Sway (formerly Returnmates)

Backing founders building tomorrow’s most iconic companies. Valia is currently investing out of their $50M second early-stage fund.

Early-stage fund for founders, by founders. They have backed over 300 teams since 2011. They mainly invest in the US but also invest globally, 37% of investments have been outside the US.

Blackhorn Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies using breakthroughs in engineering and science, coupled with the infrastructure of the Information Revolution, to redefine resource productivity.

Billions of people are moving toward a higher standard of living, and global consumption is rapidly depleting Earth’s resource capacity. We are in a unique period of history that will be defined by investment in resource-efficient technologies. This is what we do.

Silicon Valley Meets Wall Street 10X brings institutional equity and debt capital to high growth tech companies

Yes VC backs great companies at the early stages. They invest in 20 companies a year on average.