Top 50 LGBT Startup Investors in United States in October 2023
Top 50 LGBT Startup Investors in United States in October 2023
| Investor | LGBT United States investments |
|---|---|
| Gaingels | 3 |
| Andy Dunn | 2 |
| Amanda Bradford | 2 |
| Define Ventures | 2 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 2 |
| XFactor Ventures | 2 |
| Nisha Dua | 2 |
| U-Start | 2 |
| Slow Ventures | 1 |
| Hopelab | 1 |
| Great Oaks Venture Capital | 1 |
| General Catalyst | 1 |
| Marten Mickos | 1 |
| Wefunder | 1 |
| AngelVest | 1 |
| Ventech China | 1 |
| MicroVentures | 1 |
| Female Founders Fund | 1 |
| Silvia Mah | 1 |
| Moai Capital | 1 |
| Antoine Blondeau | 1 |
| Philippe von Borries | 1 |
| TiE Angels | 1 |
| Flatiron Partners | 1 |
| Audrey Gelman | 1 |
| Lorenzo Thione | 1 |
| Project A Ventures | 1 |
| Backstage Capital | 1 |
| Debut Capital | 1 |
| Elevate Capital | 1 |
| Michelle Kennedy | 1 |
| OnLine Partners | 1 |
| David Chang | 1 |
| Craft Ventures | 1 |
| Albert Lee | 1 |
| Baroda Ventures | 1 |
| Chelsea Clinton | 1 |
| Mark Suster | 1 |
| Town Hall Ventures | 1 |
| SeedInvest | 1 |
| Tusk Venture Partners | 1 |
| Chiratae Ventures | 1 |
| Chase Capital Partners | 1 |
| Angelsquare | 1 |
| Springbank Collective | 1 |
| 10X Capital | 1 |
| Sam Altman | 1 |
| Alpaca VC | 1 |
| Shinji Kimura | 1 |
| Macluan Digital Partners | 1 |
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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.
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- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
- Paxton AI — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
- Atropos Health — Atropos Health rapidly provides personalized real-world evidence for any clinical decision
Andy Dunn is co-founder and CEO of Bonobos, an apparel brand renowned for exceptional fit, high energy and great customer experience. Launched in 2007, Bonobos is now the largest apparel brand in the United States ever launched over the web. Previously, Dunn worked as a private equity analyst at Wind Point Partners and as a consultant at Bain& Company. He is a founding board member of education social enterprise Blue Engine and the founder of Red Swan Ventures, an angel investment firm.
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- E-Commerce, Wellness, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Varos — Join hundreds of DTC brands anonymously crowdsourcing CACs and other marketing KPIs to see how you compare in real time. It takes 2 minutes to sign up.
- Ours — High quality, virtual couples therapy
- Kabata — Full workout comprehension. Data-driven coaching. Gamified progression. Welcome to the next generation in connected fitness.
Amanda Bradford is the founder of The League, an exclusive dating app that matches smart, busy, and ambitious people together. The goal was to create power couples by matching up highly motivated single professionals. She raised $2.1 million in seed funding in January 2015. Amanda studied at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, and worked for SequoiaCapital, Salesforce, and Google before launching The League.After graduating from Carnegie Mellon with a degree in Information Systems, Amanda joined Salesforce as a Sales Engineer. In 2010 she joined Google, where she worked as a product specialist on the DoubleClick team and then moved into New Business Development where she led partnership efforts around the commercialization of Google's BIg Data Infrastructure-as-a-service offerings. Amanda graduated with an MBA frp, Stanford Graduate School of Business and is interested in enterprise saas companies, big-data applications, and e-commerce.In 2014 she founded The League, a new dating app.
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- LGBT, Dating, Social
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
With unparalleled change, comes unprecedented opportunity. Define Ventures focuses on investing in early stage digital health companies that will redefine healthcare.
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- Health Care, Medical, Wellness
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- DexCare — DexCare is an Access Optimization Platform that intelligently orchestrates health system capacity and digital demand across all lines of business.
- Crescendo Health — Crescendo Health is an innovative digital health company that is transforming the way patient health data is collected and used to advance clinical research. Leveraging many of the same transformative technologies that have revolutionized patient care, Crescendo Health builds relationships with patients by garnering consent to collect healthinformation on their behalf, then curates the data for trial sponsors to have a more comprehensive and longitudinal view of patient health. Founded by veteran healthcare executives from Datavant and Grand Rounds, the Crescendo Health team includes leaders from across research, technology, academic and provider communities.
- Intrinsic — Intrinsic is an eCommerce acquisition and growth platform, uniquely focused on digital-first health and wellness brands. The Company is led by consumer health experts with deep experience in building and growing CPG brands across all online and offline channels, with special expertise on Amazon.
For the entrepreneurs who want to create revolutions of their own.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Israel, India
Portfolio highlights
- Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
- Plenful — Plenful increases efficiency, ROI, and data accuracy around manual, administrative healthcare operational workflows.
- Farther Finance — Everything we do is to help you grow and protect your wealth. We strive to expand your choices and remove obstacles to building the life you want to live.
XFactor Ventures is focused on making pre-seed and seed stage investments in companies with billion dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder.
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- Software, Wellness, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Give InKind — Set up a Give InKind Page to coordinate support from anywhere. Create a Care Calendar, add items to your Wishlist and connect your Crowdfunding - all for free.
- Hyfé — Hyfé Foods is a biotech company producing ingredients by leveraging fungal fermentation to upcycle water byproducts from food manufacturers.
- Pow.bio — Pow.bio provides fermentation services for synthetic biology.
Nisha Dua is Co-founder & Managing Partner at BBG Ventures, which she co-founded with Susan Lyne in 2014. BBGV is an NYC-based, early-stage fund leading investments in companies built by underestimated founders that are transforming our collective and lived experiences. BBGV invests across Sustainable and Transparent Commerce, Underestimated& Emerging Consumers, Health & Wellbeing, The Evolving Workforce, and Next Gen Communities. At BBGV Nisha has invested in over 70 start-ups including The Wing, Zola, Pymetrics, KiwiCo, Spring Health, Future Family and Winky Lux. Most recently, BBGV launched Fund III and led investments in Planet FWD, RadSwan, Thousand Fell, Oova, and Starface.Nisha has spent the last decade working in media, tech, strategy and law. She was the General Manager of AOL’s millennial site, Cambio, which she re-launched as a site “for girls, #BUILTBYGIRLS” in partnership with Girls Who Code. She then founded BUILT BY GIRLS, a software platform which connects girls and non-binary talent with professionals to prepare the next generation of leaders to step into careers powered by technology. Nisha was previously Chief of Staff for the AOL Brand Group, working on strategy, operations and special projects. She cut her teeth as a management consultant for Bain & Company and an M&A lawyer at Australian law firm Blake Dawson. Nisha acts as an advisor to numerous start-ups outside her role as an investor.
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- Health Care, Wellness, Cosmetics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Diem — 8,346 Followers, 1,333 Following, 1,194 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Diem (@askdiem)
- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
- Millie — Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there.
U-Start is a professional advisory firm structuring deals with private investors, investing in tech companies across Europe, Israel and US.
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- E-Commerce, Travel, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dott — Dott offers dock-less, shared electrical scooters, and bikes as alternatives for short-distance travel.The company is a micro-mobility European start-up, gathering the most experienced team in mobility and tech in Europe. We recently raised an initial investment of €20 million, co-led by EQT Ventures and Naspers. Dott is headquartered inAmsterdam and is gathering the most experienced team in mobility and tech in Europe.
- Keatz — Keatz is a network of restaurants that provide contemporary dishes for delivery. Keatz delivers food with a fusion of indulgence and comfort without compromise. The company creates ideal recipes, process, and packaging for the possible quality and the meals will arrive at peoples doors with the same quality that leaves the kitchen. Its culinaryteam is always on the lookout for upcoming culinary trends and techniques to bring to neighbourhoods.Keatz was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
- TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.
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.
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- Software, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Gleen AI — Delight your customers. Get Gleen, the world's most accurate & capable generative AI-based chatbot. Trustworthy answers. Automatic actions. Unify knowledge.
- Teamshares — One hundred percent close rate on LOIs. Committed capital with no financing contingency. Teamshares is the buyer of choice for your business listing. Request a buyer profile to learn more about us.
- Metropolis — Metropolis unites technology and operations to make parking remarkable.
Hopelab is a social innovation lab and impact investor advancing entrepreneurs, research, digital health, and solutions that support and empower young people, especially those from historically underserved communities. The organization works to remove systemic barriers to youth mental health and emotional well-being through targeted social impact investments, hands-on design and research support for digital innovation, and translational science partnerships.
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- Health Care, Wellness, Fitness
- Seed, Series C, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
- Caraway — Caraway is a digital healthcare company for women+ in college that provides integrated physical, reproductive and mental healthcare services.
- Hazel Health — Hazel works with schools to deliver high-quality mental and physical 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.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Leverage — Answering the Fundamental Question: "Where
- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
- Dashy Dash — Dashy Dash is a free community powered tool that makes it easy to manage invoices, discover new products & compare prices to help you save money.
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Evvy — Evvy is for people with vaginas who want to be empowered with information about their microbiome. Their mission is to close the gender health gap by discovering and leveraging overlooked biomarkers in the female body — starting with the vaginal microbiome.
- QuriousBit — QuriousBit is a gaming studio that develops casual puzzle games for mobile platforms.
- Cartwheel — Cartwheel provides multi-tiered, evidenced-based mental health support from licensed clinicians, designed around your entire school community.
Marten Mickos is the CEO of HackerOne, Inc. the leading vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform. Previously Marten was the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, acquired by Hewlett-Packard where he served as head of the cloud business. As the CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 to 2008, Marten grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largestopen source company in the world. Marten holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in his native Finland.
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- Software, Internet, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Finland, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- BrandBastion — The #1 choice for ad spenders and top brands. We provide 24/7 support by engaging with customers, removing harmful comments, and alerting you about issues.
- Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
- ArcticStartup — ArcticStartup is helping to build communities with uncapped opportunities through media, events, PR and consulting since 2007.Launched in 2007 by Antti Vilpponen and Miikka Kukkosuo as founding writers and getting out two-three articles a week, ArcticStartup quickly started gaining traction. In 2008 Ville Vesterinen and Karri Saarinen joinedthe founding team and ArcticStartup launched its own that were at first held in a small bar of Dubrovnik in Helsinki. Both the media and events started going international in 2009, expanding to the neighbouring Nordics & Baltics. This growth continued until 2012, when the company nearly shut-down as the founders wanted to move-on to other projects. At that point Dmitri Sarle and Greg Anderson took over the company and re-founded ArcticStartup with Jan Ameri joining very shortly.
Wefunder is a crowd investing platform that offers capital raising services. The company's online platform offers investment services to startups through its investors' userbase and disruptive companies can receive amount as small as hundred dollars, enabling companies to grow and develop their businesses.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- United States, Israel, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
- Sensate — Wearable technology using science to help you relax, reduce stress and anxiety and improve your mental health. Learn more about Sensate and our mission.
- Terraseed — Terraseed is the most sustainable and complete vegan vitamin, featuring 9 ethically-sourced nutrients in a fully compostable bottle.
- Savvos Health — Savvos Health is a marketplace of affordable cash prices for shoppable medical care, including imaging, outpatient surgery, labs, and more.
Angel Vest Group are are a group of 100+ active Angel investors who invest and provide mentorship for startups. Apply for Funding or Become a Member today.
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- Apps, LGBT, EdTech
- Seed, Series A
- China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vericant — Founded in 2011, Vericant is a widely trusted third-party in-person and remote interview service.
- misterb&b — Be welcomed in 1 million LGBTQ+ friendly accommodations in 200 countries. Find gay rooms, travel safely & get useful gay local tips. Secure payment & 24/7 assistance.
- The CareVoice — The CareVoice is a Shanghai-based international company established in 2014, backed by top VC, Asian and Chinese healthcare investors. It is a health InsurTech company transforming healthcare experience to be more consumer-centric. They bring unique mobile-based and data-driven solutions that digitalize healthcare and insurance journey withconsumers' interest first.
Ventech Capital was founded in 1998 in France. Ventech is one of the most famous VC funds in Europe and manages four funds. In China, Ventech China manages three funds. Globally, this represents more than USD 1B total asset under management. Ventech China is based in Shanghai. Ventech China 3 is a USD 220 million venture capital fund focused oncommunities, M-commerce, Big Data and Fintech. Its current portfolio companies include Keep, the No.1 fitness training and community app in China, WonderFull, the emerging Japanese product M-commerce platform, Juzi, the leading entertainment news platform, Datawin, the leading big data company in sales leads generation, and Blued, the No.1 gay community app in China. Ventech China is dedicated to growing together with innovative startups and help them to become global leaders in their fields.
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- E-Commerce, Retail, Big Data
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China, Japan, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Reflaunt — Reflaunt empowers brands with the technology to embrace circular fashion. The allows brand's customers to put back on sale their past purchases without ever leaving the brand ecosystem rewards them with brand shopping credits
- Naive Blue — Naive Blue is a photography service provider company.
- Huamei Haolian — Huamei Haolian specializes in providing telemedicine and medical tourism services.
MicroVentures is an online equity crowdfunding platform enabling angel investors to connect with startups to raise capital. It connects accredited investors with startups, businesses, and services looking to raise funds or participate in select secondary market opportunities. The company provides founders access to early-stage capital andaccredited investors opportunities to invest in private equity. It prefers to invest in companies from the software, technology, telecommunications, and media sectors.MicroVentures was established in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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- Software, 3D Printing, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Canada
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- AnFin — AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology andstrategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.
- Polco — Polco is an online community engagement platform that provides the tools local governments need to bring community members and leaders together.
- Remedium Bio — Welcome to Remedium Bio - we believe that any disease can be cured.
Female Founders Fund is a seed stage venture fund that invests exclusively in female-founded companies. We believe strongly in the exponential power of exceptional female talent. We invest in e-commerce, media, platforms, advertising and web-enabled services businesses.
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- Health Care, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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- The Lanby — The Lanby is a wellness-forward, hospitality-led primary care membership in NYC. Learn about our comprehensive services and schedule a free consult.
- Oula Health — Oula is a modern maternity clinic combining the best of obstetrics and midwifery care to deliver an evidence-based and personalized pregnancy experience
- Hearth — A new tool for family management and productivity, made to lighten the load of organization for busy families
Silvia Mah
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Baby
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Reliabl — Lips is a feminist technology organization at the forefront of the inclusive design movement, building products designed to unlock opportunities for previously underserved and intersectionally marginalized communities. Our first product is a social media platform designed for women and LGBTQ individuals seeking a space to express themselves throughart without the unhealthy aspects of mainstream internet culture such as online harassment, censorship and plagiarism. We are building more inclusive Machine Learning and Contextual AI technologies that can be used across industries to improve the online experience of traditionally marginalized communities.
- Sēkr — Your complete travel resource to locate campsites, facilities and connect with community.
- Tot Squad — Tot Squad is a marketplace that connects new parents with health, wellness and safety services both virtually and in person. We're a one-stop shop in the $46B "New Mom Economy" consolidating the highly fragmented providers of services like car seat installation, babyproofing, and lactation consulting. Our car seat installationservices can be found on Amazon and Walmart as an add-on with a car seat purchase.
Moai Capital is seed & venture capital investor run by Brian Jacobs investing in consumer, cloud & autism startups.
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- Information Technology, Robotics, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Upwage — Our mission is to create $1 trillion in new wealth for the 44% of Americans who make less than $16/hr, using the power of big data & AI.
- Sensate — Wearable technology using science to help you relax, reduce stress and anxiety and improve your mental health. Learn more about Sensate and our mission.
- Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Antoine is a technology entrepreneur and an investor in technology companies in California and China. He has 20 years of leadership experience in technology marketing worldwide, as CEO, senior officer and director/advisor in listed companies, start-ups, turnarounds and midsize-to-large companies. Antoine has traded in the currency and stockmarkets for 10 years. Antoine's career highlights include working with the Tokyo representation of the French Prime Minister's DATAR unit to negotiate the setup of Mitsubishi Electric, Canon, Toshiba and Sony's industrial facilities in France, and a 4-year stint at Nortel Networks where he headed the OEM and Asia/Pacific unit of the company's digital wireless terminals business. Antoine was also president & COO of Zi Corporation, a developer of intelligent user interface software listed on the NASDAQ Main Board, and CEO of Dejima, Inc., a developer of distributed artificial intelligence software, which he sold to Sybase, Inc. In addition, Antoine worked at salesforce.com, the leader in on-demand enterprise applications, as vice-president, and at Good Technology, the last independent challenger to RIM Blackberry, as senior vice president. He is an investor, board member and advisor in a number of companies in California, Greater China and Japan. He is the author or co-author of 5 patents. Antoine holds a MBA from the Paris Graduate School of Management (ESCP) and has studied at the faculties of Economics and Commerce of Chuo University in Tokyo.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- GoShare — Moving, hauling, and delivery help is just a tap away with GoShare's easy app. Get a truck or cargo van in less than an hour.
- LogicInk — LogicInk is developing bio-chemical signals that can be worn daily, to support your wellbeing with increased knowledge about your health and daily peace of mind.
- Pathship — Pathship is an education platform that leverages AI and ML. An alternative to today’s higher education, connecting people with jobs they’re passionate about.
Philippe von Borries is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Red Ventures and the President of Lonely Planet. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder of Refinery2 9.
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- LGBT, Dating, Social
- Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
- The Garden — The Garden is an online media company.
TiE Angels is one of the most active angel groups in Silicon Valley.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
- Lidrotec — Lidrotec aim to expand the application potential of processing with ultra-short pulse lasers.
- FibreCoat — Making the future affordable. EM-Shielding Composites Sustainable https://fibrecoat.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20211004_FibreCoat_web.mp4 Shedule a meeting to solve your problem Mobility Affordable and damage-resistant materials for integrated EMI-shielding and weight reduction in EVs. Construction Easy retrofit shielding of electronics and people from 5G and other types of EM radiation. Government Specialized yarns for sensors, circuits, shielding and countermeasure materials. With
- Deep Cognition — Deep Cognition uses AI based solutions to extract data and enter the data into TMS or ERP systems to automate your data entry process with paperentry.
In 1996, Fred Wilson co-founded Flatiron Partners with his partner Jerry Colonna. Flatiron, named after the Flatiron District, became a successful, primarily follow-on investment fund in the New York City area, with investments in notable Dot-com bubble successes and failures including Alacra, comScore Networks, Yoyodyne, Geocities, Kozmo.com, NewYork Times Digital, PlanetOut, Return Path, Scout electromedia, Standard Media International, Starmedia, and VitaminShoppe.com. The firm's 1996 fund capitalized at $150 million with two investors: SOFTBANK Technology Ventures and Chase Capital Partners, the private-equity arm of Chase Manhattan Corp. The firm later raised another fund capitalized at $500 million with Chase Capital Partners as the sole active LP. In 2001, Wilson and Colonna essentially shut down Flatiron (although they still manage what remains of its portfolio). Wilson offered a blunt assessment in July 2005 in Business 2.0, "Yeah, boy, we really screwed up a bunch of things."
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Marketing
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
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- PathogenDx — PathogenDx has developed a microarray based test specifically designed for the cannabis, botanical, food and agricultural testing markets. Our technology allows test labs to conduct between 12- 48 tests in parallel, testing up to 20 pathogens per test in less than a days’ shift. This is done at a fraction of the cost of plate counts or RealtimePCR. Our Raw Sample technology allows laboratories to bypass almost 20 steps that Real-time PCR must perform for DNA extraction and purification. PathogenDx technology bypasses the need for purification, quantitation, and normalization increasing the speed and affordability of pathogen screening. This helps our customers reduce testing time by 12 hours on the front end, and avoid spending money on sample prep kits and additional instrumentation.
- Willow Industries — Willow Industries Ozone Systems. Mitigate Mold & Bacteria. Willow systems provide clean and effective solutions to cannabis contamination.
- Green Check Verified — Green Check Verified is the leading provider of cannabis banking solutions and expert advisory services for financial institutions.
Audrey Gelman is a strategist who has worked in the start-up, corporate and political sectors. Throughout her career, she has specialized in the intersection of brand building and culture, using a keen, multidimensional understanding of the cultural zeitgeist to help place brands, companies and candidates in the center of the conversation. She isthe co-founder and former CEO of The Wing, a network of women’s spaces that scaled to over a dozen locations in the US + UK under three years and amassed a global following. Audrey has been named Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, Fortune Magazine’s 40 Under 40, and Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30.Before founding The Wing, Gelman worked in politics and public affairs as a Senior Vice President at the political consulting firm SKDKnickerbocker, and as Deputy Communications Director to NYC Comptroller Scott M. Stringer. She began her career as an aide on Hillary Clinton's 2008 Presidential Campaign.
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- Apps, Social, Brand Marketing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Co–Star — Co–Star is powered by AI that merges NASA data with the insight of human astrologers.Co–Star facilitates new ways to relate to others. It’s a filter to express what can be hard to say of emotions and reactions, strengths and weaknesses, pasts and futures. It’s a tool to connect meaningfully with friends and lovers or to tread lightly with strangersand enemies.
- Substack — Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions.
- Clubhouse — Clubhouse is an audio-based social app that allows users to join group chats. It describes itself as a space for casual, drop-in audio conversations with friends and other interesting people around the world that allows users to go online anytime to chat with the people they follow, or hop in as a listener and hear what others are talking about.
Lorenzo Thione is the co-founder of Powerset, Inc., an innovative search startup founded in 2005, with the vision of bringing to consumers a more natural and effective type of Internet search than conventional keyword search. Funded by notable Silicon Valley VCs and angel investors, Powerset was acquired by Microsoft Corp. in 2008 to complement andinnovate on its own search technology and offering. Currently, he is a Principal Program Manager in charge of the Powerset division of Bing, Microsoft's innovative "Decision Engine". Lorenzo is an active angel investor, board member and advisor in several startup, including Dolores Labs, an exciting and energetic San Francisco startup building a scalable platform for human-based computing and crowdsourcing, Crowdflower, and several others at various stages, in the US and abroad, like Kidlandia, Etacts, 8Coupons, and iBrii. In addition to his Internet-tech endeavors, Lorenzo is a theater producer currently busy in bringing several new works to the Broadway stage, including the recently emerging Green Day musical, American Idiot of which he's Associate Producer. His current and most ambitious project is a brand new musical bound for the Broadway stage. Jay Kuo's original musical Allegiance, starring George Takei and Lea Salonga, follows the story of a Japanese American family during the years of the WWII Japanese American internment, and is currently aiming for a 2012 Broadway debut.Lorenzo is a founding board member of StartOut (www.startout.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering and developing entrepreneurship within the LGBT community, and during his service on the board of StartOut, the non-profit, founded in 2009, has grown to a membership of over 1000 individuals nationwide and three active chapters in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, with plans for faster growth. He serves on the board of trustees of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and Reason To Party, a SF-based non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of underserved Bay Area residents by raising money for charity groups through events held in collaboration with local businesses. A native of Milan, Italy, Lorenzo moved to Austin, Texas at age 21, to complete his studies at the University of Texas at Austin, from which he holds a M.S. in Computer Engineering, and has co-authored several publications in Software Engineering and Computational Linguistics. He is a named inventor on 10 issued and over 20 pending patents in the US and world-wide.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Chai — Chai AI, the leading chat bot app. Create, share, and explore chatbots on the Chai AI platform. Create your dream Chai AI chatbot now.
- Ordinary Seafood — We are a consumer facing food-tech company using the power of plant protein and biotechnology to deliver the next generation of sustainable seafood. Our mission is to bring balance back into our food system by offering delicious and healthy seafood alternatives.
- Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $600 M in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering,business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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- Ello — Ello is an app-based reading coach that listens to your child read from real books, teaches and motivates them, and transforms them into enthusiastic readers.
- ARX — ARX is a defence technology company that specialises in developing autonomous unmanned systems and sensors for the European defence sector.
- twig bio — twig bio operates as a bioengineering startup. twig bio using AI and robotics to find sustainable replacements for harmful ingredients.
Backstage Capital is a venture capital fund investing in the best startups led by underrepresented founders in the U.S. The firm was founded in 2015 by Arlan Hamilton and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, United States.
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- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
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- Community — Community is a text messaging service that connects individuals and organizations instantly and directly to their audiences through text messaging at scale.
- CloudNine AI — Augmented Intelligence Systems, Augmented Intelligence Companies, Augmented Intelligence applications
- Patientory — Patientory empowers our users with actionable insights from health data, incentivizing them to take control of their health outcomes.
We are an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Founders.
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- Software, SaaS, Construction
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States
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- Kaster — Communication between general contractors and trade partners on construction projects is complex and fragmented, yet it’s mostly handled through email, phone and text. Naturally, critical items get lost in the clutter. As a result, everyone suffers the financial impacts of project delays, disputes, claims, and issues. Kaster bridges the gap betweengeneral contractors and trade partners by connecting them through one communication workspace, so items never fall through the cracks and project teams avoid unnecessary risk.Learn more at www.kaster.app
- TargetDocs — TargetDocs is a communication workspace that collects and organizes all of your subcontractor's project files in one place so they never fall through the cracks
- Us In Technology — Diversifying the tech industry. At Us In Technology we are bridging the gap between hiring companies and qualified underrepresented talent.
Elevate Capital is a Portland venture capital firm that supports underserved entrpreneurs by providing seed capital funding and close mentorship.
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- Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany
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- Rock Paper Coin — Welcome to Rock Paper Coin, the all-in-one client management platform that simplifies proposals, contracts, invoicing, and payment processing for businesses of all types and sizes in the event industry.
- PredictionStrike — PredictionStrike is a platform on which users can trade virtual shares of athletes as if they were stocks. The platform operates as a real stock market and allows users to buy/sell shares, build portfolios, and operate in a live market using real money. Share prices are determined by a player’s real-world performance, where eachgame/match acts like an earnings report, as well as the fans’ demand for those shares.
- Phosio Corporation — Phosio Corporation develops a photoresist material for the fabrication of high aspect ratio nanostructures. The company was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from Oregon State University's Department of Chemistry and the NSF-funded Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry.
Michelle joined Badoo originally as lead counsel over 4 years ago. Prior to joining Badoo she was a successful corporate lawyer at leading international law firm, Mishcon de Reya, before being poached by the firm's successful biotech client, Quotient Bioscience to head up their legal team. During her time at Badoo, she built the legal,compliance, HR and talent teams before moving into a more operationally focused role, including a position on the board. Today, Michelle is responsible for most key areas of the business, and works closely with founder and CEO Andrey Andreev, on the existing product, and exciting 'special projects' coming soon....
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- Women's, E-Commerce, Fashion
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Sojo — Making your clothes work for you has never been so simple. Download Sojo today and have one of our community of seamsters bring your clothes to life.
- Millie — Millie is a new kind of maternity clinic. Built by moms and providers who’ve been there.
- Code First Girls — Code First Girls is on a mission to transform tech. We work with various partners to teach women to code for free; join the 140,000+ women we have taught so far!
OnLine Partners is a data-driven online marketing agency focusing on 360-degree search engine optimization. The company focuses on creating digital growth through SEO, PPC, and conversion optimization. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Kolding, Syddanmark.
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- gay.com — The Los Angeles LGBT Center is a safe and welcoming place where the LGBTQ+ community finds help, hope, and support when it is needed the most.
David is GM, Expert Network at Hunt Club and a Founding Member at TBD Angels. As an entrepreneur and angel investor, he has held operating roles at 6 startups and invested in 90 companies. He was recently the CEO of Gradifi, which was acquired by E*TRADE. Previously, he was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School and Director of theBabson Summer Venture Program.David has held product and marketing roles at 6 Boston-based startups that were acquired. He previously led the PayPal Boston office and co-founded the Start Tank innovation space. Earlier in his career, he held roles at TripAdvisor (IAC), m-Qube (Verisign), edocs (Siebel), SnapMyLife (Exclaim Mobility), and Goldman Sachs.As a leader in the entrepreneurship community, he holds several advisor/board memberships and has made 90 angel investments in early-stage startups. Awards include Boston Business Journal's Power 50: Most Influential Bostonians, BostInno’s 50 on Fire: Education Winner / Investment Winner / Tech Finalist, and Finalist for NEVY Angel of the Year.David holds a BS with Distinction in Computer Science from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Hong Kong
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- Invalidate — IPR-tested prior art search. The ultimate patent invalidation tool.
- LLM Shield — Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today.
- Patented.ai — The most powerful AI engine for intellectual property.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, France
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- Bandana — Find better hourly jobs in New York City with Bandana. Look up company pay and salaries, filter for healthcare and full-time benefits, and improve your overall livelihood.
- Airmart — Start selling online with Airmart, the best e-commerce platform for food vendors. Offer pickup, delivery, and shipping from your restaurant, bakery, or farm.
- EchoMark — EchoMark protects your private information by embedding invisible forensic watermarks in documents and messages that are personalized for each recipient.
Albert Lee is co-founders of MyFitnessPal, the leading free resource helping people improve their health. Over the course of his career, Albert has focused on creating both consumer and business related products within some of the industry's most successful companies including eBay, Paypal and Yahoo. He also has deep experience in bothaffiliate marketing and online commerce from his time as Vice President of Marketing for Webjuice, an advertising technology startup focused on performance-based internet marketing. Albert has a B.A. in Economics and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.
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- Information Technology, Apps, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States
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- Exer Labs — Motion intelligence software for healthcare providers, powered by our custom, next-generation AI that runs on any device with a camera.
- Revery — The team at Revery is on a mission to make access to wellness affordable and accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, through the medium of gaming.
- SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis
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- Software, Advertising, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
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- Vestaboard — Vestaboard has totally re-imagined the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station in Europe.
- Fluence — Training in psychedelic integration and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. International workshops, conferences, and consultation related to and mental health, MDMA, Psilocybin, ketamine, Ayahuasca, and other compounds.
- Hedgehog — Trade anywhere, Track anything, and Learn everything about crypto with Hedgehog, a portfolio manager and research tool for crypto currencies.
Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, works to drive the vision and programmatic work of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation. Over the past 14 years, The Clinton Foundation has convened businesses, governments, NGOs, and individuals to improve global health and wellness, increase opportunity for girls and women,reduce childhood obesity, create economic opportunity and growth, and help communities address the effects of climate change. As only a few examples, because of the Clinton Foundation’s work, more than 29,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; more than 85,000 farmers in Malawi, Rwanda, and Tanzania are benefiting from climate-smart agronomic training, higher yields, and increased market access; over 350,000 people have been impacted through market opportunities created by social enterprises in Latin America, the Caribbean, and South Asia; 75 million people are benefiting from disease prevention efforts and investments in the U.S.; and through the affiliated Clinton Health Access Initiative, 9.9 million people in more than 70 countries have access to CHAI-negotiated prices for HIV/AIDS medications.As Vice Chair of the Foundation, Chelsea is a tireless advocate for the work of the Foundation. She works alongside Foundation leadership toward a shared goal of making the Clinton Foundation one of the most effective and efficient global NGOs in the world. She works in-depth across a number of the Foundation’s programmatic areas including: No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project working to advance the full participation of women and girls; the Clinton Global Initiative University, a program focused on empowering the next generation of change-makers; the Clinton Foundation’s Day of Action program which she founded; the Foundation’s various health programs and the conservation of Africa’s Elephants through the Clinton Global Initiative.Chelsea currently teaches at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and previously worked at McKinsey & Company and Avenue Capital. Chelsea also serves on the boards of the Clinton Foundation’s affiliated Clinton Health Access Initiative, the School of American Ballet, the Africa Center and the Weill Cornell Medical College. She is the Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Of Many Institute at NYU. Chelsea holds a B.A. from Stanford, an MPH from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and both an MPhil and a Doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University. Chelsea is the author of It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going, a book for young readers ages 10-14 which explores some of the biggest challenges facing our world today, particularly impacting kids and shares inspiring stories of young people who are already making a difference in their own communities and around the globe.She lives with her husband Marc and their daughter Charlotte in New York City.
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- Health Care, Medical, Women's
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
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- Euphoria.LGBT — A better gender transition starts today. We're here to help make this process easier than ever. A complete transition in two years or less.
- Elemy — Elemy is the nationwide provider of childhood behavioral and mental healthcare. Every child is different. At Elemy, we believe care should never be one-size-fits-all. Chat with us about in-home, personalized care for your child.
- Summer Health — Get answers from an expert, board-certified pediatricians in 15 minutes. From child health to development, Summer Health gets you answers any time, day or night.
Mark Suster is the General Partner of Upfront Ventures. He previously worked at salesforce.com as a Vice President. Mark Suster attended the University of Chicago.
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- Software, Advertising, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Poland, United Kingdom
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- Secfense — Secfense is the fast track to passwordless authentication. We help companies implement strong MFA in a no-code way and at large scale.
- Queer Spaces — Spaces is a group chat platform for building queer communities, and the first app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
- InfoSum — InfoSum has developed a decentralized platform designed to remove the trust barriers between progress and privacy. Its platform enables advertisers, media owners, data providers, and other advertising technology firms to collaborate across multiple data sources, without requiring the underlying data to be moved or pooled. The company was foundedin 2016 and is headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Town Hall Ventures is an investment firm aimed at transforming the woefully broken U.S. health care market through technology. It is dedicated to working side-by-side with visionary entrepreneurs who want to transform care delivery and health outcomes for the most underserved and higher need populations across the country.Town Hall seeks toinvest in and support the best entrepreneurs - those bold enough to want to change the system and impact millions of lives.
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- Health Care, Medical, Hospital
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, Panama
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- Brave Health — Brave Health is a mental health provider offering online therapy and medication management. We accept insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare.
- Torch Dental — Torch Technology develops an all-in-one technology designed to meet dental practices supply ordering and inventory management needs. Torch Technology is based in New York, New York.
- Twentyeight Health — Your birth control. Delivered to your door. Get a new or re-up existing prescriptions, free & fast deliveries and follow up messaging with doctors. $0 with insurance and starting at $16/pack without.
SeedInvest is a leading equity crowdfunding platform for growth-obsessed startups. Because everyone should be able to invest in the next big thing.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- United States, Israel, France
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- Qairn — Qairn provides review and validation of promotional materials. They also provide ANSM submission, constitution, validation of promotional documents, and other regulated content services.
- His Lovers — His Lovers is an online dating platform. It offers the chance to meet new people and form romantic relationships.
- Asian Hustle Network — Asian Hustle Network (AHN) is an online community of 150,000+ members that uniquely connects Asian entrepreneurs and creatives globally across different industries. The goal of AHN is to centralize community, content, information, resources, e-commerce, and mentorship into one single location.
Tusk Venture Partners is the only venture capital firm at the nexus of technology and regulation. TVP is an early-stage venture capital firm based in NYC, focused on investing in technology startups operating in highly-regulated markets.
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- Health Care, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States
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- Elaborate — Lab results, illuminated.
- TBD Health — TBD Health makes at-home STD/STI screening kits that are accurate, easy to use, and built for women.
- The Contract Network — AI-powered collaborative contracting is an innovative approach to contract negotiation that emphasizes real-time collaboration, communication, and transparency.
Chiratae Ventures is a global network of venture capital funds with approximately $3.6 billion under management and a portfolio of over 220 companies built over the last 15 years. The Chiratae Ventures network is comprised of five independent partnerships managing funds in North America and Asia. Each partnership makes investments on behalf of itslimited partners, including International Data Group (IDG), the world's largest IT media company. By combining the IDG platform – an unparalleled combination of global publishing, market research (IDC), and conferences and exhibition resources – with years of hands-on experience in early-stage company building, each Chiratae Ventures fund helps companies understand their markets better and penetrate them faster than their competition.With partnerships in the USA, Korea and multiple locations throughout China, India and Vietnam, the IDG Ventures network offers the international perspective and the local market expertise to help companies grow from start-ups to global success stories.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- India, United States, China
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- BuyStars — BuyStars is a online gaming platform with a lot of fantasy sports.
- Pixis — Pixis develops accessible AI technology to help brands scale all aspects of their marketing in a world of infinitely complex consumer behavior.
- Cropin — CropIn is a leading AI and Data-led agri-tech organization that provides SaaS solutions to agribusinesses globally. CropIn’s unique suite of products enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to adopt and drive digital strategy across their operations. Using cutting-edge technology like big data analytics, artificial intelligence,machine learning, and remote sensing, CropIn creates an interconnected network of all these stakeholders at different levels of the agriculture ecosystem, enabling clients to analyze and interpret data to derive real-time actionable insights on standing crop. Businesses can thus leverage technology to effectively drive their initiatives around Digitization, Predictability, Compliance, Sustainability and Traceability. With the vision to ‘maximize per acre value’ and the mission to ‘make every farm traceable’, CropIn adds value to agri-businesses by increasing efficiency, scaling productivity, and strengthening sustainability across the board. Thus far, CropIn has digitized over 5.5 million acres of farmland and enriched the lives of nearly 2.1 million farmers, while gathering data on 380+ crops and 3,600+ crop varieties in 46+ countries on 6 continents.
Commercial Banking serves more than 30,000 clients, including corporations, municipalities, financial institutions and not-for-profit entities. These clients generally have annual revenues ranging from $10 million to $2 billion. Commercial bankers serve clients nationally throughout the retail branch footprint and in offices located in other majormarkets. Chase Capital Partners are the #1 commercial bank in our retail branch footprint.Commercial Banking offers its clients industry knowledge, experience, a dedicated service model, comprehensive solutions and local expertise. The firm’s broad platform positions them to deliver extensive product capabilities — including lending, treasury services, investment banking and asset management — to meet their clients’ U.S. and international financial needs.
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- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Series B, Private Equity
- United States, Brazil, Argentina
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- Deem — Say hello to Etta. The world's most advanced travel management platform designed to make your employees and your budgets happy. Learn more.
- Quadstone — Quadstone provides customer analytic software to enterprises in the United States and Europe. The company’s product, Quadstone System, enables enterprises to model and diagnose customer behavior. It caters to marketing, telecommunications, and financial services sector. The company’s clientele includes Barclays, Merrill Lynch, Globe Telecom, BT,Maersk Sealand, Experian CustomerInfo, Shop Direct, and Fidelity Investments.
- CyberArk Software — Get the most complete Identity Security and Access Management Solutions that enable secure access across any device, anywhere, at just the right time.
AngelSquare is a venture capital firm that prefers to provide seed and series A investments to companies operating in the fintech, SaaS, artificial intelligence and software sectors.
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- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Switzerland
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- Pongo — Pongo has created for you the first intelligent marketing assistant that communicates with your customers and increases your Google referencing, without you having to lift a finger
- Orosound — Orosound is a tech company with a unique expertise in audio. Learn more about our technologies and our headsets, designed and made in France.
- Remotebase — Remotebase | Hire silicon valley caliber developers remotely | Remote software engineers jobs
Springbank Collective is an early-stage investment firm that focuses on the infrastructure that supports women and working families. The firm typically invests in seed and series A with check sizes between $250k and $1M. Springbank Collective was founded in 2019 and is based in New York.
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- Health Care, Wellness, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico
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- Daivergent — Daivergent is an technology platform that maximizes job-readiness for the disability and autism communities through our AI software that enables them and their families to access the right interventions at the right time.
- Great Wrap — The only Australian made and owned compostable cling wrap
- Dandi Technologies — Dandi is the analytics platform for advancing equity, inclusion, and diversity.
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.
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- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Biofire — Sign up by April 13th to be the First to Experience the Future of Firearms.
- Aanika Biosciences — Molecular-level solutions to global scale problems. Aanika is revolutionizing how products are tracked through supply chains.
- Maximus — Elevate energy, sex drive, and promote hair growth with our doctor-prescibed programs. Featuring enclomiphene testosterone improvement. Find your protocol.
Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Sam was previously the Chairman of Y Combinator, a leading silicon valley startup accelerator.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Ghana, Canada
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- Warp — Warp is a Rust-based terminal reimagined to focus on productivity, efficiency, and speed. It is now available on MacOS. Warp has an IDE-like input area and it groups input and output together into atomic units. It also features Warp AI, which explains errors and suggests commands using AI.
- Uncommon — Uncommon is a pluripotent team of bio-creators, forging a healthier future of food. Formerly known as HigherSteaks
- Vital Bio — Reinventing diagnostics for proactive & accessible care. Diagnostics designed for better outcomes. Eliminating gaps between care and treatment.
Alpaca VC | Reshaping the Real World Alpaca VC is a New York based firm the leads early-stage investments in companies reshaping the physical and digital world.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Real Estate
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- Optiversal — Optiversal is a provider of AI, NLP, and GPT-3 powered content and merchandising solutions. The company accelerates the content creation process from ideation to publication by producing content suggestions trained on the product catalog.
- Pack Digital — Pack Digital is a platform that consolidates product and content updates in a central system to manage your PWA builds and deployments.
- Arrive Recommerce — Arrive offers a premium service powering circular commerce for major brands and retailers. The technology and reverse logistics capabilities of The Arrive Platform enables brands and retailers in any industry to integrate circular commerce - including rental and resale - directly into an existing ecommerce experience. With this unique offering,Arrive makes it possible for any company to seamlessly launch a circular channel - ultimately reaching more consumers, driving more revenue, and promoting a sustainable solution. Arrive, first launched as Arrive Outdoors, is an award-winning company and has been named the 4th Most Innovative Travel Company by Fast Company in 2020 and awarded the 2019 Outdoor Retailer of the Year by the Outdoor Retailer Association.
Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay
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- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Japan
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- POKKT — POKKT is an Alternate Mobile Payment Platform that helps owners of Paid Digital Goods and Services to monetise thier users through an advertiser-funded Model. Develpoers and Publishers of Digital content can significantly increase monetization and convert non-paying users into paying users.
- Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
- AlpacaJapan — Alpaca is a technology company developing financial system platforms powered by the collaboration of AI and people.
Macluan Digital Partners offers funding opportunities to small and medium businesses.
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- LGBT, News, Dating
- Series A
- United States
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- gay.com — The Los Angeles LGBT Center is a safe and welcoming place where the LGBTQ+ community finds help, hope, and support when it is needed the most.
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