Sidecut Ventures

SoLo Funds is a peer-to-peer lending platform that connects borrowers directly with community lenders, allowing individuals to access small-dollar loans without traditional financial institutions. The platform emphasizes transparency, community support, and optional fees.

Simply Bail is the completely secure, hassle-free, fastest way to get your friend or loved one out of jail. It handles the entire process from locating the jail to working with a bail bond agent, allowing users to get someone released without stepping foot in a jail or dealing with a bail bond agent's office.

Lily AI optimizes product content to enhance search and discovery across various platforms, utilizing AI technologies for eCommerce and marketing.

Grifin is an innovative investment platform that allows users to invest in stocks based on their everyday spending. By connecting their credit and debit cards, users can automatically invest small amounts in stocks of the companies they shop with, promoting a habit of continuous investing.

Health In Her HUE is a digital platform that connects Black women and women of color to culturally competent and sensitive healthcare providers, and offers health information and content that centers their lived experiences.

Maro provides a platform for mental health screening in schools, facilitating the identification of at-risk students and offering support through referrals to local mental health providers.

Elastic Energy builds infrastructure for distributed energy, connecting solar, batteries, EVs, and HVAC to real-time grid services, enabling monetization of energy assets.

Founded and led by LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner and former Chief of Staff Brian Rumao, Next Play Ventures applies LinkedIn's playbook to coach founders. The firm blurs the line between venture fund and leadership institute, publishing codified leadership curricula and providing hands-on coaching.

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

A $78M seed fund run by three Latin American immigrant partners who lead or co-lead rounds by writing $500K-$2.5M checks and taking at least 50% of each funding round. The fund deliberately hunts for breakout startups in overlooked U.S. markets like Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Miami.

Sixty8 Capital is a seed-stage venture fund that deliberately operates from Indianapolis to back Black, Brown, women, LGBTQ+, and disabled founders across the Midwest and South, arguing that coastal VCs systematically overlook innovation from these underrepresented groups in "flyover" regions. The fund is built on years of grassroots work running Black tech incubators and pitch competitions, and operates alongside Be Nimble Foundation to create an integrated platform spanning workforce development, accelerators, and pre-seed/seed capital—with a stated goal of creating 100 millionaires from historically overlooked communities.

Seed-stage investors founded by former YouTube and Twitter product leaders who invest their own money, take concentrated board-level positions, offer transparent communication, and back Chime, Plaid, and Gusto.