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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Impact Investing startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Y Combinator | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed | Mountain View, California, United States, North America | ||
Advantage Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, North America | ||
DCM Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Menlo Park, California, United States, North America | ||
BoxGroup | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | New York, New York, United States, North America | ||
Felicis Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Menlo Park, California, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Impact Investing 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 Impact Investing Investors & Funds (United States)
Y Combinator
Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a large number of startups twice a year. It created a new model for funding early-stage startups. Twice a year, the company invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups. The startup accelerator works intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Mountain View, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Impact Investing, Virtual Currency
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Advantage Capital
Advantage Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in growth equity, lending, and mezzanine debt capital investment in companies at all stages of development: early, expansion equity, and later stage; except seed. It focuses on small businesses. Advantage Capital invests in low income communities, both urban and rural, and other investments supporting state and local economic development efforts. It seeks to invest in companies that develop or apply proprietary technologies or approaches to products, systems, and services primarily in the communication, information technology, information technology services, telecommunication services and communication equipments, business services, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences, and energy industry, but also considers other opportunities. Advantage Capital seeks to invest in rural businesses involved in the production, processing and supply of agricultural products. It also provides debt capital in the form of senior debt, mezzanine debt, subordinated loans, government-guaranteed lending, business capital for investments and loans in underserved areas, and equity capital to real estate development firms and real estate projects. Advantage Capital primarily invests in Connecticut, Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Maine, Midwest, Oregon, New York, Texas, Wisconsin, Mississippi, and the District of Columbia in the United States. It seeks to make an initial investment between $0.5 million and $10 million in companies with sales value less than 5 million. Advantage Capital can make larger and further investments based on pre-set milestones or subsequent financing events and prefers to co invest with other investment firms in the form of equity or deeply subordinated debt, to support bank lending. Occasionally, smaller investments are made depending on the stage of the investment. Advantage Capital typically invests in preferred equity securities and current or preferred debt instruments that are either convertible or issued with warrants. It seeks to invest in states and communities that are underserved by traditional sources of risk capital and focuses on state and federal economic development initiatives that bring businesses, technologies and jobs to communities that need them. David Bergmann, Martin Bodenham, and Steven T. Stull founded Advantage Capital in 1992. It has its its headquarters in New Orleans in Louisiana and additional offices across the United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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DCM Ventures
DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building world-class companies that will ultimately change how institutions and people use and live with technology. DCM Ventures focuses on the size of their team, the money they raise, and the investments they make — all so that they can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investing partners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses. DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion, and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in the Silicon Valley, Beijing and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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BoxGroup
BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies. The fund aims to invest in the consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, life science, and marketplaces industries at the earliest stage, as early as pre-seed round and as late as Series A. It supports companies based on a conviction in the team and seeks entrepreneurs working at the beginning of movements in existing markets or new markets yet to be created and with visions to create the next generation of category-defining businesses. Their typical investment ranges from $200,000 to $500,000. Adam Rothenberg and David Tisch founded BoxGroup in 2009 in New York, New York.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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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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Initialized Capital
Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the seed. Initialized has 6 investing partners and over $3.2B under management over five core funds since its founding in 2012. The firm’s startups have created in aggregate over $200B in market value so far.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Software, Venture Capital
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North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity
North Bridge provides seed-to-growth stage funding for businesses in several sectors such as software, communications and infrastructure, digital media, healthcare, and material production. North Bridge Venture Partners invests in exceptional people whose ideas have the potential to disrupt the way they live and work. They provide seed-to-growth financing to help transform those ideas into companies and those companies into market leaders.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Impact Investing, Media and Entertainment, Venture Capital
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Flybridge
Flybridge is a seed-stage VC investing with entrepreneurs to leverage the power of the community. It prefers to invest in computer hardware, software, SaaS, and big data sectors. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Liquid 2 Ventures
Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Exchanges, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Quiet Capital
Quiet Capital is a technology investment firm based in the SF Bay Area with a presence in NYC, Seattle, and Miami
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, IT Infrastructure, Venture Capital
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August Capital
August Capital is an early stage venture capital fund focused on investing in companies differentiated by technical innovation and entrepreneurial excellence. Today, August Capital’s six active investment professionals — David Hornik, Eric Carlborg, Howard Hartenbaum, Tripp Jones, Villi Iltchev, and Lisa Marrone — have more than a century of combined venture and operational experience. Together they manage $2.5 billion and have invested in hundreds of companies across the technology spectrum. From its inception, August Capital has funded an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs who have built significant, long-term value across the full range of information technologies. The companies that August Capital’s partners have backed represent an aggregate market capitalization of well over $250 billion, generate in excess of $75 billion in annual revenue and employ a quarter of a million people around the world. This success is a testament to the entrepreneurs themselves, as well as the fundamental technologies they have created. They are proud to have supported these entrepreneurs and their companies as they have grown and prospered.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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AME Cloud Ventures
AME Cloud Ventures focuses on seed to later stage companies building infrastructure and value chains around data. It specializes in technology-heavy companies gathering or creating unique data at every stage of the data stack — from infrastructure all the way to applications, mobile, and sensors. It strives to find, fund, and support true entrepreneurs. The firm provides a unique and genuine set of resources to our founding teams, from strong operational and business experience to networks of amazing mentors and international partners, particularly in China. AME Cloud Ventures is the venture fund led by Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Innovation Endeavors
Innovation Endeavors is helping entrepreneurs drive a super evolution of industry. We invest in visionary founders, transformational technology and emergent ecosystems for a new world. The firm manages $1.5 billion, and is headquartered in three major regions of innovation: Silicon Valley; Tel Aviv; and New York City. Investments include: Astra, Fabric; Vicarious Surgical; Planet; Plenty; SoFi; Uber; and Zymergen.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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.406 Ventures
.406 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in innovative Information Technology (“IT”) and services companies founded by the finest entrepreneurs. They are a veteran team of industry entrepreneurs, operators and investors who apply real world experience, deep industry knowledge and networks, and strong company-building skills to create value for our entrepreneurs and investing partners. .406 Ventures typically are the lead, first institutional investor in early-stage and de novo investments in market-changing IT Security and Infrastructure, Technology-Enabled Business Services, and Next-Generation Software companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Azure Capital Partners
Azure Capital Partners provides develops products based upon a technology that allows them to compete effectively with much larger incumbents and that enables time to market advantage It seeks to invest in the internet and information technology sector with a focus on software, media, infrastructure technologies, mobile, communications services and equipment, mobility solutions, and communications applications, web, and digital media.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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City Light Capital
City Light is a venture capital firm that invests early in impactful companies. They partner with experienced teams building category-defining solutions in the areas of education, safety and care, and the environment – where more revenue equals better lives at scale, every time. As one of the earliest and most successful impacts investing firms, City Light has a track record of identifying and scaling impact in ways that build better companies. The firm was founded in 2004 and is based in New York, New York. Some of its key portfolio investments are 2U (Nasdaq: TWOU), ShotSpotter (Nasdaq: SSTI), Trilogy Education, and Ready Responders.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, EdTech, GreenTech, Impact Investing, Social Impact, Venture Capital
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K50 Ventures
K50 Ventures is the most trusted first-check investor for mission-driven founders building a better future for the 99%. They invest up to $2M in pre-seed and seed stage companies in the US and LATAM that have a focus on improving access, affordability, and wellbeing across the categories of Health, Finance, and Work. K50 partners with those who refuse to accept the status quo; those who have a vision for how to radically improve daily life for everyone – in our local communities, and around the globe. Since 2016, they have invested in 170+ companies including Groww, Mammoth Biosciences, Self, Tul, Frubana, Kueski, Fintual, Valon, Real, Osana Salud, June Homes, among others. K50 partners with those who refuse to accept the status quo; those who have a vision for how to radically improve daily life for everyone – in our local communities, and around the globe. If you are building in one of their focus areas, reach out: [email protected]
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Innovation Management, Venture Capital
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Advancit Capital
Advancit Capital is an early-stage investment firm focused on media, entertainment, and technology companies. The firm seeks the opportunity to form long-term partnerships with talented, focused, and driven entrepreneurs. With its strategic and industry expertise, Advancit Capital provides value-added resources at the critical growth stages of companies.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Norwood, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Media and Entertainment
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Wing Venture Capital
Wing is a purpose-built venture capital firm founded by two industry veterans with a different perspective on what it takes to create enduring companies. The firm commits to its portfolio companies in their early stages and engages for the long term, with a singular focus on the transformation of business technology by the data, mobile, cloud paradigm. The body of work of Wing’s award-winning team spans two decades and dozens of companies, 16 of which have executed successful IPOs and achieved market caps in excess of $1 billion. Recent examples include FireEye, MobileIron, Nimble Storage, Opower and Ruckus Wireless.Wing is a purpose-built venture capital firm founded by two industry veterans with a different perspective on what it takes to create enduring companies. The firm commits to its portfolio companies in their early stages and engages for the long term, with a singular focus on the transformation of business technology by the data, mobile, cloud paradigm. The body of work of Wing’s award-winning team spans two decades and dozens of companies, 16 of which have executed successful IPOs and achieved market caps in excess of $1 billion. Recent examples include FireEye, MobileIron, Nimble Storage, Opower and Ruckus Wireless.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Maine Angels
Maine Angels they make investments with entrepreneurs with an emphasis on businesses.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Portland, Maine, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Impact Investing, Service Industry, Venture Capital
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Fifty Years
Fifty Years is a venture capital firm that backs founders using technology to solve the world’s biggest problems. Entrepreneur-run and based in San Francisco, Fifty Years invests in companies that inspire. Specifically, they fund companies that, if successful, will be both massively profitable and make a serious dent in achieving one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Impact Investing, Life Science, Venture Capital
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Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship
The Dingman Center Angels is a Maryland based angel investment group that provides funding to early-stage companies located within the Mid-Atlantic region. Their members are entrepreneurs, CXO’s, venture capitalists and business leaders who have founded, funded and built world-class companies. They come from a wide array of industry expertise and in association with the Dingman Center of Entrepreneurship, create an extensive entrepreneurial community. They are looking for innovative, technology-driven startup companies addressing a significant market opportunity where their investment and expertise can make a difference. They introduce entrepreneurs to potential investors through presentations at monthly meetings which are held from September to June. Their group looks to invests $100,000 to $1,000,000 in seed/early stage companies, and will often syndicate with other angel groups and VC’s for deals up to $2 million. The Dingman Center Angels is not a fund and does not invest as a group. Their members collaborate on due diligence but make individual investment decisions. Each member makes their own thorough review of all information, including speaking with representatives of the company.
Stages: Debt, Seed
Location: College Park, Maryland, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Impact Investing, Real Estate, Venture Capital
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LaunchPad Venture
Launchpad Venture Group is an angel investment group that provides funding to early-stage companies. It looks for innovative, technology-driven startup companies addressing a significant market opportunity where investors can make a difference. It is well connected to potential customers, service providers, partners, and future sources of financing. It is providing human and financial capital to help entrepreneurs build successful companies.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Newton, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, FinTech, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Human Capital
Human Capital is a venture firm for builders. We believe ambitious builders turn great ideas into great companies. We invest in founders, teams, and startups that share this mindset. In the last 6 years, that mantra has led us to invest in 15 companies before they became unicorns, including Snowflake, Anduril, Livongo, and Brex (where we wrote the first check). We have over $1.3B in total capital committed and we’ve built a community of over 5,000 incredible, driven, ambitious builders.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Accion Venture Lab
Venture Lab is an investment initiative that drives financial inclusion globally. We invest capital in and provide support to innovative fintech start-ups that increase access to, improve the quality of, or reduce the cost of financial services for the underserved at scale. We are particularly interested in technology and business model innovation as well as new approaches that help underserved people and small businesses benefit from the world’s formal economy. We look for models leveraging new technologies (e.g., blockchain and distributed ledger, digital ID and full stack infrastructure), newly digitized forms of data (e.g., social media, digital transaction footprints) and new analytical tools (e.g., machine learning). We also look for innovative customer engagement models that create meaningful and delightful user experiences. We are excited about new approaches that focus on financial health and building financial capabilities. Since early-stage startups traditionally lack access to capital and assistance, Venture Lab provides flexible financial and non-financial support to adress the needs of our portfolio, including: Investment: We will typically invest U.S. $300,000 to $500,000 in equity or quasi-equity instruments as part of the first institutional round of capital for seed-stage startups. We welcome opportunities to co-invest with like-minded investors and often build syndicates to channel capital into promising opportunities. We continue to support companies as they grow through follow-on capital that drives scale. Support: Venture Lab is an active and engaged investor, providing investees with strategic and operational support across a broad range of business areas. We do this through governance, often in the form of a board role, as well as through our portfolio engagement function, which consists of an in-house team that works closely with portfolio companies in the areas of growth strategy, customer insights, product and pricing, process and operations, and human capital. In addition to day-to-day support from the Venture Lab team, investee companies may get connected to Accion’s technical experts (technology, risk management, etc.), microfinance teams and customers from partner institutions around the world, and the global banking and investing community.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Impact Investing
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J. Hunt Holdings
J. Hunt Holdings is an investment holding company that provides funds for early stage ventures. It is specialized in both domestic and international projects and investments. The company invests between $100,000 and $1,100,000 in five key industry categories, including investment services, portfolio management, accounting, and financial solutions. Mainly focused on the technology and telecommunications sectors, it also invests in the video and sensing, data center management, social media, data security, and other sectors. J. Hunt Holdings is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Vienna, Virginia, United States, North America
Industries: Family, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing
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LearnLaunch Fund + Accelerator
LearnLaunch Accelerator program is designed to help early-stage EdTech entrepreneurs successfully grow startups. Founders participate in a three-month residential program in Boston, Massachusetts, where founder are immersed in a community of like-minded professionals committed to helping to grow businesses. The goal of LearnLaunch Accelerator is to advance the product and market development process so that entrepreneurs will be able to secure the resources needed to grow. LearnLaunch Accelerator provides seed funding ($200k of value – up to $120K in funding depending on program) for companies selected to its cohort. Participating companies meet weekly with mentors who push to identify and take the most leveraged next steps to grow products and companies. During the program, companies regularly interact with leading EdTech experts. LearnLaunch Accelerator has also developed an EdTech-focused curriculum that provides tremendous insight into how to navigate the education industry.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Corporate Training, E-Learning, EdTech, Education, Higher Education, Impact Investing, Secondary Education
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Raine Ventures
Raine Ventures is an early stage fund managed by The Raine Group. The firm has offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London and Shanghai. With a global reach, Raine focuses on investment and advisory opportunities where its deep industry experience and unique network of strategic relationships can create value for portfolio companies and clients.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Funding Platform, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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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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Capital One Ventures
Capital One Ventures is a strategic investor, funding startups that are driving the future of data, technology, and financial services. Founded in 2014, Capital One Ventures has invested in more than 70 companies that help deliver superior experiences to consumers and businesses. Capital One Ventures is based in San Francisco, New York and at Capital One’s headquarters outside of Washington, DC.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, Big Data, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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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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Rockies Venture Club
Rockies Venture Club (RVC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to economic development by funding entrepreneurial companies. RVC hosts the Angel Capital Summit and Colorado Capital Conferences as well as over sixty events each year. Rockies Venture Club is also an active Angel group, with over 30 investments in the last 2 years. Alongside Rockies Venture Club, is Rockies Venture Fund I, an Angel sidecar fund.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Denver, Colorado, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Banking, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Non Profit, Venture Capital
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Starta Accelerator
Starta Accelerator is an Accelerator specializing in technology startups with European R&D roots. It seeks to invest in technology companies. Starta Accelerator seeks to invest in Eastern Europe with a focus on Russia. It seeks to invest $130,000 of which $110,000 in Program Services and $20,000 Cash in both program value and cash in exchange for 7 percent equity and also provides an additional $20,000 to startups that perform well in the program. Starta Accelerator runs a 14-week acceleration program and a 3.5 month mentorship program. It began operation in 2015, with its headquarters in New York City as a subsidiary of Starta Ventures.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Better Ventures
Better Ventures provides funding and support to technology startups building innovative solutions to big and important problems, from work and education to health and sustainability. Given the magnitude of the these problems and the enormous market opportunities they represent, it takes the best and brightest minds armed with the best resources to address them. These are the people they seek to back – entrepreneurs committed to using the tools and methodologies of the modern technology startup to build world-changing companies that make money and do good. They’re thinking big and expecting big results, and so are the entrepreneurs they back.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Oakland, California, United States, North America
Industries: Impact Investing, Sustainability, Transportation, Venture Capital
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Elevar Equity
Elevar Equity has been at the forefront of impact investing since 2006. Led by an entrepreneurial emerging markets team, Elevar seeks to connect the economic resilience and vibrancy of low income communities with capital markets. To address issues of access and inequity, Elevar invests early growth capital in entrepreneurs and businesses that demonstrate a direct correlation between high impact and returns. The Elevar Method of investing has democratized essential products and services for over 30 million low income households in India and Latin America, and catalyzed billions of dollars of capital into 40+ companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Space Capital
Space Capital is an early stage venture capital firm investing in the Space economy, specifically focused on unlocking the value in Space technology stacks such as GPS, Geospatial Intelligence, and Communications.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Finance, Financial Services, GPS, Impact Investing, Satellite Communication, Space Travel, Venture Capital
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Scribble Ventures
Scribble Ventures is an early-stage investment fund that focuses on Pre-Seed through Series A.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Portola Valley, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Wonder Ventures
Wonder Ventures invests in entrepreneurs who have great ideas. Who build the world’s most innovative technology companies in order to address the world’s toughest challenges. Who think of long-term solutions that span generations. We are based in Santa Monica, CA. We actively invest in Los Angeles, New York City, Silicon Valley, Washington D.C. and anywhere great teams are located.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Golden Angels Investors
Golden Angels Investors is an angel investment group making investments in entrepreneurial ventures. The firm’s members bring a track record of business success and a deep commitment to assisting entrepreneurs in building great companies. It leads opportunities directly as well as participates in opportunities led by other investors. Golden Angels Investors was established in 2002 and is headquartered in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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PSG
PSG targets investments in lower middle market software and technology-enabled companies primarily in North America and Europe.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Small and Medium Businesses, Venture Capital
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Hub Angels Investment Group
The Hub Angels Investment Group is an angel group structured as a fund, with more than 100 members acriss its five funds. Hub invests in technology-focused businesses primarily in the Boston area. Through 2015, the Hub portfolio includes 38 investments in companies like Zipcar (IPO), CircleLending (acquired by Virgin Money), Intelligent Bio-Systems (acquired by Qiagen), Copiun (acquired by Good Technology), and Incentive Targeting (acquired by Google). Between its funds and members, Hub has invested more than $25 million, with co-investors adding another $250 million. The Hub Angels Investment Group was founded in March 2000 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Chobani Food Incubator
Chobani Incubator is a program for companies taking on broken food systems to bring better food to more people. they are here to help small companies with big hearts and ideas challenge the food industry, improve broken systems, and make a difference.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Impact Investing, Incubators
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LaunchHouse
LaunchHouse is a lean business accelerator that fosters entrepreneurial success and job creation through investing cash, hard work and collaboration with interesting, like-minded people. Our mission is to create a hub of entrepreneurial innovation for promising startups and to help transform ideas into successful companies.
Stages: Seed
Location: Highland, Ohio, United States, North America
Industries: Communities, Coworking, Impact Investing
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FoodFutureCo
Food Future is a Scale-Up Accelerator for established yet small organizations (on track to grossing more than $1 million annually) that are providing unique products and solutions across our food system. Their focus areas include consumer products, agriculture, food hubs, ag tech, supply chain, food tech, and SaaS. They support companies with scale-up business models through consulting, global distribution, financing, operation scaling, buyer meetings, and financial exit. They partner with advisors and mentors that not only provide expertise, but support impact, mission, and setting cultural trends. Four to eight companies will be selected for each cohort cycle, which runs for five months. The Cohort companies will receive an investment of up to $10k per company at the start of the program, and there is the possibility for follow-on investment.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Consumer, Consumer Goods, Green Consumer Goods, Impact Investing, Restaurants, SaaS, Sustainability
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Branded Strategic Hospitality
Branded Strategic Hospitality is an investment and solutions company that leverages its ecosystem of hospitality venues, expertise, and deep relationships to influence, accelerate, and evolve hospitality technology (“HI-Tech”) and F&B innovation. Branded’s Principals and Managing Partners have worked together in the restaurant business for over 25 years, including the formation of Branded Restaurants in 2007.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Impact Investing, Media and Entertainment, Real Estate, Restaurants
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Ascend Venture Capital
Ascend Venture Capital is a venture capital company that supports data-centric companies. It partners with founders to provide support both financially and operationally, collaborating in the storied journey toward scale. The firm was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing
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PSL Ventures
PSL Ventures is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on technology-driven companies. The firm is closely affiliated with Pioneer Square Labs’ startup studio, investing in both studio and non-studio companies.
Stages: Seed
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Ohio TechAngels Fund
Ohio TechAngels Funds are a group of for-profit angel investor funds that invest in highly promising early stage Ohio-based C-Corporations in IT, advanced materials, and life sciences. More than 340 high net-worth accredited investors contribute to the funds, making it the largest angel network in North America. While OTAF founder, John Huston, is the Manager of each fund, TechColumbus serves as the Managing Member of each fund and provides key administrative and entrepreneur support. The Ohio Third Frontier Program co-invests in the funds, and OTAF also has a strong network of collaborators and partners. OTAF’s mission is to “Turn great ideas into prized companies to build entrepreneurial wealth”. To-date, OTAF and its sidecars have invested $28 MM in 44 companies that have raised $355 MM from other sources. Four companies have achieved positive exits and 10 companies were complete losses. The 30 active companies currently employ 421 people with average salaries of $87,275, and are generating about $50 MM in annual revenues. The typical OTAF investee is in the late “Seed”, “Start-up” or “Early” lifecycle stages – depending on the industry. We prefer software companies to have demonstrated commercial feasibility by revenue generation. To qualify for investment consideration from OTAF, the company must be (or plan to be) the following: 1) Based in Ohio (any region) 2) Organized as a C-Corp legal entity, incorporated in Delaware or Ohio 3) Part of one of these subsectors: IT, Life Sciences, or Advanced Materials How are OTAF investments structured? OTAF IV will make 14 initial investments of $325,000, and seven of these companies will receive follow-on investments of $175,000. Individual OTAF members who are interested in increasing their exposure may write checks and invest alongside the fund as “sidecars”. Our typical round size is $750,000 to $2.5 MM, and if this is more than OTAF and sidecars will fund directly, then we will formulate a syndication strategy to socialize the company with our investment partners around Ohio and the Midwest. OTAF uses a standard term sheet and deal documents based on the NCVA model term sheet for participating convertible preferred equity.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States, North America
Industries: Commercial, Financial Services, Impact Investing
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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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Vista Ventures
Vista is often the lead investor, and they typically co-invest with other firms in both early and follow-on rounds. They believe in forming strong syndicates as a means to bring the broadest set of resources and contacts to the companies in which they invest. They will usually take a board seat with their investment and establish strong working relationships with portfolio company management. The team has the skill setsto provide relevant coaching on operational issues such as team building, strategy and sales and marketing.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States, North America
Industries: Impact Investing, Marketing, Sales
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Energy Foundry
Energy Foundry invests venture capital in today’s most promising energy innovators, and we work with the world’s leading energy companies to build and scale new ventures. Our approach merges venture capital with the perks of partnership, and includes an arsenal of essential tools and relationships to help bring great ideas to market.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Clean Energy, CleanTech, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Impact Investing, Information Technology, Power Grid, Venture Capital
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Amadeo Global
Amadeo Global is a New York-based investment firm, focused on public and private companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Asset Management, Credit, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Locus Ventures
Locus Ventures is a seed fund that invests in passionate founders looking to build important, world-changing companies. Its partnership is unique in its wealth of startup founding and operating experience in both Silicon Valley and Asia. It works closely with founders in their portfolio and offers guidance on product design and development, customer acquisition, team-building, and fundraising. Since 2016, its portfolio companies have raised over $300 million in follow-on funding from first-tier VC like Sequoia Capital, Foundation Capital, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, NEA, CRV, DST Partners and Naspers, with an aggregate market cap over $2 billion. Locus Ventures was founded in 2016 by Google, Facebook, and Y Combinator alums.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Advice, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Columbus Nova Technology Partners
CNTP is a global, multi-stage, technology investment firm operating out of Silicon Valley and New York.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Ecosystem Ventures
Ecosystem Ventures is a venture capital investment and strategic consulting firm that offers related consultation services to seed stage companies. It is dedicated to building sustainable companies around significant technologies and innovative business ideas. The firm invests in companies during the seed round and works with entrepreneurs to grow their businesses until the first large institutional investment (Series A). It offers its business consulting support and services in the American, Indian, and European markets. Founded in 2005, Ecosystem Ventures is based in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consulting, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Loeb.nyc
Loeb NYC is a startup lab and early-stage private investor built on the belief that aligning the right people with the right ideas creates successful companies. They are entrepreneurs, strategic partners, mentors, and industry experts who have launched and scaled enduring companies across industries utilizing proven strategies and techniques.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, B2C, Brand Marketing, Digital Marketing, Direct Marketing, Impact Investing, Incubators, Industrial, Marketing, Social Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
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Conscious Venture Lab
Conscious Venture Lab is an early stage business accelerator focused on creating purpose-driven companies. Their help entrepreneurs who want to use capitalism to create a more just, joyful and equitable society. Created to honor the work and memory of Conscious Venture Lab friend and mentor the late David B. Wolfe, CVLab is creating the most comprehensive program for the creation of “Companies that Matter”. The CVLab was founded by Jeff Cherry, serial entrepreneur and one of the co-founders of Concinnity Advisors, the first Investment Advisory firm focused solely on investing in “Conscious” companies. Conscious Venture Lab curriculum was developed in conjunction with some of the international thought leaders on the concept of “Conscious Capitalism” including Darden professor Ed Freeman and Babson professor and Author of Firms of Endearment and Conscious Capitalism, Raj Sisodia.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North America
Industries: Impact Investing, Social Impact, Venture Capital
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Interlace Ventures
Interlace Ventures funds and supports magnetic founders building the most promising technology companies meaningfully re-inventing commerce and retail for better consumption.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing
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Callais Capital
Callais Capital builds regional portfolios of startups with diverse, equitable and inclusive teams. We have been actively investing in startups since 2014, with an emphasis on the burgeoning startup ecosystem along the Third Coast and Mississippi River Valley.
Stages: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States, North America
Industries: Asset Management, Impact Investing, Property Management, Venture Capital
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Clear Current Capital
Proprietary deal flow and valuable strategic partners. Focus investments in the plant based food/clean meat space at Seed/Series A level. Social impact with focus on ROI. Initial capital close 2/15/18. Fund I is now closed to new investors. Fund II held first close on 4/15/21 and is open to new investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Vero Beach, Florida, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Social Impact, Venture Capital
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Next Wave Impact
We are working to increase diversity, inclusion, and impact in early-stage investing and our entrepreneurial ecosystem through our innovative learning-by-doing progressive fund model. Our global fund has 99 women investors, 25 of them women of color, which is led by an experienced investment committee of ten women. We are building a portfolio of investments in early-stage impact companies, diversified across industry and geography, over a four year investment period. We will make 6-8 investments in each of the first two years and then do some selected follow-on investments in those companies in years three and four. We are excited about this model, building on two pilots in the United States and Europe (the Rising Tide Pilots) with nearly 200 women, which made 18 investments. Together, we are creating the next wave of educated and trained angel investors focused on both social impact and financial returns, which are investing in underrepresented entrepreneurs.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Denver, Colorado, United States, North America
Industries: Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Ten Eighty Capital
Ten Eighty Capital incubates high-growth concepts and invests in both private operating companies and funds that service growth companies. It adds flexible capital and deep operating expertise across diverse areas of investment. It was established in 2018 and is headquartered in Park City, Utah.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture
Location: Park City, Utah, United States, North America
Industries: Education, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing
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The Paliwoda Group
The Paliwoda Group is a private investment firm providing services and support to a network of partner companies, including operational assistance, capital support, industry expertise, access to operational best practices and strategic business relationships. They focus on investing in the equity of young companies with unique value propositions within the technology and life sciences markets, and in making controlling equity investments in companies that require immediate and significant restructurings or corporate divestitures.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing
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Moai Capital
Moai Capital is a Silicon Valley seed capital firm, founded and managed by Brian Jacobs. We focus on entrepreneurs who are maniacally driven by a business opportunity. Moai Capital invests in a wide variety of categories including consumer products and services, the internet of things and B2B cloud services. We also make mission-driven impact investments with a specific focus on startups who are innovating to help increase employment for autistic adults.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Mateo, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer, Consumer Electronics, Consumer Software, Impact Investing, iOS, SaaS, Software
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Germin8 Ventures
Germin8 Ventures is a multi-stage, strategically-oriented venture capital firm investing in disruptive Food & AgTech companies across the value chain, in various stages, globally. It is a group of like-minded industry veterans and sophisticated investors providing investment and strategic resources to transformative Food & Agriculture Technology companies that are addressing major demand trends and improving the global food system through disruptive technologies and solutions.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Capria Ventures
Capria Ventures is a global investment firm leading, partnering with and funding the largest network of emerging market fund managers collaborating to deliver superior returns and scaled impact. Capria brings venture capital innovation and global best practices to local venture capital, private equity and innovative debt funds, managed by local investment experts. Capria’s network of investing partners collectively manage more than USD $400 million in assets deployed in early stage and early growth companies in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Capria has over $100M in AUM which it invests directly in India via Unitus Ventures, and in other markets via partners of the Capria Fund which takes anchor GP and LP positions. Capria has offices in Seattle, Paris, Santiago, Bangalore and Nairobi. More at: http://capria.vc
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Zaffre Investments
Zaffre Investments is a venture capital firm that began operation in 2014, with its headquarters in Boston in Massachusetts as an investment arm of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ Board of Directors. It invests in seed, early, late and growth stages in the value-based care, consumer solutions and health information technology sectors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Hella Ventures
Hella Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Hella that began operation in 2015, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California. It seeks to invest in the early-stage companies operating in the automated driving, lighting technologies, digitization, electrification, and software sectors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Business Development, Corporate Training, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Upaya Social Ventures
Upaya’s mission is to create dignified jobs for the poorest of the poor by investing in and consulting with small business entrepreneurs anchored in marginalized communities.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States, North America
Industries: Impact Investing, Non Profit, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Impact
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Investor’s Circle
Investors’ Circle is an active early-stage impact investing network that focuses on funding startup innovation. The company’s community of angel investors, venture capitalists, foundations, and family offices has invested over $200 million into more than 300 enterprises dedicated to improving the environment, education, health, and community. Investors’ Circle was founded on 1992 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Communities, Education, Financial Services, Health Care, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Mind the Seed – MTS Fund
MTS is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investments for startups. It was founded in 2012 by Matteo Daste, Alberto Onetti, and Marco Marinucci and is based in California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Beamonte Investments
Beamonte Investments was founded in 2000 is a private investment firm that has specialized in private equity investments and structured lending. Since inception, the firm has executed, as principal and agent, over US$5 billion in transactions We have no outside limited partners and approach all investments with a long-term perspective, Beamonte Investments is a Single Family Office. Areas of concentration are growth equity investments and alternative assets. Beamonte has distinguished itself by identifying arbitage opportunities across a diverse range of industries and markets. We are active investors in private growth companies across sectors, favoring recurring revenue, capital efficiency, and protective moats. Our structure allows us to respond to special situations without mandate constraints or fundraising concern.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Credit, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Kid Venture Capital
Kid Venture Capital invests in pre-seed, seed, and early-stage companies across a wide range of industries including technology, finance, consumer goods, energy, media, and healthcare. We’re drawn to any startup that has a clear view of its customers and users, is brand-driven, or holds a strong vision of global social impact.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Paradigm Shift Capital
Paradigm Shift Capital is a business partner investment company providing entrepreneurs, builders, operators, and enablers. Paradigm Shift Capital partners with investors and invest in entrepreneurs building for the GLOBE.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Impact Investing, Social Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
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G2T3V
We are value-added investors basically limiting our investments to areas where the team has personal experience, industry connections and specific expertise in the marketplace, business processes, customers, competition, technology and/or regulatory environments. We will be hands-on, active participants (with Board or Advisor seats) in the management and operation of the portfolio companies and any incremental compensation which is earned or provided as a result of such services will be contributed to the fund as well. We will focus on industries (insurance, automotive, media and marketing, data management and analytics, customer satisfaction management, technology and education) where we have spent many years working and where we know both the past, present and hopefully the future directions that these industries will take. We believe there are great opportunities which the radical changes in these industries (created by disruptive innovators) will create for fast movers and early adopters with the experience to offset the most critical risks that these new enterprises pose which are (a) the execution risks that accompany rapid growth combined with (b) the need for quick decision making in an environment of constant change.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Innovation Management
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Tin Shed Ventures
Tin Shed Ventures is Patagonia’s corporate venture capital fund, which invests in start-ups that offer solutions to the environmental crisis. Originally launched as $20 Million and Change in May 2013, Tin Shed Ventures partners with businesses focused on building renewable energy infrastructure, practicing regenerative organic agriculture, conserving water, diverting waste and creating sustainable materials.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Ventura, California, United States, North America
Industries: Advanced Materials, Agriculture, Impact Investing, Renewable Energy, Sustainability
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Funk Ventures
Funk Ventures is a start-up that invests in and accelerates early-stage impact projects. Their philosophy is based on the belief that businesses can make a significant and positive difference in people’s lives, society, and the environment.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Pacific Palisades, California, United States, North America
Industries: Clean Energy, CleanTech, Impact Investing, Life Science, Medical, Medical Device, Social Entrepreneurship, Wellness
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LAPA CAPITAL
Lapa Capital is a New York-based investment firm and services. Their partners have led several businesses and global transactions since 2003. They are actively looking to invest in new technologies with a promising impact on tomorrow’s economy. They mostly invest in revenue-generating companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Banking, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Blackwood Holdings Group
Blackwood Holdings Group is a true capital partner and venture capital firm with deep managerial and technical expertise capable of accelerating the portfolio companies to market leadership.
Stages: Seed
Location: Orlando, Florida, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Yazam
Yazam, a worldwide leader in seed stage investing and business development. Yazam provides seed-stage funding and business development services to emerging Internet and technology start-ups. Yazam bridges seed-stage, star Internet companies with its network of value-added private, VC and strategic investors and closes financing deals in a predictable and swift timeframe. Since the Company’s inception in July 1999, Yazam has screened hundreds of early-stage Israeli and worldwide technology companies. Selecting only the most promising entrepreneurs and ideas, Yazam provides its clients with access to value-added capital that enables them to quickly launch their businesses in an effort to attain a first-mover advantage. In addition to receiving “predictable time-to-money”–a guaranteed closing within two months–entrepreneurs also benefit from Yazam’s valuable connections with leading industry figures and service providers. Investors who are part of the Yazam network gain access to high-quality, pre-screened deal flow, assistance in closing deals, and portfolio monitoring services. In addition to these services, they have designed the Yazam web site to provide entrepreneurs and investors with valuable tools and content on startup-related issues.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing
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819 Capital
819 Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in seed, mature, and late-stage businesses. The firm targets technology and consumer products companies in various stages of maturity from companies that require seed capital to late-stage, mature businesses. While seeking risk-adjusted returns for their investors, they are firm believers that experienced, talented management teams can mitigate the risks of growing profitable businesses. 819 focuses on multifamily development projects in markets that are experiencing low vacancy rates and high growth. 819 partners with developers located in Portland, the Bay Area, New York City, and Boston among other regions. 819 supports its development partners from the design and entitlement phases through the financing and construction phases of the projects. 819 partners with established commercial real estate investment groups to acquire fully or partially stabilized assets. 819 targets assets that are leased under long-term contracts to provide investors with steady cash flow. 819 also acquires leased assets that require value-added management through additional leasing with new or existing tenants.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing
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Bir Ventures
Bir Ventures develops knowledge-based products that solve real world problems and launches them into the market. Our vision is to create a world where people can collaborate with each other regardless of physical distance between them, and use our collective intelligence to solve complex problems. Whether you are an individual with a great idea, a business with a fresh concept, or a community with an innovative idea of solving a real world problem, we partner with you in reducing your risk of investment in the new product and increasing the probability of success.
Stages: Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota, United States, North America
Industries: Impact Investing, Incubators
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Branford Castle
Branford Castle is a private market investor focusing on lower-middle-market investments, with a more than 30+ year history of helping to grow businesses. The firm typically makes control investments in companies with less than $15 million of EBITDA and a leadership position in a niche industry. Branford is particularly keen on the strong relationships it develops with its portfolio company managers. Branford has particular expertise in industrials/specialty manufacturing, business services, and logistics.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Impact Investing
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Proof Ventures
Proof Ventures is a crossover venture accelerator based in Silicon Valley, specializing in early to mid-stage technologies companies seeking growth and exit opportunities between Korea, Asia, and U.S. corridors. The company provides capital, business development, and cross-border advisory services to accelerate the crossover process. Its target investments focus on core technologies in the Internet, mobile, cloud computing, big data, and telematics.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Vibranium Venture Capital
Vibranium.VC is a venture fund that invests in companies that are ready to enter the global market. Vibranium.VC focuses on investments in fast-growing IT startups operating in various sectors of the economy and ready to enter foreign markets. The basic requirements for projects are the creation of B2B- product based on high tech and the potential for rapid growth in global markets.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Sagona Capital, Inc.
Sagona Capital, Inc. is a venture capital firm providing tech startups and SMEs with innovative alternative funding solutions, operational and strategic support and business development in the United States, in Europe and soon in Asia. Sagona Capital focuses on seed and early-stage companies (pre-seed, seed, Series A & B) worldwide involved in various industries and verticals such as deeptech, medical, sustainability and green technologies.
Sagona Capital with the support of its limited partners and stakeholders is aimed to provide services and sustainable financing for bold entrepreneurs and companies that will significantly impact our society, people and environment with their innovative concepts.
Sagona Capital, Inc. has been awarded with 2 awards by the magazine Wealth & Finance.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Industries: GreenTech, Impact Investing, Information Technology, Innovation Management, Medical Device, Venture Capital
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Rambleside Real Estate Capital
Founded in January 2012 as the real estate arm of Rambleside Holdings, Rambleside Real Estate is a New York City-based entrepreneurial real estate investment company. While its core portfolio consists of direct ownership of more than 1,000 rental apartment units, it is also active in other business lines including: development, lending, and special situations investing. With a flexible mandate to own and invest in any type of real estate business or property, Rambleside has executed over $500 million of property and capital markets transactions since its inception.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Exchanges, Impact Investing, Real Estate Investment, Venture Capital
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Columbia Angels
Columbia Angels is a venture investment platform intended for alumni of Columbia University. The power of the Columbia alumni network and Columbia’s entrepreneurial brand attracts quality investment opportunities and access to exclusive investment opportunities unknown to other angel groups. The due-diligence process led by experienced alumni investors mitigates risk and amplifies the growth of its investments in an early stage venture.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Equilateral Ventures
Equilateral Ventures is a seed stage venture firm that invests in and partners with the next generation of digital solutions which improve the Health of the Planet and People, while generating a Healthy profit. Our fund brings significant experience and network capacity in Healthcare, International, and Public Markets.
Stages: Seed
Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States, North America
Industries: Government, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Impact Investing, Information Technology, Sustainability
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Collide Village Accelerator Program
The Collide Village is a milestone driven accelerator where we invest in startups, teach them about evidence based entrepreneurship, and help founders brand and commercialize their innovations. The Village offers each accepted company: – An initial seed fund of $25K in return for 8% of company’s equity – Strong Customer Development and Validation focus – Access to an exclusive network of Mentors, Advisors, and Investors – Free office space for duration of the program Our 3-month program focuses on customer development, validation, value proposition canvas, MVP (minimum viable product) definition, consumer and business marketing, branding, go-to market strategy and fundraising. It Takes a Village to Raise a Start-up Mentors, partners, investors, university alliances, and corporate patrons make up our village. This network prides itself on providing our start-ups with the support they need. This is both our network and our village! An exclusive list of top-level mentors from across the nation chooses to donate time, knowledge, and experience to our start-ups. These mentors have demonstrated success and lived a life of their own in the start-up world. They drive our Village to the next level. A key differentiating factor of the CVAP is that start-ups perform extensive customer validation before investing in further product development. After market validation, start-ups work with top-notch market research firms and expert branding mentors. They develop go-to-market and marketing and branding strategies. Start-ups complement their product understanding with meaningful consumer and market insights. Our supporters are vested in CVAP’s success. They are industry leading technology, business services, and legal firms. In addition, top VC firms and local and national angel investors work with CVAP. The Village provides networking opportunities to help you find potential partners and experts who can help propel your start-up to success. Goal Driven We are redefining how accelerators conclude their programs. CVAP is milestone driven, meaning we measure a start-up’s success against its goals. An investor’s view of a company as “I’ll know when I see the product” isn’t a formal way of assessing project maturity or quantifying risk. We provide these investors a common language that communicates objectives to start-ups. We do this by defining Investment Readiness Level (IRL). IRL is a bridge that connects the capital-efficient Lean Startup process and the capital-raising process for founders. Seed Funding? We invest $25k in seed stage funds. With this funding, start-ups perform first hand customer validations. They also develop a strong marketing message while working with market research partners and some of the best agencies in Dallas, TX. Pitch Day? The accelerator world overuses Pitch Days, but we don’t entirely believe in how they are structured. Instead we embrace a philosophy of invite-only investor audience. This allows you to focus on the task at hand without distraction. Our last cohort’s pitch day had more than 50% of accredited investors present along with key industry advocates, startup connectors and local corporate patrons. Can you make a noise? If you can make some noise, we can help amplify your message. The Village works with media partners to help make the right level of needed noise as part of our go-to market strategy. Benefits? You can’t put a dollar value on the advice and support you will receive throughout the program. But you can expect more benefits including legal advice, hosting credits, discounts from local establishments and other valuable resources. A partner for life! Collide Village will take an 8% equity in your company in exchange for our investment, network, advice, mentorship and access to our priceless Village.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Addison, Texas, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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NFX Bio
NFX Bio is a fund initiative that seeks to invest in scientist-founders at the seed stage with a technology platform approach. Led by Omri Amirav Drory, a venture partner with NFX, who founded Genome Compiler, it helps scientists learn to be founders and guides biology companies with information technology to be a critical distinction with massive implications.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Biotechnology, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Information Technology
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iCFO Capital
Access to thousands of funding resources for your business Present your business ideas to thousands of investors Nationwide search for Accredited Investors Finding the right fit for the industry and company’s financial status Complete the Quick App below and we will be in contact with you within one business day. You can also download an application online or call at (619) 502-9388 during regular business hours.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: San Diego, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Banking, Consulting, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Lending, Real Estate Investment, Venture Capital
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Greyhorse Venture Fund
Greyhorse Venture Fund, LLP, a venture division of Greyhorse Clearinghouse Ltd is an investment fund that champions the boldest and most ambitious founders who are creating a better future. We focus broadly on the technology areas of AI, blockchain, fintech, insurtech, healthtech, and edutech, but invest opportunistically in founders pursuing the unimagined and impossible. Innovation is oxygen for Greyhorse., and the company depends on its versatility, global partnerships to breathe originality and curiosity into everything they do. Our entire team of top-tier institutional investors are committed to supporting every partnership company. The fund invests in any financial inclusion projects.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Post Ipo, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Banking, Blockchain, EdTech, FinTech, Impact Investing, Insurance, InsurTech, Micro Lending
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Startup Angels
Startup Angels is a global platform for investors. It offers action-based learning, networks, and resources to help angels get or identify new markets. The companies market profiles and articles are drawn from in-depth research and hundreds of expert interviews, with the goal of offering investors actionable insights and balanced perspectives. Startup Angels was founded by Leslie Jump in 2013 and is headquartered in Washington.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Education, Impact Investing
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Bolden Ventures
Private Equity Firm with a focus in Open-source Technology, Web3 Services, Health & Wellness brands and Computer Science.
Stages: Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States, North America
Industries: Basketball, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Food and Beverage, Impact Investing, Information Technology, Mobile Apps, Venture Capital, Wellness
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