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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Information Services startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hearst Ventures | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity | New York, New York, United States, North America | ||
Nex Cubed | Early Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Future\Perfect Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | New York, New York, United States, North America | ||
Khosla Impact | Early Stage Venture | Menlo Park, California, United States, North America | ||
Octave | Early Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Information Services Early Stage Venture 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 Information Services Investors & Funds (United States)
Hearst Ventures
Hearst Ventures makes strategic investments in companies operating at the intersection of media, information and technology. Starting with its investment in Netscape in 1995, Hearst Ventures has grown to become one of the most active and successful corporate venture funds. Hearst Ventures is global investment group with offices in NYC, London, Beijing and Tel-Aviv. Notable investments include Via Transportation, Buzzfeed, Roku, Sling Media, HootSuite, Brightcove, E Ink, Pandora, and XM Satellite Radio. Hearst Ventures (www.hearstventures.com) is a unit of Hearst, one of the nation’s largest diversified media and information companies.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Information Services, Media and Entertainment, Software, Venture Capital
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Nex Cubed
Nex Cubed is an investor and innovation partner that empowers startups, investors, corporates, and governments to bring new technologies to market, help rising companies scale, and provide paths to liquidity. Through their global innovation platform that includes Sway Ventures (VC) and Altriarch (Private equity), they innovate, invest in, accelerate, and scale digitally-enabled companies. They accomplish this by developing Centers of Excellence (COE) around key verticals that are ripe for innovation. Each COE consists of best in class entrepreneurs, investment partners, industry experts, and government leaders. Nex Cubed has established itself as a leader in early-stage innovation and acceleration, creating a global ecosystem of 3 industry-specific COEs (Frontier Tech, Digital Health, and FinTech), 81 portfolio companies, 20+ corporate partners, 100+ investment partners, 50+ strategic advisors, and over 140 mentors. To date, Nex Cubed portfolio companies have an aggregate value of over half a billion dollars and nearly 60% of the Nex Cubed portfolio is led by female or minority founders.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, Information Services
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Future\Perfect Ventures
Future\Perfect Ventures is an early stage VC firm focused on decentralized technologies including blockchain, crypto, IoT, and AI. We invest globally with a mission to bring economic opportunities to the underserved on every continent. FPV partners with mission driven entrepreneurs who seek to accelerate their ideas through the FPV team’s unique international network, passion for inclusive innovation, and decades of domain expertise.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Information Services, Internet
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Khosla Impact
Khosla Impact’s mission is to assist great entrepreneurs developing products and services for the three billion people at the bottom of the world’s economic pyramid. Khosla Impact assists high-impact entrepreneurs who open up markets, increase productivity, and improve standards of living for the bottom half of the world economy. We invest in world-class entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving challenging, often intractable socio-economic problems through careful application of science, technology, and design or through creative business models. We believe in experimentation and encourage this approach among our entrepreneurs. We evaluate a wide range of opportunities but are primarily focused on for-profit enterprises serving people at the bottom half of the world’s economic pyramid: low-income laborers, farmers and families, as well as small businesses in emerging markets. Given our experience, South Asia is our initial, but not exclusive, geography of focus. We welcome entrepreneurs and business plans from all countries and regions.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Education, Financial Services, Information Services
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Sid R. Bass Associates
Sid R. Bass Associates is a venture capital and value added investor, providing capital and access to resources and industry contacts to high growth early-stage and late-stage companies. With $300 million in committed capital, the firm focuses its investments in the software, communications, wireless, security, storage, network infrastructure, media and consumer and business services sectors. With a long term horizon, the firm partners with seasoned entrepreneurs to grow successful growth businesses through all phases of a company’s development. If you have more information, please update this profile.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Seminole, Texas, United States, North America
Industries: Information Services, Venture Capital, Wireless
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BIA Digital Partners
BIA Digital Partners provides cost-effective, flexible junior capital to growing middle market companies in the media and entertainment, telecommunications, education, information services, and business services sectors. As a private investment firm with a mezzanine focus, our investments are usually in the form of subordinated debt with warrants. In select cases, investments may also include equity securities.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Chantilly, Virginia, United States, North America
Industries: Education, Information Services, Venture Capital
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Circumference Group
Circumference Group is an investment firm designed to deliver superior risk-adjusted performance for its capital partners. We leverage the broad and deep operational experience of our team to thoroughly understand a target investment’s current competitiveness and performance and the execution risks that may prevent it from reaching its performance potential. We invest when our organizational insight, operational intelligence and strategic perspective identify pathways to significant value creation with mitigated risk.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Post Ipo, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, B2B, Digital Marketing, Enterprise Software, Information Services, Information Technology, Innovation Management, Telecommunications
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M5 Venture
We are a cohort of entrepreneurs turned venture capitalists focused on highly innovative startups, and we are addicted to success. Startups team with us because we know what it takes. Our approach is collaborative: funding combined with operational support to accelerate growth. We leverage our core support services to boost your business. We empower our startups through strategic vision, operational support, and collaborative guidance to help them realize their vision. Our methods have led to unprecedented growth and success for our startups.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Private Equity, Venture
Location: Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Industries: Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Consulting, Electronics, Financial Services, Information Services
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Cybersecurity Factory
The world needs better security software. They believe much of the innovation in security is locked up in the top US research universities, and they want to help unleash it by starting companies. That’s why they built the Cybersecurity Factory, an 10-week summer program for academics to launch security startups. Security software startups face several unique challenges. The advantage of new technologies is hard to communicate, and can be even harder to demonstrate, to customers. Reputation is paramount, but can be damaged overnight. Sales models are rapidly evolving, and keeping up with them requires both agility and experimentation. Their goal is to bring you the capital, mentorship, and other resources to get your security startup off the ground this summer.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Cyber Security, Information Services, Information Technology
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Portal Venture Partners
Portal Venture Partners aligns influential individual investors with world-class entrepreneurs. The firm leverages its large, talented, and connected investor community, which is aligned with the interests of its entrepreneurs, to help startups succeed, grow, and raise the right amount of capital at every stage. The company as founded by Peter Loukianoff, Mark Lockareff, Michael Loginoff and Christina Bogatsky in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Information Services, Information Technology, Internet, Software
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