# Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in United States in May 2026

## Courtside Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 31
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Sports, Fitness

Courtside Ventures is the leading early-stage fund focused on Sports, Lifestyle, and Gaming. We invest in passionate entrepreneurs.

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

## Founder Collective
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 19
- 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.

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- 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.

## KB Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Highland Park, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Sports, Software, Information Technology

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

## Gaingels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

## Boston Seed Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Analytics, SaaS

Boston Seed Capital provides seed-stage funding for internet-enabled businesses. Boston Seed Capital's experience is in internet-enabled, consumer, B2B SAAS, and the supporting services marketplaces.
It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

## New Enterprise Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- 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.

## Khosla Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.

## MaC Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.

## SeventySix Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Sports, Mobile

SeventySix Capital is a venture capital company investing in game-changing tech startups in sports, esports, and sports betting.

## Will Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Sports, Fitness

Will Ventures, Early-stage teammates for consumer, health, and media startups.

## Greycroft
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Venture capital and technology investments

## True Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.

## Alliance of Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile

Largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest

## Accomplice
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office. We have been part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, Coinlist, Currencycloud, DraftKings, FalconX, FLOW, Freshbooks, Integral Ad Science, Hopper, HQO, Luna, Near, Orchard, Patreon, PillPack, Plastiq, Recorded Future, SecurityScorecard, Skillz, Veracode, Work Human, WHOOP, Zoopla, and more. We are also founders behind Accomplice Blockchain and the Spearhead operator-angel movement.

## Crosscut Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Crosscut is a venture capital firm in Los Angeles. We partner with early-stage founders to build extraordinary technology companies from Seed to Series A.

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- 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.

## Social Starts
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- 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.

## Elysian Park Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Sports, Software, Health Care

We invest where sports intersect with life.

## Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

## Advancit Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Norwood, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- 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.

## Forerunner Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion

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## Sterling.VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, eSports, Blockchain

Sterling.VC is a sports, media and real estate VC fund supported by Sterling Equities, the principal owner of the Mets, SportsNet New York (SNY) and OverwatchNY.

## 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

## First Round Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- 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.

## Brainchild Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newtown, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

120 companies, 250 founders, $4BB in follow-on capital. Introductions, talent, growth, product, financing and strategy.

## Great Oaks Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

Great Oaks Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with a mission to support and invest in the most innovative and disruptive startups. Visit our home page to learn more about our portfolio companies, investment approach, and the experienced team behind our success.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 10
- 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.

## SVA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- 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.

## Collaborative Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Software

Collab Fund is a leading source of capital for entrepreneurs pushing the world forward.

## Sharp Alpha Advisors
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- 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

## Invest Nebraska
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Invest Nebraska builds a better future for our state by providing financial and operational assistance to high growth companies, advancing the entrepreneurial economy, and attracting out-of-state capital to Nebraska.

## Jason Calacanis
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO.

## Lerer Hippeau
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- 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

## Daren Cotter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Daren was the Founder and CEO of InboxDollars, an online marketing company that connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits both. He founded the company as a Freshman in college in 2000 and bootstrapped the company to more than $25 million in annual revenues. InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege in 2019. Daren is active in the MNstart-up community as an investor, advisor and mentor.

## Joyance Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Wellness

Joyance Partners is the first venture fund supporting companies that deliver Delightful Moments derived from science - a new, transformative cycle of human experience that we see as one of the greatest investment opportunities in decades.

## Connecticut Innovations
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rocky Hill, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

At Connecticut Innovations, we see venture capital the way you see your business. Like no one else. We invest in innovative biotech, IT, and other industries.

## Correlation Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Reimagining our industry. So our clients can disrupt theirs.

## Kleiner Perkins
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

## TCG
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Internet

TCG is an independent media company. Their focus is on majority and minority investments in growing consumer businesses. Our portfolio includes digital media, commerce, marketplaces, sports, gaming, consumer finance, and health and wellness brands and platforms.

## General Catalyst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

## BAM Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet

BAM Ventures is an early-stage consumer-focused fund based in Los Angeles, CA.

## Comcast Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, Enterprise Software

Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs helps talented startups create rapid breakthroughs in connectivity, media with access to our renowned network of partners, brands & mentors.

## Wakestream Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Health Care

Wakestream Ventures is an early stage fund that backs founders working with physical products converging with the internet. Their region has a rich history in innovation, industrial design and manufacturing giving them a unique advantage in the IoT / technical physical product space. They consider themselves an early stage fund with deal sizesranging from $100K–300K in initial investment size with follow-on commitments for 2nd and 3rd rounds up to $1.5M cumulative.

## M13
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

M13 is an early-stage consumer tech venture capital firm. Our founding teams execute better by accessing our full-time operating partners, resources, and network.

## Everblue Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, eSports

Everblue Management is a family office for the hedge fund managers.

## 37 Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

Community of women angel investors that offers angel investing training for investors

## Flyover Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Overland Park, Kansas, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

## Brand Foundry Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness

Brand Foundry Ventures they invest in early-stage companies operating in the consumer and business sectors.

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