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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Apps startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alchemist Accelerator | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Newchip | Convertible Note, Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Austin, Texas, United States, North America | ||
Pelion Venture Partners | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, North America | ||
Graph Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Palo Alto, California, United States, North America | ||
Elefund | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Mountain View, California, 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 Apps 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).
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 Apps Investors & Funds (United States)
Alchemist Accelerator
Alchemist is a venture-backed accelerator focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). CB Insights rated Alchemist the top accelerator in 2016 based on median funding rates of its grads (YC was #2). The accelerator’s primary screening criteria is on teams, with primacy placed on having distinctive technical co-founders. The organization provides seed investment into companies it admits (typically $36K), and provides founders a structured path to traction, fundraising, mentorship, and community over the course of a 6 month program. Our backers include many of the top corporate and VC funds in the Valley — including Khosla Ventures, DFJ, Cisco, GE, next47(Siemens), and Salesforce, among others. The accelerator seeds around 75 enterprise-monetizing ventures / year. Notable alumni include LaunchDarkly, Rigetti Quantum Computing, mPharma, Matternet, and Mightyhive.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, B2B, Enterprise Software, Medical, Software
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Pelion Venture Partners
Pelion Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs and invests in early-stage B2B software-based companies. Since 1986, Pelion Venture Partners has been helping entrepreneurs turn early-stage concepts into tomorrow’s industry-leading companies. Pelion invests in early-stage B2B software across the US. With 7 investment team members, Pelion has deep and diverse industry and investment experience. They are hands-on in their approach and work collaboratively with each portfolio company.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, North America
Industries: Cyber Security, IT Infrastructure, Mobile Apps, Software
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Graph Ventures
Graph Ventures is an investment group that specializes in seed and early-stage venture investments. It was founded in 2011. Investments include: * BetterUp * Birdies * BlueApron * Dapper Labs * Earnin * Envoy * Hinge * Houseparty * Ipsy * Loft * Lever * Lingokids * Moon Express * Papaya * PicsArt * Porch * Quinto Andar * RideOS * Saildrone * Very Good Security * VivaReal * Zeplin
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, B2B, Blockchain, Consumer, Developer Tools, Education, FinTech
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Elefund
Founded in July 2015, Elefund is a US-based venture capital firm with its headquarters in Mountain View, California. The firm has invested in several well-known companies whose products and services have benefited millions of people all over the world and created thousands of jobs.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Mountain View, California, United States, North America
Industries: Aerospace, Developer APIs, Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance, InsurTech, Mobile Apps, Payments, Residential, Wellness
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Billiken Angels Network
The Billiken Angels Network (BAN) was part of the Entrepreneurship Program of the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University. Announced in 2007, it started operating in September 2008 with twenty angels ready to fund suitable opportunities, and a $1,000,000 sidecar co-investment fund made available by the University from its endowment. It closed in September 2017, having made 34 investments in 20 companies. The Billiken Angels’ tag line was “…the deals that make a difference” and that is the goal of the BAN – to identify and invest funds and expertise in those businesses that can make a difference in the economy of the St. Louis region, and in the lives of the people living in the region and elsewhere. The BAN considered businesses at any stage (seed, start-up, existing, growing, etc.) and in any industry (retail, wholesale, manufacturing, service, financial, internet, high-tech, etc.). BAN invested in firms in the St. Louis region, and only considered firms outside of the region when the firm has SLU DNA (firms owned by current or former SLU students, current or retired SLU faculty and staff, or firms using intellectual property licensed from SLU). Membership was open to accredited investors only. All BAN members had a strong commitment to help develop entrepreneurship through education at Saint Louis University in addition to investment.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, Biotechnology, Enterprise Software, Fitness, Health Care, Internet, Medical Device, Mobile, Pharmaceutical
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Tumml
Tumml is a startup hub for urban technology. We provide resources to early stage entrepreneurs tackling major urban challenges: – Ongoing support to Tumml’s portfolio of urban innovation startups – Thought leadership on issues important to urban-focused entrepreneurs – Events and workshops where startups can engage with funders, policy makers, etc. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to [email protected].
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, Incubators, Non Profit
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Miroma Ventures
Miroma Ventures is the investment arm of The Miroma Group, predominantly investing in growth stage consumer brands and media platforms. We leverage the complete offering of marketing capabilities and global reach of The Miroma Group, a bespoke collective of creative and marketing agencies for the Connected Age, uniquely placed to unlock value and drive growth for its clients. As a strategic co-investor, Miroma Ventures brings both capital and a full suite of marketing services to the table—tailoring the offering to suit the stage of business and make the most impact for our partner companies. We have invested in over 50 media and consumer businesses to date with partners including ClassPass, Cedar, Pinterest, SBTV, Minute Media, Simba, MikMak, Who What Wear, and more.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, Mobile Apps, Retail, Venture Capital
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Hudson Valley Startup Fund
The Hudson Valley Startup Fund is a geographically focused investment fund, formed by successful business and community leaders to foster growth of the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. The fund provides pre-seed and seed stage funding, mentoring, and connections for entrepreneurs operating within or with meaningful connection to New York’s Hudson Valley region. We aim to support a vibrant and thriving local economy by being a catalyst for the growth and development of high potential ventures with connections to the region.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Kingston, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Aerospace, Angel Investment, EdTech, Food and Beverage, Mobile Apps, SaaS, Software
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The London Fund
The London Fund invests in IP-rich high-growth companies with a particular focus direct to consumer technology and products. By actively partnering with entrepreneurs who create technology they can identify, extend and defend, their London Fund vehicle provides between USD $500k and USD $50 mm in early-stage and growth capital. Their team helps entrepreneurs shift the balance away from established companies. Operating with the philosophy that disruptive, high-growth companies hold intrinsic, quantifiable value, The London Fund works closely with founders to help identify and extend a company’s intellectual property assets into a truly defendable position. While all their partners bring strong operational and entrepreneurial backgrounds to every portfolio company, they also show companies a clear pathway towards an exit. As founders with 20 exits and four IPOs at their back, they pride themselves on knowing how to build successful businesses with the lowest weighted average cost of capital. This focus on seeking, developing and defending quantifiable IP forms the fundamental difference between The London Fund and other investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, Direct Marketing, Finance, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, Marketing, Retail, Social Media, Social Media Marketing
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Curious Office Partners
[Curious Office](http://www.curiousoffice.com) is both a seed stage investment firm and a software development company.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, Enterprise Software, Web Design
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Black Ocean
Black Ocean starts, builds and invests in technology startups, focused in media, e-commerce and online communities. We have companies in New York, London and Moscow. We’re a driven team on a mission to make our companies succeed. Our approach is very hand’s on, working closely with our companies on a day-to-day basis.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
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Adjacent
Adjacent is a mobile app that helps early stage entrepreneurs get the connections to co-founders and mentors they need to grow, and the crowd-sourced feedback they need to grow in the right direction. Adjacent partners with universities, hackathons, and private corporations to jumpstart their communities of innovators while providing valuable analytics on the back-end.
Stages: Seed
Location: Austin, Texas, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, Communities, Insurance, Internet of Things, Software
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Menagerie Investments and Holdings
Stages: Crowdfunding, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Chandler, Arizona, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, B2B, Banking, Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Media and Entertainment, Mobile, Social Media, Wealth Management
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SaltMines Group
SaltMines Group incubates social media and mobile application ideas into free-standing enterprises and viable businesses. From designing exceptional user experiences and assisting with customer acquisition, to raising seed funding and bringing to market, the SaltMines team has capacity to aid in the acceleration of outstanding mobile & social media products. If you are ready to pivot your idea into a prototype and then an investor-ready and market-ready business, SaltMines can help. They provide entrepreneurs and enterprises with access to services, leadership and capital to quickly transform ideas into reality. Their seasoned experts span across multiple industries and verticals are key stakeholders in the evaluation, design, development and launch of early stage ventures. For qualified start-ups & ideas, SaltMines employs a mutually beneficial, partnership approach to ensure alignment of interests and a sustainable incubation timeframe.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Vero Beach, Florida, United States, North America
Industries: Android, Consulting, Incubators, Internet of Things, iOS, Mobile Apps, Venture Capital
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Adventure Capital Global
Adventure Capital is a new kind of venture fund. It was founded by bootstrapped entrepreneurs with over 15 years of experience developing consumer-facing technology products. AC is a mix of VC, Venture Factory, and incubator. Our investments are made mostly in the developing world where we often put the founding team together ourselves through diligent recruiting efforts. Adventure Capital’s global vision is to provide the developing world a jumpstart in the fields of renewable energy, transportation, and payments.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, Renewable Energy, Ride Sharing, Transportation
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Liberate Ideas, Inc
Liberate Ideas Inc® is a leading mobile health communication company focused on delivering innovative solutions to power engagement between clinicians, patients and healthcare stakeholders in order to improve health outcomes. Based in the Montclair New Jersey, we work closely with top healthcare companies to transform brand experience at the point of care. Our first product is theLiberate Health patient education mobile platform
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Montclair, New Jersey, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, Health Care, Internet, Software
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Branch Startup Studio
We work with Fearless CEO’s that understand their industry and identify a business opportunity. These individuals obtain a real partner to build revenue-generating businesses quickly, while reducing risk, costs, & maintaining momentum. We accomplish this by deploying a full-time operator who takes charge to go through our 3-phased, 12-month system & leverage our studio’s infrastructure.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Irvine, California, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, Consulting, Internet, Mobile Apps, Software
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Mstar Capital Group
Having been in the region since 2003, Mstar Capital group is one of the most experienced investment firms in America and the Asia Pacific. We have comprehensive geographical coverage with offices in U.S.A and Thailand. Mstar capital works with many angel investors and Venture capitalists worldwide that are second to none. Our strength in short-term and long-term investments is driven by teams of experienced professionals who know how to invest and are capable of delivering a stable and massive return of investment to all our clients.To date, we had manage $ 1.5 Billion USD of assets globally with an on-the-ground presence in more than 25 markets.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, E-Commerce, Education, Food and Beverage, Real Estate, Software
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Bell Capital
Bell Capital invests retirement funds through tax-advantaged investment vehicles focusing on a diverse set of alternative asset classes geared towards long-term growth including private credit, venture capital, digital assets, and fine art.
Stages: Convertible Note, Debt, Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, Electronics, Information Technology, Internet, Mobile, Software, Web Design, Web Development
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Tampa Bay WaVE
Founded in 2008, Tampa Bay Wave, Inc. is a ‘by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs’ 501(c)(3) nonprofit helping entrepreneurs build, launch, and grow breakout tech businesses in Tampa Bay. Since 2013, Wave has supported nearly 460 startups who collectively have raised over $650 million.
Stages: Seed
Location: Tampa, Florida, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, Mobile
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Concepter
Concepter – a startup studio, that creates award-winning software and hardware products. We invent own products and help entrepreneurs craft their ideas into design-driven businesses, turning on the best marketing techniques powered by a strong technology stack. Products we’ve launched via crowdfunding: iblazr original ($155k raised) iblazr 2 ($305k raised) Lunecase ($155k raised) Futo ($200k raised) Delfast ($165k raised) City Jacket by Riot Division ($55k raised) Company’s milestones: – $1M+ raised via crowdfunding; – 60000 physical units are shipped since 2013; – Distribution network covers 50+ countries around the world; The company is incorporated in the US, with the R&D office in Kiev, Ukraine. The mass production is being made by ODM in China and numerous partnerships were formed to keep sales in a number of countries including the US. Currently, 27 people are working at Concepter.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Lifestyle, Mobile Apps
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Network VC Syndicate Fund
One of the most important factors for successful investing in startups is having a good funnel of startups, which is the whole international market, so that you can invest in the best of the best, and not in those startups that caught your eye. Network.VC is part of an ecosystem with a large funnel of startups, which is formed by Unicorn Battles & CUP Startup.Network VC.House
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology, Internet, Medical, Software
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SWIDIA
We scale consumer startups. Over the years, our expertise has made us the preferred growth marketing partner for consumer startups looking to accelerate user acquisition and improve retention. Our dedication to solving the hardest challenges has allowed us to help growth-stage startups reach unicorn status, get acquired, and breakthrough milestones to raise over $300M in total VC funding. Paid Advertising – Unlock growth with cross-channel performance marketing optimized for user acquisition Creative Studio – Drive action by deploying champion creatives that meet both growth and brand needs Growth Advisory – Gain strategic advice on improving core growth levers around retention, marketplace dynamics, attribution, CAC:LTV, and more
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Advertising, App Marketing, Content Creators, Digital Marketing, EdTech, Marketing, Mobile Apps, Subscription Service, Venture Capital
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Bolden Ventures
Private Equity Firm with a focus in Open-source Technology, Web3 Services, Health & Wellness brands and Computer Science.
Stages: Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States, North America
Industries: Basketball, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Food and Beverage, Impact Investing, Information Technology, Mobile Apps, Venture Capital, Wellness
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1859 Ventures
1859 Ventures is an early stage investment firm focused on Oregon’s robust startup ecosystem. The firm will only invest in companies listing their headquarters in Oregon that are looking to gain a global competitive advantage. While we have a background in technology, the fund welcomes founders from all industries who believe their company can benefit from an infusion of capital for high growth.
Stages: Seed
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, Biotechnology, Education, Health Care, Information Services, Information Technology, Internet, Mobile, Mobile Apps, Software
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New Mindfulness
New Mindfulness is a San Francisco based futurist foundry that designs, funds, and launches iconic, paradigm-shifting consumer ventures focused on the future of self, social, or space. Such ventures target the mass consumer market, and each possess a pathway to $1B+ in revenue. As a venture fund with a foundry model, New Mindfulness does not fund or incubate external companies, but rather expertly ideates, designs, and seeds new companies in-house. The foundry particularly specializes in incubating new consumer ventures 18+ months ahead of market, across a span of different industries, markets, and technologies such as wearables, AI, robotics, sustainability, medtech, XR, fashion, and future cities.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Biometrics, Incubators, Mobile Apps, Neuroscience, Personal Health, Smart Cities, Sustainability, Venture Capital, Wearables
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VentureStartApp
VentureStartApp offers its customers with funding, assistance, and consulting services to develop mobile and web applications. VentureStartApp offers planning, marketing, branding, and development services for their projects. VentureStartApp was founded by Michael Goliszek and Sabah Ammouri in 2014. It is based in Hazel Park, Michigan.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Hazel Park, Michigan, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Apps, Consulting, Incubators
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Berkeley Funds
Berkeley Funds was designed to invest in extraordinary entrepreneurs dedicated to build disruptive, market-transforming and innovative companies with a high growth potential. We believe that creative and dedicated people are capable of doing great things and they are crucial for continuous progress of our civilization. Operating in the most prospective sectors of contemporary economy, Berkeley Funds invest and provide managerial support to enable the creation of ‘disruptive innovation’, capable of redefining global markets. What distinguishes Berkeley Funds is a unique approach to its investments and the process of acquiring innovations from the market. The fund operates based on the ‘fast track’ of acquiring of the innovative projects. The processes of potential evaluation are conducted in a fast and effective manner to ensure the capability of an efficient implementation and commercialization of innovative solutions. Berkeley Funds commercialize the innovative and new technologies delivered by start-ups, companies with a high growth potential and research & development sector organizations. The fund focuses on projects and companies which generate disruptive innovations in their sectors through the anticipation and utilization of long-term technological trends. Our strategy assumes an international reach. Berkeley Funds is acquiring innovations from different sources; however, one of the funds main strategic goals is the commercialization of the technology and innovative potential gathered from universities and research institutes. The fund ensures a managerial support on each stage of the project. Besides the capital investment and managerial functions, Berkeley Funds also deliver a different kind of organizational support such us: human capital investment enabling growth, hiring experts in the field of commercialization, consulting services, knowledge management support and appropriate technical resources (databases, market research, analysis and standards etc.) along with business networks (both local and international). We entrust the management functions and support in our portfolio companies to experienced managers who think in a modern and innovative manner and not stereotypical bosses. We trust in leaders – people who are creating a harmonious team around the idea and inspire to work creatively and productively.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Biotechnology, Cyber Security, Digital Media, E-Commerce, Internet of Things, Mobile Apps, Renewable Energy, Virtual Reality
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Rampling Consulting (USA)
Rampling Consulting (USA) is a service based on experience, knowledge, qualifications and understanding about business, and we want to get to know about your business, to build it, grow it and improve it.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, Apps, Consumer Electronics, Consumer Goods, Intellectual Property, Retail
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