Top 50 Android Startup Investors in October 2023
Top 50 Android Startup Investors in October 2023
| Investor | Android investments |
|---|---|
| Great Oaks Venture Capital | 10 |
| SVA | 8 |
| Google Ventures | 7 |
| First Round Capital | 7 |
| Sequoia Capital | 6 |
| Accel | 6 |
| Baseline Ventures | 6 |
| Tencent | 6 |
| Tuesday Capital | 6 |
| Kleiner Perkins | 6 |
| Unilazer Ventures | 5 |
| Band of Angels | 5 |
| Raymond Tonsing | 5 |
| Uncork Capital | 5 |
| Ridge Ventures | 5 |
| General Catalyst | 5 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 5 |
| Social Capital | 5 |
| CAA Ventures | 5 |
| Tandem Capital | 5 |
| Lerer Hippeau | 5 |
| LaunchCapital | 4 |
| Felicis | 4 |
| CVP Management | 4 |
| aws Gründerfonds (aws Founders Fund) | 4 |
| Don Dodge | 4 |
| DCM Ventures | 4 |
| Xavier Niel | 4 |
| Shasta Ventures | 4 |
| High-Tech Grunderfonds | 4 |
| Sinovation Ventures | 4 |
| Patrick Lütjens | 4 |
| UpWest | 4 |
| Paul Buchheit | 4 |
| Merus Capital | 4 |
| OpenOcean | 4 |
| Founder Collective | 4 |
| Northstar Ventures | 4 |
| SGH CAPITAL | 4 |
| Hinge Capital | 4 |
| Makers Fund | 4 |
| Jarl Mohn | 3 |
| CRV | 3 |
| Naval Ravikant | 3 |
| David Helgason | 3 |
| Octopus Ventures | 3 |
| CMEA Capital | 3 |
| K9 Ventures | 3 |
| Lightbank | 3 |
| Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 3 |
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Great Oaks Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with a mission to support and invest in the most innovative and disruptive startups. Visit our home page to learn more about our portfolio companies, investment approach, and the experienced team behind our success.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Leverage — Answering the Fundamental Question: "Where
- Dashy Dash — Dashy Dash is a free community powered tool that makes it easy to manage invoices, discover new products & compare prices to help you save money.
- Pesto — Pesto is a San Francisco-based fintech business that recently released the Pesto Mastercard a next-generation asset-backed secured credit card.
SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Our experience spans from helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe scale. Over the last 30 years of early-stage investing, our core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with our founder-first approachhave driven our strategy. We are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. We support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging our network to help them propel their businesses forward.
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- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nomic AI — Nomic AI engages in improving both the explainability and accessibilty of AI.
- Amber Bio — Amber Bio is rewriting the rules of medicine.
- Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.
GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- deepset — We build Haystack NLP framework and deepset Cloud enterprise ML/NLP SaaS platform. We help you implement NLP.
- Context.ai — Context.ai is product analytics for LLM applications. Understand your users and improve their experiences in your LLM powered products.
- EpiBiologics — EpiBiologics develops first-in-class antibody based targeted therapies against membrane and extracellular proteins that drive underlying disease biology.
First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Cymbal — The human readable block explorer. Explore any wallet, NFT or collection to understand their activity, all in real time.
- Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
- Ossium Health — Ossium is building the world's first bone marrow bank to treat blood cancers, improve organ transplantation, and repair damage from radiation.The cells of the immune system are the human body’s natural defenders against disease. At Ossium, they are developing better methods of recovering, preserving, deploying these critical cells to keepdisease at bay.
We help the daring build legendary companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
- Rockset — Build blazing fast search and AI applications in record time.
- Buidler DAO — Buidler DAO describes itself as a "network of web3 projects and talents." The effort brings together developers, researchers, and operators with the goal of providing an infrastructure and accelerator for cryptocurrency ventures.
- Apollo.io — Search, engage, and convert over 265 million contacts at over 70 million companies with Apollo's sales intelligence and engagement platform.
First partner to exceptional teams everywhere
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Agave — Use Agave to connect construction software in minutes - project management, ERP, CRM, precon, and more. Agave makes integration fast and easy with standardized data, docs, permissions, and auth.
- Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
- ProjectDiscovery — ProjectDiscovery is a remote-first open-source software company simplifying security operations for hackers and developers.
Baseline addresses the gap between individual investors and institutional venture capitalists.Since its inception, Baseline has invested in more than 100 companies and helped more than 50 companies exit profitably for founders and investors alike. We are proud to be a seed investor in the following companies (which were acquired by theseenterprises):PagerDuty (IPO) SFIX (IPO) Twitter (IPO) Instagram (Facebook) Freckle (Renaissance) Spacious (WeWork) Bloc.io (Thinkful) PacketZoom (Roblox) Apiary (Oracle) Datalot (Lightyear Capital) Pocket (Mozilla) TaskRabbit (IKEA) Gild (Citadel) Launchkit (Google) Pronoun (Macmillan) Librato (SolarWinds) Reverb (Wordnick) (News Distribution Network) TrialPay (Visa) TastemakerX (Rdio) ExactTarget (SalesForce) StackMob (Paypal) GoInstance (SalesForce) CoTweet (ExactTarget) Heroku (SalesForce) IndexTank (LinkedIn) Versly (Cisco) BookFresh (Sugar Media) DocVerse (Google) Stax (CloudBees) Town.me (fka MixerLabs (GeoAPI)) (Twitter) Parakey (Parakey) Shape Security Inc (F5 Networks) Machine Zone (AppLovin) n'Way (Animoca Brands) PopSugar (Group Nine) Weebly (Square) MangoHealth (TrialCard) Thinkful (Chegg) mLab (MongoDB) Smyte (Twitter) Appuri (Docusign) Iron.io (Xenon Ventures) Soma (Full Circle) Careport (Allscripts) Kanjoya (Ultimate Software) Piqora (Olapic) Blekko (IBM) Path (Daum Kakao) TellApart (Twitter) Citrus Lane Inc. (Care.com) Crashlytics (Twitter) Metaresolver (Millenial Media) Xobni (Yahoo) OMBPop (Zynga) Flowtown (Demandforce) Hunch (eBay) Instructables (Autodesk) Aardvark (Google) Cake Financial (E*Trade) ScanScout (Tremor Media) Yardbarker (Fox Sports) Sendori (IAC) Rupture (Electronic Arts) Parakey (Parakey)
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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Invalidate — IPR-tested prior art search. The ultimate patent invalidation tool.
- Haus Analytics — Automated incrementality experiments and durable, cookieless attribution to help brands make informed investment decisions.
- Patented.ai — Building the world's first infringement detector.
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.
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- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- CMR Surgical — Welcome to CMR Surgical. Transforming surgery. For good. Our aim is to make the benefits of minimal access surgery available to everyone who needs it.
- Enflame — Suiyuan Technology is a provider of neural network solutions for artificial intelligence. Its products are deep learning high-end chips developed for cloud data centers, and are positioned on artificial intelligence training platforms. The chip will adopt a unique and innovative architecture independently developed, featuring high computing power,high energy efficiency ratio, programmable, low cost, and support for mainstream machine learning frameworks. It is designed and optimized for cloud AI training.
- Broken String Biosciences — Our platform accelerates the characterisation of novel gene editing technologies to unlock the next wave of cell & gene therapies.
Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011.
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- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Mexico, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Vendict — Streamline your security questionnaires. Respond to security questionnaires faster, with elaborated answers and supporting evidence. At Vendict, we use state-of-the-art AI technology to fully automate the response process.
- Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
- ConfiAbogado — ConfiAbogado is an online legal firm that provides legal solutions to low-income people.
Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Captions — Say hello to Captions, the only camera and editing app that automatically transcribes, captions and clips your talking videos for you.
- Flagship — Flagship develops a SaaS data science solution that brings predictive machine-learning intelligence to retail. Its centralized platform helps businesses make timely, data-driven decisions across internal stakeholders and channels. Flagship enriches retail brands' first-party data with machine learning algorithms to optimize customer retention,inventory sell-through, and revenue.
- Lightforce Orthodontics — LightForce Orthodontics, founded in 2015, makes the world’s first and only fully customized 3D-printed bracket system that is based on the anatomy and tooth morphology of each patient. The company’s mission is to apply modern technology and mass-customization to improve the orthodontic experience for both patients and doctors. LightForce’s platformunites the latest in digital treatment capabilities with cutting-edge, on-demand, 3D manufacturing to offer clinicians the first significant advancement in bracket-based treatment protocol in the past 50 years. A first-of-its-kind in the orthodontic space, Lightforce offers an unparalleled platform for orthodontists and LightForce technicians to collaborate on treatment plans for each individual patient. The company’s solution significantly reduces patient visits to the orthodontist and time spent wearing braces by providing 100 percent fully-customized solutions that improve both convenience and quality, ensuring patients receive the gold standard of care.
Unilazer Ventures is a uniquely positioned Investor with deep experience in the fast growing Indian Consumer, Services and High Impact Sectors.Our interest is in any business that is part of the India Consumption Story which can build Brand and Scale, as well as high Impact Sectors like Agriculture, Health Care, Micro Finance and Education.Unilazer is promoted by First Generation Entrepreneur - Ronnie Screwvala. As a team, we have immense experience in building and scaling consumer and media businesses over the last three decades.Unilazer also supports The SWADES Foundation focused on empowering Rural India through Health & Nutrition, Water & Sanitation, Education, Agriculture & Livelihood and Community Mobilization and has identified One Million people in Rural Maharashtra in its first phase.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Education
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- UpGrad — UpGrad is an online platform that offers educational services to its clients.UpGrad’s range of programs consists of digital marketing, product management, entrepreneurship, data analytics, data-driven management, and digital technology management. It offers industry insights and student support services.UpGrad was launched in 2015 by PhalgunKompalli, Ronnie Screwvala, Ravijot Chugh, and Mayank Kumar and is based in Mumbai.
- Niki — With the mission statement “Nobody left behind”, Niki is ushering Bharat into the internet economy. Niki is Bharat’s very own “Full Stack Ramu Kaka" delivering trust and service to over 150 Million customers. Niki has pioneered the Do-It-For-Me Model and it is built with the most advanced proprietary conversational technology that understandsand fulfills customer's needs via voice. Its value chain has a strong supply side gatekeeping that ensures quality goods and services and is coupled with a digital and human stack that provides end to end proactive assistance to the Bharat customers. Niki is backed by US based fintech-focused fund EMVC, Unilazer Ventures, Mr. Ratan Tata, Japan’s Recruit Partners and Haresh Chawla among others.
- Lido Learning — India's best live, online tuitions for KG to 12 in Maths, Science, English, and Coding with India's top 5% teachers for higher marks. Just 6 students per class.
The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest angel investment group. We are an active group of 150 angel investors who are former and current high tech executives who are interested in investing their time and money into new, cutting edge, startup companies.
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- Software, Health Care, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
- Parrable — Parrable is a privacy-friendly identification platform. At the core of its technology is Parrable's proprietary and deterministic identification technology (patents pending) that unifies the user's profile across a given device connecting multiple browsers and apps together without the use of Personally Identifiable Information(PII). Parrable’s identification solution also solves the issue of third-party cookie restrictions in Safari. Given that identity is at the core of what is required for people-based marketing, Parrable provides visibility for marketers into 43% of the U.S. smartphone market that is currently unavailable for them (iOS Safari) where Apple smartphones yield the highest conversion rate. Parrable's Vision Product applies Artificial Intelligence to its existing technology using data (e.g. audience, conversion, click, intender data) to weigh buying decisions. This further enables marketers to reach the right user with the right message at the optimal time maximizing ROI.
- Champions Round — Champions Round is a sports entertainment company focused on building engaging fan experiences for the fantasy sports industry. Currently available for download on iOS.
Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and now serves as its managing director. Raymond holds a bachelor's degree in Arts from University of Colorado Boulder.
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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Polywork — A network that doesn’t restrict you to telling your story through a list of arbitrary job titles; that doesn’t let any random stranger you’ve never even met endorse you for skills you never knew you had. They want to build a network that empowers you and gives you control over your identity and your future opportunities.
- Blowfish — Blowfish makes it easy to identify & stop fraud before it happens. Join the leading wallets protecting their users funds with the blowfish security engine
- Merkle Manufactory — Merkle Manufactory is a software company contributing to the Farcaster protocol and working on clients.
Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around.
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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- GPTZero — Covered by >100 media outlets, GPTZero is the most advanced AI detector for ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard. Check up to 50000 characters for AI plagiarism in seconds.
- Inscribe — Inscribe helps financial institutions manage risk by empowering teams with fraudulent document detection, intelligent automation, and the ability to better understand customer creditworthiness.
- Memfault — Memfault's IoT reliability platform empowers teams to build more robust devices at scale via performance monitoring, debugging & OTA updates.
Ridge Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures) is an early stage venture capital fund investing in experienced founders redefining how the world uses software.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Finland
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- Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
- Aeqium — A better way to understand, decide, and automate how businesses pay for their most important assets: people.
- WireMock — WireMock develops an API Developer productivity platform. With the increasing growth of Microservices and API first architecture, dev teams' increased dependency on 3rd party APIs as well as internal APIs presents challenges that impact their dev productivity. WireMock helps developers to mock/virtualize APIs, break that dependency andimprove productivity.WireMock delivers the popular WireMock open-source tool as well as a cloud edition - WireMock Cloud.
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Modular — Modular is the next-generation AI developer platform unifying the development and deployment of AI for the world.
- Georgiamune — Georgiamune is a biotechnology company developing next-generation immunotherapeutics for cancer and autoimmune diseases.
- Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Ideogram — Ideogram: Helping people become more creative.
- Thyme Care — Thyme Care is a dedicated team of nurses and care experts offering value-based cancer care to help you through all phases of the cancer experience.
- Genesis Therapeutics — Their academia-leading research was the initial component of our expanding portfolio of AI technologies. They are combining novel deep neural networks, biophysical simulation, and massively scalable computing infrastructure to achieve industry-leading performance in a molecular generation and property prediction.The company was founded in 2019and based in South San Francisco, California.
At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.
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- Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
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- Flock — Fair and flexible motor fleet insurance for cars, vans, and mixed fleets. Expert support, online policies and stress-free claims. For UK fleets of 20+ vehicles.
- Early is Good — OUR SCIENCE Early is Good is taking a biomarker-based approach to help you get there early because we believe that early detection matters to you and your treatment team. Initial BC diagnosis, including non-visible tumors missed by cystoscopy Monitoring for recurrence/progression Reducing the frequency of expensive and uncomfortable cystoscopies Risk stratification and informing patient-specific
- Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
CAA Ventures is the venture arm of Creative Artists Agency.
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- Internet, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Iceland
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- Bungalow — Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States.Bungalow offersprivate bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members.Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.
- Harper Wilde — Harper Wilde owns and operates an online portal for shopping lingerie.The company is committed not only to lifting up ladies, but also to lifting up the future generation of leading ladies. Harper Wilde's purposeful designs and curated options not only make things easier for customers, but also allow us to save money in production costs andpass those savings onto their customers. In this way, they empower women by providing them with more fairly-priced products, at nearly half of what competitors charge.
- DeSo Foundation — DeSo is a layer -1 blockchain designed to build and scale decentralized social apps to 1 Billion users. Take back ownership of your content and social graph with web3 versions of Twitter and LinkedIn.
Tandem Capital is a seed stage venture capital fund investing in stellar founding teams whose innovation extends beyond their products into how they acquire their customers, develop their distribution channels and build their overall brands. Its portfolio companies are disrupting such industries as construction, consumer packaged goods andelectronics, entertainment and media, food and beverage, manufacturing, and transportation and logistics. These businesses originate from various locations around the world but often run global operations and always benefit from a strong connection with Silicon Valley and the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
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- Mobile, Software, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, India, Spain
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- Boom.tv — Your all in one hub for playing games, watching esports, and growing your fans!
- Coral Labs — Coral Labs offers a smart manicure device that can automatically paint nails. The company is solving complex problems to simplify personal care. It was founded in 2017 by Bradley Leong and Ramya Venkateswaran and is headquartered in San Mateo, California, United States.
- Lambda School — Lambda School is a combination of a school and an investment fund. Lambda School's mission is to find untapped or underutilized talent, and train that talent for the most in-demand jobs in the world. Lambda School is pioneering a new model of higher education in which the school invests in the students, instead of the other way around.
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
- Advocate — Advocate will help Americans engage with federal agencies through a scalable technology-enabled services platform to provide disabled Americans with a transparent, hassle-free way to receive the government benefits they deserve. We believe that the application process for these benefits should be easy and the financial support accessible to allqualified claimants
- Teleskope — Teleskope is a modern data protection platform that automates data security, privacy, and compliance at scale.
LaunchCapital invests in entrepreneurs who build the future. It focuses on the seed and early stages of development. They plan to make significant follow-on investments in exceptional companies as they continue growing.
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- Software, Health Care, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- Logiwa — Warehouse software and 3PL Software - empower companies to run a digital fulfillment network & grow their DTC business.
- Wyebot — Ready for worry-free WiFi, proactive problem solving, and money-saving remote capabilities? You're ready for Wyebot.
- Qeepsake — The easiest way to capture and preserve memories about your child or pregnancy.
Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries
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- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- Poolside — Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform intended to offer cutting-edge foundation concepts and infrastructure.
- Voiceflow — Visually design, prototype and publish voice and chat apps across channels like Alexa, Google or any custom channel/modality. Get started today, with no code.
- Weights & Biases — Weights & Biases, developer tools for machine learning
CVP Management is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, startup, early Series A, and early stage investments. It does not invest in life sciences, medical devices and energy production companies as well as businesses that require $5 million to $10 million of upfront capital before validating the concept. CVP Management seeks to invest inbeta, working prototype, and go-to-market stages. It prefers to invest in Information Technology infrastructure with focus on software application, internet, digital media, digital marketing, vertical SAAS, cloud, embedded software, mobile, financial service technologies, and cutting-edge information technology ventures. CVP Management invests in companies based in the Northeast corridor with a concentration on Boston, New York and Toronto. It typically invests between 0.1 million and $1 million and for Seed and Series A rounds it invests between $1 million and $3.5 million. CVP Management invests in companies with enterprise value of $5 million. It prefers to have a seat on the company’s board of directors in its portfolio companies. CVP Management prefers to invest in preferred stock. It began operation on June 1, 1998, with its headquarters in Cambridge in Massachusetts with an additional office in Boston, Massachusetts.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- BlueConic — BlueConic, the leading pure-play customer data platform, liberates companies’ first-party data from disparate systems and makes it accessible wherever and whenever it is required to transform customer relationships and drive business growth. Over 300 companies worldwide, including Hearst Newspapers, Heineken, ING, T-Mobile, and VF Corp, useBlueConic to unify data into persistent, individual-profiles, and then activate it across customer touchpoints and systems in support of a wide range of growth-focused initiatives, including customer lifecycle orchestration, modeling and analytics, digital products and experiences, audience-based monetization, and more. BlueConic is a global company with offices in the US and Europe.
- Chainalysis — Chainalysis helps government agencies, cryptocurrency businesses, and financial institutions engage confidently with cryptocurrency.
- APDS — The US corrections system is broken, but evidence shows that inmate education, rehabilitation, and re-entry services can change this reality. APDS is transforming corrections through best-in-class education technology.
aws Gründerfonds is Austria's 70m venture capital fund. We invest as co-investor in Austrian high-growth start-ups in their later seed and (pre-)series-A stages.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Valutico — Valutico is the world‘s leading provider of web-based company valuation tools.Started in 2014 by a team of enthusiastic Corporate Finance professionals and web developers, the concept was born out of frustration with the status-quo in Corporate Finance practice: That professional company valuations used to be the domain of only the mostsophisticated of investors.At Valutico, it has been their mission from the outset to offer cutting-edge valuation tools to a much wider audience. Today they empower everybody to perform company valuations that meet and exceed the standards of even the leading investment banks and advisory firms.The company today is headquartered in Vienna/Austria and has an additional office in Frankfurt/Germany.
- ToolSense — Connecting the way OEMs do business.ToolSense enables OEMs to improve customer service, generate insights for R&D and increase customer loyalty - through digitizing their products with the 'ToolSense NOW' IIoT platform and 'ToolSense IOT' Hardware.ToolSense is the winner of Austrian Foreign Trade Award "Born GlobalChampion 2018", ORF Futurezone Award "Best IoT Startup 2017", part of Deutsche Telekom's "hub:raum NB-IoT Warp Program", part of SAP's "Startup Focus Program" and part of University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna's "Student Startup Incubator Program".
- Arkeon Biotechnologies — Arkeon turns CO2 into functional, carbon-negative ingredients for food
Don Dodge
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- Mobile, Software, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Nimble CRM — A G2 Crowd Market Leader, Nimble helps you build relationships everywhere you engage -- from your inbox to across the web. Try it free - no credit card required.
- addapptation — The ABM library of tools and workflows designed to maximize your ABM strategy. Easy to set up, easy to use, easy to scale.
- Hubble Network — a Satellite network connecting billions of bluetooth devices. GLOBALLY.
DCM Ventures assists entrepreneurs in building companies that will change how institutions and people use and live with technology.DCM Ventures focuses on the size of its team, the money they raise, and the investments they make all so that it can focus on the business of helping portfolio companies succeed. Collectively, the DCM investingpartners have over a century of investing and operational experience and each DCM partner has experience building hyper-growth startups into billion-dollar businesses.DCM Ventures manages ten funds totaling $4.0 billion and has made investments in more than 400 technology companies across the United States and Asia. With offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Tokyo, DCM provides hands-on operational guidance and a vast network of global business and financial resources to its portfolio companies.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- CADDi — CADDi is an online ordering platform for manufacturing industry.
- BentoML — BentoML is the platform for software engineers to build AI products.
- FancyTech — FancyTech creates social media data analytics software that is intended to give users marketing options. Its software creates reports and placement recommendations for marketing, allowing users to target a wider, more relevant clientele.
Xavier Niel currently works as the Co-Founder & CEO for NJJ Capital. Xavier Niel is the Iliad Group's majority shareholder and founder. He has been involved in the data communications, Internet and telecommunications industry since the late 1980s. In 1993, before dedicating himself full-time to developing the Group, he founded Worldnet,the first Internet service provider in France, which was sold to Kaptech (LDCom Group) in December 2000. He has been responsible for the Group's major strategic developments, from the launch of the ANNU service and the development of Internet access services based on France Télécom’s repayment scheme as a financial model to the launch of the Freebox project.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- Skarlett — Skarlett is a real estate firm that provides purchasing power to the old age people by releasing the wealth blocked in real estate assets.
- Mistral AI — Mistral AI is a platform that assembles team to develop the generative AI models.
- Poolside — Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform intended to offer cutting-edge foundation concepts and infrastructure.
Shasta is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise technology like SaaS, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence & camera vision.
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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Canada, New Zealand
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- Tracksuit — Tracksuit has created beautiful, always-on, and radically affordable brand tracking for modern consumer brands. Brand marketers and leaders at consumer brands have access to enterprise-tier brand tracking, specifically built for them, at a price point that works. Teams can easily track awareness, consideration, preference and brand associationsfrom real humans within the wider market, and compare results against competitors.
- Lightup — Stay on top of data quality with Lightup.ai. Detect data drift and data outages before they hurt product experience and business decisions. Get started in minutes with a free trial. Continuously monitor all your data assets across the enterprise. Be data-driven with confidence.
- Deep Sentinel — Deep Sentinel offers the only video surveillance systems on the market with live security guards. See how it works and prevent crime on your property now.
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is a seed investor that finances high-potential, tech-driven startups. With EUR 895.5 million in total investment volume across three funds and an international network of partners, HTGF has already helped forge more than 500 startups since 2005. Driven by their expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion, its teamof experienced investment managers and startup experts help guide the development of young companies. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech startups in a range of sectors, including software, media, internet, hardware, automation, health care, chemistry, and life sciences.To date, external investors have injected over EUR 2 billion into the HTGF portfolio via about 1,400 follow-on financing rounds. HTGF has also successfully sold interests in more than 100 companies. Investors in this public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry For Economic Affairs and Energy, the KfW Banking Group, and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V., as well as the companies ALTANA, BASF, BAYER, B.Braun, Boehringer Ingelheim, Robert Bosch, BÜFA, CEWE, Deutsche Post DHL, Dräger, Drillisch AG, EVONIK, EWE AG, FOND OF Haniel, Hettich, Knauf, Körber, LANXESS, media + more venture Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, PHOENIX CONTACT, Postbank, QIAGEN, RWE Generation SE, SAP, Schufa, Schwarz Gruppe, STIHL, Thüga, Vector Informatik, WACKER and Wilh. Werhahn KG.
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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
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- sewts — Founded in 2019 and based in Munich, sewts GmbH provides cutting-edge perception software, pushing the boundaries of robotics in processing of easily deformable materials. sewts has developed and demonstrated a unique technology that uses high-precision finite element method (FEM) simulations to efficiently train machine learning algorithms. Theintelligent software solution enables countless applications in industrial automation like the handling of textiles in industrial laundries or the manufacturing of garment. sewts is backed by APEX Ventures, Bayern Kapital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, UnternehmerTUM Initiative for Industrial Innovators and a couple of highly experienced business angels.
- BeeOLED — BeeOLED’s technology enables OLED displays with significantly improved efficiency, brightness and operational stability at lower overall costs due to a less complex device structure.
- Yond — Yond is Prepared to scale your business with our Gym Operating System.
Sinovation Ventures is a full-service venture capital firm that actively invests in the Chinese technology market.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, Hong Kong
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- MetaCene — MetaCene is a blockchain company that aims to create an accessible Web3 world for the masses, with a focus on player-centric entertainment.
- Ruishi Technology — Ruishi Technology develops Myopia prevention and control medical devices.
- True Talents For China (TTC) — True Talents For China (TTC) is a digital and intelligent professional talent service company that provides digital platforms, business platforms, data platforms, enterprise cloud services, and other services.
Patrick Lütjens is an investor, an Experienced Senior Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity industry.
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- iOS, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Switzerland
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- Uepaa® — Uepaa AG is the Lone Worker Safety and Peer2Peer (P2P) communication pioneer for mobile devices. After 10+ years of research, Uepaa AG has developed a revolutionary wireless P2P communication technology. Its first product - the Uepaa! Safety app - launched in 2013, successfully showcased this technology’s leadership position. This award-winningproduct evolved into today's industry standard for mobile-based lone worker safety protection. The daily companion for thousands of employees and field forces - working at risk or alone. Uepaa AG, founded in January 2012 by Mathias Haussmann and Dr Franck Legendre, is a Swiss ETH spin-off, headquartered in Zürich.
UpWest is a Silicon Valley-based seed fund investing in Israel’s most promising entrepreneurs. UpWest is focused on a hands-on approach to supercharge the growth of its startups, providing the essential ingredients for success: seed funding, proximity and access to markets and capital, and a supportive community of talented peers. For moreinformation, visit upwest.vc.
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- Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, Brazil
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- BeeHero — BeeHero - Your precision pollination provider for almonds, berries, apples and more We raise and keep exceptional bees by combining generations of commercial beekeeping experience with cutting-edge technology. Get premium bees & pollinate your crops with precision.
- Unity SCM — Data across your entire supply chain easily collected and organized in one place
- PerfectScale — Ensure peak performance at the lowest possible cost with data-driven intelligence to optimize each layer of the K8s stack.
Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.
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- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, India
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- SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Character.ai — character.ai is bringing to life the science-fiction dream of open-ended conversations and collaborations with computers.
- Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Merus Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded by former M&A leaders at Google and Microsoft. Merus empowers ambitious teams building tomorrow’s industry-defining platforms. The firm partners with founders that possess unique industry and customer insights, an unwavering commitment to product innovation, and a relentless focus onexecution.
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- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- DynamoFL — The #1 Solution For Optimized Model Training. DynamoFL delivers state-of-the-art and regulation-compliant AI at a fraction of the cost.
- Parabola — Parabola is your toolkit for faster, smarter work. Automate any manual task you usually do in a spreadsheet.
- NeuralSpace — NeuralSpace is a one-stop solution for all your Natural Language Processing needs. Train, deploy and integrate your very own speech and text models in more than 80 languages with a click of a button.
OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe with offices in London & Helsinki.
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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Finland, United States, United Kingdom
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- Nosto — Use Powerful Personalization Made Easy on e-Commerce Platforms. Nosto generates a 10-30% Average Increase in Revenue.
- Hygraph — Hygraph is the next generation GraphQL-Native Federated Content Platform. Integrate all your services with our unique content federation approach and deliver to any destination of choice using our content APIs
- Sunlight.Io — Sunlight makes performance possible anywhere - from the cloud to the edge. Demanding applications like AI, Big Data, Analytics and Rendering run 3x faster on Sunlight compared to legacy virtualisation, and because Sunlight has a tiny footprint - it’s perfect for the edge. Enterprises and MSPs use Sunlight to cut the costs of delivering highperformance IT by 70%.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Cambridge, UK.
Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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- Akooda — AI-powered wizard for understanding and optimizing how you deliver value as a team
- CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
- Pollen — Grow your freelancing business with step-by-step playbooks from industry experts who have been in your shoes. Join the waitlist for early access.
Northstar Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in innovative solutions to help solve the most pressing societal issues we have today. Our ticket sizes range from £100k to £500k into early stage tech companies. We provide added value in leveraging our network of university partners, funders, non-executive directors and talent to supporteach investment.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
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- IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
- MarraBio — MarraBio Ltd. is a spin out company from Newcastle University using engineered bacterial protein polymers to provide bioactivity to cells at the industrial scale in the cultivated meat sector and beyond.
- Peek Home — Peek Home provides sketch plans, prices and planning advice for people who are puzzled by the process of creating their perfect home. All we need is your house number & postcode - no home visit needed.
Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
- TabTrader — TabTrader - Cryptocurrency trading terminal. Over 20K+ trading instruments on 20+ major exchanges in one app.
- Asset Reality — Asset Reality manages and realises seized and confiscated assets for public and private sector clients globally.
They may have a new flag, but they've been at it for almost a decade now. They’ve learned a lot and they’re a different company than they were in 2009, and they needed a new brand to represent their vision. Venture51 is now H//NGE Capital. They've backed companies like Ripple, Dollar Shave Club, Bird, Getaround, Classpass, eToroand Life360. H//NGE Capital invests in high technology companies leveraging their new, modern venture platform that supports the most promising founders in high-growth markets. They’re not commodity capital; they’re a platform led by operators, data scientists, designers and engineers, guided by investors, and equipped with patient and flexible capital to make risk-on investments in next-generation vertical technologies.Since the best early-stage companies require more than just capital, their platform utilizes people, data and software, in addition to their capital, to provide a differentiated experience at the seed stage. Their DNA is grounded in technology and product — just like the companies they invest in. They believe that this approach to venture capital is fundamentally different from a traditional seed firm.
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- Software, Mobile, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- twine — twine helps build healthier remote teams by bridging silos through guided conversations.
- Sarcophagus — Sarcophagus is an autonomous, incentivized dead man's switch dApp built on Ethereum and Arweave.
- Classy — Classy's fundraising solutions help you transform transactions into relationships. Discover why thousands of nonprofits choose Classy.
Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- HypeLab — HypeLab is a web3 ad network that helps clients acquire new users in a scalable way. It serves both images and video creatives and uploads assets directly on the self-service advertiser portal. HypeLab is located in San Francisco, California.
- Hyper — Hyper is an avatar-based social network. We're building the metaverse.
- Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection — Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection is a Web3 digital collection platform that includes encrypted art production, promotion, and collecting, as well as IP permission.
Jarl Mohn is the President and Chief Executive Officer at NPR, one of the country's most iconic news and cultural content organizations. In this capacity, Jarl oversees NPR's strategy to continue NPR's mission to create a more informed public by working in partnership with Member stations across the country. Today NPR contentreaches: 32 million people who visit npr.org every month, 26 million people who listen to NPR programming every week, and listeners who download NPR podcasts 72 million times each month. Jarl's deep media experience has spanned all media platforms as well as rapid changes in audience trends. Jarl spent almost 20 years in radio, many as a disc jockey at stations including WNBC in New York. In addition to his on-air work in radio, Jarl served as a programmer, general manager, and owner of a group of radio stations. Jarl created E! Entertainment Television and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer for almost a decade. Jarl is the former Executive Vice President and General Manager of MTV and VH1 where he architected the strategy of long-form programming at the heart of the network today and diversified the networks' audiences by developing innovative programming around alternative music formats. Jarl was also founding President and Chief Executive Officer at Liberty Digital, a public company that invested in cable networks, the Internet and online businesses. Prior to joining NPR in July of 2014, Jarl served the as a Member of the Board of Trustees at Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) for more than a decade, including two years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Jarl also spent over 12 years on the board of The Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, including six years as its Chairman of the Board of Directors. Jarl has also been a Corporate Director and Advisor to a number of media companies, making direct early stage angel and seed investments in digital media/technology ventures. Since 2008 he has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Scripps Networks Interactive. Jarl and his wife Pamela created The Mohn Family Foundation in 2000. Jarl attended Temple University, where he studied Mathematics and Philosophy.
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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Canada
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- Dack — DACK is the smartest and most complete software solution for optimizing guest experience.
- Lantern — From proactively planning your end-of-life wishes to navigating what to do after experiencing a loss, Lantern has got your back.
- Abstract — Abstract is a software-as-a-service company that is developing a next-generation tool for experts to influence politics and policy.
CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise and consumer startups. Since 1970, the firm has invested in more than 400 startups at their most crucial stages, including DoorDash, Airtable, Patreon, Drift and Iterable. Founders need more than capital to build a great company. It takes a partner who understands the entrepreneurial journey and knows what it takes to win. From founding to IPO and beyond, CRV is there every step of the way. Founders rely on CRV to be trusted, long-term, committed partners, which has helped make CRV into one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the world. Learn more about CRV and the companies shaping the future at https://www.crv.com.
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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
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- Zip — Zip is the new concierge for procurement. Increase employee adoption and get spend and risk under control.
- Cable — Cable Tech develops a financial risk control platform that helps reduce the amount of financial crime. Its platform features automated, independent effectiveness testing and assurance for controls and real-time alerts that help clients manage, track, and demonstrate complete oversight of the controls.
- Demox Labs — Demox Labs develops a decentralized, trustless oracle protocol for the connection of smart contracts to any off-chain data source. The company's data bridge from web2 to web3 unlocks all online data for smart contract development. Demox Labs was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.
David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.
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- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Denmark, Finland
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- Salesroom — Experience the energized sales platform that puts personality first. Where conventional video calls fall flat, Salesroom excites.
- TreesPlease Games — TreesPlease Games develops various computer and online games. The company is headquartered in London.
- Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Israel
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- Smiler — Memorable experiences deserve to be captured in high quality. We make it happen. Valuable memories in high quality, for everyone, everywhere.
- Colonia — Colonia is a logistics company that brings all global trucks and trailers into one shared fleet.
- beams — beams helps you navigate your workday with more focus and less stress
CMEA closed in April of 2015 and has unveiled its new corporate identity as have a vision. As a result, CMEA typically invests in companies that have cutting edge and highly differentiated technology at their core and founding teams of the highest caliber still in place. These are companies that have the potential to transform their industries.CMEA Capital was founded in 1989 and maintains offices in San Francisco and Menlo Park. We invest in both early and late stage science-focused ventures, and leverage a strong network of corporate, investment, and entrepreneurial relationships on behalf of portfolio companies. Our partners and associates have extensive science, engineering, and operational backgrounds, providing us the confidence to look beyond today's technology. We apply our focus on science and teams to our collaborations with entrepreneurs and venture investment partners who are changing the world, one great company at a time.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
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- Jobvite — Jobvite is an applicant tracking software and recruiting platform that helps thousands of companies source, hire, and onboard top talent.
- Cnano Technology — Beijing Cnano Technology Co. Ltd. is dedicated to the production of carbon nanotubes and application of advanced energy that includes the application of lithium battery, conductive plastics, and mechanical structures. It is the Chinese branch of the Cnano Company. On the basis of acquiring the exclusive licensing of a patent from TsinghuaUniversity, in combination with its own internal technological innovation, Cnano Technology has developed a large-batch production technology of carbon nano-tubes. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, Cnano Technology has established advanced research and manufacturing facilities in Beijing, China.
- Sorbent Therapeutics — Sorbent is here to say we salute you, the remarkable individuals who make this country truly great. Because behind every great Australian, there's Sorbent.
Meet K9 Ventures We're a technology-focused micro VC fund based in Palo Alto, California. Learn
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- Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
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- Avoma — Avoma is an AI Meeting Assistant that automatically transcribes, summarizes, and analyzes every meeting to provide actionable Conversation Intelligence.
- Invisible AI — Invisible AI is a visual intelligence platform that works with operators to ensure manufacturing processes are done correctly every time.
- Forethought — Leverage human-centered AI to transform your customer service experience. Resolve cases faster, predict and prioritize tickets, and assist support agents.
Lightbank VC is a $380M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k - $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr (NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social(NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Clearcover, Extend and Expel.
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- E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Blueprint — Blueprint is a digital platform that helps clinicians implement measurement-based care in their practice through automated, personalized assessments to enhance client outcomes.
- AllFly — AllFly is a group air travel platform that allows tour operators, travel agencies, meeting planners, and businesses the ability shop and manage their next group trip, all in one place.
- Bacarai — Ditch the phone call and search group flights from your favorite airlines online, all with a click of a button.
Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.
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- Health Care, Fitness, Wellness
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom, Spain
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- Glacier — Glacier expertise in providing step-by-step innovative solutions that help in carbon reduction from every company globally.
- Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.
- Ohana — Ohana helps you to protect your child in the digital world. Limit screentime, get insights & guidance, block apps & websites and filter inappropriate content.
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