Fund Partners
Here are a few of the top-tier venture fund partners that we’ve invested in across the Southeast.
champion hill ventures
Chapel Hill, NC
Champion Hill Ventures is an NC based venture investor focused on early stage deep technology, applied science, synthetic biology and other overlooked problems many VC firms tend to avoid.
cofounders capital
Cary, NC
Cofounders Capital is a free startup accelerator and early stage seed fund focused on software ventures in the Triangle. The Cofounders Capital Lab and Fund is managed by serially successful entrepreneur, David Gardner, with a team of over eighty advisers and volunteer mentors who are all investors in the fund, eager to support entrepreneurship in the Triangle and to help its portfolio companies and entrepreneurs succeed.
excelerate health ventureS
Research Triangle Park, NC
Excelerate Health Ventures is redefining healthcare venture investing. The firm is founded by experienced entrepreneurs with extensive startup and investment experience and a hands-on, roll-up your sleeves and a make it happen operational team. In addition to general experience in healthcare and venture capital, Excelerate brings specific scientific, business, financial, intellectual property and start-up experience that benefit its portfolio companies and co-investors. The team is passionate and dedicated to the healthcare market.
fulcrum equity partners
Atlanta, GA
Fulcrum Equity Partners manages over $600 million and makes equity investments in rapidly growing business that are led by strong entrepreneurs and management teams. The firm targets companies within the healthcare, B2B SaaS, and technology-enabled services industries. Fulcrum provides financing to meet a wide range of needs including internal growth initiatives, acquisitions, shareholder liquidity, buy-outs, recapitalizations, and divestitures.
good growth capital
Charleston, SC
Good Growth Capital (GGC) is an early stage venture capital firm known for its exceptional expertise in finding, cultivating and assessing complex science and technology start-ups. Formed by a team of experienced operators, the firm’s strong capacity for understanding early stage science and technology investments enables it to invest well at an earlier stage than most venture capital firms, giving priority access to high-performing investment opportunities. GGC invests in seed stage and Series A deals through the General Fund family and in pre-seed and seed stage companies through the Infinite Corridor Fund. GGC is majority women- and minority-owned and is uniquely positioned geographically in both the Southeast and New England.
hatteras venture partners
Durham, NC
Hatteras Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that builds transformational companies in the areas of biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, healthcare IT, and related opportunities in human medicine. The firm typically invest in companies built on cutting-edge science from leading academic institutions. Hatteras has invested in companies across the United States in most of the major hotspots for health innovation. Given its headquarters location in RTP, NC, Hatteras plays a leadership role in building companies in North Carolina and the Southeastern United States, where technology is plentiful but resident venture capital is limited.
IDEA fund partners
Durham, NC
As one of the oldest and most active early-stage investment firms in the Southeast, IDEA Fund’s investment philosophy has been honed from years of experience. This experienced team funds entrepreneurs who are applying technology and business model innovations to industries in the earliest stages of digital disruption with an emphasis on underserved people, places and stages.
JUMPSTART NOVA
Nashville, TN
Jumpstart Nova invests in seed and Series A healthcare companies led by Black founders who are building companies in tech-enabled services, biotech, diagnostic devices, health IT, digital health, and consumer health and wellness. With the insight and support of the leaders of the healthcare industry, the firm catalyzes the growth of its portfolio companies.
las olas venture capital
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Las Olas Venture Capital (LOVC) is a seed-stage lead investor VC firm. The firm typically invests up to $2M in seed rounds of B2B software companies and then works closely with the founders to get them to the next level. Las Olas believes there is a new generation of B2B companies that are emerging out of places that are largely ignored by traditional venture capital, and that this is a global phenomenon driven by the mass digitization of industries. LOVC aims to be the partner of choice for those founders.
OVAL PARK CAPITAL
Raleigh, NC
Oval Park Capital invests in early-stage companies in underserved markets in the United States. The firm supports exceptional and diverse founders that have developed and are commercializing disruptive technologies to solve complex problems in large inefficient global industries. While Oval Park is generally industry-agnostic, most of its portfolio companies operate in large, inefficient, global industries where scientific and engineering breakthroughs can rapidly generate value. Some of these industries include healthcare, financial, cybersecurity, agricultural, sustainable food, animal health, clean energy, water, construction, and industrial technologies.
overline
Atlanta, GA
Overline is an Atlanta-based, founder-operator led venture capital firm focused on investing in seed-stage businesses in the Southeast region of the United States. The firm invests early—from the concept stage, through initial traction and company-building, leading pre-seed and seed rounds.
panoramic VENTURES
Atlanta, GA
Panoramic Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Atlanta that takes a “wider-view” approach to investing by targeting the Southeast and Midwest and placing a focus on diverse founders and university startups. Panoramic opens new doors for overlooked founders, giving more entrepreneurs access to capital to build leading tech companies.
RELEVANCE VENTURES
Nashville, TN
Relevance Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that focuses on comprehensive social, environmental and individual wellness. Since 2011, Relevance has grown into a leading investment firm targeting major disruptors across the nation with more than $125M in total AUM. Relevance is fixated on deploying capital into startups that create positive change for the everyday consumer, empower individuals and communities to reach their full potential, and help reduce the burden on our nation’s healthcare system.
tech square ventures
Atlanta, GA
Tech Square Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. The firm helps visionary founders build companies that reshape industries and create new markets. The Tech Square platform is built on a strategic network of innovation ecosystem, corporate, and university relationships that help founders inform and accelerate go-to-market strategies. Engage helps enterprise startups get their products to customers by partnering with industry-leading Fortune 500 corporations.
topmark partners
Tampa, FL
Topmark Partners has invested together for 20 years, generating strong returns throughout several funds and across multiple business cycles. Since 1999, the team has collectively invested over $75 million in over 45 companies. Investors in our funds include some of the nation’s largest financial institutions and highly successful entrepreneurs. Topmark Partners has demonstrated a proven ability to develop trusted relationships with highly dynamic management teams. The firm catalyzes the rapid growth of technology-enabled companies led by passionate entrepreneurs solving business problems. These companies are often delivering solutions that transform industries.