Boston VCs

A guide of active VC firms in Boston

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We've created this guide to identify active VCs across the country and in key cities. The goal as always is to help foster connection across the startup ecosystem. Are you a VC looking to be added? Ping Shai Goldman or Phil Chen on LinkedIn & Twitter. Shai Goldman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaigoldman/ https://x.com/shaig Phil Chen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipalexanderchen/ https://x.com/PhilChen22

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Boston VCs

186 Ventures

186 Ventures is a pre-seed & seed stage VC firm based in Boston investing across consumer, enterprise, and disruptive tech. We are generalist investors that bring full operational & strategic support and an unparalleled network to founders, beginning at the earliest stages of building a high growth tech business.

Visible Hands

Visible Hands is a pre-seed venture capital firm, backing the overlooked, but formidable founders who are transforming the future.

Highland Capital Partners

Founded in 1987, Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm focused on putting the entrepreneur first. With offices in Boston and Menlo Park, Highland has raised over $3B in committed capital and invested in more than 270 companies, resulting in category-defining businesses across consumer and enterprise technology.

RA Capital Management

Founded in 2004, RA Capital Management is a multi-stage investment manager dedicated to evidence-based investing in public and private healthcare, life sciences, and planetary health companies. RA Capital creates and funds innovative companies, from private seed rounds to public follow-on financings, allowing management teams to drive value creation from inception through commercialization and beyond.

F-Prime Capital

For the last forty years, our venture capital group has had the privilege of backing other great entrepreneurs as they built ground-breaking companies in technology and life sciences, including Atari, MCI, ROLM Corp., Alibaba, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, and Ultragenyx.

Link Ventures

Link Ventures invests in early-stage technology companies solving the needs of corporations and consumers through the power of data science, machine learning, and AI.

Polaris Partners

Investors in transformative healthcare and biotechnology companies. Trusted advisors to entrepreneurs and operators.

Dorm Room Fund

Dorm Room Fund is where investors and entrepreneurs start their careers. We back student founders with a network of investors, mentors, and their first check. We’re proud to support the strongest community of student entrepreneurs across the nation.

.406 Ventures

.406 Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm with over $1.4B under management and nearly two decades of experience leading or co-leading early-stage investments in pioneering healthcare, data + AI, and cybersecurity companies founded by visionary entrepreneurs.

Founder Collective

Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund, built by a collection of successful entrepreneurs, providing the first professional round of capital to promising entrepreneurs with compelling business concepts. Founder Collective is focused on helping the next generation of great entrepreneurs build important and lasting businesses. Founder Collective focuses on technology-driven companies across a broad range of industries.

Flint Capital

Flint Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund. We invest in the greatest companies from the US, Israel, and Europe and help them by being a bridge to the US market.

Underscore VC

Underscore VC is an early-stage, Boston-based venture capital firm backing bold entrepreneurs with an aligned community designed to fit each startup's unique needs.

J2 Ventures

We are passionate about empowering entrepreneurs who are bold enough to solve the hardest national security problems in the world. Our purpose is to provide these entrepreneurs with the capital to grow and the expertise to navigate the public sector as a private company.

Anzu Partners

Anzu Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in breakthrough industrial technologies. We team with entrepreneurs to develop and commercialize technological innovations by providing capital and deep expertise in business development, market positioning, global connectivity, and operations.

Pillar VC

Pillar VC partners with unstoppable founders from the moment of inception, providing the first capital in. We’re committed to helping founders grow with their companies, investing in their personal and professional development with connections, coaching and community.

MassMutual Ventures

Our investment focus is on enterprise SaaS, cybersecurity, fintech, healthtech, and climate tech companies, areas that are fundamentally transforming business processes and consumer relationships.

Accomplice VC

Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office founded by Jeff Fagnan and Ryan Moore. We are high conviction, concentrated, patient investors.

Safar Partners

Safar Partners is a seed- to growth-stage venture fund investing primarily in technology companies out of MIT, Harvard, and the University of Rochester. We invest in platform technologies in the cleantech and advanced materials, AI/IT and robotics, and life science/medical device areas.

Elephant Partners

Elephant is a venture capital firm focused on the enterprise software, consumer internet and mobile markets.

Brewer Lane Ventures

Brewer Lane Ventures is an early-stage fintech and insurtech venture capital firm based in Boston. We partner with visionaries reimagining how consumers and companies engage with financial services, how risk is assessed and managed, and how modern infrastructure enables incumbents and startups alike.

Third Rock Ventures

We discover, launch and build great companies based on bold ideas that meet at the intersection of science, strategy, business and medicine – where transformational science meets operational reality – providing the best opportunity to make a dramatic difference in patients’ lives.

SkyRiver Ventures

SkyRiver Ventures is a leading venture capital firm focused on investing in early stage cutting edge technologies

Vida Ventures

Vida Ventures is a next-generation life sciences investment firm founded in 2017 by a group of scientists, physicians, entrepreneurs and investors passionate about building and funding breakthroughs in biomedicine.

Venture Guides

Venture Guides is an early-stage infrastructure software investment firm with a unique team based approach that has resulted in over 80% of portfolio companies generating positive returns and 45% ultimately achieving unicorn status.

Innospark Ventures

We are a new breed of early-stage venture capital firm. Exclusively focused on AI, employing a builder's mindset, we are curious, rigorous and thoughtful partners, investing our own capital.

Spark Capital

Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages.

Azolla Ventures

Azolla Ventures invests in early-stage technology companies with the potential for gigaton-scale climate impact.

M Ventures

M Ventures is a strategic, corporate venture capital fund investing in Biotechnology - with verticals in Healthcare and Life Science tools - and Technology - with verticals in Semiconductors and Displays as well as Sustainable Manufacture.

Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures

Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Liberty Mutual Insurance. We want to work with entrepreneurs focused on all segments of the P&C Insurance Market, both in the US and globally. That includes technologies applied to the value chain today, and trends that may reshape the industry in the future.

Energize Capital

Energize Capital is a leading climate software investor. We partner with best-in-class innovators to accelerate the sustainability transition.

Myriad Venture Partners

An early-stage venture firm defining the future of business solutions. We invest in AI, B2B software & clean technologies.

Bessemer Venture Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long-standing companies. With more than 145 IPOs and 300 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth.

Engine Ventures

A venture firm that invests in early stage Tough Tech founders solving our most critical global challenges.

Data Point Capital

Data Point Capital is a venture capital fund focused on the internet. The fund is non-stage specific and is made up of business executives and internet leaders who have created tremendous value through building a number of very successful companies. At Data Point Capital, we are entrepreneurs helping entrepreneurs.

HubSpot Ventures

HubSpot Ventures is the strategic venture and early growth-stage investing arm of HubSpot's Corporate Development group. The $100M fund is dedicated to backing remarkable B2B software companies.

Data Point Capital

Data Point Capital is a venture capital fund focused on the internet. The fund is non-stage specific and is made up of business executives and internet leaders who have created tremendous value through building a number of very successful companies.

Suffolk Technologies

Suffolk Technologies is a leading built environment venture capital firm investing in startups transforming the construction and real estate sectors.

Companyon Ventures

Companyon Ventures invests in category-leading seed-funded B2B software startups that have found product-market fit and are ready to scale. The firm guides companies down a path to an outsized Series A and their first $10M in annual revenue through an immersive expansion program resulting in repeatable and scalable go-to-market execution.

Asymmetric

We partner with disruptive technology companies across software, marketplaces, fintech, and digital health by offering founders, early investors, and limited partners the most transparent, research-driven, and operator-centric capital.

Vestigo Ventures

Vestigo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts that invests in technology companies focused on financial services.

Material Impact

Material Impact is a champion of the bravest ideas for the future, building companies from the ground up that turn material science and deep tech innovation into products that solve enduring, large-scale, real-world problems.

SSC Venture Partners

SSC Venture Partners is a venture capital fund made up of BC alums who love entrepreneurship and want to see BC alumni and students successfully launch their own companies. Since 2014, SSC Venture Partners has offered seed funding, a summer accelerator, office space, and mentorship to hundreds of startups with Boston College founders.

milemark•capital

milemark•capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in diverse teams using applied-ai to rewrite existing business models.

Bain Capital Ventures

BCV helps founders build iconic businesses that transform the way we live and work. We invest in B2B software startups from seed to growth across our four domains of Fintech, Commerce, Apps, and Infra.

Unusual Ventures

Unusual Ventures is raising the bar for what founders should expect from their venture investors. We enable startups with the hands on support and expertise they need to be successful during their early stage journey. Unusual Ventures is an early-stage firm that invests in enterprise startups.

Indicator Ventures

Indicator Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm investing in founders building software that makes work, life, and wealth-building easier and more accessible. We are a lean and collaborative team of investors based in Boston and New York with over 50 investments to-date.

2048 Ventures

2048 Ventures is a pre-seed and seed stage VC firm

1414 Ventures

1414 Ventures is focused solely on the digital identity space which supports functions such as payments, cybersecurity, and data privacy & trust. We make pre-seed/seed stage investments to capture the most upside in this next wave of innovation and use our extensive relationships, deep technical & domain expertise, and go-to-market know-how to quickly help founders grow these companies.

Battery Ventures

Battery invests in potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies.

Converge VC

Converge is an early stage venture firm located in Boston and Silicon Valley bringing long term, committed capital to B2B tech entrepreneurs and their teams. Converge investment team and its network of leading tech executives bring significant operating and investment experience to the Converge portfolio.

Mendoza Ventures

Mendoza Ventures is an early-stage and growth venture fund based in Boston. The firm is run by husband and wife Adrian and Senofer Mendoza, entrepreneurs and prior operators who are veterans of the local startup ecosystem. The firm focuses on investments in fintech, AI, and cybersecurity, with diversity playing an important role in their investment decisions—about 70% of their portfolio consists of startups led by immigrants, people of color, and women.

C10 Labs

C10 Labs is a full-stack Venture Studio + Fund, Creating Iconic AI-First Ventures

Drive by DraftKings

Drive by DraftKings is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in SportsTech and Entertainment. Drive's mission is to push the frontier of new markets and categories revolutionizing sports, gaming and media.

Hitachi Ventures

Hitachi Ventures is the global venture capital arm of Hitachi Group, a global industrial player active in a broad range of technology sectors.

Flare Capital Partners

Flare Capital Partners is the leading healthcare venture capital firm advancing innovation-driven companies to improve positive health outcomes, broaden care access, and lower healthcare costs.

Hyperplane

We partner with exceptional founders who are leveraging machine intelligence, sensor technology, and cloud computing to solve the world’s hardest problems -- uncovering the underlying structure for each problem and creating solutions at the nexus of perception, communication, intelligence, and insight.

Building Ventures

Building Ventures invests in companies that are reshaping the way we design, build, operate, and experience our built environment.

General Catalyst

General Catalyst is a global investment and transformation company that partners with the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurs to drive resilience and applied AI. We support founders with a long-term view who challenge the status quo, partnering with them from seed to growth stage and beyond.

Grit Capital Partners

Grit Capital Partners leads pre-seed and seed stage investments in applied AI pioneers that are transforming digital experiences and transactions across Media, Martech, Commerce and Fintech.

Fontinalis Partners

Fontinalis Partners is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage startups on the new frontiers of efficient movement, industrial innovation, and sustainability. Fontinalis backs ambitious founders building iconic companies.

Clean Energy Ventures

Clean Energy Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in companies commercializing disruptive advanced energy technologies and business model innovations that can achieve significant scale by taking advantage of market-driven forces to address global climate disruption.

E14

E14 Fund, born at the MIT Media Lab, supports and invests MIT founded deep tech companies.

Glasswing Ventures

Glasswing Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in the next generation of AI and frontier technology startups that are enabling the rise of the intelligent enterprise. We are laser-focused on funding exceptional entrepreneurs who are leading the AI revolution, capitalizing on the intellectual might and talent from the premier academic institutions on the East Coast, and fostering growth for our ecosystem.

First Star Ventures

First Star partners with entrepreneurs solving real-world problems using data and machine learning, focusing on applications of frontier technologies such as AI, computational biotech, connected sensors, AR/VR, and blockchain. We believe in investing with conviction in visionary, technical founders inventing the future.