132 Growth Investors — 121 Currently Deploying

What growth-stage investors look for

Growth rounds ($50M+) fund market leaders expanding into new verticals, geographies, or preparing for a liquidity event. Investors include dedicated growth equity funds, crossover funds, and late-stage VC. They underwrite to a specific return profile — typically 3–5× over 3–5 years — and focus heavily on financial performance, competitive moats, and management team depth.

Growth processes resemble private equity diligence: detailed financial audits, customer reference programs, and third-party market studies. Expect 4–8 months and engagement with CFO-level executives. Most growth funds require 6–12 months of auditable financials before committing.

Partner with best-in-class management teams to bring innovative healthcare products to market that address significant unmet needs in large addressable markets, with clearly differ…

Kleiner Perkins partners with visionary founders to build transformative companies that change how the world works. The fund emphasizes team building, network facilitation, and bus…

Invests in technology companies in financial services, insurance, and manufacturing where there is opportunity for modernization, innovation, and disruption, with focus on AI, Cybe…

Thematic-driven investors backing ambitious founders building for big outcomes across critical domains (AI, Consumer, Defense Tech) from seed to pre-IPO, bringing deep sector insig…

Investing in exceptional female founders building category-defining businesses. Companies with female founders perform 63% better than male-founded peers, yet only receive 2.7% of …

Turn sci-fi into sci-fact by championing companies at the intersection of the new and not-yet-imagined, looking decades into the future to create a world most can barely imagine.

Bold, early, impactful ventures with brutal honesty. Believe in world-class teams making contrarian bets on impossibly big ideas, from AI to cleantech to deep tech.

Investing in frontier energy, industrial, and climate technology companies across electrification, materials production, software/AI, built environment, carbon management, and mobi…

Breakthrough Energy is a global platform to accelerate clean energy innovation across five key sectors (manufacturing, electricity, agriculture, transportation, buildings) by inves…

The physical and digital worlds are merging, unlocking breakthroughs that reshape how we live and work. NGP Capital backs early-stage B2B companies driving this 'Great Convergence'…

Insight Partners scales ambition at every stage through software expertise, operating excellence, talent networks, and flexible capital across 30+ years, supporting 800+ companies …

Dragonfly brings access and influence to crypto teams with global aspirations to find adoption anywhere. The fund invests across stages with a focus on teams tackling big, wicked p…

Building the circular economy by investing in companies that eliminate waste, optimize supply chains, and drive economic value through material circulation and recycling.

Data-driven, systematic approach to partnering with the world's most promising companies. AI and data science engine for underwriting enables quantitative decision-making across ve…

Menlo Ventures backs transformative technology companies at the intersection of AI, healthcare, and consumer by being operationally invested—doing whatever it takes to help teams w…

Back exceptional companies with substance and soul, converting momentum into market dominance through five decades of experience and institutional support.

We provide capital alongside powerful connections and deep B2B expertise to accelerate early-stage B2B startups from seed to scale, with our VP Engine serving as a unique value-add…

GC backs founders who venture beyond, partnering with leading entrepreneurs to build toward global resiliency and applied AI. We are an investment and transformation company.

Invest in B2B software founders passionate about product, people, and culture who are challengers to incumbents with must-have products and strong product-market fit.

The rapid evolution of media from print and broadcast to digital and mobile creates new opportunities to reach new audiences and serve existing customers in new ways.

Partner with brilliant founders to bring things of real wonder into the world by backing innovative companies that upend the status quo across software, sustainability, and consume…

Performance-focused VC leveraging Orange Group strengths to develop future tech champions. Invests in mature European and US tech startups with global scaling potential, as well as…

Back capital-efficient B2B vertical SaaS founders building lasting companies with disciplined growth and PE-grade operations, not chasing valuations or dilution.

Invest in B2B and B2B2C companies using data and automation to make industries more efficient, reliable, and intelligent. Join after go-to-market traction to help founders scale fa…

Technology will transform all sectors of the world, with the biggest transformations yet to come. Atomico partners with gamechanging entrepreneurs across thematic frontiers includi…

Partner with visionary founders at the intersection of bold vision and relentless execution. Active investors seeking to be partners during the rapid growth stage of scaling journe…

Providing flexible growth capital solutions to innovative companies in infrastructure software, cloud services, CxO software, and vertical software. Former operators and engineers …

Invest in AI-first and frontier-technology companies building scalable solutions across data, infrastructure, productivity, health, energy, and industry, positioned as the foundati…

500 Global invests in globally ambitious founders building fast-growing technology companies, focusing on U.S. and global markets where innovation, capital, and ecosystems can prop…

Lundbeckfonden creates powerful ripple effects by actively investing in business and science at the frontiers of their fields, with focus on bringing discoveries to lives through b…

Global investor across private equity and venture capital with differentiated expertise across the full investment lifecycle, operating complementary business lines in early-to-lat…

Back founder-led technology companies with global ambitions that strive to define their category, leveraging market knowhow, technical expertise and network from building and IPOin…

Europe's leading impact investor backing companies tackling the biggest global challenges while building massive businesses, with vision that every dollar invested globally is net …

Flat6Labs is the leading entrepreneurship platform in emerging markets, empowering entrepreneurs to build, launch and grow transformative ideas through acceleration programs, ecosy…

Omnes is a leading European private equity firm dedicated to the energy transition, empowering entrepreneurs to address large societal challenges and deliver tomorrow's growth thro…

Back the world's most ambitious entrepreneurs capable of building transformative businesses over 20+ years that solve fundamental problems across all sectors and geographies using …

Ethereal Ventures believes permissionless networks and digital assets are driving a paradigm shift that brings sovereignty, ownership, and access to communities. They invest in ope…

Relentlessly curious investment firm operating across public and private markets, believing investment strategies must grow and evolve with market conditions. Focus on identifying …

Back exceptional founders building breakthrough solutions that solve humanity's biggest problems, specifically improving human health/longevity and accelerating a more sustainable …

Cherubic invests in the most ambitious founders from angel to pre-IPO stage, acting as a long-term partner and friend first, investor second.

First U.S. institutional asset manager focused exclusively on blockchain technology, providing full spectrum exposure to digital assets and blockchain companies since 2013.

Investing to architect the digital economy by disrupting traditional sectors so more people can benefit, driven by conviction in profit and progress through principle-driven invest…

Partnering with exceptional founders to address big, meaningful challenges across Software, Fintech, Deeptech, AI and Blockchain, from startup to scale and exit.

Back Australian and New Zealand founders building iconic technology companies, supporting from idea to global scale through network-powered venture capital.

Partner with high-profile artists, athletes, and cultural leaders to invest in emerging growth enterprise technology and consumer companies that strive to be better for the world.

We identify and support visionaries transforming industries with the potential to better billions of lives. Bow identifies platform companies in industries being transformed by tec…

Deep tech venture capital backing brilliant entrepreneurs addressing the hardest, highest-stakes problems in the world, using AI to unlock potential across sectors.

Build transformative companies across technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors with focus on foundational innovations and market-defining businesses.

Partner with young companies outside of Silicon Valley that transform markets, create jobs and produce extraordinary, sustainable growth.

DCG is the enduring investor and operator of the crypto industry, backing the brightest minds across all stages to build a decentralized future that unlocks economic and societal o…

Invests in companies using technology to solve important problems in healthcare, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, agriculture, transportation, and other sectors

Leading European private asset manager committed to profitable impact-driven companies across private equity, private debt, and real assets, focusing on mid-market and growth segme…

Support domestic and international startups through capital provision and business collaboration, leveraging Dentsu Group's creative and strategic resources alongside global VC net…

Powering the future of real estate through technology by investing in innovations that finance, insure, design, manage, measure, and power the built world. Committed to being the w…

Longitude Capital invests in transformative healthcare companies—biotechnology, medical technology, and health solutions—that improve clinical outcomes, enhance patient quality of …

Since 1996, Cardinal Partners invests in disruptive healthcare technology-enabled services and life sciences companies as early/growth stage partners, believing waves of healthcare…

CVC is a globally diversified private equity, credit, and infrastructure investor with seven complementary strategies managing assets across pension funds and leading institutions,…

Speedinvest provides European startups with 'more expertise, connections, reach, and momentum' through specialist investment teams across six core sectors, backing companies from s…

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm investing in companies with differentiated technologies in compelling target markets, focusing on Technology (SaaS, FinTech, PropTech) and He…

How many growth investors are actively deploying right now?

DryPowder tracks 132 growth funds. Of these, 121 are currently deploying capital based on recent fund closes, portfolio activity, and partner signals. Use DryPowder's fund matching to see which ones fit your specific startup.

What check size do growth VCs write?

Among 132 growth funds on DryPowder, check sizes run from $25K–$250M. Ranges vary by fund size, vintage, and whether the fund leads rounds. Each fund profile shows check size detail and lead preference.

How do I get a meeting with a growth VC?

A warm intro is still the fastest path. Most growth VCs on DryPowder do accept cold outreach or direct applications, but response rates vary widely by fund. Before reaching out, use DryPowder's AI matching to get a fit score and specific talking points. Founders who lead with thesis-aligned framing get significantly better response rates than those sending the same deck to every fund on a list.

How is growth-stage fundraising different from earlier venture rounds?

Growth-stage processes resemble private equity diligence more than typical venture fundraising. Expect 4-8 months, financial audits, customer reference programs, and engagement at the CFO and board level. Most growth funds require 6-12 months of auditable financials and focus on financial performance, competitive moats, and management team depth rather than founder narrative.

How many growth investors should I be talking to at once?

Most fundraisers recommend a parallel process: identify 20-40 target investors but approach your highest-fit funds first. Of the 121 growth funds currently deploying, not all will match your specific stage and sector. Use fund matching to find your top 10-15, approach those first, collect feedback, then go wider. Going to every fund simultaneously without qualifying first burns bridges and dilutes the urgency that helps close a round.

How is DryPowder different from building a VC list on LinkedIn or Crunchbase?

The fund list you build on LinkedIn or Crunchbase is roughly the same list every other founder is building. DryPowder adds three things a manual search cannot: deployment signals (which funds have recently closed new vehicles and are actively writing checks), AI thesis matching (which of the 132 growth funds actually fits your specific startup, ranked by fit), and verified partner contact details. The goal is 15 targeted, thesis-aligned pitches instead of 150 generic ones.