# Top 50 Startup Investors in  in May 2026

## MMC Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

MMC is a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high-growth UK companies. Our mission is to be involved in the creation of the global industry-leading companies of tomorrow.

## White Star Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.

## Ullas Naik
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Information Technology

Ullas Naik is the Founder & General Partner at Streamlined Ventures.

## Wamda Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services

Wamda Capital is the MENA region's leading venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs building the region's most promising high growth technology businesses. We invest both at the growth and seed stages with the aim of taking portfolio companies through successive rounds of financing through to exit.

## Kingsley Advani
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Biotechnology

Kingsley Advani is a British investor. He started investing in 2013, funding 50 companies, 4 funds and donating to non-profits including: SENS Foundation, Methuselah Foundation, Stanford University, National University of Singapore. He is particularly interested in regenerative medicine for age-related disease. Investments: Oisin, Turn Bio,Oncosenx, Monzo, Robinhood, Abra, Coinbase, Momentus, Demonpores, 64-x, Nectome. Investment areas: biotechnology, neurotechnology, longevity, space, fintech.

## Helios Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Space Travel, Aerospace, Biotechnology

Founded in 2018 by Ryan Alexander Kriser, Helios Capital is a 3rd generation single family office based in NYC. At Helios, we invest in Series A or earlier with follow-on investments, with a focus on distributive technology contributing to industry 4.0. As we leverage our ecosystem of technological experts, partnerships and industry thoughtleaders, we strategically add value to our portfolio companies.

## Aurus
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lo Barnechea, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, E-Commerce, Software

Aurus is a Chilean investment firm that manages funds in the venture capital, real estate, and capital markets.We are pioneers in Latin America’s Venture Capital industry, dedicated to developing the ecosystem and investing in the region’s most impressive talent, and scalable technologies. We believe that Chile is the best platform in which toinvest in our region because of its investment friendly policies, commitment to innovation, and industry leadership.As local investors, we realize where the biggest transformations are occurring. We add value to our portfolio companies through experience, insights, best practices, and network. Our investment decisions are aided by the advice of outstanding advisory committees for each of the funds. All of them are also LPs in the fund and a valuable resource to Aurus and our investees, both in evaluating a prospective investment and later adding value to them through our mentoring program.

## British Business Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking

Our aim at British Business Investments, is to increase the overall supply and diversity of finance both product and provider on offer to UK smaller businesses

## SVA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Headline
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Switch Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Big Data, Information Technology

Welcome to Switch Ventures, a new kind of venture capital. A community of talented founders who switched from the common path.

## Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Anthemis Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

digitally native finance

## seed + speed Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Empowering visionary founders with pre-seed and seed funding for B2B software innovation. Partner with us to turn your aspirations into thriving businesses. Our expert support ensures your journey to success.

## Sergio Fogel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, CRM, Venture Capital

Sergio Fogel investor at 3DBattery.

## Cisco
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series C, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Cisco delivers innovative software-defined networking, cloud, and security solutions to help transform your business, empowering an inclusive future for all. 

## Sagar Ratilal Bavarva
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Private Equity, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Solar

Sagar is a 6th Gen. young social researcher, sustainable explorer & energy investment partner from Netherlands & India Sub.Studied M.S (Associate - Executive Degree) in Business & Data Science with Specialization in Energy & Sustainable Technologies at Harvard University, an M.S (Executive) in Finance & Negotiation at YaleUniversity & M.Sc. degree in Management of Technology with Specialization in Entrepreneurship & Emerging Breakthrough Innovation at TU Delft, and Bachelors in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering.Previously he had been worked at Shell, Netherlands & London, Microsoft - Netherlands and Deloitte - the Edge Amsterdam. His recent association was with World Economic Forum, Netherlands, and Switzerland Sub as a Young Digital Associate. Currently he manages and work as a Joint Managing Director / Industrial Researcher at AASAN Group of companies - a family-owned business group of companies since 1988. Primarily focused over Large scale Industrial Management and Energy Audit, providing expertise over new renewable energy investments, sustainability and innovation tech solutions. As of now his current venture project is to create a next generation renewable energy park of 100 MW to create a sustainable fossil free energy living source for the Indian Subcontinent. Over global scenario he has achieved many Awards/Accomplishments listed below:Finalist as Entrepreneur / Startup leader at Outstanding Leadership Awards 2022 - Australia
Nomine: Dutch Intrapreneur Award 2021 - Netherlands
UN ECOSOC Youth Leader 2021 - New York
Positive Change Ambassador - Erasmus Rotterdam University - April 2021
Wall of Changemakers 2030 - Catalyst London
Antler's Copenhagen Founder's Program Feb Cohort 2022
Shortlisted @ World Startup Factory Scholarship Program 2021 | Rotterdam
Speaker @ World Sustainable Development Teach In Day - Hamburg
Winners @ Futurepreneurs Dutch Open 2020
Recognized as one of top 25 AI based Innovators @ Rockstart Accelerator AI 2019 - Netherlands
Finalist of Global Biomimicry Design Challenge 2018-19 - Minneapolis, USA
Winner of the worlds biggest Blockchain & AI Hackathon - Odyssey 2019 At present he also creating a global level smart and intelligent sustainable farmhouse. A digital solution of exploration and people's life storyline through building up to tomorrow's food for today's future! A brief storyline of creating a fossil-free sustainable living for the dutch sub. - BDF 1.0He also associated within other portfolio family run ventures such as: Habaple Partners, B'onwterp Labs, Spark Renewables LLP, Solwave Group of Companies.

## Balderton Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

## Gapminder VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

GapMinder plans to invest and support the most disruptive and bold innovations pushing limits and creating positive impact for the community and the overall society.
Our background and experience together with our common values and vision for the fund are the core of our competitive advantage. Our team is eager to create value in the region and forthe region. We focus on Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A stages

## Connetic Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Covington, Kentucky, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence

Connetic Ventures is an investment firm that provides its services to early stage startup companies.The firm participates with venture capital firms and angel syndicates for companies that are in the seed stage. It focuses on developing core investment strategies and deploying them on startups to build up their portfolios. Connetic Ventures wasfounded by Brad Zapp in 2015. It is headquartered in Covington, Kentucky.

## big_bets
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology

Big_bets is an investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs to accelerate business development.

## Tiger Global Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally.Tiger Global seeks to earn superior risk-adjusted returns for its investors over the long term. The firm’s fundamentally oriented investments focus primarily on the global Internet, technology, telecom, media consumer, and industrial sectors. The private equity strategyhas a ten-year investment horizon and targets growth-oriented private companies. The public equity efforts emphasize deep due diligence on individual companies and long-term secular themes.

## Garry Tan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

Garry Tan is the incoming President and CEO of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Posterous.com as a Co-Founder. Garry Tan attended Stanford University.

## Sequoia Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

We help the daring build legendary companies.

## Reece Chowdhry
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Reece is the Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures - an early-stage SEIS/EIS VC fund investing in technology companies primarily focused on Fintech, Enterprise and Gaming. He was awarded “Top 5 Asian Tech Investors” 2018 (KPMG & Diversity UK) and is the youngest-ever investor to profiled by The Sunday Times. Reece is a frequent keynote andpanel speaker at prominent industry events such as StartupGrind Europe and Fintech Live. Reece holds a BA in International Business from Durham University and is a Chartered Management Consultant (ACMA, CGMA) having started his career as a Management Consultant at EY.Reece invests personally in all of RLC Ventures' investments.

## Bessemer Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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

## Volta Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Volta Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering seed & early stage VC for internet & software companies (SaaS) in the Benelux region

## Elliot Loh
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS

Elliot Loh is the Founder and CEO at Antenna Radio. He attended Stanford University.

## Eric Ries
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Eric is the author of New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, The Startup Way, and The Leaders Guide (funded by one of the top Kickstarter book campaigns of all time). He's also the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, practiced by individuals and companies around the world and the inspiration behind the LTSE. He has founded a numberof startups, including IMVU, where he served as CTO, and has advised on business and product strategy for startups, venture capital firms, and large companies across many industries.

## Damien Tanner
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Digital Media

Damien Tanner is a Founder at Konf and Rebase Ventures.

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

## Draper Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

## David Vélez
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services

David Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Nubank, a Brazilian financial technology company. Before founding Nubank in 2013, David was a Partner at Sequoia Capital in charge of the firm’s Latin American investments. Before Sequoia, David worked in investment banking and growth equity at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and General Atlantic. David has a BSin Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

## Molten Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

Molten Ventures - previously Draper Esprit - is the first European tech-focused VC not tied to five-year cycles. We back brilliant teams with global ambition. You in?

## SeedInvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

SeedInvest is a leading equity crowdfunding platform for growth-obsessed startups. Because everyone should be able to invest in the next big thing.

## Matias Woloski
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Financial Services, Software

Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.

## SGH CAPITAL
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond.

## Daniel Undurraga
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech

Mr. Daniel Undurraga is Founder & CTO at Cornershop.

## Sebastian Mejia
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech

Sebastian Mejia is the Co-Founder and President of Rappi. He previously worked as a Managing Director Business Development at Simpleshow. He attended Stanford University.

## ESO Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Retail, Sporting Goods, Information Technology

ESO Capital Group (“ESO”) is a European special situations investment management group with offices in London and Zurich. ESO manages funds on behalf of institutional investors and has deployed over $500 million in capital since inception.They invest across the capital structure and focus on privately-originated, off-the-run situations backed bythe assets of European small and medium enterprises (SMEs), financial assets and real estate. Their two core areas of expertise include (i) acquiring undervalued and distressed assets, including loans as well as physical or financial assets, and (ii) providing capital to SMEs facing liquidity constraints, from high growth business to insolvency situations. Key to their success is their proprietary pan-European sourcing network and a capital preservation investment approach.ESO Capital UK Ltd is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and registered as an investment advisor with the SEC.

## Sergio Furio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Payments, SaaS

Sergio Furio is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Creditas. Before founding Creditas, he worked at The Boston Consulting Group in New York and Spain. He also worked at Deutsche Bank's Investment Banking Division. Besides Creditas, Mr. Furio serves at the boards of Endeavor Brazil, HBS Alumni Angels Association of Brazil, Juntos SomosMais and Sempre Semente

## Hinge Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps

They may have a new flag, but they've been at it for almost a decade now. They’ve learned a lot and they’re a different company than they were in 2009, and they needed a new brand to represent their vision. Venture51 is now H//NGE Capital. They've backed companies like Ripple, Dollar Shave Club, Bird, Getaround, Classpass, eToroand Life360. H//NGE Capital invests in high technology companies leveraging their new, modern venture platform that supports the most promising founders in high-growth markets. They’re not commodity capital; they’re a platform led by operators, data scientists, designers and engineers, guided by investors, and equipped with patient and flexible capital to make risk-on investments in next-generation vertical technologies.Since the best early-stage companies require more than just capital, their platform utilizes people, data and software, in addition to their capital, to provide a differentiated experience at the seed stage. Their DNA is grounded in technology and product — just like the companies they invest in. They believe that this approach to venture capital is fundamentally different from a traditional seed firm.

## Jeff Lawson
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Jeff Lawson is a Co-Founder and CEO at Twilio. He is a serial inventor with over 15 years of entrepreneurial and product experience. Prior to co-founding Twilio, Jeff was Founder & CTO of NineStar, Founding CTO of Stubhub.com and Founder, CEO & CTO of Versity. He was also one of the original product managers for Amazon Web Services.Atevery business, Jeff identified the fundamental need for a platform for developers and companies to easily build communications-based business solutions.Jeff grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, started his first company in middle school, and earned his BS in Computer Science & Film/Video from University of Michigan.

## Revent
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Venture Capital, Information Technology

Revent is a tech fund backing purpose-driven founders addressing the biggest challenges of our time.

## Eileen Burbidge
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Finance

Eileen Burbidge is a Partner at Passion Capital, the pre-eminent early-stage VC fund based in London. She brings extensive operational experience to her investment activities gleaned from business and product roles at Yahoo!, Skype, Apple and elsewhere.In addition to Passion Capital, Eileen is also the Chair of TechCity UK, which is the Britishgovernment-backed organisation supporting digital business across the UK. She is also HM Treasury’s Special Envoy for FinTech appointed by then Chancellor George Osborne; Tech Ambassador for the Mayor of London’s office and served on former Prime Minister David Cameron’s Business Advisory Group.Eileen was made an MBE for services to Business in June 2015 and holds a BSc Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

## Advanced Blockchain
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency

Advanced Blockchain AG is a publicly listed investor, incubator, and partner in the blockchain industry.

## Norwest Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Growing together every step of the way. We empower great leaders throughout the journey of growth.

## Matt Monahan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: iOS, SaaS, Big Data

Matt is a Stanford University graduate, investor,entrepreneur, and artist.

## Invariantes Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala, Guatemala
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Invariantes Fund offers generational wealth management, and venture capital. Invariantes Fund is an early-stage venture fund investing in technology companies that leverage software as infrastructure.

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