Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Industrial startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
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KEC Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | New York, New York, United States, North America | ||
Schematic Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
TDK Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | San Jose, California, United States, North America | ||
CDTI | Debt, Grant, Seed | Ventura, California, United States, North America | ||
Darling Ventures | Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Industrial 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).
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Top Industrial Investors & Funds (United States)
Schematic Ventures
Early-stage venture capital fund focused on investments in technology companies within the supply chain, manufacturing and digital industrial sectors
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: 3D Printing, Automotive, Freight Service, Industrial, Industrial Automation, Industrial Manufacturing, Logistics, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Transportation
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TDK Ventures
TDK Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund based in San Jose, California. We invest globally in Seed to B-round startups that leverage fundamental material science to unlock an attractive and sustainable future for the world. We believe in a sustainable world where digital and energy transformation will improve billions of lives for the better. Our mission is to help accelerate learnings and contributions to society, investing in start-ups with similar idealism. We aim to find meaningful opportunities in early-stage technology, especially in Health & Wellness, next Generation Transportation, Robotics & Industrial, Mixed Reality, and the wider IoT market segments. Dielectrics, magnetics, MEMS, neuro-electricals, organic materials, piezoelectrics, semiconductors, and many other types of materials, TDK Ventures is looking for the hardest problems where we have a proven track record of solving since 1935 and are passionate to continue solving these challenges together with our global innovation partners.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Jose, California, United States, North America
Industries: Advanced Materials, CleanTech, Electric Vehicle, Energy, Industrial, Medical, Venture Capital
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CDTI
CDTi (NASDAQ: CDTI) is a cleantech emissions control company that designs, develops and manufactures sustainable solutions to reduce emissions of on- and off-road engine applications.
Stages: Debt, Grant, Seed
Location: Ventura, California, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Industrial, Manufacturing, Marketing Automation
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Darling Ventures
Darling Ventures is your partner from Day 1. We lead pre-seed rounds of software businesses, investing throughout North America with first checks up to $750K. Then we get to work on your successful go-to-market. Our firm partners before others muster up their conviction. We make concentrated investments and seek to be the most active and thoughtful investor throughout your Seed phase as your startup finds its footing. We’ve specialized our post-investment support to developing your effective go-to-market strategy. From defining value proposition to the right business model and pitch collateral, we spend the time and deploy our bench of GTM operators to make your market entry a success. While doing so, we value strong integrity, humility and those who hold themselves up to their own highest standards.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Construction, Enterprise Software, FinTech, Industrial, Information Technology, Software
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MACH37
MACH37 is the premier accelerator for entrepreneurs and startups that are solving important problems in the fields of cybersecurity, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems, IoT, industrial controls, or other cyber-related fields where security is critically important. We go beyond the traditional model of typical startup accelerators by bringing our innovators focused mentorship and support from our exclusive Stars Mentor Network that is comprised of visionaries, practitioners, and successful entrepreneurs from across the cyber industry. Twice a year, MACH37 invests in a cohort of 5-10 cyber startups, each of which participates in an intensive 3-month program that emphasizes coaching, mentorship, and validation of their solution for product/market fit. Throughout the program, startups are introduced to investors and key public and private sector organizations in the Washington DC metro area. Our program is designed to propel cyber startups into the marketplace, equipped with the skills to connect with customers, grow and compete for funding, and generate traction. The program culminates with a Demo Day presentation to 150-200 investors. MACH37 was established in 2013 as a division of the Virginia-based Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) with funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia. In 2017 CIT partnered with VentureScope, a strategic innovation consultancy and venture investment firm, to revamp MACH37’s operating model and curriculum. In 2018, VentureScope acquired majority ownership of MACH37. Following a successful partnership between CIT and VentureScope, MACH37 became fully owned and operated by VentureScope in 2020. MACH37 focuses primarily on honing and strengthening startups’ product-market fit through extensive customer discovery and market research, expanding emerging companies’ professional networks, fostering founder wellbeing, and providing emerging companies in the cyber security industry with access to investment capital and an immediate customer base. In an October 2020 article, Forbes named MACH37 ‘the Granddaddy’ of top cyber accelerators giving a nod to the fact that MACH37 was one of the first accelerators in the world dedicated to cyber and cyber adjacent technologies and has lasted far longer than many of its peer accelerators while strengthening over time. The name ‘MACH37’ is a reference to the escape velocity of Earth’s atmosphere and the accelerator’s goal to help cyber startups GET LAUNCHED. VentureScope receives 5% equity from each MACH37 startup. Qualifying MACH37 startups are also eligible for an equity investment.
Stages: Seed
Location: Mclean, Virginia, United States, North America
Industries: Aerospace, Autonomous Vehicles, Big Data, Human Computer Interaction, Industrial Automation, Intelligent Systems, Internet of Things, Quantum Computing
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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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Grit Ventures
Grit Ventures is leading pre-seed and seed stage investments and bringing a smart money model to Deep Technology early stage investing. Sourcing from the leading nationwide labs and leveraging over 3 decades of Go-To-Market experience in Hardware, Grit invests in and shepherds groundbreaking AI + Robotics + Clean Energy companies through the often tumultuous journey from Labs to Launch.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Hardware, Industrial Automation, Robotics, Supply Chain Management
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Crestlight Ventures
Crestlight solves industry challenges by forming coalitions of marketplace corporations, technology leaders and startup partners who innovate and commercialize new technology solutions that leverage Industrial Internet of Things to solve meaningful challenges. Crestlight is developing a portfolio of coalitions that represent markets in need of technology solutions that lead to a strong return on investment for its coalition members. The Industrial Equipment Coalition (IEC) is Crestlight’s first program. IEC is working to transform the industrial equipment industry with the digitization of product, processes, and businesses and leveraging technology to create new business models, revenue and manage against disruption. Crestlight will continue to build coalitions in industrial markets that can benefit when things that have never been connected, become connected. Connected Industry is about the unprecedented economic opportunity that benefits the business enterprise when connected people and systems intersect with connected things, advanced software platforms, rich data and analytics-driven insights. Cultivating Connected Industry Solutions enabled by the Internet of Everything. Crestlight propels innovation by fostering connections between corporations and startups. With a truly distinctive blending of corporations, startups, services, venture investing and lean startup methodologies, Crestlight enables organizations to access, understand and leverage the disruptive startup ecosystem. Learn more at www.crestlight.com Connected Industry is about the unprecedented economic opportunity that benefits the business enterprise when connected people and systems intersect with connected things, advanced software platforms, rich data and analytics-driven insights.
Stages: Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Industrial, Internet of Things
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Oval Park Capital
Oval Park Capital they give services for industries such as healthcare, financial, cybersecurity, agricultural, sustainable food, animal health, clean energy, water, construction, and industrial technologies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Industrial Automation, InsurTech, Service Industry
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Aviv Growth Partners
Based in Boston and Tel Aviv, Aviv Growth Partners launches and invests in new ventures that bring Israeli technologies to the U.S. market, where we provide commercialization and operational expertise. Our approach is to validate and de-risk specific opportunities with Fortune 500 companies in the U.S., and then fund/launch JVs and newcos that address those opportunities, utilizing Israeli technology.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Collaboration, Cyber Security, E-Commerce, Health Care, Industrial Automation, Productivity Tools, Software, Virtual Workforce
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SymphonyAI
SymphonyAI is an enterprise AI company that provides leading AI-centric solutions for transforming the enterprise by driving revenue growth and operational excellence for retail, CPG, industrial manufacturing, financial, media and entertainment verticals, the public sector, and for IT and other key enterprise horizontal functions. The group’s current portfolio is made up of: retail and CPG (Symphony RetailAI), media and entertainment (Symphony MediaAI), industrial manufacturing (Symphony IndustrialAI), financial services (Symphony AyasdiAI), public sector (SymphonyAI Public Sector) and IT operations (Symphony SummitAI). Founded by Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, SymphonyAI is one of the fastest-growing companies in the business-to-business AI solutions sector with more than 2,200 employees.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Goods, Industrial Manufacturing, Information Technology, Life Science, Machine Learning, Media and Entertainment, Retail, Software
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Unless
Founded in 2021, Unless Management is an investment firm based in Boulder, Colorado, that delivers unique insights and partnership for impact-oriented industrial entrepreneurs and investors. The firm bring together exceptional teams across private and public markets and couple them with our collective of experts to deploy capital for maximum return and maximum impact. The firm also employs venture capital and private equity investment strategies investing in the artificial intelligence, robotics and information technology sectors.
Stages: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture
Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Industrial, Industrial Automation, Machine Learning, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Robotics
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Hall Venture Partners
Hall Labs Innovation Campus, located in Provo, is where our 20 portfolio companies grow thanks to the amazing efforts of our 400 strong team members. Utah is becoming a true hotbed of tech nationally and we are proud to have helped in a small way to build a great ecosystem here.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Provo, Utah, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Clean Energy, Electronics, Industrial Automation, Industrial Manufacturing, Internet of Things, Software
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FGA Partners
FGA Partners, formerly Falcon Global Acquisitions, was founded in 1998 and is a private equity firm with a keen focus on technology driven companies in the articial intelligence, machine learning, cybersecurity, smart technologies and blockchain technology arenas. We focus on companies that have synergy with our current subsidiaries, companies that may have been mismanaged, may have little to no access to additional capital or may have been stunted due to lack of organic growth.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cyber Security, Finance, Industrial Manufacturing, Smart Building
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Green Way Laboratories
When you invest with Green Way Laboratories you are buying intellectual property that can be leveraged in over 22 vertical markets and be used for hundreds of applications. You are investing in a disruptive new technology using the latest in green chemistry that will render many legacy chemicals obsolete in the future. You are investing in a company with a protected formula that is consumable and that can be used every day in every country around the globe. A formula that can be sold direct, licensed or private labeled. Products that are safer, greener and work better. The opportunities are endless.
Stages: Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: CleanTech, Green Consumer Goods, Industrial, Intellectual Property
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I4.0 Accelerator
I4.0 Accelerator is an accelerator program that focuses on early-stage or established firms with a unique Industry 4.0 technology. I4.0 Accelerator is powered by Automation Alley, Lean Rocket Lab, and Lawrence Technological University’s Centrepolis Accelerator.
Stages: Seed
Location: Troy, Michigan, United States, North America
Industries: Advice, Business Development, Consulting, Financial Services, Industrial Automation
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