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Cowboy Ventures is led by Aileen Lee, who coined the term "unicorn" and created the analytical framework that defines billion-dollar startups, giving the firm a uniquely data-driven perspective on market dynamics and category-shaping outcomes. The firm backs founders re-imagining life and work through technology, with a distinct "Mustang Fund" structure that allows them to double down on breakout companies while keeping their primary fund focused purely on seed investments.
CRVCRV is one of the earliest Silicon Valley firms to explicitly prioritize "empowering individuals over institutions," investing in products that shift power to end users rather than incumbent organizations. The firm has voluntarily returned capital from oversized funds—$750M from a $1.2B fund in 2002 and $275M from a $500M fund in 2024—positioning itself as unusually disciplined about fund size compared to peers that keep committed capital deployed regardless of market conditions.
Dorm Room FundWe invest in student (or recent grad) -run companies incorporated in the US. Our companies typically have a live product and existing customer traction. We use the same vehicle for all of our investments — a $40,000 SAFE.
We lead seed rounds in bold founders who use code to create transformational companies. Armed with over 80 years of combined experience building our own companies, we are your active partners and roll up our sleeves to work for you. Providing capital is just the first step, when we lead your seed round, you get full access to the four general partners and the Eniac Platform.
Esther Dyson does business as EDventure Holdings, the reclaimed name of the company she owned for 20-odd years before selling it to CNET Net...
Eudemian VenturesWe invest in great leaders. The firm’s focus is on US early-stage software startups with product-market-fit. Typical investment areas are SaaS, Fintech, Social, Mobile, Marketplaces, AdTech, HealthTech, eCommerce, EdTech, AI.
First Round Capital operates Dorm Room Fund, a $10M student-run VC program that backs student founders, and Angel Track, a no-fee fellowship that trains emerging angels while connecting them to First Round's network. The firm built an internal digital platform that functions as an information exchange for portfolio companies and publishes First Round Review, a practitioner-grade operating manual that many operators and VCs rely on for tactical company-building frameworks.
FJ LabsFJ Labs is the investment vehicle for Fabrice Grinda and Jose Marin. It focuses on early-stage marketplaces and approaches as angel investors through its investment vehicles. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.; [object Object]
Forum VenturesWe invest in pre-seed and seed stage B2B SaaS companies. Sectors we focus on are Vertical SaaS, Fintech, Healthtech, Future of Work, Supply Chain/Logistics, E-Commerce Enablement and B2B marketplaces
Founder Collective was founded in 2009 and are committed to building the most founder aligned seed fund. We invest in pre-series A startups, both participate in and lead rounds, and look for founders tackling compelling use cases.
Halle Tecco is an active angel investor and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School. Previously she founded and ran Rock Health, the f...
Initialized Capital is one of the most prolific "unicorn hunters" at the seed stage, ranking among the top global firms by count of $1B+ companies they backed when it was still non-obvious (like Coinbase, Instacart, Cruise), despite writing far fewer checks than larger funds. The firm acts as a de facto extended founding team from 0→1 rather than a traditional board-driven VC, with an unusually operator-heavy team built around seed company building across product, design, engineering, recruiting, and go-to-market.
Jenny Fielding is the founder and General Partner at The Fund, a first check fund in NYC, LA and London. She is also the Managing Director of Techstars New York where she leads the program. Her portfolio includes more than 130+ tech enabled companies. Previously, Jenny headed up Corporate Venture and Digital Innovation at BBC Worldwide where she made strategic investments and led business development deals. She has started several tech companies, most notably Switch-Mobile, a mobile VoIP company that was acquired in 2009. Jenny began her career as a lawyer, spent time at JP Morgan and is a graduate of Columbia University where she is an Adjunct Professor. She is also a Kauffman Fellow.
Madrona Venture GroupWe invest in seed and early-stage technology companies in the Pacific NW, as well as early growth stage companies across the US. Our areas of focus are Intelligent Applications with AI/ML, Software Infrastructure, Low-code & No-code, the Future of Work, the Digital Transformation of Consumer Experiences, and the Intersection of Machine Learning and Life Sciences. More here:
Menlo VenturesMenlo Ventures operates a unique "Inflection Fund" strategy with $500M dedicated to investing $20-40M precisely at the stage between early venture and mega-growth rounds, targeting companies doing over $5M in revenue. The firm uses multiple specialized fund vehicles under one umbrella—allowing them to back the same company from idea to IPO—and maintains a small, tight-knit partnership where named partners are tied to specific themes like security (Venky Ganesan), vertical SaaS (JP Sanday), and supply chain/logistics (Steve Sloane).
Mercury FundWe invest in startups that are digitizing the customer journey that are based outside of the West Coast and Northeast. B2B SaaS and B2B2C business models with at least 250K in ARR or run rate.
We’re a Seed-stage venture capital firm responsible for backing NYC’s most promising founders. With the largest Portfolio Impact team of any NYC Seed investor, our talent, finance, go-to-market, and network resources drive measurable results and empower portfolio companies to thrive from Seed to Series A and beyond.
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Right Side Capital ManagementWe invest in Tech. But must be doing real engineering. Checks: $100K to $500K. Majority $150K to $300K Total Round Size: $100K - $500K. (Occasional exceptions to $1M.) Valuation: $1M - $3M. (Rare exceptions to $6M with extreme traction.) Traction / Progress: $5K to $30K/month in gross profit. No ideas or prototypes. Headcount: 2+ founders
SOSVWe invest in pre-seed deep tech companies through one of our accelerators. Life sciences (synthetic biology, syn bio, healthcare, climate tech, clean tech, therapeutics, drug, food, cell cultured meats, biomanufacturing, neuroscience, etc.)
Y CombinatorThe overall goal of YC is to help startups really take off. They arrive at YC at all different stages. Some haven’t even started working yet, and others have been launched for a year or more. But whatever stage a startup is at when they arrive, our goal is to help them to be in dramatically better shape 3 months later.; [object Object]
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