Funds Focused On Under Represented Founders (54 funds)

Able Partners

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Seed · Series A

Women-led VC systematically backs clinically rigorous, behaviorally grounded wellbeing startups tackling stigmatized areas—alcohol use disorder, me...

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Acrew Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Seed · Series A · Series B

Multi-stage investor offering founders a 600+ person community of operators and executives that co-develops theses, supports companies, and advocat...

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Act One Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed

Seed/early-stage AI-native business software investor making approximately 7 new investments yearly.

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Amplifyher Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Amplifyher Ventures is led by Tricia Black, Facebook's first VP of Sales and 7th employee, and invests specifically in commerce, care, and connecti...

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Anthemis Group

🔒 $•• – $•• check · London

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Early-stage investor combining venture and advisory services, focusing on embedded finance, infrastructure and B2B financial plumbing.

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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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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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Bonsal Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Baltimore

Seed · Series A

Invests in startups and emerging funds in education and workforce tech, exclusively backing underrepresented founders, writing $50K–$250K checks an...

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Boom Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Francisco

Seed · Series A

Solo-GP Celestine Schnugg treats founders as scientist-protagonists, focuses on frontier genomics, machine intelligence, new chemistries and space,...

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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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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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Chingona Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Chicago

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

A Latina-led pre-seed firm (solo Latina GP, $50M+ fund) that leads first institutional checks—often the largest—into pre-seed startups outside coas...

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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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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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Company Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed

Company Ventures operates one of the only large-scale, no-equity, free-rent founder residencies embedded directly inside a 1M+ sq ft Manhattan tech...

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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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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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Gaingels

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

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

Community-first LGBTQIA+/Allies syndicate of 4,000+ members offering hands-on portfolio support, recruiting underrepresented investors, an annual s...

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Ganas Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Carlsbad

Pre-Seed · Seed

Provides $100K checks to 100+ community-driven startups led by underestimated founders, leveraging the founder's audience and a public investor str...

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Geek Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check

Pre-Seed · Seed

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Gold House Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Gold House Ventures is structurally tied to a large nonprofit cultural organization where 100% of the fund's profits are reinvested back into Gold ...

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Goodwell Investments

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Amsterdam

Seed · Series A

Early-stage equity investor focused on inclusive-growth businesses serving underserved communities in Africa and India.

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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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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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L'ATTITUDE Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · San Diego

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Early-stage investor focusing exclusively on Latina(o)-owned, high-growth companies via its recently launched $100M+ first institutional fund.

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Leadout Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Portola Valley

Pre-Seed · Seed

Leadout Capital invests in non-obvious founders with deep founder-market fit.

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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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Mendoza Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Boston

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Growth

Hands-on husband-and-wife Latinx- and women-founded VC focused on fintech, AI, and cybersecurity, leveraging operator experience and immigrant pers...

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MiLA Capital (Make in LA)

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Chatsworth

Seed

Hardware accelerator offering a four-month, daily-accountability program and access to Toolbox LA's PCB, injection-molding, and CNC manufacturing e...

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Moonshots Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Austin

Seed · Series A

Seed-stage, veteran-owned fund led by West Point-trained Army intelligence GPs focused on veteran founders, embedding active-duty DoD acquisition o...

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One Way Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Boston

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Exclusively backs startups with at least one immigrant founder, leveraging immigrant leadership and Semyon Dukach's probabilistic, MIT Blackjack Te...

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Overlooked Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Columbus

Pre-Seed · Seed

Early-stage investor specializing in companies founded by historically overlooked founders.

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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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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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Reign Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Miami

Seed · Series A

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

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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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SoGal Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

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Supply Change Capital

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Chicago

Pre-Seed · Seed

Early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology reshaping food systems—prioritizing underserved, culturally driven consumer demand—led by ...

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The Venture Collective (TVC)

🔒 $•• – $•• check · New York

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Permanent balance-sheet investor backing founders from incorporation through Series A, focusing on overlooked mission-driven and science/tech start...

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Ulu Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Palo Alto

Pre-Seed · Seed

Early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise cloud and smart data companies.

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Unshackled Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Sunnyvale

Pre-Seed · Seed

Early-stage investor focused on immigrant founders who can't legally leave jobs.

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Vamos Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Los Angeles

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series B

For-profit VC fund investing in seed and early stages focused on U.S.

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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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Visible Ventures

🔒 $•• – $•• check · Boston

Pre-Seed · Seed · Series A

Early-stage investor targeting behavioral inflection points across health, wealth, and upward mobility, using pattern-breaking evaluation to back n...

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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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