# Top 50 Gaming VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United States in May 2026

## AF Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 47
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Snack Food

AF Ventures (formerly AccelFoods) is a venture capital fund investing in high-growth consumer product companies. Founded in 2014, AF Ventures has carved out a new space in the consumer industry, identifying challengers with strong fundamentals and providing the financing and resources needed to crea

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 42
- 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.

## BITKRAFT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 40
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain

We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming, esports, and interactive media.

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 34
- 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.

## CircleUp
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 33
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, E-Commerce

Learn more about CircleUp Growth Partners, what we look for in early-stage consumer brands, and the brands we have funded. 

## Greycroft
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 32
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Venture capital and technology investments

## Gaingels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 31
- 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.

## Collaborative Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 30
- 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.

## Lerer Hippeau
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 30
- 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

## Courtside Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- 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.

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- 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.

## SVA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- 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.

## Blue Horizon Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 28
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology

Our mission is to accelerate the transition to a new Sustainable Food System that delivers outstanding returns for investors and the planet.

## Great Oaks Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 28
- 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.

## 1Up Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kirkland, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Online Games

1Up Ventures is an investment firm that specializes in game developers. The company is based in Kirkland, Washington.

## 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.

## Upfront Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. We invest in technology businesses across digital media, SaaS, consumer internet and retail innovation.

## Galaxy Interactive
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games

Play the Future. Galaxy Interactive is a leading sector-focused VC investing in interactive entertainment, at the intersection of content, social, finance and technology.

## First Round Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- 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.

## S2G Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Biotechnology

S2G Ventures is is a multi-stage venture fund investing in food and agriculture.  We're harnessing the power of food innovation to create better outcomes for people and the planet.

## Makers Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Online Games

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.

## Khosla Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- 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.

## General Catalyst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

## Casa Verde Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- 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.

## Clear Current Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vero Beach, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Manufacturing

Proprietary deal flow and valuable strategic partners. Focus investments in the plant based food/clean meat space at Seed/Series A level. Social impact with focus on ROI. Initial capital close 2/15/18. Fund I is now closed to new investors. Fund II held first close on 4/15/21 and is open to new investors.

## BoxGroup
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- 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

## Animoca Brands
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

## M13
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- 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.

## True Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- 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.

## Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 19
- 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.

## Griffin Gaming Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain

Griffin Gaming Partners is a leading venture capital firm singularly focused on investing in the global gaming market.

## Advancit Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Norwood, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Digital Media, Media and Entertainment, Software

Advancit Capital is a venture firm investing in media, technology and web3 startups. We partner with best-in-class entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading companies.

## LVP
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Mobile

LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- 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.

## Stray Dog Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leawood, Kansas, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Consumer Goods

Investing in a healthier, humane, and more sustainable future.

## Initialized Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the seed. Initialized has 6 investing partners and over $3.2B under management over five core funds since its founding in 2012. The firm's startups have created in aggregate over $200B in market value so far.

## Maveron
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- 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.

## Bluestein Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Biotechnology

Bluestein Ventures: we invest in the future of food. We look for game-changing, early-stage ventures across the food industry.

## CAVU Consumer Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Food Processing

CAVU Consumer Partners builds brands for a healthier world. We exist to democratize healthy living for all humans.

## Kleiner Perkins
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- 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.

## 10X Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech

10X invests across the capital structure, alongside the world's top technology investors. They align Wall Street and Silicon Valley by bringing institutional capital to high growth ventures in private and public markets, helping founders and investors achieve scale and liquidity while retaining upside and control.10X was founded in 2004 andis based in New York.

## BAM Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet

BAM Ventures is an early-stage consumer-focused fund based in Los Angeles, CA.

## Max Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software

Max Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in consumer tech and health-tech companies. Max Ventures primarily invests in digital commerce, digital media, fintech, and digital Health.
It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.

## UpHonest Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- 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.

## CRCM
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

CRCM Ventures backs ambitious early-stage companies, setting the stage for emerging technologies. Since 2004, we have invested in over 200+ companies resulting in 5 IPOS and 18 exits. Our 2004 and 2012 vintage funds were ranked 4th and 1st respectively in Preqin Top Performing Early Stage VC Funds. Our portfolio companies include Youku (NYSE: YOKUacquired by Alibaba), Musical.ly, (acquired by Toutiao), This is L (acquired by Proctor Gamble), Orbeus (acquired by Amazon), E-house (NYSE: EJ), Allyes (acquired by Focus Media), Ripple Labs, Turning Point Therapeutics ( NASDAQ: TPTX ), etc.

## New Crop Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Nutrition

Disruptive start-ups to global companies, we fund impact investing opportunities aligned with our vision for a well-fed, sustainable world.

## Bessemer Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

For the entrepreneurs who want to create revolutions of their own.

## Slow Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- 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.

## Craft Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to the craft of building great companies. Craft has brought together a rare combination of entrepreneurial experience and investor acumen. Over the past twenty years,  David, Bill, Jeff and Sky have built and invested in some of the most iconic companies of this generation.

## Crosscut Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Crosscut is a venture capital firm in Los Angeles. We partner with early-stage founders to build extraordinary technology companies from Seed to Series A.

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