Lockstep Ventures

Fleeting is a platform designed to modernize the trucking industry by intelligently matching truck owners, drivers, and shippers/brokers, providing tools for better earning and schedule control.

Hydden is the unified data platform that discovers every identity, streams changes in real-time, and powers your entire identity security stack with trusted control.

Endeavor is a global community that supports high-impact entrepreneurs to scale their businesses and multiply their impact on economies worldwide.

VanishID systematically reduces the digital footprint of executives, board members, employees, and their families—limiting their visibility to threat actors. The company provides continuous protection against cyber and physical threats through a managed service powered by AI and OSINT experts.

SolidCore helps security, legal, and compliance teams govern first-party generative AI applications by providing real-time visibility into how LLMs are being used and a clear path to resolving security and compliance issues.

Founded by Arlan Hamilton while homeless with no finance or tech background, Backstage Capital requires at least one founder to be a woman, person of color, or LGBTQ. The fund treats capital allocation as activism and argues that 'underestimated' founders are systematically mispriced assets that create alpha rather than requiring concessionary returns.

Built on a national community of Black technologists and an integrated nonprofit-for-profit talent pipeline, providing structural access to Black operators and focusing on overlooked founders outside Silicon Valley. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, deliberately positioning the city as a national hub for Black venture capital while funding Black founders and developing Black venture capitalists as a talent factory for the next generation.

Founded by first-time managers, Harlem Capital Partners publicizes its playbook and data-heavy research, runs internships and content programs that reverse-engineer VC knowledge, and aims to back 1,000 diverse founders. The firm systematically documented their journey from a small angel syndicate to raising over $250M+ and turned that playbook into public content to help other emerging diverse managers.

Very early ($10K–$100K) pre-seed investor exclusively for Black, Latino, and Native American tech founders, offering hands-on venture building, faith-informed justice lens, tribal-government partnerships, and co-created equity-finance solutions.

Blended nonprofit-for-profit fund converting catalytic grants into discounted SAFE notes and patient equity for women-of-color-led startups; reviews 100% of applications with guaranteed decisions and targets Mid-Atlantic (excl. NY).