Black Founded Funds (67 funds)

645 Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Seed · Series A

Early-stage partner for founders building iconic, industry-transforming companies, demonstrated by two new funds totaling $347M.

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AIN Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Seed-stage investor in dual-use deep tech with an invite-only U.S.

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ANIM Fund

🔒 $•• – $•• check · London

Seed · Series A · Pre-Seed

ANIM Fund is a global digital-first venture capital fund tightly integrated with Google for Startups through partner Jason Scott.

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Aperture Venture Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (East Coast) / Laguna Beach

Seed · Series A · Pre-Seed

Focuses on Black, Latin, and female founders as the mainstream growth market and systematically connects portfolio founders to Fortune 500 LPs thro...

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Ardent Venture Partners

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Washington

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Backs exceptional founders building automation in traditional industries using ML/AI to enhance security, productivity tools for distributed work, ...

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Audacity Fund

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Audacity Fund is a Web3 venture capital fund that invests specifically in Black and African-led crypto startups worldwide, with founder Erikan Obot...

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Authentic Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Oakland

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Seed–Series B software investor leveraging a 1,000+ operator network that over-indexes women and minority founders, using operator-heavy advisors (...

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Backstage Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Founded by Arlan Hamilton while homeless with no finance or tech background, Backstage Capital requires at least one founder to be a woman, person ...

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Base Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Oakland

Pre-Seed · Seed

A founder-focused investor targeting culturally resonant tech and aspirational consumer companies, bridging elite venture ecosystems and historical...

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Beta Boom

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Salt Lake City

Pre-Seed · Seed

Salt Lake City–based fund backing founders addressing underserved populations across 49 states, using a pedigree-penalizing scorecard and a 6+ mont...

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Black Operator Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Miami

Pre-Seed · Seed

All-Black GP team of active tech founders leads and oversubscribes pre-seed and seed rounds for Black-led startups, offering $1M–$1.25M checks, cle...

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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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Brown Venture Group

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Minneapolis

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Very early ($10K–$100K) pre-seed investor exclusively for Black, Latino, and Native American tech founders, offering hands-on venture building, fai...

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Cake Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed

Focuses on companies addressing needs arising from massive demographic changes, differentiated by its thematic expertise in demographic-driven mark...

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Capitalize VC

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Chicago

Pre-Seed · Seed

Black-founded, woman-led fund exclusively backing commerce-enablement tech and consumer brands serving Black and Latinx founders and consumers, pai...

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Celesta (fka WRVI)

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Operators-led deep-tech infrastructure investor (semiconductors, networking, industrial tech) that takes active engineering roles with portfolio co...

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Cleo Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Santa Monica

Pre-Seed · Seed

Earliest-stage investor targeting female founders in the friend-and-family gap, backing female scout-investors sourced via journalists and influenc...

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Cleveland Avenue

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Chicago

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B

Founded and led by Don Thompson, the first Black CEO of McDonald's, Cleveland Avenue runs a $70M fund (CAST US) that is structurally mandated to de...

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Coalition Operators

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed

Pre-seed and seed investor run by three active founders (from Cityblock Health, Tribe AI, and Angi), placing top women operators on cap tables to p...

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Collab Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Atlanta

Seed · Series A · Pre-Seed

Collab Capital invests financial, human, and network capital to support entrepreneurs and establish new pathways toward long-term economic success.

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Collide Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed

Seed-stage fund, 100% Black-owned, backed by Amazon/Alphabet/Twitter, founded by creators of Blavity/AfroTech and BLCK VC, targets intersectional f...

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Concrete Rose Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Applies a 12-dimension investment rubric to invest in Black, Latino, and underrepresented-focused founders, wraps portfolio companies with curated ...

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Debut Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Boulder

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Early-stage investor focused on Black, Latinx, and Indigenous founders, offering hands-on support in product, tech-stack strategy, and team structure.

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DiverseCity Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Sacramento

Pre-Seed · Seed

Early-stage tech investor led by a founder with a film/entertainment financing lens and foster-care perspective, prioritizing diverse perspectives,...

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E2JDJ

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Seed · Series A

Black- and female-co-founded VC investing in cell-, plant- and fermentation-based food tech, delivering hands-on sales, customer and regulatory sup...

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Equal Opportunity (EO) Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Boston

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

EO Ventures is founded and led by an unusual pairing of top-tier venture capitalist Bill Helman with controversial Harvard economist Roland Fryer, ...

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Fearless Fund

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Atlanta

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Built and led by Black women operators, Fearless Fund invests exclusively in women-of-color–led businesses and leverages the founders media backgro...

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Flucas Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Miami

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B

Solo GP with an operator background (Summit Ventures COO) who invests across all stages and differentiates by democratizing access—inviting diverse...

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Footwork

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Seed · Series A

$$175M early-stage fund focused on consumer technology and the consumerization of enterprise technology.

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Gateway Capital Partners

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Milwaukee

Pre-Seed · Seed

Milwaukee-based VC investing almost exclusively in Wisconsin pre-revenue startups, concentrating ~$400K into 12–15 companies, 75% Milwaukee and 75%...

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Growth Warrior Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Austin

Seed · Series A

Growth Warrior Capital is a $26M venture fund led by Black woman serial operator Promise Phelon that backs "dangerous founders"—underestimated entr...

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Harlem Capital Partners

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Founded by first-time managers, Harlem Capital Partners publicizes its playbook and data-heavy research, runs internships and content programs that...

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High Street Equity Partners

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Washington

Pre-Seed · Seed

Seed-stage investor focused on tech startups led by underrepresented founders, offering a service-heavy, transparent model, dual DC/Little Rock pre...

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Hometeam Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Invests in early-stage companies focused on the $18T construction sector, supporting AEC lifecycle solutions that improve cost, speed, or quality.

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Impact America Fund

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Oakland

Seed · Series A · Series B

Impact America Fund, founded and led by Kesha Cash, focuses on tech-enabled businesses built for and by people in marginalized communities.

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Interlace Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Early-stage investor focused on startups shaping the Future of Commerce.

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Jumpstart Nova

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Nashville, Tennessee / Los Angeles

Seed · Series A

Backs incredible Black founders building transformative companies across the entire healthcare landscape.

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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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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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Kindred Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Seed-stage VC and startup studio that originates ideas, assembles founding teams and builds early products while avoiding typical studio-level equi...

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Lightship Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Columbus

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Lightship Capital is the largest-ever first-time venture fund raised by a Black woman in the U.S.

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Lockstep Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed

Sub-$50M venture capital fund investing exclusively in overlooked visionaries of color and startups tackling racial disparities in health, wealth, ...

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MaC Venture Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

MaC Venture Capital combines an interdisciplinary founding team of a former Washington D.C.

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Maple VC

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Seed-stage investor exclusively backing founders with Canadian roots worldwide.

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Mission One Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Miami

Pre-Seed · Seed

Kiel Berry-led team (Wall Street + entertainment; early Lyft, Robinhood, Impossible Foods investor) backs frontier-tech startups tackling climate, ...

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Moderne Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Chicago

Seed · Series A · Series B

Woman-owned vertical investor that uses a six-month customer-creation immersion to connect technologies with a proprietary 1,500+ corporate executi...

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NOEMIS Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed

Seed-stage, solo-GP investor targeting NYC fintech, marketplace, and AI/ML founders, using an 8-factor leveraged-finance framework and delivering t...

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New Age Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Seed · Pre-Seed

Seed-stage, thesis-driven VC focusing on tech and tech-enabled startups founded and led by promising Black and Latino entrepreneurs.

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Origins Fund

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Pre-seed to seed consumer investor writing $100k–$500k checks that plugs founders into a coordinated ~160M-follower athlete/celebrity social-media ...

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Panoramic Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Atlanta

Seed · Series A

Stage-agnostic $100K–$20M+ checks, anchored by a Black serial entrepreneur with exits and an institutional Atlanta platform, systematically targets...

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Precursor Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed

Early-stage, pre-launch specialist systematically backing 30–40 first-time, unproven founders yearly as an institutional friends-and-family solo-GP...

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RareBreed Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Baltimore

Pre-Seed · Seed

RareBreed Ventures focuses on pre-seed founders outside of large tech ecosystems like SF and NYC, particularly backing first-time, under-networked ...

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Reach Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Supports entrepreneurs developing technology solutions for education challenges spanning early childhood through the future of work

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Realist Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Stamford

Pre-Seed · Seed

Targets biotech and software startups led by diverse teams building modern solutions to modern problems, excluding food, consumer goods, and hardware.

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Reign Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Miami

Seed · Series A

Inclusive investors offering hands-on support and access to a powerful network.

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Reinventure Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Boston

Seed · Series A

Growth-stage investor focused on companies that can deliver strong financial returns alongside sustainable, measurable impact.

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Serena Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B

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Sixty8 Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Indianapolis

Pre-Seed · Seed

Sixty8 Capital is a seed-stage venture fund that deliberately operates from Indianapolis to back Black, Brown, women, LGBTQ+, and disabled founders...

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Slauson & Co

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed

Bridges historically overlooked, untapped founders to resources and pathways that democratize entrepreneurship and advance sustainable equity and e...

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Stage Venture Partners

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed

Stage Venture Partners is led by a former value investor who applies value-investing tools like unit economics and downside analysis to seed-stage ...

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SteelSky Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Atlanta

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Early-stage VC focused on technology that improves women's healthcare.

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Twine Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Seed investor writing $500–750K first checks into data, AI, and software infrastructure for healthcare and climate sectors; Foundry partner providi...

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Unicorn Growth Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Web3-native fund led by Barbara Iyayi (JPMorgan, UBS) building cross-border financial infrastructure connecting Africa and emerging markets with de...

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Visible Hands

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Boston

Pre-Seed · Seed

Pre-seed-stage partner engaging founders before company or cofounder formation, running a 14-week cohort-based, studio-like fellowship for underrep...

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WOCstar Fund

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Seed · Pre-Seed · Series A

Hands-on, builder-focused investor for women of color founders in overlooked markets, offering an integrated platform with free capital-raising tra...

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Zane Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Atlanta

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Atlanta-based fund focused on underrepresented founders in the Southeast and other overlooked regions.

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Zeal Capital Partners

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Washington

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Black-led firm focusing on learning and work, fintech, and health-adjacent tools.

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