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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
International Finance Corporation | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America | ||
Village Capital | Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America | ||
Revolution | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America | ||
Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund | Seed | Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America | ||
US Department of Energy | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Grant, Seed | Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Finance Seed investors in Columbia. 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 (Columbia)
International Finance Corporation
IFC fosters sustainable economic growth in developing countries by financing private sector investment, mobilizing capital in the international financial markets, and providing advisory services to businesses and governments. IFC helps companies and financial institutions in emerging markets create jobs, generate tax revenues, improve corporate governance and environmental performance, and contribute to their local communities. The goal is to improve lives, especially for the people who most need the benefits of growth.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Funding Platform, Hedge Funds
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Village Capital
Village Capital uses the power of peer support to change the traditional dynamics between investors and entrepreneurs, providing access to entrepreneurship for everyone. We recruit entrepreneurs solving specific problems in agriculture, energy, education, financial inclusion, and health. We then put the power of investment in the hands of the entrepreneurs, who award pre-committed seed funding to the two ventures ranked highest by the entrepreneurs at the end of every program. Our programs connect high potential, early-stage entrepreneurs with the people, institutions, and capital they need to succeed. We support early-stage ventures with a 501c3 nonprofit that operates training programs for founders, investors, and communities. We also manage a for-profit, managed investment fund that provides early-stage capital to top graduates of each program, as selected by their peers. Our unique peer-selection model received McKinsey/Harvard Business Review’s prestigious M-Prize for innovation in 2013, and we have supported more than 550 enterprises across 51 programs in 9 countries. Since 2009, Village Capital has supported more than 1,000 entrepreneurs through our programs and partnered with affiliated investment funds, including VilCap Investments, that have invested seed capital in more than 90 program graduates. Over the past 8 years, our program graduates have gone on to generate $61.5M in revenue, reach 8.5 million customers, and create over 11,500 jobs. 96% of our alumni would recommend our program to other entrepreneurs, and to date and 91% of our entrepreneurs are still in business.
Stages: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, EdTech, Education, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
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Revolution
Founded by Steve Case in 2005, Revolution partners with passionate entrepreneurs upending traditional industries with innovative products and services, leveraging its areas of specialized expertise to create significant value. Through its family of funds that include The Rise of the Rest Seed Funds, Revolution Ventures, and Revolution Growth, Revolution partners with entrepreneurs at every stage of the entrepreneurial lifecycle. Revolution focuses on venture communities in high-potential geographies and believes that while talent is well distributed, the opportunity is not. The firm’s vision that great companies can start and scale anywhere is supported by the fact that startups in emerging venture communities are often more capital efficient, offer a lower cost of doing business, and attract talent looking for a better quality of life.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund
Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund is an outgrowth of Revolution’s Rise of the Rest platform, a national initiative launched in 2014 to spotlight emerging startup hubs. Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund invests in seed- and early-stage companies located outside of New York City, Silicon Valley, and Boston. By partnering with regional ecosystem leaders and co-investors, Rise of the Rest is helping to build and scale the next wave of transformational companies. The Rise of the Rest Seed Funds are backed by a group of iconic entrepreneurs and business leaders committed to the vision that the next great startups will be located outside of the coastal tech hubs.
Stages: Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, Social Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
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US Department of Energy
US Department of Energy is a government administration that regulates energy policy, research and development. The Energy Department is to ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Grant, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Management, Finance
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Version One Ventures
Version One Ventures backs mission-driven founders at the earliest stages. Full thesis here: https://versionone.vc/updated-thesis/
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Union Kitchen
Union Kitchen is a Food Business Accelerator. We build successful food businesses by bringing together our Accelerator with access to our Kitchen, Distribution, and Stores.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Food and Beverage
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1776 Ventures
1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Finance
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Middleland Capital
Middleland Capital is a private investment firm focused on global early-stage technology opportunities. Leveraging a unique breadth of geographic and industry experience, the firm seeks partnerships with exceptional management teams to commercialize innovative technologies, accelerate growth, and build long-term value around the world.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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SaaS Ventures
We are enterprise software experts. We look to co-invest with strong leads, bringing our network of coinvestors and next round investors as well as enterprise software expertise to add value. We see ourselves as partners who can fill out a round quickly and be a positive influence, and non-competitive as we don’t lead or take significant stakes in our portfolio companies. We generally write a small check into rounds of $750k-$3M that are mostly full, being low pain-in-the-ass to entrepreneurs compared to relatively high value add. Having been entrepreneurs, we know that’s the most important part. While we’ll invest anywhere in the US, we love “second tier markets” that can still support major exits but attract relatively less venture funding: Chicago, Toronto, DC, Baltimore, Atlanta, etc etc!
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS, Software
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Yaletown Partners
Yaletown Partners specializes in investing in software, data, and device technologies. It invests in technology companies that improve industry and enterprise productivity and sustainability, to help accelerate their growth, shorten exit timeframes, and accomplish strong exit premiums. With offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal, and a growing presence in Toronto, Yaletown is led by a national team that contributes almost 100 years of technology-industry experience and a network of extensive industry relationships.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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WUTIF
WUTIF Capital (VCC) Inc. is a novel angel fund that co-invests with angel investors in promising new technology ventures in British Columbia. WUTIF was formed in mid-2003 and made its first investments in late 2004.
Stages: Seed
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance
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IFC Venture Capital Group
IFC VC’s direct equity and early stage investments are meant to create a continuum so that the accelerated businesses that make it can also go further and attract additional sources of finance. IFC will initially target startups and seed funds in “medium-sized markets” such as Nigeria, Egypt, Mexico, Argentina, and Ukraine
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Discovery Capital
Discovery Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in early and growth stage investments. It seeks to invest in information technology with a focus on hardware and software companies, communications sector that includes mobile technology that includes wireless and networking solutions, new media, health and life sciences focused on biotechnology, environmental and energy technology, water purification, electric power by wind energy and solar energy, and other advanced technologies focused on hardware and software, industrial, alternative energy, energy-saving technology solutions, and clean technology solutions investments. Discovery Capital seeks to invest in companies based in British Columbia. It also provides capital for follow-on investments. It will invest in eligible small businesses that qualify under the Small Business Venture Capital Act. Discover Capital invests in those firm in which their business, together with affiliates, must have less than 100 employees at the time of their initial investment. It may make additional investments if the employment level grows beyond 100. Also, their business must pay at least 75% of its wages and salaries to B.C. employees. This may be reduced to 50% if their business is engaged in the export of goods or services outside B. C. It prefers to have successful exits by way of initial public offerings and sales of portfolio companies. John McEwen and Harry Jaako founded Discovery Capital in 1986. It has its headquarters in British Columbia in Canada.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Impact Investing, Mobile, Venture Capital
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The Grosvenor Funds
Grosvenor’s strategy is to invest opportunistically in early and expansion-stage companies that have a sustainable, competitive advantage, address large markets, and present a clear business plan to become cash flow positive within 18 to 24 months. On occasion, they will provide seed or very early stage financing in exceptional situations, particularly where an entrepreneur has demonstrated past success or unusual creativity. Their team has decades of combined experience investing in and building successful companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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PenderFund Capital Management
PenderFund Capital Management is an independent, value-based investment firm located in Vancouver, Canada that aims to create value for investors by generating superior risk-adjusted returns.
Stages: Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Rockshield Capital
Rockshield Capital makes early stage seed investments of dollars and human capital with the expectation of superior rates of return.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Post Ipo, Seed
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good
The $100-million TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good is one of Canada’s largest corporate impact funds, powering the boldest, bravest ideas by for-profit startups that are dedicated to driving social innovation and building tech for good. In support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the Fund invests in the next generation of entrepreneurs who are addressing the biggest challenges in health, education, agriculture and the environment – connecting them with the resources and capital they need to grow and thrive. The TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good showcases TELUS’ long-standing commitment to leverage its world leading technology to create meaningful change and make the world a better place.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Health Care, Software
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InitioGroup
InitioGroup is a Vancouver-based early stage investment fund led by Managing Director Mike Edwards. Initio’s focus is consumer internet, mobile, and solving real problems. Initio helps startups realize their potential by funding, connecting, listening and, hopefully, just the right amount of advice. Initio invests in people first, then teams, then vision, and then market. InitioGroup is actively involved in fostering the startup community at home in Vancouver, and building bridges to major hubs of innovation including Silicon Valley, New York, and Europe.
Stages: Seed
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America
Industries: Finance, Internet, Mobile, Venture Capital
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Bellingham Angel Organization
Bellingham Angel Organization is a group of accredited investors dedicated to providing equity capital to early, and mid-stage entrepreneurial companies. Their primary focusbham is on companies with emphasis on thecompanies. Their members have a range of business, industry, and investing experience, but share the desire to engage in the high-risk, high-return potential practice of angel investing. Their mentor, and coach the entrepreneurs in whom they invest, sometimes serve on their boards, provide contacts and assist with team building, strategic planning, and fundraising. They review and screen company business plans on a regular basis and select three to the companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Banking, Business Development, Finance, Financial Services
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Springboard Enterprises
Springboard’s mission is to accelerate the growth of entrepreneurial companies led by women through access to essential resources and a global community of experts. We are a leading network of influencers, investors and innovators dedicated to building high-growth companies led by women who are transforming industries in technology and life science. The measure of our success is in the results. Since 2000, over 800 Springboard portfolio companies seeking financial and human capital for product development and expansion have created over $20B in value, are revenue generators and job creators. With 200 exits to strategic acquirers and 20 IPOs, Springboard Entrepreneurs are Transforming Industries.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Banking, Finance, Non Profit, Venture Capital
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Georgetown Angel Investor Network
We help amplify the Georgetown start-up ecosystem with an innovative and inclusive angel investing network that engages and leverages the power of the diverse and global Georgetown alumni community. The Georgetown Angel Investor Network (GAIN) fosters an entrepreneurial relationship with alumni, current faculty and investors. By providing this connection, investors have access to innovative, early-stage companies. Georgetown-affiliated entrepreneurs also benefit from smart capital an mentorship. GAIN is the only official Georgetown University investor network. The network works in partnership with university-wide entrepreneurial efforts, including the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative (GEI) in the McDonough School of Business. GAIN is an alumni volunteer-run organization affiliated with the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Alliance (GEA) and overseen by the Georgetown University Alumni Association (GUAA). Th network remains committed to the university’s Jesuit values and to the mission of Georgetown University Alumni Association. Launched in early 2019, GAIN already champions an active alumni investor group and robust deal flow. We are regularly seeking new investors, budding start-ups, and passionate volunteers. Our priority is to support the Georgetown start-up ecosystem with an angel investing platform that engages and leverages the power of the diverse and global Georgetown alumni community. Ultimately, we hope to serve as a resource to create, deepen, and exchange knowledge.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services
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University of Missouri Enterprise Investment Program
The University of Missouri System Enterprise Investment Program (EIP) is designed to support Missouri based early-stage high tech start-up companies working to commercialize technologies that originated on a campus of the University of Missouri System. The EIP provides early stage funding to accelerate company development and move it towards commercial viability and becoming a stronger candidate for follow-on angel or venture capital investment. The Enterprise Investment Program currently has up to $2.8M available for investment. Investments in selected applicants will be made in the form of convertible debt with the total investment in a single venture not to exceed $500,000. Investments may be distributed to recipients in installments based on achievement of agreed upon milestones.they
Stages: Seed
Location: Columbia, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: Finance
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Capital Angels
Capital Angels is a professionally-managed, membership-based group of angel investors in the Midlands of South Carolina. They invest in innovative startups that have the potential to disrupt and transform markets. They are not an investment fund, but rather a network of investors who make individual investment decisions after working together to evaluate candidate companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Columbia, South Carolina, United States, North America
Industries: Finance
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Groundwork Ventures
Groundwork supports and invests in amazing founders with diverse backgrounds by creating a robust, inclusive ecosystem of mentors and funders to help grow the next generation of entrepreneurs. The Groundwork team uses a proprietary network of stakeholders in the public and private sector to discover, invest in and grow companies that catalyze shifts in new and existing markets. They seek out the best entrepreneurs who operate in high-growth markets who bring differentiated technology to market with a clearly defined value proposition. Their value-add lies in their deep networks, global perspective and having a long-term view of the markets.
Stages: Seed
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North America
Industries: Finance
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