Render Capital is a venture capital firm based in Louisville, Kentucky, founded in 2023. The firm focuses on early-stage investments across a broad set of sectors, including healthcare, healthtech, supply chain and logistics, advanced manufacturing, ecommerce, consumer packaged goods, B2B software as a service, and food and beverage. It targets opportunities in the Midwest and South, aiming to back entrepreneurs with scalable solutions and contribute to a robust regional economy through risk capital and strategic support.

Blue Equity is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2004 and based in Louisville, Kentucky, with additional offices in New York and Mexico City. It invests across a broad range of industries, including oil and gas, media, talent representation, sports and entertainment, beverage brands and retailing, e-commerce, hospitality, logistics and distribution, real estate, and related sectors such as wine and spirits distillation and global communications. Blue Equity partners with existing management teams to stabilize, strengthen and expand operations, applying growth capital and strategic expertise to create value. The firm pursues a broad set of strategies, including growth capital investments, buyouts, turnarounds, industry consolidation and add-on acquisitions, and typically seeks operating control or significant influence in many investments. It engages with companies across stages from idea or seed opportunities to mature enterprises.

Founded in 2004, Bluegrass Angels is an angel investment group based in Lexington, Kentucky. It provides capital investments and mentoring to early-stage startup companies across various sectors, including healthcare, agriculture, industrial chemicals, manufacturing, biotech, fintech, media, and information technology.

Connetic Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Covington, Kentucky. Established in the mid-2010s, it provides capital and strategic support to early-stage startups, often partnering with other venture capital firms and angel syndicates for seed investments. The firm targets software, data, fintech, and consumer sectors across North America, including the United States and Canada.

Access Ventures is an impact investment firm founded in 2013 and based in Louisville, Kentucky. It invests across asset classes in private, public, and social sectors, supporting startups and established organizations pursuing social impact. The firm provides micro and secured loans, grants, equity, quasi-equity, and both public and private debt to entities active in creative arts, innovative finance, strategic real estate, and technology for social good.

Poplar Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 and based in Louisville, Kentucky. It invests in early to growth-stage companies, with a focus on cloud-based B2B software technology, across the United States and Middle America, and also acts as a business advisor to portfolio companies.

Established in 2019 with headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, The 6ixth Event is a venture capital firm focusing on investments in decentralized technology and fintech sectors.

RZN8 Capital is an early-stage investment firm based in Louisville, Kentucky, established in 2019. The firm focuses on investing in mobile-based consumer technologies, aiming to support innovative companies in this sector. Through its investments, RZN8 Capital seeks to foster the growth of emerging technologies that enhance consumer experiences and engagement.

Lunsford Capital is a private investment firm based in Louisville, Kentucky, founded in 2000 and led by Bruce Lunsford, who previously served as the founder and Chairman and CEO of a prominent healthcare real estate investment company. The firm focuses on venture capital investments across several sectors, including healthcare, technology, entertainment, and real estate, aiming to identify and support innovative companies within these industries.

Founded in 1999, OCA Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments primarily in technology and highly-scalable services businesses. The firm's investment focus areas include digital health, fintech, consumer software, and enterprise software.

Leader Ventures is a private investment firm that provides debt and equity financing to venture-backed private companies across information technology, life sciences, and clean tech. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco, it invests primarily in the United States and supports early to late-stage companies through venture loans and equity investments tailored to development stage. The firm finances equipment or assets and growth capital for companies that lack assets or cash flow to obtain traditional debt financing, drawing on experience in lending, investing, and building startups.

Citi Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Citigroup that leverages the bank’s resources to identify, incubate, and invest in innovative ideas at the intersection of finance and technology. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, London, Palo Alto, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Citi Ventures collaborates with Citi colleagues, clients, and the broader innovation community to discover new value and accelerate the development of transformative technologies. The firm focuses on fintech, data analytics and machine learning, the future of commerce, security and enterprise IT, marketing, property technology, distributed ledger technology, and digital assets, pursuing strategic investments that complement Citi’s business lines and risk management capabilities. Since its founding, Citi Ventures has sought to build partnerships and portfolios that support entrepreneurship and technological progress, helping individuals, businesses, and communities adapt to rapid digital change while expanding Citi’s ecosystem and capabilities.

Founded in 2017, SeedFunders is a venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed and early-stage investments. Based in St. Petersburg, Florida, they focus on investing in technology startups across various sectors throughout the state.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania is a non-profit organization founded in 1982 that supports the region's technology ecosystem. Based in Philadelphia, it acts as a capital provider and catalyst for early-stage and growing technology companies across information technology, health, and physical sciences by offering seed-stage funding and related resources to accelerate commercialization. The organization facilitates university–industry partnerships and regional initiatives that connect scientific research with market opportunities, with the aim of creating jobs and strengthening entrepreneurial communities in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Through its programs and partnerships, it supports adoption of new technologies and helps build a robust regional innovation ecosystem.

Founded in 2001, ScOp Venture Capital is a Santa Barbara-based venture capital firm focusing on early-stage companies. It invests primarily in software, SaaS, AI, and e-commerce sectors across the U.S., seeking scalable opportunities that meet fundamental consumer or business needs. The firm partners with passionate founders, taking a long-term perspective and aiming for profound impact.

Equilibrium Capital is a global platform offering sustainability-focused real asset strategies. Its core principle is sustainability, applied across sectors such as renewable energy, green real estate, and sustainable agriculture.

MissionOG is a Philadelphia-based venture capital and private equity firm that partners with high-growth, business-to-business companies in fintech, data, and software. Founded in 2012, the firm targets early- and growth-stage investments across the United States, with focus areas including financial services and payments, data platforms, and software. MissionOG supports portfolio companies with capital and access to a broad network of industry experts to accelerate growth and facilitate acquisitions. The leadership team has a track record of building and scaling companies through multiple growth stages to successful exits, and the firm operates as a registered investment adviser.

Stadia Ventures is a venture capital firm and sports business accelerator based in Saint Louis, Missouri, with expanded operations to Frisco/Dallas. It focuses on sports and esports, and adjacent sectors such as lifestyle and recreation, performance and wellness, fan engagement and experience, content, media and entertainment, and sports betting. The organization runs a semi-annual accelerator that selects 4–6 startups, typically invests around $100K in each, and provides a 14-week bootcamp with mentorship and business development support to help founders access customers within its network. Since its founding in 2015, Stadia Ventures has built a portfolio of about 40 sports and esports companies, led multiple exits, and helped portfolio firms raise over $53 million.

Founded in 1999, Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in high-growth software, marketplace, and consumer businesses. With multiple funds ranking in the top 5% on realized performance, they have facilitated successful exits such as Grubhub. The firm typically invests $500K to $8M in Series A rounds for companies demonstrating product-market fit.

Lightship Capital is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage startups, particularly those led by underrepresented minorities and located outside of major tech hubs like Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. The company concentrates its investments in sectors such as artificial intelligence, consumer packaged goods, sustainability, e-commerce, healthcare, and real estate.

Longitude Capital is a California-based investment firm focused on venture growth in life sciences, including biotechnology and medical technology companies. Founded in 2006, it targets both privately held and publicly traded life science companies and pursues a balanced portfolio of clinical-stage and commercial-stage assets with the potential for value creation within three to five years. The firm identifies opportunities through its broad industry network and thematic research into emerging therapeutic areas or sub-sectors, and uses a range of investment structures including traditional venture capital, asset spin-outs, recapitalizations, PIPEs, open market purchases, royalties, and other equity-linked instruments. It maintains offices in Menlo Park, Greenwich, and Boston and operates as a registered investment adviser.

Halogen Ventures is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups founded or led by women, with a focus on consumer technology and B2B software. The firm invests across pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds and prioritizes companies with female founders on the founding team. It provides active, hands-on support to portfolio companies, helping them build networks, gain brand exposure, recruit talent, raise follow-on rounds, and navigate exits such as acquisition or IPO.

Mucker Capital is a California-based venture capital firm that funds early-stage technology companies, specializing in Internet software, services and media with a focus on Enterprise, fintech, B2B and consumer products. It targets pre-seed to Series A rounds and seeks opportunities outside Silicon Valley, particularly in Los Angeles and broader Southern California as well as other underfunded ecosystems in the United States and Canada. The firm typically invests between $0.25 million and $1 million per deal and operates MuckerLab, an accelerator program whose duration ranges from three to twenty-four months to help portfolio companies grow. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica and maintains an additional office in Nashville.

Stout Street Capital is a Denver, Colorado-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies. It concentrates on software and B2B SaaS, while also investing in fintech, advanced materials, robotics, and artificial intelligence. The firm targets opportunities in under-served markets in the central United States, with a particular emphasis on the Rocky Mountain region. Its approach combines data-driven analysis, market assessment, and thorough due diligence to select ventures that can improve efficiency and generate measurable value as they scale.

Revolution is a Washington, D.C.-based investment firm founded in 2005 by Steve Case, with additional offices in San Francisco. It operates a family of funds including Revolution Ventures and Revolution Growth, focusing on venture capital and growth investments in technology-enabled companies that disrupt traditional industries. The firm backs startups and growth-stage companies across sectors such as consumer internet, software, media, financial services, health, energy, and education, often investing alongside other top-tier investors and taking board seats when appropriate. It emphasizes entrepreneurship and geographic diversity, supporting companies in high-potential geographies through initiatives like Rise of the Rest Seed Funds. Revolution seeks opportunities across multiple stages, aiming to partner with capable founders and help scale companies from early ideas to growth, while maintaining a focus on driving meaningful change across industries.

Seyen Capital is a venture capital firm based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2007. It concentrates on growth-stage investments in information technology and software companies, including healthcare IT, digital health, health technology, and SaaS, primarily in the United States. The firm typically invests between $5 million and $15 million per portfolio company and seeks to be the lead or first institutional investor, often taking a seat on the board and partnering with management teams and co-investors. Its target geographies include Chicago, Nashville, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Dallas, Austin, Denver, Tampa, Philadelphia, and New York.

Conductive Ventures is a Palo Alto based venture capital firm focused on backing early-stage and expansion-stage companies in software, hardware, and related technology sectors. The firm targets opportunities across B2B and B2C software, hardware, healthcare, and technology services, with a portfolio including Ambiq Micro, Desktop Metal, and Sprinklr. It emphasizes hands-on support to accelerate revenue growth through targeted introductions and partnerships. Investments typically range from 2 to 7 million dollars per company, and the firm backs opportunities in the United States and select international markets such as Japan.

Founded in 2011, Hyde Park Venture Partners is a Chicago-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. It focuses on high-growth technology startups across the Midwest, with an emphasis on software and tech-enabled businesses. The firm typically invests between $0.1 million to $2.5 million, co-investing with Hyde Park Angels. They actively mentor portfolio companies, supporting product development, business strategy, financing, and exit strategies.

High Alpha, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, operates as a B2B SaaS venture studio and early-stage investor. It conceives, launches, and scales B2B SaaS companies through High Alpha Studio, offering a blend of services including design, finance, talent, marketing, branding, and go-to-market support, alongside capital to accelerate growth toward enterprise-scale outcomes.

Founded in 2000, Aisling Capital is a New York-based investment firm focusing on mid-market and growth-oriented investments in life sciences, healthcare, and technology companies across the United States and Western Europe. The company aims to support leading global healthcare companies commercializing new products driven by biotechnology advancements.

Canaan Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1987 that operates globally with offices in Israel and India. It focuses on early-stage investments in technology and healthcare, including software, fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, digital health, biopharma, and medtech, and it has a history of backing startups that achieve exits.

Network VC is a venture capital firm established in 2019 and located in Menlo Park, California. The firm focuses on investing in startups across various sectors, leveraging a robust ecosystem to access a diverse pool of investment opportunities. This ecosystem is primarily built through initiatives like Unicorn Battles and CUP Startup, which create a significant funnel of startups. By tapping into this extensive network, Network VC aims to identify and support high-potential startups, thereby enhancing its investment success.

Ludus Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Istanbul, Turkey, focused on gaming startups. It provides in-house expertise, strategic guidance, and funding to entrepreneurs and startups, and aims to pioneer the venture studio model in Turkey by nurturing best-in-class gaming ventures.

MariMed is a multi-state cannabis operator focused on the design, development, operation, and management of cultivation, production, and retail facilities. The company provides advisory services to cannabis operators, covering facility design and buildout, site selection, legal compliance, systems design, and operational workflows, as well as licensing assistance, financing support, financial modeling, and business planning. It also offers managed services for cultivation, production, and distribution, along with education, community outreach, and workforce training. Through its award-winning portfolio of brands, including Betty's Eddies, Bubby's Baked, Vibations, InHouse, and Nature's Heritage, MariMed builds consumer brands and distributes products across multiple states. By combining development expertise with operational management and brand-building, MariMed aims to set standards in the cannabis industry and drive growth across its nationwide footprint.

LaunchCapital is a venture capital firm based in New Haven, Connecticut, that funds seed and early-stage startups. It focuses on technology, consumer, and medical sectors and targets commerce, marketplaces, media and entertainment, enterprise software and services, data, finance, healthcare, and emerging technologies. The firm maintains offices in Boston, New York, New Haven, and San Francisco and pursues opportunities for exponential growth by providing equity investments and other capital support to startups in the initial development stage. By helping founders scale from concept to revenue, LaunchCapital aims to optimize early-stage capital structures and support sustainable growth for portfolio companies.

Scientific Health Development is a boutique venture capital firm based in Dallas, Texas, that funds early-stage healthcare technologies and products. The firm targets investments in health, science, medical and wellness companies, and digital health, focusing on opportunities in the United States. Founded in 2006, it seeks to support innovative solutions across healthcare sectors before product commercialization.

Silversmith Capital Partners is a Boston-based growth equity firm founded in 2015 that partners with technology and healthcare companies to support growth and profitability. It targets investments in software, information technology and services, healthcare information technology and services, and other technology-enabled healthcare businesses, providing growth capital and strategic guidance to help companies scale, innovate, and expand market reach.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs science and technology companies across multiple stages, from seed to late-stage. It pursues transformative technologies and follows a founder-friendly investment approach that provides substantial support with minimal interference. The firm invests in ventures solving difficult problems across sectors such as aerospace and transportation, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, healthcare, biotechnology, cybersecurity, fintech, consumer internet, software, robotics, and related technology fields. It has backed notable companies early, including SpaceX, Palantir, and Facebook, reflecting a history of partnering with ambitious founders to scale breakthrough technologies.

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman. It allocates capital across public and private markets worldwide, with a focus on technology-enabled growth opportunities. The firm pursues public equity strategies, including long/short and growth investments, and private equity across early- to late-stage companies in multiple industries, seeking high-quality growth opportunities and guiding portfolio companies through their lifecycle.

Pamoja Capital is a private investment firm founded in 2006 by John McCall MacBain and a management team after the sale of Trader Classified Media. Based in Luxembourg, the firm pursues long-term, socially responsible investments across multiple sectors, including education, life sciences (healthcare), information technology, media and communications, real estate, and environmental services. It participates in investments at various stages of growth, from seed and growth capital to buyouts and growth equity, with a geographic reach across Europe, North America, Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East. Pamoja Capital emphasizes sustainable cash flow and leverages the operating experience of its managers to help portfolio companies achieve a competitive advantage.

Southeast Interactive Technology Funds was a venture capital firm founded in 1995 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, with an additional office in Redwood City, California. It invested across information technology and communications, including enterprise software, internet infrastructure, and related sectors, spanning early to late stages. The firm managed four funds and supported portfolio companies through sourcing, analysis, financing, growth, and exits, using a proactive, hands on approach aligned with management. It relied on a technical advisory board and venture partners to provide industry, financial, and operational guidance. It built national and global networks of co-investors and limited partners, including strategic and global investors. The firm is now out of business.

Narya Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2020 and based in Ohio. It focuses on technology and science-driven startups and backs founders addressing critical problems in the United States, including healthcare, agriculture, defense, and financial services, by providing capital and strategic support.

S2G Investments is a multi-stage investment firm that targets venture and growth-stage companies in food and agriculture, oceans, and energy sectors. It provides capital to businesses shaping the future of food systems and energy resources and supports entrepreneurs and leadership teams with market-driven solutions intended to deliver greater value, improved results, and superior performance relative to conventional options.

Founded in 1997, Endeavor is a global non-profit organization dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. With operations in nearly 40 countries, Endeavor's network comprises over 2,000 entrepreneurs who have created more than 3.9 million jobs and generated revenues exceeding $28 billion.

BP Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2007, investing in private technology companies to accelerate innovation across the energy sector. With over $400 million invested across more than 40 entities and over 200 co-investors, BP Ventures focuses on Oil & Gas Value Chain, Low Carbon Technologies & Fuels, and Energy Usage & Trading, delivering near-term business value while backing breakthrough innovations for a sustainable future.

HPS Investment Partners is a global investment firm focused on non-investment grade credit across the capital structure. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, it operates a worldwide network of offices. The firm originated as a unit of Highbridge Capital Management, a subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, and was acquired by its principals in 2016 after Highbridge’s hedge fund strategies remained with J.P. Morgan. HPS manages a variety of strategies, including syndicated leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, privately negotiated senior secured debt, mezzanine, asset-based lending, and private equity, and serves clients across industries such as insurance, healthcare, media, retail, logistics, and marine.

Venrock is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 1969 as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family. It concentrates on seed and early-stage investments in technology and healthcare, with interests spanning information technology, life sciences and related sectors in the United States. The firm has supported a broad portfolio of companies, including Apple, Intel, Illumina, DoubleClick, Athenahealth, Gilead Sciences, Nest, SlideShare and Tudou. Venrock emphasizes long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs, combining hands-on venture support with rigorous data analysis to help startups grow into enduring companies.

Qiming Venture Partners is a China-based venture capital firm founded in 2006, with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Hong Kong and Singapore, and a global arm through Qiming Venture Partners USA. It manages multiple funds and invests in early and growth-stage companies across technology, information technology, healthcare, new consumer sectors, AI, robotics, semiconductors, software and digital health. The firm emphasizes a hands-on approach, often taking board seats and providing operational guidance to help CEOs scale and reach exits. Through its investments, it has backed hundreds of companies and supported numerous IPOs and M&A outcomes, with unicorns among its portfolio, illustrating breadth and depth across China and international markets.

Spark Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco with offices in Boston and New York. It invests in startups across the United States, spanning early-stage to growth opportunities, focusing on software, internet, media, consumer products and services, fintech, and information technology. The firm backs companies across sectors such as software-as-a-service, digital media, online platforms, and technology-driven consumer products, often supporting ventures at the intersection of entertainment and technology, e-commerce, and education technology. It typically makes investments from formative rounds up to larger growth rounds, and seeks to take a board seat in portfolio companies to help guide strategy and growth. Notable investments include Twitter, Discord, Anthropic, Cruise, Niantic, Oculus, Warby Parker, and Tumblr, illustrating a history of backing influential products and teams.

Mazarine Ventures is a technology investor focused on generating social and environmental impact by backing early-stage companies that develop innovations to improve efficiency and mitigate water and wastewater risks. The firm emphasizes solutions that address water-related public health and safety, environmental protection, and business continuity challenges, as well as risks arising from a changing climate. It seeks founders who are ambitious and pragmatic, advancing creative approaches to rapidly translate ideas into scalable technologies.