Ultimate Directory of Investors for Atlanta Startups

This is a searchable directory of investors who invest in Atlanta based startups.

INDUSTRY

Be careful filtering by “industry” because most investors don’t do the best job describing their industry specialties using common terms.  Some don’t list anything at all (which means if you start picking industries their name won’t even come up).  Only 2 specified “Industry Agnostic” but we did not apply that to others who left “industry” blank.

 

STAGE

We have the same problem with Investment Stage were some investors self-describe as “early stage.”  What does that mean?  Seed?  Series A?  When in doubt, select several or none at all.

 

NUMBER OF INVESTMENTS

Number of investments is worldwide, not in the Atlanta area.  That means Y-Combinator might be at the top of the list, but in truth they invest very infrequently in Atlanta based startups.

 

INCUBATORS

ATDC and Atlanta Tech Village are not listed because they help founders get investments, but do not invest directly.  If we ever do an accelerator or incubator directory you can rest assured they will be on the list at the very top!

 

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Y Combinator

Mountain View, California, United States
Investments: 4667
Exits: 471
Investor Type:Accelerator/Incubator
Investor Stage:Early Stage, Debt, Seed
Description:

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a large number of startups twice a year. It created a new model for funding early-stage startups. Twice a year, the company invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups. The startup accelerator works intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Techstars

Boulder, Colorado, United States
Investments: 4432
Exits: 408
Investor Type:Accelerator/Incubator, Venture Capital
Investor Stage:Debt, Early Stage, Seed
Industries:Finance, CleanTech, Consulting, Financial Services, FinTech, Oil and Gas, Retail Tech
Description:

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.

National Science Foundation

Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Investments: 4310
Exits: 183
Investor Type:Government
Investor Stage:Grant, Seed
Industries:Advanced Materials, Biotech, Chemical, EdTech, Environmental Engineering, Government, Information Technology, Internet of Things, Manufacturing, Medical Device, Nanotechnology, Robotics, Semiconductor, Wireless
Description: America's Seed Fund powered by NSF awards nearly $200 million annually to startups and small businesses, transforming scientific discovery into products and services with commercial and societal impact. Startups working across almost all areas of science and technology can receive up to $1.5 million in non-dilutive funds to support research and development (R&D), helping de-risk technology for commercial success. America's Seed Fund is congressionally mandated through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The NSF is an independent federal agency with a budget of about $7.8 billion that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering.

EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs

Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
Investments: 3678
Exits: 202
Investor Type:Government
Industries:B2B, Government
Description: The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) has been set up by the European Commission to manage on its behalf several EU programs. EASME is in charge of managing SME, environment, energy and maritime projects funded under COSME, Horizon 2020, LIFE, and EMFF. EASME also organizes the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW).

MassChallenge

Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Investments: 3036
Exits: 179
Investor Type:Accelerator/Incubator
Industries:Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing
Description:

MassChallenge is the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet. No equity and not-for-profit, MassChallenge is obsessed with helping the most-promising startups across industries and regions around the world. In addition to providing expert mentorship, tailored curriculum, and unrivaled access to corporate partners, MassChallenge awards top startups with portions of several million dollars in cash prizes. With accelerators in Boston, Israel, Mexico, Switzerland, Texas, and the UK, MassChallenge strengthens innovation-driven economic development around the world. MassChallenge also runs Bridge to MassChallenge programs in Australia, Columbia, France, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Russia, and Spain to drive the creation of high-quality jobs. In 2016, MassChallenge launched PULSE@MassChallenge to accelerate the impact of digital health innovation and improve patient care through technology. To date, 1,211 MassChallenge alumni have raised over $2 billion in funding, generated approximately $900 million in revenue, and created over 65,000 total jobs.

500 Global

San Francisco, California, United States
Investments: 2982
Exits: 353
Investor Type:Accelerator/Incubator, Venture Capital
Investor Stage:Early Stage, Seed
Industries:Finance, Financial Services, Internet
Description:

500 Global is a global venture capital firm with a network of startup programs headquartered in Silicon Valley with over $454M in committed capital across 4 main funds and 15 thematic funds. They have invested in 2,200+ technology startups globally since its inception in 2010 including Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), Credit Karma, SendGrid, Grab, GitLab, Bukalapak, Canva, Udemy, TalkDesk, Intercom, Ipsy, MakerBot (acquired by SSYS), Wildfire (acquired by GOOG), and Viki (acquired by Rakuten). 500 Global support startups via their Seed Accelerator Programs which emphasize digital marketing, customer acquisition, lean startup practices, and fundraising for pre-Seed companies. It contributes to the development of innovation ecosystems by supporting startups and investors through educational programs, events, conferences, and partnerships with corporations and governments around the world. The team of 150 people based in 20 countries manage venture investments across 74 countries and speaks over 25 languages. In addition to investments, they are passionate about helping build viable startup ecosystems around the world and run educational programs, events and conferences, and partnerships globally. Their investment team and mentor network have operational experience at companies such as PayPal, Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Apple.

SOSV

Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Investments: 2495
Exits: 62
Investor Type:Venture Capital, Accelerator/Incubator, Micro VC
Investor Stage:Early Stage, Seed
Industries:Finance, Financial Services
Description:

SOSV is a global venture capital firm that operates early stage startup development programs which are focused on two broad areas: revolutionary technology that promises the betterment of humanity and the planet; and cross-border markets that are ripe for explosive growth. The firm invests in a number of highly promising startups and uses its programs to advance product development, acquire customers, and scale. SOSV companies consistently achieve funding led by top tier investors. SOSV joins seed, series A, and later rounds. As of January 2022, SOSV had more than 1,000 portfolio companies and $1.2 billion in assets under management, reflecting a 40% increase over 2020. Among the top companies in SOSV's portfolio are NotCo, Perfect Day, Upside Foods, Yeelight, Opentrons, Shopal, Snapask, BitMEX, and API3. SOSV's programs include hard tech-oriented HAX and life-science driven IndieBio. Both offer deep technical and regulatory expertise on-site as well as well-equipped lab and fabrication facilities. At Chinaccelerator and MOX, market-entry and product development experts help entrepreneurs win cross-border market opportunities across Asia. SOSV's latest program, dlab, fosters new players in blockchain. Founder Experience SOSV programs review applications from all over the world, and any pre-seed or seed-stage company is welcome to apply. SOSV provides $150,000 - $250,000 in exchange for equity, but certain biotech startups may receive as much as an additional $250,000 or more from the Genesis Consortium, a partnership between IndieBio and leading VCs and industry partners, including co-founding partner Mayfield. Founders spend 4-6 months in a formative cohort experience marked by coaching from on-staff experts (including alums), regular workshops led by mentors and guests, and access to technical resources, including engineers, labs, and other facilities. After a program's completion, the SOSV partners continue working closely with founders to bring on lead investors for follow-on investment.

New Enterprise Associates

Menlo Park, California, United States
Investments: 2094
Exits: 566
Investor Type:Venture Capital
Investor Stage:Early Stage, Late Stage Venture
Industries:Consumer, Finance, Financial Services, Health Care
Description: New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm's founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company's lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

Accel

Palo Alto, California, United States
Investments: 1900
Exits: 355
Investor Type:Venture Capital
Investor Stage:Early Stage, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries:Finance, Financial Services
Description: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that powers a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a world-class, category-defining business. The company brings more than three decades of experience in building and supporting companies. Accel's vision for entrepreneurship and business enables it to identify and invest in the companies that will be responsible for the growth of next-generation industries. Accel-backed companies include Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Lookout Security, MoPub, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Vox Media, and others. Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz founded it in Palo Alto, California in 1983.

Sequoia Capital

Menlo Park, California, United States
Investments: 1768
Exits: 357
Investor Type:Venture Capital
Investor Stage:Early Stage, Late Stage Venture
Industries:Business Development, Finance, Financial Services
Description: Sequoia is a venture capital focused on energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile startups. The firm helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. Its spurs them to push the boundaries of what's possible. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services, healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology. The company was founded by Don Valentine in November 1972 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Bossanova Investimentos

SÃo Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Investments: 1692
Exits: 143
Investor Type:Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investor Stage:Early Stage, Seed
Industries:Finance, Financial Services
Description: BossaNova is the number one Brazilian Micro Venture Capital. We are the most active investor in the pre-seed stage in Latin America with more than 1200 investments in over 1000 Startups. We also invest in global companies, directly or through co-investment syndicates on AngelList.

Intel Capital

Santa Clara, California, United States
Investments: 1536
Exits: 484
Investor Type:Corporate, Venture Capital
Investor Stage:Early Stage, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries:Finance, Financial Services
Description: Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, edge, 5G, autonomy, cybersecurity, client & gaming, enterprise applications, silicon design & manufacturing, and a wide range of other disruptive technologies. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested US$12.9 billion in more than 1,582 companies worldwide. Intel Capital has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Google for Startups

Mountain View, California, United States
Investments: 1380
Exits: 47
Investor Type:Accelerator/Incubator
Investor Stage:Non Equity Assistance
Industries:Business Development, Communities, EdTech, Internet
Description:

Google for Startups is Google's initiative to help startups thrive across every corner of the world. We connect them with the best of Google's products, connections, and best practices through our global network of partners and our six Google for Startups Campuses. We're here to support determined startups everywhere, build something better. Google for Startups partners with over fifty best-in-class startup organizations to grow entrepreneurial ecosystems and help startups succeed in over 135 countries. We offer our partners financial support, exclusive programming, and access to Google and our global partner network. Partners include local tech hubs from Accra to Zurich, as well as accelerators and diversity-focused groups. Google for Startups Campuses are physical spaces where startup founders and teams get unparalleled access to mentorship, education, and trainings from Google and their local startup community. At Campuses we provide free access to workspace, events, and a diverse community of like-minded entrepreneurs. Google runs six Campuses, in London, Tel Aviv, Seoul, Madrid, São Paulo, and Warsaw. To find out more, visit campus.co.

SV Angel

San Francisco, California, United States
Investments: 1375
Exits: 419
Investor Type:Micro VC
Investor Stage:Early Stage, Seed
Industries:Finance, Financial Services
Description: SV Angel is a San Francisco-based seed fund founded by Ron Conway. SV Angel provides seed investment and advice to early stage companies focused on Internet software. SV Angel takes a portfolio approach to seed investing. We differ from a traditional venture capital firm by not taking board seats and investing a larger number of companies. We leverage a best in class relationship network to be the valley's human router and help startups with business development, financing, M&A and other strategic advice. Ron pioneered this approach over 20 years ago and SV Angel still employs it today. Over the last 25 years the firm and partners have invested and advised companies such as Facebook, Google, PayPal, Dropbox, Airbnb, Pinterest, Twitter, SnapChat, Square, Cloudera and many more.

Kleiner Perkins

Menlo Park, California, United States
Investments: 1365
Exits: 322
Investor Type:Venture Capital
Investor Stage:Early Stage, Late Stage Venture
Industries:Finance, Financial Services
Description: Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm specializing in investing in early-stage, growth, and incubation companies. The firm continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas. They also focus on early computer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. It also invests in digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries. Kleiner Perkins was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.

Right Side Capital Management

San Francisco, California, United States
Investments: 1365
Exits: 186
Investor Type:Micro VC
Investor Stage:Seed
Industries:Finance, Financial Services
Description: Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies. RSCM was established in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Andreessen Horowitz

Menlo Park, California, United States
Investments: 1339
Exits: 198
Investor Type:Venture Capital
Investor Stage:Early Stage, Late Stage Venture
Industries:CleanTech, Finance, Financial Services
Description: Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid stage, growth, and late stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data-storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Bessemer Venture Partners

Redwood City, California, United States
Investments: 1308
Exits: 292
Investor Type:Venture Capital
Investor Stage:Early Stage, Late Stage Venture
Industries:Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
Description: Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long-standing companies. With more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer, and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth. Bessemer's global portfolio includes Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr, and Toast and has $19 billion of assets under management. Bessemer has teams of investors and partners located in Tel Aviv, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, London, Boston, Beijing, and Bangalore. Born from innovations in steel more than a century ago, Bessemer's storied history has afforded its partners the opportunity to celebrate and scrutinize its best investment decisions (see Memos at bvp.com/memos) and also learn from its mistakes (see Anti-Portfolio at bvp.com/anti-portfolio).

Alumni Ventures

Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
Investments: 1271
Exits: 109
Investor Type:Angel Group, Micro VC
Investor Stage:Convertible Note, Early Stage, Initial Coin Offering, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries:Alumni, Business Development
Description: Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC. It helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with expertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, and Mike Collins co-founded the firm in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2013.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Menlo Park, California, United States
Investments: 1221
Exits: 213
Investor Type:Venture Capital
Investor Stage:Early Stage, Late Stage Venture
Industries:Finance, Financial Services
Description: Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later stage, expansion stage, start-up, growth companies, and incubation and specializes in debt financing for start-up and growth companies. Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India. The firm was founded in 2000 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Beijing, China; Shanghai, China; New Delhi, India; and Herzelia Pituach, Israel.

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