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Lightspeed is a global venture capital firm that has spent over two decades backing innovative companies as an early and first investor.

Alumni Ventures (AV) is a venture capital firm that co-invests alongside lead VCs in startups, backing founders with capital and access to a large investor and operator community.

Slow Ventures is a generalist early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011, with offices in San Francisco, Boston, and New York, investing in the earliest rounds of companies across many sectors.

Bowery Capital is an early-stage venture firm focused on B2B software companies, providing hands-on go-to-market, talent, and business development support to founders.

Red Swan Ventures backs founders at the earliest stage, aiming to be a founder's first outside capital, focusing on companies born from platform shifts and cultural insight that serve enduring human needs.

Primary Venture Partners is a seed-stage venture fund that backs founders at the earliest moments, combining deep sector specialization with a large operating team that provides hands-on support.

Awesome People Ventures operates as a decentralized VC fund using a network of deal partners and contributors to source and vet investments, while giving carry to core contributors beyond just the GP to mirror web3's community ownership ethos. The fund focuses on investing in awesome people building awesome things in web3 with a world-positive mandate, and is backed by iconic crypto investors including Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen/a16z, and Multicoin.

boldstart ventures is an early-stage venture firm that partners with technical founders from inception, leading pre-product rounds and helping build enterprise software companies.

Inspired Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Alexa von Tobel and Penny Pritzker, backing founders from pre-seed through Series A across a range of sectors.

Gutter Capital is a venture fund co-founded by a former WeWork executive who sold his company for $220M and a computer scientist turned professional gambler who built software to predict athlete performance, with both partners having invested their own exit proceeds and gambling winnings into over 100 angel investments before raising their institutional fund. The fund focuses on "advancing the American experiment" through investments in affordability, economic mobility, and sustainability, while operating with an unusually hands-on, blue-collar approach that treats portfolio support—especially recruiting—as a core systematized product rather than occasional help.

Notation Capital writes the very first check for technical founding teams at the moment of company creation, treating pre-seed as a distinct risk profile and working "in the trenches" with founders on "day 0:00" rather than just writing smaller checks. The firm operates with unusual transparency by publishing its internal operating manual on GitHub and running a podcast that interviews LPs to demystify venture fund underwriting, while also running a free, equity-free program for future founders in underestimated ecosystems beyond Silicon Valley.