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Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Betaworks | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed | New York, New York, United States, North America | ||
New York Angels | Early Stage Venture, Seed | New York, New York, United States, North America | ||
Starta VC | Early Stage Venture, Seed | New York, New York, United States, North America | ||
Musha Ventures | Seed | New York, New York, United States, North America | ||
37 Angels | Seed | New York, New York, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Angel Investment Seed investors in New York. 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:
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- Executive leadership
- Market share
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Top Angel Investment Investors & Funds (New York)
Betaworks
Betaworks is a startup studio that builds and invests in next generation internet companies. Founded in 2008, betaworks is a company of builders. A tightly linked network of ideas, people, capital, products and data brought together in imaginative ways to build out a more connected world. At first glance we seem to do many things. But first and foremost, we’re builders, seeking to create a more sustainable innovation model. The more we build, the more we learn, the more we get ideas for peripheral things, all related, connected — in a loosely coupled network of products and companies. betaworks is structured as a company– a single company that owns larger pieces of the things it has built and smaller pieces of the things it has invested in. It operates as a network: a tightly linked network of ideas, people, capital, and data united to build out a more inspired and useful connected world. betaworks makes seed-stage investments in this ecosystem. To us, seed investing means “first money in.” Our typical investment size is $150,000-200,000. We always invest as part of a syndicate of angels and early stage VCs. Our requirements from an investment perspective are simple, though narrow. Investments must be early stage, heavily tech focused, and have a working (public or private) prototype. We are a powerpoint-free zone. We build and work closely with companies that we view as core to our vision, examples include: [Summize/Twitter Search](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/summize/), [bitly](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bitly-2), [TweetDeck](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tweetdeck), [Chartbeat](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/chartbeat). And more recently, [Digg](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digg/), [Dots](http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/01/dots-the-most-beautiful-mobile-game-ive-ever-seen/), [Giphy](http://www.Giphy.com) and [Instapaper](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/Instapaper), which betaworks acquired in April of 2013. We attract the kind of people who could start their own company, but they don’t necessarily want to run a company. They’d rather be the co-founder of eight things than tied down for years as the sole founder of one. They’d rather build.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Coworking, Social Media
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New York Angels
New York Angels is one of the largest and most active angel investment organizations. Founded in 2004 as the successor organization to the NYNMA (New York New Media Association) Angel Investor Program, New York Angels is a membership organization of over 110 active angel investors and early stage venture capital funds. The group meets monthly to screen and present early stage technology companies, and its members have invested over $100 million since 2002 into over 90 ventures. In April of 2017, PItchbook identified New York Angels as #3 in their list of the 8 top VCs funding seed rounds of New York-based companies. Among the NYA membership are nationally known angel investors including Esther Dyson and David S. Rose. The group has one full-time staff, reporting to an 11 person Board of Directors chaired by Brian S. Cohen. Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey is currently Program Director of New York Angels. Since 2012, the membership has increased by 66% and investment activity has grown by over 215%. New York Angels concentrates on early stage investments in the range of $100,000 – $1,000,000, although it has led deals as large as $2 million. It receives over 2,200 financing applications annually, from which it selects 12-16 companies each month for an in-person screening, where all members of New York Angels are invited to attend. The group meets again for an Investment Breakfast at the end of the month, where 2-4 opportunities present to the membership with a goal to close their current investment round within two months. The group is considered a leader in the growing field of organized angel investing. It was the first member of the national Angel Capital Association, hosted the ACA Summit conference in 2006, and was the initial test group for the now-standard gust (Angelsoft) funding platform. Membership as an investor in New York Angels is by invitation only, and members are required to commit to investing at least $50,000 annually in early stage technology deals, in addition to the group’s $3,500 annual membership dues. Requests for funding for entrepreneurial ventures may be self-submitted through the group’s website. New York Angels charges no fees to entrepreneurs.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Starta VC
Our main mission is to introduce international startups to best practices, trusted advisers and mentors, and overcome cultural differences through a customized educational program at Starta Accelerator. We help startups to gain traction in the US and become part of the local startup and investing ecosystem. Diversity is one of our strong points: 150+ portfolio companies with founders coming from Eastern and Western Europe, US, Africa, Latin America.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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Musha Ventures
Musha Ventures is an Africa-focused micro VC and angel fund. The firm invests in sectors, including education, healthcare, fintech, agriculture, and supply chain.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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37 Angels
37 Angels is an angel network of 100+ investors committed to closing the gender gap in angel investing. They do this through our signature investing bootcamps, designed to clarify the investing process by teaching participants how to source, select, diligence, value and invest in early-stage startups. 37 Angels is sector and geography agnostic, and typically invests $50-$200K into each startup
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Starta Accelerator
Starta Accelerator is an Accelerator specializing in technology startups with European R&D roots. It seeks to invest in technology companies. Starta Accelerator seeks to invest in Eastern Europe with a focus on Russia. It seeks to invest $130,000 of which $110,000 in Program Services and $20,000 Cash in both program value and cash in exchange for 7 percent equity and also provides an additional $20,000 to startups that perform well in the program. Starta Accelerator runs a 14-week acceleration program and a 3.5 month mentorship program. It began operation in 2015, with its headquarters in New York City as a subsidiary of Starta Ventures.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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New York Venture Partners
New York Venture Partners is a seed stage venture capital firm dedicated to the entrepreneur. New York Venture Partners provide an ecosystem of financing, mentorship and strategic marketing consulting to the best entrepreneurs out there today.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Digital Media, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Grape Arbor VC
Grape Arbor is an angel investor group comprised of friends who spend their professional lives in the technology and start-up space and pool their personal finances to make angel investments. Since its founding in 2006, Grape Arbor LLC (directly or through affiliates) has made one or more investments into more than two dozen companies. Grape Arbor has made investments in advertising/marketing online, web 2.0/social networking, financial services (tech and non-tech), and software/web-enhanced services. While a number of investments have been into companies with products at the pre-beta stage, Grape Arbor has made one initial investment into a company which, at the time, had roughly $15MM of trailing 12 month revenue. In general, however, Grape Arbor targets early stage companies with a little revenue (several hundred thousand to several million in trailing 12 month revenue). All of the companies considered seriously had a clear strategy for attacking a large and rapidly growing addressable market as well as a strong (even if not complete) management team. Grape Arbor has made investments in which co-investors have been: First Round Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Carlyle, Insight Venture Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Vision Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Venrock, Kodiak Venture Partners and others.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Maxfield Capital
Maxfield Capital – we help startups go global. We specialize on early stage opportunities that are prepared to tackle global markets. Our original approach aims at creating global success stories by bridging the gap between high quality engineering and commercial execution. Some startups face scarcity of technical talent, the others lack business scaling skills or experience challenges of small domestic markets. We help them to bridge these gaps by connecting superb global entrepreneurs with top-notch technical talent. This is a key value-add to our portfolio companies. Today we prioritize post-PC era technologies that narrow the divide between humans and machines. These technologies have potential to create significant impact in the years to come. • Big data and analytics, cognitive computing and Internet of Things that provide decision support with automation to humans and awareness with intelligence to machines • Enterprise of the future embraces technologies that augment, replace or work together with humans to improve productivity, transform customer experience and gain competitive advantage • Always/everywhere platform and applications including ambient and location intelligence, gestures control, mobile health monitoring, and virtual assistance among others. Our team of experienced professionals has strong technology operating background, solid venture investing experience and long history in key global innovation ecosystems. Maxfield Capital is currently consider investment opportunities in Eastern Europe, USA and Israel. Our investment strategy covers: – seed stage companies via in-house seed program – series A/B
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Reshape
Reshape is a next-generation investor in technology-enabled companies that need real estate to scale.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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NYC Seed
NYC Seed is a New York City-based seed venture capital firm. It is a partnership between [ITAC](http://www.itac.org), [New York City Investment Fund](http://www.nycif.org), [The New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation](http://www.nystar.state.ny.us), [New York City Economic Development Corporation](http://www.nycedc.com) and [PolyTechnic University](http://www. poly.edu). It will provide up to $200,000 of investment to start-ups in New York. It has currently over $2,000,000 in funds. NYC Seed was [announced](http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9957814-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5) by Mayor Bloomberg on June 2, 2008.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Mobile, SaaS
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HDS Capital
Launched in New York City in 2003, HDS Capital is dedicated to investing, mentoring and providing corporate access and contacts to startups and early stage companies at the intersection of technology, retail and fashion. We are pleased to assist and mentor the entrepreneurs and companies we invest in. We believe in winning teams, not just ideas, and we invest in people. We provide access to our vast network in the retail, fashion and consumer product space. Managing partner and co-founder Haim Dabah is an entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in successfully building brands and businesses, with deep relationships in the retail and fashion worlds. The HDS team and its advisors include other entrepreneurs, marketers, and industry insiders…an all around wise and fun bunch of leaders. We look forward to sharing our joint experience to serve our portfolio companies, and to help you facilitate building a large, successful business.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, E-Commerce, Venture Capital
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Altpoint Ventures
The stage of your company’s current raise does not matter, your vision and business do. We are as happy to invest a six digit seed funding check as we are to lead a Series B eight digit round. What matters is the strength of your team, your ability to disrupt, and our ability to work together. We are a team of seasoned investors, hard workers and friends who truly care about the companies we invest in. We are excited about the consumer Internet, a new eCommerce approach, media, virtual and augmented reality, mobile solutions or the Internet of things. We love piecing it together and building expertise. We prefer to invest local, but at the end what matters for us is that we have a good relationship.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, 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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Mid Atlantic Bio Angels
Mid Atlantic Bio Angels group (MABA), is an angel investor group focused exclusively on new and emerging life science companies, with no geographic limitations. Membership in MABA is by invitation only, and is extended to active, accredited investors as well as family offices, institutional investors and life science company venture arms wishing to invest alongside the members. MABA also operates a Sidecar Fund, for non-MABA members, that co-invests with MABA, when certain conditions are met.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Life Science, Venture Capital
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Red Bear Angels
Red Bear Angels is an investment management company that supports early-stage companies. It handles term sheet negotiation and administrative details for each deal, creating a quick and seamless process for angel investors. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services
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Nucleus Adventure Capital
Born out of decades of friendship and investing, NAC was created to identify and support ground breaking innovation in the pursuit of a better world. We invest early and quickly, build relationships with founders and love to get our hands dirty to help our partners achieve their goals. Our fundamental investment philosophy has two tenets: 1) We believe that identifying and investing behind change – especially fundamental shifts in how the world works or what is possible – is key to capturing exponential returns 2) We believe that while early-stage investing can appear to be little more than random to the casual observer, subject matter expertise properly applied to evaluate uncommon opportunities tilts the power law in our favor As a result we like to stick to our knitting: we have had success and we continue to find incredible opportunities to work with smart and driven executive teams operating in markets that are going to be big in the consumer-touching space. Our approach is deliberately sector and vertical agnostic, and we’ve invested in businesses ranging from IoT to ice cream to space tourism to secure crypto wallets (and everything in between) but we believe our best investments come when we can understand the impact on the person at the end of the value-chain and what it’s worth to them, and that the combination is much, much bigger than the market understands. We evaluate hundreds of opportunities annually from sources public and private: private placements, portco spinoffs, syndicates, friendly VCs, accelerators, founder referrals, and plain old fashioned networking and shoe leather. We look for the combination of a team + product that is positioned to win the future as well as an access + opportunity that we believe gives asymmetrical upside – and then look to share the best of the best with partners who can contribute more than just capital.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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Landis Capital
Landis Capital provides seed, early, and later stage venture investments that invests in technology, e-commerce, and gaming enterprises. The company is based in the United States and it was founded in 2000.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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Archer Gray
Archer Gray is a media production, finance, and venture capital firm. It invests in tech-enabled media companies at the Seed and Series A stages across six industries that include video, virtual reality or augmented reality, audio, music, messaging, and gaming. It operates at the intersection of art and commerce. Amy Nauiokas founded it in 2013, with its headquarters in New York City.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Digital Media, Finance, Venture Capital
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QB1 Ventures
QB1 Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm focusing primarily on US and Israeli companies. Our mission is to identify the best opportunities across a wide spectrum of industries and stages. We invest in passionate entrepreneurs who turn innovative ideas and business models into reality.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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Hudson River Capital Partners
Hudson River Capital Parnters, through its investment arm, Hudriv Investments LLC, is a small-cap, private investment firm focused on healthcare businesses, both services and products, headquartered in Westchester County, NY. Hudriv was formed by James Foy and Clay Lifflander to invest in companies which add value to the health care system and have the potential to be financially successful. We will look at both minority and control positions, via angel investment for existing young companies, start-ups and acquisition of operating companies with the potential for growth.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Irvington, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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Sesame Ventures
Sesame Ventures supports startups aligned with Sesame Workshop’s mission to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Children, Non Profit
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DWS Holdings Inc.
Primary focus: Machine-Learning Arbitrage // Pet Projects: Short & Feature Length Movie Production ( https://pro.imdb.com/company/co0841072/ ), A.I. Tailoring of Textiles/Apparel (Licensing-Model), Fashion and Runway Production & Sponsorships
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Consulting, E-Commerce, Fashion, Film Production, Machine Learning, Retail
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Branford Castle
Branford Castle is a private market investor focusing on lower-middle-market investments, with a more than 30+ year history of helping to grow businesses. The firm typically makes control investments in companies with less than $15 million of EBITDA and a leadership position in a niche industry. Branford is particularly keen on the strong relationships it develops with its portfolio company managers. Branford has particular expertise in industrials/specialty manufacturing, business services, and logistics.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Impact Investing
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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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Rambleside Real Estate Capital
Founded in January 2012 as the real estate arm of Rambleside Holdings, Rambleside Real Estate is a New York City-based entrepreneurial real estate investment company. While its core portfolio consists of direct ownership of more than 1,000 rental apartment units, it is also active in other business lines including: development, lending, and special situations investing. With a flexible mandate to own and invest in any type of real estate business or property, Rambleside has executed over $500 million of property and capital markets transactions since its inception.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Exchanges, Impact Investing, Real Estate Investment, Venture Capital
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Frontier Equities VC
Frontier Equities is a privately held venture capital firm based in New York. They invest in early to mid stage companies that demonstrate the potential for rapid revenue growth. They will consider investments in any sector. Individual investments will range in size from $100,000-$5mm
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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Columbia Angels
Columbia Angels is a venture investment platform intended for alumni of Columbia University. The power of the Columbia alumni network and Columbia’s entrepreneurial brand attracts quality investment opportunities and access to exclusive investment opportunities unknown to other angel groups. The due-diligence process led by experienced alumni investors mitigates risk and amplifies the growth of its investments in an early stage venture.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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JFE Accelerator
JFE Accelerator is the first seed accelerator for tech startups supported by a non-profit dedicated to entrepreneurship in the Jewish community. The goal to help talented entrepreneurs realize the most pioneering, disruptive ideas and help their companies skyrocket in the competitive and challenging market.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Communities, Non Profit
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BLC Group
BILICI Investment Group: BLC Ventures & BLC Capital
Stages: Convertible Note, Crowdfunding, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Non Equity Assistance, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Commercial Lending, Consulting, Credit, Finance, Financial Services, Micro Lending, Venture Capital
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Percipient Capital
We are a diversified investment company seeking to explore every asset class to achieve maximum return. We primarily invest in cryptocurrency, forex, fine art, fine watches, public equities, and seed stage ventures.
Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Manhattan, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Asset Management
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Lavan
Lava is a network of angel investors supporting Israeli impact entrepreneurs. It is a not-for-profit organization that educate Jewish leadership, build local communities of impact investors, and facilitate dialogues at the nexus of financial decisions and Jewish values.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Non Profit, Venture Capital
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