Top Investors Investing in Deep tech

Between them, the 59 investors on this page cover artificial intelligence (26), seed stage (23), series a (18) and pre seed (15). They also list work in Silicon Valley, New York City, London and San Francisco. 54 of them have written a profile you can read before you get in touch.

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   Techstars

   Artificial Intelligence · Seed Stage · Pre Seed · Also in Chicago and New York

   Access to capital, mentorship, talent, and infrastructure. Techstars has raised a new fund of more than $80M to invest in diverse & traditionally overlooked entrepreneurs across…

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   Paradigm

   Crypto and Web3 · Artificial Intelligence · Internet

   Paradigm backs disruptive crypto/Web3 companies and protocols with as little as $1M and as much as $100M+.

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   Data Collective

   Artificial Intelligence · Also in San Francisco and Silicon Valley

   Planet uses over 150 of its satellites in orbit and powerful AI to image the entire Earth every day, making global change visible, accessible, and actionable

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   Canaan Partners

   Biotech · Cybersecurity · Also in New York City and Silicon Valley

   Canaan is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in visionaries with transformative ideas The passion you want at your side, plus the experience you want at the table

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   Firstminute Capital

   Artificial Intelligence · Seed Stage · Series A · Also in Reading and Europe

   The Home of Magnetic Ambition. firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community We're a community supporting the next generation of…

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   CrossCut Ventures

   Seed Stage · Early Stage · Climate Tech · Also in Los Angeles

   Partnering with early-stage founders to build extraordinary high-growth tech companies from Seed to Series A Crosscut is the largest seed-stage venture capital firm in Los Angeles…

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   Playground Global

   Artificial Intelligence · Early Stage · Partners · Also in Silicon Valley

   impossible. will have multi-generational impact. Playground is an early-stage investment firm that’s built to help brilliant entrepreneurs bring bold technical visions to life We…

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   Global Brain Corporation

   Crypto and Web3 · Artificial Intelligence · Seed Stage · Also in Tokyo

   BASE FOOD listed on the TSE Growth Market. BASE FOOD revolutionized food with its outstanding products packed with nutrients necessary for the body, such as “BASE PASTA” and “BASE…

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   MassVentures

   Seed Stage · Series A · Early Stage · Also in Massachusetts and Boston

   Deep tech is where we live. MassVentures finds, funds and fosters early-stage deep tech that fuels economic growth across the Commonwealth.

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    ff Venture Capital

    Artificial Intelligence · Seed Stage · Series A · Also in Warsaw and New York City

    The most engaged technology venture capital firm in New York City since 2008.

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    Connect Ventures

    Artificial Intelligence · Seed Stage · Pre Seed · Also in Amsterdam and London

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    Scout Ventures

    Artificial Intelligence · Partners · Series

    Pushing frontiers. Supporting founders. We are an early stage venture capital firm that invests in frontier technologies built by founders from the military, intelligence…

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    Ventech

    Artificial Intelligence · Seed Stage · Series A · Also in Stockholm and Shanghai

    Together, we transformed ambition into success. Early-stage investment, long-term partnership. Local intimacy, global scale.

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    BMW i Ventures

    Also in Washington, Dc and Munich

    combining execution speed and foresight with the value add of a long-term strategic partner We invest in purpose-driven entrepreneurs building high-performance companies, while…

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    Pillar (venture capital)

    Seed Stage · Series A · Pre Seed · Also in Boston

    A painful lack of alignment between the interests of investors and founders

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    Cathay Innovation

    Artificial Intelligence · Venture Capital · Healthtech

    Cathay Innovation is a multi-stage venture capital firm, affiliated to Cathay Capital, that goes beyond the traditional VC playbook by providing entrepreneurs the support of a…

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    Cambridge Innovation Capital

    Biotech · Also in Cambridge

    Cambridge Innovation Capital backs world-leading life sciences and technology companies with an affiliation to Cambridge, Europe’s leading capital for innovation As a preferred…

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    Clear Ventures

    Artificial Intelligence · Series B · Partners · Also in United States and Silicon Valley

    Clear is purpose-built to help disruptive technology innovators like you build large companies that matter.

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    Starburst Accelerator

    Startup Accelerator · Partners · Government · Also in Paris

    Which startup accelerator or innovation program is right for you?

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    ixo

    Artificial Intelligence · Government · Energy

    The ixo Protocol defines the new standard for making Verifiable Impact Claims about how people and organisations are changing the state of the world, using high-definition data as…

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    1517 Fund

    Seed Stage · Pre Seed

    We back dropouts, renegade students & deep tech scientists at the earliest stages of their companies We’ll help you escape from captivity and start, build, and grow your venture,…

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    Episode 1 Ventures

    Seed Stage · Series A · Pre Seed · Also in Oxford and San Francisco

    Are You Hiding in Plain Sight? WE See Your Unique Expertise Bringing a Community Together to Transform an Industry

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    Morado Ventures

    Artificial Intelligence · Early Stage · Partners

    At Morado we invest in Passionate Entrepreneurs with unique expertise working on hard technological problems with software and hardware Our current focus areas are Artificial…

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    The University of Tokyo Edge Capital

    Also in Tokyo

    UTEC Announces New Over ￥30 Billion Fund, Largest in Japan’s Science & Tech VC Fields to Accelerate Support for Startups Targeting Global Market and Solving Issues of Humankind…

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