# Top 50 Non Profit Startup Investors in May 2026

## New Media Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Non Profit, Government, Software

New Media Ventures is the first seed fund and national network of angel investors supporting media and tech startups that disrupt politics and catalyze progressive change.

## Allos Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carmel, Indiana, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS

Allos Ventures invests in early-stage B2B software and business services companies in the Midwest. The firm invests in businesses and partners with entrepreneurs to help these companies accelerate growth and build value.
Allos Ventures was formed in early 2010 and is based in Carmel, Indiana, United States.

## Bob Bickel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Non Profit

Bob Bickel is the Founder and CEO at RunSignUp.

## Cayuga Venture Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ithaca, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Telecommunications

Cayuga Venture Fund funds advanced technology and high growth companies in New York State.

## 1776 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Education, EdTech, Software

1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare. 

## Nihal Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS

Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder at Eniac Ventures. He was an Angel Investor at Uber. He attended the University of Pennsylvania.

## Higher Ground Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Politics, Government

Higher Ground Labs is a venture fund and ecosystem builder investing in technology for political progress.

## Acumen
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

## Knight Enterprise Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Digital Media, Social Media

Knight Enterprise Fund is a venture capital firm based in Florida that finances early stage investments of media and technology companies.

## Federico Pirzio-Biroli
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Non Profit, Software, Venture Capital

Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.

## Shorooq Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech

Shorooq Partnersis the leading tech investor in the region, inspired by the best entrepreneurs, investors and practices from around the world.

## Excell Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rochester, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing

Excell is a New York State-supported seed fund. Although it is a not-for-profit organization, Excell maintains a for-profit discipline by structuring each investment with convertible debt and equity returns so that, over time, the fund becomes self-sustaining or evergreen.

## 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.

## GGV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

We believe the talent to build great companies comes from anywhere. A global venture capital firm that invests in local founders. As a multi-stage, sector-focused firm, GGV focuses on seed- to growth-stage investments across Social/Internet, Enterprise Tech, and Smart Tech sectors.

## ff Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

## MK Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Northbrook, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Video, Enterprise Software

MK Capital offers multi-stage growth equity and venture capital to companies. MK Capital portfolio, companies get access to an experienced partner with deep operating experience. We leverage insights from a strong understanding of our sectors to help our portfolios companies grow. They collaborate on strategy, operations, and technology as activemembers on the boards of our portfolio companies.

## Waverley Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Media and Entertainment, Mobile Apps, Association

Waverley Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage startup investments. Moreover, the firm targets to invest in the media and entertainment sectors.
Founded in 2017 by Edgar Bronfman Jr. and Daniel Leff, Waverley Capital is headquartered in New York, New York.

## Inherent Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Non Profit, SaaS, Education

We believe that businesses that incorporate material sustainability factors into their strategy, operations, and culture will outperform over the long-term.

## Rand Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Buffalo, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology

Rand Capital Corporation is a registered, closed-end management investment corporation investing in the securities of businesses that offer unique opportunities for growth. Rand Capital provides venture capital and management experience to support the growth and development of businesses in varied industries, primarily in the Western New York andUpstate New York region.

## Houston Angel Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

The Houston Angel Network (HAN) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing the innovation ecosystem in Houston, Texas by supporting founders and startups with financial resources and mentorship.

## Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Non Profit, Communities, Charity

The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation is an independent grant-making foundations in the UK.

## Prudential Financial
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newark, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Private Equity
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Prudential Financial is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of investment management, life insurance, and retirement benefits. It focuses on helping individuals and institutional customers to grow and protect their wealth. The company also offers an inclusive work environment where employees can develop to their fullpotential, and give back to the communities where they live and work. Prudential Financial was founded in 1875 and headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

## Stage 1 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, SaaS

Stage 1 Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that is seeking to build partnerships with great entrepreneurs that are flexible and who want to build meaningful companies. They want to assist you with their global network of relationships as well as provide the capital you need to fuel the growth of your company.Their market focus todayis in Mobile, the Executable Internet or Software as a Service (SaaS) , IPTV and Internet Video, Pay-For-Performance Marketing and Advertising, and Security.

## OneVentures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

OneVentures is one of Australia’s leading venture capital firms, with over $330M in funds under management. But they do more than invest. They take companies to that all important next stage, by actively shaping their future. They apply their years of international experience, operational and executional expertise to accelerate the growth of theirportfolio companies. A global growth focus drives their investment selection with their current portfolio including companies with truly innovative products tackling multi-billion-dollar problems, from needle-free vaccinations to virtual communications to adaptive e-learning.

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

## Redpoint eventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Redpoint eventures's approach is to help entrepreneurs by offering the benefits of both local and international VCs including insight, company building, financing, and exit.

## Michael Coors
- Type: Angel
- Location: Golden, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Financial Services, SaaS, Water

Michael Coors - Co-CEO @ CoorsTek Sensors

## Silicon Valley Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Silicon Valley Bank works with technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity, and premium wine businesses. SVB provides industry knowledge and connections, financing, treasury management, corporate investment, and international banking services to its clients worldwide through 27 U.S. offices and seven internationaloperations. Banking innovative companies and exclusive wineries, Silicon Valley Bank’s diverse financial services, knowledge, global network, and world-class service increase its clients’ probability of success. Forbes Magazine ranks SVB among America’s Best Banks, and Fortune Magazine named SVB one of the Best Companies to Work For in 2012.

## Flywheel Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bloomington, Indiana, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics

Flywheel Fund is a one-year, member-managed capital fund, run by The Mill, that invests in early stage tech startups based in Indiana.

## Project 11 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Analytics

At Project 11 Ventures we invest in and assist early stage companies.

## Michael Birch
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Social Media, Internet

Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo and Birthday Alarm. Birch was raised in North London, England, went to Imperial College, London in Central London (where he met Xochi, his wife), then worked in West London. After finally deciding that he had done London, Michael moved to San Francisco in 2002.Michael and Xochi Birch sold Bebo to AOL inMarch 2008 for USD 850 million. Their combined 70% stake yielded a profit of $595 million from the deal. In June 2008, Michael invested in, and joined the board of MyStore.com along with Julian Lennon and Gordon Crawford. He is also an investor in Goodreads, a book oriented social network.Having worked in a number of not-so-exciting computer related jobs, he relished the chance to set up an Internet based family business with his wife, Xochi and brother, Paul. Remembering birthdays was never his strong point, much to his embarrassment, so what could be better than something he could use himself. Michael was responsible for developing the original Birthday Alarm website back in 2001, but is no longer involved in its development.

## Unexo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rennes, Bretagne, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Medical, Telecommunications, Food and Beverage

Unexo is a private equity arm of Crédit Agricole SA specializing in investments in middle market and mature companies, growth capital, development srtages, leveraged management buyout, leveraged management buyin, owner's buyout, and recapitalization transactions.

## Parade Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Banking

Parade Ventures is a seed stage venture fund investing in enterprise-themed companies.

## NXT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Analytics

NXT Ventures Fund is a Boston Angel Investment Fund established for the purpose of discovering and enabling the next truly disruptive start-up companies.

## SVA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Our experience spans from helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe scale. Over the last 30 years of early-stage investing, our core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with our founder-first approachhave driven our strategy. We are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. We support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging our network to help them propel their businesses forward.

## Evolem Start
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Evolem is an evergreen fund sponsored by an entrepreneur with net worth > 850m€ (Bruno Rousset, Founder of April, listed insurance broker with 1B€ market cap). No external LP's, quick process and no exit deadline. We invest from 100k to 3M€ in french startup raising 500k€ to 10M€.

## NGEN Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy

NGEN Partners is an active venture investor committed to backing world class entrepreneurs seeking to change industries through innovation, creativity and the promotion of environmentally sustainable products and services.Founded in 2001, NGEN Partners invests in companies that positively improve the environment and human wellness. We seekentrepreneurs with unique business models and differentiated products and services, capable of rapid growth and sustained profitability. We invest in and alongside these entrepreneurs, helping them grow and sustain category leaders. We invest throughout North America, and have offices in California and New York.

## Contrary
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Contrary is a venture fund that identifies and invests in the world’s top talent. Backed by iconic founders from Tesla, Airbnb, Facebook, and more.

## Big Issue Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Grant
- Focus: Charity, Non Profit, Communities

Big Issue Invest empowers sustainable business solutions to deliver real social change.

## 10x Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

10x Group is a group of serial entrepreneurs and founders investing in founders of digital start-ups in Europe and Silicon Valley.

## Zachary Smith
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Non Profit, Innovation Management

Zac is a passionate business builder with a focus on infrastructure services, including cloud platforms, hosting services, automation software and financial transaction clearing. Prior to Packet, Zachary was an early employee and key member of the management team at Voxel, a NY-based cloud hosting company with a focus on infrastructure automationthat sold to Internap (NASDAQ: INAP) in 2011 for 35MM. Zac is a closet musician, having attended Juilliard as a double bass major and promptly switching to software-driven infrastructure after graduation. He lives is NYC with his wife and two young boys.

## Blue Earth Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Baar, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: Non Profit, Innovation Management, Battery

Blue Earth Capital is an independent global impact investment firm, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland with operations in New York, London, Singapore, Luxembourg and Guernsey.

## Vanguard Charitable
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Southeastern, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Non Profit, Innovation Management, Collaboration

Vanguard Charitable is a top U.S. grantmaking organization

## The FSE Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Finance East Limited delivers funding for businesses based in the East of England region.

## Karlin Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Karlin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Los Angeles. They are value-add partners helping entrepreneurs who take contrarian approaches to create impactful solutions to big, interesting problems. Karlin Ventures is an affiliate of Karlin Asset Management, a private investment firm managing over $1.4 billion of unleveragedequity capital.Focus on enterprise software, eCommerce, marketplaces, advertising technology, and education technology but are open to exciting ideas in other verticals. Typical investments range from $100,000 to $2,000,000. Prefer co-investor roles and will participate in follow-on rounds.

## Red Swan Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce

Red Swan is a seed stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs who delight customers, create culture, and disrupt industries.If Black Swans are unforeseen calamitous events, Red Swans are great companies most of us never saw coming. They are built by entrepreneurs who create joy for their customers, provide meaning to their employees,and who scare their shareholders by passing on acquisition offers. They tend to be movements as much as businesses.

## Alphadyne Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Non Profit, Innovation Management, Collaboration

Alphadyne Asset Management is an alternative investment management firm that invests in developed and emerging markets.

## Rose Park Advisors
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Rose Park Advisors, LLC is a specialized investment firm that applies the theory of disruptive innovation.

## Koinvesticinis Fondas
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Machine Learning

The co-investment fund invests in start-ups and business start-ups with business angel groups or private venture capital funds.

## Habib Haddad
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Agriculture, Internet, Non Profit

Habib is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor, recently turned VC. He is currently the CEO of Wamda.com and the managing partner of Wamda Capital. He founded Yamli.com the Arabic search and transliteration startup that licensed its technology to Yahoo. He also started a number of non-profits including YallaStartup, INLET and ReliefLebanon.In2009, the World Economic Forum recognized Habib as a Young Global Leader and the ArabianBusiness named him one of the top 30 influential Arabs under 30 as well as of the most 500 powerful Arabs. He currently serves on the Global Agenda Council on innovation. He is an advisor to several US and Middle Eastern startups and non-profits. Habib is behind the original idea behind Yamli, and today drives Yamli's vision of empowering the Arabic language and users on the web. His responsibilities span from product strategy and design to business development. The World Economic Forum recently recognized Habib as a Young Global Leader for 2009.Prior to Yamli, he worked as a senior engineer at ATI (later acquired by AMD); and before that he was part of the early engineering team at Mok3 (now Everyscape), a startup out of the MIT CSAIL lab.Habib co-founded INLET (International Network of Lebanese Entrepreneurs and Technologists), an organization geared towards promoting entrepreneurship and leadership for the Arab world in general and Lebanon in particular. He also founded Relief Lebanon, a grass roots effort aimed at supporting the relief operations in Lebanon during the July 2006 war. Relief Lebanon was featured by the "101 Stories to Tell" initiative by the UNDP in February 2009.Habib often speaks about early stage development and entrepreneurship, and has spoken at venues such as the Harvard Business School, Boston College and the American University of Beirut. He currently sits on the advisory board of Meedan, a non-profit startup that aims to enable cross-cultural dialogs online.Habib holds a Bachelor of Computer and Communication Engineering from the American University in Beirut and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

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