Mark Kendall
Venture Capitalists (VC) play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Minnesota Venture Capitalists (VC). We have tried to select a variety of different types of investors across a variety of niches.
This list is designed to show off the investors with exceptional track records, industry experience and a unique understanding of the ecosystem.
Top Minnesota Venture Capitalists (VC)
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Arthur Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Arthur Ventures invests in early stage B2B software companies located outside Silicon Valley.
Bread and Butter Ventures
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Bread and Butter Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage companies.
The Stable
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Private Equity
The Stable is a commerce agency helping connect brands + consumers across all channels.
Split Rock Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Split Rock Partners invests in emerging healthcare, software and Internet services companies in the Upper Midwest and West Coast.
Brightstone Venture Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Brightstone partners with bold entrepreneurs creating innovative & disruptive companies in the technology and life science sectors.
Great North Ventures
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
We invest in early-stage startups using breakthrough technologies to innovate industries dominated by inefficient processes.
TT Capital Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
TT Capital Partners is an independent merchant bank that focuses on mergers and acquisitions and financial restructuring.
Groove Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Groove Capital is a new investment firm targeting early-stage companies.
Proterra Investment Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
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Proterra Investment Partners is an alternative investment manager focused on private equity investments.
St. Paul Venture Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
St. Paul Venture Capital is an American private equity firm that invests in early-stage companies.
Bridge Builders Collaborative
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Bridge Builder Collaborative aims to support social entrepreneurs focused on scalable applications, practices, products, and tools.
Winslow Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Winslow Capital is a growth equity investment firm grounded in fundamental investing.
Vensana Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Vensana Capital is a venture capital & growth equity investment firm.
Atland Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Atland Ventures is a student-run venture capital firm that focuses on the field of financial services and venture capital.
Imperative Science Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Imperative Science Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital fund investing in groundbreaking technologies in bedrock industries.
Affinity Capital Management
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Affinity Capital Management is a Minnesota-based investment company that funds healthcare technology companies.
BlueStream Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
We are BlueStream Ventures, a venture capital partnership focused on technology companies in communications, enterprise and infrastructure
SightLine Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
SightLine Partners manages venture funds that invest in late stage medical technology companies .
Lemhi Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Lemhi Ventures is a health care services fund formed by a team of experienced innovators, entrepreneurs, and executives.
The Gramercy Fund
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
The Gramercy Fund is an early stage investment partnership with stakes in web services.
Allianz Life Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Allianz Life who are uniquely positioned to leverage our financial strength and in-house expertise to help our partners succeed.
Best Buy Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Best Buy Capital is a venture capital arm of Best Buy.
Technology Venture Partners US
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
Technology Venture Partners, LLC (TVP) is a private investment firm focused on growth-oriented technology companies across all stages.
Rice Park Capital Management
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Rice Park Capital Management is a Minneapolis based investment firm.
Whitebox Advisors
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Whitebox Advisors was founded in 2000
Vermillion Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
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Vermilion’s investment team has a combined 70 year of experience in the analysis and management of investment portfolios.
Farnam Street Financial
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Full-service national leasing company
DFJ Portage Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
DFJ Portage Ventures invests anywhere from $500,000 to over $20 million in seed and early stage companies
TRI Cap
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
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TRI Cap is a company that provides self-sufficiency counseling and transportation services.
Cornerstone Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
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Cornerstone Capital Management seeks to provide world class investment and financial advisory solutions and service to enable institutions
Coral Group
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Coral Group is a venture capital firm focused on technology companies.
Cedar Point Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Debt, Late Stage Venture
Cedar Point Capital is a boutique investment bank based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
AT&T Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
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AT&T Venture Fund II, L.P. specializes in investment in companies that are in their later stage of development
Capita3
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
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Capita3 is an early stage venture capital fund investing in women startup founders and the companies they’re building
Skyway Fund
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
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Skyway Fund is a venture capital firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
RBC Wealth Management Group
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
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RBC Wealth Management Group provides wealth management solutions to individuals and institutions.
First Green Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Innovation At The Intersection Of Agriculture And Technology.
New Fashion Pork
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
New Fashion Pork is a producer of high quality pork with operations in Minnesota, Indiana.
Traction Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Traction Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm making investments in early-stage and lower middle-market companies.
Freeze
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Freeze.com is a global, interactive media company delivering marketing solutions with measurable results.
eCapital Advisors
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
eCapital Advisors is a company that offers business analytics services.
Artifact Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Investment Management Firm
Coral Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Coral Ventures Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Liberia.
Omphalos Venture
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Invest in early stage companies: Medical Device, Health Services, SAAS, Manufacturing, Robotics, AI, Sensor Technology industries.
Bayview Capital
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed
Established in Wayzata, Minnesota in 1995, Bayview Capital Group exclusively represents smaller middle market businesses for sale.
Convergent Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Convergent Capital is an investment company that provides responsive and flexibly structured capital to assist in the growth of industries.
Coral Capital Management
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Coral Capital Management invests in technology driven companies with substantial intrinsic momentum led by strong management teams, with
MacroVentures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Venture Capital/Angel Investments
Come Up Capital
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Investing in Midwestern Technology Companies
Excelsior Asset Mgt LLC
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
The Excelsior Group is a real estate firm specializing in commercial real estate ownership, acquisition, management, and development,.
Pathfinder Venture Capital Funds
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
It is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in biomedical field focusing on medical technology and healthcare.
NorthMarq Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
NorthMarq Capital has provided debt and equity to commercial real estate owners
Arctic Capital AG
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Arctic Capital AG is a company that provides financial services.
3M New Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
3M New Ventures invests in disruptive, early-stage innovations and is a venture capital firm.
Portage Venture Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Portage Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed and early stage companies.
Omphalos Venture Partners
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Omphalos Venture Partners wishes to work with founders and entrepreneurial management teams who aspire to achieve excellence.
Canopy Group
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Canopy Group is a company that provides insurance services.
Whitefish Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Whitefish Ventures LLC is a financial services company.
AVL Growth Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
AVL Growth Partners is a company that provides outsourced accounting and finance operations.
Pennington Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Pennington Capitals is a leading investment firm out of Minneapolis, MN founded by Robert J. Evans.
Vilicus Ventures
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Vilicus Ventures specializes in early- to late-stage investments in the software, healthcare technology, and IT sectors.
Upper Lakes Growth Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Upper Lakes Growth Capital is a privately-held Midwestern investment firm specialized in accelerating the growth of early-stage companies.
Sherpa Partners
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Sherpa Partners is a Minneapolis-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies.
GDN Holdings
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
GDN Holdings, LLC operates as a healthcare management advisory company. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Minnetonka,
StarTec Investments
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
StarTec Investments is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology companies based in Minnesota.
RES Investments
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Strategic investment arm
Securian Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Securian Ventures is a venture capital firm.
Portage Capital
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Investor Type: Micro VC, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Portage Capital, run by Brad Lehrman and Beatrice Rothweiler, is a business and venture capital consulting firm specializing in emerging
Smaby Group
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Since 1986, Smaby Group has built an international reputation providing insightful market intelligence and strategic advisory services to
Mill City Venture Development
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Mill City Venture Development is a company that offers business investment services.
Northern Plains Fund
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Northern Plains Fund brings together the great entrepreneurial ideas with those who can provide the resources to help them grow.
Milestone Growth Fund
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Founded in 1990, Milestone Growth Fund began with a modest $1.3 million to invest in small businesses owned by entrepreneurs of color.
Coordinate Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Coordinate Capital is active in the development of Life Science, Biomass, and Energy opportunities that have high potential for success.
Space Center Ventures
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Space Center Ventures, Inc. (SCV) invests in Twin Cities-based emerging high tech and medtech companies. SCV favors ‘post-revenue’
Heartland Equity Management
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Heartland Equity Partners was formed in 2014 to make majority investments in upper-Midwest companies with a focus on growth.
AYEIM
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
AYEIM is a hi-tech multi-national management team investing with local approach and intelligently managing innovations.
Global Access
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
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Global Access is an independent global direct investment and advisory services firm.
Gateway Associates
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
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Gateway Associates is a company that provides insurance services.
Saint Paul Capital Fund
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
The Saint Paul Capital Fund is a fund specializing in early stage equity investments. It seeks to invest in firms based in Saint Paul.
PJC Capital
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture
PJC Capital LLC, the private equity arm of Minneapolis-based investment banking firm, Piper Jaffray.
RBC Dain Rauscher
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
RBC Dain Rauscher provides investment advice and services to individual investors in the western United States and investment banking
Allbrook & Company
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Allbrook & Company is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Roudal MDF
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Roudal MDF is a private investment firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
WGC Enterprises
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Venture
WGC Enterprises Inc. is a principal investment firm.
Venture Center
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
The Venture Center is a business unit within the Office for Technology Commercialization that works with entrepreneurs, researchers.
Nicollet Capital Partners (NCP)
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Nicollet Capital Partners LLC (NCP) is in the business of building financial services companies by providing capital and management
South Metro Investors
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
South Metro Investors is located in Burnsville, MN. The Fund invests in companies that are in the Twin Cities Metro area with a focus on
NACSB Ultimate OpCo Holding
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Investor Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
A investment firm.
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