# Top 50 Fitness Startup Investors in May 2026

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 14
- 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.

## Khosla Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.

## Courtside Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Sports, Fitness

Courtside Ventures is the leading early-stage fund focused on Sports, Lifestyle, and Gaming. We invest in passionate entrepreneurs.

## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Software

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.

## Atlantic Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures.&nbsp;<br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- 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.

## Collaborative Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Software

Collab Fund is a leading source of capital for entrepreneurs pushing the world forward.

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

## Founder Collective
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## First Round Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## General Catalyst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

## Kleiner Perkins
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## Gaingels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## Fireside Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Fireside Ventures is proposing a New Approach to Investing in Consumer Brands. Fireside Ventures invests in early stage consumer brands.

## StartUp Health
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Medical

Organizing and investing in a global army of entrepreneurs committed to achieving health moonshots

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Rock Health Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical

We invest in remarkable entrepreneurs working at the intersection of healthcare and technology.

## Passion Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Passion Capital is an early stage venture capital firm based in London.

## Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech

Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created ​by founders for founders​ to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

## George Godula
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile

Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments.
Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO)

## Bpifrance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France.

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## Trinity Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS

Trinity Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with passionate entrepreneurs to transform revolutionary ideas into reality. With over $1 billion under management, Trinity Ventures believes in personal engagement, mutual respect and goal alignment with the entrepreneurs. Trinity focuses on early stage and seedtechnology investments with particular emphasis on social commerce and entertainment, digital media, Saas, and cloud and infrastructure. Trinity Ventures has invested in such leading companies as Aruba Networks, 21Vianet, Blue Nile, LoopNet, Photobucket, SciQuest, Starbucks, BeachMint, Infoblox, Trion Worlds and Zulily.

## HealthTech Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Altos Hills, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Private angel investors and corporate venture ecosystem investing in healthtech, digital health and other healthcare technologies startups

## Boost VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Blockchain

Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.

## Business Growth Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

BGF invests in hundreds of businesses from an evergreen balance sheet. But we offer more than just growth capital. Find out what makes us different.

## True Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.

## City Light Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Wellness

City Light is a venture capital firm that invest in impactful companies in the areas of education, safety and care, and the environment.

## Wei Guo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

## Secocha Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Internet, Software

Secocha Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage startups.

## IBB Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

IBB Ventures is a venture capital and mezzanine arm of Investitionsbank Berlin specializing in seed/startup, early venture, and mid venture investments. The firm invests in technology-oriented companies and companies from the creative industries. It typically invests in information and communication sector with a focus on hardware andsoftware, network technology, new media, and internet and mobile technologies; life science sector with a focus on biotechnology and media technology; and industrial technologies sector with a focus on software, PPS, supply chain management, micro and nanotechnology, environmental and power technology, automation, manufacturing technology, transport technology and logistics, and new materials. The firm also invests in movies, broadcast, television, publisher, music, entertainment, advertising, fashion, design, architecture, multimedia, games, software, and art and culture. It invests in companies based in Berlin. It typically invests between €0.25 million ($0.32 million) and €3 million ($3.83 million) per transaction. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. IBB Ventures was founded in 1997 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

## Compound
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

A thesis-driven, research-centric investment firm.

## Unlock Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Machine Learning

Unlock Venture Partners | By entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs.

## F-Prime Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

F-Prime Capital is a global venture capital firm investing in healthcare and technology, with a heritage that spans four decades.

## New Enterprise Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Technogym
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Apps

Technogym, the leading designer of gym equipment & fitness solutions trusted by thousands of gyms, fitness centres and home owners around the world

## Inventure
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.

## Triventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Triventures is a global, early stage fund that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs. We partner with disruptive ventures with innovative breakthroughs in healthcare and beyond. Our vision is to create a better, healthier future through data driven solutions and cross industry convergence.

## Mercia Fund Managers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

## Scrum Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Information Technology

Scrum Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that has invested in over 80 startups across a range of industries in the U.S. and Japan. Based in San Francisco with extensive experience and networks in both Silicon Valley and Japan, Scrum Ventures accelerates portfolio companies with global opportunities. Scrum Studios is reinventing the traditional accelerator -- taking a stage-agnostic approach in connecting best-in-class startups with leading Japanese corporations.

## SVA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

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.

## Flying Fox Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Flying Fox Ventures is an early stage investment firm that invests across industry and across the micro-stages of pre-seed and seed.

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

## Launchpad Digital Health
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Software

Launchpad Digital Health partners with the best digital health entrepreneurs at an early stage to build companies that improve care, lower costs, and increase patient convenience.We provide significant capital to our digital health companies. Investments from LDH are up to $1M in the seed round and $2-3M in the A&B rounds. LDH is looking fordigital health companies ready to scale businesses focusing on healthy living, wellness, patient compliance, remote diagnostics and monitoring, electronic health and wellness records, data analytical tools and big data, and independent living support.The founders of Launchpad Digital Health have funded and operated a myriad of companies throughout the healthcare and technology sectors, including digital health companies, for the past two decades.

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## iSeed Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Fitness

iSeed is an early-stage investment company. They focus on consumer mobile technology with a keen interest in healthcare. iSeed is committed to partnering with the next generation of technology startups to grow a lasting and impactful company.

## M13
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

M13 is an early-stage consumer tech venture capital firm. Our founding teams execute better by accessing our full-time operating partners, resources, and network.

## Hatzimemos / Libby
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Financial Services

H/L Ventures helps mission-driven founders build inspiring, valuable companies from inception to exit.

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