Focus Area: Underrepresented Founders

January 25, 2022

Vista Equity Partners

By providing technology expertise, operational guidance and capital for sustainable growth, we empower organizations across all industries to stay ahead in the digital economy. We support the diverse communities in which we live and work—it’s core to who we are.

Camelback Ventures

In education and conscious tech, we support early stage, startup organizations (nonprofits, hybrids, for-profits) with an investment of $40,000 in each venture.

DiverseCity Ventures

DiverseCity Ventures accelerates positive social, economic, and/or environmental impact through entrepreneurship.

DivInc’s Social Justice Innovation Accelerator

DivInc’s Social Justice Innovation Accelerator supports startups addressing racial inequities in healthcare, education, housing, mobility, criminal justice, or voting. This issue-specific program is 100% focused on finding and equipping the most innovative startup companies that are addressing inequities and disparities caused by institutionalized bias and racism.

Storm Ventures

You built it—let’s unlock massive growth. We are an early-stage B2B-focused venture firm that specializes in building enterprise leaders.

Valmo Ventures

Valmo Ventures creates, collaborates, and invests in companies, assets and efforts that add value to portfolio returns and add value to our society.

Versatile Venture Capital

Versatile Venture Capital backs early-stage companies which help investors generate alpha and succeed. For example, we’re investors (via prior funds) in alternative data, investment research, back-office tech, marketplaces for private companies, and salestech to help gather assets.

The Community Fund

We’re an early-stage fund that invests in community-driven companies. Companies with community at the core will become unicorns and produce outsized returns, we believe.

Stray Dog Capital

Stray Dog Capital is a venture capital fund investing in innovative, early-stage companies across the food, beverage, and biotechnology sectors that are driving a healthier, humane, and more sustainable future.

Initialized Capital Management

We focus on investing in high-potential software startups at seed stage and earlier, with small teams that include great engineers, designers and product founders. Many companies come to us when they are just two or four people, and we help them get from there to their Series A or B rounds and beyond.

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