# Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in May 2026 ## RRE Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Internet RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that is in it with founders when it matters ## The New York Times - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Publishing, Advertising, Content Live news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world. Subscribe for coverage of U.S. and international news, politics, business, technology, science, health, arts, sports and more. ## Betaworks - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 10 - 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. ## Accel - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce First partner to exceptional teams everywhere ## North Base Media - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Digital Media, Advertising, Publishing NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal. ## Lerer Hippeau - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships ## SVA - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 9 - 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. ## SoftBank Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Software, Advertising SoftBank Group provides venture funding and strategic support to exceptional entrepreneurs building disruptive enduring businesses. They are a small team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who take an "active" approach to helping their companies reach their full potential. They manage $600 million across three funds and investacross a company’s lifecycle, from early to growth stages. Through their close ties to a number of Asia’s leading mobile, internet and technology companies – including strategic partners SoftBank Corp, Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group – SoftBank Capital offers unique expertise to businesses seeking to address the Asian market. Since 1995, SoftBank Capital has partnered with internet pioneers such as Criteo, Gilt Groupe, OMGPOP (Zynga), betaworks, BuzzFeed, Buddy Media (Salesforce.com), Huffington Post (AOL), Associated Content (Yahoo!), Danger (Microsoft), Geocities (Yahoo!), E*Trade and Yahoo!. ## BDMI - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Advertising, Internet Part of media company Bertelsmann, BDMI initially invests $100k to $4m in seed and early stage digital media startups in online video, nextgen publishing and pubtech/adtech. ## Knight Enterprise Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - 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. ## 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 ## LAUNCHub Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software LAUNCHUB is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe. ## Right Side Capital Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - 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. ## Müller Medien - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence Müller family media and its partner network are very strong companies from different media sectors. Versatile and individually therefore also the CVs and personalities of their employees who every day with passion and curiosity to work in their teams to achieve common goals.Hans Müller has 65 years the telephone directory publisher Hans Müllerfounded from his living room out - the foundation for the company's family Müller media. His pioneering spirit is still felt today by the fourth generation and with all my colleagues.The company Müller family media is locally connected and networked world. With their five business segments directories, radio, print media, book and new business they are represented with locations in Europe, USA and Asia. More than 2,000 people every day win the confidence of consumers and customers. Changes and challenges of the media world motivate us to pick up trends early in order to help shape this. Their cooperative working lives of mutual esteem and trust. ## Lighter Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Debt Financing, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software Transform Your Revenue into Growth Capital. Grow your tech company on your terms. Get up to $4M in flexible financing, without selling equity or signing personal guarantees, warrants, or covenants. ## New Enterprise Associates - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’slifecycle, from the seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions. ## Social Leverage - Type: VC Fund - Location: Phoenix, Arizona, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Social Leverage An early stage seed investment fund. ## Flow Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Machine Learning Flow Capital provides founder-friendly growth capital for companies across North America and the UK through venture debt and revenue-based financing. ## Mangrove Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Mangrove Capital Partners is a contrarian investment firm helping innovative entrepreneurs start and grow. ## MDC Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Advertising, Analytics, Software MDC Ventures invests in early stage, marketing technology companies transforming the global marketing landscape. Since 2010 we have been partnering with the innovators, entrepreneurs and startups addressing the needs of the Modern CMO. MDC Ventures is the corporate venture arm of global advertising group, MDC Partners. ## Strong Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Apps Strong Ventures is a seed fund, based in California, that finances, supports, and mentors Korean/Asian/Global entrepreneurs, empowering them to build strong ventures and to break successfully into the global market.With proven experience as operators, executives, and entrepreneurs, they provide hands-on assistance and guidance. On topof their financial investment, they aim to provide tangible value to their entrepreneurs, through network reach, strategic thinking, and execution collaboration. And, as they engage together in their venture endeavors, they hope to make the entrepreneurial ecosystem, where they build companies and labor in, a better, stronger, and more fun place for all. ## Ali Omar - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu. ## Flyover Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Overland Park, Kansas, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Services, SaaS Our purpose is to create the next generation of technology success stories in the Flyover region. ## Joanne Wilson - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail Joanne Wilson has had many careers. She started out in retail, eventually moving to the wholesale arena. She then transitioned to the media side of the technology world, before once again reinventing herself as an investor. She is currently an active angel investor with a portfolio of over 90 companies such as Food52, Sweeten, Vengo, Nestio, Phinand Phebes, Makers Row, Clutter, and Union Station. She has been involved in numerous real estate transactions from beginning to end and continues to make investments in that world. She is also an investor in a few restaurants in the New York area. In addition to these endeavors, Joanne has been involved in various education projects and served as chairperson at Hot Bread Kitchen, non-profit committed to increasing access to the culinary industry for woman and minority entrepreneurs. She also sits on the board of The Highline. Joanne has maintained her very popular blog, www.gothamgal.com for over 11 years and has recently take her talents to the airwaves on her podcast, ""Positively Gotham Gal"". She loves to bake, cook, throw a good party, travel, read, collect art, do the crossword and stay on top of what's happening around the globe and in NYC.Her most successful venture is being married to her best friend, Fred and raising their three kids- Jessica, Emily and Josh ## Social Starts - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds. ## Sven Fund - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Publishing, Information Technology, Digital Media Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp ## PROOF - Type: VC Fund - Location: Reston, Virginia, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile PROOF invests in breakout high-performing companies in growth rounds across all VC sectors except life sciences. The firm works in partnership with early stage VCs and leverages their pro-rata rights in exchange for sharing part of the upside. ## Red Sea Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Software Red Sea Ventures invests in early stage technology-enabled companies that have the potential to transform industries and consumer experiences for the better. ## Foundry Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Foundry is a venture capital firm focused on providing early-stage technology investments. The firm was established in 2007 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, United States. ## Miles Morland - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Education, Publishing Miles co-founded DPI in 2007 after having become non-executive Chairman of Blakeney Management (Blakeney) in July 2006 by which time the firm was considered to be one of the largest portfolio investors in many African stock markets. Blakeney was set up by Miles in 1990, first as a consultancy and, since 1994, as an asset management firm, investingin Africa and the Middle East. Blakeney was one of the first investors in many African markets and Miles played an active role in the development of markets in countries such as Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya and Tunisia.Before starting Blakeney, Miles spent 22 years in money management and investment banking in London and on Wall Street.Miles is also on the boards of SABMiller plc, the world’s second largest brewer and SouthWest Energy (BVI) Ltd, an Ethiopian oil exploration company. He was the founder and chairman for five years of the London Business School’s Africa Board. He read Law at the University of Oxford. Miles is a British citizen. ## First Round Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies. ## New York Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile New York Angels is one of the largest and most active angel investment organizations.Founded in 2004 as the successor organization to the NYNMA (New York New Media Association) Angel Investor Program, New York Angels is a membership organization of over 110 active angel investors and early stage venture capital funds. The group meets monthly toscreen and present early stage technology companies, and its members have invested over $100 million since 2002 into over 90 ventures. In April of 2017, PItchbook identified New York Angels as #3 in their list of the 8 top VCs funding seed rounds of New York-based companies.Among the NYA membership are nationally known angel investors including Esther Dyson and David S. Rose. The group has one full-time staff, reporting to an 11 person Board of Directors chaired by Brian S. Cohen. Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey is currently Program Director of New York Angels. Since 2012, the membership has increased by 66% and investment activity has grown by over 215%. New York Angels concentrates on early stage investments in the range of $100,000 - $1,000,000, although it has led deals as large as $2 million. It receives over 2,200 financing applications annually, from which it selects 12-16 companies each month for an in-person screening, where all members of New York Angels are invited to attend. The group meets again for an Investment Breakfast at the end of the month, where 2-4 opportunities present to the membership with a goal to close their current investment round within two months.The group is considered a leader in the growing field of organized angel investing. It was the first member of the national Angel Capital Association, hosted the ACA Summit conference in 2006, and was the initial test group for the now-standard gust (Angelsoft) funding platform.Membership as an investor in New York Angels is by invitation only, and members are required to commit to investing at least $50,000 annually in early stage technology deals, in addition to the group's $3,500 annual membership dues.Requests for funding for entrepreneurial ventures may be self-submitted through the group's website. New York Angels charges no fees to entrepreneurs. ## Elaia - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Elaia is French venture capital firm focused on European digital and deep tech startups, from early stage to growth developpement. We back tech disruptors. ## PROfounders Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Apps, Travel We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund. ## DFJ Mercury - Type: VC Fund - Location: Houston, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Debt Financing - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care Early-stage venture fund, parent fund is Draper Fisher Jurvetson ## Tuesday Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Advancit Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Norwood, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Digital Media, Media and Entertainment, Software Advancit Capital is a venture firm investing in media, technology and web3 startups. We partner with best-in-class entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading companies. ## Enterprise Ireland - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. ## HV Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies. ## Spark Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages. ## Thomas Glocer - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Tom Glocer joined BlueVoyant as Executive Chairman and Founder in 2017. ## Bpifrance - Type: VC Fund - Location: Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France. ## Google Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward. ## VAM Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: Esch-sur-alzette, Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Private Equity, Seed - Focus: Fashion, Music, Dental Siamo una partnership di imprenditori, manager e professionisti di Private Equity che investono ## Entrée Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech We're a team of former serial founders managing over $1B across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York. ## New York Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet New York Venture Partners is a seed stage venture capital firm dedicated to the entrepreneur. New York Venture Partners provide an ecosystem of financing, mentorship and strategic marketing consulting to the best entrepreneurs out there today. ## Vayner/RSE - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Internet, Mobile, Software Founded in 2014, Vayner/RSE is a marriage of builders: Gary Vaynerchuk, VaynerMedia and RSE Ventures. VRSE invests in teams building tomorrow's companies through unique consumer insight and relentless drive.Our sweet spot is in the first round of institutional financing, funding either as lead investors or as part of a syndicate.Beyond capital, we support our community with access and insights derived across both our investment portfolio and the operating companies we oversee on a daily basis.Our team has a diverse background of starting, growing and operating companies across a variety of industries and life stages and we leverage this mental elasticity to help our entrepreneurs through the gamut of challenges that accompany building companies. ## Wamda Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services Wamda Capital is the MENA region's leading venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs building the region's most promising high growth technology businesses. We invest both at the growth and seed stages with the aim of taking portfolio companies through successive rounds of financing through to exit. ## Felicis - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care Backing founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries ## Sequoia Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet We help the daring build legendary 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