Best Seed Security & Cybersecurity Investors 2026

Cybersecurity is fundamental to maintaining our way of life and is essential for global commerce. We empower founders to create cybersecurity technologies that make our world more secure. As the original venture capital firm focused exclusively on cybersecurity, we invest globally and are stage-agnostic.

The world's best cybersecurity founders deserve a dedicated seed-stage partner focused entirely on their success, starting from Day Zero. Holly Ventures provides access, hands-on engagement, and a high-density network — not just capital.

Essential infrastructure software used by engineering, security, and data teams. Founded by technical entrepreneurs who deeply understand infrastructure challenges. Partners commit early with conviction and provide hands-on support.

Back exceptional Israeli and American founders reshaping financial services through innovative fintech solutions. We provide not just capital but hands-on support, deep industry expertise, and extensive network connections.

We invest in who you are, not just what you do. We back visionaries and game-changers with character and global ambition. We partner long-term with founders, providing capital, operational support, and deep conviction in their vision.

Only invest where we have a true unfair advantage. Partner with founders in healthcare, data+AI, and cybersecurity to build category-defining powerhouses. We deliver value far beyond capital through deep domain expertise and extensive networks.

Invests in technical founders building modern infrastructure software across three pillars: cloud infrastructure, data/AI infrastructure, and cybersecurity. Targets the earliest stages — inception, pre-seed, and seed — often pre-product with just the founding team in place.

The best B2B SaaS companies are built by founders who deeply understand their customers' pain points. Many struggle to efficiently complete fundraising because traditional VCs create redundant diligence friction. By being founder-friendly and leveraging collaborative diligence, we access better deals and help founders move faster.

Every enterprise needs a technological advantage to survive. We invest in early-stage cybersecurity and data technologies essential to enterprise survival, not nice-to-have features.

Build great companies by partnering with exceptional founders who deeply understand their markets. We provide not just capital but proven playbooks, talent networks, and operational expertise from our team of experienced operators.

Exceptional companies and talented founders exist everywhere, not just coastal venture hubs. We invest in sector-agnostic but growth-oriented software companies in underserved startup ecosystems. We combine strong brand, vast network, and deep operational experience with startup hustle to invest in authentic, transparent leaders building capital-efficient software products.

Security technology is a necessity independent of economic cycles. We back technical experts who have seen over the horizon as security practitioners across commercial, military, or intelligence sectors. We invest in entrepreneurs who are on a mission to secure our freedom.

Crypto represents a long-term technological transformation rearchitecting global commerce. We back the boldest builders from seed through scale, combining deep regulatory expertise with institutional reach to help founders navigate policy uncertainty and drive adoption.

The next generation of category-defining software won't be born in pitch decks — it'll be hacked together by technical founders who deeply understand the problem. We back developer tools, infrastructure, AI, and security at pre-seed and seed with hands-on GTM support.

Go-to-market is your moat. We back gritty, early, conviction-driven founders building the next generation of enterprise software with deep domain expertise and contrarian viewpoints. We work side-by-side with you from day one, providing hands-on GTM support, sales playbooks, and access to our NYC enterprise ecosystem.

Enterprise software companies leveraging modern cloud infrastructure, open source, and AI to solve infrastructure and application challenges. Best companies come from technical founders with deep expertise in their domain.

Identify real-world constraints through active market participation and build decentralized consortiums to convert systemic bottlenecks into shared breakthroughs. Serious builders combining market-making expertise with long-term infrastructure development.

If you invest in tech, you should use technology to do it. Blue Moon operates like a fintech company using proprietary AI/ML across all operations — sourcing 8,000+ deals/year, vetting with ML algorithms analyzing 53 personality traits, and supporting founders with AI tools. They seek exceptional B2B/Enterprise founders building in Infrastructure, Cloud, DevTools, AI, SaaS, Cybersecurity, and B2B Fintech.

Gula Tech Adventures invests in startups solving critical cybersecurity and national security problems, with a focus on founders who combine deep technical expertise, business acumen, and mission alignment. Rather than a traditional VC, Gula Tech operates as a self-funded, impact-focused family office enabling long-term patient capital. The firm evaluates opportunities equally on three dimensions: the problem being solved, deal fundamentals, and team quality. Ron and Cyndi's success building Tenable enables hands-on mentorship, technical due diligence, and access to government and critical infrastructure networks.

Long-term venture partnerships built on depth of thought, conviction, and dimensional thinking. We back founders with diverse lived experiences who are building transformative companies. We operate as a team sport—you don't work with individual partners, you work with Acrew. We invest in emotional intelligence, operational support, and the long arc of building meaningful companies.

Israeli founders possess unique strengths in identifying and solving enterprise inefficiencies. Joule partners with these high-conviction teams to accelerate U.S. commercialization through relationships, operational support, and market validation—delivering tangible value beyond capital.

Cybersecurity is a permanent, growing category. Successful cyber investing requires deep domain expertise combined with operational experience. We partner with founders as true operating partners, not just capital providers. Category creators and cyber pioneers with differentiated approaches.

User-owned technology empowered by distributed systems and cryptography enables people to reclaim control from intermediaries. We invest in systems that reduce reliance on centralized institutions and give users control, privacy, and access to global markets.

We invest in technology-enabled financial services companies that transform how financial services are delivered, distributed, and accessed. We believe the future of finance will be built by specialized platforms that solve specific pain points for financial institutions and retail investors.

Heavybit invests in unique founders with transformative visions who are redefining how teams build, deploy, secure, and scale enterprise software. They back founders from Day 0, before the broader market recognizes their potential.

Israeli engineers have a distinct competitive advantage in building deep infrastructure products. We partner with technical founders from day one to transform excellence into category-defining companies. Data is the critical leverage point for enterprise AI.

Exceptional Israeli cybersecurity founders, backed by deep domain expertise and access to Fortune 500 CISOs, can build companies that define how the world defends itself. Singular focus on cybersecurity, seed-stage capital, and unmatched buyer network.

The best early-stage B2B SaaS companies need hands-on go-to-market support from proven leaders who have scaled at Salesforce, Snowflake, LinkedIn, Okta, and similar platforms. We combine capital with a network of 350+ GTM leaders who provide playbooks, hiring, and customer relationships that accelerate growth from product-market fit to scale.

Early-stage founders with innovative solutions in cybersecurity, healthcare technology, and physical security can be accelerated to scale with the right capital, strategic customer introductions, and operational guidance. Companies demonstrating early product-market fit through revenue, pilots, or design partnerships represent the best investment opportunities.

We are extremely early in translating powerful AI models into products that transform industries. Startups have the speed and unruliness to build transformative AI-native companies; big companies are too slow. There has never been a better time to start a startup.

Backing transformative founders building exceptional companies across all sectors

Point72 Ventures backs ambitious founders building for big outcomes across critical domains. Going deep, not wide—the firm focuses on specialized investment theses in AI, Consumer, and Defense Tech, bringing deep sector insights, partnership, and hands-on support from seed to pre-IPO.

We partner with Europe's best fintech founders with ambitions to scale globally. Meaningful change takes time—we build lasting relationships with founders rather than making transactional investments. We believe in commitment beyond capital and support founders through their entire journey.

Investing in the people and solutions creating the data-driven economy. Founded by data scientists and entrepreneurs for data-focused founders. Focus on AI-powered business, ML tech stack advancement, engineering/infrastructure evolution, and responsible data management.

We invest at the intersection of health, wealth, and privacy. The next generation of financial infrastructure, healthcare, and data security solutions will emerge from early-stage startups addressing this convergence. We partner with founders and leverage corporate LP relationships for distribution and go-to-market.

We are reinventing venture capital by bringing academic know-how and research to our investment process and portfolio companies. Evidence-based decision making combined with hands-on operational support creates differentiation for early-stage founders.

Transform financial services by increasing the ubiquity, movement, and security of capital. We partner with diverse founders building innovative solutions that expand access to capital, reduce friction in capital flows, and strengthen financial system confidence. We believe financial services is the most significant contributor to economic transformation and key to creating a more prosperous society for all.

Bold, mission-driven technology entrepreneurs with uncompromising integrity deserve capital, resources, and partnership to build solutions that truly matter. As a founder-only capital firm, we align with entrepreneurs over institutional return requirements.

Strategic corporate venture fund leveraging Microsoft's resources to help portfolio companies innovate and scale. Tightly aligned with Microsoft's cloud, AI, security, and enterprise software strategies.

Support founders building the next-generation infrastructure stack for the AI era. We back infra-first, engineering-led companies built for enterprises, with founder-market fit and execution speed.

The next generation of transformative work applications will be powered by AI. We seek to back founders building unique, innovative AI-powered tools that reshape how people collaborate, create, and manage information. Strategic integration with Dropbox ecosystem amplifies value.

Partner with exceptional teams building transformative technology companies across all stages

Technical founders building transformational infrastructure and AI companies in data, security, and enterprise tools. We provide capital, operational guidance, and network access to accelerate growth. The best companies are built by teams that deeply understand their domain and solve hard technical problems.

Scout invests in frontier technologies built by founders from military, intelligence, and national research labs. The team provides capital, operational partnership, government network access, and non-dilutive capital leverage. Focus on dual-use technologies with both commercial and defense applications.

The best technical founders in security, data, and infrastructure are moving faster than traditional venture can handle. MTF is a purpose-built fund with a curated Technical GTM Community to help founders go from prototype to PMF at speed. Solo GP. Fast decisions. Hands-on from Day 0.

Founders and operators backing fearless founders building infrastructure and SaaS companies that power the digital economy. We bring our own experience building companies to help technical founders nail go-to-market and assemble exceptional teams.

Early-stage investor in enterprise AI and complex B2B software backing hard-to-build, easy-to-scale products. We provide M&A coaching from former Google and Microsoft M&A heads who led 100+ technology acquisitions.

Companies combining access, efficiency, quality, and data-driven insights represent the next generation of market leaders. We invest in European pre-seed and seed companies revolutionizing work, security, finance, gaming, and health through data-powered innovation.

Disruptive innovation in work and education fuels human achievement. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs who are business builders, deep domain experts, and capital efficient thinkers. We believe in long-term relationships over transactional investing, often partnering with founders across multiple ventures.

The capital before your story. We back experienced and repeat founders building Frontier Enterprise infrastructure — critical software solutions born from hands-dirty experience at top companies. We invest meaningful capital ($750K-$2M) as the first institutional check in pre-seed and seed rounds.

Pre-seed fund investing in technical founders building developer-facing tools and infrastructure. Focused on curiosity, velocity of learning, and rapid building. Believe the world is shaped by unique insights at the intersection of art/culture and math/science.

The best companies will be built by technical founders - engineers, researchers, and scientists who have experienced a problem viscerally and are compelled to solve it. We invest in tools, platforms, and infrastructure for technical builders, and we partner with founders to help them evolve into leaders of generational companies.

Back the next generation of crypto founders disrupting the status quo and creating entirely new markets. Invest in crypto-native builders with maniacal focus on solving real protocol, infrastructure, and application problems. Support founders with research, token model design, mechanism design guidance, and operational expertise across investing, engineering, and ecosystem development.

We invest in bold technical founders building the autonomous enterprise. Before you build your team, before you write your first line of code—that's when boldstart gets to work. We collaborate with technical founders at Inception, lead pre-product rounds, and help turn bold ideas into category-creating companies.

We back founders who believe the purpose of life is to be briefly extraordinary. We invest at day zero when ideas haven't yet become innovations, seeking founders with superhuman grit, authentic vision, and the drive to create something lasting.

Illuminate invests in companies solving mission-critical problems for financial institutions through fintech and enterprise software innovation. With deep access to tier-1 financial institution networks and specialized domain expertise, the firm creates unique value for portfolio companies through institutional customer access, operational guidance, and strategic partnerships.

Overlooked founders in underserved geographies represent exceptional opportunities for category-leading companies. Panoramic combines serial entrepreneur credibility with institutional platform to back university-born and underrepresented founders from validation through scale.

Back dual-use technologies serving both commercial and government markets. Founded as investment community response to 9/11, we bring unmatched expertise from NSA, CIA, DARPA. We seek founders building innovative cyber, AI safety, and advanced technologies with meaningful impact on national security and commercial markets.

We partner with bold builders of category-defining companies from Seed to Series F and beyond. Depth of commitment, depth of relationships, and depth of belief distinguish us. Complete immersion, authentic partnership, and unwavering conviction through market cycles.

Accelerate financial services and commerce innovation by investing in companies that bring transformative solutions to market faster. We leverage PayPal's deep payments expertise, global brand, and 426+ million user network to help portfolio companies scale rapidly.

Partner with exceptional founders building technology companies with long-term growth potential capable of fundamentally shifting markets for the common good. Provide capital, operational expertise, board participation, and network access to support founder vision and company building.

We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life. We focus on AI-native founders building companies with strong founder-product fit, aligned on mission and meaning, seeking creative freedom and psychological safety. Great companies are built by diverse teams supported and empowered to be maximally creative.

Crypto-native operators architecting token-first networks through deep cryptoeconomic design, governance innovation, and sustainable token economies. 1kx supports builders across infrastructure, middleware, and consumer applications, focusing on projects that advance the decentralized future. The fund partners with founders to scale transformative blockchain projects while maintaining alignment through long-term capital commitment and deep technical expertise.

Back founder-operators with prior venture-scale exits solving hard technical problems in non-obvious, regulated deep-technical verticals including AI infrastructure, blockchain, biotech, and communications infrastructure. Co-invest alongside quality partners to maintain flexibility and focus on deep operational support and strategic value-add.

Back nerds and pioneers tackling tough problems that matter across European tech. Support founders building hard-to-build but essential products. Real partners for expert founders.

The biggest constraint for early-stage companies is not capital—it's building a world-class team. We provide capital plus measurable talent sourcing, recruitment excellence, and team-building advisory. We have proven ability to reach candidates not reachable by recruiters or founders, and commit to specific hiring targets for each portfolio company.

Invest in technology businesses with venture-pace growth potential, high margins, recurring revenue, and sustainable competitive advantage. Back exceptional founders who harbor passion to build great companies and are magnets for talent. Commit time, energy, network and hard work to portfolio company success, not just capital.

Technology and capital solutions for the global energy transition. We partner with entrepreneurs to build and scale innovative companies that power a better energy future, supported by collaborations with utilities and industrial incumbents.

Back extraordinary leadership teams—founders exceptional at building and exiting businesses with leadership styles that military-trained partners can uniquely mentor, support, and supercharge. Particular conviction in military veteran founders (30%+ of AUM) who demonstrate proven track record, drive, mission-orientation, teamwork, strategic excellence, growth mindset, and integrity.

Invest in only two kinds of technologies: those that move humanity toward utopia, and those that hold the line against oblivion. Back n-of-1 visions for an era of Black Swans—unconventional companies solving civilization-scale problems that others dismiss as too early, too risky, or too misunderstood.

Category-defining entrepreneurs building fundamental shifts that upend entire industries. Focus on disruptive business models in energy transition, healthcare, AI, and consumer. Thesis values human relationships and founder-centric partnerships over financial metrics alone.

Extraordinary things are possible when great teams come together around technology. K9 invests at the pre-seed stage with founders, betting on vision and execution. Money is a commodity; reputation and time are the currencies that matter. We provide not just capital but active operational support, hands-on mentorship, and board governance.

Exceptional talent and innovation exist beyond coastal venture capital hubs. We partner with mission-driven entrepreneurs to build companies of impact, utility, and value in the Rocky Mountain region. Technical founders with regional commitment and proven execution ability are our ideal partners.

Back technical founders building critical infrastructure for foundational industries. Pair growth-stage capital with deep regulatory expertise and government/industry connectivity to create defensible advantages in overlooked, essential sectors.

Back ambitious founders building disruptive early-stage technology companies. We provide not just capital but access to OMERS' multi-asset institutional platform. Our permanent pension backing gives us patient, long-duration capital unconstrained by traditional 10-year fund cycles.

We back founders venturing beyond to build transformational companies that create positive, enduring change. Applied AI and global resilience are fundamental forces reshaping industries.

Early-stage innovation from founders backed by seasoned operators. We invest in disruptive technologies solving real problems at the intersection of scientific breakthroughs and practical execution. Our founders get patient capital, hands-on mentorship from 100+ years of combined experience, and access to our network for strategic growth.

Apply AI and data science to identify and invest in N-of-1 companies with 10-100x potential. Back founders who expand individual freedom and decentralize power. Invest in companies that embody principles from the Bill of Rights (voice, fair process, proportionality, user power) and Bitcoin whitepaper (trust-minimized, verifiable, aligned incentives, open access).

MS&AD Ventures partners with visionary entrepreneurs to create innovative solutions across insurance, financial services, healthcare, and sustainability. Backed by the 5th largest global insurance conglomerate, they bring capital plus global distribution across 47 countries. They move fast (2-week decisions), focus on partnerships over ownership, and help companies scale internationally.

Early-stage founders using AI and frontier technology to reinvent enterprise and security markets. We seek technical founders who deeply understand their problem domain, have operating experience at scale, and are committed to responsible AI development. We provide not just capital but hands-on operational support through our Building Partners model.

GFR Fund invests in pre-seed to Series A companies building emerging digitally-native communities in gaming, entertainment, and consumer tech. They seek founders who deeply understand community-building, whether they have a product with an existing community or are in early stages of building one. Strong focus on execution, founder-market fit, and capital efficiency.

Community-driven VC led by active operators who simultaneously build and invest. Best support for founders comes from operators understanding current market challenges firsthand, not just history. Invest in category-defining technology companies.

Overlooked markets where distribution advantage compounds. Founders with deep domain empathy build durable moats. B2B software rebuilding industries through core workflows, data connectivity, and embedded intelligence.

Partner with technical operators and SMB owners to execute technology-led middle-market buyouts. Capture outsized economic value from AI at the ownership layer of services providers rather than pure-play tech.

We back the most ambitious founders building for enterprise, providing them with capital, confidence, and credibility. We believe exceptional founders with unrivaled tenacity and imagination can engineer exceptional futures in enterprise software, AI, and infrastructure.

We back bold, ambitious, and resilient founders driving breakthrough innovations in HealthTech, CleanTech, and AgriFoodTech. Female-led and gender-mixed teams deliver superior returns and drive meaningful impact. Over five decades of combined experience navigating financial cycles enables us to partner authentically with founders, providing not just capital but strategic guidance and operational support.

The world is awash with regulation. Early-stage founders in regulated sectors need venture capital combined with policy expertise and market access support. We bridge the gap between technology innovation and regulatory navigation.

We address racial inequality in the United States by investing in overlooked visionaries of color and companies tackling racial disparities in health, wealth, education, and justice. Fair-chance hiring is core to our approach.

We partner with high-integrity, problem-obsessed, wildly interesting founders at early stage. We are long-term investors, backing founders at inception and continuing to invest until IPO. We have a single mandate: to help fledgling companies navigate the challenges of building generational businesses. Rather than being a traditional write-a-check fund, we provide full-stack partnership: capital, operational support, strategic introductions, recruiting, business development, and fundraising support.

Technology can have a highly disruptive impact on society. We back founders on the forefront of innovation with clear vision towards positive change, leveraging domain expertise to ensure value creation. Founder-first approach with operational support.

Support Africa-based entrepreneurs building solutions for large regional or global markets through 'nurture capital'—combining institutional capital with intensive hands-on operational guidance focused on sustainable market readiness and business fundamentals. Leverage deep expertise in cybersecurity, software, and African market dynamics.

We champion the leaders of the new internet through decentralized technology. We invest across the full lifecycle of blockchain networks from pre-launch through post-token network effects, combining equity and liquid token positions while providing operational and technical expertise.

Big things start small. We invest at seed stage and see potential where others don't. We believe in your vision for your company's future, not as it exists today. We think in decades, not days, committing to walk the entire journey with founders to build iconic companies. We share Antipodean ingenuity with the world.

We're a different type of venture firm. We wake up every morning and ask ourselves how we can help our portfolio companies move the needle. From in-the-weeds to twenty thousand feet, we are partners at every level. We serve as an extension of founder headcount, sitting in portfolio company Slack channels, maintaining weekly calls, and proactively helping with hiring and customer introductions.

Back exceptional entrepreneurs building enduring companies that defy expectations. Value authenticity and tenacity to turn daring ideas into lasting impact. One life-altering investment can lead to industry-wide transformation.

Hands-on venture partnership focused on modernization, innovation, and disruption in fintech, AI, and cybersecurity. Combination of deep domain expertise with commitment to founder diversity. Weekly engagement with portfolio companies. Adrian brings 20 years of product/team building experience; Senofer shapes national innovation policy.

We invest in technically sophisticated founding teams solving breakthrough problems in deep-tech. We believe the next generation of transformational companies will be built by scientists and engineers with deep domain expertise tackling problems at the frontier of AI, cybersecurity, quantum, robotics, space, synthetic biology, and bioengineering. We provide patient capital and technical partnership to help these teams achieve escape velocity.

Back exceptional founders at the earliest stages with potential to build multi-billion dollar companies. Invest in three primary areas: Future of Income, Complicated Consumer, and Decentralized Enterprise. Seek founders with unique perspectives and diversity of background.

Invest in innovative technology companies that can achieve significant market share in large, growing markets and grow independent of market conditions. Partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to build sustainable, profitable businesses that transform industry segments.

Digital innovation across four themes (AI, Blockchain, Computing Infrastructure, Big Data) will define the next generation of transformative companies.

Funding the future of risk for the human endeavor. Munich Re Ventures invests in technologies and business models tackling the biggest risks facing the world, operating at the intersection of technology, venture capital, and the insurance industry.

We invest in early-stage companies with great ideas and exceptional people behind them. The best teams have passion, perseverance, and proven execution capability. We look for genuine market problems, cost-effective solutions, clear paths to monetization, and teams that will execute relentlessly.

Early-stage business technology companies are strongest when unified within a thriving ecosystem. We invest in companies changing how the world does business through AI/ML, cybersecurity, fintech, and SaaS+ (vertical SaaS platforms layering embedded fintech to multiply revenue).

Exceptional founders with clear technical solutions to enterprise market pain points, focused on SaaS, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence, and computer vision. We provide capital plus operational excellence through Shasta Elevate playbooks.

Find strong, ambitious founders working on what we believe to be game-changing technology, and put in the hard work to add value every step of the way. We invest in founders with robust information asymmetries developing core technology innovations with the potential to disrupt and redefine industries.

The AI-first transformation of business will be as big as digital, mobile, and cloud combined. We invest in companies building the AI-first technology stack: data foundations, AI tools, autonomous applications, and product-led growth companies that accelerate adoption. Founders building at any layer of this stack can reach goals and uncover opportunities previously unattainable.

Mantis invests opportunistically in Seed and Series A technology-enabled startups, leveraging deep social capital across tech, media, entertainment, and finance to provide unmatched GTM support. The firm is founder-obsessed and differentiates through celebrity network access, customer introductions, talent acquisition help, and brand amplification.

Amplify founder impact through capital paired with deep expertise in government market access, federal R&D funding capture, and government contracting strategy. Focus on dual-use technologies addressing national security, defense, energy, and infrastructure challenges.

The world's most successful B2B software companies require presence and success in both North America and Europe. Frontline specializes in facilitating frictionless transatlantic expansion, supporting founders with global ambition through a dual-fund strategy optimized for international growth.

Technology will define geopolitics. We invest in the Freedom Stack—foundational technologies critical to American national security and technological leadership. We partner with mission-driven founders building capabilities essential to American prosperity and strategic advantage.

Pattern-breaking founders solving real problems generate breakthrough solutions. We believe the best companies come from overlooked founders outside Silicon Valley, regardless of pedigree or traditional markers of success.

Women-led fund focused on healthcare infrastructure—middleware, payments, clinical trials, and data architecture—thesis-driven, GTM-heavy partner offering hands-on commercialization support for technical founders scaling into payer and provider markets.

B2B AI/ML software companies disrupting legacy industries (real estate, finance, insurance, logistics). We provide capital plus hands-on operational support.

Exceptional technology companies can be built anywhere—US, Israel, or Europe. We partner with experienced founders to provide capital, US market expertise, and global networks to help them scale internationally.

Mayfield invests in founders building iconic companies through AI-first innovation and human-AI collaboration. The firm believes the next wave of category-defining enterprises will leverage collaborative intelligence, where AI teammates augment and amplify human capability. Mayfield seeks deep tech founders with defensible innovation, clear market advantage, and the ability to scale globally.

Great companies aren't born, they're made. XYZ invests in early-stage founders with exceptional execution capability, deep domain expertise, or lived experience insights. They specialize in helping founders navigate the earliest stages by providing capital plus strategic operational support.

Mark VC takes a deeply founder-centric approach, building '360-degree behavioral maps' of founders through extensive personal reference calls. They invest across industries but focus on security & defense, healthcare, consumer, and enterprise software. They strive to be the most valuable investor on the cap table through hands-on coaching and operational support.

Network-powered startups connecting people and businesses through software tools and platforms

Be the first check in for founders building America's next era of critical technologies. Invest in audacious founders across Defense, Aerospace, Energy, AI, Manufacturing, Cybersecurity, and Health+Bio solving problems critical to national security and American technological leadership. Provide capital ($250K-$1M), unmatched government access, mentor network, and go-to-market acceleration.

Operators backing entrepreneurs building global companies with exceptional people, world-class products, and cutting-edge technology. C4 focuses on deep tech and AI where operational expertise creates meaningful value. The firm believes Europe can compete globally in AI and robotics.

Build category-defining technology businesses that deliver strong investment returns while addressing pressing business challenges. Leverage Fortune 500 parent (MassMutual) assets including real estate portfolios, renewable energy assets, and capital networks.

Menlo invests in transformative technology companies at multiple stages of early growth. We provide capital, operational expertise, and hands-on support to help founders build scalable businesses that change how we live and work.

We back founders building the future of B2B technology. From Latin America to the world, we invest early and partner with founders and companies for the long term. Our core purpose is to support founders and companies through founder-aligned partnerships forged in trust.

Depth-first venture investing through mastery in specific domains. We partner with bold builders challenging industry conventions, backing founders with technical depth and conviction to build enduring $1B+ companies. Complete immersion creates enduring companies.

Deep technology and hard tech company investing at inflection points. Partner with technical founders building infrastructure-level solutions for global scale. Founded 2010 on belief that next generation of transformative companies require deep technical expertise, not just capital.

Back ambitious and unique technology startups as early as possible — ideally from day one. High volume, small checks (~€200-250K), primarily European pre-seed and seed. No board seats, no round leadership. Value-add through a 900+ founder community.

Ambitious founders solving fundamental problems across major industries. The next generation of transformational companies will be built on modern AI, secure infrastructure, and efficient commerce. We partner with technical founders with operator experience and compelling narratives.

Building transformational companies requires more than capital—it demands deep operational expertise, consistent partnership, and genuine commitment to founders' success. Costanoa backs visionaries solving big, hard problems across data infrastructure, applied AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and national security. The firm centers on the 'missing middle' of early-stage investing: providing unusually intensive, hands-on support to founder teams during their most critical growth phases.

World-class technology companies can be built anywhere. Greatness is in our backyard. We invest in market-defining companies across the Driveway region (Hudson River to Rocky Mountains), partnering with founders from idea to IPO. Build where your talent is. Build where your customers are. Build where you're strongest.

World-changing companies can be built anywhere. Partner with ambitious, underdog, diverse founders in underserved ecosystems. Founder-first relationships: we work for them. Capital + camaraderie + connections + community.

Your first partner. Over 80% of investments are first checks. We partner with exceptional founders at inception stages, providing patient capital and deep partnership.

The greatest driver of venture returns is founders strengthened by struggle. We invest in rare talent building generational tech companies, regardless of pedigree or geographic origin.

Venture capital is the most powerful economic engine the world has ever seen. We back audacious founders solving humanity's hardest challenges through category-creating innovations. We embrace big risks and reject short-termism, committing to 15+ year partnerships with founders who have long-term vision and relentless determination.

Partner with founders building generational software companies. We provide capital, operational support, and genuine partnership. Focus on technology-driven solutions addressing large and growing markets. Invest across enterprise and consumer software, with depth in AI-native software, fintech, infrastructure, security, vertical SaaS, healthcare, and future of work.

Partner with exceptional founders building from 0 to 1, with focus on AI applications, developer tools, SaaS, and healthcare. Believe in founders who have succeeded once or have deep domain expertise.

The entrepreneurial journey from zero to one is isolating and difficult. By becoming an extension of portfolio founders' teams, we can build the next generation of successful B2B SaaS companies. We invest in founders first, companies second. Technology should be human-centered, founder-first, and focused on solving real market problems.

Back ambitious teams with strong learning and execution capacities across all sectors, stages, and geographies. Technology-enabled businesses preferred. Volume-based, founder-centric investment philosophy.

Partner with exceptional founders building transformative technology companies from inception to IPO and beyond. Our moral compass is serving humanity with technology and capital. We provide not just capital but operational support, network access, and board participation to maximize the potential of founders' ideas and make history.

We partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs building product-first companies that redefine their categories. In the US, we focus on transformative AI and enterprise software. In India, we back digital-native businesses solving local market problems at scale.

We support ambitious founders solving large problems through technology across all stages. Independent thinkers who challenge conventional wisdom are our ideal partners. We provide not just capital but operational expertise, global networks, and hands-on support from day one through scale.

See beyond borders. Back exceptional founders who think differently, refuse to follow conventions, and are willing to build defensible, data-driven products. Great talent exists everywhere, and the venture capital industry can be transformed from within.

Back determined technical founders from Europe and Israel building hard technology solutions that solve complex problems. We invest at inception-stage, often as the first institutional investor, backing heretical, independent thinkers pursuing pre-consensus ideas with technical depth and commercial viability. Global mindset essential; US market expansion planned for European/Israeli founders.

We democratize venture capital by providing individual accredited investors with professional-grade access to elite venture opportunities. We leverage our massive 850,000+ community network and 11,000+ investors to create unique value for founders, sourcing and diligencing deals alongside top-tier VCs (a16z, Sequoia, Khosla) without leading rounds. Our network is our competitive advantage—it compounds value for all stakeholders.

As the world becomes more information-rich, most transformative new companies will leverage data science, machine learning, and advanced computing power. We back founders building breakthrough solutions at this intersection.

The strongest early-stage companies emerge from founders with deep domain expertise who have access to capital, community, and operational support. Grand Central Tech provides the infrastructure; Company Ventures provides the capital. We back founders committed to category-defining businesses in any sector.

Back founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries. We invest directly in their growth to make them unbreakable. Founded on principle that luck isn't made, it's engineered. Founders are our customer, not LPs. We always vote shares with founders and provide 1% non-dilutive founder development capital alongside every first check.

Investing in subject matter experts shaping the future of their industries. We lead with our values and build trust through action. We believe the best founders have deep industry expertise and need tireless operational support, not just capital. We partner with founders for the long term, staying engaged 24/7.

Invest in the future of software built on AI. We partner with technical founders to provide capital, unfair shortcuts, and operational support to accelerate their learning and help them reach their potential. We position ourselves as the first institutional investor for v0.9 stage founders.

Exceptional founders living in the future deserve operators who provide more than capital. We partner with founders on go-to-market, brand, storytelling, and team building.

New Zealand tech startups and creative companies have exceptional potential. We provide early-stage capital and operational support through our network of industry advisors to help exceptional founders achieve breakthrough results.

K5 Global backs category-defining companies from inception to IPO. The firm leverages exceptional networks across media, entertainment, politics, finance, and technology to provide strategic value beyond capital. We believe the best companies are built by founders who can access world-class talent, capital, and strategic relationships.

WndrCo positions itself as 'the founders behind the founders,' combining strategic capital with deep operational involvement. Unlike traditional VCs, partners take formal operating roles (interim CEO, CFO, CPO) within portfolio companies. This approach leverages the co-founders' proven track record: Sujay Jaswa scaled Dropbox from $18M to $10B as Business Founder/CFO, and Jeffrey Katzenberg transformed Disney Studios and built DreamWorks. The firm invests across all stages through three strategies: Build (acquiring underappreciated tech companies), Venture (leading post-PMF rounds), and Seed (very early checks). Focus areas are Future of Work, Cybersecurity, Developer Infrastructure, and Consumer Technology, with increasing emphasis on AI applications.

Back philomath founders building mission-critical software. We co-lead first-check investments in intellectually voracious founding teams solving complex problems with deep domain expertise. Extended engagement from launch to orbit.

A majority of the data our brains analyze is visual. Therefore, the majority of the data AI will analyze will also be visual, spanning the light and electromagnetic spectrums across all sectors. We thrive on collaborating with deep technical teams who leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data.

Exceptional companies are built by founders with deep conviction, strong technical foundations, and the courage to tackle meaningful problems. Panache backs visionary founders from day one, providing capital alongside hands-on operational support and nationwide founder networks.

U.S. immigrants possess exceptional entrepreneurial talent and world-class skills but face systemic barriers through immigration constraints. By removing immigration obstacles and providing capital, operational support, and community resources, immigrant founders can build revolutionary companies and create lasting economic impact. We're the only VC with immigration attorneys as general partners to make this happen.

Pair deep industry domain expertise with cutting-edge AI capabilities. Build companies from inception with co-founder matching, pre-seed funding, and operational expertise. Enable rapid company formation with de-risked business models.

Battery Ventures operates as a stage-agnostic firm backing technology-driven category leaders across all growth stages from seed to buyout. The firm believes the best tech investments span the entire founder journey, and they practice collaborative, research-focused investing with embedded operational support through their Portfolio Services platform. They seek technical founders with deep domain expertise and experienced operators building in four core sectors: Application Software, Infrastructure Software, Consumer, and Industrial Tech + Life Science Tools.

We invest in companies that make business work better, backed by a commitment to understanding profound changes in how business operates. We seek founders with the potential to build extraordinary, outlier companies through transparency, founder-first principles, and patient capital from our investor Bloomberg L.P.

Back technical teams working on breakthrough products. We invest in seed stage companies that demonstrate technical differentiation - meaning technical or product-level superiority is a major reason for future success. We pursue investments from application layer (AI/ML) through software infrastructure to hardware layers (semiconductors, photonics).

Transformative national security solutions emerge from early-stage private-sector startups developing frontier technologies. IQT identifies, evaluates, and leverages innovations to accelerate government adoption while enhancing commercial success.

We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value by providing lifetime support to companies from seed through late-stage equity and credit. We differentiate through deep Wall Street expertise, strategic LP networks, and innovative financing vehicles.

RRE backs visionary early-stage founders leveraging technological breakthroughs to reshape industries. Systematic focus on Physical AI (AI that touches atoms) and Decentralized AI (bridging web3 and AI infrastructure). Boutique model enables direct partnerships with founders vs. large portfolio strategies. 30+ years of multi-cycle experience.

Solo GP model combining angel investing speed with VC-scale checks. Backs non-traditional founders solving their own problems. Rejects process-heavy VC bureaucracy in favor of speed, decisiveness, and founder-first engagement.

New and powerful AI systems will give rise to transformative startups. We back exceptional engineers, designers, researchers, and product builders using AI to solve critical problems in healthcare, law, education, energy, sciences, and enterprise. We provide capital, operational support, talent expertise, and conviction follow-on investing.

Invest in scalable, capital-efficient tech and tech-enabled startups at the Seed stage led by exceptional founders. We identify companies showing early traction that can achieve significant scale with disciplined capital deployment.

Sierra believes enterprise software is being fundamentally transformed by cloud computing and AI. They invest in technical founders building the next generation of enterprise solutions that deliver superior ROI through better efficiency, automation, and capability. The firm particularly focuses on infrastructure, security, healthcare innovation, and emerging deep tech.

Back the quirky underdog pursuing seemingly impossible ideas. Frontier tech (aerospace, biotech, climate, robotics, crypto, AI, VR/AR) will create the next generation of legendary companies. Technical founders with deep domain expertise can solve the hardest problems in physics, chemistry, and computing.

We are professional fixers for complex situations. An extension of your team. Fierce defenders when you need us most. Partners who roll up their sleeves. We invest in early-stage companies helping them avoid traditional roadblocks on their path to hypergrowth. We specialize in navigating hostile situations, IP protection, and crisis management.

Exceptional founders backed at pre-seed and seed with both capital and hands-on operational support—talent, GTM, fundraising—build the most enduring companies. Pear is founder-first: founders-and-operators turned investors who have been in founders' shoes.

Help founders build companies of which they can be proud. We invest in mission-driven founders solving large, urgent problems using technology to create substantive change. Capital is necessary but not sufficient—sweat, reputation, and accountability are our core commitments.

We invest in paradigm shifters—truly disruptive technologies that change our perspective of the world. We believe in missionary founders committed to their vision, and we focus on business-team-idea-timing fit, not just product-market fit. We target transformative companies across defense, climate, fintech, legal tech, and emerging domains.

Belgium-first network-driven VC backing the most ambitious Belgian-founded tech startups at Pre-Seed and Seed. Pools capital, expertise, and network from 120+ founders, operators, and investors to help early-stage Belgian companies scale globally.

ffVC invests in driven problem-solvers building high-potential companies in emerging industries: AI, Manufacturing, Energy, Robotics, and Security. We provide capital alongside deep operational expertise, board participation, and access to a 35,000+ founder and investor ecosystem. We bet on founders with industry expertise, clear paths to $100M+ revenue, and defensible competitive advantages.

Technological innovation is unevenly distributed. The hottest, most visible sectors attract talent and capital, while overlooked industries hide massive value creation opportunities. We back unconventional founders disrupting unglamorous, technology-inefficient, long-standing industries.

Back the brightest early-stage founders under 30. We provide capital, mentorship, and network access to accelerate ambitious young entrepreneurs who graduate from our League of Innovators program or demonstrate exceptional founder quality.

Data and technology combined with sector expertise and operational support unlock unfair advantages for early-stage startups. We build venture capital like a tech company.

We invest in startups and venture funds, creating a symbiotic network that propels innovation. Our approach is characterized by long-term thinking and a 'give first' philosophy.

Partner with exceptional founders to build generational companies that define the world's most critical industries. We provide not just capital but assemble teams of the highest caliber through our 5,000+ member builder community and deep operational expertise.

Entrepreneurs who work constructively with government to harness its unique strengths—scale, credibility, regulatory power, data, and funding—enjoy asymmetric advantages. 24% of venture-backed unicorns used government support. We partner with founders to unlock government as a growth lever.

Technology companies are becoming intertwined with the global economy more so than ever before. The most compelling founders build businesses through a broader world view. White Star Capital backs globally ambitious entrepreneurs at Series A, B, and Seed stages across North America, Europe, and Asia, helping them scale internationally through deep local presence on three continents.

We invest in relentlessly ambitious entrepreneurs working on fundamental technology and business model innovations that advance humanity toward abundance. Our March to Abundance thesis focuses on four primary areas: (1) freedom from repetitive work through AI and automation, (2) freedom to transact and financial security, (3) freedom from genetic disease and biological limitations, (4) interconnection of humanity through new mediums.

Believe in innovation, risk-taking, and young talent. Best entrepreneurs are rare and precious. Provide quick capital, friendly terms, genuine commitment. Help but don't complicate. Monthly founder support.

Global venture capital that invests where talent is abundant but capital and opportunity are not. 500 Global backs technology founders with global ambitions across underinvested, fast-growing markets using Silicon Valley expertise combined with deep local knowledge. Core belief: The best founders and innovation emerge globally, not just Silicon Valley.

The best people to invest in startups are people who have built startups. We identify exceptional founders in geographies outside traditional venture hubs, building locally-run pre-seed funds with community-powered decision making.

Data is the defensible moat in technology. We invest in companies that build proprietary data assets, analytics capabilities, or machine learning advantages to dominate their categories. Founded on 'information arbitrage' thesis - applying hedge fund quantitative discipline to early-stage venture.

We connect innovative startups with 550+ corporate partners who have real business problems to solve. Our unique position in the ecosystem creates a flywheel of pilots, proofs-of-concept, enterprise customers, and follow-on capital. We back founders solving real market problems with credible corporate validation.

Exceptional entrepreneurs building critical national security, space, and industrial infrastructure at day zero deserve capital and strategic support from founders who've scaled before. We provide capital, industry network introductions, capital connections to Series A leads, and ecosystem access.

Equity of access and representation in venture capital delivers positive returns. Diverse and underrepresented (including LGBTQ+) leaders of high-growth companies deserve capital access. When these founders succeed, they influence ecosystems and open doors for historically excluded groups.

Serious founders building must-have technology for mission-critical industries. We focus on B2B software companies digitizing legacy industries and transforming established workflows. Specializing in seed-stage, where hands-on operational support, sales acceleration, and capital strategy matter most.

Venture capital should be accessible to exceptional entrepreneurs anywhere. Great companies can be built outside Silicon Valley with the right capital, operational expertise, and network support.

Empowering entrepreneurs to reimagine the way we live and work by investing in daring technology companies challenging the status quo with permanent capital, lifelong sparring partnership from pre-seed through IPO and beyond.

Leading global companies that leverage technological innovation across public and private markets. Proven founders (especially ex-Googlers, AWS, Stripe) with large TAMs (billions+), product-led growth, and global ambitions. Conviction-based investing post-2022 correction emphasizing quality over quantity.

Investing in the picks and shovels of volatility caused by convergent forces (AI, Web3, Deep Science) intersecting with demographic shifts and climate change. We seek to create venture-scale returns by backing bold founders building more equitable, beneficial, transparent, and accessible structures.

Great startups can be built anywhere. We believe in founder-centric investing with operational support from a team of successful founders. We serve undernetworked geographic regions.

Product-obsessed investing in consumer tech, prosumer software, and SMB applications. We back founders based on product quality and user value, not credentials or background.

Elevate Ventures partners with innovation-driven founders to provide strategic capital, mentorship, and ecosystem access. Founded by a former founder (Governor Mitch Daniels), the firm believes the best founders exhibit grit, creativity, and coachability. They invest across all sectors and geographies but maintain primary focus on Indiana and Great Lakes Region entrepreneurs building cross-sector innovations.

Invest in the most promising Southern European (primarily Italian) deep-technology companies across Advanced Manufacturing, Life Science, and Energy & Environment, and actively support their expansion into Asian markets (China, South Korea, Japan, South-East Asia). The fund uses a proprietary evaluation framework and a 'pull model' — companies must demonstrate genuine Asian market interest before investment.

AI, autonomy, and cybersecurity will define both economic prosperity and national security. We invest in early-stage founders leveraging unfair advantages to build category-leading dual-use technology startups that serve both commercial and defense markets.

NYC has tremendous entrepreneurial talent but lacked a structured environment for early-stage founders. ERA provides capital, intense mentorship, and network access to help founders build market-leading companies. Every sector deserves innovation.

Democratize access to venture capital by building large syndicates of non-traditional LPs. Invest across all stages, sectors, and geographies based on founder quality and market conviction, not category restrictions. Enable 2,000+ diverse co-investors to participate alongside marquee firms like Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz while maintaining founder-friendly economics.

Operator-led fund investing in ambitious founders building transformative AI applications. We partner with technical founders who understand AI/ML deeply and are solving real customer problems with capital efficiency. Great product is always the best marketing.

High-conviction seed fund focused on alignment and partnership. Blake invests in technical founders building enduring companies across gaming, hardware, creator economy, and emerging tech. Core belief: VC is a service business where concentrated ownership creates genuine incentives for hands-on support.