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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Big Data startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
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Polaris Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America | ||
DCVC | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund) | Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed | Palo Alto, California, United States, North America | ||
Voyager Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Seattle, Washington, United States, North America | ||
SignalFire | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Big Data 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 Big Data Investors & Funds (United States)
Polaris Partners
Polaris Partners has over 20-year history partnering with repeat entrepreneurs and innovators who are improving the way people live and work. The multibillion-dollar firm invests in healthcare and technology companies across all stages, from founding to profitable growth. Polaris has offices in Boston and San Francisco. Polaris Partners was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Biotechnology, Financial Services, Health Care, Venture Capital
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DCVC
DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost. Deep Tech is a potent approach to this challenge that enables more for less – now and for this century. The transformative companies in their portfolio combine the latest advances in science and technology with unique compute and algorithmic advantage, reducing CAPEX and OPEX.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software, Venture Capital
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StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
StartX is a 501(c)(3) Stanford-affiliated nonprofit in Silicon Valley that runs one of the world’s top startup accelerator programs. Its mission is to advance the development of the best entrepreneurs through experiential education and peer learning. Since launching in 2010, it has supported more than 450 companies and 1000 entrepreneurs, from early to pre-IPO stage, working across a wide spectrum of industries. StartX and StartX Med, dedicated to medical and biotechnology innovation, provide founders with access to a powerful network of entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and industry partners, along with office space and a variety of other resources. Based in Palo Alto, the accelerator also operates StartX-QB3 Labs and the Stanford-StartX Fund. We are funded by Stanford University, Stanford Health Care, Microsoft, Steelcase, Hyundai, Oriza Ventures, Nissan, Panasonic, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Analog Devices, Silicon Valley Bank, Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, and many others. For more information, visit startx.com The company is associated investment vehicle, the Stanford-StartX Fund is a partnership between StartX, Stanford University and Stanford Health Care. It can invest only in StartX companies who raise qualified rounds of venture capital using objective criteria; it is founder opt-in.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Automotive, Big Data, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Computer Vision, Consumer Software, Education, Enterprise Software, Finance, Hardware, Internet, Internet of Things, Medical Device, Non Profit, Venture Capital
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Voyager Capital
Voyager Capital is a leading Pacific Northwest venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience and connections to build successful technology companies. Voyager leads first venture round investments in software, analytics and cloud infrastructure startups, deploying the firm’s domain expertise, go-to-market and team building resources help build market leaders. The firm has offices in Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Cloud Computing, FinTech, Software
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SignalFire
SignalFire is a complete redesign of the modern venture firm based on six years of careful study, development, and iteration on how to best fuel today’s entrepreneur. Their distributed network approach gives access to some of the world’s best entrepreneurs, product, and engineering leaders in virtually every key discipline and industry, provided by a centralized team of world class investors and engineers trained at General Catalyst, Bessemer, KPCB, Google, and Yahoo. They have developed a first of its kind centralized infrastructure to help with recruiting, business development, customer acquisition as well as educational and community events. They invest in leaders with an uncommon passion and perspective for leveraging data and technology solutions to upend substantial markets.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Amino Capital
AMINO Capital is an early stage venture firm based in Palo Alto, focused on investments in big data and data driven technologies. To date, Amino has funded over 200 companies mostly in seed, and Series A, including 22 successful exits, 12 unicorns, including Chime Bank, Webflow, Rippling, Weee, Headspin, Grail (acquired by Illumina), OmiseGo, DFINITY (launched with $45B market cap), Turing and Mobike (acquired by Maituan), and industry leading fast growing startups, such as Wyze, Avail MedSystems, Instawork, Orbeus (acquired by Amazon), Ozlo (acquired by Facebook), GrokStyle(acquired by Facebook), Assemblage (acquired by Cisco), Woomoo (acquired by Priceline), Contastic (acquired by Sugar CRM), Evertoon (Acquired by Niantic | PokemonGo), Yiqixie (Acquired by Kuaishou), Dataform (acquired by Google), Voyage (acquired by Cruise) and et al. We are also early backers of next generation blockchain protocol since 2014, and led the seed and A round of String Labs, which incubated one the most anticipated public chain, DFINITY (aka ICP). We participated in investment of OASIS, 0x, OmiseGo, which later became known as the first blockchain unicorn in 2017.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud Data Services, Enterprise Software
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GSV Ventures
GSV Ventures is a global venture capital fund focused on the rapidly growing digital education market from Pre-K to Gray. We back early and late stage entrepreneurs transforming the $7 trillion digital education and future of work sectors. Investments include Coursera, ClassDojo, Degreed, and Guild Education. GSV is also the convener of the world renowned ASU+GSV Summit. The 11th annual summit gathered 35,000 founders, investors, educators, and policy makers from 135 countries.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Continuing Education, EdTech, Education, Higher Education, Primary Education, STEM Education, Venture Capital, Virtual Workforce, Vocational Education
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R/GA Ventures
In 2013, we launched the first R/GA Accelerator out of our New York office—going beyond financial capital to provide founders with access to R/GA’s award-winning talent and robust client network. Today, we’re building on our history of startup acceleration with a new global model that takes a unique and multidimensional approach to corporate innovation. We’re building an innovation platform to help industry leaders disrupt business as usual—connecting them with the groundbreaking technologies and emerging players that can unlock new opportunities. At R/GA Ventures, we go beyond financial capital to connect early- and growth-stage startups with our world-class creative talent, industry-leading clients and innovative program partners. Our flexible financing terms support companies at all stages of funding and growth. We invest in each of our program companies at current valuations. We match each of our startups with the right experts across our global network, providing consulting, strategy, design, copywriting, business development, brand transformation and more. We make introductions that create value not only for our startups, but for our partners and clients—fostering an innovation exchange that makes way for pilots, partnerships and integrations.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Blockchain, Enterprise, Infrastructure, Marketing, Media and Entertainment, Pet, Sports
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Rothenberg Ventures
Rothenberg Ventures invests in early-stage frontier technology startups. Its team of investors, operators, and community builders support founders through portfolio success programs across virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, drones, space, next-generation hardware, and IoT. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Big Data, Digital Entertainment, Drones, Machine Learning, Robotics, Space Travel
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Maryland Venture Fund
The Maryland Venture Fund, started in 1994, is a $110M early-stage, evergreen venture capital fund dedicated to funding and growing the next generation of exceptional businesses based in Maryland. The Fund makes direct investments in technology and life science companies and indirect investments in venture capital funds.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Grant, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Columbia, Maryland, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Biotechnology, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Health Diagnostics, Information Technology, Life Science
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Techammer
Over 80 angel investments since 2008, including 13 exits: – Aardvark (acquired by Google) – CardSpring (acquired by Twitter) – DataPad (acquired by Cloudera) – Endaga (acquired by Facebook) – Genome Compiler (acquired by Twist Bioscience) – Kaggle (acquired by Google) – Lex Machina (acquired by Lexis Nexis) – Locu (acquired by GoDaddy) – Lookflow (acquired by Yahoo!) – Misfit (acquired by Fossil) – RentJuice (acquired by Zillow) – RockMelt (acquired by Yahoo!) – Statwing (acquired by Qualtrics) See AngelList: https://angel.co/techammer
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Enterprise Software, Venture Capital
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Connetic Ventures
Connetic Ventures is an investment firm that provides its services to early stage startup companies. The firm participates with venture capital firms and angel syndicates for companies that are in the seed stage. It focuses on developing core investment strategies and deploying them on startups to build up their portfolios. Connetic Ventures was founded by Brad Zapp in 2015. It is headquartered in Covington, Kentucky.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Covington, Kentucky, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Consumer Goods, Financial Services, FinTech, Machine Learning, Retail, Venture Capital
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Aurelia Ventures
B2B Accelerator & VC. We supercharge B2B software founders. Our goal is to increase your sales, hire the right people, get investors for your follow-on rounds and extend your runway with $1.25M+ in perks & benefits.
Stages: Angel to Series A
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: AI/ML, Fintech, Cybersecurity, Big Data
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Capital One Ventures
Capital One Ventures is a strategic investor, funding startups that are driving the future of data, technology, and financial services. Founded in 2014, Capital One Ventures has invested in more than 70 companies that help deliver superior experiences to consumers and businesses. Capital One Ventures is based in San Francisco, New York and at Capital One’s headquarters outside of Washington, DC.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, Big Data, Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Stout Street Capital
Investment Method: Stout Street prides itself on investing intelligently. Our investments are driven by extensive data analysis, market analysis, and due diligence. We invest in early-stage technology companies innovating in the software, fin tech, advanced materials, robotics, and artificial intelligence. We invest in under-served markets, especially in the middle of the country with an emphasis on the Rocky Mountain area. Investment Portfolio: Stout Street Capital is an seed-stage fund that seeks to invest in early-stage companies focused on improving efficiency and generating bottom-line value in large established sectors in the market. Stout Street’s Value Fund-1 is currently focused on post-revenue, seed-to-series-A investments in companies valued at less than $10 million. Stout Street’s Value Fund-1 is projected to invest in 35+ companies by the end of 2018 with an average investment of 100k.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Denver, Colorado, United States, North America
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Big Data, Data Mining, Mobile, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Payments, Predictive Analytics, Robotics, Software, Telecommunications, Virtual Reality
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Cue Ball
Cue Ball is a Boston-based venture and early growth equity firm focused on recurring revenue platforms in business information services, digital media, and specialty consumer opportunities. The firm is built on a human capital centric philosophy: the belief that enduring value creation is all about the people. The people in their partnership and investor membership base share a fundamental belief that their collective intelligence can yield value creation opportunities. The partnership brings together operators with track records for leading companies in the consumer and media sectors. This experience includes running the largest information media company in the world and founding some Internet and consumer businesses. Cue Ball is further bolstered by a unique brain trust (The Cue Ball Collective) of industry and though business leaders – all of whom are investors in their fund.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Data Services, Enterprise Software
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Space Capital
Space Capital is an early stage venture capital firm investing in the Space economy, specifically focused on unlocking the value in Space technology stacks such as GPS, Geospatial Intelligence, and Communications.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Finance, Financial Services, GPS, Impact Investing, Satellite Communication, Space Travel, 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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Oriza Ventures
Oriza Ventures is a venture capital fund that primarily invests in early stage technological companies in the United States. Our partners were previously series entrepreneurs, angel investors, and are current professional venture capitalists; thus, we fully understand the startup process, unique culture, and the specific set of skills needed in order to successfully grow a start-up company. Oriza was founded through the philosophy of nurturing business founders through the ups and downs of starting a company with our own experiences and resources. Oriza seeks to back talented entrepreneurs with emerging, innovative, and disruptive technological pursuits, or creative business ideas. We pride ourselves in our long-term approach to investment, and we invest in the entrepreneurs who deeply understand their market, are passionate about their product, and have the drive to cultivate their businesss towards success. Our team brings together a unique combination of a strong operating background, extensive investment experience, cross-border business development ecosystems, and well-connected networks in China and Silicon Valley.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Venture Capital
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Envestnet Yodlee Incubator
The Envestnet | Yodlee Incubator helps developers, innovators and entrepreneurs launch disruptive data-driven companies and ignite their growth. Companies receive access to the suite of Envestnet | Yodlee APIs, dedicated technical support, mentorship & guidance, and membership in the broader Yodlee ecosystem. They look at companies pre-seed, post-seed, and even sometimes pre-product.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Redwood City, California, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, B2C, Big Data, FinTech
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Divergent Ventures
We have participated in all stages of venture investing. Our preferred initial investment point is in the first professional round. We will consider seed stage investments and we reserve capital for participating in follow on rounds. Our themes are around Big Data, Data Driven Applications, Storage, and Cloud Infrastructure: We have over 30 years of experience building products and services and investing in companies that provide the technical building blocks that todayâ€:tm:s networks and information systems are built upon. Early Stage investing is well served by being accessible and available. We have found that time zones make it much more difficult to deliver on the promise of close involvement. We have successfully invested across the country, but are focusing our current efforts on the west coast. The Managing Directors are Kevin Ober, Rob Shurtleff, and Todd Warren–highly experienced and successful early-stage investors. The firm invests in early-stage companies. Our experience has taught us the importance of being closely involved with the companies we invest in, partnering with management to help overcome the many challenges faced by early-stage companies. In addition to investment capital, we actively work with our portfolio company management teams and potitial investment management teams to refine their plans, introduce them to potential customers, employees and investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Cloud Computing, 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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DataTribe
DataTribe is a startup foundry that invests in and co-builds world-class startups focused on generational leaps in cybersecurity and data science. Founded by leading investors, startup veterans, and alumni of the U.S. intelligence community, DataTribe commits capital, in-kind services, access to an unparalleled network, and decades of professional expertise to give their companies an unfair advantage. DataTribe is headquartered in the Washington-Baltimore metro area, in Fulton, Maryland. For more information, visit https://datatribe.com.
Stages: Seed
Location: Fulton, Maryland, United States, North America
Industries: Analytics, Big Data, Cyber Security
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Frost Data Capital
Frost Data Capital partners with large corporations to pair demonstrated market needs with early stage company dynamics. The aim is to address real market pains in a lean, agile, and fast start-up environment. The firm’s venture funds invest only in companies created within the Frost Data Capital ecosystem and incubator.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Juan Capistrano, California, United States, North America
Industries: Analytics, Big Data, Internet of Things
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Oceans
Oceans is a venture capital firm focusing on giving startups the hands-on support they need to succeed. They are a team that builds teams, a culture that shapes cultures, and a group of mentors who unlock skills and talent to build a future of technology. They help founders build the foundations that unlock the power of people. Oceans was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, USA.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Financial Services, Information Technology, Natural Language Processing, Software, Venture Capital
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Joule Ventures
Joule Ventures is a U.S.-based partner-only seed fund providing best-in-class structural and commercialization support to Israel’s most compelling enterprise-focused entrepreneurs. Our dedication to founders is evident in the efficiency of our operations, the value we deliver starting well before the investment, and our commitment to day one relationship building between key stakeholders. In an increasingly transactional market, we remain a steadfast people-first, principles-driven investor.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cloud Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Internet of Things
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MACH37
MACH37 is the premier accelerator for entrepreneurs and startups that are solving important problems in the fields of cybersecurity, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems, IoT, industrial controls, or other cyber-related fields where security is critically important. We go beyond the traditional model of typical startup accelerators by bringing our innovators focused mentorship and support from our exclusive Stars Mentor Network that is comprised of visionaries, practitioners, and successful entrepreneurs from across the cyber industry. Twice a year, MACH37 invests in a cohort of 5-10 cyber startups, each of which participates in an intensive 3-month program that emphasizes coaching, mentorship, and validation of their solution for product/market fit. Throughout the program, startups are introduced to investors and key public and private sector organizations in the Washington DC metro area. Our program is designed to propel cyber startups into the marketplace, equipped with the skills to connect with customers, grow and compete for funding, and generate traction. The program culminates with a Demo Day presentation to 150-200 investors. MACH37 was established in 2013 as a division of the Virginia-based Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) with funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia. In 2017 CIT partnered with VentureScope, a strategic innovation consultancy and venture investment firm, to revamp MACH37’s operating model and curriculum. In 2018, VentureScope acquired majority ownership of MACH37. Following a successful partnership between CIT and VentureScope, MACH37 became fully owned and operated by VentureScope in 2020. MACH37 focuses primarily on honing and strengthening startups’ product-market fit through extensive customer discovery and market research, expanding emerging companies’ professional networks, fostering founder wellbeing, and providing emerging companies in the cyber security industry with access to investment capital and an immediate customer base. In an October 2020 article, Forbes named MACH37 ‘the Granddaddy’ of top cyber accelerators giving a nod to the fact that MACH37 was one of the first accelerators in the world dedicated to cyber and cyber adjacent technologies and has lasted far longer than many of its peer accelerators while strengthening over time. The name ‘MACH37’ is a reference to the escape velocity of Earth’s atmosphere and the accelerator’s goal to help cyber startups GET LAUNCHED. VentureScope receives 5% equity from each MACH37 startup. Qualifying MACH37 startups are also eligible for an equity investment.
Stages: Seed
Location: Mclean, Virginia, United States, North America
Industries: Aerospace, Autonomous Vehicles, Big Data, Human Computer Interaction, Industrial Automation, Intelligent Systems, Internet of Things, Quantum Computing
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Differential Ventures
We invest in B2B tech startups with a unique advantage in data science and machine intelligence that will transform the way businesses operate. Some key sectors include IoT and Sensory Systems, AI and Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, and FinTech.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cyber Security, FinTech, Machine Learning
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TEC Ventures
TEC Ventures is a boutique seed fund in the Silicon Valley that invests in global entrepreneurs that think outside of the box . Our focus: Internet and software startups with specific interest in social, e-commerce, media, mobile, education, enterprise, security, and consumer internet/mobile apps.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Security, Venture Capital
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Cornerstone Venture Partners
Cornerstone Venture Partners is a principal investment firm that specializes in providing early-stage capital and strategic guidance to technology companies. The firm invests in companies with various types of B2B technologies including Big Data, logistics, edge computing, marketing and sales tech, VR, and IoT with a preferred initial investment up to $1 million and the option of additional follow-up investments. Cornerstone Venture Partners is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Los Angeles and Israel.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, Big Data, Financial Services, Software, Venture Capital
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Trajectory Capital
Leveraging decades of operating experience, we invest in entrepreneurs, innovators & management teams building technology that will transform industries in the digital age. We have collaborated with and invested in the most innovative leaders, category killers, disruptors, and visionaries. We work with companies disrupting massive markets. Help them to grow and hyper-accelerate by bringing our “operators for operators” approach to helping them scale. Provide our investors the opportunity to participate in the success of disruptive technology/analytics/data/adtech/artificial intelligence/fintech/cloud infrastructure businesses. WHAT WE DO We are passionate about innovative state of the art technologies and scaling companies. INVEST We have a highly collaborative, operators for operators approach to investing in all stages of a companies life cycle. DEVELOP We run parallel with our partners every step of the way, funding, biz dev, organic & acquisition growth strategies. ACCELERATE The Trajectory Bench of doers, execs, entrepreneurs, and leaders enable Trajectory Co’s to accelerate & win.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Advertising Platforms, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain, Business Intelligence, Marketing Automation, Marketplace, Software, Supply Chain Management
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9+ Program
9+ is the embodiment of successful investments in talented entrepreneurs. Peter Relan, Silicon Valley, has created over $120 million value with his last 3-4 ventures in successful large, small and secondary exits. With his talent for identifying ideas developing people – he has now hand selected a team of builders to become 9+. Together they dedicate themselves to launching classes of top entrepreneurs with incredible talent and ideas and bring meaningful products and solutions to market.
Stages: Seed
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Consulting, Venture Capital
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Walnut St. Labs
Walnut St. Labs is a startup incubator located in West Chester, PA. It was launched in November 2013 and is comprised of three parts: events, coworking, and an innovation consultancy that invests in early-stage companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Enterprise Software
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AKAR Ventures llc
AKAR Ventures provides funding for Big Data, IoT technology, Software as a service (SaaS) and marketing technology start-ups. While these are our primary interests, we are not limited to these domains if you have the right ground breaking idea! We are looking for distinguished entrepreneurs whose ideas represent the future. Apart from our own investments, we bring together other investors including corporate venture capital, foundations, private capital and individual angel investors. Every candidate selected to present must initially pass a selection process led by our screening team.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Woburn, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Software, Venture Capital
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Cogo Labs
Originally founded in 2005, Cogo Labs is the technology-driven venture accelerator behind some of the Boston area’s fastest-growing web companies. They combine entrepreneurial business leadership with a unique platform of proprietary technologies for algorithmic marketing, data mining, and quantitative business analytics. Their fast-paced and innovative approach enables them to guide start-ups from inception to profitability and beyond. Cogo Labs is part of the Link Ventures family of companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Big Data, Internet, Marketing, Web Browsers
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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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