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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Finance startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
SkyDeck Berkeley | Non Equity Assistance, Seed | Berkeley, California, United States, North America | ||
Berkeley SkyDeck Fund | Seed | Berkeley, California, United States, North America | ||
The House Fund | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Berkeley, California, United States, North America | ||
New Venture Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States, North America | ||
The Roda Group | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Berkeley, 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 Finance Seed investors in Berkeley. 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 Finance Investors & Funds (Berkeley)
SkyDeck Berkeley
Beginning with the Spring 2018 SkyDeck cohort, each of the 20 companies accepted into the SkyDeck full cohort will be eligible for investment of up to $100,000 from the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. Created as a joint venture among UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, Haas School of Business, and the Vice-Chancellor for Research Office, SkyDeck Berkeley has become the apex startup launchpad for UC Berkeley-affiliated entrepreneurs. As one of the first in-house public research university accelerator programs, its goal is to foster entrepreneurial excellence through personalized and specialized engagement to its teams by providing access to their network of advisors, investors, workshops, and other resources.
Stages: Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Berkeley, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Incubators
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The House Fund
The House Fund is a pre-seed and early stage venture capital fund focused on the boldest Berkeley startups. Cal has some of the most brilliant minds and daring busi- nesses in the world. Tesla. Apple. Intel. But it has never had a place to unite its entrepreneurs, until now. Started in 2016, with 50+ investments, $2B in follow-on funding, and 10 exits later, The House Fund has become a thriving ecosystem for the boldest Berkeley startups to grow.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berkeley, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Venture Capital
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New Venture Partners
New Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in corporate spinouts. It focuses on incubation, seed, and early stage investments. The firm invests in underleveraged or underutilized corporate assets; technology or concept ready for commercial product development that is not seeking capital for additional research; product and underlying technology that is meaningfully differentiated along dimensions that matter to potential customers; and where preliminary research suggesting there are customers willing to pay for the product or service. It seeks to commercialize corporate technologies through the creation of independent ventures.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Dekrypt Capital
A blockchain investment firm with an emphasis on privacy preserving protocols and early-stage ventures. Dekrypt Capital invest in, mentor, and accelerate teams developing novel solutions to address the core issues of scalability, privacy, and usability for decentralized protocols and applications. The team works on cryptography and computer security research with a focus in zero knowledge proofs alongside professors at UC Berkeley and founded Blockchain at Berkeley, the largest university ecosystem for blockchain technology in the United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Berkeley, California, United States, North America
Industries: Blockchain, Finance, Financial Services
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Three Bridges Venture Partners
Three Bridges Venture Partners are seed and early-stage investors in enterprise, infrastructure, and data-intensive technology and tools. We provide strategic and operational guidance derived from our experience building enterprise class software solutions and services in industries such as information technology, manufacturing, telecommunications, network management, and data analytics.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berkeley, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Software
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LAUNCH
LAUNCH is Berkeley’s leading accelerator, designed to transform early stage startups into fundable companies. In the fall, their judges select the 20-25 hottest startups in the UC system. Teams are paired with serial-entrepreneur mentors and led through a rigorous curriculum by the acclaimed UC Berkeley Faculty. The three month long accelerator phase is designed to help UC startups grow quickly. We help companies build out their teams, protect IP, connect with industry experts, get minimum viable products into customers’ hands, prove their scalable business model, pitch to investors, and become fundable.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berkeley, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance
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