Venture Capital Companies Worldwide

The Lion’s Den DFW was created to fuel the expansion of the Kingdom economy through investing in transformative entrepreneurship. Our goal is to facilitate value-aligned investments by connecting Christ-centered entrepreneurs with investors. Through our yearly conference and pitch competition, we connect and equip business leaders to use their wealth and experience to change the world and create a tremendous impact. We’ve been connecting real businesses with real investors to make real impact for the last 11 years. Our biggest annual event of the year is coming up April 29-30, 2026 in Dallas, Texas. Register to attend @ www.thelionsdendfw.org

Founders & Funders is a pioneering networking and events platform dedicated to fostering meaningful connections between startup founders, angel investors, VCs and others within the startup ecosystem. We've shaped a unique landscape that harmoniously blends professional interactions with engaging, high-energy events and activities. We facilitate connection and community by creating dynamic, entertaining experiences that catalyze authentic dialogue and interaction, ensuring optimal founder-funder fit and solidifying long-lasting business relationships. With Founders & Funders, we're not just introducing founders to investors - we're curating a vibrant ecosystem for the genesis of innovation, collaboration, and prosperity and fostering a supportive community for startup founders. www.foundersnfunders.com

Founded in 2016, Propel is a seed-stage venture firm that backs visionary founders building tomorrow's economy. These founders are revolutionizing money, reinventing financial services, and creating technology that transforms traditional institutions. Propel invests in startups worldwide and to date has raised over $436 million to invest in industry-leading companies such as Coinbase, Docusign, Groww, Guideline, Neon, and Newfront.

We invest in idea-stage and pre-seed fintechs globally, anchoring on founder-market fit. Our portfolio includes Pomelo, Simetrik, Sydecar, Stitch, Abhi and TripleA.

7wire Ventures is an early stage, healthcare venture fund. We help entrepreneurs who focus on empowering the Informed Connected Health Consumer. We're working on changing the status quo. Our belief: connected devices, the cloud, and sophisticated analytics will improve the efficiency of the healthcare system and improve outcomes for all.

Moonshots Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in extraordinary leadership. Great leaders are hard to come by. We believe the best ones are military-trained or trial-by-fire entrepreneurs who have the ability to motivate others to action, inspire trust, and plan heuristically. We invest with conviction when those attributes are present. Moonshots Capital was founded by a team of veterans in 2017. We have collectively founded and operated 15 companies, and have personally invested in more than 100 ventures. Beyond capital, we deploy our military and entrepreneurial experience and network to help world-changing companies grow. Work with us. Go to http://www.moonshotscapital.com/. Moonshots Capital. Leadership Prevails.

Cortado Ventures is backing the frontier of American industry from the heart of the Midcontinent. We invest in founders building dual-use, scalable companies in sectors where America’s next strategic advantage will be created, space, energy, cyber/telecom, advanced manufacturing, logistics, life sciences, and other mission-critical technologies. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, we’re helping define the region’s emerging tech economy while accelerating the reshoring of the American industrial base. Our team brings decades of operator experience, from CEO seats to national-security, geospatial, and deep-tech backgrounds, giving founders a true strategic partner from day one. We go far beyond capital with hands-on support in hiring, customer access, operational scaling, and federal market navigation. Founded in 2020, Cortado Ventures is built to invest at the intersection of commercial adoption and national-security demand. With strong partnerships across industry and government, including relationships with NASA leadership, defense networks, and major corporate innovators, we source proprietary opportunities overlooked by coastal capital and grounded in the historic strengths of the Midcontinent. We exist to build enduring companies, not just portfolios. From Oklahoma to the broader Midcontinent, we back globally ambitious founders using technology to solve real-world problems in energy, space, logistics, biotech, cyber, and the future of work. Our mission is simple: to create a generational legacy of frontier-tech companies that transform the Midcontinent and strengthen America’s competitive edge.

Motivate Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups. Target first check size is $500k-$2mm and ours is typically the first professional capital in a business. We target 15%+ ownership and 10x+ returns on each of our investments. Warm email intros from other professional investors are best or entrepreneurs can reach out and tell us more about their startup and its funding needs here: www.motivate.vc/funding We haven’t mastered any of the social media platforms' messaging systems yet so heads up that we don't usually check those messages.

Third Sphere works for founders transforming global systems. We’ve made over 100 investments in notable firms like Cove Tool, OneWheel and Bowery Farming. We’re usually a pre-customer investor and offer traditional venture as well as credit finance, along with coaching and connections to over 12,000 customers, investors focused on re-imagining our planet. Our team is ranked in the 99th percentile of climatetech investors on NFX Signal, and Techcrunch named us one of the top 10 VCs founders love the most. We know that climate is about more than carbon—it’s also about force multipliers like asset finance and distribution. We believe the best climate solutions don’t look like climate solutions at all, just better, faster, and cheaper products and services. We prefer rapid deployment that will get us close to 1.5C in warming while upgrading our systems to make them more resilient. But we’ll also look at moonshot opportunities because we know we need a plan B. [VC] A real investment is about more than capital. We invest at the earliest stages, usually pre-customer, stay close to our founders, and work with them from the inception of our relationship so they can build relationships with other founders, investors, and customers. [Credit] Our investments are designed to minimize dilution and preserve ownership for your team without compromising on rapid growth and impact. That’s why, in addition to venture investment, we lend and create asset finance structures like leasing vehicles. [Platform] The Third Sphere platform helps to connect portfolio founders with leading founders, investors, and customers in climatetech. We use it internally to source the most promising investments and to make introductions within our network in order to increase our portfolio’s chances of achieving rapid impact at scale. [History] We probably look familiar. We used to be known as Urban Us. Here's what's changed - https://hubs.li/Q014-Jsb0

Founded in 2007, the Oregon Venture Fund is a community supported, professionally managed, collaborative venture capital fund backed by the leaders of the region's business, technology, and entrepreneurial communities. Pitchbook consistently places OVF in the top 25% of all global venture funds (2025). OVF invests $15-20 million annually in the most promising startups and growth companies, regardless of stage or sector, in Oregon and Southern Washington. Learn more about OVF in our quick overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxiH6O4BEp0 Over 6500+ jobs have been created by the 90 companies in the portfolio. Some of OVF’s largest investors include the State of Oregon, Oregon Community Foundation, and Meyer Memorial Trust. In 2023, the group launched Oregon Venture Fund XV, to accommodate additional institutional investors and family offices. The $25M+ fund has a 5-year investing period and invests alongside each annual Oregon Venture Fund in the same portfolio. OVF receives generous support from Tonkon Torp LLP, Geffen Mesher & Co., and Stoel Rives.

One Way Ventures is a Boston and SF-based seed-stage fund backing exceptional immigrant tech founders in the United States.

Intuitive Ventures is the venture capital arm of Intuitive (Nasdaq: ISRG), headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. Through its inaugural $100 million fund, Intuitive Ventures invests in and is advancing the digital, device, therapeutic and diagnostic ecosystems of minimally invasive care and beyond, fostering a disciplined and sustainable investment platform that will offer strategic and financial returns for the long term. Building on Intuitive's entrepreneurial beginnings as a medtech and healthcare success story in Silicon Valley, and as a digitally native company, Intuitive Ventures is well-positioned to identify and support early-stage innovators meeting that challenge.

Alix Ventures: Driving Patient Impact - Supporting early stage Life Science startups engineering biology to drive radical advances in human health Born from our collective experience as founders, we set out to build the fund we wanted to raise from... Thesis: Life Sciences is experiencing rapid innovation with the rise of new generation of companies known as “TechBio” (Merging technology & biology), a change we believe is leading to some of the most impactful solutions in decades. Our passion is to help build transformative companies ahead of this revolution to significantly impact the quality & effectiveness of patient care. We aim to partner with passionate, accomplished founders who possess unique insights to solve some of the world’s most daring problems facing us in Life Sciences. Team: Our entire team is built of Life Science Founders with experience in raising capital, scaling teams, running labs, partnering with Pharma, & the many fires that consist of operating an early stage company. Founders, we’d love to partner with you along the journey & help translate daunting ideas into world shaping innovations - here’s to a better brighter future for patients! SAB: Composed of Bioengineering PhDs turned Founders, our Scientific Advisory Board provides deep technical expertise & fluency across a wide variety of Life Science sub-domains from platforms for “Novel Applications” (Therapeutics/Diagnostics) to “Bio-Economy Infrastructure” (Tools/Services/Manufacturing). Let’s talk science! Support: Helping our founders is our utmost priority. To tackle the many challenges ahead, we’ve curated a full platform of resources to help with customer introductions, fundraising, & team building, amongst others. In addition, dedicated to supporting our portfolio is our extensive network of industry executives spanning Top 25 Pharma, major health systems, & large Payors.

Founded in San Diego, CA, NuFund is one of the largest, most active and most successful early-stage investor groups over the past 20+ years. We represent diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and work together to foster a culture of excellence, respect, innovation, and fun.

Our mission is to facilitate the technological evolution of the retail industry. We achieve this by attracting, mentoring, and connecting experienced entrepreneurs with viable products to talent, customers, and investors. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/s59c3Hg Our venture fund supports portfolio companies with seed funding, access to over 100 experienced mentors with backgrounds in Retail, Venture Capital, & Entrepreneurship, office space, and the opportunity to pitch at Tech Trends. For more information about opportunities with REVTECH, please visit our website at www.revtechventures.com

Rebel One is an early stage fund and global investor network accelerating rebel founders for a better world. We aim to democratize access to investing while solving the world’s most systemic problems aligned with our zero goals - zero pollution, zero poverty and zero disease. Our goal is to accelerate startups by building the world's largest community of angels investing in founders working to solve some of the world's greatest challenges.

Konvoy is a thesis-driven venture capital firm. For more information on our theses, visit our website: https://www.konvoy.vc/our-thesis Messages are views of Konvoy and not investment advice or recommendations. May have positions in assets discussed.

FirstLook is private investor club of Angels, VCs, and Family Offices who enjoy intimate community, private insights, and proprietary access to top tier Pre-seed to Series B consumer brand deals. To date we've made 93 investments totaling $26M in capital. Brands Apply (it's free) ➢ www.bit.ly/4h1fka1 Investors Apply to join ➢ https://bit.ly/flinv26

At Bee Partners, we passionately believe today’s decades-long supercycle of AI-enabled machines will transform our world via software, hardware, and biology. Innovation favors adaptive, technical, and bold founders, aligning perfectly with our investment ethos. The inception-stage remains the best for producing exceptional returns, especially through close collaboration with founders to drive profound change. Here is what we are looking for. Bee Partners invests at inception in deepTech startups, deploying $500k - $1.5M per company. Our commitment goes beyond capital; we build genuine partnerships founded on integrity and trust, facilitating strategic introductions to customers, advisors, employees, and capital sources. We underwrite every investment to return the fund, with a Partnership Model that centers around collaboration as the highest form of value addition. Our strategy is grounded in team expertise, extensive research, and comprehensive support from our advisory network. We have established engines of innovation that drive deal flow, from universities such as UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, and Georgia Tech, alongside angel networks and our Founders network. Our track record over the past 15 years demonstrates our commitment to deep tech investing long before it was widely recognized as a bastion of venture return generation. Our model has resulted in a 60% matriculation rate to Series A, with over $2B in follow-on capital raised from the world's leading VCs. With $150 million under management, we are currently investing out of our fourth flagship fund.

HTwenty is an early-stage venture firm that invests primarily in Pre-seed, Seed, and Series A technology companies across Latin America and the US Hispanic market. The firm has a local presence in Miami, Mexico City, and Bogota and helps founders across every stage of their life cycle starting with ideation, MVP construction and product-market fit and then providing tools to scale businesses towards a successful exit.

M25 is an early-stage venture firm based in Chicago, investing solely in tech startups headquartered in the Midwest. Since we launched in 2015, we've become the most active investor in our region. We invest broadly, and our unique, analytical approach to venture investing aims to reduce the risk, while maintaining the high returns typically associated with this stage of investing. We emphasize our expansive networks, and thrive on collaboration—helping to syndicate deals, encouraging fair terms as a best practice and prioritizing relationships. And along the journey, we hope to share a few laughs, whether it's over beers or board games. #InvestintheMidwest 📈2️⃣5️⃣

At Marque Ventures, we invest in entrepreneurs building the future of American defense, manufacturing, and deep tech innovation by holistically supporting portfolio companies with expert guidance, unparalleled government knowledge, and extensive access to capital.

Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for founders who are trans women, cis women, agender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and two-spirit. In 2023, Pipeline Angels became part of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership (IFEL). Our members serve as the friends and family round for entrepreneurs who may not already have support at that critical stage. Learn more: pipelineangels.org

Dynamo Ventures is a supply chain and mobility investor, focused on pre-seed and seed-stage opportunities, and invests only in enterprise business models. Learn more at https://www.dynamo.vc/about

The Artemis Fund believes technology can create prosperity for all. With offices in New York, Texas, Massachusetts, and Nevada, Artemis leads seed rounds for companies creating resilient families, individuals, and businesses across the US.

Having invested more than $125 million in 208+ companies since 2006, the Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN) is one of the largest, most active angel groups in the U.S. with over 110 Members and is a significant source of early-stage capital to entrepreneurs from Texas and beyond. A nonprofit, member-based organization, the angel group features more than 185 individual accredited investors from an extensive cross-section of sectors and backgrounds. CTAN members not only invest; they also mentor entrepreneurs and connect them to business resources, providing critical support to the success of early-stage business and the Texas economy. To learn more about becoming a CTAN member or sponsor, or to apply for funding, visit www.centraltexasangelnetwork.com. Twitter: twitter.com/CTANAngels Facebook: facebook.com/CentralTexasAngelNetwork

Bullpen Capital invests in post-seed companies that have achieved product-market fit, but have not yet proven sufficient market scalability to raise a major VC round. We invest in companies that have an operational plan to hit big milestones within a 12-month period, and we work closely with the companies in our portfolio to develop this early traction into large, sustainable businesses. Seed financing is now more of a process than an event, with multiple rounds of investment layered into the early stages of startup companies. The "post-seed"​ stage is often the inflection point of value, the last lean money in before a “super-sized” A round. Bullpen’s strategy aims to provide leverage for founding teams, who can minimize dilution to maintain ownership and control of their companies, while retaining the option of choosing either a quick acquisition or raising major growth capital to go for a big win.

Recognized as a 2022 Emerging 50 VC and 2023 Top 25 Founder’s Choice VC, Spark Growth Ventures is a community oriented, early & mid stage, vertical-agnostic, technology venture capital firm. Our mission is to support gritty and exceptional founders in their missions by bringing forth the combined value of our strong community. We are fortunate to have a global network of entrepreneurs, C-level relationships, subject matter experts, world-class talent, institutional investors, high net worth individuals and family offices, many of who are investors in our platform. Our team has several decades of global experience in venture capital, entrepreneurship, innovation, executive & board management, functional leadership and advisory work. We create 360° long-term value for our startups and our investors through active participation alongside our founders, leveraging our extensive experiences and global networks. We work in the trenches with our portfolio on top-line growth, bottom-line expansion and capital optimization. Our partnership areas span all commercial aspects such as sales & go-to-market, operations, corporate functions, fund-raising and organizational effectiveness as well as exit planning and execution. We respect authenticity, intellectual curiosity, collaboration, optimism, grit and boldness. We prioritize efficiency and transparency in our work. We believe in integrity and doing business with the goal of creating a win-win for all stakeholders, not just the shareholders.

Tuatara Capital, L.P. is an alternative investment manager founded in 2014. Tuatara makes long-term investments into market-leading, growth-stage companies. With an investment philosophy centered around partnership, Tuatara works alongside management teams to provide strategic, financial, and operational support to help navigate the rapidly evolving regulatory and commercial frameworks. In doing so, Tuatara seeks to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, our portfolio companies, and the communities that we help to support.

TGF is a $50m early-stage VC fund founded by veterans of the video games industry. We lead investments in future leaders: innovative game developers, gaming technologies, and services. We share best practices and offer our experience and personal touch. TGF holds the largest gaming portfolio in Eastern Europe and Cyprus and is recognized as one of the TOP early-stage gaming investors by Investgame.net and Drakestar partners. If you are looking for a reliable partner to boost your games business - let’s talk! Feel free to send us your pitch deck: apply@gamesfund.vc

Mighty Capital is the VC firm that leverages the Product Alpha Effect, a data-backed way to produce outliers by reading product signals from a 600,000-product-leader network. Founded in 2018 by SC Moatti, a product visionary and former Meta product leader, and Jennifer Vancini, an idea-to-IPO veteran of tech investing, we bring a differentiated edge to venture. Through Moatti’s 600,000-strong Products That Count network of product leaders, we see trends before others do, giving us a proprietary advantage in sourcing, diligence, and post-investment value creation. Our early-stage B2B tech portfolio speaks for itself: 1 in 5 companies is a category leader like Amplitude (NASDAQ:AMPL), Groq, and Netskope (NASDAQ:NTSK). Founders consistently call us the most value-add investor on their cap table, and use our global product ecosystem as a marketplace to accelerate time to revenue, scale, and exit. Anchored by GCM Grosvenor, we’re deploying Fund III with both prior funds in top decile DPI and TVPI, $20B+ in value created, and 6 IPOs to date. Learn more at Mighty.Capital.

HBSE Ventures brings together a team of investors that are committed to finding and partnering with founders to build the next category-defining companies in sports tech. The HBSE Ventures team includes world class venture investors with technology domain expertise and strong operating backgrounds. Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, founded by Josh Harris and David Blitzer, is a leading sports and entertainment company focused on delivering the ultimate fan experience, using its brands’ powerful platform to create positive change in the world, and supporting communities in which its teams live, work and play. HBSE’s global portfolio includes premier sports franchises, brands, venues, and investment platforms, including the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, NHL’s New Jersey Devils, EPL’s Crystal Palace FC, multiple competitive esports teams in the world’s most popular game titles, the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, a Top 10-ranked arena in North America and more. https://www.linkedin.com/company/harris-blitzer-sports-entertainment/

LateralFrontiers.com We are an early-stage venture capital fund focused on Africa and other frontier markets. We invest at Seed and Series A in entrepreneurs building foundational technologies in the fintech, climatetech and blockchain sectors.

Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions. Offerings include institutional-grade funds with large diversified portfolios and deal-by-deal investing through our Syndicates. Investment minimum is $10,000. • Top-20 VC Firm (Time Magazine ’25) • Top-Decile Investment Performance (Carta Benchmarks ‘25) • Top 20 VC Firm (CB Insights '24) • Top 50 Unicorn VC (Stanford GSB Research ‘25) • Top 3 Most Active US VC Firm (PitchBook ‘18 - ‘24) • Most Founder Friendly Investor List (Inc. Magazine ‘24) • World's Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company '22) • #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook '22 & '23) • Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights '24) • World's Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company '22) • Portfolio of 1,600+ current and historical companies • 40+ full-time VC investors • Founders get access to our community of 850,000+ members and 6,000+ Experts. Offers of securities made only to eligible investors by formal offering documents describing risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio companies shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The content on this account is intended solely for persons located in the U.S. and is not directed at, and must not be acted upon, by any person in the United Kingdom. UK residents seeking information about AV should refer only to communications issued by Alumni Ventures UK LLP, which provides information solely on a non-promotional basis and only distributes Financial Promotions to eligible recipients in accordance with UK law.

Supply Change Capital is an early-stage venture firm powering the food systems of tomorrow. We invest in technology across the food supply chain — systems that people and our planet rely on every day. From automation that improves labor and safety to platforms that predict climate volatility and supply chain risk, we back the critical food infrastructure that no one sees but everyone needs. In a $10T industry under pressure, early-stage infrastructure is where value compounds, and where we invest with rigor and trust. Powering the food systems of tomorrow starts at the root. We’re there early. Find out more → supplychangecapital.com

Alliance of Angels is the largest and most active angel group in the Pacific Northwest. Each year, we invest $4M+ into 20+ companies. Since 1997, we have invested $100M+ into 200+ companies and celebrated 40+ exits generating more than a billion dollars of returns. Our network of 150+ active angels invest both individually and through a member driven fund.

Rhia Ventures works at the intersection of racial equity, women’s health, and capital to drive systems change, innovation, and financial and social returns. The multibillion-dollar reproductive and maternal health market has tremendous potential for public health impact, but it has been built on flawed systems that perpetuate unjust outcomes for women of color, low-income women, and others directly affected by systemic inequities. Our work is to transform this market. Operating in a novel impact space, we seek opportunities to move investment toward reproductive and maternal health in a way that does not perpetuate harm and that will yield measurable, sustainable improvements in health outcomes. Our activities include impact investment to stimulate innovation and equity in women’s health, ecosystem building to support entrepreneurs and investors incorporating health equity into business strategy, narrative change to shift harmful social norms that influence the market, and corporate advocacy to promote corporate responsibility and improve public policy regarding reproductive and maternal health.

Zetta invests in intelligent enterprise software. We partner with companies building software that learns from data to analyze, predict and prescribe outcomes. We lead or co-lead $1-5M funding rounds.

Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with extraordinary founders building the defining companies in the fifth economic era - the Artificial Intelligence Economy. Backing founders from coast-to-coast for over 25 years, the firm is a leading investor in AI infrastructure, AI-native software, and AI frontier tech. Notable previous investments include Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB), BacklotCars (NYSE: KAR), Tock (NYSE: SQSP), Veho, Torus, Clearjet, Tovala and Fountain.

Silas Capital is a growth equity and venture capital firm investing in the next generation of consumer brands. As former entrepreneurs and investors with a long record of success — we understand how to build exceptional companies both online and off. Silas Capital is a specialist investing in early-stage consumer products companies under $50 million in revenue. We invest in emerging growth stage brands through Silas Capital and in venture-stage consumer & enabling tech through Silas Ventures. Here's a snapshot of some of our brands: ● Bare Snacks - better-for-you snacks (acquired by VMG Partners then PepsiCo) ● Bellroy - purpose-driven accessories, making better products in a better way ● Boll & Branch - DTC bedding & worlds largest buyer of fair trade/organic cotton (‘19 exit to L Catterton) ● Casper - DTC mattresses like no other (early investor / exit IPO) ● Dôen - California-born slow‑fashion ● Dos Toros - move over Chipotle, a better fast-casual taqueria (Founders Table) ● Evereden - whole family skin care ● Herbivore - natural, sensorial skin care ● Hello Cake - next gen sexual wellness ● ILIA Beauty - #1 clean color cosmetics brand (‘22 exit to Clarins/ Famille C) ● Lord Jones - CBD personal care (acquired ‘20) ● Makeup by Mario - luxury makeup by world-renowned makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic ● Oak Essentials - clean, luxurious skincare ● ROZ - Nature-inspired haircare by celebrity hairstylist Mara Roszak ● Sakara Life - beloved DTC wellness brand harnessing food as medicine ● Violette FR - Violette demystifies the elusive French girl beauty routine ● Vacation, Inc — making sunscreen fun again!

We invest in early-stage founders building the future of digital commerce in Africa. We back our portfolio with the funding, mentorship, and expertise they need to thrive.

For more than a decade, the North Texas Angel Network (NTAN) has connected early stage companies with angel investors to help private investors make private deals with private companies. Over its 10-year history, NTAN members have invested in excess of $10 million into startup organizations. Notable investments, totaling more than $1 million each from NTAN members, include Ikonopedia, Natural Dental Implants, Tella Firma, and Vital Arts & Science. In 2018, angel investments were made into Natural Dental Implants, Haxiot, Stocked Robotics, teleCalm, and TeVido, among others. Annually the organization reviews several hundred business plans and presents approximately 50 investment opportunities for hands-on analysis, due diligence and investment consideration to its membership of more than 60 individual, accredited investors. The non-profit, member-led organization reviews investment opportunities across industries, including medical device and service companies, software and hardware technology, and construction innovation, among others. One of the oldest and largest networks in Texas, NTAN is a member of the Angel Capital Association and the Alliance of Texas Angel Networks. Please visit the website to learn more about membership as an angel investor or to present your business for seed funding consideration by our members.

City Light is a Venture Capital firm that invests early in impactful companies. We partner with experienced teams building category-defining solutions in the areas of education, safety and care, and the environment - where more revenue equals better lives at scale, every time. As one of the earliest and most successful impact investing firms, City Light has a track record of identifying and scaling impact in ways that build better companies. Some key portfolio investments are 2U (Nasdaq: TWOU), ShotSpotter (Nasdaq: SSTI), Headspace Health, and OhmConnect.

Aventuur is the leading global creator of integrated surf, leisure and wellbeing developments. We are curating a global network of deeply connected communities, bound by a love of surfing, that provide transformational experiences that enhance wellbeing. Our mission is to create exceptional surfing destinations and experiences that generate meaningful social and economic value. Founded in 2019, Aventuur is currently developing three surf parks in Perth (WA, Australia), Auckland (North Island, New Zealand) and Jacksonville (Florida, USA). Aventuur is Wavegarden's largest partner globally, holding exclusive rights to its market-leading technology in a range of markets across North America and Australia, along with the country exclusivities for New Zealand, Singapore and Fiji. With offices in Los Angeles and Perth, our team combines deep surf park expertise, investment rigour and passion to drive exceptional outcomes. "Aventuur" is a hybrid of the Swedish word (“aventyr”) and the Dutch word (“avontuur”) for "adventure". “av·en·tuur” | (pron. \ a-ˈven-tor) (noun) (1.) A daring and exciting endeavour calling for great enterprise and enthusiasm. (2.) To arrive at, reach, arise, develop. (3.) A bold undertaking.

Core generates outsized returns by investing in the infrastructure that powers wealth and health for the mass market. We have a disciplined focus on technology that can create step-function improvements in cost, access, and outcomes. We stay focused on what’s essential: rebuilding the core systems that shape everyday life—financial services, healthcare, real estate, insurance, and work. We invest $1-5 million primarily in Seed to Series A companies. We take meaningful positions, offer hands-on partnership, and provide founders with the strategic guidance needed to navigate complex, high-barrier industries. Investments include NerdWallet, Attain, Healthsherpa, and Ripple, among many others over the past 15 years. Contact Us: info@corevc.com

Beta Boom is a pre-seed and seed VC fund investing in pattern-breaking founders based outside Silicon Valley. We like problem spaces that are in core areas for business and consumers, including digital health, fintech, future of work, enterprise, cybersecurity, and enterprise SaaS. Post-investment, portfolio companies work alongside our growth team up to a weekly basis. Founders seeking venture capital funding, pitch us anytime. No warm intro needed. We're excited to learn about you and what you're building. Pitch us here: https://betaboom.com/apply/

Collective Capital Ventures is a unique self-directed venture capital model that enables you to build an automatically diversified portfolio while gaining access to 30+ vetted investment opportunities in high-growth technology companies. We provide the venture capital experience with flexibility for the individual investor. Collective Capital was formerly known as the AIM Group and rebranded in Summer 2020.

Nido is an integrated platform combining venture capital and corporate innovation to accelerate B2B technology adoption across the U.S.–Mexico corridor. Nido Ventures (Fund): Invests in pre-seed and seed engineering-driven B2B startups transforming industries like manufacturing, logistics, infrastructure, CPG, and financial services. Beyond capital, founders gain strategic guidance, corporate access, and a cross-border network. Nido Labs (Corporate Innovation): Partners with Mexico’s leading industrial firms to identify tech gaps, design ROI-driven innovation roadmaps, and run venture clienting pilots that connect corporates with startups to deliver measurable impact.

Overview INVESTORS IN BRAND We invest in consumer brands at a point of inflection where we can accelerate business growth and value creation. We are passionate about working with extraordinary people to build extraordinary brands. CONSUMER FOCUSED We specialize in what we know best. We invest in consumer brands. Period. We have developed our capabilities and network to drive success through a focused approach. APPROACH We invest in emerging brands with >$2MM Revenue that seek $3MM to $8MM in Growth Capital. We believe that investments this size enable us to be a meaningful partner and add meaningful value. BREAKAWAY ADVANTAGE We have access to exceptional deal flow. Our established rolodex enables great partnerships that drive growth. We are active investors with the ability to influence the outcome of our investments.

Benford Capital Partners is a Chicago-based private equity investment firm focused on leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations of lower middle market companies. The BCP team has over 80 years of combined experience buying and scaling businesses. The BCP Team is a group of committed investment and operating professionals with significant experience acquiring, building, and operating lower middle market companies. The team utilizes its collective experience, background, knowledge base, and networks to help each portfolio company achieve long-term success. BCP partners with founders, family owners and managers to grow smaller companies over time. As engaged stewards and partners, we seek to build businesses and invest in people while preserving each company’s legacy and culture. We pride ourselves in being straightforward, consistent, forthright and partnership oriented. We strongly believe in a collaborative approach to building long-term value, with day-to-day decisions left to management. Toward that end, we take an active role at the Board of Directors level, focusing on growth opportunities, acquisitions, recruiting, strategy and financing. In situations involving Owner/Operator transitions, we often will draw upon our relationships with experienced outside managers seeking to take an active full-time role in a company. Our investment time horizon is flexible and aligned with management’s goals over shorter or longer time-frames. We believe in long-term value creation and have longer average investment periods.