Top Pre-Seed Investors

Between them, the 164 best-ranked of these 189 investors cover seed stage (101), series a (60), series (33) and early stage (30). They also list work in London, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and New York City. 151 of them have written a profile you can read before you get in touch.

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   Techstars

   Seed Stage · Early Stage · Artificial Intelligence · Also in Los Angeles and Amsterdam

   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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   Great Oaks Venture Capital

   Seed Stage · Series A · Also in New York and York

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   IndieBio

   Seed Stage · Startup Accelerator · Also in New York City and San Francisco

   IndieBio is a program of SOSV, a global venture capital firm providing multi-stage investment to support big ideas Don’t wait for Demo Day!

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   Global Founders Capital

   Early Stage · Series

   From day zero through all the stages of growth, we support our founders through our platform We have backed entrepreneurs from series seed to IPO on all continents

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   Firstminute Capital

   Seed Stage · Series A · Artificial Intelligence · 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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   TechAviv Founder Partners

   Seed Stage

   TechAviv is the global Israeli founders club and fund. Since 2007 our members have built over 128 unicorns and counting.

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   B-to-v Partners

   Seed Stage · Series A · Series B · Also in Munich and Zürich

   Calvin Risk closes a $1.5M Pre-Seed round to help companies deploy and manage trustworthy AI LatticeFlow Secures $12 Million to Accelerate Platform to Eliminate AI Data and Model…

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   Antler

   Seed Stage · Series A · Artificial Intelligence · Also in Stockholm and Sao Paulo

   Meet your co-founders, join our global community, and access capital to build and scale your company faster Build and scale your company faster with our global community of…

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   Fabric Ventures

   Crypto and Web3 · Gaming · Blockchain · Also in Dubai and London

   of the Open Economy. Fabric backs thedevelopers of the Open Economy.

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    Costanoa Venture Capital

    Seed Stage · Series A · Artificial Intelligence · Also in Bogota and Mexico City

    we are all-in. We match your all-in commitment with right-time support, faith in your success and the full throttle of our experience, community and expertise behind you

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    FLOODGATE (venture capital firm)

    Also in Silicon Valley

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    Betaworks

    Early Stage · Artificial Intelligence · Startup Incubator · Also in New York City

    Betaworks invests, accelerates, and builds companies and projects from scratch — our focus right now is on web3, crypto media, NLP/CV, applied machine learning and tools for…

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    Base Ventures

    Seed Stage · Series A · Series

    We started investing back in 2013 in the very best founders. the way you show up. Network is what drives Base.

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    Newark Venture Partners

    Seed Stage · Series · Also in Washington and Newark

    Sign up to get news on our portfolio, Newark's growing innovation economy, and the latest happenings in east coast venture

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    Right Side Capital Management

    Seed Stage · Series A · Growth Stage · Also in San Francisco

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    Connect Ventures

    Seed Stage · Artificial Intelligence · Deep Tech · Also in Amsterdam and London

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    LiveOak Venture Partners

    Seed Stage · Series A · Early Stage · Also in Austin

    LiveOak Venture Partners is an Austin-based, early-stage venture capital firm that partners with visionary entrepreneurs to build world class, category dominating companies We…

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    Forum Ventures

    Artificial Intelligence · Startup Accelerator · SaaS

    Start, design and build your B2B SaaS company from scratch with a world class team Take your company from zero to sustainable with our industry leading accelerator Get Seed stage…

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    Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

    Government · Environmental · Also in Brooklyn and New York

    Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the first VC fund founded in Brooklyn, NY, is the most accessible lead or co-lead investor for pre-seed and seed-stage startups in the NYC area We foster…

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    Outlier Ventures

    Series A

    Supporting the most promising projects building in the Polkadot & Kusama ecosystems Supporting the most promising Web3 startups using the power of IPFS to build an Open Metavers

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    Pillar (venture capital)

    Seed Stage · Series A · Deep Tech · Also in Boston

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

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    Future Labs

    Series A · Early Stage · Partners · Also in Houston and Brooklyn

    We’re a network of business incubators and accelerators that support early stage ventures in New York City — join us!

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    JamJar Investments

    Consumer · Also in London

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    Haystack Ventures

    Early Stage · Partners · Engineering · Also in Fleet

    DoorDash (NYSE: $DASH) enables small businesses to provide its customers with local delivery services Instacart delivers groceries and home essentials from a variety of local…

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