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

## Accel
- Relevant deals: 252
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, IT

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## GV
- Relevant deals: 251
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Science/Engineering, Health Care

GV provides venture capital funding to bold new companies. Across the fields of life science, enterprise technology, consumer products and services, and frontier technology, GV's portfolio companies aim to improve lives and transform industries. GV's team of world-class engineers, designers, physicians, scientists, marketers, andinvestors work together to provide startups exceptional support.Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV is the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Inc. GV helps startups interface with Google, providing unique access to the world’s best technology and talent.GV has $8 billion under management. Notable investment outcomes include Uber, Slack, One Medical Group, Nest, Flatiron Health, and Duo Security. GV is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in San Francisco, Boston, New York, and London.

## Kleiner Perkins
- Relevant deals: 233
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Software, IT, Internet

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

## True Ventures
- Relevant deals: 231
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Data and Analytics

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.

## Sequoia Capital
- Relevant deals: 215
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, IT, Internet

We help the daring build legendary companies.

## Founder Collective
- Relevant deals: 208
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Commerce/Shopping

Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.

## RRE Ventures
- Relevant deals: 193
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Financial

RRE Ventures they are long-term lead investor. They are active strategic, operational, and financial partners with the companies they finance.

## Greylock
- Relevant deals: 191
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, IT

Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are early partners of remarkable teams building companies that matter.

## Uncork Capital
- Relevant deals: 189
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Data and Analytics

Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around.

## Bessemer Venture Partners
- Relevant deals: 185
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, IT, Internet

For the entrepreneurs who want to create revolutions of their own.

## Canaan Partners
- Relevant deals: 174
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Science/Engineering, Health Care

Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud,marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health, and medtech.

## DCVC
- Relevant deals: 169
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Science/Engineering, Data and Analytics

Deep Tech VC firm with over $2B under management

## Foundation Capital
- Relevant deals: 164
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, IT, Internet

Building companies is in our bones.

## Index Ventures
- Relevant deals: 162
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, IT

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

## Threshold
- Relevant deals: 158
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, IT

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies.
Threshold was founded in 2019 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

## Ulu Ventures
- Relevant deals: 158
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial, IT

With deep connections to Stanford and Silicon Valley, Ulu Ventures is a venture capital firm that actively seeks and funds women and diverse founder teams.

## Jason Calacanis
- Relevant deals: 156
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment

Founder @ Launch Accelerator
Co-Founder @ Growth University
Team Member @ Signpost
Angel Investor @ Uber
Founder & CEO @ Inside.com
Founder & CEO @ LAUNCH
Founder @ Autoblog


## Lux Capital
- Relevant deals: 154
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Science/Engineering, Health Care

Lux Capital Management manages of $4 billion in assets focused on founding, seed, early-stage, and growth investments in the physical, material and life sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high growth sectors. Its investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux's investmentstrategy ensures our portfolio companies are better connected, have a deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors.

## Global Founders Capital
- Relevant deals: 152
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial, Commerce/Shopping

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

## CRV
- Relevant deals: 152
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, IT, Internet

CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise and consumer startups. Since 1970, the firm has invested in more than 400 startups at their most crucial stages, including DoorDash, Airtable, Patreon, Drift and Iterable. Founders need more than capital to build a great company. It takes a partner who understands the entrepreneurial journey and knows what it takes to win. From founding to IPO and beyond, CRV is there every step of the way. Founders rely on CRV to be trusted, long-term, committed partners, which has helped make CRV into one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the world. Learn more about CRV and the companies shaping the future at https://www.crv.com.

## Crosslink Capital
- Relevant deals: 150
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, IT

Crosslink, founded in 1989, is a premier early-stage venture capital firm with over $1.3B in assets. Crosslink partners with founders that are market disrupters and category creators, typically at the Seed-Series A stage, across highly dynamic enterprise and consumer technology sectors. Over its history, Crosslink has had the opportunity topartner with defining companies such as Bleacher Report (acquired by TWX), BuildingConnected (acquired by ADSK), Chime, Coupa (COUP), DataStax, Molekule, Omniture (acquired by ADBE), Personal Capital (acquired by Empower Retirement), Postmates (acquired by UBER), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Verodin (acquired by FEYE), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone) and Weave.

## Redpoint
- Relevant deals: 150
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, IT

Redpoint has partnered with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones since 1999. The firm invests in startups across seed, early, and growth phases. In total, Redpoint manages $4 billion across multiple funds.
Redpoint Ventures was founded in 1999 and is based in Menlo Park, California, United States.

## Madrona Venture Group
- Relevant deals: 147
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Data and Analytics, Internet

A venture capital firm that teams with technology entrepreneurs to nurture ideas from startup to market success.

## Intel Capital
- Relevant deals: 146
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Hardware, Internet

Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, edge, 5G, autonomy, cybersecurity, client & gaming, enterprise applications, silicon design & manufacturing, and a wide range of other disruptive technologies. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested US$12.9 billion in more than 1,582 companies worldwide.Intel Capital has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

## Social Starts
- Relevant deals: 145
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

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.

## Bain Capital Ventures
- Relevant deals: 145
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, IT, Data and Analytics

Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that are using tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones. The firm invests from seed to growth in enterprise software, infrastructure software, and industries being transformed by data. Bain Capital Ventures has helped launch and commercialize 200-plus companiessince 2000, including investments in DocuSign, Jet.com, Kiva Systems, LinkedIn, Rapid7, SurveyMonkey, Taleo, and TellApart. Bain Capital Ventures has more than $5.2 billion of assets under management with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Boston.Bain Capital Ventures was founded in 1984.

## FundersClub
- Relevant deals: 142
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, IT, Commerce/Shopping

FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab.FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more;FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.

## Schematic Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 36
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Logistics, Artificial Intelligence

Early-stage venture capital fund focused on investments in technology companies within the supply chain, manufacturing and digital industrial sectors

## Trucks Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 34
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Transportation, Autonomous Vehicles, Automotive

Trucks Venture Capital funds the entrepreneurs building the future of transportation.

## Fontinalis Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 33
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Transportation, Mobile

Fontinalis Partners, with offices in Detroit and Boston, is a venture capital firm strategically focused on next generation mobility. Fontinalis’ mission is to leverage the team’s considerable management experience, market access, strategic relationships, international expertise, and background in transportation innovation to scale companiesproviding next-generation mobility solutions. Fontinalis invests as a strategic partner across all facets of the world’s mobility systems on a stage- and size-agnostic basis. Fontinalis is not affiliated with Ford Motor Company.

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 32
- 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.

## Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 30
- 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.

## MaC Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- 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.

## First Round Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 29
- 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.

## Greycroft
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 28
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Venture capital and technology investments

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 28
- 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.

## SVA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 28
- 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.

## Liquid 2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 26
- 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.

## 8VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 25
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

8VC seeks to enable industry transformation. In a wave of creative destruction, they believe emerging platforms will replace the decades-old technology infrastructure behind many industries, promoting greater innovation and prosperity.

## Upfront Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. We invest in technology businesses across digital media, SaaS, consumer internet and retail innovation.

## Third Sphere
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Transportation

Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns.

## Khosla Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- 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.

## BoxGroup
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

BoxGroup is an early stage investment fund focused on technology companies. Contact Us: hello@boxgroup.com

## Initialized Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the seed. Initialized has 6 investing partners and over $3.2B under management over five core funds since its founding in 2012. The firm's startups have created in aggregate over $200B in market value so far.

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 22
- 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.

## New Enterprise Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- 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.

## Asymmetry Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.

## Slow Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

Slow Ventures is a community built on the collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.

## TenOneTen Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

We invest in technical teams reimagining major industries

## Expansion Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

Expansion Venture Capital, is a venture capital firm focused in early and growth stage companies. Located in New York City, EVC was founded by brothers, Joseph and Ryan Melohn. EVC’s team is comprised of entrepreneurs. Fifteen years of combined experience has enabled EVC to help build great companies across the US. As entrepreneurs, “we havebeen in their shoes and speak the same language”.We pride ourselves on being available for our teams of entrepreneurs 24/7. We work side by side with them, providing intellectual capital and assistance in any way we can. From mentorship to business development, raising capital, getting the right press, are some of the ways “we work for you”. When one of our founders have a question we want to be the first place they turn. Their success is our success!We are founder friendly! “Entrepreneurs, not VCs, build great companies”

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