All Boston Venture Firms- Listed.
The startup ecosystem in Boston is on fire, in the best way possible. In April of 2018, Techcrunch reported that Boston had exceeded NYC in total annual venture investment, second only to San Francisco. Looking at the landscape though, it is really no surprise that startup capital is flowing into Boston. Beyond our great universities (MIT, Harvard, BC, Northeastern…) our community runs 50+ incubators and accelerators (MassChallange, Techstars, LearnLaunch, Founder Institute…) that give entrepreneurs the resources and guidance they need to develop and iterate quickly.
The combination of our deep talent pool, small city network, and culture of furthering innovation for the sake of bettering the future leads to perfect conditions for smart venture capitalists to want to invest.
There are many great venture capital firms in Boston, the following is a list of most of them. I say most of them because
1. It is likely impossible to encompass all of them and
2. Some VC firms are very specialized (think BioTech) and only take 1–2 investments / year
-I didn’t include those firms on this list, but they exist- and you should seek them out if your product is very technical/ specialized. Okay, on to the list. This is updated as of December 2018:
Every Boston VC Firm- Listed
Advanced Technology Ventures
We’re interested in revolutionary ideas that are truly disruptive and address large, unmet market needs. Investment areas include IT, Healthcare, and Cleantech.
Arch Venture Partners
We’re catalyzing discoveries that prevent, detect, and cure disease.
Accomplice
This firm invests in early stage companies with a focus on being the largest investor in the majority of the companies in their portfolio. Their partners are a passionate and brilliant group that gives back to the community through their investments and directly with outreach programs. They have backed most of the big startups to have ever come out of Boston and continue to be in on the cutting edge.
Ascent Venture Partners
Focus is on enterprise tech and B2B companies.
Bain Capital Ventures
Areas of investment interest for Bain are SaaS, Infrastructure Software, and Data Services, FinTech, and Healthcare. They tend to invest at the early stages (seed and series A level).
Battery Ventures
Battery’s global venture-capital practice spans technology sectors and investment stages ranging from seed to growth.
Bessemer Venture Partners
They make seed and Series A investments across all sectors, partnering early with founders to build their businesses. As their companies grow, we’re there at every stage.
Blue Chip Venture Company
Strategy: to invest in late financing rounds of venture-backed companies with proven business plans in the digital media and big data industries that plan to be sold, recapitalized, or taken public within a target of two years.
Blue Hub Capital
National mission-driven nonprofit organization dedicated to building healthy communities where low-income people live and work.
Borealis Ventures
We invest in the realms we know best: design and engineering software.
Boston Millennia Partners
Providing Growth Equity Financing to Healthcare and Business Services Companies.
Braemar Energy Ventures
Braemar Energy Ventures is a leading energy venture capital firm.
Brook Partner Fund
Brook Partner Fund IV is actively seeking new opportunities to invest in or acquire controlling stakes in profitable growth stage businesses within healthcare IT, tech enabled services, and database/marketing technologies.
Charles River Ventures
This firm’s focus is Series A, with only a few Seed or Series B investments — they’re interested in becoming a lead investor early on. Their past investments include Twitter and Zendesk. You can contact their Boston office here.
Charles River Fund (CRV)
They invest in big ideas in a variety of industries. Cool firm with a great culture- direct quote: “Open, honest and direct communication is important. We believe in respect first and foremost. You’ll never see us pull out our phones in meetings. No kidding — at CRV, there’s a fine for doing that — something we’ve never had to collect. We are an investor team that works together every day. We make decisions quickly, often going from first meeting to a funding decision in a week.”
Clarus Funds
Clarus is a leading global investment firm dedicated to life sciences.
Commonwealth Capital Ventures
Commonwealth Capital Ventures is a leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth stage technology companies.
Commons Capital
Commons capital invests in promising young companies whose products, services and corporate cultures promote a sustainable economy and deliver market solutions to major social and environmental problems.
Converge VC
B2B tech all day, every day — up and down the stack and across verticals.
Cue Ball Ventures
Investment in technology, data and design, information services, enterprise internet and digital media companies.
Dace Ventures
Dace Ventures invests in the Next Wave of new media, consumer marketing and mobile service evolutions.
FA Tech Ventures
FATV is an early-stage, technology venture capital firm, based in Boston. We invest in iconoclastic businesses — companies that are creating a market or are game changers in technology.
Fairhaven Capital
We are active investors targeting early stage, high-potential companies operating in markets with rapid growth characteristics.
Flybridge Capital Partners
Flybridge is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm with offices in Boston and New York City whose mission is to partner with talented entrepreneurs to build exceptional and valuable technology companies. They really like to invest in disruptive companies who can enter into and transform an industry.
F Prime Capital
We are a global venture capital firm investing in healthcare and technology, with a heritage that spans four decades.
Flagship Pioneering
Pioneering is Flagship’s proven process for originating and developing scientific ventures with unprecedented impact.
Flint Capital
We invest in promising entrepreneurs and technology ventures with global ambitions. Our unique global positioning enables us to support Israeli and European ventures on both sides of the ocean, as they expand into the US market.
Fontinalis Partners
Fontinalis uniquely invests in technology companies improving next-generation mobility.
Founder Collective
Second generation pharmacist TJ Parker, and his co-founder Elliot Cohen, had a compelling vision of a robot-powered pharmacy. Founder Collective is deliberately anti-thematic. They only invest in seed stage companies and don’t “follow on” with rounds of funding. Their mission is to be the most aligned fund for founders at the seed stage.
G20 Ventures
G20 Ventures provides early traction capital for East Coast enterprise tech startups. We prefer technology risk to market risk, and won’t generally invest in 100% consumer-facing businesses.
General Catalyst Partners
With investments in companies like AirBnB, Stipe, and HubSpot- it is easy to draw a pattern with General Catalysts investment strategy (disrupt big markets using tech). They make “early stage transformational” investments and have great outreach/ learning programs.
Glasswing Ventures
Early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to investing in the next generation of AI-powered technology companies. Glasswing is unique in that the majority of their partners are female as is the founder, Rudina Seseri.
Globespan
Globespan is the VC firm passionate about partnering with entrepreneurs as they take their companies to market. We uniquely serve these companies, helping them establish the infrastructure required to scale their offerings. We invest in startups in the IT infrastructure, SaaS, mobile, and Internet industries.
Google Ventures
Investment arm of parent company Alphabet, they invest in companies in the fields of life science, healthcare, artificial intelligence, robotics, transportation, cyber security, and agriculture, our companies aim to improve lives and change industries.
Grand Banks Capital
Investment markets include Internet infrastructure, software and software services, security and storage applications, media technologies and services, financial technologies and services, and wireless technologies and services.
Great Hill Partners
Wide variety of companies in their portfolio, all of which are beyond seed stage.
Greylock Partners
Greylock Partners is famously known for having invested in Facebook and LinkedIn and with Partners like Reid Hoffman and Josh McFarland- they have some serious power. Luckily, they use that power to further the advancement of consumer and enterprise products and technology. They invest in “market defining” companies in the early stages.
HealthCare Ventures
HealthCare Ventures is a leading life science venture capital firm investing in pre-clinical or early clinical stage, focused companies with potential to transform patient care.
Highland Capital Partners
Our companies have the unbridled courage to upend existing industries or create entirely new ones. Whether a small team in its early stages or the CEO of a company transitioning to the big time, we keep lifelong commitments with the great minds we meet.
Housataonic
Housatonic partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build lasting companies that re-define their categories in a diverse array of sectors.
Hyperplane Venture Capital
Hyperplane Venture Capital is an investment firm focused on exceptional founders building machine intelligence and data companies.
Indicator Ventures
Indicator Ventures partners with visionary entrepreneurs leveraging digital technologies to drive efficiencies in businesses and consumer life — what we call “digital efficiencies.”
Kodiak Venture Partners
Focuses on seed and early stage investments in emerging communications/ wireless, software, internet/ new media, and life technology companies.
Longworth Venture Partners
Internet & Digital Media, Business Internet, System and Infrastructure.
LRV Health Capital
LRVHealth provides early stage capital and support to the next generation of high impact healthcare companies.
Launch Capital
Launch Capital is focused on investing in entrepreneurs at the seed stage in diverse industries.
Mass Ventures
Mass Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on fueling the Massachusetts innovation economy by funding early-stage, high-growth Massachusetts startups as they move from concept to commercialization. Mass Ventures focuses on Series A investments and considers occasional and opportunistic seed rounds. We provide capital for first-time CEOs and/or founders and consider industry segments not adequately served by the venture community.
Matrix Partners
Early stage investments in B2B, infrastructure, and consumer technology startups.
MC Partners
We look for exciting opportunities focused in the communications, IT and media sectors. The decades of investment experience our team has in our core industries keeps us at the forefront of emerging trends.
Next View Ventures
Next View Ventures has a specific investment strategy: They invest in the early stages of a company that is focused on solving “the important problems people face every day. They’re building products in categories that people spend most of their time and money — food, housing, apparel, transportation, health, work and money, and entertainment.” Most of their investments are technology companies that disrupted the way their industries operated.
North Atlantic Capital
Growth capital for innovative technology companies.
North Bridge Venture Partners
North Bridge Venture Partners invests in exceptional people whose ideas have the potential to disrupt the way we live and work. We provide seed-to-growth financing to help transform those ideas into companies and those companies into market leaders.
North Hill Ventures
At North Hill Ventures, we focus exclusively on financial services and financial technology investments. We offer entrepreneurs proven investment experience and in-depth knowledge of our targeted sectors as they work to build successful, market-leading companies. We take a visionary approach in working with entrepreneurs and believe that every new opportunity is a chance to redefine the financial services landscape.
Openview Partners
Once we understand what will move the needle in your business, we dig in to help. You’re in control, but we plug in at all levels of your organization to help you organize, prioritize and extend the reach of your team in the areas that matter most: customer acquisition, customer success, product monetization, corporate development, talent and so much more.
Polaris Partners
Polaris Partners invests in startups at the intersection of technology and healthcare, at various stages of development. They often invest in multiple rounds of funding with their portfolio companies.
Pillar VC
We believe a handful of new technologies will transform the way we live, work and create in the coming decades. We’re not interested in what matters today; we’re interested in what matters tomorrow.
RockPort Capital
Multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in the areas of alternative and traditional energy, mobility, and sustainability.
Sigma Prime Ventures
Sigma Prime, together with its West Coast partner Sigma West, holds more than $2 billion under management through its investments in “innovative technology startups.” The East Coast-focused Sigma Prime opts for primarily early-stage companies in the SaaS, mobile, and cloud sectors. A contact form and address are available here.
Spark Capital
With $3 billion under management, Spark in a wide variety of stages and sectors, including — deep breath — Commerce, consumer, Fintech, frontier, marketplaces, media, and software & services. They can be contacted here.
.406 Ventures
Cybersecurity, Healthcare IT, Data/Analytics, and Cloud Infrastructure are the main areas of interest for .406 Ventures, a Boston venture firm particularly interested in early-stage enterprise tech companies. They’ve raised close to $650M across four funds. You can check out their portfolio here and find their contact information at the bottom of their homepage.
XFactor Ventures
We invest in companies with a female founder — the “X Factor” — who have the insight and drive to build the next billion-dollar company. We provide needed capital, the connections and ‘in the trenches’ advice and mentorship to our portfolio.
If I missed a firm or any information here should be edited, please reach out to me (diannalesage@gmail.com).
-Roamy.
