Investors in Art

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Animoca Brands

Animoca Brands is a venture capital firm focused on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It leverages gamification and blockchain technology to develop, market, and invest in mobile applications, games, and additional products centered around educational learning, ensuring transparency, security, and new business models.
Made 19 investments in Art

Outlier Ventures

Outlier Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm and accelerator focused on Web3 and blockchain technology. Founded in 2014, it was among the first to invest in the crypto ecosystem and supports early-stage startups across DeFi, NFTs, infrastructure and metaverse use cases. The firm runs Base Camp, an accelerator launched in 2019 that provides launchpad support and incubation space for pre-seed projects. Through its investments and accelerator activities, Outlier Ventures has supported more than 220 portfolio companies and helped raise over $350 million in seed funding. It maintains a blockchain-agnostic approach and collaborates with leading ecosystems, including Aptos, Filecoin/IPFS, Polygon, and Polkadot, to host dedicated accelerator tracks. The firm aims to accelerate the development of Web3 technologies and the Open Metaverse by backing global projects and fostering interoperable infrastructures.
Made 16 investments in Art

Brinc

Brinc is a global venture acceleration firm headquartered in Hong Kong. It operates multidisciplinary accelerator programs across seven countries, focusing on startups in blockchain technology, AI, connected hardware, robotics, climate tech, food technology, and IoT. Brinc also supports corporations with innovation strategies and Web3-enabled businesses.
Made 8 investments in Art

Slow Ventures

Founded in 2011, Slow Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm. It invests in innovative companies operating at the intersection of technology, science, society, and culture across various sectors such as software, biotechnology, e-commerce, fintech, and more.
Made 17 investments in Art

Greycroft

Founded in 2006, Greycroft is a venture capital firm based in New York and Los Angeles. With over $1 billion under management, it focuses on early-stage investments in consumer internet, financial technology, healthcare, and enterprise software sectors across the United States. The firm leverages its extensive network of media and technology industry connections to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, and bring products to market.
Made 19 investments in Art

Flamingo DAO

Flamingo DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization focused on exploring investment opportunities in ownable blockchain-based assets, specifically non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It develops software to support the creation, monetization, and incentivization of online digital content through crypto transactions.
Made 4 investments in Art

Lux Capital

Founded in 2000, Lux Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York and Silicon Valley. It manages over $5 billion in assets, focusing on seed to growth investments at the intersection of technology and sciences. Lux actively supports entrepreneurs building successful businesses in high-growth sectors such as biochemistry, material science, electronics, infrastructure, aerospace, genomics, synthetic biology, and robotics.
Made 8 investments in Art

Borderless Capital

Borderless Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2018 that concentrates on early-stage investments in Web3 and infrastructure companies. The firm seeks opportunities aligned with the Algorand ecosystem, including projects that leverage Algorand 2.0 features and Algorand Standard Assets, as well as infrastructure initiatives supporting Algorand. It partners with founders to accelerate access, bootstrap adoption, and create value across Algorand and EdgeFi ecosystems.
Made 9 investments in Art

Global Brain

Founded in Tokyo in 1998, Global Brain is a venture capital firm focusing on seed to late-stage investments across various sectors globally. They have invested in over 300 startups, facilitating 25 IPOs and 61 M&As through hands-on support services.
Made 6 investments in Art

1kx

Founded in 2018, 1kx is a venture capital firm based in the British Virgin Islands. It specializes in supporting early-stage startups focused on web3 technologies to grow, scale their platforms, and foster community-driven networks.
Made 7 investments in Art

Creative UK

Founded in 2011, Creative UK is a venture capital firm based in Bristol, United Kingdom. It connects, invests in, supports, and champions creative projects, with a focus on creative, tech, digital businesses, games studios, artificial intelligence, virtual realities, and mixed realities sectors.
Made 2 investments in Art

Collab+Currency

Founded in 2018, Collab+Currency is a venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas. It invests in early-stage companies operating in sectors such as information technology, cryptocurrency, financial technology, augmented reality, gaming, infrastructure, and SaaS.
Made 8 investments in Art

KB Investment

Established in 1990, KB Investment is a prominent South Korean venture capital firm with over USD 2.6 billion in assets under management as of December 2023. It is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea's leading financial group. KB Investment specializes in supporting early-stage and growth-oriented companies across various sectors, including consumer products, healthcare, information technology, life sciences, and clean tech, primarily in the United States, Southeast Asia, and Israel.
Made 10 investments in Art

Gaingels

Founded in 2014, Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate dedicated to supporting the LGBT+ community. It invests globally in companies led by LGBT+ founders or C-suite executives at all stages of growth, focusing on inclusivity and positive social change.
Made 8 investments in Art

Betaworks

Betaworks is a New York-based startup studio, accelerator, and ecosystem builder that creates, funds, and scales technology companies. Founded in 2008, it operates an accelerator program and supports early-stage ventures across information technology, software as a service, gaming, e-sports, and frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual and augmented reality. Betaworks also runs Betaworks Studios, a New York City membership space that enables collaboration, mentorship, events, work sessions, and company-building activity within its network. Through Betaworks Ventures, the firm maintains a product-focused seed investment arm with a presence in New York and San Francisco, having invested in more than 150 companies.
Made 11 investments in Art

Blockchain Founders Fund

Founded in Singapore in 2018, Blockchain Founders Fund is a venture capital firm investing globally in early-stage blockchain startups. It offers a Venture Program to aid entrepreneurs across key business functions for accelerated growth.
Made 7 investments in Art

Korea Investment Partners

Established in 1986, Korea Investment Partners is a prominent venture capital firm headquartered in Seoul. With over three decades of experience, the company invests globally in innovative startups across various sectors, including technology, healthcare, and manufacturing. Notable investments include Kakao, Naver, YG Entertainment, and Didi Chuxing. The firm manages multiple funds with total assets under management exceeding US$1.8 billion.
Made 10 investments in Art

Blockchain Founders Capital

Founded in 2022, Blockchain Founders Capital is a venture capital firm based in Neustadt, Germany. It focuses on investing in early-stage, pre-seed and seed-stage web3 companies.
Made 4 investments in Art

MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE Venture Capital (MSIVC)

MSIVC is a venture capital firm that invests in Japanese and global startups scaling to IPO. It focuses on startups in verticals of Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, AI, E-Commerce, Foodtech, and Environment etc.
Made 2 investments in Art

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It invests in seed, early, and growth-stage companies across technology, energy, financial services, healthcare, internet, mobile, outsourcing, manufacturing, media, and retail sectors. The firm seeks ambitious founders and aims to help them build long-lasting, scalable businesses, often taking the lead or significant co-investor roles and providing strategic guidance, networks, and resources. It maintains an international footprint, including investments in India and other regions, reflecting a global approach to partnering with fast-growing companies. Sequoia emphasizes strong teams, innovative products or services, and the potential for rapid growth, positioning itself as a long-term partner for companies that redefine their markets.
Made 8 investments in Art

Buhuo Ventures

Buhuo Ventures is a Beijing-based venture capital firm established in 2017, focusing on early and growth stage investments. The firm targets a diverse range of sectors including supply chain platforms, technology, media, telecommunications, innovative consumer products, business-to-business services, and content culture. Buhuo Ventures aims to support companies that enhance supply-driven consumption and leverage emerging trends in the digital landscape, such as the WeChat ecosystem.
Made 2 investments in Art

2 Punks Capital

Founded in 2021, this venture capital firm focuses on early-stage investments in emerging technologies such as web3, gaming, DAOs, consumer blockchain technology, digital fashion, collectibles, NFTs, metaverse, music, and sports.
Made 1 investment in Art

Motier Ventures

Motier Ventures is a family office based in Paris, France, managing investments in technology start-ups on behalf of the owners of the Galeries Lafayette Group. Founded in 2021, it acts as a corporate venture capital arm, focusing on early-stage companies. The firm invests up to €300,000 initially as a business angel and can follow on with investments of up to €3 million in subsequent funding rounds. Motier Ventures emphasizes sectors such as the future of commerce, fintech, creative technologies, gaming, and cybersecurity. Leveraging 125 years of entrepreneurial experience and an extensive network across various industries, it aims to support innovative companies seeking to transform their respective fields.
Made 4 investments in Art

ZhenFund

ZhenFund is a Beijing-based venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments in China. It was founded in 2011 by entrepreneurs Bob Xiaoping Xu and Victor Qiang Wang in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China. The firm backs a broad range of sectors including e-commerce, consumer, education, artificial intelligence, enterprise services, mobile internet, media, entertainment, sports, virtual reality, fintech, and healthcare. ZhenFund supports its portfolio companies with mentorship and resources such as biannual demo days for top Chinese VCs, ZhenHR services, marketing and PR consulting, and fundraising assistance, complemented by a large CEO network facilitated through a WeChat platform. It maintains a sizable portfolio network with hundreds of companies and more than 30 unicorns, and has been recognized as a leading early-stage investor in China for multiple years.
Made 12 investments in Art

Goodwater Capital

Founded in 2014, Goodwater Capital is a venture capital firm based in Burlingame, California. It invests in early-stage consumer technology companies, empowering exceptional entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems and create global impact.
Made 8 investments in Art

Seier Capital

Seier Capital is a private seed and venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The firm focuses on investing in a variety of industries, including art and fashion, financial services, food and beverages, social media, sports and entertainment, and technology. By supporting early-stage companies across these sectors, Seier Capital aims to foster innovation and growth in its investment portfolio.
Made 2 investments in Art

BITKRAFT Ventures

BITKRAFT Ventures is a global venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Jens Hilgers. It maintains a multi-city team with offices in Berlin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London, Madrid and Lisbon, and focuses on early-stage investments in videogames, esports and related immersive digital entertainment. Positioned as a global investment platform, it pursues opportunities across video gaming, immersive technology, interactive media, Web3 and AI, with activity spanning North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Made 6 investments in Art

Seven Seven Six

Founded in 2020, Seven Seven Six is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology companies. It provides comprehensive support to founders through workshops, networking opportunities, and resources.
Made 8 investments in Art

Standard Crypto

Standard Crypto is a venture capital firm that supports early-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain companies. Based in San Francisco and founded in 2020, it combines deep technical expertise with hands-on company-building experience and a track record in crypto to help decentralized protocols and blockchain-focused startups grow. It operates as a registered investment adviser.
Made 4 investments in Art

Kakao Ventures

Kakao Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 2012, it focuses on deep technology, services, digital healthcare, and games, and is described as a founder-friendly seed-stage investor. It operates as an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp that manages external funds raised from limited partners.
Made 7 investments in Art

Bright Venture Capital

Bright Venture Capital is a venture capital firm based in Shenzhen, China, focusing on early and middle-stage investments. The firm targets private equity opportunities in the primary market while also engaging in investments in the secondary market. Its investment interests span a range of sectors, including technology, media, telecommunications, healthcare, education, entertainment, new retail, and advanced manufacturing. By concentrating on these areas, Bright Venture Capital aims to support innovative companies and drive growth within the industries it invests in.
Made 1 investment in Art

AppWorks

Founded in 2010, AppWorks is a Taipei-based venture capital firm that invests in seed and early-stage startups across Southeast Asia. The firm focuses on sectors such as artificial intelligence, internet of things, web3, and blockchain. Additionally, it offers acceleration services to support its portfolio companies.
Made 1 investment in Art

Founder Collective

Founder Collective is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2009 with roots in Cambridge, Massachusetts and offices in New York. The firm is built by entrepreneurs who have founded and exited technology companies, and it aims to back founders by providing practical capital and guidance to navigate the risks of venture funding. It concentrates on early investments in technology companies, with an emphasis on software and information technology, and it makes bets across the United States and beyond, though its roots are on the East Coast. The team partners with portfolio companies to help them scale, often supporting startups that seek modest initial financings. Through its network and hands-on approach, Founder Collective seeks to partner with ambitious teams to grow durable, technology-driven businesses.
Made 11 investments in Art

SV Angel

Founded in 2009, SV Angel is a San Francisco-based angel investment firm and service organization that backs early-stage startups, particularly in software and technology, by providing business development support, financing, strategic guidance on mergers and acquisitions, and other resources. It leverages a broad network to assist founders at critical inflection points, helping with market strategy, partnerships, and access to capital to build durable companies across the United States.
Made 17 investments in Art

Newman Capital

Newman Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2021 and headquartered in Hong Kong, with a presence in both the Asia-Pacific region and the United States. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, primarily focusing on startups that are pioneering technologies in the blockchain and digital asset sectors. Newman Capital aims to identify aspirational founders and innovative projects in Web3, leveraging its extensive network and resources to foster growth and scalability. Its investment strategy emphasizes consumer applications, development enablers, and blockchain infrastructure, allowing it to connect diverse markets and communities effectively.
Made 3 investments in Art

Sound Ventures

Founded in 2015, Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Beverly Hills, California. It primarily invests in early and mid-stage technology companies.
Made 6 investments in Art

Archer Gray

Archer Gray is a New York City-based media production, finance, and venture capital firm that backs early-stage, tech-enabled media companies at Seed and Series A, across video, virtual reality or augmented reality, audio, music, messaging, and gaming. It operates at the intersection of art and commerce and was founded by Amy Nauiokas in 2013.

Proximity Angels

Established in 2018, Proximity Angels is an Argentine-based angel investment group focusing on early-stage ventures across Latin America.

New Renaissance Ventures

Established in Vienna in 2023, New Renaissance Ventures is a pioneering venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage technology startups operating within the Cultural and Creative Industries.

Curitiba Angels

Established in 2014, Curitiba Angels is a prominent angel investment network based in Curitiba, Brazil. It focuses on supporting original entrepreneurs and filmmakers.

Orbit City

Global investment and advisory firm at the intersection of advanced technology and creative artistic expression.

Anotherway Ventures

Anotherway Ventures, established in 2013 and headquartered in London, is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups at the intersection of art and science.

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a venture capital firm based in Tokyo, with additional offices in Osaka and Nagoya, founded in 1974. It concentrates on seed to development stage and startup investments across healthcare, biotech, information technology, electronics, high technology, life sciences, fintech, ICT, SaaS, and AI sectors. The firm targets opportunities in Japan and with relevance to the Japanese market, and it participates in investment syndication for Japanese investments to support entrepreneurs and innovation within the domestic economy.
Made 6 investments in Art

Advantage Capital Partners

Advantage Capital Partners is a United States‑based venture capital firm that provides growth equity, debt, and mezzanine financing to small and mid‑market companies, with a focus on underserved communities and state and local economic development. The firm invests across sectors including manufacturing, technology, business services, life sciences, and energy, and also supports real estate development projects with equity and debt. It typically makes initial investments ranging roughly from half a million to ten million in companies with modest sales, and may participate in larger follow‑on rounds or co‑invest with other firms. It uses senior debt, mezzanine debt, subordinated loans, and government‑guaranteed lending, and often pursues equity positions through preferred shares or convertible notes. Advantage Capital operates nationwide in the United States, with roots in New Orleans and offices in multiple states, and has backed thousands of jobs and housing projects as part of its mission to expand inclusive economic growth.
Made 15 investments in Art

Gold House Ventures

Founded in 2017, Gold House Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. It invests in early-stage startups with at least one Asian Pacific founder or co-founder, supporting diverse entrepreneurship and uniting the Asian Pacific community.
Made 2 investments in Art

7wire Ventures

7wire Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 that concentrates on early-stage investments in digital health, healthcare IT, mobility-enabled services, and other technology-enabled solutions in the United States. The firm provides funding and operating guidance to portfolio companies to help transform innovative ideas into scalable, world-class businesses. Its approach leverages mobility, connected devices, cloud computing, and analytics to advance sectors such as healthcare and education and to challenge conventional solutions.

Wave Digital Assets

Wave Digital Assets, established in 2018 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, is a registered investment advisor specializing in digital asset management. The company offers early-stage venture capital investments, asset management strategies, treasury management services, and strategic consulting within the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystems.
Made 7 investments in Art

WiL (World Innovation Lab)

WiL (World Innovation Lab) is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto with an office in Tokyo. It partners with global corporations and government entities to act as a bridge between startups and corporates in the United States and Asia, with a particular focus on Japan. The firm helps portfolio companies by forging corporate partnerships that enable U.S. and European startups to scale globally and Japanese startups to innovate and internationalize. WiL invests across seed, early, and later stages in sectors including fintech, insurtech, automation, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, health tech, sustainability, artificial intelligence, machine learning, SaaS, consumer products and services, and information technology. It has backed exits such as Asana, Mercari, Raksul, Wise and Auth0, demonstrating a track record of guiding companies to public markets or strategic acquisitions. Beyond direct investing, WiL also commits capital to venture funds and collaborates with corporate investors to advance innovation capabilities, partnerships, and organizational change within their ecosystems.
Made 3 investments in Art

Big Brain Holdings

Founded in 2021, Big Brain Holdings is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California. It focuses on investing in early-stage companies operating in the blockchain, fintech, and web3 sectors.
Made 6 investments in Art

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm that backs startups across enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, healthtech, and cleantech from seed through growth stages. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, it maintains offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzliya to engage markets in the United States, Asia, and Israel. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and has supported companies across software, mobile, data, e-commerce, and services, spanning early-stage to expansion rounds. It offers strategic guidance, network access, and capital, and has historically included debt financing as part of its investment approach. With a multi-region footprint and a broad multi-stage mandate, Lightspeed seeks to partner with entrepreneurs to scale innovative companies globally.
Made 5 investments in Art