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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Venture Capital startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Birchmere Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, North America | ||
Draper Triangle | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, North America | ||
Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, North America | ||
Mountain State Capital | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, North America | ||
Accelerator Fund | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 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 Venture Capital Early Stage Venture investors in Pittsburgh. 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 Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Pittsburgh)
Birchmere Ventures
Across five funds and two decades, we’ve helped build numerous successful companies such as Cvent (event management – IPO) , TenMarks (math tutoring – acquired by Amazon) CyOptics (optical chips – acquired by Avago), Neolinear (EDA – acquired by Cadence), and FreeMarkets (B2B marketplace – IPO). We believe great companies can start anywhere (but to scale quickly they may require a coastal presence), and the best engineers and scientists do not go to just a few schools on each coast. These core principles lead us to invest in companies from across the country overlooked by many other investors, uncovering hidden gems and helping them scale up.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Industries: Mobile, Venture Capital
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Draper Triangle
Draper Triangle is a Venture Capital Firm that partners with the Midwest’s most extraordinary entrepreneurs who set out to change the world. Founded in 1999, Draper Triangle has invested in some of the Midwest’s most successful startups including TOA Technologies, Renal Solutions, BodyMedia, CardioInsight, and Carnegie Learning. DTVC partners with early stage companies to create iconic and disruptive businesses in emerging markets including software, digital media, robotics and medical devices. Draper Triangle is a proud member of the Draper Venture Network, a robust venture collective bringing together experienced investors and innovative entrepreneurs from around the globe to share strategies, source opportunities, and create greater value. Over the last 25 years the Draper Venture Network has grown into a self-governed organization of independent venture funds on four continents who cooperate on investment diligence, marketing intelligence, corporate relationships and co-investments. Through DVN, members can leverage the collective intelligence of 100+ invested more than $3B in over 500 ventures. Learn more at drapertriangle.com
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse
The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG) provides capital investments and customized company formation and business growth services to our region’s life sciences enterprises. We support biosciences companies with promising innovations in the following concentrations: Biotechnology Tools, Diagnostics, Healthcare IT, Medical Devices and Therapeutics.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Venture Capital
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Mountain State Capital
Mountain State Capital is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in early-stage companies spanning a variety of technology and industry sectors. The firm also provides early-stage risk capital to high-growth companies in the Appalachian region.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Accelerator Fund
The Accelerator Fund, LLC makes early stage investments in life sciences companies located in western Pennsylvania. As the first fund sponsored and managed by the professionals of the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG), the Accelerator Fund is in the unique position of leveraging the talents and insights of those most closely aligned with western Pennsylvania’s robust reputation as an incubator for a new American spirit of entrepreneurial talent in biotechnology and the life sciences. The $8.1M Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG) Accelerator Fund I provides life sciences companies with venture capital financing, which is the next step beyond capital provided by economic development organizations; friends and family; and angel investors. The PLSG Accelerator Fund, separate from and complementary to the PLSG, is building a portfolio of early-stage life sciences investments, primarily located in western Pennsylvania and spread across several life sciences sectors including medical devices, diagnostics, therapeutics, healthcare information technology and biotechnology tools. The PLSG Accelerator Fund I currently has eight portfolio companies and is fully invested. The value proposition of the Accelerator Funds is at least 2-fold: (1) PLSG executives manage the Funds, affording investors with a quality of personnel and depth of domain experience that likely would be otherwise available only through significantly larger funds; (2) the PLSG seeks to de-risk companies for Fund investors by investing, with its own early-stage dollars, in companies before the Fund invests. Only companies that already have performed successfully using PLSG investments or have demonstrated their potential by going through the PLSG diligence process are considered for Fund investment. A unique attribute of the Funds is that all the companies that are a part of our portfolio have already been vetted by the PLSG through due diligence, mentoring by the PLSG’s Executive Program services, and/or investments made through PLSG investment programs. The bottom line is that the Accelerator Funds represent a fundamental part of the PLSG’s commitment to generate long-term sustainability for PLSG portfolio companies while creating the best opportunity for returns for fund investors. Accelerator Fund executives all have domain and Fortune 100 company experience, having worked with companies such as Johnson & Johnson; Bristol-Meyers Squibb, and Boston Scientific, among others. They also have prior experience working successfully with early-stage companies. Each of the executives works with a particular vertical in our overall portfolio, developing existing portfolio companies; identifying potential additional portfolio companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Health Diagnostics, Venture Capital
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Pittsburgh Equity Partners
Pittsburgh Equity Partners (PEP) is a venture capital fund specifically formed to grow Western Pennsylvania’s most promising early-stage companies in the life sciences and information technology industries. A lack of capital for these early-stage technology companies has long been recognized as a shortcoming in their region.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Industries: Venture Capital
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iNetworks
iNetworks provides capital and strategic management to companies and entrepreneurs, accelerating their growth and development while delivering top-quartile returns to investors. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Industries: Life Science, Venture Capital
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