99% of VC funds don’t really invest at inception. 🚫💸 Here are 50 that actually do ↓ 1) Rose Street Capital 2) Outside VC 3) VU Venture Partners 4) Marketplace Capital 5) Gacsym Ventures 6) Treeo VC 7) Baukunst 8) XRC Ventures 9) Underscore VC 10) Outlander VC 11) Forum Ventures 12) Hustle Fund 13) Everywhere Ventures 14) FOVC 15) Geek Ventures 16) Baobab Network 17) Panache Ventures 18) Riceberg Ventures 19) Don't Quit Ventures 20) Pear VC 21) Wonder Ventures 22) Precursor Ventures 23) Wischoff Ventures 24) Nido Ventures 25) Plug and Play Tech Center 26) Gaingels 27) Ethos Fund 28) Dorm Room Fund 29) MBA Ventures 30) Unshackled Ventures 31) Torch Capital 32) Rally Cap VC 33) Cortado Ventures 34) LvlUp Ventures 35) Ganas Ventures 36) Symphonic Capital 37) Alpaca VC 38) Deciens Capital 39) Afore Capital 40) The Council 41) GoAhead Ventures 42) Barrel Ventures 43) Enzo Ventures 44) Redbud VC 45) Next Wave NYC 46) f7 Ventures 47) Recall Capital 48) Launch Factory 49) Boost VC 50) Better Tomorrow Ventures The fastest way to learn what investors want? Ask them. On Hubble, 300+ VCs & Angels are available for 1:1 calls today → www.hubble.social
Having spoken to quite a few of these VCs, I can confirm that many who claim to invest at inception actually don’t. The percentage of VCs truly investing that early is shrinking by the day. In the U.K., most early-stage rounds are still led by angel investors, not VCs.
And of course my good self via Notion Capital or AlphaGraph 💙
Jack Kuveke
3w
Don’t even think about hitting up Jabroni Capital
Sebastian S.
3w
+ Omni Ventures if you are building in (industrial) deep tech! Sidenote: I wish LinkedIn would spend less time on games and AI slop and more time fixing their broken mobile app. Added the tag on desktop.
Ouch, hurts but true Kevin Jurovich Gotta do your homework on VCs to understand their profile.
Mike Smart
3w
Are these just consultations or is there an opportunity to convert into real funding? Kevin Jurovich
We incubate at Builders VC and are always interested in meeting builders thinking about their next journey. $, office space, and lots of time from us. Nate Levine is doing first round checks at 1121.VC 🫡
Democratizing the trillion-dollar advertising industry so 5M+ Shopify SMBs can compete at scale.
3wOnly ~10% of VCs invest pre-product, yet those early bets drive ~60% of billion-dollar outcomes. a16z’s $250K in Instagram. First Round’s Uber seed. Initialized’s Coinbase check. SV Angel’s Stripe bet — one conviction created a decade of deal flow. But the real game-changers are the anti-establishment founders — the ones who fail every social optics test. The quiet contrarians, the unpolished, the ones building from garages or exile. The true test isn’t numbers — it’s whether you can see past the disqualifiers to the fire that won’t go out. Who’s looking for the next Alex Karp, Jensen Huang, or Sam Altman before the world believes? In venture, conviction still compounds faster than capital.