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Investors who actively back Retail startups across stages and geographies.
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1st Course Capital logo
1st Course Capital
United States

1CC.VC, a digital asset trading framework that delivers users with access to a expansive range of digital assets, encompassing cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and tokens, continues to make its mark. The framework is built to be user-friendly and capabilities a variety of features, such as charting instruments, real-time trading, margin trading, and sophisticated order types. Furthermore, 1CC.VC also capabilities a variety of educational assets to help users learn more about digital assets and trading. The platform is built on top of a protected and dependable infrastructure, and its solutions are available in both English and Chinese.

Series ASeedPre-SeedFood And BeverageMedtech
$25K – $200K
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25M Health
United States

Venture studio and fund that co‑incubates with LifePoint executives, giving startup ventures direct access to a $50B+ health system for pilot deployment, real‑world validation, and underserved population focus. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.

Series ASeries BPre-SeedRetailTechnology
$500K – $1M
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30N Ventures
Brazil

30n operates as a venture fund geared toward investing in early-phase emerging ventures with a mission to create an equitable and sustainable future. They invest in a suite of industries, including technology, media, health care, and finance, and are driven to creating long-term value for their portfolio ventures. Their portfolio includes companies working on aI-powered technology, health tech, software, hardware, and more. Furthermore, fund also delivers resources to their portfolio ventures such as mentorship, network access, and strategic advice. 30n maintains a presence in San Francisco, New York, and London.

Series ASeedSeries BFood And BeverageRetail
$500K – $3M
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645 Ventures
United States

Early-phase partner for founders building iconic, industry-transforming companies, demonstrated by two new funds totaling $347M. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series ARetailTechnology
$250K – $6M
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8VC
United States

Acts as a VC and venture studio—co-founds emerging ventures with 25–30% of capital, assembles top‑1% specialists, and builds national‑capability defense, industrials, and bio‑infrastructure companies with corporate partners. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.

Series ASeries BPre-SeedRetailFinance
$500K – $50M
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Able Partners
United States

Women-led VC systematically backs clinically rigorous, behaviorally grounded wellbeing nascent-stage companies tackling stigmatized areas—alcohol use disorder, menopause, mental health—using stigma as an investing edge and insisting on consumer-grade UX. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series AAgricultureRetail
$500K – $3M
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Advancit Capital
United States

Calculated bridge between Hollywood alongside creator frameworks, harnessing Shari Redstone’s Paramount Global lineage and ex-AOL/News Corp leaders to protected introductions to C-suite media, telecom, and tech partners.

EducationEntertainment
$500K – $5M
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Amplifyher Ventures
United States

Led by Tricia Black (Facebook’s first VP of Sales, 7th employee), centered on commerce, care and connectivity, runs an Investor Fellows program and targets founders who build growth flywheels. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.

Series APre-SeedRetailTechnology
$100K – $300K
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Andreessen Horowitz
Asia-Pacific

Leads mega-rounds for frontier-tech visions; delivers a 150+ person platform (recruiting, marketing, technical); doubles as a media company producing podcasts and research, and pursues aggressive crypto and illiquid-asset investments. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series ASeries BAgricultureEducation
$500K – $100M
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BAM Ventures
United States

Invests at pre-seed and seed with concentrated mid-six-figure checks; founder-built collective for consumer brands, commerce and consumer tech, with Brian Lee sharing playbooks and hands-on founder experience. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.

Series APre-SeedEntertainmentRetail
$100K – $1M
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Banana Capital
United States

Internet-first fund investing globally from pre-seed to pre-IPO with small initial checks ($25k–$300k), leveraging the founder's social-media distribution, meme persona and The Peel podcast as proprietary sourcing and distribution. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series APre-SeedEntertainmentRetail
$250K – $750K
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Bessemer Venture Partners
United States

Partner-led, technology-over-ego firm that publicly distributes memos, quantified roadmaps and its anti-roster, and presents apprenticeship mentorship plus early AI/developer-framework foresight.

Series ASeries BEducationEntertainment
$500K – $100M
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BGV Benhamou Global Ventures
Israel

Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV) is an early-phase venture investment firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. Moreover, they collaborate with businesses in cloud technologies; virtual and augmented reality; AI and machine learning (AI); the internet of things (IoT); robotics; autonomous vehicles; and other emerging technologies. They focus on supporting emerging ventures bring their ideas to life, supplying them with the resources, backing, and network they need to thrive. BGV\u2019s allocations spectrum from seed to series A and B. They additionally provide mentorship, advice, and connections to their invested businesses.

SeedDevopsRetail
$250K – $5M
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BIGR Ventures
United States

Specialized growth-equity investor in natural and organic CPG providing founders privileged deal flow and distribution insight via Presence Marketing ties and 70+ years of sector-specific operating and deal experience. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.

Series ASeries BAgricultureRetail
$500K – $3M
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Black Star Fund
Africa

Black-led, featuring an all-Black founder portfolio across US alongside Africa; exceeding 70% of its $12M goes to Black women and it works toward construct Black unicorns.

Series APre-SeedRetailTechnology
$50K – $1M
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BrandProject
Canada

Former senior operators act as de facto cofounders and interim CEOs/CTOs/CMOs/CFOs, running a studio that delivers day-to-day product, engineering, growth, finance and marketing support and a $43M+ follow-on fund. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series APre-SeedAgricultureRetail
$500K – $3M
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Bullish
United States

Full-stack creative agency acting as lead creative partner targeting U.S. consumer brands, extending naming, packaging. Standing apart by advertising and go-to-space systems driven by a proprietary cultural-insights engine and offering-culture fit frameworks.

Series APre-SeedAgricultureRetail
$500K – $1.5M
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Canaan Partners
United States

Deliberate 60/40 tech/healthcare split dedicated to de novo company formation, with a transparent debate-driven partner scoring system (1–4) and proven multi-generation continuity. With a clear focus on healthcare innovation, the firm brings both capital and domain expertise.

Series ARetailFinance
$1M – $20M
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Cathay Innovation
United States

Invests from nascent-stage through M&A, pairing emerging ventures with 20+ Fortune 500 partners for active product co-development, commercial partnerships, and PE-backed support across regulated sectors like healthcare, finance, and energy. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.

Series ASeries BEnergyRetail
$5M – $40M
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City Light Capital
United States

Seed and formative-stage lead/co-lead investor backing veteran teams in education, safety & care, and environment/climate, delivering Goldman-level analytical rigor and explicit, quantified impact theses. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series AAgricultureEducation
$50K – $3M
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Cleo Capital
United States

Earliest-stage investor targeting female founders in the friend-and-family gap, backing female scout-investors sourced via journalists and influencers, plus a remote 2024 digital security accelerator creating a proprietary security startup pipeline. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.

Pre-SeedRetailFinance
$500K – $1M
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Coatue
United States

Invests across public and private tech via an AI-native crossover platform that uses proprietary social and alternative-data research to inform deals, delivers fund access ($50K min) and entertainment ties. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.

Series ASeries BEntertainmentRetail
$1M – $20M
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Collab Fund
United States

Invests at the pre-venture stage, applies a proprietary Villain Test to avoid future-harmful giants, features rapid small grants to de-risk climate ideas, and backs culture-shaping consumer brands. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series AAgricultureEnergy
$500K – $1M
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Commerce Ventures
United States

Formative-stage, thesis-driven investor that seeds multiple theme-aligned startup ventures with small, non-lead checks, then scales in winners while extending a dense B2B network of banks, retailers, insurers and payment partners. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.

Series ASeries BPre-SeedRetailFinance
$100K – $5M
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CompanyFirst
United States

CompanyFirst, a prominent provider of holistic financial and business offerings, continues to make its mark. They offer a range of solutions, encompassing financial and banking solutions, data analysis, business intelligence, and consulting solutions. They specialize in helping businesses make informed decisions and develop thriving roadmaps. They offer comprehensive and integrated services that are tailored to the needs of their clients. Their team provides proficiency in banking, data analysis, business intelligence, and consulting solutions, so their stakeholders can make optimal decisions and achieve their goals.

Series ASeedSeries BFood And BeverageMobile
$50K – $500K
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Compass Digital Ventures
Canada

Compass Online Ventures is the venture and growth funding arm of Compass Group headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. They invest in businesses in the food and hospitality, retail and consumer, and tech industries. Via their allocations and incubator initiatives, they seek to assistance companies achieve their goals and scale. Compass Online Ventures has a portfolio of allocations in businesses like as Blue Apron, DoorDash, and GrubHub. They also have an incubator program to guidance enterprise builders develop their enterprise ideas, coupled with a venture fund to assistance finance those ideas.

Series ASeedPre-SeedFood And BeverageMedtech
$1M – $5M
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Conscience VC
United States

Solo-GP led by chemical engineer Ariana Thacker, investing in consumer-facing science companies (health, climate, life-quality) using a 12+ months-to-replicate defensibility test; ~80% portfolio led by underrepresented founders. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.

Pre-SeedRetail
$250K – $250K
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Correlation Ventures
United States

Analytics-driven co-investor making rapid decisions (days–two weeks) using a proprietary predictive model, writing small flexible checks ($100k–$4M) across 100+ companies only alongside leads, avoiding board seats or friction. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series ASeries BGeneralistAgriculture
$100K – $4M
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Cowboy Ventures
United States

Seed-stage investor leveraging Aileen Lee's data-driven, category-shaping framework and a Mustang Fund structure that enables concentrated follow-on support for breakout companies. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series APre-SeedRetailFinance
$500K – $3M
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Craft Ventures
United States

Led by repeat unicorn operators from the PayPal Mafia and iconic formative-stage companies, they offer a metrics-driven B2B SaaS playbook and transparent investment framework with quantitative efficiency benchmarks founders can reverse-engineer. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series ASeries BPre-SeedRetailTechnology
$50K – $50M
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Creandum
Europe

Formative-stage seed and Series A European investor with a permanent San Francisco presence, a 1-in-6 unicorn hit rate, and Founders-in-Residence who guidance founders craft category-defining product experiences and design. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series ASeries BEnergyRetail
$200K – $10M
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Crossbeam Venture Partners
United States

Is dedicated to companies building on platforms like YouTube, Amazon and Shopify, delivering asset-backed credit. Notably, non-dilutive financing and lending and origination expertise for creator revenue and platform cash flows.

Pre-SeedRetailE-commerce
$1M – $1.5M
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Define Ventures
United States

Runs a free AI Fellows program connecting founders to former Fortune 100 health CEOs, tailored go-to-market training, enduring partner mentorship, and network of payers, providers, employers, and life-science companies. With a clear focus on healthcare innovation, the firm brings both capital and domain expertise.

Series ARetailTechnology
$750K – $6M
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DH Ventures (Delivery Hero Ventures)
United Arab Emirates

Delivery Hero Ventures, a VC group established in Berlin, Germany, launched in 2021. Notably, it channels funding into young early-phase companies in healthcare and digital industries. The fund extends capital and advice to support early-phase companies, supporting them to develop and scale their products. Delivery Hero Ventures presents a suite of services, from corporate development and fundraising to mentorship and growth strategy. In addition, they also provide support for mergers and acquisitions, licensing, and IPOs.

Series ASeedFood And BeverageMarketplace
$500K – $5M
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Dreamers VC
United States

Channels investment into early-phase U.S. emerging ventures, leveraging celebrity co-founders and Japan–U.S. corporate networks to perform diligence, amplify storytelling via entertainment and influencer channels, and bridge cross-cultural markets. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series ASeries BRetailFinance
$500K – $5M
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Equal Ventures
United States

Seed investor focused exclusively on climate/energy, insurance, retail, and supply chain, using deep sector research and mapping, making concentrated ~$1.5M initial checks and publicly sharing learnings. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.

EnergyRetail
$2M – $2M
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f7 Ventures
United States

Created by seven senior female operators originating from Facebook/Meta and top tech firms, using operator-sourced dealflow and decisions in days. What distinguishes the firm is that it they back the top 1% of operators transitioning toward entrepreneurs.

Series AEntertainmentRetail
$10K – $5M
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Fernbrook Capital Management
United States

Targets revenue-stage, fast-growing Software, Marketplace, and eCommerce companies driving innovation spanning the consumer ecosystem.

Series ASeries BMarketplaceRetail
$1M – $1M
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FirstMark
United States

Early-phase investor with a large NYC platform: 20,000+ Data Driven NYC members, Guilds tied to 80% of unicorns, founders' AI/data expertise, repeat-founder networks, and the 11-year MAD Landscape. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series ASeries BRetailFinance
$250K – $10M
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Flare Capital Partners
United States

Co-creates and incubates healthcare startup ventures with payers, providers and health systems—using partner data, workflows and distribution to pressure-test products and secure anchor-customer integration. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.

RetailTechnology
$1M – $10M
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Floodgate
United States

Pre-seed micro-VC focusing on non-consensus, inflection-driven pattern-breaking startup ventures, delivering small-check investing expertise and proprietary inflection-theory and pattern-breaker frameworks to evaluate ideas and pivots. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Pre-SeedEducationEntertainment
$500K – $5M
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Flucas Ventures
United States

Solo GP with an operator background (Summit Ventures COO) who invests across all stages and differentiates by democratizing access—inviting diverse co‑investors to participate alongside Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.

Series ASeries BPre-SeedRetailFinance
$250K – $5M
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Footwork
United States

$175M nascent-stage investor concentrating on consumer technology and the consumerization of enterprise technology. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series ARetailTechnology
$250K – $10M
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Forerunner Ventures
United States

Early-phase consumer investor focusing on direct-to-consumer brands, presenting rigorous financial-modeling and cohort/unit-economics analysis plus a proven history of breakout wins like Warby Parker, Dollar Shave Club, Glossier, and Chime. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.

Pre-SeedEducationEntertainment
$250K – $15M
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Foundation Ventures
Africa

Seed-to-growth investor leveraging Egypt's currency-driven cost advantage and local tech talent as a testbed, plus access to the country's largest enterprise network for customer acquisition and distribution. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.

Pre-SeedRetailTechnology
$500K – $1M
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Founder Collective
United States

Seed-stage fund of former founders that keeps funds tiny and refuses large pro-rata, emphasizes extreme capital efficiency (3x/dollar) and backs non-obvious outliers early; portfolio: Uber, The Trade Desk, WHOOP. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.

RetailFinance
$500K – $5M
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Fuel Capital
United States

Supportive, founder-friendly investor that stands in the founder's corner rather than micromanaging operations. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.

Series APre-SeedRetailTechnology
$500K – $1M
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General Catalyst
Latin America

Builds companies from scratch via hatch heritage, operates transformation platforms for AI-enabled service roll-ups, presents non-dilutive revenue-share funding, and leads cross-border deals under an unscaling AI thesis. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series ASeries BManufacturingRetail
$500K – $100M
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GGV Capital
United States

Built dual Silicon Valley–China practices with partners in Shanghai and Beijing who guidance founders localize offerings and go‑to‑space across borders; US arm split and no longer deploys funding into China.

Series ASeries BEntertainmentRetail
$5M – $50M
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Gold House Ventures
United States

Tied to a nonprofit with profits reinvested into mission, it gives founders narrative, brand and distribution advantages via Hollywood/media infrastructure and a curated cultural power network for API founders. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.

Series APre-SeedGeneralistRetail
$100K – $1M
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Goodwater Capital
United States

Exclusive consumer-technology investor targeting products that act as everyday utilities, delivering an in-house technical platform team (engineers, data scientists, growth) and a global U.S.–Asia, mission-driven focus. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Pre-SeedRetail
$50K – $10M
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Great Eagle Holdings
United Arab Emirates

Exceptional Eagle Holdings Limited, a Hong Kong-rooted allocation organization that owns, crafts, and oversees multi-purpose properties spanning Asia, spanning from residential, office, retail, and hotel properties, continues to craft its mark. The organization was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1972, and has a space capitalization of HK$1.600b. Its portfolio of properties encompasses luxury residential projects in Hong Kong, shopping malls, and hotels. The organization additionally has retail outlets in major cities spanning Asia.

Series ASeedSeries BFood And BeverageWeb3
$1M – $4M
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Great Oaks Venture Capital
United States

Seed-stage, nearly two-decade-old firm that writes small initial checks ($50k–$500k) as first investor to pre-traction founders, presenting low-noise support and cross-sector expertise across consumer and infrastructure. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.

Series APre-SeedAgricultureRetail
$50K – $500K
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GSV Ventures
United States

Female-led, edtech-specialist VC with Pre-K-to-Gray learning thesis and AI-first requirement, delivering summit-driven access to 15,000+ leaders, 500+ edtech CEOs, EdTech 150/200 visibility, and founder Michael Moe’s growth investing expertise. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series ASeries BEducationRetail
$250K – $12M
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GV
United States

Financially driven, not strategic corporate VC; aggressively backs competitors; provides a large in‑house design/product studio with Design and Brand Sprints plus ML-driven opportunity scoring. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.

Series ASeries BRetailTechnology
$250K – $50M
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Halogen Ventures
United States

Nascent-stage investor with expertise in female-founded consumer technology companies. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.

Series APre-SeedAgricultureEntertainment
$100K – $1M
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Imaginary Ventures
United States

Founded by Natalie Massenet and Nick Brown, the fund targets culture-defining digitally native consumer brands using a customer-wallet, consumer-journey lens, backing underrepresented founders and sustainable, Web3-enabled retail. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series ASeries BPre-SeedAgricultureRetail
$100K – $10M
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Inflect Health
United States

Three-pronged platform—venture investing, Inflect Studio company-building, and Inflect Advisory consulting—validates solutions against live clinical workflows and leverages 8,000+ clinicians across 450+ locations. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series ASeries BRetailTechnology
$150K – $500K
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Initialized Capital
United States

Seed-stage investor that behaves as an operator-heavy, extended founding team from 0→1—presenting hands-on product, design, engineering, recruiting and go-to-market support and a proven history of early unicorns. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.

Series ASeries BEnergyRetail
$1M – $5M
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Insight Partners
United States

With 25+ years and support for over 600 companies, they invest in and support founders from seed through later stages, empowering turn founders' visions into reality. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.

Series ASeries BEducationRetail
$10M – $350M