Startup Ecosystem & Early-Stage Investment companies

We follow a repeatable process - defining a hypothesis, researching and testing it vigorously, assembling the world class team to build a product, iterating the…

Penny Jar Capital is an early-stage venture fund founded by Bryant Barr and Rich Scudellari. As complementary capital, Penny Jar invests in the category-leading…

Venture Capital should help solve the world’s most pressing problems. Here are our 6 commandments for selecting and supporting world-changing companies: ⁠Backin…

The future isn’t built by dreamers. It’s built today, by doers. It’s crafted by people who live on the edge of cultural trends and understand where things are h…

BIP Ventures consistently produces exceptional outcomes for founders and top-quartile returns for investors. We partner with people who share our passion for so…

We leverage the Duke network to help: Our investors find innovative early-stage companies with great teams, and Our entrepreneurs find access to smart capital t…

We invest in early stage projects. As a venture builder, we have 15 years' experience in co-creating tech companies with global reach. Our focus is on investmen…

We invest alongside the leading global VC firms, so that founders can have both a leading VC and us on their cap table. We don’t lead deals and we don’t take bo…

We provide capital, connections, and community to help founders take the leap towards building fast-growing, scalable businesses. For Founders, By Founders We p…

We are rocket scientists, CS geeks, electrical engineers, AI researchers, mechanical engineers, materials scientists, and economists. We value entrepreneurial s…

The fund is backed by over 300 business builders with $485M in AUM and over $1.5Bn in total originations since being started in 2018 by executives from Seamless…

mHUB is where people come to build the physical technologies that will change the physical world. Through prototyping labs, industry partnerships, and a commitm…

m]x[v Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on funding and founding the future of cloud. We invest in the SaaS “picks and shovels” that power e…

We are an early-stage venture capital fund investing in founders with highly technological B2B software solutions, from Seed to Series A all across Europe, Nort…

Gründerfonds Ruhr is a venture capital fund based in Essen, which invests in early stage startups that drive innovation and change. Our foundation was laid in 2…

TandemLaunch is a startup foundry and seed fund with a unique model. No "big idea"? No problem. Working in tandem with cutting-edge research from the world's be…