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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Finance startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
General Catalyst | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America | ||
F-Prime Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America | ||
Accomplice | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America | ||
Amadeus Capital Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe | ||
Rough Draft Ventures | Seed | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America |
At SeedRound we track over 200,000 investors and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these firms. We use this directory of investors to highlight top employees, LP’s and funding organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top Finance Seed investors in Cambridge. 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 Finance Investors & Funds (Cambridge)
General Catalyst
General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage and growth equity investments. They provide ongoing momentum that accelerates ideas, careers, and companies toward standout success. They create the ideal conditions for growth, surround clients with the right people, and offer mentorship based on deep experience. To date, General Catalyst has managed eight venture capital funds totaling approximately $3.75 billion in capital commitments.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Asset Management, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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F-Prime Capital
F-Prime’s roots are in one of America’s great entrepreneurial success stories. Fidelity Investments was founded in 1946 and grew from a single mutual fund into one of the largest asset management firms in the world, with over $2 trillion in assets under management. For the last forty years, this venture capital group has had the privilege of backing other great entrepreneurs as they built ground-breaking companies in technology and life sciences, including Atari, MCI, ROLM Corp., Alibaba, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, and Ultragenyx. Today, F-Prime’s funds are larger and more global, but its teams are still small and local. F-Prime stays true to its entrepreneurial roots. In the US and Europe, F-Prime Capital Partners is investing in healthcare (formerly Fidelity Biosciences) and in technology (formerly part of Devonshire Investors). In other geographies, its sister fund is called Eight Roads (formerly Fidelity Growth Partners), with investment teams in London, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Mumbai. Together F-Prime brings a world of insight, domain expertise and relationships to support entrepreneurs. Without the pressure of fundraising from outside investors, F-Prime Capital Partners focuses all of its time finding and helping great entrepreneurs build important companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Accomplice
Accomplice is a seed-led venture capital firm that invests in technology startup companies. Its specialties are cybersecurity, eSports, data analytics, SMB class software, emerging hardware platforms, and marketplaces. Through platforms like AngelList, Boston Syndicates, and Maiden Lane, Accomplice harnesses the community to empower and fund the best founders. It has pioneered a community approach through platforms like Spearhead, BOSS, Rev, and TUGG. A majority of Accomplice’s investments are in Boston, with others throughout the U.S., Canada, and the E.U. Formerly known as Atlas Venture, the firm announced in October 2014 that it was splitting its technology and life sciences franchises. The technology group was renamed Accomplice; the life sciences group retained the name Atlas Venture. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Accomplice is one of the most active early-stage firms in New England.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Amadeus Capital Partners
Amadeus Capital is a global technology investor that invests in technology companies at all stages, from seed to venture buyout; they also buy stakes from other investors or founders, to ensure that companies and entrepreneurs have the runway they need to succeed. They invest in a broad variety of sectors including enterprise and infrastructure software, consumer and business services, medical technology and healthcare IT, and cleantech and resource efficiency. It has the imagination to see where new businesses can be created and the technical insight, operational experience and global network to help entrepreneurs make their vision a reality. The Company was founded in 1997 and since has backed more than 130 companies and raised over $1bn for investment.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Rough Draft Ventures
Rough Draft Ventures is a student-led team that funds technology-focused university entrepreneurs. They invest checks through founder-friendly SAFEs via their network of student fellows, supplying the brightest student founders across the US with meaningful resources, access to education, and one of their earliest support systems. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Stages: Seed
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Golden Triangle Angel Network
The Golden Triangle Angelnet is a not-for-profit corporation operating under the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation’s Angel Network Program. It is a members-only organization comprised of Angel investors seeking investment opportunities in promising, early-stage businesses. In addition to the financial support, as part of their all-encompassing commitment to assist the companies they invest in, its Angels often provide valuable mentorship and access to strong relationship capital networks to their investee companies. It is this priceless assistance that aids in the facilitation of learning, networking, and growth.
Stages: Seed
Location: Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Cambridge Innovation Capital
Cambridge Innovation Capital backs world-leading life sciences and technology companies with an affiliation to Cambridge, Europe’s leading capital for innovation. As a preferred investor for the University of Cambridge, we have unparalleled access to investment opportunities in the ecosystem. Since our inception in 2013, we have raised £275 million to invest in disruptive, deep-tech businesses in sectors including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, internet of things, quantum technologies, autonomous systems, therapeutics, medtech/diagnostics, digital health and genomics/proteomics.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Intellectual Property, Venture Capital
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Fairhaven Capital Partners
Fairhaven Capital Partners (previously [TD Capital](http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/td-capital)) is a Cambridge, Massachusetts based venture capital firm investing in early stage, high potential companies with rapid growth characteristics.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Cambridge Capital Group
Cambridge Capital Group (CCG) is a leading business angel group of 70+ investors who have been investing in hi-tech businesses for more than a decade. CCG was formed in the Autumn of 2000 and has been backing tech start-ups in the region ever since. Their members have invested several millions of pounds into more than 30 live portfolio companies in the Cambridge technology cluster. Membership is an application process, normally following introductions by existing members. Their partner networks are Anglia Capital Group and CCG International, both of which benefit from deal flow developed in Cambridge, Europe’s leading hi-tech cluster.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services
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Martlet Capital
Martlet Capital is an early-stage investor based in Cambridge, providing patient capital to deep technology and life science startups with high growth potential. They seek to support entrepreneurs with value beyond capital. They have experience of helping companies scale from first-round through to exit. Visit their website to take a look at how we work and their investment focus.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services
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Springboard
Springboard has evolved into a full time 13 week bootcamp accelerator programme based in ideaSpace within the Cambridge University. This new format has been funded by a syndicate of angel investors that includes NESTA and will be managed by Jon Bradford, the founder of The Difference Engine. Springboard will adopt a model comparable to Y Combinator and TechStars. It will provide £5,000 per founder (to a maximum of three founders) for 6% of the business with intensive mentoring and support throughout the bootcamp from over 50 accomplished mentors including experienced entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The programme ends with the teams presenting their business to venture capitalists and angel investors at an Investor Day. As of February 2013, Springboard has joined forces with TechStars and became [TechStars London](http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/20/u-s-accelerator-techstars-goes-global-merges-with-uks-springboard-and-opens-its-first-international-outpost-in-london-something-feels-different-now-says-cohen/).
Stages: Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Education, Finance, Internet
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Suffolk Equity Partners
Suffolk Equity Partners was founded in 2011 as an investment vehicle focused on finding businesses and entrepreneurs of promise. We seek companies and people we believe in, and help them achieve their goals of growth and improvement. With experience in finance, distribution, retail, operational management, and family business, the Suffolk Equity team believes in portfolio diversity and finding thoughtful ways to add value to our portfolio companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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Fund Twenty8
Smart Beta for Early stage investing – Fund Twenty8 The fund is the first passive EIS fund for early stage investments. It will deliver a multi-sector and large portfolio for investors. They believe Fund Twenty8 addresses two key areas currently underserved by the EIS fund market. A lack of sector diversification within a fund and a failure to benefit from a wide portfolio approach investing. Traditional early stage funds usually focus on a single sector (exposing investors to sector-specific risks) and usually only invest in 5 to 8 investments per fund. They feel there is a need in the market for a multi-sector and large portfolio fund for early stage investments. That’s why they created Fund Twenty8. Fund Twenty8 offers investors access to a diversified portfolio with at least 28 investments per fund and across multiple sectors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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