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Union Square Ventures (USV)

Check: No personal check-size range is published. USV describes itself as an earliest-stage generalist investor and makes decisions collaboratively without a vote; round fit should be confirmed with the partnership rather than attributed to Andy alone.

Andy invests at the edge of large markets under transformative pressure. His long-running thesis work centers on engaged networks, differentiated user experience, and defensibility created by network effects, then expands to enabling infrastructure, market-specific networks, and open decentralized data. More recent writing examines patient-centered healthcare and trust, openness, and native behavior in AI.

First Round Capital

Check: Not applicable to his current role: First Round states that Chris has made no new investments since becoming a Board Partner in 2019. Historical round or check data should not be used to imply current investment authority.

Chris is now a portfolio-support and board partner rather than an active new-investment partner. His historical investing centered on advertising and marketing technology, social and mobile products, ecommerce and travel, connected devices, and gaming. The through-line in his current work is relationship-driven company building: connecting founders to people, resources, partners, and advice that can help them go the distance.

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Check: No individual check range is published. USV's firm-wide range is $1 million to $30 million, but Jared's special-advisor placement does not establish personal decision authority; the partnership discusses investments collectively without a vote.

Jared brings a repeat founder's consumer-product lens to networks at the intersection of AI and crypto. His published thesis favors strange, initially fringe behaviors that create genuinely new social and creative formats; AI tools that lower creation barriers; transparent economics that reward creators; open social protocols where users own identity, content, audience, and economic activity; and vertical search products that make expert knowledge broadly useful.

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Check: USV's published firm range is $1 million to $30 million from earliest stage through follow-ons. No personal range is attributed to John, and the firm's investment decision is a collective discussion rather than an individual vote.

John's published investments apply a lawyer-investor lens to regulated markets where analog, repetitive infrastructure blocks access. His work favors portable financial identity, user-controlled credentials, digital-first insurance and legal workflows, and trusted financial brands that broaden affordable access to capital—particularly for underbanked consumers and long-tail merchants in Latin America.

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Check: USV states that the firm writes $1 million to $30 million checks from the earliest stages onward. It does not publish Brad's personal range or authority; investments are discussed by the full partnership and decided collectively without a vote.

Brad's published investing work centers on preserving the internet's permissionless, generative character. He has backed open communications and data infrastructure, decentralized protocols with incentive-aligned funding models, community fiber networks that challenge access monopolies, and data-driven media platforms entering a market transition. The common thread is reducing gatekeeper control while creating networks whose users, developers, and communities share in expanding value.

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Check: USV publishes a firm-wide check range of $1 million to $30 million and invests from the earliest stages through follow-ons. It does not publish Rebecca's individual authority, and the partnership makes decisions collectively without a vote.

Rebecca invests at the edge of large markets, with a consumer and product lens sharpened by USV's network-effects thesis. Her current view links abundant AI intelligence, cheaper hardware, sensors, and edge processing: newly reachable data from bodies, infrastructure, environments, and machines can power self-improving products and physical systems. She also expects open agent infrastructure to enable a wave of useful, creative, networked consumer applications outside dominant model platforms.

Trust Fund

Check: $150K-$300K checks, as published by Trust Fund.

Sophia Amoruso invests or supports investments through Trust Fund's published strategy: Back tech-enabled products that help people start and build businesses, especially marketplaces, commerce infrastructure, logistics, supply-chain and productivity tools.

Khosla Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Keith invests across stages, and disclosed financings across his portfolio should not be treated as a standard personal allocation range.

Keith is a stage- and sector-flexible investor who looks for exceptional founders with decisive judgment, high agency, a contrarian insight, and the ability to recruit unusually strong talent. His record favors category-defining networks and platforms—payments, marketplaces, commerce, financial software, and technology-enabled services—where operational excellence and founder-led intensity can compound into market leadership.

BoxGroup

Check: BoxGroup currently publishes a firm-wide maximum investment of $1M. Historical sources reported smaller firm checks and third-party profiles estimate $250K–$750K for Nimi, but no primary source confirms a current personal range.

Nimi is a generalist early-stage Partner with a long-running, publicly documented focus on healthcare and life sciences, fintech, marketplaces, and software. Her current activity extends that lens into AI-native healthcare, scientific agents, enterprise AI, and the financial infrastructure surrounding AI use. She applies BoxGroup's founder-first philosophy while testing whether the operating model, retention, sequencing, and economics can support the founder's category-scale ambition.

First Round Capital

Check: No current personal check range or new-investment authority is published. Richard's official Board Partner role focuses on coaching existing First Round companies; firm-wide check ranges should not be attributed to him personally.

Richard applies experience from building startups and running global revenue organizations to help First Round companies navigate go-to-market. His stated scope spans GTM strategy, customer segmentation, product strategy, team building, and operating at scale. His value is less a sector prediction than pattern recognition across zero-to-one, the messy middle, and hypergrowth.

First Round Capital

Check: No current personal check range or new-investment authority is published. Steven's official Board Partner profile emphasizes operational and board support; First Round's firm-wide check range should not be attributed to him personally.

Steven helps companies make consequential decisions quickly despite incomplete information, test the result in the real world, and learn with a beginner's mindset. His operating history spans founding, three CEO roles, product, general management, business development, sales, strategy, acquisitions, IPO-scale growth, and public boards, making his current lens broadly operational rather than a published new-investment thesis.

Craft Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Craft invests from angel/seed through venture and growth; amounts in Bryan's investment announcements are total company rounds, not his personal or standard Craft checks.

Bryan applies a growth, revenue, and marketplace lens shaped by building Reddit's New York revenue organization and Twitter's startup advertising business. His investments favor products that remove expensive operational friction, demonstrate clear founder-market fit, delight customers enough to produce strong advocacy, and can use software, AI, services, or community-led distribution to create a meaningful performance advantage.

Northzone (Web3)

Check: No personal standard check-size range is published. Northzone has disclosed leading or co-leading large company rounds, but those totals are not Sanjot's individual allocation range and should not be presented as one.

Sanjot leads Northzone's growth strategy. He looks for companies with proven product-market fit, repeatable go-to-market, viable unit economics, distinctive product IP, mission-critical customer value, global platform potential, ecosystem influence, and defensibility that compounds. His process favors differentiated research and relationships built over time rather than auction-driven consensus investing.

BoxGroup

Check: No reliable Arielle-specific check size is public. BoxGroup describes itself as an earliest-stage investor, but founders should confirm current round fit and allocation directly rather than relying on third-party range estimates.

Arielle invests within BoxGroup's broad earliest-stage mandate. Her differentiated documented context is technical and translational: Harvard bioengineering research, founding a postpartum medical-device project, product work in fertility AI and neuromodulation, mechanical engineering at a bioelectronic-medicine startup, and consulting at BCG. This supports a credible ability to evaluate user need, clinical workflow, product design, manufacturing, regulatory planning and commercialization in technical health businesses. It does not establish an exclusive healthcare mandate or a personally published investment thesis.

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Check: No personal check-size range is published. USV invests at the earliest stages and supports companies throughout their journey; investment decisions are made collaboratively by discussion rather than individual vote.

Nick's work connects open, decentralized systems with the infrastructure needed for the next computing cycle. His current 'Rebel Alliance' thesis argues that agentic AI will favor a modular ecosystem around foundation models—spanning orchestration, harnesses, memory, browsers, routing, identity, and payments—because production agents cross services, models, data environments, and trust boundaries.

Craft Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range or deal-lead authority is published. Craft's fund sizes and announced company rounds are not a defensible proxy for J Zac's individual allocation authority.

J Zac contributes an operator and product perspective to Craft's SaaS and marketplace investing. His public profile centers on building people-management software at Lattice, board work at Vanta, and angel investments in workflow, health, compliance, data, and productivity companies. The evidence supports a focus on founder and product judgment, enterprise usability, and scaling software organizations, but Craft publishes no more specific personal thesis.

Norrsken VC

Check: Norrsken VC's current live range is €1M–€10M across early stage and selected growth. It is a firm range, not David's personal check. Exact sizing, ownership and reserves depend on the applicable fund and company.

David backs scalable technology businesses that solve major problems and can become enduring category leaders. His long operating, angel and board history adds a company-scaling lens, while his current energy writing argues that Europe's security and competitiveness depend on clean domestic electrification. The investment standard pairs venture-scale economics with measurable impact and long-term operational resilience.

DST Global

Check: No John-specific check range is public. DST Global is known for large growth-stage internet investments, but historical firm deal sizes or assets should not be converted into a personal allocation promise. Founders should confirm current stage, geography and round fit directly.

John's documented investment record centers on globally scaling internet and consumer-technology platforms. Public profiles associate him with DST investments in Spotify, JD.com and Didi and exits or public listings including Xiaomi, Meituan and Kuaishou. The repeatable lens is growth-stage platform scale, large addressable markets, strong network or marketplace effects and the ability to compound across geographies—not Maki.vc's early-stage Web3 mandate.

Norrsken VC

Check: Norrsken VC currently publishes €1M–€10M early-stage and growth tickets. This is a firm range rather than Anna's personal authority. Confirm geography, initial ticket, ownership, reserves and impact qualification through the firm's pitch process.

Anna combines Norrsken's impact-return mandate with eight years of strategy, operations and international market expansion at Spotify. Her likely value is testing whether an early impact company can turn a strong product into repeatable multi-market growth without losing operational discipline or the causal link between usage and measurable impact.

AppWorks

Check: Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Jessica's personal allocation range.

Jessica invests across Southeast Asian consumer internet and blockchain, especially where deep technology improves a familiar consumer behavior or unlocks a regional distribution advantage. Her portfolio and writing emphasize strong user experience, scalable community or network effects, methodical technical execution, and go-to-market models that can start bottom-up before expanding into larger enterprise or regional relationships.

Craft Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Craft attributes investments from seed through growth to Jeff, but public round totals are company financings and not his personal allocation authority.

Jeff specializes in marketplaces, particularly vertical models that go deeper than horizontal incumbents. He evaluates density, liquidity, trust, network effects, take rate, gross profit, and capital-efficient growth, and has extended that operating lens into payments and AI applications. His recent Venture Partner transition preserves an early-stage, marketplace-oriented role while Craft's broader strategy shifts toward later stages and other categories.

Electric Capital

Check: Electric Capital publicly advertises firm-level checks of $1M–$15M+ from pre-seed through Series A. No personal range or unilateral authority is disclosed for Geoff, so that firm range should be treated as routing context rather than his individual ticket.

Geoff brings mechanism design, computational finance and systems engineering to frontier-technology investing. His work on ad auctions, algorithmic trading, rates derivatives and the SCION internet architecture creates a lens for markets where incentives, network structure and technical reliability interact. His attributed stablecoin dashboard emphasizes actual usage—wallets, flows, chains and issuer competition—rather than supply headlines alone.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Isabella Zuppardi is listed in a Finance Analyst capacity at Kaszek. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizational context.

BoxGroup

Check: BoxGroup publicly states that it invests up to $1M and seeks to be a company's first commitment. No reliable source publishes a separate personal allocation range for Adam.

Adam invests as a broad early-stage generalist within BoxGroup's people-first model: meet founders before a company is fully formed, judge founder-market fit and leadership potential, and back category-defining technology at pre-seed or seed. His publicly attributable activity and investments show recurring interest in infrastructure-heavy opportunities, including AI compute, modern energy systems, fintech, healthcare, and enterprise software, while the firm's mandate remains deliberately sector-flexible.

BoxGroup

Check: BoxGroup publicly invests up to $1M. Older third-party profiles place Adina's typical early-stage range around $250K–$500K, but founders should treat the firm's current $1M ceiling—not an old personal range—as authoritative.

Adina is an early-stage generalist with a publicly documented emphasis on B2B software, consumer internet, and fintech. Her operating background in e-commerce and recent visible interest in AI deployment and software agents point to companies that convert new technical capability into practical workflows. She invests within BoxGroup's people-first formation-stage model, prioritizing founder-market fit and category potential over polished early metrics.

BoxGroup

Check: BoxGroup publicly invests up to $1M. Some third-party directories show an older $250K–$500K personal range, but no current primary source confirms a separate personal allocation.

Claire backs formation-stage technology companies as a BoxGroup generalist, with visible strength across enterprise and developer software, AI-native products, consumer experiences, and marketplaces. Her operating and investing background supports a product-and-distribution lens: founders should pair a distinctive experience with a credible route to repeated use and category leadership, even when the company is still pre-product or pre-traction.

BoxGroup

Check: BoxGroup publicly invests up to $1M and reserves capital for follow-ons. No reliable public source specifies a separate personal check-size range for Holley.

Holley invests at formation stage within BoxGroup's generalist, people-first mandate. Her recent public activity and graduate technical coursework show particular engagement with AI agents, personalization, multimodal systems, creativity, and products where technical capability is matched by taste. Because her investing record is still emerging publicly, these are current signals rather than a fixed or exclusive thesis.

First Round Capital

Check: Firm-level: First Round says initial investments typically range from $1M-$7M, average about $3.5M, and have ranged below and above that; participating rounds have ranged from $100K-$20M.

Rob has historically backed founders pushing beyond existing market boundaries, including Uber, Square, Mint, eero, Gnip, and Planet Labs. His founder lens prizes CEOs who can move fluidly between a compelling high-altitude market narrative and microscopic product or hardware detail. His company-building guidance concentrates on hiring exceptional leaders, protecting cash runway, and maintaining a clear North Star.

Craft Ventures

Check: No Bill-specific check range is public. Craft's current portfolio attributes investments to him across angel, seed and later venture/growth rounds, but round labels and company financing totals do not establish his personal or fund check size. Confirm vehicle, ownership target and lead appetite directly.

Bill's record reflects a founder-led approach to category creation across internet platforms, mobile virtual goods, institutional crypto and frontier technology. His operating history at Remarq, Social Concepts and BitGo and his attributed investments in SpaceX, Neuralink, Fold and other platform companies suggest a preference for products that open a new market, establish trusted infrastructure or ride a durable distribution shift.

Alpaca VC

Check: $500K-$1.5M initial investments, as published by Alpaca VC.

David Goldberg is listed in a Board Partner capacity at Alpaca VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Alpaca VC

Check: $500K-$1.5M initial investments, as published by Alpaca VC.

Daniel Fetner is listed in a Board Partner capacity at Alpaca VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Tuesday Capital

Check: Tuesday Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Patrick Gallagher invests or supports investments through Tuesday Capital's published strategy: Support early-stage technology founders from the ground up with a long-term, hands-on partnership and a broad generalist mandate.

Tuesday Capital

Check: Tuesday Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Ethan Imboden invests or supports investments through Tuesday Capital's published strategy: Support early-stage technology founders from the ground up with a long-term, hands-on partnership and a broad generalist mandate.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Hernan Kazah invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Nicolas Szekasy invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Mariana Arce is listed in a Talent Associate capacity at Kaszek. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizational context.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Carla Camargo is listed in a Talent Associate capacity at Kaszek. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizational context.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Milena Amor is listed in a Legal Associate capacity at Kaszek. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizational context.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Josefina Coggan is listed in a Senior Legal Associate capacity at Kaszek. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizational context.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Guillermo Laborde is listed in a VP of Finance capacity at Kaszek. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizational context.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Valentina Reguero is listed in a Finance Analyst capacity at Kaszek. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizational context.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Renata Rizzo is listed in a Finance Analyst capacity at Kaszek. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizational context.

Y Combinator

Check: YC's live standard deal is $500K for every accepted company: $125K on a post-money SAFE for 7% plus $375K on an uncapped MFN SAFE, with a future participation right. This is YC's program deal, not Brad's personal check, and founders should read the current official terms before applying.

Brad helps very early founders move from idea to a launched product users want, then build the fundraising, hiring and customer-development habits needed to survive. His Perfect Audience background and YC teaching focus point to practical evaluation of distribution, ideal customer, conversion to paid use, capital efficiency and whether a founding team learns quickly enough to find product-market fit.

Matchstick Ventures

Check: Initial checks average about $500K, as published by Matchstick Ventures.

Ryan Broshar invests or supports investments through Matchstick Ventures's published strategy: Invest at pre-seed and seed in software companies located between the U.S. coasts, making a focused number of investments each year and supporting founders through a broad network.

Matchstick Ventures

Check: Initial checks average about $500K, as published by Matchstick Ventures.

Nicole Glaros invests or supports investments through Matchstick Ventures's published strategy: Invest at pre-seed and seed in software companies located between the U.S. coasts, making a focused number of investments each year and supporting founders through a broad network.

Matchstick Ventures

Check: Initial checks average about $500K, as published by Matchstick Ventures.

Shannon Shroyer is listed in a Head of Network and Operations capacity at Matchstick Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Footwork

Check: $1M-$15M initial investments, as published by Footwork.

Nikhil Basu Trivedi invests or supports investments through Footwork's published strategy: Lead or co-lead Seed and Series A rounds for companies showing early product-market fit in consumer technology or the consumerization of enterprise technology.

NextView Ventures

Check: $250K-$4M initial investments, with follow-on reserves.

David Beisel invests or supports investments through NextView Ventures's published strategy: Lead pre-seed and seed rounds, often before meaningful traction, for AI and software companies tackling mass-market human problems across North America.

NextView Ventures

Check: $250K-$4M initial investments, with follow-on reserves.

Stephanie Palmeri invests or supports investments through NextView Ventures's published strategy: Lead pre-seed and seed rounds, often before meaningful traction, for AI and software companies tackling mass-market human problems across North America.

NextView Ventures

Check: $250K-$4M initial investments, with follow-on reserves.

Rachel Hodes is listed in a Director of Platform capacity at NextView Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

NextView Ventures

Check: $250K-$4M initial investments, with follow-on reserves.

Amanda Tommasino is listed in a Director of Finance capacity at NextView Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

NextView Ventures

Check: $250K-$4M initial investments, with follow-on reserves.

Vera Benkoil is listed in a Platform Operations Manager capacity at NextView Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Maveron

Check: Maveron does not publish a standard current check-size range; its eighth fund was $225M.

Dan Levitan invests or supports investments through Maveron's published strategy: Build true early partnerships with non-normal entrepreneurs changing how people live, work, learn, play, eat and stay well.

Maveron

Check: Maveron does not publish a standard current check-size range; its eighth fund was $225M.

Jason Stoffer invests or supports investments through Maveron's published strategy: Build true early partnerships with non-normal entrepreneurs changing how people live, work, learn, play, eat and stay well.

Maveron

Check: Maveron does not publish a standard current check-size range; its eighth fund was $225M.

Nathan Apsel is listed in a COO, CFO, Partner capacity at Maveron. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Maveron

Check: Maveron does not publish a standard current check-size range; its eighth fund was $225M.

Kyle Widrick invests or supports investments through Maveron's published strategy: Build true early partnerships with non-normal entrepreneurs changing how people live, work, learn, play, eat and stay well.

Maveron

Check: Maveron does not publish a standard current check-size range; its eighth fund was $225M.

Anarghya Vardhana invests or supports investments through Maveron's published strategy: Build true early partnerships with non-normal entrepreneurs changing how people live, work, learn, play, eat and stay well.

Maveron

Check: Maveron does not publish a standard current check-size range; its eighth fund was $225M.

Nora Woodruff is listed in a Chief of Staff capacity at Maveron. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Maveron

Check: Maveron does not publish a standard current check-size range; its eighth fund was $225M.

Clayton Hess is listed in a Director of Finance capacity at Maveron. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Maveron

Check: Maveron does not publish a standard current check-size range; its eighth fund was $225M.

Raeann Yurman is listed in a Operations Manager capacity at Maveron. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Maveron

Check: Maveron does not publish a standard current check-size range; its eighth fund was $225M.

Angie Gabel is listed in a Executive Assistant capacity at Maveron. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Maveron

Check: Maveron does not publish a standard current check-size range; its eighth fund was $225M.

Nicole Tighe is listed in a Executive Assistant capacity at Maveron. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Fika Ventures

Check: Fika Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

TX Zhuo invests or supports investments through Fika Ventures's published strategy: Back subject-matter experts building early B2B software, fintech, marketplace and healthcare companies across the U.S. and Canada.

Fika Ventures

Check: Fika Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

John Chen invests or supports investments through Fika Ventures's published strategy: Back subject-matter experts building early B2B software, fintech, marketplace and healthcare companies across the U.S. and Canada.

Fika Ventures

Check: Fika Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Arteen Arabshahi invests or supports investments through Fika Ventures's published strategy: Back subject-matter experts building early B2B software, fintech, marketplace and healthcare companies across the U.S. and Canada.

Fika Ventures

Check: Fika Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Matt Hersh is listed in a Operating Partner capacity at Fika Ventures. This profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Fika Ventures

Check: Fika Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Gabriella Brignardello invests or supports investments through Fika Ventures's published strategy: Back subject-matter experts building early B2B software, fintech, marketplace and healthcare companies across the U.S. and Canada.

Fika Ventures

Check: Fika Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Olivia Harris invests or supports investments through Fika Ventures's published strategy: Back subject-matter experts building early B2B software, fintech, marketplace and healthcare companies across the U.S. and Canada.

Fika Ventures

Check: Fika Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Julia Puzzo invests or supports investments through Fika Ventures's published strategy: Back subject-matter experts building early B2B software, fintech, marketplace and healthcare companies across the U.S. and Canada.

Fika Ventures

Check: Fika Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Ju-Djuin Csontos is listed in a Vice President of Marketing capacity at Fika Ventures. This profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Fika Ventures

Check: Fika Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Natalie Paz is listed in a Chief Financial Officer capacity at Fika Ventures. This profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Fika Ventures

Check: Fika Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Aaron Szekel invests or supports investments through Fika Ventures's published strategy: Back subject-matter experts building early B2B software, fintech, marketplace and healthcare companies across the U.S. and Canada.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Nicolas Berman invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Santiago Fossatti invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Angel Uribe invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Andy Young invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Mariano Bomaggio invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Daniel Franco invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Thaisa Miyazaki invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Gabriel Silvestre invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Victoria Arnabal is listed in a Controller capacity at Kaszek. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizational context.

Kaszek

Check: Kaszek does not publish one standard check-size range across its nine funds.

Marcelo Diaz invests or supports investments through Kaszek's published strategy: Partner with extraordinary Latin American technology founders from the earliest stages through later growth rounds.

BAM Ventures

Check: BAM Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Shamin Walsh invests or supports investments through BAM Ventures's published strategy: Back entrepreneurs who understand their consumers deeply and can build enduring products, services and commerce businesses, pairing capital with operating experience.

BAM Ventures

Check: BAM Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Maurice Maschmeyer invests or supports investments through BAM Ventures's published strategy: Back entrepreneurs who understand their consumers deeply and can build enduring products, services and commerce businesses, pairing capital with operating experience.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Medha Agarwal invests or supports investments through Defy Partners's published strategy: Partner early with exceptional entrepreneurs building category-defining technology companies, combining investment judgment with hands-on operating experience.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Neil Sequeira invests or supports investments through Defy Partners's published strategy: Partner early with exceptional entrepreneurs building category-defining technology companies, combining investment judgment with hands-on operating experience.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Phebe Chen Tran is listed in a Co-Founder & Chief of Staff capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Mike Einziger is listed in a Amplified Defy Team Member capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Lauren Holehan is listed in a Amplified Defy Team Member capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

BAM Ventures

Check: BAM Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Brian Lee invests or supports investments through BAM Ventures's published strategy: Back entrepreneurs who understand their consumers deeply and can build enduring products, services and commerce businesses, pairing capital with operating experience.

BAM Ventures

Check: BAM Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Adam Lebovitz invests or supports investments through BAM Ventures's published strategy: Back entrepreneurs who understand their consumers deeply and can build enduring products, services and commerce businesses, pairing capital with operating experience.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Adam Park invests or supports investments through Defy Partners's published strategy: Partner early with exceptional entrepreneurs building category-defining technology companies, combining investment judgment with hands-on operating experience.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Amy Yin invests or supports investments through Defy Partners's published strategy: Partner early with exceptional entrepreneurs building category-defining technology companies, combining investment judgment with hands-on operating experience.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Noah Lin invests or supports investments through Defy Partners's published strategy: Partner early with exceptional entrepreneurs building category-defining technology companies, combining investment judgment with hands-on operating experience.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Purvi Shah is listed in a Co-Founder, Partner & CFO capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Vik Singh is listed in a Advisor capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Bryan Goldberg is listed in a Defy Sage capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Brian Lee is listed in a Defy Sage capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Steve Miller is listed in a Defy Sage capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Sujal Patel is listed in a Defy Sage capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Christa Quarles is listed in a Defy Sage capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Ben Wolin is listed in a Defy Sage capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Ben Cary is listed in a Advisor capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Ann Marie Simpson-Einziger is listed in a Advisor capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Bangaly Kaba is listed in a Advisor capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Brian Krausz is listed in a Advisor capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Defy Partners

Check: Defy Partners does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Brian Shin is listed in a Advisor capacity at Defy Partners. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Access Venture Partners

Check: $500K-$4M initial investments from pre-seed through Series A, as published by Access Venture Partners.

Kirk Holland invests or supports investments through Access Venture Partners's published strategy: Back founder-led B2B and B2C technology companies with recurring revenue, high margins and durable advantage, particularly SaaS, cybersecurity and managed marketplaces in the Mountain West and other emerging ecosystems.

Access Venture Partners

Check: $500K-$4M initial investments from pre-seed through Series A, as published by Access Venture Partners.

Frank Mendicino III invests or supports investments through Access Venture Partners's published strategy: Back founder-led B2B and B2C technology companies with recurring revenue, high margins and durable advantage, particularly SaaS, cybersecurity and managed marketplaces in the Mountain West and other emerging ecosystems.

Access Venture Partners

Check: $500K-$4M initial investments from pre-seed through Series A, as published by Access Venture Partners.

Brian Wallace invests or supports investments through Access Venture Partners's published strategy: Back founder-led B2B and B2C technology companies with recurring revenue, high margins and durable advantage, particularly SaaS, cybersecurity and managed marketplaces in the Mountain West and other emerging ecosystems.

Access Venture Partners

Check: $500K-$4M initial investments from pre-seed through Series A, as published by Access Venture Partners.

Eric Shu invests or supports investments through Access Venture Partners's published strategy: Back founder-led B2B and B2C technology companies with recurring revenue, high margins and durable advantage, particularly SaaS, cybersecurity and managed marketplaces in the Mountain West and other emerging ecosystems.

Access Venture Partners

Check: $500K-$4M initial investments from pre-seed through Series A, as published by Access Venture Partners.

Alex Houghtalin invests or supports investments through Access Venture Partners's published strategy: Back founder-led B2B and B2C technology companies with recurring revenue, high margins and durable advantage, particularly SaaS, cybersecurity and managed marketplaces in the Mountain West and other emerging ecosystems.

Access Venture Partners

Check: $500K-$4M initial investments from pre-seed through Series A, as published by Access Venture Partners.

Frank Mendicino II serves in a Co-Founder and Emeritus Partner capacity at Access Venture Partners. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Access Venture Partners

Check: $500K-$4M initial investments from pre-seed through Series A, as published by Access Venture Partners.

Andra Stene serves in a Fund Administrator capacity at Access Venture Partners. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Access Venture Partners

Check: $500K-$4M initial investments from pre-seed through Series A, as published by Access Venture Partners.

Tiffany Cholez serves in a Chief Financial Officer capacity at Access Venture Partners. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Access Venture Partners

Check: $500K-$4M initial investments from pre-seed through Series A, as published by Access Venture Partners.

Pat Ciccotti serves in a Investor Relations and Office Manager capacity at Access Venture Partners. This profile preserves the role distinction; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Red Swan Ventures

Check: $500K+ at pre-seed and $1M+ at seed, as published by Red Swan Ventures.

Sandy Cass invests or supports investments through Red Swan Ventures's published strategy: Be the first outside capital for founders using technology to meet enduring human needs and reshape culture, with particular interest in product-led growth, networks and flywheels.

Red Swan Ventures

Check: $500K+ at pre-seed and $1M+ at seed, as published by Red Swan Ventures.

Andy Dunn invests or supports investments through Red Swan Ventures's published strategy: Be the first outside capital for founders using technology to meet enduring human needs and reshape culture, with particular interest in product-led growth, networks and flywheels.

Red Swan Ventures

Check: $500K+ at pre-seed and $1M+ at seed, as published by Red Swan Ventures.

Caitlin Strandberg invests or supports investments through Red Swan Ventures's published strategy: Be the first outside capital for founders using technology to meet enduring human needs and reshape culture, with particular interest in product-led growth, networks and flywheels.

Origin Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Brent Hill is part of Origin Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage companies using software and technology to reshape large markets, with a collaborative national team and deep company-building experience.

Origin Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Jason Heltzer is part of Origin Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage companies using software and technology to reshape large markets, with a collaborative national team and deep company-building experience.

Origin Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Alex Meyer is part of Origin Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage companies using software and technology to reshape large markets, with a collaborative national team and deep company-building experience.

Origin Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Linda Watchmaker is part of Origin Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage companies using software and technology to reshape large markets, with a collaborative national team and deep company-building experience.

Origin Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Scott Stern is part of Origin Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage companies using software and technology to reshape large markets, with a collaborative national team and deep company-building experience.

Origin Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Prashant Shukla is part of Origin Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage companies using software and technology to reshape large markets, with a collaborative national team and deep company-building experience.

Origin Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Jacquie Marshall Siegmund is part of Origin Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage companies using software and technology to reshape large markets, with a collaborative national team and deep company-building experience.

Origin Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Carolina Galdiz is part of Origin Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage companies using software and technology to reshape large markets, with a collaborative national team and deep company-building experience.

Origin Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Steve Miller is part of Origin Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage companies using software and technology to reshape large markets, with a collaborative national team and deep company-building experience.

Origin Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Bruce Barron is part of Origin Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage companies using software and technology to reshape large markets, with a collaborative national team and deep company-building experience.

Tech Square Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Blake Patton is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.

Tech Square Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Scott Lopano is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.

Tech Square Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Joelle Fox is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.

Tech Square Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Jason Kuo is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.

Tech Square Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

David Malloy is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.

Tech Square Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Kayla Chernof is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.

Tech Square Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Ian Balser is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.

Tech Square Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Andrew Bernhardt is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.

Tech Square Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Hari Gopal is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.

Tech Square Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Akshita Iyer is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.

Tech Square Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Maddie Harper is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.

Tech Square Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Bill Nussey is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.

Tech Square Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Matt Stevens is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.

Tech Square Ventures

Check: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.

Steve George is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.

Burst Capital

Check: Burst Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Geoff Donaker invests or supports investments through Burst Capital's published strategy: Back early technology startups with practical company-building support from investors who have scaled products, teams, revenue and public-company operations.

Burst Capital

Check: Burst Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Mike Ghaffary invests or supports investments through Burst Capital's published strategy: Back early technology startups with practical company-building support from investors who have scaled products, teams, revenue and public-company operations.

Burst Capital

Check: Burst Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Wendy Lim invests or supports investments through Burst Capital's published strategy: Back early technology startups with practical company-building support from investors who have scaled products, teams, revenue and public-company operations.

Burst Capital

Check: Burst Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Rob Krolik invests or supports investments through Burst Capital's published strategy: Back early technology startups with practical company-building support from investors who have scaled products, teams, revenue and public-company operations.

Burst Capital

Check: Burst Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Michael Stoppelman is listed in a Advisor capacity at Burst Capital. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Burst Capital

Check: Burst Capital does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Rachel Williams is listed in a Advisor capacity at Burst Capital. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Alpaca VC

Check: $500K-$1.5M initial investments, as published by Alpaca VC.

Aubrie Pagano invests or supports investments through Alpaca VC's published strategy: Lead or co-lead pre-seed and seed investments in founders transforming foundational industries and the physical economy through software, AI and new operating models.

Alpaca VC

Check: $500K-$1.5M initial investments, as published by Alpaca VC.

Ryan Freedman is listed in a Co-Founder and Executive Chairman capacity at Alpaca VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Alpaca VC

Check: $500K-$1.5M initial investments, as published by Alpaca VC.

Josh Jagota invests or supports investments through Alpaca VC's published strategy: Lead or co-lead pre-seed and seed investments in founders transforming foundational industries and the physical economy through software, AI and new operating models.

Alpaca VC

Check: $500K-$1.5M initial investments, as published by Alpaca VC.

Ray Updyke is listed in a SVP, Finance and Operations capacity at Alpaca VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Alpaca VC

Check: $500K-$1.5M initial investments, as published by Alpaca VC.

Lorraine Sanders is listed in a Head of Content capacity at Alpaca VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

Shorooq Partners

Check: No personal check range is disclosed. Shorooq's Bedaya strategy invests from pre-seed through early rounds, while the broader equity platform reaches late-stage growth. Founders should identify the relevant Shorooq vehicle instead of assuming Omer can deploy across every strategy or size.

Omer brings a hands-on operator lens from scaling Careem's commercial businesses and building mobile-money products. His investing focus is on ambitious technology founders in the UAE, Qatar and frontier markets who can prove customer pull, build high-performance teams, and turn a large regional problem into a scalable category. His public comments emphasize founder mindset, operating quality and measurable execution over polished storytelling alone.

BoxGroup

Check: Up to $1M at the firm level; Greg has described current checks around $750K-$1M, with smaller checks possible when that is what secures the right company.

Greg practices BoxGroup's high-volume, collaborative earliest-stage strategy: get to exceptional people before a polished deck, optimize for being in the right company rather than target ownership, and make it easy for both founder and investor to reach a fast, conviction-based yes. He looks for founder-market fit and companies capable of defining categories, while remaining syndicate-friendly rather than insisting on leading rounds.

Maveron

Check: Maveron does not publish a standard current check-size range; its eighth fund was $225M.

Natalie Dillon invests or supports investments through Maveron's published strategy: Build true early partnerships with non-normal entrepreneurs changing how people live, work, learn, play, eat and stay well.

NextView Ventures

Check: $250K-$4M initial investments, with follow-on reserves.

Melody Koh invests or supports investments through NextView Ventures's published strategy: Lead pre-seed and seed rounds, often before meaningful traction, for AI and software companies tackling mass-market human problems across North America.

NextView Ventures

Check: $250K-$4M initial investments, with follow-on reserves.

Lee Hower invests or supports investments through NextView Ventures's published strategy: Lead pre-seed and seed rounds, often before meaningful traction, for AI and software companies tackling mass-market human problems across North America.

Matchstick Ventures

Check: Initial checks average about $500K, as published by Matchstick Ventures.

Natty Zola invests or supports investments through Matchstick Ventures's published strategy: Invest at pre-seed and seed in software companies located between the U.S. coasts, making a focused number of investments each year and supporting founders through a broad network.

Maveron

Check: Maveron does not publish a standard current check-size range; its eighth fund was $225M.

Simran Suri invests or supports investments through Maveron's published strategy: Build true early partnerships with non-normal entrepreneurs changing how people live, work, learn, play, eat and stay well.

NextView Ventures

Check: $250K-$4M initial investments, with follow-on reserves.

Rob Go invests or supports investments through NextView Ventures's published strategy: Lead pre-seed and seed rounds, often before meaningful traction, for AI and software companies tackling mass-market human problems across North America.

Footwork

Check: $1M-$15M initial investments, as published by Footwork.

Mike Smith invests or supports investments through Footwork's published strategy: Lead or co-lead Seed and Series A rounds for companies showing early product-market fit in consumer technology or the consumerization of enterprise technology.

Maveron

Check: Maveron does not publish a standard current check-size range; its eighth fund was $225M.

Jodi Olson is listed in a Executive Assistant, Event Coordinator capacity at Maveron. This profile preserves that functional distinction; the firm's investment mandate is included only as shared context.

Maveron

Check: Maveron does not publish a standard current check-size range; its eighth fund was $225M.

Jerry Lu invests or supports investments through Maveron's published strategy: Build true early partnerships with non-normal entrepreneurs changing how people live, work, learn, play, eat and stay well.

BoxGroup

Check: Up to $1M at the firm level; BoxGroup aims to make the first commitment, invests alongside other firms, and reserves capital for follow-ons.

Ava invests within BoxGroup's generalist earliest-stage strategy: backing people and raw products from pre-seed through Series A, often before conventional traction exists. The firm emphasizes founder-market fit, category-defining visions, and teams positioned at the beginning of new or changing markets.

Defy Partners

Woodside, California

Kaszek

Latin America

Maveron

Seattle, Washington and San Francisco, California

Tech Square Ventures

Atlanta, Georgia

Fika Ventures

Los Angeles, California

Origin Ventures

Chicago, Illinois

Access Venture Partners

Westminster and Denver, Colorado

NextView Ventures

New York, Boston and San Francisco

Alpaca VC

New York, New York

Burst Capital

San Francisco Bay Area, California

Matchstick Ventures

Minneapolis, Minnesota and Boulder, Colorado

BAM Ventures

Los Angeles, California

Red Swan Ventures

New York, New York

Footwork

San Francisco, California

Tuesday Capital

San Francisco Bay Area, California

Creator Ventures

London

AUM: $45M

Blackbird Ventures

AUM: $1B+

Alexander Salnikov

New York

Data Point Capital

Boston

Haseeb Qureshi

San Francisco

Partech

Paris

Picus Capital

Munich

SV Angel

San Francisco

Sapien Ventures

Sydney

Trust Fund

Los Angeles, California

Entropic

New York

Florian Huber

Berlin

Koki Yabu

Tokyo

NFX

San Francisco

Seedcamp

London

Techstars

New York

Vlad Panchenko

Kyiv

Yuzuru Honda

Tokyo

EnigmaFund

Iterative

Pankaj Jain

Ryutaro Katayama