Focus Area: Diverse Founders
Hockey Stick Investments
Hockey Stick Investments is the family office venture seed fund of Daniel Pomp, a professor, geneticist and angel, investing in companies founded by diverse teams.
Maveron
Maveron funds seed- and early-stage companies that empower consumers to live on their terms. We look for founders with advantages in technology and data, a clear understanding of their customer, and the ability to balance a big vision with close attention to detail.
Pier 70 Ventures
At Pier 70, we find and fund disruptive technologies with the potential to shake up the status quo in healthcare. Entrepreneurs choose Pier 70 for capital and counsel, and we help them build diverse teams well-positioned to achieve financial success.
RareBreed Ventures
RareBreed Ventures is a pre-seed fund that invests in exceptional founders outside of large tech ecosystems, earlier than everyone else. Unlike other pre-seed funds, RareBreed takes a concentrated portfolio approach by writing checks of up to $250K as the first or one of the first investors.
Base10
We invest in automation for the real economy businesses that are solving problems that affect 99% of people in industries like logistics or construction.
General Catalyst
The GC team embraces our responsibility to create a sense of belonging for all races, genders and backgrounds across our industry, while bearing in mind that as a firm, we must create greater access—to capital, to the critical resources that transform an idea into a sustainable business, and to mentorship.
Baird Capital
At Baird Capital, we partner with company management, founders and entrepreneurs with the goal of building world-class companies across our sectors of focus: healthcare, industrial technology and solutions, and technology and services.
January Ventures
January Ventures invests early and opens doors for the founders of the future. We believe the founders of the next decade will look fundamentally different: more female, more diverse and more distributed.
500 Startups Global Flagship Fund
Based out of San Francisco, our global flagship funds include a series of five funds that invest across regions and industries. Created in 2010, the first flagship fund was our first fund ever that helped us start the SF-based accelerator program that we are still known for to this day.
Village Capital
We’re reinventing the system to back the entrepreneurs of the future.
