Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with offices across North America. It provides access to venture investing for individual accredited investors, particularly alumni networks, by offering diversified portfolios of venture opportunities and allowing members to invest alongside fellow alumni in ventures led by peers. The firm backs early-stage and later-stage opportunities across technology, consumer, healthcare, financial services, and other sectors, with a sector- and geography-agnostic approach. It typically invests between $10,000 and $3 million per deal and emphasizes the involvement of alumni connections and an institutional lead investor in opportunities. Alumni Ventures also offers focused funds to broaden participation, enabling accredited investors to access venture portfolios diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. The model aims to democratize access to venture capital while maintaining rigorous selection standards through alumni networks.
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.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development finances projects and provides advisory services to the public and private sectors. It supports new ventures and expansion in existing companies through project financing, loans, and equity or quasi-equity investments, including equity funds and guarantees, and it partners with private entities to invest across sectors such as banking, energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, information technology, and services. The bank also helps publicly owned entities privatize and restructure municipal services and engages in policy reform dialogue and advisory services, along with trade finance and loan syndication. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in London, it operates across regions including Southeastern and Central Europe, the Baltic States, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, Central Asia, and parts of the Middle East and Africa, aiming to foster market-oriented change and private sector development by mobilizing capital for sustainable investments. It has invested more than €130 billion in over 5,200 projects.
Headquartered in San Francisco with offices globally, Citi Ventures explores, incubates, and invests in innovative ideas across fintech, data analytics, commerce, security, marketing, property tech, distributed ledger technology, and digital assets. It collaborates with Citi colleagues, clients, and the broader innovation community to drive discovery of new value.
Founded in 2015, FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm focusing on stage-agnostic investments in marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. Their investment range varies from $50,000 to $5,000,000, typically at seed or series A stages.
Established in 2015, Tenity is an international innovation hub and early-stage investor specializing in financial technology (fintech), insurtech, web3, digital health, and related sectors. With a strong focus on Europe, EMEA, and APAC regions, the company has over a decade of experience accelerating fintech innovation globally.
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.
Founded in Singapore in 2017, Antler is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests globally. It focuses on backing exceptional founders from day one, offering a global community network of co-founders, talent, advisors, expansion support, and capital across various sectors such as technology, healthcare, finance, consumer goods, and more.
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.
Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.
Established in 2023 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Constellation Wealth Capital is a private equity firm focused on investing in wealth management companies.
Founded in Berlin in 2013, Global Founders Capital is a venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs across various stages and global markets. It focuses on software and TMT sectors, investing based on potential impact and feasibility.
Valar Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that makes early-stage investments in technology companies worldwide, with a focus on fintech. Backed by Peter Thiel, the firm partners with global founders to navigate the challenges of building transformative companies outside Silicon Valley and supports them with strategic guidance and capital.
Partech is a global technology investment firm headquartered in Paris with offices in Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi, and San Francisco. It provides capital, operational experience, and strategic support to founders from seed to growth, working alongside the entrepreneurs it backs to pursue long-term success. Founded about 40 years ago in San Francisco, Partech currently manages around 2.5 billion euros in assets and backs a portfolio of about 220 companies across 40 countries and four continents. The firm concentrates on technology sectors, including software, cybersecurity, fintech, AI, cloud, and related areas, investing across the United States, Europe, and emerging markets.
BlackFin Capital Partners is an independent private equity and venture capital firm based in Paris, focusing on mid-market and growth-oriented investments in financial services and technology across continental Europe. The firm pursues asset-light opportunities and acts as an active, value-driven investor, helping portfolio companies grow through organic expansion, margin improvement, and strategic add-on transactions. It commonly takes majority or influential minority stakes and employs a buy-and-build approach to scale businesses. BlackFin seeks opportunities across Europe, with operations and investments centered in France and extended to other European markets, aiming to transform portfolio companies through operational excellence and strategic partnerships in financial services and technology sectors.
Ulu Ventures is a Palo Alto, California-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm that backs technology-driven startups across the United States. Founded in 2008, it focuses on internet-enabled consumer and business services and a broad range of sectors including EdTech, FinTech, healthcare, sustainability, enterprise IT, SaaS, IoT, digital media, mobile, agtech, and marketplaces. The firm emphasizes backing diverse entrepreneurial teams and typically engages in co-investments with other investors to pursue meaningful exits. It is described as the first Latina-led venture fund in Silicon Valley and is among the larger seed-focused vehicles in the region.
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.
Sequoia Capital Israel is a venture capital firm that backs startups and growth companies across seed to late-stage rounds, with a focus on Israel. It invests across sectors including fintech, financial services, internet, mobile, technology, and healthcare, spanning banking, payments, advertising, ecommerce, data, security, software, and related enabling tech. Typical commitments range from 100,000 to 1 million in seed, 1 to 10 million in early venture, and 10 to 100 million in growth rounds. The firm is based in Tel Aviv and operates as part of Sequoia Capital's global network.
Fin Capital is a global asset manager focused on full lifecycle investing in B2B fintech software companies. The firm partners with experienced entrepreneurs who bring deep financial services knowledge, differentiated products, and a global mindset. Based in San Francisco with offices in Los Angeles, London, Miami, and New York, Fin Capital pursues collaborations and capital alignment across eight fintech sub-sectors: Enterprise AI Enablement, BankTech, B2B Payments, CFO Tech Stack, Asset and Wealth Management and Capital Markets, RiskTech and Cyber, Vertical Fintech, and InsurTech. The approach emphasizes long-term value creation across growth stages.
Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, established in 2018 and based in London, is the venture capital investment arm of Fidelity International. The firm focuses on investing in fintech and technology companies, particularly those in the Series A-B funding stages, on a global scale. FISV aims to partner with innovative entrepreneurs who are transforming the Wealth and Asset Management landscape. By targeting category leaders that have the potential to create new markets, enhance portfolio returns, or disrupt traditional financial processes, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures plays a strategic role in advancing the fintech sector.
Founded in 2017, Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm based in San Carlos, California. It specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors across the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia.
Founded in 2000, TTV Capital is a venture capital firm based in Atlanta, Georgia. It specializes in early-stage investments in financial technology companies, focusing on sectors such as payments, banking, investing, and embedded finance.
Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and based in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore. It focuses on early and growth-stage technology startups, investing across software, cloud, data analytics, mobile technology, consumer services, fintech, security, healthcare, and information technologies. Accel seeks to partner with entrepreneurs to build world-class companies that define new categories and drive growth. Its portfolio includes notable technology companies such as Atlassian, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify, Etsy, Cloudera, DJI, Braintree, and Lookout Security, among others.
American Express Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of American Express, focused on investing in startups to expand American Express's capabilities in consumer commerce and B2B services. The firm is stage agnostic after seed and seeks opportunities both domestically and internationally. It targets areas including consumer commerce with emphasis on mobile, consumer payments, marketplaces, lending, loyalty and digital marketing products; business-to-business services such as business payments, process automation, lending and small business services; and core capabilities such as servicing, customer acquisition, fraud detection, security, data analytics and underwriting. It invests in fintech and related sectors to enhance American Express's core platform. It is based in Palo Alto with an additional office in New York.
MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd. is the corporate venture capital arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, established in 2019 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The firm focuses on managing corporate venture capital funds to foster open innovation and strengthen partnerships with FinTech-related startups. MUFG Innovation Partners targets investments in early to growth-stage companies across various sectors, including lending, payments, wealth and asset management, capital markets, banking software, vertical software, sustainability, and discovery. By engaging with innovative startups, the firm aims to enhance its strategic capabilities and drive advancements in the financial services industry.
Nyca Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2014, headquartered in New York. It specializes in investing in early-stage financial technology companies, focusing on areas such as merchant payments services, alternative credit networks, digital advice, and improving financial services infrastructure.
Motive Ventures is the early-stage investment arm of Motive Partners, focused on fintech investments from pre-seed through Series A in North America, Europe and Israel. It is backed by prominent tech entrepreneurs, industry veterans and leading institutions and venture investors, and operates from Berlin, London and New York.
Anthemis Group is an independent investment firm founded in 2010 and headquartered in London. It operates as a multi-stage asset management platform focused on financial services and technology, particularly fintech and insurtech. The firm targets opportunities from pre-seed through growth stages and invests in, grows, and sustains companies across North America and Europe to advance resiliency, transparency, access, and equity in the financial system. By supporting a diverse ecosystem of startups, investors, entrepreneurs, institutions, and researchers, Anthemis aims to accelerate innovation in finance.
Portage Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm specializing in fintech and financial services investments. It targets early-stage opportunities with global potential, backing promising fintech companies across Canada, the United States, and Europe. Founded in 2016, the firm focuses on helping startups scale in the financial technology sector.
Founded in 2005, Altair Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco. It invests in early and growth-stage startup companies across various sectors, with a focus on disruptive ideas and high return potential.
Established in 2005, SMBC Venture Capital is a Tokyo-based corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. It invests primarily in early-stage companies operating within the information technology, life sciences, services, and manufacturing sectors.
ETFS Capital is an investment company based in London, United Kingdom, established in 2018 by veterans of the exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry, including Graham Tuckwell, a notable pioneer in the field. The firm focuses on the global investment ecosystem, particularly in ETFs, following the sale of ETF Securities’ European and North American issuance businesses to several major financial firms. In addition to its ETF focus, ETFS Capital also engages in venture capital investments, targeting early-stage technology companies. Through its dual strategy, the firm aims to leverage its expertise in ETFs while supporting innovative tech ventures.
FinTech Collective is a global venture capital firm founded in 2012 and based in New York, with offices in London. It concentrates on early-stage investments in financial services and related technology, including payments, banking, lending, wealth and asset management, capital markets, insurance, and decentralized finance. The firm backs entrepreneurs reimagining how money moves and how financial services are built and delivered across global markets. Its portfolio includes MoneyLion, NYDIG, Ocrolus, Quovo, and Vestwell, among other fintech and infrastructure companies, reflecting breadth across the sector. Backed by leading institutional investors, the firm targets seed to series B-stage opportunities and leverages deep sector experience to help startups scale.
Founded in 2016, Motive Partners is a New York-based investment firm focused on financial technology. With additional offices in London, it invests in technology-enabled businesses across North America and Western Europe, aiming to create long-term value and transform markets.
FINTOP Capital, established in 2016, is a venture capital firm based in Nashville, Tennessee, with additional offices in Hoboken, New Jersey, and St. Louis, Missouri. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage, B2B service-enabled SaaS and software companies operating in the FinTech sector. FINTOP Capital targets companies with a proven product, real revenues, and leadership teams composed of industry veterans.
Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. It provides capital and strategic guidance to startups across stages, focusing on technology-driven companies in areas such as artificial intelligence, climate and sustainability, enterprise software and services, fintech, digital health, medical technology and diagnostics, therapeutics, consumer products, and frontier technologies. The firm backs bold ventures with the potential to disrupt markets and improve lives, supporting companies from early to growth stages and working closely with entrepreneurs to apply science, technology and innovative business models. While primarily investing in North American technology companies, Khosla Ventures pursues opportunities globally and emphasizes experimentation and impact alongside financial returns. The firm also maintains related impact initiatives that support entrepreneurs addressing socio-economic challenges in emerging markets.
Outward VC is a venture capital firm that specializes in supporting early-stage companies in the fintech sector across the UK and Europe. It focuses on businesses seeking to raise between £1 million and £10 million, with a broad interpretation of fintech that includes connected sectors poised to influence the future of financial services for enterprises, communities, and individuals. Outward VC aims to empower startups that aspire to become significant players in the global fintech landscape, providing them with the necessary resources and guidance to achieve their goals.
SFC Capital is a United Kingdom based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that focuses on early-stage investments, including pre-seed and seed rounds, in sectors such as software, technology, e-commerce, consumer products, enterprise solutions, green technology, medical technology, and hospitality. It backs UK startups through an Angel Network and seed funds, providing capital and guidance and offering access to SEIS- and EIS-qualifying investment opportunities. The firm is described as a leading seed investor in the UK.
Founded in 2017, CMT Digital is a venture capital firm based in Chicago, Illinois. It focuses on investments in the crypto asset and blockchain technology sectors, with an emphasis on early-stage startups.
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.
Founded in 2006, Z47 is a venture capital firm based in Bengaluru, India. It invests in technology startups focused on the Indian consumer market and global enterprise solutions, typically at seed, early, and early growth stages.
Elevation Capital, founded in 2002 and based in Gurgaon, India, is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on investing in a diverse range of sectors including consumer brands, consumer technology, enterprise solutions, cryptocurrency, software as a service (SaaS), business-to-business services, financial services, and logistics. The firm manages several funds, including the SAIF Partners India Fund, which targets investments primarily in India across various industries such as software, media, education, telecom, healthcare, and travel. Elevation Capital seeks to fund companies at different stages of growth, from seed to later-stage, typically investing amounts ranging from USD 2 million to USD 75 million.
Openspace Ventures is a Singapore-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that backs technology companies in Southeast Asia, with a focus on early-stage Series A and B investments. It targets sectors including logistics, edtech, healthtech, fintech, cleantech, consumer internet and B2B SaaS, emphasizing cloud software, integrated hardware and other tech-enabled business models. The firm maintains a regional footprint across Southeast Asia with offices in multiple capitals and works closely with portfolio companies to support growth and scale. By selectively investing in transformative tech businesses, it aims to help founders build viable, responsible companies that drive regional digital transformation.
Tiger Global Management is a New York based investment firm that manages public and private market strategies to pursue technology-driven growth opportunities worldwide. Founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman, the firm invests in leading global companies across various industries, with a particular emphasis on technology-enabled growth. In public markets it employs long/short and growth strategies, while in private markets it targets opportunities from early to late stage. The firm operates globally, including the United States, China, India, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, and works with portfolio companies across their lifecycle to drive long-term value.
Allianz X, established in Munich, Germany in 2013, is a digital investment unit of the Allianz Group. It focuses on investing in late-stage digital growth companies operating within insurance-related ecosystems such as mobility, connected property, health, wealth management, retirement, and data intelligence & cybersecurity.
ConsenSys is an Ethereum software and Web3 company that enables developers, enterprises, and individuals to build decentralized applications, deploy modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. Its product suite includes Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, serving millions of users and supporting billions of blockchain-based queries and digital assets. Built on Ethereum, ConsenSys fosters the growth of a programmable economy by providing tools, services, and research that accelerate innovation and the mainstream adoption of blockchain technology.
Founded in 2009, Social Leverage is a venture capital firm based in Scottsdale, Arizona. It specializes in early-stage and seed-stage investments in software, consumer, and fintech industries. The firm invests in companies with a viable product, serving a large addressable market, and solving a known pain point.
Founded in 2000, General Catalyst is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and growth equity investments. It focuses on accelerating ideas, careers, and companies towards success by providing ongoing momentum and mentorship based on deep experience.
Atria Wealth Solutions is a wealth management solutions holding company that provides financial advisory and planning services for financial professionals, financial institutions, and advisory clients. Founded in 2017 by Doug Ketterer, Eugene Elias, and Kevin Beard, the firm focuses on technology-enabled, digitally connected wealth management to support advisors and their clients in a rapidly evolving financial environment.
Better Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Santa Clara, California. Established in 2021, the firm focuses on investing in innovative businesses with a strong emphasis on profitability across sectors such as cryptocurrency, creator economy, and climate tech.