ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception across geographies and emerging industries.  With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

ff Venture Capital

At Eniac Ventures we lead seed rounds in bold founders who use code to create transformational companies. Armed with over 80 years of combined experience building our own companies, we are your active partners and consider ourselves a member of your founding team. Providing capital is just the first step, when we lead your seed round we provide the industry’s most comprehensive support through our Eniac Platform and hands on approach. From the beginning one of the keys to Eniac’s success has been taking a holistic approach to supporting our portfolio. With Eniac you get four partners for the price of one, and each partner uses their unique experience to open doors and advise our investments. The result has led to companies that consistently bring quality product to market, find follow on investment and have a measurable impact across industries. With each fund our approach has evolved and expanded to address the growing needs of our portfolio companies. We want our founders to focus on their product so we created the Eniac Platform. Term sheets are just the first step, working with Eniac companies enjoy the following free support: - Talent recruiter to find the best employees, especially in engineering   - Public relations and marketing specialist on staff to help your product reach the audiences that matter from launch through growth - Operations resources to organize your staff and install best practices - Business development and networking opportunities with thousands of the top companies, investors, and brands - Connections to other founders in Eniac’s portfolio to explore synergies and opportunities Fundraising support including pitch deck guidance, follow on investor strategy, and syndicate building

Eniac Ventures

LSAN was founded in 2010 when Dr. Milena Adamian returned to New York after working in San Francisco with prominent life science angel groups. Upon discovering that New York was missing an organization focused on identifying and helping early stage life sciences companies grow, Milena founded LSAN.  In 2010 LSAN began its operations under the New York Academy of Sciences and became an independent entity in early 2012.  LSAN was founded with the understanding that to help our portfolio companies succeed we need to provide them with funding but also with operational support and an access to a broad network of healthcare investors, key opinion leaders, corporate players and other entrepreneurs.

Life Sciences Angel Network

Techstars is a global platform that provides investment and innovation. Through the Techstars Worldwide Entrepreneur Network, founders and their teams connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners who will help their companies grow. Techstars operates four divisions: Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Program supercharges success and Techstars Startup Programs inspire, educate, and connect entrepreneurs. Techstars Venture Capital Fund invests in innovative and disruptive companies. Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships help brands create products and services. Techstars' accelerator portfolio includes more than 1,000 companies with a market cap of $8.1 billion.

Techstars

Album VC is a US-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology ventures, shaping the future of technology and culture. The company works in its own way, prioritizing people over transactions and creating value over taking it. Album VC is headquartered in Lehi, Utah.

Album VC

Azimuth Ventures invests in healthcare and medical device development companies with early stage investments and advisory services. Azimuth Ventures was founded by Milena Adamian and is based in New York.

Azimuth Ventures

BrandProject is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in consumer products, services, and technology companies. Based in Toronto and New York City, we are typically the first venture money and are often the sole investor in a round. BrandProject has invested in and helped build innovative new brands including Daily Harvest, Freshly, Ritual, Persona, Chefs Plate, Clutch, Gainful, Atolla, Pet Plate, Awake Chocolate, Coveteur, Surf Easy, and Hello Products.. Find out more at www.brandproject.com

BrandProject

Today, 13% of angel investors are women.  We want that number to be 50%.    37 Angels activates the untapped capital and experience women can bring to investing in male and female-led ventures.         We do this by sourcing high potential deals and coordinating due diligence for members to invest in deals between $50K and $200K.  We also offer an unique training program to educate novice angels in the fundamentals of investing in young companies.

37 Angels

The R/GA Accelerator is a three-month, immersive, mentor-driven program for early-stage startups that are not only innovating products, services, and experiences, but also exploring new business models that exploit emerging technology.  We amplify investment capital by leveraging the agency’s in-house teams of world-class designers, brand strategists, and creative technologists as well as the agency’s mentor network of global brand leaders.  The combination of investment capital, creative capital, and our global network gives our start-up partners an ''unfair advantage'' as they go to market and scale.

R/GA Accelerator

Compound is a venture capital firm that invests in bleeding-edge technology built by outliers. They have partnered with elite operators that understand the intricacies of many different industries and various components of businesses, that help them navigate the complex systems in which each startup lives by removing roadblocks and compounding growth. Compound is based in New York City.

Compound

Formation 8 is a venture capital firm that provides financial and strategic capital to early growth smart enterprise and energy technology companies. They support entrepreneurs who seek to transform the most important global industries by solving hard problems with technology solutions. Partnership is in their DNA. Formation 8 value trusted relationships with entrepreneurs, investors, and strategic partners through their global network.  As a partner to young companies, Formation 8's goal is to create long-term, sustainable value through operational expertise and business development partnerships. Formation 8 leverage their deep and distributed networks to provide the market knowledge, deployment expertise, sales channels, and relationships needed to expand into and thrive in Asia. With local teams in Korea, China and Singapore, Formation 8 connect Silicon Valley start-ups to dynamic multinational corporations in these geographies.

Formation 8

Carpe Diem Capital, LLC is a strategic advisor on private equity investments.    Carpe Diem Capital's primary partners are U. S. single family offices with significant assets under management.  Leveraging 30 years of business experience and relationships in Ireland and Israel, Mr. Paul Kane formed Carpe Diem Capital to assist family offices in identifying, evaluating on placing investments.

Carpediem Capital

Service Provider Capital is a venture capital fund that co-invests in series A deals led by institutional venture funds. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Golden, Colorado.

Service Provider Capital

Eclipse Ventures is a seed-stage venture firm managed by a team of former operators who are passionate about modernizing massive, physical industries like manufacturing, logistics, transportation, and healthcare. They work side by side with experienced founders who understand the need to transform these industries, and they provide guidance on everything from operating practices to fundraising strategies. Partnering means deep engagement as they build generational companies in sectors that define and propel economies.

Eclipse Ventures

Integral Capital Partners operates a family of partnerships that invests in expansion-stage private and growth-stage public companies in the information technology and life sciences industries.  Integral was incubated within Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1991. Integral's principals continue to collaborate with the KPCB partners in the pursuit of investment excellence. While Integral focuses on the same markets as KPCB, they maintain an independent investment program that focuses on companies beyond the start-up stage.

Integral Capital Partners

Formed in 2006, Trilogy Equity Partners (http://www.trilogyequity.com) is an early stage venture firm based in Bellevue, Washington that is led by former entrepreneurs and operators. The firm’s roots include the formation and leadership of some of the largest mobile operators in the United States as well as other global technology and wireless companies.  Trilogy takes a hands-on approach to investing, with a closely held evergreen fund that aligns investments with the objective of building great companies over time.

Trilogy Equity Partners

National Institutes of Health is a biomedical research facility in the United States. It is affiliated with the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. It conducts its own scientific research through its Intramural Research Program (IRP) and provides major biomedical research funding to non-NIH research facilities through its Extramural Research Program. National Institutes of Health has 1,200 principal investigators and more than 4,000 postdoctoral fellows in basic, translational, and clinical research. It comprises 27 separate institutes and centers that conduct research in different disciplines of biomedical science. With scientific accomplishments such as the discovery of fluoride to prevent tooth decay, the use of lithium to manage bipolar disorder, the creation of vaccines against hepatitis, Haemophilus influenzae (HIB), and human papillomavirus, National Institutes of Health has many agencies under its control. National Institutes of Health was established in 1887. It is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

National Institutes of Health

RTP Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City that invests in companies that create applied solutions for concrete problems for financial services and healthcare using IT and IoT Technologies as a foundation.  These companies almost always provided B2B products and usually deliver these products as SaaS. The firm prefers to invest in companies that locate themselves close to their customers (which usually means not in Silicon Valley).  Its portfolio includes a number of investments with part of the team overseas and headquarters in the U.S.

RTP Ventures

Broadway Angels is an angel investment group made up of world-class investors and business executives who all happen to be women. They all have decades of experience investing in and managing the best technology companies in the world. All of us are or have been General Partners in venture capital firms or Senior Executives in top technology companies. For most of us, they have been the only woman partner or senior executive in their firm. All of us have built great careers and portfolios along with amazing relationships with entrepreneurs and executives.

Broadway Angels

The Amazon Alexa Fund is Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, frontier tech, voice, robotics, and digital health across consumer and enterprise. We invest in early- to growth-stage companies globally. To learn more, visit us at alexafund.com.

Amazon Alexa Fund

Founded in 2016 by industry veteran Sonja Perkins, the fund focuses on high technology companies that fill an unmet market need that can only be solved through a combination of technology, marketing savvy and hard work. The fund typically invests in less than 10% of a round and selectively considers board seats. While typically not a board member, the Perkins Fund provides incredible value in fund raising, market positioning and general business strategy.  The Perkins Fund has invested in over 35 companies with entrepreneurs of high character and capability. While the Perkins Fund does not only invest in women, over 50% of the Perkins Fund founders are women compared to a venture capital industry average of less than 5%. The fund's focus is on long term, lasting relationships with entrepreneurs. Over 30% of the founders have been backed by founder Sonja Hoel Perkins in the past. The Perkins Fund invests in all stages, including seed, startup and late stage deals. Over 70% of the portfolio has raised venture capital.

The Perkins Fund

GR Capital is a pan-European venture fund with a panoramic view. We combine broad perspective, deep analysis and clear focus. To back fast growth tech companies with proven teams, models and scalability. Across health, wealth, housing and mobility.  Our purpose is to power their growth through capital and connections. So they can expand their market, talent pool, operations and opportunities.

GR Capital

Pelion Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs and invests in early-stage B2B software-based companies. Since 1986, Pelion Venture Partners has been helping entrepreneurs turn early-stage concepts into tomorrow's industry-leading companies. Pelion invests in early-stage B2B software across the US. With 7 investment team members, Pelion has deep and diverse industry and investment experience. They are hands-on in their approach and work collaboratively with each portfolio company.

Pelion Venture Partners

IPD Capital is a venture capital investor offering unique IP expertise.  We are stage agnostic as we have invested in companies from seed stage to ones with over $100MM in revenues.  Investments you may recognize are CLEAR, AllBirds, JUUL, PAX Labs, Sense Photonics, Owlet Baby Care, JetClosing, and Avinew.   Free advice comes with our investment (i.e. not for hire) to help our portfolio companies build IP picket fences around their business models which enhances business economics, sustainability, defense against untoward competitors, and advances investment returns.  We do not lead rounds or take a board seat or encumber IP.  We focus on all technology sectors except biotech & pharma.   Powered by IPD Analytics, IPD Capital has the ability to leverage a team of over 50 professionals with extensive backgrounds and expertise in IP, science, and engineering.

IPD Capital

Owlet Baby Care

The Owlet Baby Monitor is a proactive health monitor for sleeping infants that allows parents to view their child's vital signs in real time. Owlet will alert the parent if there are low blood oxygen and heart rate levels giving parents peace of mind knowing that their baby is watched over.

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From counting steps to saving lives and beyond

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    The Owlet Baby Monitor is a proactive health monitor for sleeping infants that allows parents to view their child's vital signs in real time. Owlet will alert the parent if there are low blood oxygen and heart rate levels giving parents peace of mind knowing that their baby is watched over.
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    Bank-issued smart watch designed for payments. Banks buy Coyl devices in bulk &amp; issue them for free instead of plastic cards.
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CuffPay

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    Biostrap is a remote user monitoring platform that utilizes advanced science-driven Machine Learning/AI and health analytics. It is the first affordable platform of its kind and has gained popularity among enterprise customers for its comprehensive analytics capabilities. These analytics include but are not limited to measuring oxygen saturation, respiration rate, heart rate variability, sleep analysis, and arterial health. With Biostrap, users can track and monitor their health from the comfort of their own homes, making it a convenient and accessible tool for health and wellness management.
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Biostrap

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    Caeden is a startup focused on the intersection of fashion, wearable technology, and mobile applications, based in Soho, New York. Our team is developing hardware and software innovations in a $1.4 billion market that is projected to grow to $19 billion in the next 4 years. We are changing consumer expectations of wearables through new data metrics, contextualized mobile applications, and fashion &shy;focused hardware.  We believe the devices we wear today do not have to compromise between aesthetics and functionality. Caeden's approach is the creation of multiple lines of jewelry-inspired hardware that naturally fits into the everyday lives of our consumers. By seamlessly integrating the hardware and software, we will deliver a unified offering that will improve the everyday lives of our users. Built by a team of industry veterans from fashion, design, manufacturing, and electronics, Caeden's team has a proven track-record of delivering products that are compelling, beautiful and feature-rich. Leveraging our existing retail relationships we have a clear and proven sales and revenue story.
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Caeden

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    Splash Metrix is bringing to market the first fitness wearable that leverages the smartwatch to deliver real-time audio feedback and music while swimming.
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Splash Metrix

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    Founded in January 2013, Kronoz LLC is a Swiss company that manufactures, designs and develops wearable devices intended to improve their increasingly mobile, connected and digital lifestyles. Under the MyKronoz brand, they strive to expand and facilitate the mobile-user experience with stylish, intuitive and functional techcessories. With a unique approach to mobile tech, their goal is to offer a complete range of connected watches, catering to the needs and tastes of the world&rsquo;s various user types. In order to release new wearable models every quarter, MyKronoz team develops continuous innovative technologies and creative designs.
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MyKronoz

Enhances the functionality of wearables and allows users to access and interact with data through various devices and services in the broader IoT ecosystem

Leveraging technology to collect data about the user's activities, preferences, and health metrics before using this information to provide personalized experiences

Empowers wearable devices to continuously improve and adapt to user preferences, offering personalized insights and recommendations based on user data

Industrial wearables contribute to increased efficiency, safety, and productivity in industrial settings by providing real-time data and connectivity solutions for workers and equipment

Enhances the user experience by enabling language translation, contextual awareness, and personalized recommendations, making wearables more versatile and user-centric

Wearable entertainment devices designed primarily for entertainment and leisure purposes. These come in the form of hearables, wearable cameras, personalized smart devices, etc.

Owlet Baby Care

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