# Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in May 2026

## Courtside Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 40
- 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.

## BITKRAFT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 27
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain

We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming, esports, and interactive media.

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- 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.

## Bpifrance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 21
- 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.

## Founder Collective
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- 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.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 20
- 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.

## KB Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Highland Park, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Sports, Software, Information Technology

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

## Sam Enrico Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports

Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr.
Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 18
- 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.

## Gaingels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- 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.

## Elysian Park Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Sports, Software, Health Care

We invest where sports intersect with life.

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- 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.

## Everblue Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, eSports

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

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Boston Seed Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- 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.

## Khosla Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems. The firm provides venture assistance and strategic advice to entrepreneurs working on breakthrough technologies.With over $15b assets under management, the firm focuses on a range of areas including consumer, enterprise, education,advertising, financial services, semiconductors, health, big data, agriculture, food, sustainable energy, and robotics. Khosla Ventures is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

## 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 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 Starts
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- 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.

## MaC Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 14
- 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.

## TheVentureCity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow.

## 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.

## PreSeed Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

PreSeed Ventures is the biggest and most succesful early stage investor in Denmark. For more than 20 years, PreSeed Ventures have assisted and financed talented entrepreneurs with early-stage investments, and we hold more than 70 companies in our portfolio.

## Alliance of Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile

Largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest

## Sharp Alpha Advisors
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- 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

## Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- 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.

## Will Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Sports, Fitness

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

## Atlantic Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures.&nbsp;<br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.

## General Catalyst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

## Kima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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

## RTP Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.

## 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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## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

## SVA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- 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.

## Collaborative Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- 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.

## Draper B1
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Our mission is to help entrepreneurs who are innovating and transforming the way we live and work.

## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Software

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

## Animoca Brands
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner and ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification that is working to advance digital property rights and contribute to the establishment of an open metaverse. The company develops and publishes a broadportfolio of products including the REVV token and SAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. It has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Grease Monkey Games, Eden Games, Darewise Entertainment, Notre Game, and TinyTap. Animoca Brands has a growing portfolio of more than 340 investments, including Colossal, Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others. For more information visit www.animocabrands.com.

## Boost VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Blockchain

Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.

## 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.

## Kleiner Perkins
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- 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.

## Lerer Hippeau
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- 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

## Passion Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Passion Capital is an early stage venture capital firm based in London.

## TCG
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- 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.

## Kevin Lin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games

Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.

## Fil Rouge Capital (FRC)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) invests in early stage businesses from angel investment, seed, VC and Series A rounds through a combination of equity and debt structures.FRC’s approach is to target investments that complement the skills and experience of its Founders so that they can bring more than just capital to help a business grow. Both FRC’sFounders have a core knowledge of technology, services, and an entrepreneurial history that they can bring to the benefit of an investment. FRC is Europe-centric, and with a base in Ljubljana, Slovenia, there is an additional focus on Central and Eastern Europe, Austria and Southern Germany. On an opportunistic basis FRC will look at deals throughout Europe and also the United States. The Founders are well-connected to accelerators in Central Europe and in Silicon Valley.

## 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.

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