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

## Aster
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Energy, Solar

Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).

## Bpifrance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Seventure Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in information and communication technology, and life sciences companies. It funds innovation and participates in the entrepreneurial adventure, alongside entrepreneurs and sharing their passion.Founded in 1997, Seventure Partners is one of the European leaders in venture capital, with€ 660 million under management as of December 31, 2016. It is an active partner of innovative companies that, according to the management team, show strong growth potential and evolving in two fields of activity: Digital Technologies and Life Sciences. With more than 20 employees, including some 15 investors, Seventure Partners has a proven track record and in-depth expertise in technology, entrepreneurship, and various private equity operations.Seventure's goal is to identify and support the development of tomorrow's European leaders in order to accelerate their growth. To do this, the firm provides entrepreneurs with the expertise, networks, and know-how of its internal team of investors.

## GoBeyond
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Medical, Software

GoBeyond is a FinTech company transforming angel investing into a new scalable asset class for small and large, novice to experienced investors. It offers a unique deal platform, portfolio tools, syndication/pooling, due diligence, investment monitoring services, training and certified deal leaders.Its clients are individuals, familyoffices, professional groups and corporations. It is active in the EU, Switzerland and the US. GoBeyond also offers educational training modules for angel investors in 11 categories.

## Investible
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.

## Creandum
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile

We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.

## 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.

## Foresight Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care

Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.

## 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.

## LocalGlobe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

## Asimov Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: 3D Printing, Manufacturing, Medical Device

Venture Capital for 3D Printing and Robotics

## Eagles Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Internet

Eagles Fund is a diversified angel fund and family fund.

## Angels Den
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software

Angels Den is an angel-led investment platform that connects fast-growing companies with experienced investors.

## 1818 Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. Peter Port, NA - Guernsey, Guernsey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

1818 Venture Capital is proud to invest in portfolios of tech startups that aim to generate wealth for our investors and do good in the world.

## Aura Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Aura Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm backing the creators of category defining technology companies

## 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.

## CASSIUS Family
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Gaming, Health Care

Early stage VC focused on the consumer internet and brands that will shape tomorrow's culture.

## SGPA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Neuilly-sur-seine, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Enterprise Software

SGPA is a family and independent company that invests in the long term in PME, ETI, and Start-ups. They support, finance and accompany leaders for the development of their business.

## VA Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

VA Angels, one of Canada’s leading angel investment groups, has member locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna and Winnipeg. Since 2003 they have done 57 deals worth $28.5 million and are one of the most active angel groups in Canada.

## 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.

## M Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Software

M Capital is an independent investment company with +€500m AuM.
A unique hub where entrepreneurs can have an equity finance and quasi-equity as well as a permanent support to accelerate their growth.
In 2020, M Capital has funded over 200 French companies.

## 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.

## 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

## 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

## 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.

## Eleven Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.

## Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Investment Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Real Estate, Consumer, Sporting Goods

CIOSIF is a key part of the government’s vision aimed at boosting the region’s economy

## 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.

## Elkstone Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Medical, Medical Device

Elkstone Capital Partners is a multi-family office focused on venture, real estate and wealth management.

## Turenne Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Turenne Capital is an independant private equity management company, with 4 offices in France :
- Paris
- Lyon
- Marseilles
- Lille (joint-venture). Since 1999, Turenne Capital has been taking significant minority or majority equity stakes alongside entrepreneurs who operate SMEs with revenues ranging from €5 million to € 100 million.
Itinvests between €1 million and €10 million per transaction. Turenne Capital manages/advises more than € 500 million.
32 people, among which 21 investors work in the Group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Turenne Capital est une Société de gestion indépendante spécialisée en capital investissement.
Turenne Capital accompagne depuis 1999 des entrepreneurs dans leur développement et la transmission de leur société et est implantée à :
- Paris
- Lyon
- Marseille
- Lille (filiale) Les tickets d'investissement vont de '1 à 10 millions d'euros en minoritaire et majoritaire dans des PME de 5 à 100 M€ de Chiffre d'affaires. Le Groupe Turenne Capital compte 32 professionnels dont 21 investisseurs, et gère/conseille plus de 500 M€ confiés par des institutionnels et des particuliers.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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 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.

## 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

## Aglaé Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Aglaé Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Paris, New York and San Francisco backed by Groupe Arnault, the controlling shareholder of LVMH, global leader in luxury goods. Aglaé invests from € 100k up to € 100m in asset light tech businesses at all stages.
Groupe Arnault-backed companies include Netflix, Spotify, Backmarket, Betfair, Airbnb,Slack, Algolia, Lyft and others.

## Real Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com

## Autotech Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Transportation, Software, Automotive

Autotech Ventures is a venture capital firm that manages more than $400 million to invest in start-ups that aim to generate financial returns in the vast $3 trillion ground transportation industry. Connected, autonomous, shared and electrified vehicles and related mobility services have created tectonic shifts in the incumbent ground transportationindustry. Vehicle manufacturers, parts suppliers, dealerships, repair shops, parking operators, ground logistics firms, and road infrastructure providers are all being impacted by ground transportation startups.Autotech Ventures provides startup companies with 1) capital to execute on their business plan, 2) access to its industry contacts - including dozens of ground transportation corporate investors who together represent a global market capitalization of over $500 billion dollars, 3) up-to-the-minute market intelligence on the ground transport landscape, 4) support in recruiting ground transportation industry talent, and 5) fundraising support to raise additional capital from other financially-motivated investors and strategic investors.Start-ups typically innovate quickly then scale slowly, while corporations typically innovate slowly then scale quickly. Autotech Ventures brings startups and corporations together to bridge this gap and build a new transportation future.

## 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.

## Equity Gap
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, SaaS

Equity Gap is a group of private individuals set up to invest in and support emerging and growing businesses based in Scotland

## TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is an early stage VC fund targeting high tech startups with strong growth potential. The fund invests into ventures located in Saxony/Germany, Europe's leading semiconductor cluster. The team has invested into more than 120 companies so far, including more than 40 investments from the currentfund.

## 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.

## Grazia Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Biotechnology

Grazia Equity is a venture Capital firm investing in innovative, technology driven startups with high potential.Based in Stuttgart (Germany), Grazia has been supporting a large number of mostly young companies, often from their foundation to the Initial Public Offering or eventual sale.
In contrast to other venture capital firms, theypredominantly work with their own capital that they invest as entrepreneurs.

## Octopus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

## 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.

## 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

## 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

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