu generates financial results using a disciplined, repeatable decision-making process that analyzes risk-reward trade-offs. Ulu follows logical principles of portfolio construction given its pure-play seed strategy. This approach makes the firm conventional in the world of institutional investors but contrarian as compared to many VCs. Ulu’s goal is to be a top quartile fund consistenly, on a fund over fund basis. In 2008, Miriam Rivera and Clint Korver established the firm in Palo Alto, California. The GPs have both been startup founders, have tech industry experience in companies from formation stage to joining Google as employee 160 and negotiating and closing deals that helped it grow from $85m to $10B in revenue. Both have served as trustees of higher education and foundation endowments valued from $1B to $16B
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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TSVC
TSVC is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage deep technology startups. TSVC invests in forward-thinking ideas and cutting-edge deep technologies as well as partnering with founders in Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial community. TSVC delivers outstanding returns to investors by funding over 160 startups in deep tech-focused areas like SaaS, AI chips, Fintech, Biotech, Blockchain, and Semiconductors. Their mission is to support entrepreneurs with unique insights and solid technical expertise and to bring them distinctive values along with crucial funding to make their ideas into reality. TSVC’s investment philosophy centers on the belief that today’s visionaries will make tomorrow’s reality. TSVC was founded in 2010 and is based in Los Altos, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Altos, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Forerunner Ventures
At Forerunner, we believe in a better way to invest. We’re a venture capital firm focused on understanding the mindset of the modern consumer and identifying the people poised to deliver what they need. We believe that when entrepreneurs are poised to meet consumers not just where they are today but where they’re going to be tomorrow, they become more than just founders — they’re forerunners. By supporting them with funding, strategic wisdom, and consumer insight — our “CQ” — we help transform industries and drive culture forward. We’re a San Francisco-based team of veterans and visionaries from multiple disciplines. What unites us is a shared belief that “good enough” just isn’t good enough. We’ve used our combined expertise to support trailblazing brands like Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, Hims & Hers, and dozens more.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: FinTech, Internet, Retail, Retail Technology, Venture Capital
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Mucker Capital
MuckerLab is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, pre-seed, seed, startup, early-stage, and Series A investments. It targets investing in Internet software, services, and media ventures. It also prefers to invest in Enterprise, fintech, B2B and Consumer Products. MuckerLab seeks to invest in Los Angeles and broader Southern California. It typically invests between $0.25 million and $1 million per deal. It runs an accelerator program. The duration of the program can be as short as 3 months to as long as 24 months. It invests between $21,000 to $150,000 in exchange for a 7% to 12% equity stake. Erik Rannala and William Hsu founded MuckerLab in October 2011. It has its headquarters in Santa Monica in California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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MaC Venture Capital
MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious. The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace. MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful Los Angeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: FinTech, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Commerce Ventures
At Commerce Ventures, they are building a new and different type of venture capital firm. Their investors are a unique and strategic blend of leading entrepreneurs, senior executives, and corporates from their focus sectors (mobile, retail/e-commerce, payments, fin-tech, insurance). In addition to providing capital, they are committed to helping their portfolio companies succeed in scaling their commerce-related innovations.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance, Retail Technology, Venture Capital
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Hustle Fund
Hustle Fund is a seed fund that seeks to invest in early-stage startups operating in software, business to business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Carlos, California, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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CRCM Ventures
CRCM Ventures backs ambitious early-stage companies, setting the stage for emerging technologies. Since 2004, we have invested in over 200+ companies resulting in 5 IPOS and 18 exits. Our 2004 and 2012 vintage funds were ranked 4th and 1st respectively in Preqin Top Performing Early Stage VC Funds. Our portfolio companies include Youku (NYSE: YOKU acquired by Alibaba), Musical.ly, (acquired by Toutiao), This is L (acquired by Proctor Gamble), Orbeus (acquired by Amazon), E-house (NYSE: EJ), Allyes (acquired by Focus Media), Ripple Labs, Turning Point Therapeutics ( NASDAQ: TPTX ), etc.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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MAGIC Fund
Magic Fund is built on a thesis that smaller funds run by founders perform best in early-stage investing (pre-seed/seed). We’re a fund of micro-funds run by repeat founders with strong expertise in specific industries and geographies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cryptocurrency, Developer Tools, E-Commerce, Emerging Markets, FinTech, Health Care, Real Estate, SaaS
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Graph Ventures
Graph Ventures is an investment group that specializes in seed and early-stage venture investments. It was founded in 2011. Investments include: * BetterUp * Birdies * BlueApron * Dapper Labs * Earnin * Envoy * Hinge * Houseparty * Ipsy * Loft * Lever * Lingokids * Moon Express * Papaya * PicsArt * Porch * Quinto Andar * RideOS * Saildrone * Very Good Security * VivaReal * Zeplin
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, B2B, Blockchain, Consumer, Developer Tools, Education, FinTech
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Blockchain Capital
Blockchain Capital was founded in 2013 with the mission of helping entrepreneurs build world-class companies and projects based on blockchain technology. The firm provides founders with capital, domain expertise, partnerships, recruiting, and strategy. Blockchain Capital is an active venture investor in the blockchain industry and has financed 75+ companies and projects since its inception. Blockchain Capital invests in both equity and tokens and is a multi-stage investor.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance, FinTech
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Flourish Ventures
Flourish Ventures backs entrepreneurs whose innovations advance financial health and prosperity for individuals and small businesses. It is an early-stage, evergreen global venture fund that deploys patient capital with a long-term perspective.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Redwood City, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Montage Ventures
Montage Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm actively investing in financial services, e-Commerce, marketplaces and healthcare start-ups.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: FinTech, Venture Capital
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Core Innovation Capital
Core Innovation Capital is a fintech venture capital firm investing in companies committed to empowering small businesses and everyday Americans. Their portfolio companies deliver more efficient, well-designed solutions that save people time and money, create upward mobility, and scale broadly — driving both profit margins and consumer value.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, InsurTech, Venture Capital
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Maven Ventures
Maven Ventures invests in software startups that millions of consumers use everyday to make their lives better. We make $750K-$1M Seed investments in founders with a “vision worth fighting for” and the potential to build billion-dollar businesses. Our team identifies future consumer trends—we’ve already seen our investment predictions come to life in areas like self-driving cars, the proliferation of mobile, video communication, the future of retail, and digital health. Notable investments include: Zoom (IPO “ZM”), Cruise (acquired by GM), and Chariot (acquired by Ford). As we only make 6 new startup investments each year, we focus on each one, rolling up our sleeves to teach founding teams how to achieve product/market fit, hone their consumer messaging, reach millions of customers with viral marketing, and set them up for success.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer Software, Financial Services, FinTech, Software, Venture Capital
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Aurelia Ventures
B2B Accelerator & VC. We supercharge B2B software founders. Our goal is to increase your sales, hire the right people, get investors for your follow-on rounds and extend your runway with $1.25M+ in perks & benefits.
Stages: Angel to Series A
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: AI/ML, Fintech, Cybersecurity, Big Data
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Designer Fund
Designer Fund invests in tech startups that are design leaders including Stripe, Gusto, and Omada Health. Designer Fund specializes in helping design products and scale design teams through their professional development programs Bridge and Designer Founder Guild. Their community includes exceptional designer founders and design leaders from companies like Apple, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Dropbox.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, FinTech, Venture Capital
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AgFunder
AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world’s food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, FinTech, Food and Beverage
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Draper Richards
[Draper Richards](http://www.draperrichards.com) is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Fika Ventures
Fika Ventures is a LA-based boutique seed fund that invests in founders solving massive, systemic problems through the use of data, related AI-enabled technologies, and automation. Our core focus areas will be enterprise & B2B software, fintech, marketplaces and digital health. Fika will be investing predominantly in LA and the Bay Area, while opportunistically making a few bets in burgeoning markets like Seattle and New York. Fika Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.
Stages: Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care, Marketplace, Venture Capital
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Foothill Ventures
Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund that invests in seed-to-A-round startups in the United States. It is a successor fund to the TEEC Angel Fund. Foothill Ventures was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Altos, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Altos, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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1984 Ventures
1984 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm proptech, fintech, healthcare, marketplace, SaaS, e-commerce, and consumer.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Act One Ventures
Act One Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage fund that focuses on investing in business software. The firm leads pre-seed and seed rounds. The team is made up of founders who understand the journey of building companies having founded and taken a company public. Alejandro Guerrero and Michael Silton formed the fund in Los Angeles, California in 2016. Act One Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider. Focus areas include e-commerce infrastructure software, Vertical SaaS and Fintech
Stages: Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: E-Commerce Platforms, FinTech, SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
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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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Astia Angels
Astia Angels is a global network of both female and male angel investors that invest in high-growth companies. The angel investor network is actively engaged in the Astia community and screening process (Astia Expert Sift TM) and founded by experienced angel investors. All members are highly involved throughout the investment process and make independent investment decisions.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Banking, FinTech, Non Profit, Venture Capital
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Propel Venture Partners
Propel Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on opportunities at the intersection of technology and finance. It was established in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Green Visor Capital
Green Visor Capital invests in, and works with, passionate entrepreneurs that use innovative technology to solve substantive issues in financial services and do so in a socially responsible manner, which we believe will generate large-scale shareholder value.Green Visor Capital was launched in late 2013 and its general partners include Joe Saunders, the former Chairman and CEO of Visa, Inc., the world’s largest payments company.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Engineering Capital
Engineering Capital partners with great entrepreneurs driven by technical insights: they boldly invest before traditional venture firms are willing. They lead and anchor seed rounds in companies defining new categories with the ambition to shape the future of information technology.
Stages: Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
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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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Navitas Capital
Navitas is focused on making venture capital investments in early-stage real estate and construction technologies. It leverages its unique domain expertise, corporate partners, and industry relationships to create a self-reinforcing cycle of value within our network. Whether helping a portfolio company with an introduction, partnership opportunity, capital raise or strategy, it always seeks to add value as part of their investments.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Culver City, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Construction, FinTech, Mobile, Predictive Analytics, Smart Building, Virtual Reality
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Oyster Ventures
Oyster Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in exceptional new-frontier technology companies. They target companies that bring liquidity and efficiency to antiquated industries, companies that enable globalization, with leverage to massively scale. It also specializes in early-stage investments in startups in fintech, with a focus on blockchain, crypto, E-commerce, market place, artificial intelligence, fintech, media tech, and SaaS companies. Oyster Ventures was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Pasadena Angels
Entrepreneurial small businesses are major engines of job growth and key players in the commercialization of new technologies. However, most entrepreneurial ventures fail to achieve their goals. Among the most common reasons for such business failures are the inability to execute sound business plans and to access capital funding, particularly at critical early stages of a company’s development. Affiliated as Pasadena Angels, Inc., a nonprofit entity, the organization offers early-stage companies the opportunity to benefit from the knowledge of more than 100 experienced entrepreneurs, senior corporate executives, and skilled professionals from a variety of industries and venture capital affiliates. Approximately 80 companies from a broad range of industries are screened each year by Pasadena Angels members and are provided with invaluable counsel, including insights into developing business and financing strategies that are achievable and fundable. Companies also benefit from the group’s feedback and the opportunity to connect with individuals who may offer more specialized expertise and advice. The organization’s members provide up to $1 million in early-stage financing and seed money to emerging technology-based ventures located in Southern California. The group cooperates with other venture capital firms and angel investment groups to support companies that are raising between $1 to $5 million. Pasadena Angels members invest individually and directly, without any legal pooling of financial resources. The corporate entity, Pasadena Angels, Inc. does not invest or act as an investment agent in any manner. Pasadena Angels charges no fees and provides its services to companies which it believes have a significant potential for success and the potential to benefit from an association with the organization.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Altadena, California, United States, North America
Industries: CleanTech, FinTech, Food and Beverage, Mobile, Personal Health, Small and Medium Businesses, Social Media
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gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)
gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC) is a blockchain and cryptographic asset thesis fund that invests in the crypto native stack from L1 to the application layer, as well as in traditional businesses supporting the ecosystem. gCC is backed by gumi Inc., a listed mobile game developer and publisher, as well as a number of other public Japanese companies (across various industries). With the platform, resources and network of gumi Inc. and our LPs, combined with gCC’s presence as an established Silicon Valley crypto fund, we provide unique strategic value-add to our portfolio companies and crypto partners in both the Asia-Pacific and U.S. markets.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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VU Venture Partners
VU Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital fund focusing on Consumer, Enterprise, FinTech / Blockchain, HealthTech, Frontier Tech, and Real Estate Tech. It was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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8 Decimal Capital
8 Decimal Capital is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on both token and equity investment. We currently have more than 30 portfolio companies, and an AUM of 60M USD. Our investment team consists of more than 10 venture capital veterans, researchers, and trading professionals. We thematically invest in core infrastructure layer projects that address security, scalability, and privacy, provide a full suite of post-investment value-add to our portfolio companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Canyon Creek Capital
Canyon Creek Capital is an early stage venture capital fund focused on A series investments. It invests in companies that have the potential to be disruptive to their markets. Canyon Creek Capital was established in 2011 and is based in Santa Monica, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
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Peak State Ventures
Peak State Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in the future of work, PropTech, and digital healthcare. It consists of entrepreneurs, operators, advisors, and investors with multiple successful exits looking for future category leaders. The firm will work with seed-stage entrepreneurs to bring a product to market and support a company through Series A+ rounds and later stages of growth and expansion. The firm was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Robot Ventures
Robot Ventures is a (pre-)seed investor in exceptional fintech and blockchain companies led by founders with big ambitions, and contrarian worldviews.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Envestnet Yodlee Incubator
The Envestnet | Yodlee Incubator helps developers, innovators and entrepreneurs launch disruptive data-driven companies and ignite their growth. Companies receive access to the suite of Envestnet | Yodlee APIs, dedicated technical support, mentorship & guidance, and membership in the broader Yodlee ecosystem. They look at companies pre-seed, post-seed, and even sometimes pre-product.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Redwood City, California, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, B2C, Big Data, FinTech
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Citrix Startup Accelerator
Citrix Startup Accelerator offers seed funding for passionate entrepreneurs who have great ideas for the development of new technologies and business models around cloud, mobile and collaboration. The Citrix Startup Accelerator offers: * Seed funding ($250k) * An entrepreneur-friendly environment with access to the global Citrix ecosystem. * An open and interactive accelerator facility in Silicon Valley that offers mentoring from successful entrepreneurs, Citrix executives, and partners.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
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Elefund
Founded in July 2015, Elefund is a US-based venture capital firm with its headquarters in Mountain View, California. The firm has invested in several well-known companies whose products and services have benefited millions of people all over the world and created thousands of jobs.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Mountain View, California, United States, North America
Industries: Aerospace, Developer APIs, Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance, InsurTech, Mobile Apps, Payments, Residential, Wellness
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Wildcat Venture Partners
Founded in 2015, Wildcat Venture Partners is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology companies. Wildcat invests in B2B and B2B2C startups leveraging key technologies such as Machine Learning/AI, IoT, and Cloud & Mobility in the following markets: Digital Health, EdTech, Enterprise SaaS and FinTech. The Wildcat team brings decades of entrepreneurial experience, venture experience, and deep domain expertise to help early stage companies effectively navigate through the Traction Gap® and go on to scale. Wildcat’s current investment portfolio includes companies such as: Aceable, Amplero, C3.ai, Carrum Health, Clover Health, GreenFig, LeaseLock, Obo, Ritual, Tuition.io, Vlocity, what3words, and Zebit.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Mateo, California, United States, North America
Industries: FinTech, Venture Capital
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Mosaik Partners
Mosaik funds commerce enabling technology companies that are revolutionizing the way consumers and businesses transact. We provide entrepreneurs the capital, resources and guidance necessary to realize their big ideas at the critical expansion stage – driving growth, profitability and scale for their businesses. With over four decades of combined industry experience investing in, operating and advising early to late stage commerce enabling technology companies, our partners offer entrepreneurs deep domain expertise and unique access to potential customers and strategic partners. We help these pioneering companies tackle their daily real-world challenges as they execute on evolving business strategies in a dynamic regulatory and technology environment. And, our industry knowledge and breadth of transactional experience provide us the greatest flexibility in structuring our investments to position companies for success. We are excited to partner with entrepreneurs who are transforming the fundamentals of commerce and the way people interact, one transaction at a time.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: FinTech
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Monta Vista Capital
Monta Vista Capital is an investment company focused on early stage B2B companies. It was founded in 2014.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Mountain View, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Acumen America
Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, Acumen America is the US arm of the non-profit global venture capital investment firm Acumen. Acumen America makes early stage venture capital investments in American social enterprises focused on tackling poverty within the United States with a focus on financial inclusion, health equity and workforce development.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care, Impact Investing, Training
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Script Capital
122WEST is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage internet and software investments. The firm seeks to invest in Information technology, software, internet of things, SaaS, fintech, mobile, infrastructure, big data, and cryptocurrency sectors. It was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, FinTech, Information Technology, Internet of Things, SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
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Ubiquity Ventures
Ubiquity Ventures is a seed-stage institutional venture capital firm that invests in “software beyond the screen” startups and has close to $100 million under management. Ubiquity’s portfolio includes B2B technology companies that utilize smart hardware or machine learning to solve business problems outside the reach of computers and smartphones. By transforming real-world physical problems into the domain of software, Ubiquity startups tap into large greenfield markets and offer more effective solutions. Leveraging a decade of institutional venture capital experience, Sunil Nagaraj leads Ubiquity Ventures along with an extended team of over 40 experts with a range of technical and marketing expertise. See more details on the Ubiquity Ventures website at http://www.ubiquity.vc.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Maiden Lane Ventures
The company writes $200K checks and back partners across multiple investments. Carried interest is paid to partners for their personal capital and time.The company uses AngelList Syndicates to make working together and closing investments quick and easy
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Education, FinTech, Training, 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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Better Tomorrow Ventures
Better Tomorrow Ventures is a fintech-focused early-stage venture firm. The venture firm was founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
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S2 Capital
S2 Capital is a micro venture capital fund that specializes in seed-stage investments. It was founded in 2014 by Samvit Ramadurgam and Sohail Prasad. S2 Capital is based in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Uprising Ventures
Uprising is a fund and platform to catalyze epic entrepreneurial endeavors that matter. The firm prefers to make seed, early and later-stage investments. Lyft, Change.org, PeerIQ, Lending Club, Upworthy, AltSchool, ClassDojo, Minerva, Zopa, Grow Local Project. It was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, FinTech, 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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Grit Ventures
Grit Ventures is leading pre-seed and seed stage investments and bringing a smart money model to Deep Technology early stage investing. Sourcing from the leading nationwide labs and leveraging over 3 decades of Go-To-Market experience in Hardware, Grit invests in and shepherds groundbreaking AI + Robotics + Clean Energy companies through the often tumultuous journey from Labs to Launch.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Hardware, Industrial Automation, Robotics, Supply Chain Management
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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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Thursday Ventures
To find, fund & nurture tech that will change & empower the world. We leverage a vast network built over the last decade connecting ideas, talent & capital.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Banking, Electric Vehicle, FinTech, Robotics, Software
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Type One Ventures
Inspired by astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev’s method for measuring a civilization’s level of technological advancement – the Kardashev scale. As we progress towards a Type I civilization on the Kardashev Scale, we believe we are entering a new age of innovation aimed at solving humanity’s biggest obstacles. We have created Type One Ventures to empower the entrepreneurs providing the technology, infrastructure, and services that will be integral to the growth and advancement of mankind.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Hardware, Robotics, Software, Space Travel
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Stellar Development Foundation
Stellar Development Foundation is a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network for financial products and services. It is both a cross-currency transaction system and a platform for digital asset issuance, designed to connect the world’s financial infrastructure. Dozens of financial institutions worldwide issue assets and settle payments on the Stellar network, which has grown to over 4 million accounts. The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar. Founded in 2014, the Foundation maintains Stellar’s codebase, supports the technical and business communities building on the network, and serves as a voice to regulators and institutions. The Foundation seeks to create equitable access to the global financial system, using the Stellar network to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Non Profit, Payments
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Draper Goren Holm
Draper Goren Holm is a fintech venture studio focused on incubating and accelerating early-stage blockchain startups, founded by Alon Goren and Josef Holm. Josef and Alon are the same team that has built two of the world’s top blockchain investment conferences; Crypto Invest Summit (CIS) and Security Token Summit.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Westlake Village, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech
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The Tornante Company
The Tornante Company is a principal investment firm specializing in incubation. The firm seeks to invest and incubate companies in the media and entertainment sectors. The Tornante Company was founded in 2005 and is based in Beverly Hills, Califronia.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: California City, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Chisos Capital
Chisos Capital writes checks of $15K-50K to invest in idea-and early-stage startup businesses. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Santa Monica, CA.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, FinTech, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Impact, Venture Capital
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YellowRockets
YellowRockets.vc is a managing company for international and russian venture capital funds. The fund focused on startups at Pre-Seed, Seed, and Round A-stages with a strong team and the potential for international expansion, and invest in them up to $2M. YellowRockets helps portfolio companies enter the U.S. and Latin American markets and attract investments in the next rounds. Funds focused on (but are not limited to) investments in companies in SaaS, Super Apps, Marketplaces, RPA, Metaverse, ESG, and based on AI/ML, Automation, Cloud Solutions, Data Processing, and Blockchain technologies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, EdTech, FinTech, Gaming, Internet of Things, Robotics, SaaS
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Entrada Ventures
Entrada Ventures is a late seed stage fund started by passionate, experienced operators and investors who have built multiple successful companies. They work personally and intensely with a few companies each year helping them develop from a startup with product-market fit to a strong business ready for its first round of institutional financing. By investing in and working with strong founders who’ve demonstrated some traction, we can significantly improve those companies’ ability to understand, manage, and scale their business and raise a tier-one Series A on great terms. Entrada Ventures is based in Santa Barbara, California, and invests across a broad range of innovative technologies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Chainfund Capital
Chainfund Capital is a Global FinTech Fund that invests in the next generation of financial technology. It has made 30 investments in researchers that are tackling problems across scalability, privacy, and formal verification. Chainfund supports its portfolio companies with an accelerator program to scale their technology to millions of users. It is based in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Internet
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Launchpad Capital
The world of financial services is transforming and more ready than ever for thoughtful disruption. The combination of permanent structural changes to the global financial services industry and readily accessible infrastructure will unlock empowering financial and technology innovation at across the FIRE sector – from finance, to insurance and real estate – through products and services that are fair, transparent and give consumers and businesses full control of their hard earned money and the data tied to it. LaunchPad Capital builds and invests in pre-seed and seed stage Fintech companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Oakland, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, FinTech, Insurance, Real Estate
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Skywood Capital 天木资本
Skywood Capital(天木资本) is a cross-border VC fund with both fund and team based in Silicon Valley and China to support and accelerate global team’s innovation in US, China and global market. The fund invest primarily in early stage and growth stage companies with excellent team and vision, disruptive technology or business model, targeting scalable and big market. Skywood Capital has a strong team of experts with extensive cross-border experiences in industry for investment, fund management, product design and engineering, technology innovation, company growth strategy, global marketing and business development (especially in US and China), human resources and recruiting, incubator setup and operation. Skywood Capital not just offers the funding for startup but also supports the startup to grow fast and healthy along the journey, with successful exit. The fund helps to enhance the global entrepreneur ecosystem and, it is considered the first choice for global startup to get into China market. 天木资本，是基于全球革命性技术创新和新兴科技行业的发展趋势，整合硅谷、全球其他创新城市和国内优势资源，以资本和专业经验服务全球创新者，根据产业需求精准定位，专注于投资海外最具颠覆性和影响力的科技成果和商业创新。 基金特色： ● 专注中美跨境投资及并购 ● 对接中美欧资源 ● 偏重技术创新取向 ● 优质资产管理，运营咨询和项目合作服务
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Consulting, E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech, Internet of Things, SaaS, Software
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ideaTree Inc.
Our goal at ideaTree is simple: Give extraordinary ideas access to the resources to create exceptional startup’s which eventually would have a potential to be Unicorns. Surrounded by our resources and ongoing mentorship helps nurture great ideas into real products and services. Building a conglomerate of mobile and internet brands which are successful is not easy, and we approach this by identifying, accelerating new ideas with proven internet business models and in some cases transferring them to new and untapped markets where it seeks to scale them into market leaders. Focused on traditional and disruptive models in mobile and internet space across multiple sectors including fintech, social media, point of sale, sports, ai, cloud data, blockchain, crypto and travel. Since 2012, ideaTree has invested, co-founded, founded and funded multiple startups across ten countries and multiple verticals.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: West Hollywood, California, United States, North America
Industries: FinTech, Incubators, Mobile, Social Media, Social Network
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Global Millennial Capital
The first venture capital investor from the middle east to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) in the investment process. Invests in global scalable, tech enables and highly transformational consumer-centric early-stage opportunities in Silicon Valley. The first female-founded global investor from the Middle East, established by Andreea Danila in 2020 backed by institutional investors such as banks, asset managers, and family offices and HNWI.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: San Jose, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
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Walkabout Ventures
Walkabout Ventures is an investment fund focused on venture funds investing in financial service startups. The firm prefers to invest in the financial services and information technology sectors. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Kraken
Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange that provides spot and futures trading between Bitcoin, Ethereum and 40+ other digital assets.Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Founded in 2011 and with over 7 million clients, Kraken is one of the world’s largest, most successful bitcoin exchanges and we’re growing faster than ever. Our range of successful products are playing an important role in the mainstream adoption of crypto assets.Kraken is a marketplace for digital assets where buyers, sellers, traders and speculators come together to exchange cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Ripple against national currencies like USD, EUR, CAD and JPY. Clients trading larger sizes benefit from our principal Over-the-Counter (OTC) desk and white glove service. Advanced traders and technical analysis wizards can take advantage of our professional charting tools. Software engineers, botters and hobbyist automators have available both REST and Websocket APIs with which trades can be made and market information obtained. Kraken provides 24/7 live chat support for any questions you have about getting started.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum, FinTech, Trading Platform
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Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator
The Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator is a hands-on program focused on startups that create solutions for financial institutions and enterprise customers.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Finance, FinTech
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Tri-Valley Ventures
Tri-Valley Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Pleasanton, California. The firm seeks to invest in the data, SaaS, health-tech, smart devices, hardware, and fin-tech sectors. Tri-Valley Ventures was founded in 2017 by Greg Hitchan and Don Garman and is based in Pleasanton, California, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Pleasanton, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, SaaS
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Inevitable Ventures
Inevitable Ventures is an investment partnership founded by billionaire investor Ron Burkle, prominent VC fund manager Chris Hollod, and recording artist and investor D.A. Wallach. It invests opportunistically in radical emerging technologies that seek to solve challenging problems and create novel consumer experiences. Inevitable Ventures will support entrepreneurs who are pursuing difficult problems in industries that are central to human life, including but not limited to healthcare, media, life sciences, financial services, food, and logistics. Based in LA, the fund will devote particular attention to companies being built in Southern California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Biotechnology, E-Commerce, FinTech, Health Care, Internet, Logistics
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Madison Parker Capital
Madison Parker Capital is a boutique investment firm focused on partnership-oriented investments in middle market companies. Madison Parker Capital’s principals are experienced in investing in, managing, operating and advising companies between $10 million and $150 million in sales. The company is dedicated to partnering with proven management teams, building profitable and sustainable businesses, and realizing significant returns on capital for its principals, management teams and investors. The firm has offices in Boston and San Francisco.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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digi Ventures
Digital Ventures (“digi.”) is the personal investment vehicle of Michael Pierce. We invest in early and later stage seed companies and are both based in Southern California. They invest across a spectrum of sectors and geographies. They are equally excited about consumer and enterprise focused solutions. They are drawn to businesses at have light capital costs requirements to get to demonstrable market validation (think <$3m). Accordingly, all their companies leverage the Mobile Web or Native Mobile Apps to scale. And, of course, they expect the markets our companies are transforming to be BIG (think >$10b) but they also need to feel confident that the solutions and products being developed can create meaningful and repeatable revenue at sustainable, industry leading gross margins.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Simplexity Venture Studio Fund
Simplexity Venture Studio Fund their platform helps entrepreneurs with capital, strategic, and tactical expertise.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Diego, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Service Industry, Venture Capital
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DominateFund
DominateFund accelerates the growth and visibility of promising early-stage startups by coaching entrepreneurs in product, marketing, branding, media, customer acquisition, virality, user experience and design. Every startups needs attention to survive. Most of the time, this is attention from users, but startups also need to capture the attention of customers, enterprises, the press, other investors and top-tier prospects. Attention is a central component to a startup’s survival. DominateFund was founded by former Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, along with partners Matt Schlicht and Mazy Kazerooni. The fund’s work is based on the team’s experience in marketing, media and branding, along with Parr’s research for his upcoming book, “Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention”.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Crowdfunder
Crowdfunder is an equity crowdfunding platform connecting investors with early-stage entrepreneurs. It sources and funds high-growth ventures with a network of over 130,000 entrepreneurs and investors. Crowdfunder and its VC Index Fund provide the opportunity for direct online investment into single ventures, as well as diversification into a broad VC-led portfolio (Index Fund) of early-stage startups backed by many of the world’s leading Venture Capital firms and private investors. Crowdfunder was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Crowdfunding, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Small and Medium Businesses, Venture Capital
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Tokensoft
TokenSoft is the leading technology platform for companies seeking to issue and manage digital securities on the blockchain, at scale, and within compliance. It supports the highest standards for regulation and compliance, regardless of jurisdiction. TokenSoft’s platform offers a bespoke suite of technology and consulting services to meet the needs of the entire lifecycle of a digital security, including onboarding, distribution, custody, and ongoing administration. TokenSoft is building infrastructure to automate investment banking of security tokens on blockchains for equity, funds, real estate, and fixed-income debt. It also enables the distribution and transfer of blockchain-based securities. They provide the tools necessary to securely run a compliant token sale.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, FinTech, Software
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seedchange
seedchange is a global platform connecting Wall Street and Silicon Valley to bring a new asset category to the portfolios of smart investors all over the world. seedchange combines rigorous company analysis with an innovative investment platform to transform the way investors access, analyze, and invest in early-stage companies. seedchange seeks early-stage companies with ground-breaking technology or business models, high growth potential, and standout founders. Their experienced team of the venture, investment, and legal advisors helps with every step, from becoming investable to growing intelligently. At seedchange early-stage companies Get Funded Faster. A FINRA-registered online broker-dealer seedchange’s securities are offered through Seedchange Execution Services Inc., giving accredited investors access to a premium selection of heavily diligence and scalable early-stage opportunities.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Funding Platform, Venture Capital
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Untapped Ventures
Untapped Ventures is a venture studio and pre-seed fund in Los Angeles on a mission to help people achieve the best version of themselves, personally and professionally. Leveraging our powerful network and unique methodology, we found and fund companies at the intersection of the Future of Work, HRTech, and Mental Wellness.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Paperclip Ventures
Paperclip Ventures invests in early-stage SaaS based founders, that met the bellow criteria. SaaS Based B2B/B4B web or mobile application < $5 Million in Revenue Pre-Series A raising < $2 Million Raising Series-A, in 18-24 Months Defined Market Opportunity of $500k MRR in 1-2 years Founding team of knowledge and belief to solve a market need. Sold cadence of delivering products Evidence of retaining and attracting quality talent Current or future measurements of Four Vital Signs of SaaS* Revenue Growth Sales Efficiency Revenue Churn Cash Burn
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consulting, Financial Services, FinTech, Human Resources, Information Technology, Internet, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Ocean Solutions Accelerator
The Ocean Solutions Accelerator is a startup development and executive leadership course for ocean entrepreneurs. Strengthened by a global community of experts, the accelerator program empowers entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses within the ocean economy. The program provides early stage companies with initial funding and opportunities to engage with mentors, partners, and investors that are committed to transforming innovative ocean solutions into scalable businesses.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
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