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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 | ||
MAGIC Fund | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Los Angeles, California, United States, North America | ||
Flight Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Act One Ventures | Seed | Los Angeles, California, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top SaaS Seed investors in California. 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 (California)
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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MAGIC Fund
Magic Fund is built on a thesis that smaller funds run by founders perform best in early-stage investing (pre-seed/seed). We’re a fund of micro-funds run by repeat founders with strong expertise in specific industries and geographies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cryptocurrency, Developer Tools, E-Commerce, Emerging Markets, FinTech, Health Care, Real Estate, SaaS
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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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Act One Ventures
Act One Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage fund that focuses on investing in business software. The firm leads pre-seed and seed rounds. The team is made up of founders who understand the journey of building companies having founded and taken a company public. Alejandro Guerrero and Michael Silton formed the fund in Los Angeles, California in 2016. Act One Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider. Focus areas include e-commerce infrastructure software, Vertical SaaS and Fintech
Stages: Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: E-Commerce Platforms, FinTech, SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
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Illuminate Ventures
Illuminate’s focus is on finding, funding and accelerating great founders in the B2B/Enterprise cloud and mobile computing space. They focus on companies building SaaS applications as well as solutions that leverage data and mobility to improve business results. They seek innovative ideas led by talented teams – frequently bringing together diverse perspectives that marry “creative destruction” with new technologies to solve old problems in new ways. Illuminate is typically a startup’s first institutional investor, but can also be a fit for an established company seeking its first equity financing. Their sweet spot is Series Seed rounds – filling the gap between angel capital and larger funding rounds of traditional VCs. When the timing is right, they collaborate with the best large-scale firms for the next round of financing, but they love lean start-ups that preserve flexibility in their early years. With three funds under management, Illuminate has been an early investor and board member in deep technology platforms like BrightEdge Technologies (SEO market leader), SaaS applications like Xactly Corporation (NYSE: XTLY) and early market innovators like Influitive (customer advocacy).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Oakland, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Mobile, SaaS
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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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ScOp Venture Capital
Our approach to investing is simple. We look for scalable opportunities (ScOps). We want companies that fill a fundamental consumer or business need in the most efficient and effective way. We look to partner with people who love what they do and need to make a profound impact. As former founders ourselves, we take a long-term perspective to the investments we make, and see every investment opportunity as a long-term partnership. We primarily focus on SaaS companies who have some proof of market validation which typically means $500k+ in ARR or marketplaces with $500k+ in annualized net revenue. If you have a technology company with both product and revenue, please drop us an email and let’s talk.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States, North America
Industries: SaaS, Venture Capital
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Primera Capital
Primera Capital has funded some of the world’s most transformative technology companies over the past two decades. We invest in extraordinary products, opportune markets, and daring entrepreneurs with unwavering visions. Past investments include VMWare (acquired by EMC), Chegg (CHGG), and Fandango (acquired by Comcast). Our creed is to differentiate between hype and authentic value, diagnose underlying trends, and cultivate rich networks so that we can deploy our experience and resources to help entrepreneurs realize their dreams.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Oakland, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Burst Capital
Burst Capital has a wide network of other execs, founders, and investors. The firm typically invests in the Seed or Series A rounds of software and service companies, primarily those with the marketplace and SaaS business models. Burst Capital was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Financial Services, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Moai Capital
Moai Capital is a Silicon Valley seed capital firm, founded and managed by Brian Jacobs. We focus on entrepreneurs who are maniacally driven by a business opportunity. Moai Capital invests in a wide variety of categories including consumer products and services, the internet of things and B2B cloud services. We also make mission-driven impact investments with a specific focus on startups who are innovating to help increase employment for autistic adults.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Mateo, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer, Consumer Electronics, Consumer Software, Impact Investing, iOS, SaaS, Software
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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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Skywood Capital 天木资本
Skywood Capital(天木资本) is a cross-border VC fund with both fund and team based in Silicon Valley and China to support and accelerate global team’s innovation in US, China and global market. The fund invest primarily in early stage and growth stage companies with excellent team and vision, disruptive technology or business model, targeting scalable and big market. Skywood Capital has a strong team of experts with extensive cross-border experiences in industry for investment, fund management, product design and engineering, technology innovation, company growth strategy, global marketing and business development (especially in US and China), human resources and recruiting, incubator setup and operation. Skywood Capital not just offers the funding for startup but also supports the startup to grow fast and healthy along the journey, with successful exit. The fund helps to enhance the global entrepreneur ecosystem and, it is considered the first choice for global startup to get into China market. 天木资本，是基于全球革命性技术创新和新兴科技行业的发展趋势，整合硅谷、全球其他创新城市和国内优势资源，以资本和专业经验服务全球创新者，根据产业需求精准定位，专注于投资海外最具颠覆性和影响力的科技成果和商业创新。 基金特色： ● 专注中美跨境投资及并购 ● 对接中美欧资源 ● 偏重技术创新取向 ● 优质资产管理，运营咨询和项目合作服务
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Consulting, E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech, Internet of Things, SaaS, Software
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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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Tri-Valley Ventures
Tri-Valley Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Pleasanton, California. The firm seeks to invest in the data, SaaS, health-tech, smart devices, hardware, and fin-tech sectors. Tri-Valley Ventures was founded in 2017 by Greg Hitchan and Don Garman and is based in Pleasanton, California, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Pleasanton, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, SaaS
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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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Noname Ventures
We invest in early stage technology companies that have value based business models and are focused on solving unique problems within established and easily accessible markets. We emphasize demonstrated product/market fit and the potential for near-term profitability while retaining large long-term market opportunities. The support and resources that we offer go far beyond seed capital, with a commitment to working hands-on with founding teams to propel them to near-term profitability or exit.
Stages: Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: SaaS, Venture Capital
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Outcomes Fund
The investments included below are not a comprehensive list of our investments. Outcomes Fund is a Los Angeles based single family office focusing on investing in high growth digital health and enterprise software companies that drive positive social outcomes. The target stage of an initial investment is late seed through A. Outcomes Fund takes minority positions in rounds in which it participates with a view towards long term continued investment in each company.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Health Care, SaaS, Software
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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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Natural Bridges Ventures (NBV)
We partner with global disruptors and bridge exceptional ideas and passion for solving hard challenges with the future of business innovation and growing markets. NBV brings simplification of organizational and venture development processes to nurture and integrate innovation into complex business ecosystems through the implementation of design-centric principles.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Enterprise Software, Innovation Management, Internet of Things, 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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Aconcagua Ventures
Aconcagua Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in USA, Spain and Latin America. The firm specializes in e-commerce and SaaS products.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Jose, California, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, E-Commerce, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Nuvest Ventures
Venture capital and private equity Investment and advisory services. Special focus on new and disruptive technologies, clean and renewable technologies, and impact investing. Early-growth and strategic investment in disruptive technologies. Private equity and venture fund management consulting and advisory services. Financial restructuring, insolvency and crisis consulting, strategic planning and direction consulting. Financial advisory services for impact investments, with special focus on public / private partnerships (P3) in infrastructure, environmental, affordable and workforce housing, and other sustainable and visionary projects. Development real estate capital, private equity, and financial advisory services for new real estate development and new acquisitions, private equity and investment capital for real estate financial service providers, and portfolio services for large investment funds. Global consulting with special focus on economic development in under-developed and rising countries. US and country-specific strategic business partnerships. Representation of US Fortune 500 firms and institutional impact investment funds.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: Newport Beach, California, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Cyber Security, Digital Entertainment, Enterprise, Gaming, Information Technology, Real Estate Investment, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Valesco Ventures
At Valesco Ventures we uniquely combine capital investment with management services, supporting the growth of companies through hands on management, advisory, capital investments and joint ventures, with a key focus on Sales Execution. We invest into the building of go to market “engines” and build them with our clients. A go to market “engine” goes beyond winning a few deals. It delivers predictable results and scales. The Valesco engine is a proven and repeatable methodology combining talent and process. Our team of operating partners will build the “engine” that takes our clients through startup, scale and growth phase.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Flash Storage, IT Infrastructure, Network Hardware, Network Security, SaaS, Security
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