# Top 50 Community Startup Investors in October 2023

## SVA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 56
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

## Lerer Hippeau
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 38
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 38
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

## General Catalyst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 37
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

## Index Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 37
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

## Slow Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 32
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

Slow Ventures is a community built on the collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.

## Gaingels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 32
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

## Greycroft
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 31
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Venture capital and technology investments

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 31
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

## Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

## Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies.Lightspeed Venture Partners invests invarious sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.

## BoxGroup
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

BoxGroup is an early stage investment fund focused on technology companies. Contact Us: hello@boxgroup.com

## BBG Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

BBG Ventures is an early stage fund focused on consumer tech startups with a female founder.

## East Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 28
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.

## Great Oaks Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 27
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

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.

## Primary Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 27
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Early-stage investors in NYC startups like Jet, Chief, Mirror, K Health, Noom, Latch, Alloy, and more.

## First Round Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 27
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.

## HV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 27
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

## Forerunner Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 27
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion

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## Female Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 26
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Internet

Female Founders Fund is a seed stage venture fund that invests exclusively in female-founded companies. We believe strongly in the exponential power of exceptional female talent. We invest in e-commerce, media, platforms, advertising and web-enabled services businesses.

## Kima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

## Felicis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries

## Precursor Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in North America. The firm focuses on investments in B2B and B2C software applications and hardware.
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## Poseidon Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, SaaS

Home of the pioneer cannabis hedge fund, focusing solely on marijuana and hemp.

## Brand Foundry Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness

Brand Foundry Ventures they invest in early-stage companies operating in the consumer and business sectors.

## Spark Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.

## Backstage Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Backstage Capital is a venture capital fund investing in the best startups led by underrepresented founders in the U.S. The firm was founded in 2015 by Arlan Hamilton and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, United States.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## Maveron
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet

Maveron is a consumer-only venture capital firm focused on partnering with world-class entrepreneurs building standout consumer brands.

## New Enterprise Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’slifecycle, from the seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

## Casa Verde Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Cannabis, Health Care, Information Technology

As both the domestic and international markets continue to evolve and mature, Casa Verde maintains a view that cannabis will be among the most compelling investment themes of our generation.

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## UpHonest Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

UpHonest Capital is a sector agnostic early-stage VC based in Silicon Valley. We invest in Seed, Pre-A, and Series A stages and many of our portfolio companies go on to receive later-stage investments from Sequoia, Accel, a16z, and others. We have invested in over 400 portfolio companies including Checkr, Boom, Astranis, Rippling, Turing, etc.  We have an overseas vision and an active innovative ecosystem, which integrates a high-quality entrepreneur community, innovation events, media & communication coverage, and entrepreneurship education.

## Social Starts
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds.

## Blume Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Blume Ventures provides pre-series A and early stage funding to tech-focused/tech-enabled ventures. They are typically the first institutional investors in their portfolio companies and invest for about 8-10 years. They are proponents of a collaborative approach and like to co-invest with like-minded angels and seed funds. They then providefollow-on investments to their stellar portfolio companies.

## Kleiner Perkins
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

## RRE Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Internet

RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that is in it with founders when it matters

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.

## Lightbank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software

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.

## Seedrs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech

Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.

## Strong Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Apps

Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all.

## Canaan Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud,marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health, and medtech.

## Founder Collective
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

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.

## Pipeline Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Education, Software

Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs. Our members serve as the friends and family round for entrepreneurs who may not already have support at that critical stage.

## Freestyle Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Freestyle is an early-stage venture capital firm with investments in over 130 technology companies including Airtable, Intercom, Patreon, and BetterUp.

## GGV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

We believe the talent to build great companies comes from anywhere. A global venture capital firm that invests in local founders. As a multi-stage, sector-focused firm, GGV focuses on seed- to growth-stage investments across Social/Internet, Enterprise Tech, and Smart Tech sectors.

## Goodwater Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burlingame, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

## NextView Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

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