# Top 50 Infrastructure Startup Investors in May 2026

## Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS

From first institutional capital through the long haul, we help forward thinkers realize their visions.

## Benchmark
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet

Benchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. They focus on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Woodside and San Francisco, California. The firm has been recognized for itscommitment to open source and is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The six equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company they back, with no junior investment staff. Current general partners are Matt Cohler, Peter Fenton, Bill Gurley, Mitch Lasky, Eric Vishria, and Scott Belsky. Benchmark has had 37 exits since beginning of 2011; 14 IPOs and 23 M&As representing a total market value of more than $60 billion.Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, Stitch Fix, Elastic and Cyanogen; recent IPOs and acquisitions such as Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, League of Legends, Jasper, OpenTable, New Relic, Hortonworks, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.

## Third Sphere
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Transportation

Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns.

## Initialized Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

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.

## Bain Capital Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that are using tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones. The firm invests from seed to growth in enterprise software, infrastructure software, and industries being transformed by data. Bain Capital Ventures has helped launch and commercialize 200-plus companiessince 2000, including investments in DocuSign, Jet.com, Kiva Systems, LinkedIn, Rapid7, SurveyMonkey, Taleo, and TellApart. Bain Capital Ventures has more than $5.2 billion of assets under management with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Boston.

## Battery Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Battery Ventures is a global investment firm that focuses on technology. Battery invests in potentially, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies.

## Threshold
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies.
Threshold was founded in 2019 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

## Seedcamp
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.

## Partech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

## Digital Currency Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

## Intel Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Intel Capital is uniquely positioned to help build the companies of tomorrow. Our investment team is backed with deep domain knowledge and the resources of Intel to assist companies in their paths to success.

## Serra Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Champaign, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Analytics

Serra Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in Seed, Seed Plus and Series A tech companies primarily in the U.S.

## Flybridge
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Flybridge is a Seed-stage venture capital firm based in Boston and New York City. We are excited to invest in companies and entrepreneurs who share our vision for the power of community across a range of sectors.

## Headline
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Baseline Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jackson, Wyoming, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

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)

## Matrix Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS

We're an early stage VC firm that leads pre-seed through Series A rounds and works with founders to help them win.

## Builders VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology

Builders VC is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing where technology meets new business models to modernize antiquated industries including healthcare, agriculture, industrials and real-estate.

## SVA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS

North Bridge provides seed-to-growth stage funding for businesses in several sectors such as software, communications and infrastructure, digital media, healthcare, and material production.North Bridge Venture Partners invests in exceptional people whose ideas have the potential to disrupt the way they live and work. They provide seed-to-growthfinancing to help transform those ideas into companies and those companies into market leaders.

## Forward Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Forward Venture Capital is a Venture Capital fund that invests in early-stage companies in the US and Europe. We support early stage entrepreneurs and help them accelerate their growth.

## Divergent Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

We have participated in all stages of venture investing. Our preferred initial investment point is in the first professional round. We will consider seed stage investments and we reserve capital for participating in follow on rounds. Our themes are around Big Data, Data Driven Applications, Storage, and Cloud Infrastructure: We have over 30 yearsof experience building products and services and investing in companies that provide the technical building blocks that todayâ€:tm:s networks and information systems are built upon. Early Stage investing is well served by being accessible and available. We have found that time zones make it much more difficult to deliver on the promise of close involvement. We have successfully invested across the country, but are focusing our current efforts on the west coast. The Managing Directors are Kevin Ober, Rob Shurtleff, and Todd Warren--highly experienced and successful early-stage investors. The firm invests in early-stage companies. Our experience has taught us the importance of being closely involved with the companies we invest in, partnering with management to help overcome the many challenges faced by early-stage companies. In addition to investment capital, we actively work with our portfolio company management teams and potitial investment management teams to refine their plans, introduce them to potential customers, employees and investors.

## Golden Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.

## Vertex Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Vertex US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software.

## Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Amadeus Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Amadeus Capital Partners, Venture Capital For Technology Companies. We Back Entreprenuers To Win. Contact Our Experienced Team Of Investors Today

## Goldman Sachs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series C, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.

## InterWest Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

InterWest invests an average of about $7 - 15 million over the span of their involvement with each company in their portfolio. They invest in companies through the full range of venture investment stages, and investments may be staged over several rounds of financing. Although they generally begin their involvement in the early stages of acompany's development, they pursue attractive opportunities based on their individual merits rather than their investment stage.

## Hyperplane
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Hyperplane Venture Capital is an investment firm focused on exceptional founders building machine intelligence and data companies. They partner with exceptional founders who are leveraging machine intelligence, sensor technology, and cloud computing to solve the world’s hardest problems uncovering the underlying structure for each problem andcreating solutions at the nexus of perception, communication, intelligence, and insight.The company was founded by Vivjan Myrto, John Murphy and Brendan Kohler in 2015; and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

## Intersouth Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Durham, North Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

Intersouth Partners is one of the most active and experienced venture funds in the Southeast, having invested in more than 100 private companies over the last three decades. Founded in 1985, Intersouth manages $780 million in seven venture capital limited partnerships, making it the largest venture capital fund in North Carolina and one of thelargest in the Southeast.

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Wharton Alumni Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Founded in 2016, Wharton Alumni Angels is an active angel investment group composed of University of Pennsylvania alumni and non-Penn alumni who have joined our community. Our members are entrepreneurs, and senior business executives, and institutional investors with a global reach. Our members are located on every continent and invest in startups worldwide.

## A.Capital Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

a_capital provides resources and counsel to the creators, inventors and entrepreneurs, who are building a new future.

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Scottish Equity Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Energy, Information Technology

Here at SEP we specialise in investment for high growth companies across a range of technology sectors. Partnering with you to fuel growth.

## New Enterprise Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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 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.

## CMT Digital Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

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CMT Digital is a blockchain and digital assets focused subsidiary of the CMT Group, a 24 year-old trading and investments firm. The CMT Group has operated as a valued partner to entrepreneurs, traders, and technologists

## Meritus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, Kentucky, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Infrastructure, Mining, Mobile

Meritus Ventures, L.P. (Meritus) is a $36.4 million venture capital fund formed to make equity investments in private, expansion-stage companies in predominantly rural areas in central and southern Appalachia. In addition, Meritus can provide operational assistance to portfolio companies and prospective portfolio companies. The Fund makesinvestments in small companies in Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, and the Appalachian counties of Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.

## Vertex Ventures Israel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

We partner early with global-minded entrepreneurs seeking to disrupt large markets

## Stout Street Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Colorado Venture capital firm with a focus on early-stage technology companies innovating in software, fin tech, advanced materials, robotics, and AI.

## Elaia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Elaia is French venture capital firm focused on European digital and deep tech startups, from early stage to growth developpement. We back tech disruptors.

## Promus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Investing in early-stage deep-tech software/hardware companies run by visionary and tenacious founding teams.

## DCVC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

We are deep tech venture capital.

## Fuel Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burlingame, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Fuel Capital is a seed stage venture capital firm investing in consumer, SaaS and infrastructure businesses.

## Illinois Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology

Return-focused venture capital investing dedicated to life science and tech innovation

## Coinbase Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

## NYC Seed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

NYC Seed is a New York City-based seed venture capital firm. It is a partnership between has currently over $2,000,000 in funds. NYC Seed was 

## Viola Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Viola Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in Israeli or Israeli-related early-stage techology companies, in key market segments including FinTech, Consumer, Enterprise Infrastructure & Applications, Frontier & Deep Technologies (automotive, IOT, AR/VR, drones), Robotics and AgTech.

## Galaxy Digital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals shape a changing economy.

## EPIC Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

EPIC Ventures is a premier early stage software and Internet infrastructure venture firm whose mission is to back entrepreneurs and companies positioned to lead the information economy of tomorrow. We bring the collective operational and financial experience of our partnership, our world class advisors, and our extensive network of technologyindustry contacts to engage and ensure our portfolio's success.Strategically located in Salt Lake City, we're never more than a short flight from any of the geographies we invest in.

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