104 Pre-Seed Education Investors (2026)

27V (fka Twenty Seven Ventures)

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Cayman Islands

Seed · Pre-Seed

Solo-GP investing globally in EdTech and Future of Work with small checks ($25k–$250k), an EdTech 3.0 pedagogy–community–employment thesis, majorit...

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4DX Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Seed · Pre-Seed · Series A

NY headquarters plus offices in Accra, Cairo and Nairobi combine global capital-market access with local operator proximity; ex-Bridgewater/Morgan ...

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A-Frame Venture Studio

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Pre-Seed · Seed

A-frame is building and investing in better health, well-being and human connection through consumer brands and technology.

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Ada Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · London

Pre-Seed · Seed

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AiSprouts

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Menlo Park

Pre-Seed · Seed

AiSprouts is a Silicon Valley pre-seed and seed specialist backing AI-native companies, aiming to be the first conversation a promising founder has...

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Almi Invest

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Stockholm

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Growth

Venture capital arm of Sweden's state-owned Almi, operating seven regional funds plus a national GreenTech fund.

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Ataraxia VC

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Early-stage investor specializing in companies that help people live longer and better, offering complementary expertise via two funds: delightful ...

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Atento Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Tulsa

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Atento Capital is a single-LP venture firm backed solely by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, operating with an explicit dual mandate to generat...

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Avalanche VC

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed

Avalanche VC is built around a "TechnoHumanist Manifesto" and organizes investments through a three-part thesis of "how people learn, earn, and own...

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Avesta Fund

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Denver

Pre-Seed · Seed

Avesta Fund is a certified B Corporation venture capital fund that invests 100% of its capital in early-stage tech startups whose business models a...

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BBG Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed

Led by consumer-brand operator Susan Lyne and born of #BUILTBYGIRLS, they use a proprietary Polyculture thesis and data from 100+ female-led compan...

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BRAVE Venture Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Wrocław

Pre-Seed · Seed

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Bethnal Green Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

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Better Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Oakland

Pre-Seed · Seed

Backs mission-driven founders leveraging science and technology to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Binance Labs

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Cayman Islands

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B

Led by Binance co-founder He Yi, Binance Labs (now YZi Labs) is transitioning from an exchange-affiliated VC arm into an independently operated fam...

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Black Tech Nation Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Pittsburgh

Pre-Seed · Seed

Built on a national community of Black technologists and an integrated nonprofit-for-profit talent pipeline, providing structural access to Black o...

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Bloomberg Beta

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

A venture capital fund with a single corporate backer (Bloomberg LP) where all profits go to Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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Calibrate Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Pasadena

Pre-Seed · Seed

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CincyTech

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Cincinnati

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

CincyTech is a Cincinnati venture capital firm that invests in innovative founders tackling complex challenges, partnering early to turn ideas into...

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CircleUp

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

A quant investor using Helio's ML platform to source and evaluate consumer brands, uniquely offering integrated equity and non-dilutive credit unde...

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City Light Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Impact venture firm that only backs companies where the core product drives measurable social impact — 'more revenue equals better lives at scale' ...

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Civilization Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Operator-led biotech fund run by ex-founders targeting young PhD/postdoc and emerging academic scientists, focusing on overlooked genomics, diagnos...

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Common Magic

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Pre-Seed · Seed

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Contour Venture Partners

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B

Seed fund investing pre-traction, combining operator, institutional VC, and ecosystem-builder expertise to offer founders deep networks, multi-vent...

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Copper Wire Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Seed · Pre-Seed

Microfund making $100K–$500K first checks into women-led tech companies focused on lifelong learning (early childhood to adult career), offering 25...

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Daybreak Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Den Haag

Pre-Seed · Seed

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Edovate Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Denver

Pre-Seed · Seed

Exclusive K–12 edtech investor using flexible funding structures beyond standard equity and offering operator-led go-to-market advisory from a foun...

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EduSpaze

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Singapore

Pre-Seed · Seed

EduSpaze is Singapore's first edtech accelerator, supported by Enterprise Singapore and run as a dedicated edtech initiative of seed firm Spaze Ven...

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Eka Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · London

Pre-Seed · Seed

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Elevar Equity

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Seattle

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Often serving as founding investor for ventures serving low-income entrepreneurial households, Elevar Equity uses deep field immersion to align imp...

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Emerge Education

🔒 $•• – $•• check · London

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Early-stage, pre-product focus on AI-first learning and work tools; unusually large first checks ($500k–$2.5M), 100+ Venture Partners who founded U...

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Emerson Collective

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Palo Alto

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B · Growth

Low-visibility hybrid LLC combining venture, philanthropy, advocacy, art and media ownership, offering founders grants, political advocacy, media i...

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Epsilon Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Pre-Seed · Seed

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Eric Ver Ploeg

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Pre-Seed · Seed

Tunitas Ventures invests in category creating companies (few to no competitors) that have defensible business modes, and unit economic models that ...

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F-Prime Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Cambridge

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B

F-Prime Capital is one of the few large global VC firms that has built over 30 companies from scratch rather than just backing existing startups, d...

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First Check Africa

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Lagos

Pre-Seed · Seed

Pre-seed investor led by two active female operators combining institutional VC (TLcom) and current-founder operating (PiggyVest) expertise, writin...

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Flying Fish Partners

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Seattle

Pre-Seed · Seed

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Foundation Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Cairo

Pre-Seed · Seed

Seed-to-growth investor leveraging Egypt's currency-driven cost advantage and local tech talent as a testbed, plus access to the country's largest ...

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Founderful

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Zurich

Pre-Seed · Seed

Founderful (formerly Wingman Ventures) is a Zurich-based pre-seed fund that leads Swiss founders' first financing round, backing roughly ten teams ...

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FullCircle

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed

Perpetual pre-seed fund investing in a more dynamic workforce by making work more accessible, rewarding and adaptable.

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Future of Learning Fund

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Nairobi

Pre-Seed · Seed

Specialist early-stage fund backing new and improved models of learning that deliver education at scale across Africa and connect learning to jobs.

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FutureSight

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Toronto, ON / San Francisco

Pre-Seed

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GAN Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Denver

Pre-Seed · Seed

GAN Ventures backs founders outside traditional tech hubs, prioritizing character, self-awareness, and integrity.

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Gigafund

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Austin

Seed · Series A · Series B · Pre-Seed

Extremely concentrated, multi-decade investor in capital-intensive physical-world tech (rockets, BCI, nuclear micro-reactors) offering long-term su...

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GingerBread Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Mateo

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

GingerBread Capital is a $50 million fund that operates as a women-investing-in-women platform.

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Google Launchpad Accelerator

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Mountain View

Seed · Series A · Growth · Pre-Seed

Google Launchpad Accelerator works with later-stage startups that already have traction in emerging markets like Brazil, India, and Nigeria, provid...

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Hands-on early-stage life‑science investor and advisor offering deep, science-driven due diligence (PoC, MoA, animal models, KOL/clinician intervie...

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Homebrew

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B

Seed-stage investors founded by former YouTube and Twitter product leaders who invest their own money, take concentrated board-level positions, off...

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Honeystone VC

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Pre-Seed · Seed

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Innospark Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Boston

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

AI-only fund focused on explainable AI, operating as an evergreen recycling exits, co-founded by Venkat Srinivasan—AI scientist, serial founder wit...

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Juvo Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Lehi

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Subsidiary fund sponsored by Western Governors University, run by WGU's President and CFO, giving companies direct access to one of the world's lar...

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K9 Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Palo Alto

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Pre-seed pioneer making 4-6 hyper-concentrated annual investments.

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Kapor Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Oakland

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Oakland-based firm investing in industry-transforming startups that prioritizes building a more fair, just, and equitable society for low-income an...

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KdT Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Austin

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Writes first institutional checks ($500k–$5M) at earliest stages for compute-applied chemistry and biology ventures (therapeutics, industrial biote...

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Angel investor and advisor/mentor to startup CEOs since 2017.

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Kokopelli Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Boulder, CO / Austin

Pre-Seed · Seed

Micro-VC in non-coastal hubs (Colorado, Austin) spreading small bets across 35+ companies, achieving top-25% vintage returns and connecting founder...

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Laert Karaashev / Mount VC

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Pre-Seed · Seed

1st fund - early-stage VC fund focused on Pre-seed and Seed stage, industry agnostic, checks $50-500k, UK, Europe, US, Middle East.

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Launch NY

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Buffalo

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Seed-stage investor for high-growth Upstate New York startups.

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LearnStart

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Seed-stage investor with 20% reserved for under-8 early childhood companies, known as a first believer in unconventional education models across fr...

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Long Term Impact

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed

Long Term Impact is a venture capital fund created by Goalbook co-founders that uses evergreen capital with no external Limited Partners, allowing ...

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