# Top 50 Local Startup Investors in May 2026 ## Double M Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Advertising Double M Partners Venture Capital Fund ## VentureSouth - Type: VC Fund - Location: Greenville, South Carolina, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care VentureSouth is an early-stage venture firm that operates angel groups and funds. It specializes in the fields of angel investment, venture capital, financial services, and angel groups. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina. ## Greycroft - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet Venture capital and technology investments ## SVA - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. 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. ## Spark Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - 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. ## Tuesday Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) has been helping early-stage founders build the companies of tomorrow since 2011. ## Uncork Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around. ## Daher Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Daher Capital is a privately owned family office. Daher Capital invests in a wide range of asset classes including developed equities, emerging market equities, small cap equities, real estate, private equity and venture capital. ## M13 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software M13 is an early-stage consumer tech venture capital firm. Our founding teams execute better by accessing our full-time operating partners, resources, and network. ## Dave Morin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Internet, Software Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel. ## Jason Calacanis - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. ## Betaworks - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet Betaworks Ventures is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund, having invested in more than 150 companies. We invest in new consumer behaviors and trends powered by frontier technologies, and are often amongst the first institutional investors to invest. ## Rincon Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics Rincon Venture Partners seeks to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs and support them as they build world-class businesses. Rincon is an early-stage venture capital firm that targets investment opportunities in Web-based businesses that are led by 'serial founding teams', have proven recurring revenue models and are pursuingcapital-efficient operating plans. They typically invest in companies where initial product or service development is largely complete, and the company's forward-looking focus is on market engagement and expansion. They take an active role in guiding and supporting portfolio companies by committing resources for such activities as Board representation, providing strategic and tactical guidance, filling key management positions, facilitating subsequent financings and achieving liquidity events. ## tecnet equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sankt Polten, Niederosterreich, Austria - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology tecnet equity is an Austrian venture capital fund investing in innovative high-tech companies with potential for significant growth. ## Innovestor - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing Welcome to Innovestor! We are a Finnish investment company focusing on venture capital, corporate venturing services, and real estate. ## Steven Cox - Type: Angel - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Local, Music, Video Steven Cox is the Founder and CEO at TakeLessons. ## Global Brain Corporation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices. ## Lightbank - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software Lightbank VC is a $380M AUM venture fund that invests in early-stage consumer, enterprise, healthcare, crypto, fintech and climate companies. It focuses on pre-seed, seed and Series A opportunities where they write initial checks between $250k - $5m. They have invested in over 150 companies such as Tempus, Udemy, Fiverr (NYSE: FVRR), Sprout Social(NYSE: SPRT), Boom Supersonic, Tastytrade (acq. $1B+), Clearcover, Extend and Expel. ## Frontier Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, Health Care With offices in Boulder, Los Angeles, and New York, Frontier invests in early stage technology companies in the United States. ## General Catalyst - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet Investing in powerful, positive change that endures ## Contour Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software Contour Venture Partners, New York City Seed Venture Capital Firm ## Mark Goines - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech Based in Menlo Park, Mark is a Partner focused on the areas of financial technology, mobile, consumer and small business Internet services. He has an extensive track record of working with high growth companies as an entrepreneur, executive and angel investor. Exits from his angel investments include Mint, Baby Center, PayCycle and Nolo.com.Prior to joining Morgenthaler, Mark was a successful angel investor. His investments included two Morgenthaler portfolio companies, Pageonce and Practice Fusion. He currently represents Morgenthaler on the Practice Fusion board.Previously, Mark helped build and ran Intuit’s Consumer Tax business (TurboTax). He also served as Senior Vice President of Intuit’s International Division, managing businesses on every continent, creating new products, acquiring companies and building partnerships. He then served as General Manager of Intuit’s Consumer Division and helped generate over $200 million in annual revenues, serving 15 million customers across a broad range of software and e-commerce services by 2000.Prior to Intuit, Mark held executive positions at Wells Fargo and Charles Schwab, where he developed and marketed early-stage banking, software and electronic services that formed the foundation of today’s online trading industry.Mark became an active investor and entrepreneur in 2000. He was an investor and board member at Mint, a consumer online financial management company that was sold to Intuit in 2009. He was also an investor and board member in Nolo.com, a self-help law service that was sold to Internet Brands in 2011. Goines co-founded and became chief marketing officer at PassMark Security, which was sold to RSA in 2006. He also invested in WePay (payments), BillFloat (lending) and Cozi (family organization).Mark holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley. He served as president of the Los Altos Educational Foundation and has been elected as a trustee of the Los Altos School Board. ## Speedinvest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey. ## Grace Beauty Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail Grace Beauty Capital is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to the consumer & retail sectors founded on the core belief that deep domain and industry knowledge, operating expertise and extensive networks are essential to support early stage entrepreneurs and generate superior investment returns. Our mission is to become the premierpartner for early stage digital brands, consumer and retail technology startups on the journey from kitchen table to household name. ## Chiba Dojo - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services Chiba Dojo is an entrepreneurial community that supports startup companies in various stages from seed to pre-IPO. ## Kevin Hartz - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Kevin is the Co-Founder and GP of A* Capital & The Co-Founder & Chairman of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB)Prior A* Capital, Kevin was at Founders Fund. Previously Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB). Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company servicing more than 30 countriesworldwide. Xoom went public in 2012 and was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Kevin has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to successful start-ups including Airbnb, Lookout, PayPal, Pinterest, Skybox Imaging, Trulia, Uber, and Yammer. ## NextGen Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology NextGen Venture Partners invests $1-2M in seed-stage companies with the participation of 1,000+ Venture Partners. The firm specializes in the fields of private equity, business strategy, start-up acceleration, and fundraising. ## Seed Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS Seed Capital invests in Danish tech businesses with global ambitions. We are focused on "late seed"-stage companies, typically investing 1-3 MEUR in rounds of 1-6 MEUR. Proud backers of Trustpilot, Vivino, Lunar, Templafy, Dixa, Forecast, and many other great companies. ## Act Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Analytics Technology-focused, investing capital and expertise to fuel growth in the most promising ideas and companies. Raised c.€600m across multiple funds and invest from seed to growth.We look for companies with potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure, communications, Internetand mobile. We help founders create and scale businesses globally. We work as a small team with diverse strengths accessing a community of over 200 founders. The teams and companies we back scale their investor base as they scale their business execution and ambition. We work closely with them in this process. Over the past 25 years have built a broad network of US and European investors and founders that share our vision and approach.Act is based in Dublin, Ireland.Our most recent funds are supported by the European Investment Fund. ## Middleland Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, Software, Biotechnology Middleland Capital is a private investment firm focused on global early-stage technology opportunities. Leveraging a unique breadth of geographic and industry experience, the firm seeks partnerships with exceptional management teams to commercialize innovative technologies, accelerate growth, and build long-term value around the world. ## Quest Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Quest Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm located in Palo Alto CA. They invest between $300k-$1.5MM in early stage companies, with typical investments being around $500k. ## Andrew Mitchell - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness Andrew Mitchell is the Founder of Brand Foundry Ventures. He is a former Co-Founder of Aspen Industries. He attended Lafayette College. ## 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. ## Georges Harik - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Georges Harik was Director of Googlettes, a start-up incubator that operated inside Google, and a Distinguished Engineer at Google. As Director of Googlettes, his team was responsible for the product management and strategy efforts surrounding many starting Google initiatives including Gmail, Google Talk, Google Video, Picasa, Orkut, Google Groupsand Google Mobile. ## P101 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree ## Joshua Schachter - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Mobile, Internet Joshua Schachter is an organizer at Self Racing Cars. He was the CEO of Tasty Labs and the founder of Joshua has also worked for directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool. ## Andreessen Horowitz - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## DNX Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Mateo, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS DNX Ventues is an early stage VC firm focusing on B2B Startups that are shaping industries and transforming the way we live and work. ## Omidyar Network - Type: VC Fund - Location: Redwood City, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Education Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Since 2004, they have worked with their partners to create opportunities for people to tap that potential, enabling them to improve their lives and make powerful contributions to theircommunities.They support, scale, and champion the work of their partners in order to maximize social impact. As a philanthropic investment firm, they make both investments and grants, identifying like-minded organizations that they support, help scale, and collaborate with to help realize their full potential. Their efforts are organized around two investment initiatives Access to Capital, and Media, Markets and Transparency. ## ANRI - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology ANRI is a Japanese venture capital firm that mainly invests in seed and early-stage startups. ## George Crowley - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Angel, Series A - Focus: News, Local, Communities George Crowley ## Google Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward. ## BoxGroup - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - 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 ## Keynote Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Local, Information Technology, Software KeyNote Ventures is a venture capital firm located in Menlo Park, California. Their goal is to help entrepreneurs create leading information technology companies. They principally invest in early stage businesses where new technologies play a major role and where they have particular expertise. The portfolio company needs to have a strongmanagement team and the potential to become a market leader. In selecting their investments they think about technology globally but invest locally.They have over 40 years of cumulative experience in venture capital investing and close to 70 years of substantial operating background at senior executive levels in each of the industries within KeyNote's investment focus. Their strategy has been and will continue to be investing primarily as a lead investor in syndications with other top tier venture capital firms. They provide entrepreneurs funding, but also a network of people and resources, locally and internationally, that provide strategic counsel and operating support for their startups. In this way their global network expands and leverages their portfolio's reach. ## Brainchild Holdings - Type: VC Fund - Location: Newtown, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce 120 companies, 250 founders, $4BB in follow-on capital. Introductions, talent, growth, product, financing and strategy. ## Innovation Nest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Innovation Nest invest in early stage B2B SaaS startups from Europe and help them grow from local to global using our network of contacts and strong in-house competencies. It strongly believes that the path to growth leads through Silicon Valley and strongly encourage our portfolio startups to set up presence there. The company supports high-techcompanies to grow faster and scale their business globally. ## Incubate Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Incubate Fund is an independent early-stage venture capital that specializes in providing capital to technology startups at the seed stage. The firm built a portfolio of over 300 companies in Asia, taking 12 companies to public and 20 companies to M&A exit since 2010. ## Ronald Conway - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley. ## Bernardo Hernandez - Type: Angel - Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile Apps, Apps, Delivery Bernardo Hernandez is leading Spanish Business Angel. He graduated from ICADE, a top Business School in Madrid Spain in 1993. He has a Masters in Finance from Boston College and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. At the age of 29, after 5 years as an analyst and portfolio manager in the asset management industry with companieslike Fidelity and Putnam Investments, he started his first internet venture idealista.com, now the leading real estate online portal in Spain. Since then he has participated in other online start-ups as a Business Angel, like floresfrescas.com, planetaki.com, 11870.com or the leading social network in Spain, tuenti.com.His latest venture is StepOne.com, a company that helps Spanish businesses to get established in the US. He is also member of the board at Bodaclick.com, the first Spanish internet company to go public.Bernardo joined Google in 2005 and is currently Director of Product Management and Managing Director for Zagat. He is based in New York. ## Floodgate - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS Your first true believers. Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co