Founders โ€” The Ultimate Early Stage Investor List ๐Ÿ“ˆ

Looking for pre-seed and seed investors who actually write first checks?

Here are 50+ funds, investor directories by region, and 21 of the top seed VCs making big bets early.

๐Ÿ’ฐ ๐“๐จ๐ฉ ๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ ๐๐ซ๐ž-๐’๐ž๐ž๐ ๐…๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ฌ (๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐‚๐ก๐ž๐œ๐ค ๐–๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ)

1) Boost VC
2) Outside VC
3) VU Venture Partners
4) Marketplace Capital
5) Gacsym Ventures
6) Treeo VC
7) Baukunst
8) XRC Ventures
9) Underscore VC
10) Outlander VC
11) Forum Ventures
12) Hustle Fund
13) Everywhere Ventures
14) FOVC
15) Geek Ventures
16) Baobab Network
17) Panache Ventures
18) Riceberg Ventures
19) Don't Quit Ventures
20) Pear VC
21) Wonder Ventures
22) Precursor Ventures
23) Wischoff Ventures
24) Nido Ventures
25) Plug and Play Tech Center
26) Gaingels
27) AmplifyLA
28) Dorm Room Fund
29) MBA Ventures
30) Unshackled Ventures
31) Torch Capital
32) Rally Cap VC
33) Cortado Ventures
34) LvlUp Ventures
35) Ganas Ventures
36) Symphonic Capital
37) Alpaca VC
38) Deciens Capital
39) Afore Capital
40) The Council
41) GoAhead Ventures
42) Barrel Ventures
43) Enzo Ventures
44) Redbud VC
45) Next Wave NYC
46) f7 Ventures
47) Recall Capital
48) Launch Factory
49) Ethos Fund
50) Better Tomorrow Ventures

๐ŸŒ ๐†๐ฅ๐จ๐›๐š๐ฅ ๐•๐‚ ๐‹๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐›๐ฒ ๐‘๐ž๐ ๐ข๐จ๐ง

1) US VCs: https://lnkd.in/gDcKfxwD
2) NYC VCs: https://lnkd.in/gMKTstBz
3) European VCs: https://lnkd.in/gZC4qqxW
4) French VCs: https://lnkd.in/g2bHpUYd
5) Spanish VCs: https://lnkd.in/gBD_7rRY
6) Baltic VCs: https://lnkd.in/gx2iHdDS
7) Australian VCs: https://lnkd.in/gbFnpmRX
8) Indian VCs: https://lnkd.in/durcuiUw

๐ŸŒŸ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐“๐จ๐ฉ ๐’๐ž๐ž๐ ๐•๐‚๐ฌ:

1) Aneel Ranadive - Soma Capital (๐ท๐‘’๐‘’๐‘™) | Miami
2) Pejman Nozad - Pear VC (๐ท๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐ท๐‘Ž๐‘ โ„Ž) | Atherton
3) David Frankel - Founder Collective (๐‘†๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐บ๐‘’๐‘’๐‘˜) | Mass
4) Benjamin Sun - Primary (๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘”) | NY
5) Anna Fang - ZhenFund (๐‘…๐‘’๐‘‘) | Beijing, China
6) Benjamin Ling - Bling Capital (๐‘‰๐‘’โ„Ž๐‘œ) | Miami
7) Ann Miura-Ko - Floodgate (๐‘†๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐ท๐‘‹) | Menlo
8) Satya Patel - Homebrew (๐ถโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’) | Burlingame
9) Pawel Chudzinski - Point 9(๐ท๐‘œ๐‘๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ) | Berlin
10) Ed Sim- Boldstart (๐‘†๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘˜) | Miami
11) Reshma Sohoni - Seedcamp (๐‘ˆ๐‘–๐‘ƒ๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž) | Miami
12) Semil Shah - Haystack (๐น๐‘–๐‘”๐‘š๐‘Ž) | Mill Valley
13) Gil Dibner - Angular (๐ถ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘ฅ๐‘‚๐ถ๐‘€) | Tel Aviv
14) Salil Deshpande - Uncorrelated (๐‘…๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘ ) | Palo
15) Chad Byers - Susa Ventures (๐‘…๐‘œ๐‘๐‘–๐‘›โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘) | SF
16) Wei Guo- UpHonest (๐‘…๐‘–๐‘๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”) | Menlo Park
17) Larry Li- Amino Capital (๐ถโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’) | Palo Alto
18) Gili Raanan - Cyberstarts (๐‘Š๐‘–๐‘ง) | Israel
19) Tim Connors- PivotNorth (๐‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’) | Nashville
20) Ross Fubini - XYZ VC (๐ด๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘™) | SF
21) Topher Conway - SV Angel (๐‘…๐‘–๐‘๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”) | SF

If you want to raise money, build something investors canโ€™t ignore. If theyโ€™re not lining up to invest, stop chasing...get back to building.

Shout out to Kevin Jurovich
for the inspiration!


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