# Top 50 Hospitality VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United States in May 2026 ## 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. ## Tamarisc Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Hospitality, Information Technology Tamarisc invests in and helps build companies that improve the human habitat through innovating at the intersection of real estate, health, and technology. ## Thayer Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Travel, Software, Hospitality Thayer Ventures (Thayer) invests in technology companies with a focus on the travel industry. This industry represent more than $10 trillion in annual global economic activity, is thriving with entrepreneurial activity due to disruptive changes within the sector that began more than a decade ago. Recent consumer trends have accelerated thisdisruption for operators across the travel world, creating unprecedented opportunities for technology providers to make significant inroads into what was previously a closed market. Additionally, travel industry suppliers are dealing with massive shifts in travel planning, organizing and booking driven by the Internet and social media platforms. As a result, the travel industry is being forced to rapidly deploy new technologies in order to exploit the opportunities created by this shifting consumer behavior. The combination of these factors has created a unique environment for innovative technology providers to make significant inroads into this massive, growing, and evolving marketplace. ## Maine Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Portland, Maine, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology Maine Angels they make investments with entrepreneurs with an emphasis on businesses. ## Founders Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - 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. ## Lerer Hippeau - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - 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 ## Rainfall Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce Rainfall Ventures is an early-stage investor founded in 2011 and committed to partnering with world-class founders to help them change industries. ## 10x Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology 10x Group is a group of serial entrepreneurs and founders investing in founders of digital start-ups in Europe and Silicon Valley. ## Bullpen Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile Bullpen is a venture capital fund that invests post-seed capital into early stage companies. ## NextView Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce The Future is Coming ## Zelkova Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Zelkova Ventures is a venture capital firm committed to helping entrepreneurs build companies. The firm primarily looks to invest in early stage companies, many times pre-revenue. In many instances they provide a company's first outside/institutional capital. They look to take an active role and partner with the companies they investin. Along with their capital, Zelkova brings expertise, insight and execution to all of their portfolio companies.Zelkova, although not exclusively, focuses on several key sectors - Software Services, Internet Technologies, Environmental Technologies and Consumer Products. ## Gaingels - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - 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. ## Acrew Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech Defining the future of venture. ## Trinity Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - 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. ## Streamlined Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Streamlined Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm. We invest in visionary founders who are building the next generation of transformational technology companies. ## Golden Seeds - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology Golden Seeds is a seed-stage investment firm with a focus on women leaders. Their investment thesis rests on the extensive research that concludes that gender-diverse teams produce a better return on equity. By seeking companies where women hold leadership positions and own substantial equity, they are funding companies that are likely to havediverse perspectives that will contribute to success. ## SVA - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - 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. ## GMO VenturePartners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it. ## Correlation Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Reimagining our industry. So our clients can disrupt theirs. ## RRE Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - 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 ## Resolute Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Our Mission is to build a community of Resolute Founders who: share a certain entrepreneurial spirit and energy; are driven by a need to work on things that matter; are unafraid to dream big; are founders whom we think have a better chance than most to actually achieve those dreams; and who believe being connected to a group of like-minded founders will help them succeed. ## Highland Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet Founded in 1988, Highland Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm focused on putting the entrepreneur first.With offices in Silicon Valley, Boston and Shanghai, Highland has raised over $3 billion in committed capital and invested in more than 225 companies, resulting in category-defining businesses across consumer and enterprisetechnology.Investments include 2U, Ask Jeeves, Bromium, Gigamon, Leap Motion, LevelUp, Lycos, MapQuest, Nebula, QD Vision, Qihoo 360, Quattro Wireless, RentJuice, Rent the Runway, Starent Networks, Sybase, Violin Memory, VistaPrint and WePay.Highland also serves as a mentor for future entrepreneurs through Summer@Highland, a program that provides students and university-affiliated startups with the environment and resources to take their initiative to the next level. ## TELUS Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series C, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology TELUS Ventures strives to seamlessly connect millions of people, companies, and communities by strategically investing in the most advanced and innovative solutions that have the potential to drive significant growth, impact and scale and are strategically aligned to the broader TELUS mandate. ## MATH Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, Information Technology Here at Math Venture Partners, we partner with founding teams to take their vision further and grow with greater certainty. ## FundersClub - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab.FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more;FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States. ## Spark Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Draper Associates - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Mateo, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul. ## Great Oaks Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Greylock - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter. ## Camber Creek - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Real Estate, SaaS Camber Creek contributes in a direct and significant way to the success of its portfolio companies by leveraging the real estate expertise, operating experience and portfolio of assets of its partners, investors, and advisors. Camber Creek's investment team has investing, operating, and technology experience and expertise across a range ofreal estate businesses, including construction, property management, development, and leasing. Camber Creek's investors own, operate and manage over 150 million square feet of real estate in the U.S., giving us a unique competitive advantage as an investor and value-added partner in the real estate technology space. ## Signatures Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Redwood Shores, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics For 25 years, Signatures Capital founder Bobby Yazdani has been funding early stage technology businesses and collaborating with entrepreneurs and leadership teams to help build world-changing companies.Signatures Capital has built relationships at major research universities, government laboratories and incubators, as well as cultivated anextensive network of entrepreneurs across the technology industry. Through its relationships, Signatures Capital gains specialized access that allows them to identify and capitalize on transformative technology themes before they become mainstream. Their goal is to partner with founders who recognize these shifts and then steward those boldly building the future.Bobby began investing privately in 1989. In 2006, he formalized his activities by founding Signatures Capital. ## 1Sharpe Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Piedmont, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Hospitality, Real Estate, Software 1Sharpe Ventures early-stage teams building scalable, category-defining businesses that transform how we experience, own, and invest in real estate. ## Craft Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Pritzker Group Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS Helping entrepreneurs achieve greatness ## 1517 Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care 1517 Fund is an early stage venture capital fund that supports teams led by dropouts, deep-tech scientists & founders working outside of tracked institutions. ## Gordon Food Service - Type: VC Fund - Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Hospitality, Restaurants, Big Data Gordon Food Service is a prominent family-owned food distributor in Grand Rapids, MI, serving restaurants, healthcare, and schools. ## BoxGroup - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - 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 ## Initialized Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Convivialite Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Marketplace Created in 2017, Convivialité Ventures, is the venture arm of Pernod Ricard and is based in San Francisco . By nurturing entrepreneurship, Convivialité plays a key role in the development of innovative and inspiring new offerings that not only embrace, but also shape, the future evolution of socializing. ## Zeno Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet Zeno Ventures invests in early stage technology enabled companies addressing consumer and enterprise markets. Zeno Ventures likes to back exceptional entrepreneurs before their businesses have scaled and often even before their business models are formed. Zeno Ventures seeks to partner with talented and passionate founders solving difficultproblems that were illuminated by their personal experience. ## Andreessen Horowitz - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Formation 8 - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics Formation 8 is a venture capital firm that provides financial and strategic capital to early growth smart enterprise and energy technology companies. They support entrepreneurs who seek to transform the most important global industries by solving hard problems with technology solutions. Partnership is in their DNA. Formation 8 value trustedrelationships with entrepreneurs, investors, and strategic partners through their global network.As a partner to young companies, Formation 8's goal is to create long-term, sustainable value through operational expertise and business development partnerships. Formation 8 leverage their deep and distributed networks to provide the market knowledge, deployment expertise, sales channels, and relationships needed to expand into and thrive in Asia. With local teams in Korea, China and Singapore, Formation 8 connect Silicon Valley start-ups to dynamic multinational corporations in these geographies. ## Gambit Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Convertible Note, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Big Data, Machine Learning Early Stage Venture Fund in New York City ## Upfront Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Greycroft - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet Venture capital and technology investments ## Rally Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology We unite a thriving ecosystem of emerging business technology. ## The Graduate Syndicate - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet The Graduate Syndicate is led by Jeff Bussgang, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School (HBS) and co-founder and general partner, Flybridge Capital Partners. They invest in pre-seed and seed stage startups led by recent graduates of Harvard, primarily HBS. In recent years, entrepreneurship has grown tremendously on campus and many valuablecompanies have been created by recent graduates. Their goal is to bring investors, students, graduates, and friends of Harvard together to build successful, impactful and sustainable companies ## Elevate Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Portland, Oregon, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS Elevate Capital is a Portland venture capital firm that supports underserved entrpreneurs by providing seed capital funding and close mentorship. ## ACME Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology ACME is a venture capital firm investing in iconic founders disrupting massive markets. ## Avalon Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: La Jolla, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology Avalon Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund focused on information technology and life sciences. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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