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Led by physician-scientist Tom Cahill, they form companies from academic discoveries in gene editing and regenerative medicine, offering company-formation expertise, board experience, and a high formation-and-exit track record.

Invests in outsiders—mission-driven, non-traditional founders in off-coast locations building hardware, deep tech, logistics, or legacy-industry companies—and leverages a VC podcast-built national network for systematic dealflow.

Moved from the Bay Area to Bozeman to build Montana and Mountain West's venture ecosystem, catalyzing regional startup funding growth and transforming Montana into a venture engine.

Applies LinkedIn's playbook and offers codified leadership curricula plus hands-on leadership coaching, acting as a venture fund–leadership institute hybrid for founders seeking structured executive development.

Seed-stage fund where any partner can lead conviction-driven, non-consensus bets redesigning daily moments; five equal partners make 1–4 investments yearly, work directly with founders, and use five-attribute deal scoring.

First-in institutional seed/Series A investor for India-to-global B2B and SaaS startups, led by entrepreneur-founders with partners physically operating in both India and Silicon Valley.

Seed-stage firm led by serial founders with 10 exits >$10B, offering a 45+ platform team, proprietary tools like Signal (100k+ users), and an invite-only Guild of CEOs with KPIs.

Operates an in-house creator incubator that originates companies from Night Media’s creator ecosystem and gives founders access to 50+ top YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch creators and audiences.

Early-stage Nordic VC backed by a 70+ entrepreneur network and ex-founder GPs (Tobii, Paradox) that actively sources and supports companies across New Experiences, Smarter Workplaces, Platform Technologies, promoting profitability-before-VC.

Seed-stage, solo-GP investor targeting NYC fintech, marketplace, and AI/ML founders, using an 8-factor leveraged-finance framework and delivering top-quartile returns (7/10 major events, ~3x in 3.5 years).

Pre-seed/seed technical lead for decarbonizing mining, manufacturing, and heavy transport, offering founders mining-operating expertise, strategy sessions, pilot connections, and industry convening.

Hands-on co-developer for Northern European deeptech climate startups in advanced and biomanufacturing—from university spin-out to scale-up—providing technical and operational support, shaping commercial strategy via industrially embedded partners, one-company-at-a-time commitment.

Invests in mainly Nordic early-growth tech and lifestyle companies, leveraging Copenhagen and Los Angeles presence to help scale globally, add value, and pursue exits within about five years.

Early-stage, impact-focused VC rooted in the Norrsken Foundation, investing in startups that solve social problems while building massive businesses.

Early-stage impact investor that only backs revenue-linked impact businesses, offers access to a 30,000+ global hub community, and open-sourced impact framework with partner pay tied to measurable outcomes.

Invests in Northern Triangle university spinouts and deeptech companies, backed by three northern universities, offering post-investment NG Innovation Services: venture-building accelerators, leadership mentoring, and business infrastructure.

Embeds multi‑year research programs at top institutions, co‑runs labs and project selection, then converts academic IP into startups through negotiation, incorporation and syndication; focuses on tools, platforms and biomanufacturing.

Regional development engine for North East England specializing in climate tech and healthy ageing, blending public and private capital, tailoring deal structures with hybrid impact-commercial model and SDG measurement.

Invests from first check through growth to IPO, acting as a long-term partner offering 1,000+ hours of research, proprietary sourcing from prior winners, multi-hub consumer/media expertise, and editorial support.

Invests across venture and growth equity, offering long-term stability from a single institutional backer, India investment expertise, and hands-on People Advisory support for culture and operations.

Pre-seed-focused, first-check investor for technical founders at company creation, offering hands-on day-zero support, public operating manual and podcast for transparency, plus an equity-free founder program in underestimated ecosystems.

Solo GP centered on a newsletter-driven media flywheel investing broadly with minimal ownership and no board seats, amplifying founders via Sponsored Deep Dives that generate revenue and storytelling.

Early-stage fund partnering with technical, product-focused founders building core infrastructure (dev tools, industrial automation, APIs) across Europe and US; led by repeat founders/ex-angels and acting as non-lead collaborative partners.

Supports purpose-driven founders solving systemic challenges to planetary health.

Early-stage, founders-first investor targeting regionally scaled GCC/MENA/Turkey/Pakistan startups, integrating ESG and ecosystem health, led by partners with 150+ early-stage deals and 15+ exits.

Early-stage, B2B-only VC with accelerator roots that blends development finance and commercial VC capital, with 180–190 early investments and early backing of unicorns Auth0, Mural, Tiendanube.

Selectively backs about 10 fintechs per year, connecting founders to banks and financial institutions plus senior industry advisors, and favoring transparent, infrastructure‑rearchitecting business models over point solutions.

Early-stage, multi-thematic firm investing in purpose-driven founders reimagining the building blocks of life and society.

Early-stage investor deeply embedded in University of Chicago Booth, specializing in fintech, insurtech and blockchain/Web3 infrastructure, offering technically fluent partners and access to Booth MBA interns via VC Lab.

Early-stage B2B and deep-tech investor that helps Israeli and Latin American companies enter the U.S., with a Florida med-device/sports-analytics bucket and MIT-trained founder/operators.

Focuses on companies born from offline interactions that balance profit with purpose and emphasize environmental and social stewardship.

Seed-stage investor rooted in Southern California, tied to universities and Octane, targeting capital-efficient tech in underserved geographies outside the Bay Area, with founder-to-IPO and Fortune 500 backgrounds.

Mid-growth digital health investor offering concentrated capital to about a dozen companies, partners with seven prior exits totaling $4B+, Latin American pharma heritage and tri‑continental market access.

Invests across multiple stages; permanent pension backing enables long-duration, multi-asset co-investments; uses strategic foresight and scenario planning for multi-year theses and embeds narrative-building via journalism and communications hires.

Dedicated Indian agtech VC with 10+ years building farmer-centric portfolios that raise smallholder incomes, combining deep agronomy networks, rural distribution expertise and institutional discipline to underwrite agriculture risks.

Seed-stage LatAm-focused cross-border fund between São Paulo and San Francisco with operator-heavy partners, a concentrated portfolio and a formal three-criterion framework, offering dedicated talent recruitment support.

Exclusively backs startups with at least one immigrant founder, leveraging immigrant leadership and Semyon Dukach’s probabilistic, MIT Blackjack Team–derived approach to evaluate founders and venture risk.

As OpenAI's venture arm, they run Converge, a highly selective five-week program for exceptional engineers, designers, researchers, and product builders using AI to reimagine products and industries.

The investment arm of OpenSea, backing founders building Web3 through NFTs, decentralized systems, and other novel blockchain uses.

Connects founders to 200+ senior operator LPs (90% women, 40% people of color) who actively source deals, conduct diligence, and support portfolio companies, with 75-70% first-time venture investors.

Non-leading co-investor writing $250K–$1M checks alongside leads, run by founders with billion-dollar exits, offering flexible on-demand operator support while avoiding leads and board seats.

Healthcare-only platform spanning seed through IPO and beyond via public, private and credit/royalty arms; acts as a biotech IPO accelerator and validation, aiding NASDAQ/HKEX listings and confidential financings.

Pre-seed to seed consumer investor writing $100k–$500k checks that plugs founders into a coordinated ~160M-follower athlete/celebrity social-media machine (co‑founded by Blaise Matuidi) for launches and campaigns.

VC focused on AI infrastructure, AI-native software, and AI frontier tech (not generalist), with partners across all four U.S. time zones and a podcast dissecting company-building for founders.

East Coast early-stage B2B enterprise software investor (typical $1–5M checks) with a learning-organization culture, bridging Swiss and Israeli founders to U.S. markets and supporting university spinouts.

Founded by Bryan Johnson, invests in platforms and enabling technologies supporting inventors and scientists building programmable-biology solutions to rewrite life's operating systems and benefit humanity.

First institutional fund exclusively for commercial open-source startups globally, founded by the COSS category creator, with in-house licensing/governance counsel and community and Open Core Summit stewardship.

Regulated VC and global equity crowdfunding platform that co-invests alongside individual accredited investors, runs government-backed tech incubators with industrial partners, and co-manages cross-border VC funds with governments.

Invests Day Zero as the first/only check, backing oddball, under‑networked founders in non‑core markets (e.g., U.S. Southeast) via intelligence‑style deep life conversations and a structured vision/intelligence/character/execution scoring framework.

Invests as the final step for outsiders crossing into healthcare, using a media-first pipeline of free educational content, operator-only community (no professional investors), published theses, and solo analyst leadership.

Specializes in VR/AR and frontier technologies with dual Silicon Valley–China headquarters, offering founders Asian market access plus geopolitical insight and XR industry connections from its co‑founders.

Led by Datto founder Austin McChord, fund invests at Series A in modernizing unglamorous, large markets—e.g., cattle supply chains, industrial painting, satellite buses—and has scaled winners to unicorn rounds.

Very early-stage friendvestor writing $100–250K first checks to outsider fintech founders (immigrants, under-networked, non-traditional) focused on building equitable products to lift 100 million people.

Government-backed accelerator investing pre-seed to seed in work‑environment and business-efficiency software, requiring Latvian registration to access staged regional fund network and Riga-based gateway to Eastern Europe.

Early-stage investor specializing in companies founded by historically overlooked founders.

Led by former Obama White House and DOE officials, targeting energy, AI, resilience and industrial transformation, with embedded Boundary Stone Partners government affairs support to unlock incentives at scale.

Solo-GP fund focused on breakthrough human and planetary health technologies, offering hands-on commercialization support for technical deep-tech and frontier science founders plus founder well-being and leadership development.

Early-stage (first-check) backer that supports European-built startups scaling in the US, holds investments until IPO, and supplies hands-on resources via a 200+ LP network of founders and CEOs.

Largest dedicated EdTech and workforce-tech specialist with over $2.2B, investing across the learner-to-workforce reskilling lifecycle and offering an Outcomes & Efficacy team to measure and improve learning outcomes.

Early-stage scout writing $25k–$200k checks in San Francisco, New York and Hong Kong, focused on private-asset infrastructure platforms like AngelList, Republic and Forge Global.

Partners with African tech founders from 0 to 1, focusing on early-stage product development and achieving product–market fit.

Backs dual-use technologies that improve national and commercial security, operates under published ethical investment principles, and provides founders in-house think‑tank insights plus senior national‑security and intelligence expertise.

Seed-stage investor focused on ClimateTech firms that reduce and reverse climate change, typically taking around a 10% ownership stake.

Relocated to New York to avoid Bay Area bidding wars, firm tracks ~5,000 companies to find reasonably priced, under-the-radar software startups and prioritizes hands-on support for struggling portfolio companies.

Pre-seed/seed VC using an AI dataset tracking every new Canadian tech startup, holding 90–100 companies, with added Silicon Valley fundraising expertise and hands-if support toward Series A.

Specializing in advanced materials, chemistry and biology with 25+ years' experience, they leverage corporate partners like BASF, Toyota and Samsung to provide supply-chain access and audited, quantified impact measurement.

Stage-agnostic $100K–$20M+ checks, anchored by a Black serial entrepreneur with exits and an institutional Atlanta platform, systematically targets university-born startups and supports founders through validation to scale.

Invests across venture equity, early-stage and private tokens, liquid tokens, and special situations via a single investment committee full-spectrum model bridging venture and hedge approaches.

Research-and-engineering venture lab that hires atypical, deeply technical talent and invents open-source crypto mechanisms (concentrated liquidity, NFT lending) founders can build on.

Early-stage, often first investor and pre-seed backer writing six-figure checks, a hyper-prolific super-angel studio (~900–1,000 global deals) that incubates ventures via a Paris engineering team and prioritizes founder relationships.

Exclusively invests in spinouts from leading UK universities (Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial), operating university‑branded EIS funds that connect academic founders to private investors and EIS tax advantages.

Invests at seed, venture and growth stages with integrated multi-continent platform (offices in Paris, Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi, San Francisco), offering deep Africa expertise and widely cited deal-flow reporting.

Micro‑fund focused on the very earliest stages in robotics and AI, targeting technically deep founders tackling hard problems, led by a former Facebook deal lead and prioritizing founder control.

Seed investor by ex‑Riot Games leaders (League of Legends, VALORANT) focusing on gaming mechanics, communities and virtual goods for consumer/Web3, backing founders who grow 50k–100k+ organic communities.

A financially driven CVC demanding 8–10x+ returns with top‑quartile performance that uses AI/cyber investments as intelligence engines and connects startups to PayPal product teams via dedicated ops managers.

Seed-stage investor with a €30m seed fund, only official EIT Food VC partner for proprietary agrifood deal flow and data, and founders' industrial food expertise enabling industrial-scale pilots with major corporates.

Early-stage investor unusually student-centric—about 50% of portfolio companies are student-founded, runs university dorm programs and empowers student fellows with up to $25k check-writing influence.

Seed-stage led by former Facebook and OpenAI engineers focused on foundational infrastructure (developer platforms, AI systems), offering an intentional learning community with coding early-career engineers in hybrid technical-investing roles.

Seed-only fund connecting Utah founders to Bay Area networks through a formal Stanford GSB MBA fellowship and live student venture lab, led by a founder-turned GP with prior exit.

Blended nonprofit-for-profit fund converting catalytic grants into discounted SAFE notes and patient equity for women-of-color-led startups; reviews 100% of applications with guaranteed decisions and targets Mid‑Atlantic (excl. NY).

Solo-GP early-stage investor focused on crypto and fintech infrastructure/tools (not consumer apps or tokens), offering $0–$100K first-in checks and operational guidance from Schlisserman, former Chief of Staff at Series.

Invests from ideation through early operational build-out, co-creating startups with founders, backed by permanent evergreen capital for longer holds, global on-the-ground teams, and disciplined, fundamentals-driven underwriting.

Boston VC focused on seed and early-stage companies, differentiating itself by actively supporting founders' professional and personal growth.

Focuses on top Y Combinator startups.

Operates like an applied research lab with in‑house engineers who build and test tech before investing in capital‑intensive platforms in compute, automation, energy, and engineered biology; ~20% portfolio unicorns.

Early-stage, first-in institutional investor led by former CEOs offering leadership coaching, warp-speed capital-raising, and hands-on help building financial, cultural, and leadership foundations plus complex financing.

Operates innovation platform with industry-specific accelerators across 50+ global locations, leveraging proprietary real-estate sourcing to arrange corporate pilots and proofs-of-concept and gateway access to Silicon Valley for international founders.

Early-stage investor in advanced tech and healthcare that funds companies with at least one female founder, focusing on STEM startups with female executives.

Invests in founder-led B2B tech companies with $3–15M revenue, combining venture-style follow-on support and buy-and-build acquisitions as a long-term partner for Midwest and similarly underserved regions.

Early-stage investor focused on fintech, AI/ML, enterprise and defense, offering institutional public-markets analytics, ex-operator domain expertise, and military and intelligence veterans for defense founders.

Small angel-VC focused on v0.9 founders—first institutional investor for founders between angels and VCs—offers a curated network, data-driven playbooks credited with tens of thousands in MRR, and Series A support.

Three specialized funds: core healthcare/life sciences, growth for profitable founder‑owned B2B SaaS ($4–20M), and innovation spinning academic biomedical research into companies with world‑class scientists and 50+ therapies to market.

Invests in pre-launch and long-horizon base-layer networks, combining hedge-fund–style liquid token trading with venture investing while actively managing on-chain positions and providing hands-on protocol governance.

Dual-platform investor whose sister firm's corporate climate‑tech practice and strategic corporate LP network deliver proprietary deal flow and direct buyer and partner access across value‑chain segments.

Early-stage, pre-launch specialist systematically backing 30–40 first-time, unproven founders yearly as an institutional friends-and-family solo-GP, offering fast decisions and access for founders without elite networks.

Climate-focused generalist investor comfortable with high-capital, long-hardware timelines across the low-carbon economy, applying a strict no-fossil-fuels rule and offering deep technical operating experience and climate-activist roots.

An early VR/AR‑exclusive $10M fund offering founders deep operator experience—partners who built FarmVille, engineered Unreal Engine/Gears of War, and led HTC’s VR initiative—focused on immersive tech expertise.

Invests from seed through post‑IPO with cross‑public/private market capability, specializing in controversial frontier sciences (psychedelics, BCI, life extension) and transformative infrastructure in undercapitalized global markets.

Pre-seed and seed investor in Infra SaaS, AI, and Fintech across the UK and US, helping highly technical teams sharpen GTM, engage enterprise buyers, and close initial commercial wins.

Seed-focused, NYC-based, resource-heavy platform (~50 people, 20+ full-time operators), low-volume partners (2–3 deals/yr after ~100 screens), with choreographed founder events delivering talent pipelines, customer targets, and 90% win rates.