BVCC works with the following Host VC Firms to Employ HBCU Summer Interns and Investment Fellows
3x5 Partners is a growth-oriented life science and natural resources venture capital firm. They provide investors with wealth-creating private equity opportunities. 3x5 is led by Tony Arnerich, Nicholas Walrod, and Joe Biller.
645 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. They provide portfolio founders with hands-on assistance to accelerate product-market fit, scale their organizations and achieve key milestones on the path to the growth stage. 645 is led by Nnamdi Okike and Aaron Holiday.
American Family Ventures is an Insurtech venture capital that focuses on bringing the carrier perspective to early stage startups that are shaping the future of the insurance industry.
The Artemis Fund is a VC fund on a mission to diversify and modernize wealth by investing in female founders.
Azolla Ventures is founded by Prime Coalition, a nonprofit organization that partners with philanthropists and other mission-driven investors to support market-driven innovations designed to catalyze, deepen, or accelerate solutions for climate change.
Base10 is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs to bring automation to traditional sectors of the economy. Base10 is led by Adeyemi Ajao, TJ Nahigian, Jamison Hill and Rexhi Dollaku.
Black Tech Nation Ventures is a national fund that aims to invest in primarily in U.S.-based technology companies. Their overall goal is to use dollars, platform, and community to generate wealth for underrepresented founders in tech, while funding tech start-ups founded by Black and/or diverse entrepreneurs with significant diversity in their leadership teams.
Breakthrough Energy is an investor-led fund that aims to build new, cutting-edge companies that will lead the world to net-zero emissions. Their strategy links government-funded research and patient, risk-tolerant capital to bring transformative clean energy innovations to market as quickly as possible. Breakthrough Energy is led by Rodi Guidero, Mike Boots, and Jonah Goldman.
Brown Venture Group, LLC is a venture capital firm exclusively for Black, Latino and Indigenous technology startups.
Collab Capital is a venture firm that invests financial, human, and network capital to effectively support, grow and sustain Black-owned innovative businesses. Collab is led by Barry Givens, Jewel Burks, and Justin Dawkins.
Concrete Rose invests financial & social capital into exceptional ventures led by underrepresented founders of color, founders addressing the needs of underrepresented consumers of color, and founders with a demonstrated commitment to creating inclusive cultures and building diverse teams. Concrete Rose is led by Sean Mendy, Ian Beadle, Jason Norman, Will Bumpus, and Danae Sterental.
Courtside Ventures is the leading early-stage fund focused on Sports, Lifestyle, and Gaming.
DCVC is a seed, series A, and growth-stage venture capital firm. They invest in companies that apply deep compute, big data, and IT infrastructure technologies to transform giant industries. DCVC is led by Zachary Bogue and Matthew Ocko.
Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer Ventures is a seed-stage investment firm. They lead leads seed rounds in bold founders who use code to create transformational companies. The founding general partners of Eniac include Hadley Harris, Nihal Mehta, Tim Young, and Vic Singh.
Equal Ventures is a seed-stage venture fund that backs the founders and businesses that are disrupting legacy markets. Their thesis focuses on retail, insurance, supply chain, climate, and care industries. Equal is led by Richard Kerby and Rick Zullo.
F-Prime Capital is a Cambridge Massachusetts-based investment firm with over $3 billion in assets under management and is backed by a worldwide team of investors, engineers, doctors, and scientists dedicated to positive change. The Health and IT focused firm makes early-stage investments across MedTech, therapeutics, FinTech, and enterprise software. Notable investments includeAlibaba, Recurly, Cloudant, and MCI.
Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early, seed, and later-stage venture and debt financing investments in technology companies. Floodgate is led by Mike Maples Jr. and Ann Miura-Ko.
General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that invests in powerful, positive change that endures for our entrepreneurs, our investors, our people, and society. They support founders with a long-term view who challenge the status quo, partnering with them from seed to growth stage and beyond to build companies that withstand the test of time. With offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York City, London, and Boston, the firm has helped support the growth of businesses such as Airbnb, Deliveroo, Guild, Gusto, Hubspot, Illumio, Lemonade, Livongo, Oscar, Samsara, Snap, Stripe, and Warby Parker
Greycroft is a leading venture capital firm focused on investments in the Internet and mobile markets. Greycroft leverages an extensive network of media and technology industry connections to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, bring their products to market, and build successful businesses.
G Squared is a global venture capital fund manager that deploys a differentiated investment strategy to deliver access and exposure to some of the world’s most exciting growth-stage technology companies. G Squared funds have invested in over 100 companies, including household names like Airbnb, Bombas, Bolt, Coursera, Instacart, Lyft, Spotify, Toast, and Turo
HealthVenture is a global foundry innovation center of excellence and an investment fund that supports and scales an elite cohort of early and seed-stage digital healthcare entrepreneurs whose goal is to transform digital health. They know that end-to-end support for academic medical entrepreneurs accelerates the creation of impactful digital solutions. HealthVenture is led by Donna Lecky and Sri Muthu.
HP Inc. is a multinational IT company that offers hardware, software, and related business services. It is well known for designing and manufacturing personal computers, printers, and related accessories.
HubSpot Ventures is an accelerator and seed-stage venture capital firm. HubSpot venture is led by Andrew Lindsay.
Insight Partners is an American venture capital and private equity firm that focuses on revenue acceleration and profit in software companies. They recognize industry patterns, emerging tech markets and software trends. The VC is lead by founders: Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock.
Leadout Capital is an early stage venture capital fund with a focus on backing “non-obvious”, resilient founders working on solving problems in overlooked and underserved markets
M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, invests in early-stage enterprise software companies with a focus on applied AI, business applications, infrastructure, security, and vanguard technologies. M12 is led by Tamara Steffens, Mony Hassid, Samir Kumar, and Matthew Goldstein.
MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors. MaC is led by Marlon Nichols, Mike Palank, Charles King, and Adrian Fenty.
Material Impact Fund invests in companies that transform material technologies into products that make an impact on real-world problems. Material Impact is led by Carmichael Roberts and Adam Sharkawy.
Newark Venture Partners is an early-stage venture fund, providing capital, company-building services, and residence to innovative tech startups. The firm not only affirms early-stage startups, aiding in both financial and strategic growth but helps entrepreneurs get to the next level of business while catalyzing economic development and the creation of jobs in the Newark vicinity. NVP is led by Vaughn Crowe, Tom Wisniewski, and Dan Borok.
Pendulum is a strategic investment and advisory platform that seeks to accelerate opportunity and value creation for founders and leaders of color.
Precursor is a pre-seed venture capital firm that invests in the first institutional round of companies. They are committed to investing in founders who represent a wide variety of backgrounds in terms of gender, race, background, academic experience, and life circ*mstances. Precursor is led by Charles Hudson and Sydney Thomas.
Prelude Ventures is an early, seed, and late-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies that address the critical need for innovation across Climate Tech. They back exceptional entrepreneurs and management teams addressing large market opportunities that reduce the global economy’s carbon intensity. Prelude is led by Nat Simons and Laura Baxter-Simons.
Primary Venture Partners is a seed-stage venture firm focused on transformative, NYC-based startups. Primary serves as the first call for its portfolio companies, dedicating significant resources to best position its companies for the journey from Seed to Series A and beyond. Primary Venture Partners is led by Ben Sun and Brad Svrluga.
Prime Impact Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in transformative technology companies with the potential for gigaton-scale climate impact. Drawing on catalytic capital with a long-term lens, the fund is purpose-built to support high-risk, high-reward ventures at the earliest stages. Prime Impact is led by Matthew Nordan, Dr. Johanna Wolfson, and Amy Duffuor.
Questa Capital Management is a healthcare venture growth equity firm investing in breakout growth companies. Questa seeks out disruptive business models that improve lives and provide better quality and more efficient care. They partner with superior management teams to help build innovative market leaders. Questa is led by Ryan Drant and Bradley Sloan.
Reach Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that supports entrepreneurs that develop technology solutions for challenges in early childhood, K-12, and higher education. They invest in early-stage tech tools, applications, content, and services to improve educational opportunities for all children. The Fund also acts as a catalyst, inspiring and enabling traditional and non-traditional investors to provide capital to the fast-growing ed-tech market. Reach is led by Jennifer Carolan, Shauntel Garvey, Wayee Chu, and Esteban Sosnik.
Share Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that works with entrepreneurs to create new business concepts, enable traction, provide seed funding, and drive acceleration through strategic partnerships with top influencers, corporations, and investors. Shares Ventures is led by Hamet Watt and Scott Howard.
Tech Square Ventures is an Atlanta-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in enterprise, marketplace and platform, and tech-enabled service companies. Their platform is built on a strategic network of innovation ecosystems, corporate, and university relationships that help founders inform and accelerate go-to-market strategies. Tech Square is led by Blake Patton and Vasant Kamath.
Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies. Threshold is led by Emily Melton and Josh Stein.
Tusk Venture Partners invests in early-stage technology startups operating in heavily regulated markets, or creating new business models where no regulatory framework exists.
Unseen is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in healthcare companies by underrepresented founders and founders building solutions for marginalized communities. Unseen is led by Kayode Owens and Laura Terheyden.
Waterman Ventures is a community of Brown University alumni: investors, entrepreneurs, and innovation enthusiasts. The Waterman Ventures fund enables accredited and qualified investors to directly participate in the next great Brown-affiliated businesses. Waterman Ventures is led by Ludwig Pierre Schulze, Dave Fan, Taylor Warden, and Ward Urban.
