Transportation investors
NY headquarters plus offices in Accra, Cairo alongside Nairobi combine global funding-space entry with local operator proximity. A key differentiator: ex-Bridgewater/Morgan Stanley venture leaders alongside repeat backer of Africa's B2B e-commerce leaders.
Ex-founder deeptech fund making $250K–$2M first checks into non-consensus moonshots in compute, defense, smart planet, humantech—prioritizing multi‑billion step‑changes and free‑world resilience, replying with blunt feedback within five working days. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
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.
Growth-stage investor in fintech/financial infrastructure and logistics/supply-chain foundational systems, providing strategic intelligence from former heads of state and national security leaders plus policy and compliance expertise. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Leads seed, doubles down at Series A, and incubates emerging ventures; an unusually operator-heavy founding team (Eventbrite founder, ex-Uber finance head, ex-Coatue investor) features hands-on operational, finance, and growth support. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Formative-stage technical frontier specialist that co-invests with top global funds, led by ex-senior Microsoft strategy executives providing deep platform strategy and M&A expertise and a strong early-unicorn established record. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Nascent-stage aerospace and defense fund oriented toward technically validated, revenue-generating (often bootstrapped) emerging ventures, delivering shared beyond visual line of sight testing via state-funded urban low-altitude radar. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Pre-seed specialist backing pre-traction, pre-formation founders with $500k–$1M+ checks, issuing founder-name term sheets and running a Founder-in-Residence (including university) to ideate and form companies. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Generates operator-generated concepts and recruits elite CEOs, provides codified ideation and structured focus groups, physician GPs with check-writing authority for healthcare, plus 70+ in-house engineers across Montreal and Bogotá. With a clear focus on healthcare innovation, the firm brings both capital and domain expertise.
Founder GPs who speak a founder's language run formal 90-day Field Study research sprints to pre-identify opportunities and connect emerging ventures to off-balance-sheet institutional real-estate capital and facilities. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
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.
Co-led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, delivers B2B startup ventures structured access to BCG consultants and corporate clients and supports expand across the US and Asia. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
A founder-focused investor targeting culturally resonant tech and aspirational consumer companies, bridging elite venture ecosystems and historically excluded communities through mentorship and access for non-traditional talent. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
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.
Pre-seed investor geared toward India, led by a solo GP with operator and startup-studio experience, dual Pune–San Francisco HQ, 200+ invested companies and intentionally small-and-early focus. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Invests very early (seed, $1–3M) with a solo GP enabling rapid decisions, leveraging an operator-heavy LP network for sourcing and delivering data-driven diagnostics plus structured playbooks to find PMF. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Targets concept-stage software-plus-physical goods emerging ventures, acting as a hands-on product partner with veteran hardware engineers, a million-dollar prototyping shop, and direct guidance on design, manufacturing and fundraising. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Solo-GP Celestine Schnugg treats founders as scientist-protagonists, concentrates on frontier genomics, machine intelligence, underwrites elevated technical/space risk, frequently backs underrepresented leaders, alongside convenes secret meetups. A key differentiator: fresh chemistries and space.
Seed-stage, ultra-focused vertical B2B SaaS fund with small-fund, hands-on approach, an in-house Growth and Talent team on revenue/sales, and a Startup Sales platform (podcast, playbooks, published methodologies). The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Seed-stage investor in food tech, health tech, and supply-chain/commerce software that leverages Minnesota Fortune 500 relationships for customer pilots and partnerships, providing food-tech expertise and Google startup-program leadership. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Long 20-year horizon investor requiring portfolio tech to avoid ≥500M tons CO2 annually by 2050, presenting former ARPA‑E scientists' technical expertise and policy/advocacy/deployment ecosystem to validate ambitious climate hardware. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
On one hand, prioritizes businesses addressing needs arising from massive demographic changes; on the other, differentiated by its thematic expertise in demographic-driven markets.
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.
Seed-stage investor (initial $250k–$1M) from a single-family-office corporate VC that can scale within the same round up to $10M, sector-agnostic, and features hands-on mental and emotional support to founders. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
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.
Operator-led, software-first climate-tech investor focusing on energy, AI, automation and robotics, supporting founders craft consumer-grade storytelling and go-to-market to position companies as acquisition targets in an expected M&A boom. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
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.
SPACE structure blending profit-sharing with equity lets Black entrepreneurs buy back equity as they return multiples, focuses on Black entrepreneur cities, and returns funding by year three via profitability.
Analytics-obsessed, oriented toward infrastructure for complex, regulated or fragmented systems spanning continents, pairing a compact core group with a deep sector-specific advisor network (CEOs, ex-Nike/Uber, founders) and embedding sustainability.
Invests in companies teaming up with government, merging ex-White House and policy leaders with former EPA administrators and mayors to give direct access to decision-makers and policy intelligence via Political Capital.
The approach combines two elements: early-phase and continuity backer that enters as a first check, alongside leveraging deep cleantech cycles experience alongside multidisciplinary underwriting to backing technically complex hardware-plus-software climate founders through valley of death.
Targets companies addressing labor shortages in manufacturing, construction, logistics, and food production; cutting healthcare costs from aging and chronic disease; and enabling sustainable food production for growing populations. With a clear focus on healthcare innovation, the firm brings both capital and domain expertise.
Led by MassRobotics co-founder Fady Saad, the fund leverages deep robotics ecosystem ties, access to founders, corporates and talent, and features playbooks, conferences and business-model rigor for robotics founders. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Formative-stage investor, advisory firm, and venture studio that leverages frontier-market research for governments and institutions to guide investments, favoring augmentation of informal agent-based networks over pure-play digital models. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Supports speculative science fiction technologies like artificial wombs, de‑extinction and brain‑computer interfaces, utilizing Draper University, entrepreneur hostels alongside a TV pitch show to shepherd entrepreneurs into its deal flow.
Category specialist for B2B supply chain and mobility, leveraging Chattanooga logistics roots, and operator-founder partners who provide hands-on assistance to concentrated logistics businesses. A key differentiator: a Trajectory of Supply Chain podcast.
Formative-stage space VC centered on multi-planetary tech and in-space manufacturing (protein crystallization, artificial retinas), applying Wall Street cash-flow/intrinsic-value discipline and building structured space accelerators for emerging ventures. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Targets Pre-Seed/Seed for women, minorities and veterans and formative-stage local/regional/global emerging ventures, prioritizing underrepresented founders with a 50/50 gender split and 100% minority co-founder representation. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Earliest-stage Indiana emerging ventures receive hands-on assistance from a team of accomplished operators. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Invests seed–pre‑IPO (and venture debt), giving founders direct access to utility operator decision‑makers and internal research mapping pain points and co‑designing customer‑backed theses for hardware‑heavy grid and industrial decarbonization. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
An NYC accelerator with broader venture activity, providing intensive Manhattan cohorts (≈1% acceptance), 1,000+ mentors, daily in-person mentor/investor access, and ERA Global U.S. market support. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
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.
Acts as an institutional co-founder: originating ideas, building offerings alongside pairing CEOs, run by repeat founders (Garrett Camp, Naveen Selvadurai) providing hands-on, compact-class, full-stack assistance from ideation to go-to-space.
Nascent-stage, accelerator-rooted investor targeting non-coastal hubs (Austin, Boulder, Denver, Chicago, Des Moines, Kansas City) supplying hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves support and local offices. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
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.
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.
Early-phase pre-seed fund with an accelerator and an AI-focused venture studio that co-creates emerging ventures, presenting follow-on support and people-heavy (~40 team, five Partners, three MDs) embedded founder assistance. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
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.
Global firm investing pre-seed to Series B in climate, health, and inclusive capitalism; led by exited founders, runs an in-house venture builder with well-known founders and AI-driven scouting. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Nascent-stage investor combining AI-driven software, sustainability tech, and consumer brands as co-equal focus areas, providing a dedicated internal team plus a ~500-founder portfolio network with high-visibility exits. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Permanent, flexible single-family-office co-investor centered on frontier/new-space and adjacent deeptech, providing lean, hands-on partnership, top investor syndicate access, and philanthropic-to-institutional space ecosystem connectivity via founder Ryan Kriser. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Leads early rounds for technically intense AI teams tackling physical-globe, regulated domains (wastewater epidemiology, precision agriculture, industrial robotics), bringing organization builders first‑hand track record commercializing hard AI offerings.
Pre-seed-focused theme syndicate with a high-conviction, low-volume approach, accessible Pitch US! Typeform and two-meeting decision process, proprietary fundraising software, and 74% follow-on rate. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
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.
Formative-stage investor geared toward startup ventures shaping the Future of Commerce. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Sole general partner firm led by Tinder co‑entrepreneur Justin Mateen championing underserved entrepreneurs with something to prove, unusually active in Latin America and Africa and in space‑adjacent and consumer platform bets.
Lead investor in seed-stage B2B companies digitizing legacy industries. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Channels investment into consumer internet and SMB tech at breakout growth, uniquely embracing regulation-heavy markets and using deep transaction-level data analysis globally to underwrite 5–10+ year customer durability. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Champion of founders others dismiss, home-baked cookies, tough-love feedback, and Jewish-values, chaotic-good guidance on contentious frontier bets. Standing apart by presenting unusually devoted partner backing—tattooed partners and niche-event participation—intimate dinners.
Leads deep-tech, hardware-heavy climate investments across cutting emissions, carbon removal, and time-buying solutions, backing nonprofit research and presenting in-house scientific expertise plus hands-on technical, hiring, and regulatory support. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.