NYC-focused funds

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Invests in female-led companies working on the biggest areas of the consumer economy.
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BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies.
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Lattice invests in entrepreneurs who personally understand the problems they plan to solve. Building a lasting business requires a big vision, backed by strong skills and insights and a rooted passion in the outcome is key.
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Notation is the first dedicated “pre-seed” fund in NYC, based in Brooklyn. They work with product-obsessed teams in the trenches on day 0:00. They are not thesis-driven but tend to invest against ever-evolving categories of interest. They typically lead the first round of financing and often invest as early as an idea.
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Early-stage PropTech, ConTech, and Real Estate / Construction FinTech investors aiming to bridge the gap between technology and the built world
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Seeks to partner at the earliest stages with passionate founders that are building world-class products and services addressing the problems of the future, now. Charge invests in <$2MM rounds for companies that have raised <$2MM.
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$50M Fund I that invests in daring early-stage founders. Crew Capital's team has extensive operating experience building a successful startup that quickly went from 0 to 100, to IPO very quickly and was backed by tier 1 investors.
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Colle's mission is to identify and back teams that not only demonstrate intellect and passion but are also agile in their thinking and execution. They seek organizations that operate with a clear focus on sustainability in every dimension: business practices, unit economics, and environmental impact.
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Four Acres is founded by Native New Yorkers for the future of New York tech.
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Led by Peter Boyce. Stellation works with mission-driven founders to improve the future of tech.
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Simeon Iheagwam's solo-GP fund supporting amazing founders who are making a strong impact in the world.
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Invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer, crypto, and enterprise software companies across all stages.
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Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth-capital, late stage, and startup financing.
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Founded by GPs Fabrice Grinda and Jose Marin, FJ labs focus on marketplaces and network effect businesses. They have amassed the world’s largest portfolio of marketplace startups and over 30 of their investments have become unicorns.
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Led by the founders of Flatiron Health (acquired by Roche). They prefer to invest alongside a lead VC check (and if there's no lead yet, they'll help the founder find one).
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Thesis-driven earliest-stage venture capital firm built by founders, experienced operators, nerds, and dreamers obsessed with the future. Their core thesis is that platform companies will deliver outsized, venture-scale returns. Currently investing out of their $67M Fund II.
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Leading LGBTQIA+/Allies investment syndicate that has invested $110M+ in 200+ companies since 2016.
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Seed-stage investment firm committed to identifying, financing and developing early stage growth businesses led by promising entrepreneurs.
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A community of founders & operators who care deeply about the next generation of local entrepreneurs.
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Backs purpose-driven founders building purposeful startups that are reimagining the future.
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Lorimer Ventures backs bold entrepreneurs building exceptional B2B companies in sectors ripe for disruption. The fund’s partnership is made up of experienced builders, founders, operators, and investors. They have hands-on experience building companies from idea to IPO.
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Led by 4 technical GPs who met in engineering at UPenn, Eniac is armed with over 80 years of combined experience building their own companies, and are your active partners and roll up their sleeves to work for you. Their companies enjoy support in biz dev, fundraising, networking, ops, PR, and recruitment.
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Manifesto-driven venture fund investing in disruptive companies with a global impact.
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VC firm backing ambitious founders leveraging the power of community. They believe that the first step is capital but beyond that, they leverage their own community to assist founders on every step of their journey, especially at the earliest stage. Flybridge is currently investing out of their two recently raised fund, totaling $150M.

Flybridge has a straightforward and honest due diligence process that starts with a Phone/Zoom Convo With A Member of Our Investment Team, followed by Follow-ups with individual team members leading the opportunity and potentially 1-2 other investment team members, Due Diligence, Invitation to team meeting if it’s a good fit,Team discussion (internal), Pass/Offer, and then anInvestment

They are committed to making daily, weekly, and monthly checkins focused on recruiting, product, fundraising, and leadership w/ founders they back.
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Led by Austin McChord (founder of Datto; $1.3B exit, IPO, then $6.2B take-private) and Teddy Seem (ex-General Catalyst, Bridgewater, Resonance Technologies), Outsiders fund is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on identifying opportunities where technology will disrupt traditional, incumbent industries. They do NOT invest in AR/VR, Crypto, or Blockchain.
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Helps their founders build a generational company by adding incredible connections, experience, sleeve-rolled up help, and a human touch. They are looking for founders who have a unique insight into a problem, are targeting a large and growing market, are obsessed with building an outstanding product and customer experience, and have a plan to execute on their opportunity.
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Your go-to Seed investor in the trenches supporting you to close enterprise deals and scale your go-to-market effort with our unmatched New York City hustle.
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VC fund on a mission to change the face of entrepreneurship by investing in 1,000 diverse founders over 20 years.
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Invests in the core technology and advanced engineering solutions designed to capture the full value of the world’s data.
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NYC-Focused VC that accelerates startup founders with access, top-tier talent, & largest community in venture.
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Fund that spun out of Insight Partners to invest in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses that are fundamental to the human condition and spirit – where customers maintain a long-term relationship with the product, platform, or service.
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Vine Ventures is a NYC-based, early stage, software-focused venture capital fund that invests in the U.S., Latin America, and Israel. They have a single mandate - to help fledgling companies navigate the challenges of building generational businesses.
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Takes a low-volume, high-conviction approach—because they pull out all the stops to make sure the founders they support can succeed. The differentiator, unheard of in early-stage VC, is Primary’s Portfolio Impact team: Full-time, seasoned executives getting into the trenches with founders to supercharge growth and secure quality hires, early customers, and downstream investors.
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Laconia leads investments in seed-stage B2B companies digitizing legacy industries
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Early-stage venture fund and incubator that founds and funds transformative companies, primarily in New York.
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Early-stage venture firm based in New York City with a global reach. Their team also co-founded 7 venture-backed companies and believe their combination of investing and building makes them the ideal day zero partners.
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Partners with companies and founders trying to change the world, who want to upend paradigms, not just chase incremental progress. Over the past two decades, Lux has expanded from their New York City roots to Silicon Valley, and built a $4 billion AUM firm of more than 30 full-time professionals, with a wide spectrum of technical backgrounds and the versatility to invest at any stage.
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Backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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Investing in former science projects with a thesis-driven approach.
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Helps early-stage founders with the capital and tools they need to build ideas into category-defining companies.
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We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.
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Founded by Kate Beardsley (ex-Lerer Hippeau) and Jessica Peltz-Zatulove (Stagwell Group), Hannah Gray is a first check fund investing in customer-centric founders redefining everyday experiences.
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$12.5M fund that backs early stage companies with capital and expertise from active founders and operators
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Two Sigma Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in companies run by highly driven people.
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A community of over 250 diverse teams, across 30 states and 19 countries, sharing one common goal: redefining the Internet economy.
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Open-minded across industries but actively seek out businesses that create their own internal momentum via flywheel effects, network effects, and product-led growth. The fund aspires to be the entrepreneur’s first institutional investor, helping to craft the right mix of funds and individual investors for the round.
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Invests in the people, products, and processes that power commerce in the physical and digital world because when you layer technology over daily life, it transforms how the real world works.
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An early-stage VC firm led by a team with operating and investing experience looking to enable the future of the Metaverse and develop frontier tech to better the world!
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Early-stage technology venture fund focused on supporting the next wave of exceptional entrepreneurs.
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Building a better future for the 99%. K50 is partnering with those who refuse to accept the status quo; those who have a vision for how to radically improve daily life for everyone – in our local communities, and around the globe. They invest in the early-stages with an ownership target of 5% - 10%+.
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Focuses on supporting and investing in the shared future. Their funds center around two macro themes: the growth of the creative class, and the concept of the collaborative economy.
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Operator-led VC Firm investing in founders at the pre-seed and seed stage selling picks and shovels for crypto and fintech.
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Funds businesses transforming industry verticals that pay obsessive attention to the customer experience
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Finance-first social impact VC
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Partners with visionary founders from seed through IPO.
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Diversified NYC-based investment management firm investing across all stages in rapidly growing companies that are developing disruptive technologies. Rosecliff Ventures has over $1B in assets under management and operates multiple investment strategies, including credit, venture capital, and private equity
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Over the past 28 years, RRE has become one of NYC’s oldest, largest, and most active venture capital firms. They have $2.5B AUM across 10 funds and 400+ portfolio companies. The firm recently raised their $250M Fund VIII.
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Tribeca works with NY companies seeking Series A funding. They work closely with industry leaders and the community to build and grow the NY Tech ecosystem. Tribeca is selective and only invests in 5-6 companies per year.
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RiverPark Ventures is an active early-stage venture capital fund that focuses on investing in entrepreneurs. The company was founded in 2006 by Andy Appelbaum and Morty Schaja.
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$10M Early-stage private technology companies with a focus on crypto/web3 in the form of equity investments with additional opportunistic direct token and NFT investments.
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Early-stage venture capital fund formed to discover, invest in, and support software startups that are solving problems for businesses across multiple verticals.
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Supernode invests in entrepreneurs who transform the way people live, work, and socialize. They typically invest in 6 companies per year on average.
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Backing founders building tomorrow’s most iconic companies. Valia is currently investing out of their $50M second early-stage fund.
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New York-based VC firm founded in 2005 to invest in NYC-focused, early-stage companies that provide innovative software solutions.
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Early-stage venture capital firm based in NYC, focused on investing in technology startups operating in highly-regulated markets.
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Partnering with and investing in like-minded founders, equally passionate about modernizing business through technology.
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Pre-seed and seed fund in NYC focused on software-enabled businesses, with a strong focus on NYC-based teams
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Focuses on building and investing in the software and technology-enabled companies.
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Backing the next wave of category-defining founders and companies.
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Focused on the real estate technology industry
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NYC-based early-stage fund investing in next-gen experiences and user-centric companies focused on both consumers and workers. RSV invests across industries and takes an active role within their portfolio companies including a strong biz dev approach (making intros to customers, other investors, and advisors).
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Founded in 2008, ff VC is a New York-based Seed Stage Fund investing around $350K - $750K for 10% ownership in companies building in sectors they believe in.
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$50 million pre-seed and seed fund that invests primarily in B2B software at pre-money valuations below $15 million.
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NYC-based, Latinx, and woman-led fund investing in early-stage, high-growth startups that drive the economy and improve people's lives
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$30M pre-seed generalist fund with over 70% of investments pre-revenue and pre-launch
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