# Top 50 Sporting Goods VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United States in May 2026

## Jumpstart New Jersey Angel Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Software

Jumpstart is a private, member-lead, angel group that invests in early-stage technology companies in the Mid-Atlantic region. As the leading angel group in New Jersey, Jumpstart members include many successful entrepreneurs, business executives and venture capitalists in the region.

## Listen
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Wellness

Listen is a consumer-focused venture capital firm that backs and builds the brands of tomorrow.

## Guild Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Founded in 2009 by Iain Shovlin, Guild typically backs founders as their first institutional investor, actively partnering with them to assist in crafting growth strategies, architecting high-performance teams, creating distinctive brands, and embracing metric-driven management. The company is headquartered in Miami Beach and invests in Chicago,Los Angeles and New York in the US, and in Mumbai and Pune in India.

## Bread and Butter Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, SaaS

Bread and Butter Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Minnesota, the Bread and Butter State, investing globally while leveraging our state and region’s unparalleled access to strong corporate connections, commercial opportunities, and industry expertise for the benefit of our teams. Led by Brett Brohl and Mary Grove, we investin founders at the seed stage across foodtech, digital health and enterprise saas.

## Wavemaker Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.

## Keiretsu Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Keiretsu Capital LLC is an affiliate of the World's Leading Angel Network, Keiretsu Forum, and manages funds which enable limited partners to co-invest in the proprietary deal flow of the angel investors.

## Keiretsu Forum Northwest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology

Keiretsu Forum is a community of private equity investors, business leaders and entrepreneurs with a network of over 50 global chapters and more than 2,500 investor members.

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

## Keiretsu Forum
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology

Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 2,500 accredited investor members throughout 47 chapters on 3 continents.

## Break Trail Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Fashion, Software, SaaS

Break Trail Ventures is an early stage venture fund based in Columbus, OH and Boulder, CO.

## The R-Group, LLC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Family Office, active Angel Investing

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

RiverPark Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund, founded by entrepreneurs to invest in entrepreneurs. RiverPark Ventures is part of the RiverPark family of funds, a multi-strategy portfolio management firm. RiverPark Funds collectively manage over $3 billion in assets.

## Sharp Alpha Advisors
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Sports, Fantasy Sports

Sharp Alpha Advisors is a venture capital firm specializing in sports betting and online gaming

## Gopher Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care

We are the most active Minnesota investor network, supporting the Midwest startup community through angel investment, a shared knowledge bank.

## GAN Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

GAN Ventures is the investment arm of the Global Accelerator Network

## Teamworthy Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

At Teamworthy Ventures, we seek to develop long-term relationships with talented and trustworthy entrepreneurs and teams, and we invest in their ventures at the seed, early, or growth stage. A sample of our investments: SeatGeek, Ibotta, Boxed, and more. Our partners are Thomas Lehrman, Evan Kaye, a

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## Founder Collective
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

## Alliance of Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile

Largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest

## Dundee Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Omaha, Nebraska, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Dundee Venture Capital invests $250,000-$1M in high-growth, early-stage technology companies. DVC invests across industries in founding teams they believe in. Most of DVC's investments are in e-commerce, B2B SaaS, or consumer networks.Dundee VC formally began in 2010. The root of the idea started much earlier when Mark Hasebroock, DundeeVC’s founding, and managing partner, was raising money for his two e-commerce companies, giftcertificates.com and Hayneedle.com, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, respectively.

## KB Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Highland Park, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Sports, Software, Information Technology

We invest in passionate innovators at the intersection of sports and technology.

## Southern Capitol Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology

Southern Capitol Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and mid stage companies. The firm also considers investing in later stage opportunities and spinouts partnering with larger venture capital funds. It considers investments in technology and life science businesses, which typically includes e-commerce, software, digitalmedia, wireless, mobile, and healthcare information technology.

## Johnson Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

Johnson Venture Partners (JVP) is a micro VC fund investing in seed and early-stage startups in the Southeast. The fund invests in a diversified portfolio of technology startups with high potential for growth to acquisition, IPO, or other liquidity event. Structured as an evergreen fund, JVP creates long-term value for entrepreneurs and investors by providing capital, connections, and startup expertise. JVP is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

## SouthWest Colorado Accelerator Program for Entrepreneurs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Durango, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Outdoors, Software, Online Portals

SCAPE’s mission is to help create more high-growth, job-creating companies in the Four Corners by providing education, mentoring, and access to funding for startups and early-stage companies.
SCAPE has launched 43 companies that have raised $27,000,000 in capital contributions to the creation of 200 local jobs.

## FIH Mobile
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Langfang, Hebei, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Consumer Electronics, Augmented Reality

FIH Mobile is a handset manufacturing and Integrator services company.

## Brick Capital Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Advertising, Apps

The Bricks wants to invest in and support great start up ideas. Find the next big problem. Create its solution.

## NewBound Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Sports, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment

NewBound VC is an early stage venture capital firm partnering with entrepreneurs who challenge what's "possible".

## One Team Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C
- Focus: Gaming, Sports, Apps

OneTeam helps athletes maximize the value of their name, image, and likeness rights.

## Great North Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Venture capital fund and venture studio. We invest in startups using breakthrough technologies to innovate industries dominated by analog processes.

## Liquid 2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

## Pitbull Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Pitbull Ventures is a seed/pre-seed fund based in Los Angeles, CA

## GOS Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Real Estate, Telecommunications

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## Phoenix Capital Ventures (PCV)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Health Care, Video Games

Phoenix Capital Ventures (PCV) is an early Stage venture capital firm partnering with companies in sports, gaming, health, wellness and interactive media industries.

## Walking Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Walking Ventures is a seed fund which invests in early-stage Internet and other technology startups based in Europe.
The fund is a private vehicle controlled by Tim Jackson, a leading figure in the European technology scene as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, angel investor, commentator and technology journalist.

## NEXT VENTŪRES
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Sports

NEXT VENTŪRES is a venture capital firm that invests in the sports, fitness, health, and wellness markets. With established expertise and deep connections in these markets as well as proven financial track records, the NEXT VENTŪRES team is well positioned to create significant value for their investors and their portfolio companies.The firm wasestablished in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, CA

## LBO Enterprises
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Flushing, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series D
- Focus: Sports, Shopping, Marketing

LBO Capital is a venture capital firm based in Flushing, New York.

## Madison Valley Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, GPS, Mobile

Madison Valley Partners is a investment firm.

## Al Dhow Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Safat, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Apps, SaaS

Al Dhow Capital Venture is the investment arm of Al Dhow Capital Holdings, based in Kuwait

## Andy Liu
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Lifestyle, E-Commerce, Manufacturing

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## Kellett Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kirkland, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Retail, Sporting Goods, Online Auctions

Kellett Schaffner gives you the knowledge, advice, and confidence you need to make the right choices for your financial future. Welcome to Financial Confidence.

## Rob Harris
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Lifestyle, E-Commerce, Manufacturing

Rob Harris

## LVMH Luxury Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Shoes

LVMH Luxury Ventures is an investment vehicle seeking minority investments in emerging and promising brands in the luxury sector. 
LLV primarily focuses on segments where the LVMH Group is aleady operating, but is also interested in new areasThe fund manages c.€50m (excluding follow-up rounds), investing equity tickets from €2m to €15m andtargeting brands with revenue ranging from €3m to €30mThe vehicle was founded by Julie Bercovy, is fully funded by the LVMH Group and is based in Paris, France

## National Basketball Association
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Analytics

The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America, and is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world.The NBA is a global sports and media business built around three professional sports leagues: the National Basketball Association, theWomen’s National Basketball Association and the NBA G League. The league has established a major international presence with games and programming in 215 countries and territories in 49 languages, and NBA merchandise for sale in more than 125,000 stores in 100 countries on 6 continents. NBA rosters at the start of the 2016-17 season featured a record 113 international players from 41 countries and territories. NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, NBA App and NBA LEAGUE PASS. The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than 1.3 billion likes and followers globally across all league, team, and player platforms. Through NBA Cares, the league addresses important social issues by working with internationally recognized youth-serving organizations that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes.

## Chiratae Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## NAI Elliott
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Retail, Electronics, Health Care

NAI Elliott has four decades of experience in commercial real estate, thriving and growing in our roles as advisors, brokers and managers. 

## Westlake International Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce

Westlake International Group is a privately held, diversified investment company with operations in the United States, China, Latin America, Japan, India and Canada. Their investments span private and public equities, including venture capital, professional sports, media and entertainment, emerging technologies, life sciences and real estate. Theyhave over 30 years of investing history with early stage companies in media, technology, and consumer products.Their investment focus at present is consumer products. They seek to invest in and support the growth of businesses in the consumer goods and services sector with an allocation for opportunistic investments in media and technology. They are passionate about playing an active role in growing businesses.

## SWAN Venture Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kirkland, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Medical Device

SWAN is Seattle's Seed Stage Venture Fund. We provide the first major outside investment and continuous expertise and support

## Columbia Pacific Advisors
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Columbia Pacific Advisors is a Seattle-based investment management firm providing services to pooled investment vehicles.

## Comerica Incorporated
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, strategically aligned by the Business Bank, the Retail Bank, and Wealth Management. The Business Bank provides companies of all sizes with an array of credit and non-credit financial products and services. The Retail Bank delivers personalizedfinancial products and services to consumers. Wealth Management serves the needs of high net worth clients and institutions.Comerica’s nearly 9,000 colleagues focus on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. Comerica operates in seven of the 10 largest U.S. cities, with 480 banking centers in its primary markets of Texas, Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan. Select businesses operate in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico. Comerica is among the 22 largest U.S. banking companies, with $69.2 billion in total assets at December 31, 2014.Visit Comerica's Facebook page at facebook.com/ComericaCares or on Twitter at @ComericaCares for more information on how Comerica is making a positive difference in the communities it serves.Comerica's chief economist, Robert Dye, provides economic research, commentary and analysis. You can follow him on Twitter at @Comerica_Econ.

## Intel Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

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

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