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Early-stage investor focused on national-security technologies, led by a former Navy SEAL, bridging startups to government buyers with ex-operators and acquisition experts for procurement and dual-use commercialization.

Julian Capital is a deeptech seed fund investing across most deeptech sectors (including chips, chemicals, energy, robotics, sensors, and medtech).

Leads mega-rounds for frontier-tech visions; provides a 150+ person platform (recruiting, marketing, technical); doubles as a media company producing podcasts and research, and pursues aggressive crypto and illiquid-asset investments.

Invests at day zero—pre-idea/pre-team—running 8–10 week residencies across 30+ cities that screen tens of thousands, match co-founders and pressure-test teams before investing.

Virtual accelerator offering $250k–$1M as the first check, with direct DARPA and defense-buyer access and a single application reviewed by three specialized defense investors.

Writes ten $300k–$500k checks annually to founders who relocate to a Chattanooga founder outpost, living there until $1M annual revenue, with always-on, portfolio-run operational support.

Efficiently gets founders priority introductions to deeptech VCs by explaining your startup after a deck review and connects you with deeptech angel founders, including the CEOs of Solugen and Astranis.

Operator-heavy team of repeat entrepreneurs that disproportionately backs pre-product deep-tech moonshots addressing civilization-scale problems, applies a strict Mr. Burns test, and runs 5050 to help scientists become founders.

Early-stage investor in security tech led by former Marine Corps officers, CIA operatives and defense-tech operators who apply military systems thinking to back founders at the national security–commercial intersection.

Seed-stage firm (only companies with < $1.5M raised) that rejects thematic investing and centers its thesis on strong founding teams with unique, compelling market visions.

Writes small, non‑lead checks and deliberately slots alongside top‑tier leads, giving founders direct access to partners actively training 100B+ parameter foundation models and maximizing helpfulness per dollar.

Early-stage investors focused solely on Colorado’s Front Range, founded by operators who scaled HomeAdvisor (from $100M to $1B+) and Apartment List, offering podcast/content media and ecosystem-building support.

Operator-led early-stage tech investor (built a $4B+ revenue company) backing outsiders; issues term sheets within 24 hours and provides studio support with 500+ introductions and ~$150M follow-on raises.

Invests in profitable natural foods, better-for-you CPG, and outdoor/active-lifestyle companies with $1–8M EBITDA, offering long-term, hands-on operational support to scale infrastructure.

Prioritizes big markets with a repeatable company-building playbook and structured founder programs (Company Design, Arc), plus a global Scout network that has backed 1,000+ startups.

Seed-stage investor focused on data-centric, moat-driven startups; founder-first (no board seats, won't vote founders out), offers late-stage operating support at seed and limits partners to 6–8 companies.

Series B investor (~$15M checks) acting as venture coaches—former Twitter, Google, and Facebook execs who avoid board seats and help founders build sales organizations and revenue operations.

Invests in edge-technology founders, fund managers and ecosystem builders, offering Opportunity Hub–integrated training (BTEI), capital pathways, and co-creation of place-based equity districts and wealth initiatives.

Partners who built Magma Venture Partners back Israeli and Israeli-related deep‑tech hardware and infrastructure startups taking Israeli tech abroad, offering hands-on operational support and public advocacy for the ecosystem.

Early-stage investor in deep-tech—AI, cybersecurity, quantum, robotics, space tech, synthetic biology—with rare bioengineering focus and technically deep partners who engage with complex product and R&D.

Invests at extreme inception with $50k–$100k R&D checks, favoring founders without undergraduate degrees and deep‑tech sci‑fi projects; runs micro‑grants, teen camps, and a 3,000+ hacker community.

Targets hard, capital‑intensive sustainability technologies other VCs avoid, bridging solutions from developed markets into China and developing countries (energy, food, health, environment) to build traction back into developed markets.

Targets unsexy, antiquated markets (warehousing, real estate, adult incontinence), avoids crypto/VR/drones, and runs alumni-focused Founders Programs (Palantir, Rippling, Amazon) plus a Quit-by-Christmas support program.

Crypto-native operators who architect token-first networks through token design, governance, and community bootstrapping, helping founders build sustainable token economies from day one and backing 100+ on-chain projects.

Operates as a follow-on, game-developer–only investor building a curated global peer community that funds shared industry data, expert sessions and retreats; roughly one-third of portfolio companies are female-founded.

Pre-seed firm (leads $500K–$2M rounds) guaranteeing funds in 10 business days via Pre-Seed Fast Track, offering serial-founder, operator, and Ph.D.-level technical expertise for biobanking, robotics, bio tooling.

Venture studio and fund that co‑incubates with LifePoint executives, giving startups direct access to a $50B+ health system for pilot deployment, real‑world validation, and underserved population focus.

Solo-GP investing globally in EdTech and Future of Work with small checks ($25k–$250k), an EdTech 3.0 pedagogy–community–employment thesis, majority capital for women-founded companies, and a founder-emphasized long-term, patient company-building.

Physician-led, immigrant-founded VC built by third-culture founders using cross-cultural insight to back healthcare founders with lived experience and target structural health inequities over generic digital tools.

Early-stage India investor focused on formalization, financialization, urbanization and digitalization; unusually young partners, formal integrity and transparency principles, governance programs improving startup practices and profitable exits.

Selective firm investing where it has an unfair advantage, running a company-creation platform with 22 EIRs and a 90+ C-suite council delivering market insights to healthcare, data+AI and cybersecurity.

Day‑0 pre‑product lead for first $500K–$1M institutional rounds (5–7% ownership), offering studio‑based, extremely high‑touch support—people‑ops, growth‑marketing, and product/market‑fit expertise.

Operator-led fund with deep cybersecurity and software experience offering intensive, hands-on nurture capital and operational guidance focused on sustainable market readiness and durability rather than unicorn chasing.

NY headquarters plus offices in Accra, Cairo and Nairobi combine global capital-market access with local operator proximity; ex-Bridgewater/Morgan Stanley founders and repeat backer of Africa's B2B e-commerce leaders.

Seed-stage investor using a lots-of-little-bets approach with hundreds of small initial checks, running global accelerators and offering local partnerships and hands-on growth mentorship for non‑Silicon‑Valley founders.

Invests at or before seed in early-stage life sciences, building companies via 4:59 Initiative, with partners taking short-term operating roles and focusing on capital efficiency and faster timelines.

Early-stage partner for founders building iconic, industry-transforming companies, demonstrated by two new funds totaling $347M.

Web3-native collective of crypto-operator founders acting as a sixth man, handling recruiting, community bootstrapping, and power-user product adoption for controversial consumer crypto apps like Pump.fun.

A Los Angeles-based venture fund and startup studio where Spencer Rascoff directly incubates proptech and future-of-living startups, offering media-driven exposure, co-creation expertise, and public-market/SPAC experience.

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.

Cannabis-technology specialist investing in med‑tech, ag‑tech, SaaS, marketplaces and deep‑tech (not plant‑touching), active in US, Canada, Israel, led by Micah Tapman with 90+ cannabis deals.

Focuses on companies empowering informed, connected health consumers and building system-level resilience to improve outcomes, experiences, and lower healthcare costs.

Partnering with 20+ global conglomerates and billionaire industrial families, focusing on heavy-industry technologies—decarbonization, synthetic biology, aerospace, advanced nuclear, geothermal, industrial AI, defense—and offering founders direct commercial and distribution pathways.

An intentionally small, four‑partner firm that rejects scalable VC platforms, offering direct founder access, partners sharing upside and downside on every deal, and concentrated partner time for high‑conviction companies.

Operator-founded team with a multi-decade co-founder/operator partnership, investing in software tools and platforms with network effects and sourcing deals via Founders Den and the Something Ventured podcast.

Acts as a VC and venture studio—co-founds startups with 25–30% of capital, assembles top‑1% specialists, and builds national‑capability defense, industrials, and bio‑infrastructure companies with corporate partners.

Platform-based solo GP that helps Israeli founders enter NYC by assembling go-to-market boards of senior U.S. executives, acting as a small, highly strategic cap-table partner.

Growth-stage investor in fintech/financial infrastructure and logistics/supply-chain foundational systems, offering strategic intelligence from former heads of state and national security leaders plus policy and compliance expertise.

Women-led VC systematically backs clinically rigorous, behaviorally grounded wellbeing startups tackling stigmatized areas—alcohol use disorder, menopause, mental health—using stigma as an investing edge and insisting on consumer-grade UX.

Seed-stage fund founded by Ramtin Naimi whose boom-bust-resurgence background runs an institutionalized super-angel network that orchestrates targeted introductions to top multi-stage funds, boosting Series A graduation.

Leads seed, doubles down at Series A, and incubates startups; an unusually operator-heavy founding team (Eventbrite founder, ex-Uber finance head, ex-Coatue investor) offers hands-on operational, finance, and growth support.

Partners deeply study themes to move unusually fast, offer structured SeedToScale founder education and public resources, maintain a permanent Silicon Valley–London–India presence, and focus on gaming.

Rockies-rooted, research-heavy investor using a Michael Porter–inspired Build x Enable x Secure framework, intensive diligence (three meetings, customer interviews, IC presentation) and 100+ years' operating experience plus expert network.

Seed-stage investor in for-profit startups building new products or business models to expand high-quality financial services for underserved populations, offering support to founders.

Early-stage technical frontier specialist that co-invests with top global funds, led by ex-senior Microsoft strategy executives offering deep platform strategy and M&A expertise and a strong early-unicorn track record.

A climate-focused agrifood fund evolved from corporate-backed to institutional VC, offering founders rare food-policy and regulatory expertise through partner Sam Kass.

Multi-stage investor (including later-stage) run by five long-time partners, offering founders a 600+ person community of operators and executives that co-develops theses, supports companies, and advocates for systemic diversity.

Leads concentrated pre-seed and seed B2B SaaS rounds outside Silicon Valley as a hands-on lead investor, founded by ex-B2B SaaS founders who exited, targeting capital-disciplined founders with proven traction.

Seed-stage investor (Canada's largest dedicated climate-tech seed fund) focusing on revenue tied to climate outcomes, tracking tonnes CO₂e mitigated, and operating a shared talent hub with a fractional recruiter.

Invests at early-stage (UK consumer, £200k–£1m) and growth (£3–15m) stages, takes board seats and runs structured brand-purpose exercises measuring NPS, reviews and repeat purchase to intensively partner founders.

Seed/early-stage AI-native business software investor making ~7 new investments yearly, originated the Diversity Rider to include underrepresented investors, and pursues fewer-bets, deeper relationships; 60% reach Series B/C.

Early-stage venture firm and venture studio that builds groundbreaking companies.

Co‑founded by Francesca Warner (creator of the Diversity VC Standard), the fund follows an Inclusive Alpha thesis, publishing research and building AI tools to widen access for under‑networked founders.

Operates via sector-focused economic clusters (energy, healthcare, agriculture) and the DisruptAD platform targeting 1,000+ startups by 2025, leveraging state-level deals and infrastructure control to build national champions.

Strategic bridge between Hollywood and creator platforms, leveraging Shari Redstone’s Paramount Global lineage and ex-AOL/News Corp leaders to secure introductions to C-suite media, telecom, and tech partners.

Early-stage investor allocating around 80% to breakthrough climate technologies (carbon-negative concrete, atmospheric carbon removal), acting as a first believer through a venture-and-philanthropy platform backed by the Fukutake family.

Early-stage aerospace and defense fund focused on technically validated, revenue-generating (often bootstrapped) startups, offering shared beyond visual line of sight testing via state-funded urban low-altitude radar.

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.

Focuses on dynamic teams with sound fundamentals building market-leading consumer brands.

Focuses on impactful companies aiming to positively transform the world's food system.

Builds AI companies from inception alongside recruited CEOs, acting as an AI R&D studio that sources ideas with large corporates to deliver agentic-AI ventures with built-in customers and traction.

Seed-stage investor in dual-use deep tech (six verticals) with an invite-only U.S. Service Academy alumni syndicate that co-invests, sources, vets deals, offers post-investment support, and runs a veteran-led track.

Independent VC using an aerospace systems lens to back dual-use deep-science technologies (quantum, hydrogen, climate, materials, space), prioritizing founders with outstanding technical leadership and first-principles engineering expertise.

Focuses exclusively on AI-first companies in technical domains (defense, robotics, drug discovery, AI infrastructure), leveraging the founder’s deep AI research visibility and a press arm that fosters lab-to-lab debates.

Builds a large open-source library of playbooks and legal templates for all founders, enforces a diversity pledge to add underrepresented co-investors on leads, and runs a free angel-training program.

Early investor in AI applications and infrastructure, led by active AI practitioners Socher, Manning, and Goldbloom who continue hands-on research and company-building, offering domain expertise and founder partnership.

Based across Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Argentina, with USD-denominated funds, they provide on-ground expansion support, push early regionalization, emphasize unit economics, hands-on go-to-market aid and a 30+ fund follow-on network.

Civic-minded VC that runs integration programs for English-speaking immigrants, provides Ampliphy relationship-automation, and amplifies founders via a global media platform and GP public advocacy.

Thesis-driven TechBio fund focused on engineering, computation, and biology, operating a BIOS community platform with podcasts, events, content, and a year-long Venture Residency training future TechBio VCs.

Early-stage partner for technology and software companies focused on serving emerging markets.

Co-founds and incubates startups over 4–18 months inside the Allen Institute for AI's frontier research ecosystem, offering up to $600k, $1M non-dilutive cloud credits, and ~7% SAFE.

Generates operator-generated concepts and recruits elite CEOs, offers codified ideation and structured focus groups, physician GPs with check-writing authority for healthcare, plus 70+ in-house engineers across Montreal and Bogotá.

All partners are repeat founder-operators with venture-scale exits; they target non-obvious, regulated deep-technical verticals (AI, communications infrastructure, Web3, biotech) and typically co-invest.

Founder GPs who speak a founder's language run formal 90-day Field Study research sprints to pre-identify opportunities and connect startups to off-balance-sheet institutional real-estate capital and facilities.

Uses AI, data, and behavioral science to identify silent suffering and, via rigorous decision logging, quarterly reviews, and cognitively diverse PhD-led critique, helps founders unlock new addressable markets.

AI-only firm based in Luxembourg, in Dubai and Asia, excludes China and Greater China, led by a founder with hands-on AI commercialization experience from developing and selling Siri technology.

Solo GP fund backing founders solving hard problems ("Hard Tech") with inception-stage capital. The team looks for Proven Talent, but Unproven Founders – operators with evidence of outlier success who have yet to realize their full entrepreneurial potential.

Early-stage investor writing $1–25M checks, operating as a tiny, operator-led team (founder Jack Altman) that maintains direct founder relationships and is a preferred AI/software co-investor with Sequoia and Y Combinator.

Founder-built, technology-focused firm investing at all stages, offering founder-aligned, long-term support and public-market expertise to help companies scale and enter public markets.

Non-controlling co-investor that slots alongside elite firms while leveraging a 750k+ subscriber network and ~1,400 founders as a scaled operating asset to deliver structured CEO Services.

Invests alongside founders focused on long-term legacy, leveraging deep expertise in mission-critical software, data infrastructure and AI-native platforms to scale French and European companies into global unicorns.

Early-stage investor focused exclusively on software/software-enabled companies across five behavior-change themes, offering a structured, lean impact-assessment framework tailored to early ventures and rejecting mainstream ESG box‑checking.

Invests at the earliest stages, avoids consumer internet, backs data-driven deep science/tech startups, requires remote teams to relocate for hands-on Silicon Valley support, and offers flexible checks via a flat four-investor structure.

Combines carrier DNA, venture and startup operating experience to act as a translator into insurance, offering one of the first structured carrier-facing value‑add platforms and insurtech expertise.

Early-to-scale investor across Canada (incl. Quebec), expanding in North America; focuses on regulated hard-tech, mandates B Corp assessment and a board-level impact metric, and promotes impact-driven resilience.

Led by Tricia Black (Facebook’s first VP of Sales, 7th employee), focused on commerce, care and connectivity, runs an Investor Fellows program and targets founders who build growth flywheels.

Pre-seed investor writing the first institutional check, operating a Venice entrepreneurial campus where founders and investors co-work, with Hollywood-connected mentors offering direct access to celebrity, media and brand networks.

Backs deeply technical enterprise founders (infrastructure, data, AI/ML, developer tools, security) with very small initial checks and repeated follow-on support, plus think-tank-style technical essays founders use as reference.

Seed-stage investor backing European/Israeli deep‑tech founders; makes 4–8 high‑conviction bets yearly, often sole first‑round backer, using US offices, immigration counsel and advisory network to crack the US market.

Founded by TikTok mega-influencers with over 100 million combined followers, they offer instant distribution through founders' social channels and expertise in serving Gen Z consumers.