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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for SaaS startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Salesforce Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Uncork Capital | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Flight Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
GrowthX | Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Script Capital | Early Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top SaaS Seed investors in San Francisco. 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 SaaS Investors & Funds (San Francisco)
Salesforce Ventures
Salesforce Ventures helps enterprising founders build companies that reinvent the way the world works. Since 2009, we’ve invested in and partnered with more than 400 of the world’s most tenacious enterprise software companies from seed to IPO, including Airtable, Databricks, DocuSign, Guild Education, Hopin, monday.com, nCino, Snowflake, Snyk, Stripe, Tanium, and Zoom. Salesforce Ventures leverages our decades of expertise in the cloud and our long-term relationships with key decision-makers at thousands of businesses around the world to give our portfolio companies an unfair advantage, help them build credibility, and accelerate growth.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Uncork Capital
Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that focuses on SaaS, consumer, marketplaces, hardware, and new technology startups. The firm currently investing out of two funds: a $100M Seed fund (Fund VI) and a $100M Opportunity fund (Plus II) earmarked for larger investments in mature, existing portfolio companies. Uncork Capital, formerly SoftTech VC was founded in 2004 and is based in Palo Alto, California, United States. Uncork Capital has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer, Marketplace, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Flight Ventures
Flight Ventures is the first fund that was built by leveraging AngelList syndicates. They operate some of the top syndicates on AngelList, as well as the Flight Ventures Expansion fund (offline). Flight Ventures includes 25 partners with exceptional operational and entrepreneurial accolades, all whom actively engage with our portfolio companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, SaaS, Venture Capital
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GrowthX
GrowthX is a venture capital fund run by operators with extensive go-to-market experience. We invest at the seed stage in B2B SaaS and marketplace opportunities founded by diverse teams who recognize the need and want help finding product-market fit. Being helpful is our primary form of due diligence. We’ve codified every step to finding product-market fit into a private program run exclusively for our portfolio founders, and a cloud-based, on-demand version available to entrepreneurs around the world and the governments and organizations that support them.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Marketplace, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Script Capital
122WEST is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage internet and software investments. The firm seeks to invest in Information technology, software, internet of things, SaaS, fintech, mobile, infrastructure, big data, and cryptocurrency sectors. It was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, FinTech, Information Technology, Internet of Things, SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
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YellowRockets
YellowRockets.vc is a managing company for international and russian venture capital funds. The fund focused on startups at Pre-Seed, Seed, and Round A-stages with a strong team and the potential for international expansion, and invest in them up to $2M. YellowRockets helps portfolio companies enter the U.S. and Latin American markets and attract investments in the next rounds. Funds focused on (but are not limited to) investments in companies in SaaS, Super Apps, Marketplaces, RPA, Metaverse, ESG, and based on AI/ML, Automation, Cloud Solutions, Data Processing, and Blockchain technologies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, EdTech, FinTech, Gaming, Internet of Things, Robotics, SaaS
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zipdragon ventures
Zipdragon ventures (ZDV) is an investment firm providing seed capital to industry cloud startups. Past ZDV investments include FrontLeaf (acquired by zuora). ZDV’s current portfolio includes Classy, FotoNotes, Gridium, Munchery, Voltaiq, dropcountr, Swiftly, Guidebook, and Zerista.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Counterpart Ventures
Counterpart Ventures is a life cycle VC fund, focused on investing in authentic relationships and built on implicit trust with its founders. It invests in B2B SaaS, mobility, and marketplace technologies that target nontrivial problems or fill missing gaps in large markets. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Software Founders
Software Founders is a fast-growing platform for entrepreneurship. They are builders of SaaS companies and create high impact and value with each product for thousands of companies worldwide.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: CRM, Finance, Information Technology, SaaS, Software
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Petrillo Capital
Petrillo Capital Is a Boston-based venture capital firm that makes early- to late-stage investments and partner with entrepreneurs to help launch, operate, and grow their companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cyber Security, Enterprise Software, SaaS
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Paperclip Ventures
Paperclip Ventures invests in early-stage SaaS based founders, that met the bellow criteria. SaaS Based B2B/B4B web or mobile application < $5 Million in Revenue Pre-Series A raising < $2 Million Raising Series-A, in 18-24 Months Defined Market Opportunity of $500k MRR in 1-2 years Founding team of knowledge and belief to solve a market need. Sold cadence of delivering products Evidence of retaining and attracting quality talent Current or future measurements of Four Vital Signs of SaaS* Revenue Growth Sales Efficiency Revenue Churn Cash Burn
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consulting, Financial Services, FinTech, Human Resources, Information Technology, Internet, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Arc Technologies
Arc is the full-service finance platform for SaaS. Its introductory product, Arc Advance, allows SaaS founders to seamlessly convert future revenue into upfront capital without dilution at the click of a button. In partnership with Stripe, Arc is building a first-of-its-kind fintech solution where software founders can borrow, save, and spend on one comprehensive digital platform. we provide non-dilutive revenue-based financing to startups across the entire lifecycle
Stages: seed-Series C/D
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Funding Platform, SaaS
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CrowdSmart.ai
Founded in 2020, CrowdSmart.ai helps organizations make efficient, accurate decisions by combining the best of human and artificial intelligence. CrowdSmart’s industry-specific SaaS solutions enable decision makers to collect and refine predictive insights from colleagues, partners, and external experts.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Innovation Management, Machine Learning, SaaS
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