Focus Area: LGBTQ+ Founders
Act One Ventures
Act One Ventures is a community-focused, early-stage venture capital firm leading pre-seed and seed rounds in ecommerce infrastructure, vertical SaaS, and fintech.
Let’s Start Up
Janine Sickmeyer is the founder of a legal tech SaaS product. Now she angel invests in startups with founders she believes had a similar experience to her—people who are overlooked and underfunded, who might be in an unsexy market but know the market well, and build products to make someone’s life easier.
Elevate Capital
Elevate Capital is Oregon’s first institutional venture capital fund that specifically targets investments in underserved entrepreneurs—such as women and ethnic minorities, or those with limited access regionally to capital and opportunities.
Quaboag Valley Business Assistance Corporation
Quaboag Valley Community Development Corporation is a member-based, nonprofit organization committed to economic development and helping small businesses grow and prosper. We offer many programs and services with a focus on community and economic development and supporting small business in our region. QVBAC makes loans from $500 to $100,000 to existing and startup businesses operating within our area that cannot access equivalent funding through conventional resources.
Business Impact NW (formerly Seattle Economic Development Fund)
Business Impact NW works with you to provide funding for your small business – from startup to growth capital, our services are designed with you in mind. We work hard to fund small business owners, especially women, veterans, BIPOC, immigrants, LGBTQ+, and disabled entrepreneurs. And as a compassionate lender, we can be more flexible than traditional lenders. We offer loans ranging from $5,000 to $350,000.
Marathon Fund
The Marathon Fund is a seed-stage equity fund dedicated to creating high growth, foundational businesses that embrace the diversity of talented innovators historically underserved by the private capital market ecosystem.
Pipeline Angels
Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and venture capital, as well as creating funding for trans women, cis women, nonbinary, two-spirit, agender, and gender-nonconforming founders.
Founders First Capital Partners
Founders First provides revenue-based funding, term loans, advisory services, and accelerator programs to small businesses led by women, people of color, LGBTQ+, military veterans, diverse teams, or businesses located in low- to moderate-income areas.
Intel Capital Diversity Fund
We invest in teams with the vision and ability to bring breakthrough ideas to market. It is our strong belief that people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives enable teams to make better decisions and to create technology that addresses the breadth of opportunities and challenges we face worldwide.
Adapt Ventures
Adapt is an early-stage venture capital firm backing electric founders with an uncontrollable passion for creating.
