Before the buzz. Before the traction. Before anyone believes. These VCs do.
Ex-founders. Operators. Solo capitalists. Athletes.
All of them are spotting breakout companies when there’s no product, no revenue — just a pitch deck and conviction.
Despite a tighter funding market, they’re backing the future of AI, defense tech, fintech, biotech, and SaaS.
Here are 21 names from the Seed 100 list and the startups they’re betting will change everything: 👇
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@darian314 – Gradient Ventures
Investments: Gigs, Legora, Krea, Numeral, Range, Writer
- Ann DeWitt – Engine Ventures
Investments: Cellino, Bexorg, Matrisome Bio, Terragia, Anthology, Kano Therapeutics, Source Bio
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@justinkan – Goat Capital
Investments: Torch, Sendbird, Paystack, ForeVR Games, Cruise
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@nickcandito – ACOF
Investments: Carta, TrueMed, Metafy, Augment Markets, Atomic Insights, BRM
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@Itamar_Novick – Recursive Ventures
Investments: Deel, May Mobility, Akash Network, Tomato AI, Anjuna Security
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@gokulr – Marathon Management Partners
Investments: Deel, BetterUp, Figma, Printify, Boon, Atlas
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@atShruti – Array Ventures
Investments: Capsule, Eventual Computing, Mozart Data,
Placer.ai, Rad AI,
Runway.team
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@rohitkbansal – Titan Capital
Investments: Ola, Urban Company, Mamaearth, OfBusiness, Unicommerce, Credgenics, Giva, Shadowfax
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@bling0 – Bling Capital
Investments: GitHub, Rippling, Airtable, Spellbook, Noetica
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@nbanta – B12 / Stellar Capital
Investments: Codeium, Cognition Labs, Grammarly, ZeroEyes, Varda, Chai Discovery
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@collinmathilde – Angel Investor / Front
Investments: Retool, Mercury, Vanta, Copilot, Meter, Browser Use
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@ramtinnaimi – Abstract
Investments: Solana, Rippling, WorkOS, Hebbia, Passes, Replit
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@rrhoover – Weekend Fund
Investments: Atlys, Deel, Extropic, Justpoint, Luminai, Pipe, Truemed
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@MarlonCNichols – MaC Venture Capital
Investments: Thrive Market, Pipe, Finesse, Purestream, Seed Health, Truebill
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@MartinGTobias – Incisive Ventures
Investments: Jeeves, OpenSea, Enable, Yassir, Portside, LMNT
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@adwane – Village Global
Investments: Commontools, P-1 AI, AirGarage, Cherry, Pave, Grow Therapy
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@rauchg – Angel Investor / Vercel
Investments: Perplexity, ElevenLabs, Resend, Spline, Braintrust
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@laurarippy – Alumni Ventures
Investments: Daydream, Rent App, Barnwell Bio, Atomic Supply, TRM Labs,
Believer.gg
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@edsim – Boldstart Ventures
Investments: BigID, Common Paper, Kustomer, Protect AI, Snyk, Tessl
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@jefffluhr – Craft Ventures
Investments: Warby Parker, Twilio, Houzz, CrewAI, Arch, Pickle
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@alitamaseb – DCVC
Investments: StarkWare, ElectronX, Odyssey, Earth AI, Chai Discovery
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