The startup investor directory
Serving as an early-phase venture investment firm, Blumberg Capital partners with visionary founders to build successful technology companies that empower people and change the world. The group was created in 1991 and has since backed more than 200 companies across an extensive array of sectors and industries. Blumberg Capital is dedicated to Seed & Series A rounds and delivers innovators with capital, mentorship, and resources to assistance expand their ventures. Notably, group also presents a diverse set of services such as consumer surveys, data analysis, and AI-powered deep learning vision systems to support their partner companies prosper.
Invests at idea/inception stage before pre-seed—often pre-company—focused exclusively on developer-first enterprise infrastructure, acting as a cofounder-like partner and running programs that train early founders in bottoms-up growth. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
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.
Later-stage investor leveraging Mary Meeker–style multi-hundred-page macro research and a small, senior operator/growth partnership to scale proven product-market-fit internet and software companies for global expansion and IPO readiness. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Seed-stage AI-powered B2B investor in companies with $300K–$1M+ ARR that leads ~95% of rounds with double-digit ownership, spends 20–30 hours hands-on initially, and achieves ~80–85% Series A graduation. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
As a Spanish VC firm that deploys capital in internet businesses with a solid mobile focus and worldwide ambition, Bonsai Venture Funding has carved a distinctive niche. They invest among 250,000€ and 2,500,000€ per company, with equity stakes of 10% to 25%, in early-stage and expansion stages. They prioritize entrepreneurs with a complete commitment to their ventures, a solid team, oversight skills, and good synergy with their VC framework. They invest in elevated-expansion sectors such as classifieds, e-health, games, payments, security, travel, and more, and have a flexible exit criteria determined by the capacity upside of the roster organization in harmony with the entrepreneur. Roster encompasses Glovo, Gigas, Paack, Wallapop.
Funds formative-stage companies and emerging funds in education and workforce tech, exclusively backing underrepresented founders, writing $50K–$250K checks and providing 20+ years' education‑tech expertise with a practice‑coach founder approach. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Positioned as an online framework that enables participants to learn and explore different technologies, like software engineering, web advancement, and analytics science, Zen Ventures brings a distinct approach. The framework offers a range of courses, tutorials, and projects that are built to aid participants develop their skills and knowledge in the field. Additionally, users can ecosystem with like-minded individuals, get advice from industry professionals, and take part in events that can aid them stay on top of the latest trends and advancements.
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.
Leads pre-seed sci‑fi/deep‑tech rounds with a standardized $500k check for sub-$1M raises at $3M–$7M valuations, delivering early crypto and VR accelerator expertise. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
As a startup studio and seed stage VC company operating from Brussels, Boot Ventures targets solving real-world problems with technology. The firm supports ambitious founders build successful businesses by supplying access to capital, expertise, and a network of industry contacts. Boot Ventures works with business builders to develop ideas, build teams, acquire customers, and reach their next milestone. They invest in early-phase companies and features support to support them reach their full potential. Boot Ventures also extends mentorship, workshops, and resources to guidance business builders develop their businesses. Furthermore, they believe in the power of collaboration and strive to create an environment that encourages creativity, innovation, and growth.
Operator-led investors with deep telecom and infrastructure experience (including a Helium co-founder), highly specialized in Algorand and DePIN via multiple dedicated funds, including a recent $100M DePIN fund. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Seed investor making repeatable first institutional checks ($100K–$500K) into pre-vetted, capital-efficient tech-enabled startup ventures (biotech to industrial AI) via a proprietary curated deal network and Wall Street finance discipline. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Seed-stage fund founded by Boston innovators formalizing a long-standing angel/entrepreneur network, known for early conviction in unproven categories and public, humility-focused storytelling content. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Veteran VC and mountain guide-led firm geared toward Colorado and the Mid-Atlantic, delivering hands-on pre-investment partnership and local sourcing expertise while prioritizing realized exits over paper markups. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
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 and earliest-stage investor taking smaller stakes, dedicated to consumer and consumer-social companies, presenting high-conviction collaborative support via a lean partner-only team where founders deal directly with decision-makers. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Invests from napkin-stage through IPO using an evergreen own-capital model for patient, flexible long-term support; active nascent-stage investor (~180 deals) oriented toward deep bio and frontier software/crypto. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Brand Capital International (BCI) is the corporate venture investment arm of the Times Group, a leading media organization in India. BCI extends vC and other financial services to early-phase companies and emerging businesses, with a focus on investing in companies in the world's fastest-growing economy. The organization additionally provides strategic advice and assistance to venture ventures, supporting them to identify opportunities and optimize their growth potential. BCI additionally presents services like as corporate strategy, market intelligence, and risk oversight. Additionally, BCI has a portfolio of cutting-edge case studies, demonstrating the value of its allocations.
Seed-stage, consumer-product investor oriented toward tangible goods rather than software, targeting sustainable $250M–$750M outcome brands and presenting hands-on People/Product/Pipeline support emphasizing supply chain, margins, design and marketing. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Brandenburg Kapital, a startup capital and growth fund headquartered in Brandenburg, Germany. It delivers startup capital and know-how to emerging ventures and companies in the region, supporting them to scale and thrive. Its portfolio ventures have access to its expertise and network, coupled with access to capital for investments. Brandenburg Kapital also presents advisory services for new and existing companies, coupled with guidance in the areas of VC and growth. Furthermore, fund is open to companies from all sectors and its investments range from seed and early-phase investments to growth and later-stage investments.
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.
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.
Led by a solo GP, an early institutional investor that uses a learn-first networking approach—deep founder/category diligence—with bi-regional Columbus–Boulder presence centered on consumer, fashion, health/wellness, and brand+tech SaaS/IoT Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.